Biggest U.S. Cities Within 100 Kilometers

Name the cities in the United States that are more populous than any other U.S. city within 100 kilometers.

By city proper population. Limited to cities with a population > 10,000

Population according to 2024 Census estimates

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First submitted	November 3, 2016
Times taken	51,226
Average score	41.4%
Rating	4.42

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Population	City
8,478,072	New York
3,878,704	Los Angeles
2,721,308	Chicago
2,390,125	Houston
1,673,164	Phoenix
1,573,916	Philadelphia
1,526,656	San Antonio
1,404,452	San Diego
1,326,087	Dallas
1,009,833	Jacksonville
997,368	San Jose
993,588	Austin
943,476	Charlotte
933,263	Columbus
891,484	Indianapolis
780,995	Seattle
729,019	Denver
712,919	Oklahoma City
704,963	Nashville
702,250	Washington DC
681,723	El Paso
678,922	Las Vegas
673,458	Boston
645,705	Detroit
640,796	Louisville
635,749	Portland
610,919	Memphis
563,531	Milwaukee
560,326	Albuquerque
554,013	Tucson
550,105	Fresno
535,798	Sacramento
520,070	Atlanta
516,032	Kansas City
499,825	Raleigh
489,265	Omaha
487,014	Miami
454,808	Virginia Beach
428,579	Minneapolis
417,468	Bakersfield
415,154	Tulsa
414,547	Tampa
400,991	Wichita
365,379	Cleveland
362,701	New Orleans
344,967	Honolulu
334,854	Orlando
329,437	Lexington
317,317	Corpus Christi
314,915	Cincinnati
307,668	Pittsburgh
307,381	Greensboro
289,600	Anchorage
285,300	Madison
281,714	Reno
279,695	St. Louis
276,617	Buffalo
273,203	Fort Wayne
272,086	Lubbock
261,260	Laredo
258,575	Port St. Lucie
237,963	Boise
233,655	Richmond
233,025	Cape Coral
230,609	Spokane
230,402	Huntsville
220,907	Baton Rouge
217,783	Salt Lake City
213,096	Des Moines
209,289	Sioux Falls
207,282	Rochester
205,089	Tallahassee

Population	City
204,774	Little Rock
203,729	Amarillo
201,830	Columbus
201,737	Augusta
201,367	Mobile
200,117	Grand Rapids
198,722	Knoxville
196,357	Birmingham
195,818	Montgomery
191,967	Brownsville
191,496	Chattanooga
176,578	Shreveport
170,596	Springfield
157,665	Charleston
157,056	Macon
148,808	Savannah
146,097	Syracuse
144,788	Columbia
143,687	Midland
141,449	Jackson
137,904	Cedar Rapids
136,285	Fargo
130,900	Columbia
130,501	Abilene
128,023	College Station
125,284	Wilmington
123,624	Rochester
121,483	Billings
115,395	Evansville
112,949	Springfield
112,893	Beaumont
112,219	Tyler
111,696	Peoria
111,346	Santa Maria
106,926	Bend
106,311	Green Bay
106,288	St. George
103,713	South Bend
103,559	Yuma
103,134	Fayetteville
102,911	Chico
102,372	Wichita Falls
101,317	Albany
100,938	Davenport
100,159	San Angelo
97,912	Roanoke
97,390	Yakima
95,138	Greenville
94,992	Asheville
93,502	Redding
92,940	Erie
91,961	Champaign
87,986	Duluth
86,875	Sioux City
86,728	Kennewick
86,301	Medford
82,384	Jonesboro
79,894	Rapid City
78,204	Missoula
77,772	Bismarck
77,539	Flagstaff
72,331	Eau Claire
71,650	Dothan
70,554	Grand Junction
69,568	Portland
69,523	Idaho Falls
69,303	Jackson
66,705	Albany
66,020	Victoria
60,013	Great Falls
59,845	Grand Forks
59,037	Lake Havasu City

