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Cities on Route 66 on a Map

Can you name the 15 largest cities on U.S. Route 66 - with the help of a map?
Also try versions for I-25, I-90, and others in the series
Quiz by Jeremy
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Last updated: March 30, 2020
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First submittedMarch 24, 2020
Times taken20,752
Average score53.3%
Rating4.53
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Population
City
4,057,841
Los Angeles
2,679,044
Chicago
661,614
Oklahoma City
564,764
Albuquerque
403,045
Tulsa
Population
City
300,991
Saint Louis
218,306
San Bernardino
203,290
Amarillo
169,080
Springfield, MO
113,471
Springfield, IL
Population
City
91,857
Santa Monica
77,606
Bloomington
75,572
Flagstaff
54,360
Normal
53,617
Joplin
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Level 68
Mar 25, 2020
Wow! Awesome quiz and a stunning map, great job!
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Level 85
Mar 25, 2020
A lot of nostalgia for those of us who grew up living on and driving on this highway.
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Level 75
Mar 25, 2020
+1 - although I didn't know the first two southwest of Chicago.
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Level 84
Mar 25, 2020
Nat King Cole lied! San Bernadino my foot!
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Level 80
Mar 25, 2020
Great quiz. I drove the whole route in 2017, a great experience. I remember all these places.
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Level 84
Mar 26, 2020
Sounds cool! But I thought there were portions of the route that no longer exist??
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Level 94
Apr 15, 2020
Some of the parts of the route have been incorporated into Interstate 40 and some go through business districts. At least that's how it is from Amarillo to Barstow-ish.
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Level 89
Mar 25, 2020
Hmm... I don't think this is the list sung by Nat King Cole.
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Level 73
Mar 25, 2020
That confused me for quite awhile, I kept guessing all the cities from the song.
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Level 70
Mar 25, 2020
I love it! I hope you can do the same for other highways too!
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Level 80
Mar 26, 2020
Bloomington-Normal is generally considered one area. I've never seen them listed separately.
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Level 74
Mar 26, 2020
They are two independent incorporated cities. As this quiz uses city proper populations, it wouldn't make sense to not include them both.
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Level 62
Apr 1, 2020
Normal is a city name? Quite shocked about it.
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Level 55
Apr 1, 2020
It's a very normal city name imo.
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Level 88
Sep 14, 2020
I'm wondering if there's a town called New Normal.
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Level 68
Nov 27, 2020
Yup, I believe it's home to Illinois State University
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Level 59
Apr 25, 2023
This produces interesting headlines on occasion.
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Level 82
Apr 15, 2020
I missed the 4 least guessed answers. Never even heard of the bottom one. My cousin and I drove along portions of historic route 66 when I was moving back east from California, though we started in Sacramento, then detoured through San Francisco, Yosemite, Death Valley, Las Vegas, and the Grand Canyon before going along I-40 most of the way. Picked up I-88 after Knoxville and went toward DC. We stopped in or passed through Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Amarillo, and Oklahoma City. Overall much more enjoyable than the drive out when we passed by Chicago and stayed on I-80 west most of the trip - the midwest states along this route were brutally boring.
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Level 62
Apr 15, 2020
got them all with 0:22 left
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Level 52
Apr 15, 2020
Can you next make one for I-95?
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Level 65
Apr 16, 2020
I guessed so many LA suburbs based on the map: Riverside, Pasadena, Palm Springs
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Level 65
Apr 16, 2020
I got 14 out of 15. I wasn't alive during Route 66's heyday, but I live in Illinois which helps with the smaller city names there.
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Level 65
Apr 18, 2020
Using Joplin as a threshold there are a lot of California suburbs that should be on this list.

Pasadena, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Rialto, Hesperia, and Victorville all clock in with higher populations.

...and Arcadia, depending on if you want to use the 2010 census or the 2018 estimate

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Level 67
Aug 1, 2020
"Normal" Lol
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Level 69
Oct 12, 2020
Got it first try and made it to Wally World!
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Level 55
Jan 12, 2021
Aurora?
+1
Level 31
Jun 29, 2021
Hey, can I use your map for do a version " states crossed by route 66" ? Thanks to answer
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Level 60
Aug 21, 2021
I knew it was Alberquerque but i couldn’t spell it right

(I still can’t)

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Level 83
May 15, 2023
Abq works
+1
Level 62
Jan 24, 2022
easy
+1
Level 73
Apr 7, 2022
Normal is called that because universities set up to train teachers were originally called normal schools for whatever reason. Hence the town that was developed around the Illinois State Normal University (now just Illinois State) was renamed Normal.
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Level 66
Sep 27, 2022
Can you take Oklahoma for Oklahoma City
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Level 83
May 15, 2023
Okc works
+1
Level 40
Mar 27, 2024
I only knew Joplin cause of the tornado