Biggest Cities in the United States Quiz

San Juan 420,326

389 714

thats bull, Peurto Rico is part of the United States

Washington DC isn't in the 50 states. San Juan should count, IMO. Plus it helps fight the ignorance that Puerto Rico isn't part of the US. It may be a territory, and they may have a different legal relationship with the federal government, but the people born there are US citizens and have US passports and everything. It's part of the US.

37... Not bad, for a Brit! Should've got Vegas, but I can live with missing the other ones. Most pleased with Long Beach...

Did you seriously get Long Beach? I'm an American and even I missed that one.

44, not too bad either, missed a lot out west

Darn you, Colorado Springs!

I feel like you should accept LBC

Missed Philly but got Fresno, WTH?

Mesa???

I've read that it's basically a Phoenix bedroom community.

Mesa was founded in the 1870s, only 10 years after Phoenix. For what it's worth.

I needed more time too

I needed a couple more minutes, too. I tried systematically starting at one coast and thinking of all the cities in every state, but didn't make it to the other coast. Apparently that wasn't a good strategy or else my typing is just too slow.

I think an extra minute would be fair.

50/50 on my third try..... WOOT!

I live in Austin. That's offensive

I've driven through Austin. I found the city offensive, too.

One of our daughters lives in Austin so I love Austin no matter how you spell it.

Ok, I know this is not metropolitan area but still....Colombus is not bigger than Cleveland! Also its weird that Saint Louis, New Orleans, and Tampa Bay aren't on here!

Mac, St. Louis's population is declining tremendously so that is why it was left off of this list. Cleveland is also on a population decline, Tampa is on this list and so is New Orleans. This is also city proper, so Tampa Bay, would include the cities of St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Sarasota, Bradenton, and the entirety Hillsborough and Pinnelas counties.

The City of St. Louis is a very small geographical area, surrounded by St. Louis County and the Mississippi River which prevents expansion. The St. Louis metro area including St. Louis County and suburbs ranks 19th in the nation. The 2020 census is forecast to show a drop of around 20,000 from 2010 - about a 3.5% loss. It is a big drop from the 1950s when it ranked 8th in the nation at over 800,000, but that number is deceiving. Much of that population drop was due to people who moved to the suburbs and were still counted in the metro area, which was over 2 million in 1960. The only year the metro area showed a loss was in 1980.

The issue with comparing Cleveland and Columbus is the metro area. Most of northeastern Ohio is considered "Cleveland" whereas Columbus is geographically isolated.

Nailed It! 50/50 and from Canada. Check out some other cool american geography quizzes I made!

Norfolk should be accepted for virginia beach because they're basiccly the same city.

Or Newport News or Hampton. All part of the same huge metro area. Except that, as the quiz clearly states, they are going by "city proper" populations which means they are only counting population within a defined municipal area. This isn't really a good reflection of the reality of present-day cities, which have often becoming sprawling metro areas in which one "city" bleeds into another completely and the two are more or less inseparable except maybe in terms of government, but there are lots of quizzes on the site that use metro areas so having one that focuses on city proper isn't a bad thing.

Norfolk and Virginia Beach are two very separate cities with two very separate urban centers. They are adjacent, yes, but so are Minneapolis and St. Paul. And it takes at least 30-45 minutes to get from downtown Norfolk to downtown Va Beach. Now if you were to call Norfolk and Portsmouth the same city, you'd have a much better argument.

A 30 minute drive does not impress me after spending a lot of time in Manila, Bangkok, Riyadh, Seoul, Tokyo and Istanbul... each of which can take several hours to drive from one end of the city to the other. 30 minutes is nothing. And it's not like there are some massive forests or huge swaths of farmland separating them. They're the same urban area as far as I'm concerned.

I missed long beach -.-

Clearly you've never been to Long Beach. You wouldn't miss it once you left.

Ha. Burn!

you mean canada geese. if they were canadian "snowbirds" they'd stay in canada for the winter.

49/50 Forgot Fresno

I got 100 and don't even have an electronic and don't know what a city is!

Then how did you take the quiz?

wooosh

And what the hell is "an electronic" ?

And what's the capital of Assyria?

I don't know that! AAAAaaauuuughhhhhhhhhhhhh

Nineveh. Duh

Monty Python. Duh

So many questions...

100%

So you said!

No cincinnati or st Louis? That's weird

Once again, the city of St. Louis is confined to a small boundary and cannot annex. It is surrounded by St. Louis County which has over a million people, and the metro area is around three million, putting it currently at #21.

Only missed Long Beach, dammit.

50/50 Romania! 15 years old.

13 y-o from Serbia got 38/50. Not bad.

673 y-o from Narnia. I got 48/50

i managed to get 155 right in 3 secs. And im only a cell

Good for you guys!!! I'll get ya'll a prize!