Population	City
58,823	Casper
57,894	Bozeman
55,667	Valdosta
55,589	Twin Falls
53,250	Grand Island
51,164	Harrisonburg
51,049	La Crosse
48,522	Hattiesburg
47,440	Minot
47,176	Roswell
46,622	Monroe
46,482	Charleston
46,262	Farmington
44,432	Burlington
43,133	Alexandria
42,719	Altoona
41,061	Hobbs
40,818	Cape Girardeau
40,262	Wausau
38,786	Quincy
37,775	Tupelo
37,555	Clovis
37,024	Panama City
35,971	Texarkana
35,480	Butte
34,693	Lewiston
34,678	Del Rio
34,399	Lufkin
33,846	Gillette
33,549	Meridian
32,446	Bangor
31,999	Carlsbad
31,732	Fairbanks
31,572	Juneau
31,296	Kalispell
28,834	Parkersburg
28,821	Williston
28,373	Ridgecrest
27,996	Garden City
27,919	Aberdeen
27,015	Greenville
25,695	Dickinson
25,648	Ottumwa
25,412	Eureka
25,240	Key West
22,967	Rock Springs
22,549	North Platte
21,845	Marquette
21,213	Hays
20,822	Elko
20,339	Gallup
19,813	Sheridan
19,184	Liberal
17,320	Blythe
15,789	Jamestown
15,782	Traverse City
15,733	Bemidji
15,621	Mitchell
14,323	Scottsbluff
13,788	Pierre
13,620	Steamboat Springs
13,288	Sault Ste. Marie
13,114	Sterling
12,366	Show Low
12,359	Susanville
11,750	Woodward
10,953	Riverton
10,698	Vernal
10,391	Cody
10,257	Safford
10,116	Alpena

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101 Recent Comments

Level ∞

Nov 3, 2016

Got 129 on my first try but missed some obvious ones.

Level 59

Mar 24, 2017

Got 147, missing only one answer that got over 50% - I should have gotten Sacramento, oh well

Level 71

Sep 24, 2017

San Francisco didn't make the cut?

Level 78

May 9, 2019

San Jose

Level 68

Apr 26, 2021

San Jose is larger by city proper but basically functions as a suburb of it.

Level 62

Jul 12, 2021

what? san jose is its only city not part of san francisco.

Level 68

Apr 26, 2021

The only obvious ones I missed were Tallahasse and Pierre, which I thought had less than 10,000 people.

Level 78

Mar 23, 2023

Pierre around 14,000 but Tallahassee about 200,000.

Level 80

Nov 3, 2016

123 on my first go. Got a few obscure ones, mainly in Texas and California, but let me just say I'm sorry to the good people of Tuscon and Charlotte for forgetting them.

Level 76

Nov 3, 2016

God bless Texas.

Level 59

Nov 3, 2016

I prefered the 200km quiz. This quiz just seems ridiculous. Nobody will get 100% on this quiz without cheating or doing the quiz over 4 or 5 times.

Level 25

Nov 3, 2016

Agree

Level 66

Nov 3, 2016

I suggest this be moved to another account (such as geoPunk) and not featured, but put in the small section below the featured quizzes one day, as a challenge. :)

Level 78

Jan 10, 2017

This quiz is not ridiculous, as it makes me badly want to go to Liberal, KS, Steamboat Springs, CO and Show Low, AZ. Those three towns would not be that high on my travel priority list without this very quiz.

Level 74

Mar 24, 2017

I've been to Show Low. If I remember correctly there was a casino and a ski resort not far away, but if you want a relaxing time in beautiful country where the wolves howl at night, it's a great place. We stayed at Greer, quiet, friendly, and at the "end of the highway" - literally.

Level 80

Jun 27, 2017

I think you'd like Steamboat Springs. If you're expecting a sleepy little nondescript village, it's anything but that. Big Colorado resort town.

Level 80

Jun 27, 2017

Personally I thought this was one of the best quizzes I've taken here.

Level 43

Feb 25, 2018

I got 123, I looked at a map to spell Coeur D' Alene .. I dont think it was an answer either, but I got ones llike Hobbs, NM .. Im a nerd that know a lot of weird places.. but I coudlnt get 100% I missed easy ones like Atlanta and Chicago.. and Dallas sigh

Level 63

Jun 8, 2025

I don't think it's necessary to get 100% on a quiz for the quiz to be worthwhile.

Level 94

Nov 4, 2016

Got 189 first try. This quiz couldn't have been more up my alley, still I missed some I shouldn't have. Brutal quiz though, Show Low has more than 10K. What?

Level 47

Mar 23, 2017

Next generation of snow bird migration; people moved from the snow belt to Phoenix and Tucson for warmer climates, and now people retire from those cities for some place actually cooler. And many people like retiring to 'smaller' towns anyway. George Takei has a vacation home there.

Level 92

Jun 26, 2019

I got 186. I can't type fast enough with big fingers on a phone. These things truly are made for a teenage girl.

Level 93

Nov 4, 2016

Got 131 on my first try, but have to question the logic of 10,000 as the cutoff. With a few exceptions, there's nothing on the list below 50k that would be missed.

Level 83

Nov 5, 2016

I like to think 46% isn't bad for a Brit whose never travelled west of the Hudson.

Level 70

Jun 8, 2017

I'll tolerate it.

Level 46

Nov 5, 2016

Kinda funny to do a quiz on the USA and measure it in Kilometres

Level 46

Nov 5, 2016

... and I spelled it wrong. I'm so American.

