US states with the smallest largest city

Each US state has a city which is the largest within its borders. Can you guess the 10 states whose largest cities are the least populous, or smallest?

Name either the capital or the state.

Source: - List of largest cities of U.S. states and territories by population - end-of 2016 version (Wikipedia).

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State	Population of largest city (2010 census)
Burlington, Vermont	42.417
Charleston, West Virginia	51.400
Cheyenne, Wyoming	59.466
Portland, Maine	66.194
Wilmington, Delaware	70.851

State	Population of largest city (2010 census)
Billings, Montana	104.170
Fargo, North Dakota	105.549
Manchester, New Hampshire	109.565
Charleston, South Carolina	129.272
Bridgeport, Connecticut	144.229

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Dec 9, 2020

It's interesting how poorly this apparently correlates with population density; Connecticut is 4th, Delaware is 6th, South Carolina is 19th, and New Hampshire is 21st.