Biggest U.S. Cities Older than the U.S.

Can you name the most populated cities in the United States currently that were founded before July 4, 1776?

Using 2020 U.S. Census figures.

Information taken from Wikipedia.

Rows are colored to correspond with founding empire.

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Population	City	Founded
8,804,190	New York	1624
1,603,797	Philadelphia	1682
1,434,625	San Antonio	1718
1,386,932	San Diego	1769
874,579	Charlotte	1755
873,965	San Francisco	1776
678,815	El Paso	1680
675,647	Boston	1625
639,111	Detroit	1701
585,708	Baltimore	1729
564,559	Albuquerque	1706
542,629	Tucson	1775
383,997	New Orleans	1718
350,964	Honolulu	~1100

Population	City	Founded
311,549	Newark	1663
302,971	Pittsburgh	1758
301,578	St. Louis	1764
292,449	Jersey City	1630
255,205	Laredo	1755
249,545	Winston-Salem	1766
238,005	Norfolk	1680
227,470	Baton Rouge	1699
226,610	Richmond	1742
211,569	Yonkers	1646
206,518	Worcester	1673
202,081	Augusta	1736
190,934	Providence	1636
187,041	Mobile	1702

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4 Comments

Level 77

Jan 6, 2025

According to Wikipedia, San Francisco was founded a whole 5 days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July. Talk about a narrowly making the list.

Level 78

Jan 6, 2025

Wow, Chicago is way younger than I realized

Nice quiz btw

Level 61

May 7, 2026

Great quiz! Should San Juan be here though?

Level 77

May 7, 2026

It would but I'm not including territories for this quiz, JetPunk standard for US city quizzes usually