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Biggest U.S. Cities Starting with N

Try to name the most populous cities in the United States that start with the letter N.
Cities proper, not metro areas
2021 U.S. Census estimates
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Last updated: May 29, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 9, 2012
Times taken56,806
Average score45.0%
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Population
State
Hint
City
8,467,513
New York
"The Big Apple"
New York City
678,851
Tennessee
The Mecca of country music
Nashville
376,971
Louisiana
"The Big Easy"
New Orleans
307,220
New Jersey
Largest city in its state
Newark
274,133
Nevada
Suburb north of Las Vegas
North Las Vegas
235,089
Virginia
U.S. Navy Base
Norfolk
184,587
Virginia
Initials N. N.
Newport News
149,104
Illinois
Chicago suburb
Naperville
135,081
Connecticut
Yale University
New Haven
128,097
Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
Norman
117,472
South Carolina
Suburb north of Charleston
North Charleston
106,186
Idaho
Boise suburb
Nampa
100,941
Massachusetts
Former whaling center
New Bedford
100,373
California
L.A. suburb
Norwalk
98,857
Texas
San Antonio suburb originally settled by Germans
New Braunfels
91,194
Connecticut
Xerox headquarters
Norwalk
91,124
New Hampshire
Dunder Mifflin branch location
Nashua
88,904
Massachusetts
Boston suburb which broke away from
Cambridge in 1681
Newton
84,792
California
Location of the Bluth family banana stand
Newport Beach
81,587
New York
Founded by settlers from La Rochelle, France
New Rochelle
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Level 61
May 18, 2012
My hometown of Nampa made the list! Norfolk, not Norfork duh, :(
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Level 57
Aug 16, 2015
Lived in next town to Norwalk, CT for 3 years in the 1980s, and knew nothing about oysters or Oyster Festival there.
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Level 45
Jan 1, 2019
Same here. I was surprised that Norwalk made the list and major cities like Newport RI didn't. I never thought that Norwalk, which is barely considered a city (don't cities need at least 100,000 people?) would be on this list. That just shows that the US barely has any big cities starting with N.
+4
Level ∞
May 26, 2019
What, you didn't attend the National Oyster Festival? In any case, changed the clue to Xerox HQ.
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Level 62
Aug 16, 2015
Pays to live on the South Coast. I'm one of the 7% that got New Bedford.
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Level 73
Aug 16, 2015
Please enlighten us, what does the south coast have anything to do with Massachusetts?
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Level 77
Aug 16, 2015
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that New Bedford is on the south coast of Massachusetts.
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Level 66
Oct 31, 2017
You bet it is!
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Level 46
Apr 28, 2018
it's really called the 'South Shoah' and Gloucester is better known for whaling nowadays (whale watches, that is; nobody does whaling anymore except the Inuit); but on the other hand, New Bedford is better known for starting with 'n'
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Level 73
May 27, 2019
South Shore is between Boston and Cape Cod. South Coast is between Providence and Cape Cod.
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Level 75
Apr 28, 2018
Had a roommate from New Bedford in college. But I knew it from reading Moby Dick.
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Level 65
Sep 12, 2019
I'll always know it as New Bedfahd.
+2
Level 64
Mar 20, 2019
I got it thanks to Moby Dick.
+3
Level 82
May 27, 2019
I pulled New Bedford out of some recess of my memory, no idea how or where it came from. At first I was thinking that was the city assigned to some random superhero for protection during the pilot of the Tick cartoon but then I remembered that's actually New Rochelle.
+1
Level 87
Jun 2, 2022
Haven't any of you people read "Moby-Dick"???
+4
Level 63
Aug 9, 2016
I live in Newport News. Can't believe how high it ranks on the list!
+3
Level 72
Feb 24, 2017
Blinking tough quiz for those of us who don't live in the states.
+6
Level 75
May 4, 2017
Blinkin' tough for some of us who do. :)
+5
Level 45
Jul 14, 2017
Im from manchester NH, so I easily got nashua, beautiful place
+3
Level 32
Dec 6, 2020
I just got it because of the office
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Level 59
Oct 2, 2022
i wouldn't call it beautiful
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Level 45
Jan 9, 2023
I have grown as a human being since my last comment. Nashua is not, in fact beautiful.
+11
Level 80
Jul 20, 2017
Well, Ishmael, I was so sure the whaling place in MA had to be Nantucket, but alas...
+13
Level 65
Sep 12, 2017
I feel so bad for Nashua that their biggest claim to fame is that they had a fictional branch that was a minor detail in the background of a television show.
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Level 61
Jun 10, 2018
I could have sworn I had the Massachusetts "Whaling" one when typing Nantucket...
+14
Level 82
May 27, 2019
There once was a man from Nantucket, but he didn't have enough neighbors to show up on this list.
+11
Level 74
Sep 12, 2019
North Haverbrook probably would have made the list before the disaster.
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Level 90
Sep 12, 2019
What disaster?
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Level 74
Sep 12, 2019
The monorail collapse
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Level 52
Jun 1, 2022
"I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook."
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Level 67
Oct 2, 2022
There ain't no monorail and there never was.
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Level 80
Sep 12, 2019
Limitless paper in a paperless world.
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Level 82
Jun 3, 2022
Used to live in New Braunfels. Fun city. Lots of beers and river floating
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Level 68
Oct 2, 2022
Got the top four. And that was that.
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Level 52
Oct 2, 2022
I love that we need fictional places to give us a clue!
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Level 59
Oct 2, 2022
i mean what other hint could you give for Nashua? "jetpunk user EvanAviator's two sisters were both born here"
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Level 73
Jan 31, 2023
Newport, Rhode Island. Nope.
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Level 71
Apr 10, 2023
Okayyyy, I'm not sure how I feel about these hints. These quizzes are supposed to test knowledge of US cities, not "The Office" trivia or one's ability to put words together. Miss the good old days when there were no hints and these quizzes were better!