I forgot Oklahoma City &tucson

Honolulu?

Currently #55

24/50! not bad for a 12 year old brit

If you are going to take this quiz, might as well go all the way.

I am six years old blind and deaf and I don't have hands and I got 50 out of 50

How Can you be 6 and Old?

he's blind, he won't see your comment.

San Juan-389,714.

Thats impossible king.

after 2 hours retyping this list, I can say I have them thoroughly memorized. No logic to them, each much possess attributes on its own to attract settlers (or secure wanton reproduction?), or industries that provide jobs, or a climate that's great, or a spirit people love, none related to another. Very hard to use memory aids, etc. But finally they are in my head.

I got 32/50 on my first go, and managed to somehow forget Washington DC, but I did get Wichita and Colorado Springs.

I got higher than average and I'm from a certain country that isn't the USA and I'm younger than 18 and that is not that bad. What the average comment on this quiz looks like

This should get a minute more of time.

Using the metric system, I got 72

There's a metric population system?

It looks like New Orleans just barely made it back on with the latest update. St Louis meanwhile is half the size it was 100 years ago and probably isn't going to recover.

The St. Louis County and metro area would have made it with nearly 3,000,000, but the City of St. Louis is a fairly small area with a little over 300,000 people.

New Orleans replaced Arlington Texas, but no other changes?

Seattle is getting too crowded. I wish so many people didn't want to move here.

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Why omit Puerto Rico? Leaving out San Juan seems arbitrary.

It happens a lot on this site. QuizMaster's father was killed by some Puerto Rican guy.

I thought it was a Belgian, but my guess is that San Juan isn't reported in the statistics of largest cities of the US because it isn't a state. It would appear in the list of largest cities of the US including territories. Would you expect Papeete to be included on a quiz about towns and cities in France?

The culprit may have been of mixed heritage.

The only reason I'd heard of Baltimore is because it was in a Jules Verne book. (Most of my US geography is thanks to Verne, which is odd because he was French.)

48/50 missed Fort Worth and Oakland

So difficult. Only got 17

35/50 for a New Zealander.

This quiz page seems to be a new design. I like it, especially the new statistic "Your best time". Would it be possible to add another statistic - How many times you've taken this quiz?

I can't imagine why anyone would even want to access this site on a mobile device. ...but... I think the new design works fine, actually.

not fun for me trying to scroll down, scroll up, scroll down, scroll up, scroll down on a tiny little screen attempting to type answers on the tiny fake keyboard on my phone.

Sometimes I'd like to take a quiz but don't want to wait till I come home and can use a computer. No need to scroll quite often. In this quiz you just type the biggest cities, they're not alphabetic so scrolling down will only tell you if you missed some obvious/biggest ones. And there's no need to type, you can swipe and autocorrect does the rest.

bleh

32, good considering I'm British?!

I am 3 y/o from Kiribati. I got 51/50.

Seems legit

New York City Los Angeles Chicago Miami Dallas San Francisco Houston Seattle 100% 1,560,297 Philadelphia 81% 100% 658,893 Washington 81% 100% 1,381,069 San Diego 80% 100% 456,002 Atlanta 78% 100% 680,250 Detroit 77% 100% 1,537,058 Phoenix 75% 100% 613,599 Las Vegas 74% 100% 663,862 Denver 73% 100% 384,320 New Orleans 72% 100% 619,360 Portland, OR 69% 100% 912,791 Austin 68% 100% 407,207 Minneapolis 61% 100% 485,199 Sacramento 60% 100% 470,800 Kansas City, MO 58% 100% 644,014 Nashville 58% 100% 622,793 Baltimore 56% 100% 656,861 Memphis 52% 100% 1,015,785 San Jose 48% 100% 439,896 Raleigh 37% 100% 446,599 Omaha 30% 100% 388,413 Wichita

My previous comment ignore the numbers in it

Everyone knows Detroit's population is dropping...

This quiz uses Wikipedia. I just went to Wikipedia and got all the answers. Helpful?

So you can copy and paste. You deserve a medal.

Yes, it tells us a lot about your character.

For a shorter quiz try this link: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/166179/15-most-populous-us-cities-in-2014

Lol only got Albuquerque because of Breaking Bad

new york should have 22 million.

Read the description, it's city proper population. Not metro population.

How do I always miss Atlanta on these city quizzes? It's like a blind spot for me.

My blind spot tends to be Phoenix. When I imagine a map of the US, I just sort of miss out Arizona. (Sorry, Arizona.)

Could I asked for a type in for Tucson as I always seem to think it is Tuscon...

49/50 Forgot El Paso :(

50/50 and I'm 3 years old from Tibet!

