1M Cities by Proximity - United States

Each dot represents a city with population > 1 million. To turn the dot green, guess any 1M city within 700 kilometers.

Population is for the entire agglomeration, not just the city proper

According to citypopulation.de, January 2017. Puerto Rico not considered

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Last updated: November 21, 2017

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First submitted	September 23, 2017
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Mil	City
22.2	New York
17.7	Los Angeles
9.80	Chicago
8.40	Washington
7.70	San Francisco
7.55	Boston
7.35	Philadelphia
6.75	Dallas
6.35	Houston
6.20	Miami
5.70	Detroit
5.60	Atlanta
4.40	Phoenix
4.18	Seattle

Mil	City
4.15	Tampa
3.60	Denver
3.30	San Diego
3.18	Orlando
3.08	Cleveland
3.08	Minneapolis
2.75	Cincinnati
2.38	Saint Louis
2.33	Charlotte
2.33	Portland
2.33	Salt Lake City
2.15	Las Vegas
2.08	Pittsburgh

Mil	City
2.08	San Antonio
2.03	Sacramento
1.94	Indianapolis
1.94	Kansas City
1.79	Austin
1.69	Hartford
1.68	Columbus
1.61	Virginia Beach
1.55	Milwaukee
1.54	Raleigh
1.39	Nashville
1.36	Jacksonville
1.35	Buffalo

Mil	City
1.32	Harrisburg
1.27	McAllen
1.21	Stockton
1.15	Memphis
1.13	Melbourne
1.11	Oklahoma City
1.10	Greensboro
1.04	Louisville
1.04	Richmond
1.02	El Paso
1.01	Cape Coral
1.01	Honolulu
1.01	New Orleans

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Level 55

Sep 23, 2017

First Taker! Great quiz! Very tough to get them all!

Level 62

Nov 21, 2017

Yeah!! Good job!!! You did it!!

Level 74

Nov 21, 2017

Nice. 1 second left!

Level 56

Apr 27, 2020

Same!

Level 71

Jan 23, 2021

Same!

Level 38

Jan 27, 2022

i had 12 seconds left

Level 45

Dec 14, 2022

How I got the last one? It was one in southwest NC, so I just guessed Raleigh. I had no idea Raleigh was that high lol

Level 58

Nov 24, 2017

9 seconds left.

Level 77

Nov 24, 2017

12 seconds left... Honolulu was tough to spot!

Level 69

Nov 26, 2017

Great quiz! I had never heard of McAllen, Texas!

Level 67

Apr 12, 2021

I live in Texas and yet had no clue it was over 1 million...

Level 65

Jan 24, 2024

Same, South Texas is an enigma as a North Texan lol

Level 77

Dec 5, 2017

Fun one! thanks for this

Level 47

Jan 28, 2018

Man, I couldn't think of any in the North Central part....

Level 60

Mar 20, 2022

Indianapolis got a some of that reason for me. Had I instead typed Chicago, I think I would have gotten two more cities.

Level 45

Jan 29, 2018

missed El Paso by a second

Level 76

Jan 29, 2018

All of them, and that included not cheating by just typing "dc" :)

Level 28

Nov 16, 2022

how is typing dc cheating?

Level 70

Jan 30, 2018

I thought Phoenix would cover Honolulu :)

Level 62

Feb 16, 2018

really? Can you please add some more time ??

+16

Level ∞

Mar 20, 2018

Never!

Level 56

Apr 27, 2020

Nice reply QM

Level 79

Dec 31, 2020

I finished the quiz in 19 seconds!

Level 66

Mar 20, 2018

US distances should be in miles.

+17

Level 76

Mar 20, 2018

The US should join the rest of the world.

Level 63

Mar 27, 2018

That's a great notion - and even one I mostly agree with - BUT the undeniable fact is that the US doesn't currently use the Metric system to measure distances, and Americans think of distances in miles. I was born and raised in New York, and much of my family and many of my friends are still back in NY, and we always say, 'How are things 3,000 miles away?' We never say, 'How are things 4,800 kilometers away?'

Even if it is overdue for the USA to join the rest of the world, this quiz exists in the USA in 2018, and in 2018 the USA still thinks in terms of miles. Therefore, using the metric system shows a poor understanding of the USA.

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Level 70

Sep 28, 2018

Just because the country that the quiz is about uses a different system that doesn't mean not to use it shows a "poor understanding of the USA". If that were true then all the quizzes about France would have to be in French (otherwise it shows a poor understanding of France).

Level 82

Nov 22, 2018

you're both right

Level 79

Dec 31, 2020

Some other countries still officially use the imperial system, including Liberia and Burma. The UK only adopted the metric system in 1965, but continues to use the imperial in common everyday contexts. And since this is an American quiz on an American website I support the usage of miles.

Level 82

Mar 20, 2018

Good quiz. First attempt, pulled up two short. Second attempt, got 'em all.

Level 75

Mar 20, 2018

Same here, but I didn't understand the quiz at first and wasted time just typing cities, not realizing they were already filled in. Great quiz, though.

Level 19

Mar 20, 2018

One second left....that was close.

Level 23

Mar 20, 2018

7 seconds left!

