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Biggest U.S. Cities Starting with N

Try to name the most populous cities in the United States that start with the letter N.
Cities proper, not metro areas
2024 U.S. Census estimates
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First submittedFebruary 9, 2012
Times taken66,126
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Population
State
Hint
City
8,478,072
New York
"The Big Apple"
New York
704,963
Tennessee
The Mecca of country music
Nashville
362,701
Louisiana
"The Big Easy"
New Orleans
317,303
New Jersey
Largest city in its state
Newark
294,034
Nevada
Suburb north of Las Vegas
North Las Vegas
231,105
Virginia
Home to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet
Norfolk
183,056
Virginia
Initials N. N.
Newport News
153,124
Illinois
Chicago suburb
Naperville
137,562
Connecticut
Yale University
New Haven
131,010
Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
Norman
126,005
South Carolina
Suburb north of Charleston
North Charleston
117,350
Idaho
Boise suburb
Nampa
116,477
Texas
San Antonio suburb originally settled by Germans
New Braunfels
101,318
Massachusetts
Former whaling center
New Bedford
98,230
California
L. A. suburb
Norwalk
93,661
Connecticut
Xerox headquarters
Norwalk
92,875
Florida
Patch of sprawl between Sarasota and Fort Myers
North Port
91,851
New Hampshire
Dunder Mifflin branch location
Nashua
90,700
Massachusetts
Boston suburb which broke away from
Cambridge in 1681
Newton
85,512
New York
Founded by settlers from La Rochelle, France
New Rochelle
82,970
California
Location of the Bluth family banana stand
Newport Beach
76,921
California
Center of the U.S. wine industry
Napa
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44 Comments
zombieeaters
+5
Level 63
May 18, 2012
My hometown of Nampa made the list! Norfolk, not Norfork duh, :(
Roger77024
+2
Level 57
Aug 16, 2015
Lived in next town to Norwalk, CT for 3 years in the 1980s, and knew nothing about oysters or Oyster Festival there.
adrmcm
+2
Level 45
Jan 1, 2019
Same here. I was surprised that Norwalk made the list and major cities like Newport RI didn't. I never thought that Norwalk, which is barely considered a city (don't cities need at least 100,000 people?) would be on this list. That just shows that the US barely has any big cities starting with N.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
May 26, 2019
What, you didn't attend the National Oyster Festival? In any case, changed the clue to Xerox HQ.
Wooglefurf
+1
Level 72
Jun 29, 2024
"Don't cities need at least 100,000 people?"

Newport, RI, which you called a major city, has 25,000 people...

AlmostAGenius
+2
Level 84
May 17, 2025
There’s not really a hard rule for “cities in the US. It really boils down to whether it is incorporated as a city or not.
caribdevist
+3
Level 61
Aug 16, 2015
Pays to live on the South Coast. I'm one of the 7% that got New Bedford.
BiggieSmalls
+2
Level 75
Aug 16, 2015
Please enlighten us, what does the south coast have anything to do with Massachusetts?
eric29cocoanuts
+13
Level 76
Aug 16, 2015
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that New Bedford is on the south coast of Massachusetts.
WolfCam
+2
Level 67
Oct 31, 2017
You bet it is!
bb11145
+4
Level 46
Apr 28, 2018
it's really called the 'South Shoah' and Gloucester is better known for whaling nowadays (whale watches, that is; nobody does whaling anymore except the Inuit); but on the other hand, New Bedford is better known for starting with 'n'
communisteggplant
+5
Level 74
May 27, 2019
South Shore is between Boston and Cape Cod. South Coast is between Providence and Cape Cod.
prs17
+2
Level 74
Apr 28, 2018
Had a roommate from New Bedford in college. But I knew it from reading Moby Dick.
quizzicalguy
+2
Level 68
Sep 12, 2019
I'll always know it as New Bedfahd.
Fishes
+2
Level 64
Mar 20, 2019
I got it thanks to Moby Dick.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
May 27, 2019
I pulled New Bedford out of some recess of my memory, no idea how or where it came from. At first I was thinking that was the city assigned to some random superhero for protection during the pilot of the Tick cartoon but then I remembered that's actually New Rochelle.
mf3
+1
Level 89
Jun 2, 2022
Haven't any of you people read "Moby-Dick"???
OfTheMountain
+4
Level 62
Aug 9, 2016
I live in Newport News. Can't believe how high it ranks on the list!
Algernon
+3
Level 73
Feb 24, 2017
Blinking tough quiz for those of us who don't live in the states.
ander217
+7
Level 75
May 4, 2017
Blinkin' tough for some of us who do. :)
AD13
+5
Level 48
Jul 14, 2017
Im from manchester NH, so I easily got nashua, beautiful place
KoolKid
+3
Level 30
Dec 6, 2020
I just got it because of the office
EvanAviator
+1
Level 60
Oct 2, 2022
i wouldn't call it beautiful
AD13
+4
Level 48
Jan 9, 2023
I have grown as a human being since my last comment. Nashua is not, in fact beautiful.
eibi
+12
Level 80
Jul 20, 2017
Well, Ishmael, I was so sure the whaling place in MA had to be Nantucket, but alas...
Elan
+13
Level 66
Sep 12, 2017
I feel so bad for Nashua that their biggest claim to fame is that they had a fictional branch that was a minor detail in the background of a television show.
ToonH
+5
Level 60
Jun 10, 2018
I could have sworn I had the Massachusetts "Whaling" one when typing Nantucket...
kalbahamut
+14
Level 81
May 27, 2019
There once was a man from Nantucket, but he didn't have enough neighbors to show up on this list.
Tuesday
+13
Level 75
Sep 12, 2019
North Haverbrook probably would have made the list before the disaster.
tschutzer
+2
Level 93
Sep 12, 2019
What disaster?
Tuesday
+14
Level 75
Sep 12, 2019
The monorail collapse
bigbywolf
+2
Level 55
Jun 1, 2022
"I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook."
jmellor13
+4
Level 67
Oct 2, 2022
There ain't no monorail and there never was.
domvog
+3
Level 78
Sep 12, 2019
Limitless paper in a paperless world.
jcmeis12
+1
Level 84
Jun 3, 2022
Used to live in New Braunfels. Fun city. Lots of beers and river floating
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Oct 2, 2022
Got the top four. And that was that.
kayokayokayo
+1
Level 57
Oct 2, 2022
I love that we need fictional places to give us a clue!
EvanAviator
+1
Level 60
Oct 2, 2022
i mean what other hint could you give for Nashua? "jetpunk user EvanAviator's two sisters were both born here"
Andrew169
+1
Level 76
Jan 31, 2023
Newport, Rhode Island. Nope.
SouthwestChief
+1
Level 72
Apr 10, 2023
Okayyyy, I'm not sure how I feel about these hints. These quizzes are supposed to test knowledge of US cities, not "The Office" trivia or one's ability to put words together. Miss the good old days when there were no hints and these quizzes were better!
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 84
May 17, 2025
You don’t have to use the hints, and the thing is, US city limits are kind of arbitrary, so just knowing the population is not all that common on these quizzes. The hints definitely very helpful for random smaller cities.
theZ
+1
Level 32
Oct 10, 2024
This was the quiz which I achieved level 15 and can now comment!
LoryJanitor
+2
Level 58
Mar 26, 2025
Really did me dirty with that clue for North Las Vegas
Camnob19
+1
Level 41
May 2, 2025
bruh I forgot newport news and nashville
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