Liked the quiz! But... :D You (falsely) list Kansas City as being in Kansas. There is Kansas City, Kansas, which hast roughly 150.000 inhabitants, but you are referring to Kansas City, Missouri with about 450.000 people living there. Those are two distinct cities righ next to each other with identical names ;).

The quiz must have been redone because I don't see a state appearing for any of them.

43/50. I am sitting in Boston right now, and I missed it. I always seem to miss Indianapolis on these quizzes too.

Orlando and Tampa??

City proper numbers take them out of the running. Metro area would include them.

If you look in the description, there's a link for a quiz for metro areas. Silly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

For once, indiscriminately typing "Springfield" did me no favors.

I used to live in San Jose and I didnt think of putting it in. [̲̅f̲̅][̲̅a̲̅][̲̅c̲̅][̲̅e̲̅][̲̅p̲̅][̲̅a̲̅][̲̅l̲̅][̲̅m̲̅]

missed charlotte jackson colombus milwaukee oakland el paso albuquerque fort worth louisville tucson tulsa fresno virginia beach long beach boston omaha san antonia

Guessed some close calls that didn't make the cut (Cleveland, Tampa, Riverside, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati are all guessed by me but are within 100K people of Arlington).

351,792<389,902

I think because it's so often lumped together with the San Francisco Bay area, people forget it's a huge city on its own - and older than SF.

i got Oakland but missed San Francisco and Miami even though my sister was watching a show that took place in Miami behind me. -_-

I'm from Frankfurt and I got 44 I'm proud

I got the Population Badge !

Here is one with the top 307 (as of 2016).

I thought number five would be Manila.

Actually I meant number six.

Wait that's the wrong Philly.

I hope I NEVER confuse Philly-delphia with Philly-ppines again.

Phoenix is great! Though there's a chance Scottsdale, Tempe, and Mesa might have a little more to offer, Phoenix is a really cool city, close to lots of cool attractions and scenery. Philadelphia might be more interesting historically, but Phoenix is certainly not a charmless sprawl.

Sorry, Guam, but one of our daughters lived in Phoenix and although it seemed a good place to live in many ways, I couldn't stand the heat or the blowing sand of the desert when we visited her. I was glad when she moved.

How did I get Columbus but miss New Orleans?

388,072, making it the 51st largest city and JUST missing this quiz.

I'm comming for that Population Badge I WILL DEFEAT THIS

This shows just how dumb the technical definition of 'city' is in the USA, and how pointless the listing. Cleveland, Cincinnati and Tampa aren't even on the list, but their metro populations are WAY bigger than places like El Paso and Wichita, but just because their local government areas don't encompass the whole city they go down the list.

Or, more precisely, it shows how different types of incorporation and different types of technology influenced city borders. Boston is puny now, but it seemed a lot bigger in 1630 when you had to travel by foot, horse, or boat. They also didn't annex Cambridge/Somerville/Milton in the 19th century to become larger just like New York annexed Brooklyn/Staten Island/Bronx/Queens and Philly annexed...a whole lot of neighborhoods. LIkewise, southern and western cities incorporated later in areas without preexisting surrounding settlements and with road systems and cars that could increase the area of incorporation. US city incorporation isn't stupid, it's pragmatic. (And weird.)

Yeah, I lived in Boston for five years, and I didn't learn until long after I left that Somerville, Brookline, and a few other places are entirely separate cities and villages (I did know about Cambridge). I thought they were all just different neighborhoods within Boston. All my friends lived in those neighborhoods, and it took ten minutes to get from each to the other and then to downtown.

Its appropriation of a word with a more general definition - city - and using it for something extremely technical. According to the American definition, London has a population of about 10,000, and El Paso is a bigger than Cleveland and Cincinnati. That's not pragmatic. Pragmatic means practical or useful.

What exactly is the "American" definition of city? Most states have different definitions of city. New York (where I live now) defines it pretty narrowly by governmental type, so the whole state has somewhere around 100 cities. North Dakota defines every incorporated place in the state as a city, so it has far more than New York. There's no such thing as an American definition. Texas defines its cities differently than Ohio, and that definition is shaped by state governance laws, geography, and how easy it was to get around at the time that the place was incorporated. That's the very definition of pragmatic- the definitions are reasonable for the people who define it. If you don't like it, take the metro areas quiz. Especially since that concept is so incredibly well defined...

Needs more time

Gee, must have taken the wrong turn to Albuquerque, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

34. I actually got Colorado Springs

Hm. "This is based on city proper population. For metro areas, check out this quiz 2017 estimates. Puerto Rico not included" "Puerto Rico not included" San Jose is on there...

Honolulu is a consolidated city-county, so why isn't the city's official population the county's official population (~ 1 million)? I'm sure I've been stung by this on some other JetPunk quiz.

I'm disappointed in myself I missed Arlington, Albuquerque, Raleigh, and Sacramento. :(