Level 28

Mar 20, 2018

Why does this quiz have such a short time limit? There is no way I could get everything in time.

Level 79

Apr 22, 2021

Did it the first try with 6 seconds to spare. It's not that hard if you have taken a lot of these city and population quizzes. It wouldn't be fun at all if there was an unchallenging time limit!

Level 75

Mar 21, 2018

Good quiz! Fun! It can be done by naming as few as 10 cities.

Level 55

Mar 21, 2018

Phew! Finished with 1 second left.

Level 20

Mar 25, 2018

So what happen to San Jose? It's the Rodney Dangerfield of US cities. 10th most population in the US, but doesn't register on your quiz. Larger than that quaint little cable car town north of us. BLEH.

Level 89

Jun 10, 2018

It's part of San Francisco's urban sprawl that just happens to have one area with a large imaginary line around it for people to write their property tax checks to random burb A instead of B. Wouldn't be much there without San Francisco first.

Level 63

Mar 27, 2018

Rochester, New York, has over 1 million people, but isn't on the list.

Level 20

May 9, 2018

McAllen does not have over 1 million people (metro or city proper). If there's another reason why you included it then please explain...

Level ∞

May 10, 2018

Read the caveats.

Level 89

Jun 10, 2018

With Reynosa, Mexico right across the border it's well over a million. El Paso doesn't top 1,000,000 by itself either but Juarez is a large Mexican city 500 feet away. Buffalo without Niagara & Ste Catharines in Canada falls short as well.

Level 89

Oct 16, 2019

Apparently now it does because they sometimes fold in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a city of 100,000 about 75 km of absolutely empty desert away. The way the U.S. works they throw in the whole county of far flung people, campers and jack rabbits too.

Yet El Paso and Juarez aren't considered one urban area with a tiny ditch passing for a river between them.....explain this one to the space station crew.

Level 36

May 10, 2018

3 secs left! got it on like, my tenth try

Level 45

Jul 11, 2018

portland, los angeles, denver, el paso, houston, chicago, philidelphia, memphis, raleigh, orlando

Level 89

Oct 16, 2019

What on Earth are you trying to sing? Dancin' In The Streets, Keep On Rockin' Me, Baby or Heart Of Rock 'N' Roll?

Level 34

Jul 18, 2018

Just wanna say that salt lake city doesn't even have 200,00 people and with the areas around it still doesn't add up to 2.3 million like it says on the quiz...

Level 67

Oct 20, 2018

McAllen???

Level 82

Nov 22, 2018

McLovin?

Level 75

May 9, 2019

McDonalds????

Level 89

Oct 16, 2019

McDowell's? With the Golden Arcs?

Level 65

Jan 24, 2024

Near Brownsville and Laredo, part of Reynosa metro

Level 43

Nov 22, 2018

type nyc and 12

Level 48

Jan 18, 2019

McAllen? What even is that?

Level 75

May 9, 2019

Basic

Level 65

Jan 24, 2024

Near Brownsville and Laredo, part of Reynosa metro

Level 67

May 8, 2019

50/53, not bad.

Level 65

Jun 11, 2019

700 km seems to be too much of a radius, makes the quiz too easy.

Level 65

Jan 24, 2024

Time is the main constraint

Level 89

Oct 16, 2019

Of all the complaints about city proper population being too small nobody even knows tiny Melbourne, Florida. The built-up area around there isn't much.

The United States Census Bureau records 450,000 in the actual urban area, about 2/5 what is listed and 600,000 in the "metropolitan area" which in the U.S. arbitrarily goes by extremely varying physical sizes of counties.

Level 48

Oct 17, 2019

It appears that McAllen only has a population of about 150,000 that's really annoying because that's the only one I missed

Level 65

Jan 24, 2024

Yeah, Reynosa carries it

Level 50

Jan 22, 2020

Easy quiz but couldn’t see honolulu so that took my time down a but

Level 33

Mar 28, 2020

Didn't realize the timer was only 30 seconds so I was just taking my time and marveling at which cities were over 1 mil when I was shocked by the quiz over screen. Need to pay attention lol

Level 16

Apr 23, 2020

I missed El Paso

Level 51

Apr 27, 2020

I couldn't Spell Albaqu-- whatever it is.

Level 66

Jun 13, 2020

Albuquerque

Level 79

Dec 31, 2020

Quite easy once you know how to spell it.

Level 62

Dec 31, 2020

I got it on the second try, on the first I got all but Honolulu, which I typed "Honolu" before time was up

Level 56

May 3, 2021

where the heck is san jose in California

Level 78

May 12, 2021

Do you not know the way to San Jose?

Level 67

Oct 18, 2021

I think that they added it to San Francisco.

Level 62

Nov 14, 2021

Typed in Indianapolis by pure chance, which covered the whole northeast together with New York. 12 sec left on first try lol

Level 37

Aug 24, 2022

2 seconds left! Very close

Level 45

Jun 9, 2023

im surprised only 41% guessed honolulu

Level 61

Oct 9, 2023

Ran out of time or didn't see the dot

Level 58

Dec 25, 2023

20 secs left :D

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