Level 70

Dec 4, 2016

I got 130 but missed Sacramento and San Jose.

Level 74

Dec 14, 2016

I love all these quizzes like this. Got 205 my first try. Three of the ones I missed are in California, even though I'm currently living there. The one thing I notice that I think is wrong is that Warner-Robbins should be replaced by the larger adjacent city of Macon.

Level 74

Mar 23, 2017

Nice to see this featured. Got four more this time including the CA ones I missed last time. Still wondering about Warner Robins.

Level 74

Feb 17, 2018

Taking advantage of the new "This comment contains a correction or suggestion for the Quizmaster" feature to highlight previous Warner Robins comments. Because I know QM loves it when someone obsesses over one quibble with an otherwise excellent quiz.

Level ∞

Feb 18, 2018

Okay, I looked into this. There shouldn't have been any errors since it was generated by a computer program. It seems that Warner Robins was bigger than Macon until Macon absorbed all of Bibb county. So the quiz isn't wrong, just out-dated. This will have to wait until the next time the quiz is updated.

Level 74

Mar 5, 2018

Thanks for Macon the time to address my Warnering that one city was Robins another of its rightful place on the quiz. You never know with cartographic data. To be pedantic, as far as I can tell, Warner Robins was still smaller than Macon at the time of the city-county merger, although the gap was closing. Then the Macon-Bibb County merger made Macon the much larger city once again. Which is worse, my puns, pedantry, or population obsession? Only time and the least brutal community of commenters on the internet will tell.

Level 78

Dec 24, 2016

The quiz is hard, but is plenty educational. It's a gold mine for non-natives like me, learning about every nook and cranny of the country and trying to be able to match the knowledge of Americans about it.

Level 74

Mar 24, 2017

I agree, and that was a nice thing to say. It would be nice to have quizzes like these on many countries of the world.

Level 50

Jan 21, 2017

I got Lufkin and somehow missed both Tampa and San Antonio

Level 69

Mar 23, 2017

156 on the first try. Only missed two from the first column. Got a few of the lesser known ones like Hobbs and Scottsbluff. Got all of them from my homestate.

Level 80

Jun 23, 2017

155 on my first try. Ya beat me.

Level 53

Mar 23, 2017

Great tough quiz!

Level 58

Mar 23, 2017

Holy moly, this is hard. I managed to get 90 before I quit. At least I got every city in my homestate... that counts for something, right? LOL

Level 93

Mar 23, 2017

Why isn't Hilo, Hi. on here? It has well over 10,000 people (around 43,000) and is 342 km (212 mi.) from Honolulu. I can't see that there are any cities in between that are bigger than Hilo, either.

Level 74

Mar 24, 2017

Good point. Hilo should be on here.

Level 43

Mar 24, 2017

On the 200km quiz, it was omitted because of being a census-designated place (CDP) and not a city. I assume the same reasoning was applied here.

Level 78

Dec 19, 2019

Well so is Honolulu I think

Level 54

Jun 11, 2024

i think the CDP of Urban Honolulu elects a government for Honolulu County (the whole island) or smth like that. for some reason its included in most quizzes that are usually CDP-unfriendly

Level 34

Mar 23, 2017

I missed Philidelphia and got Colorado Springs. #facepalm

Level 59

Mar 23, 2017

Managed to get all of Texas and those cities on the Texas border in other states. So that's worth something.

Level 59

Mar 23, 2017

Also, typing in Wichita gives both Wichita and Wichita Falls, which doesn't seem right.

Level 94

Mar 23, 2017

Loved this quiz and all the obscure towns it highlights. I do have one small beef, though. Ridgecrest in California is definitely smaller than AND within 100km of Victorville. Actual distance is about 90km, and the population is around 25,000 vs. over 100,000.

Level 87

Mar 25, 2017

Incredible quiz! If I make it to Level 75 on JetPunk, I am going to reward myself by visiting every town on this map!

Level 93

Mar 27, 2017

Good luck with that, sir!

Level 72

Jan 28, 2022

Almost there :)

Level 45

Apr 12, 2024

How many have you visited so far?

Level 16

Mar 27, 2017

got it after using google maps and taking unlimited

Level 33

Mar 28, 2017

After a few days of practice, finished with 8:04 left.

Level 56

Jun 11, 2017

A Real American would know every single city on this quiz.

Level 80

Jun 23, 2017

Oh I was thinking that some of these cities look within 100 miles of each other, but I see it's 100 kilometers. I'm too old, can't think metric.

Level 72

Aug 14, 2017

Amazing quiz, geospatially very interesting. So the population cutoff was 10,000 I take it?

Level 69

Aug 19, 2017

Huh? I thought the U.S. hasn't adopted the metric system?

Level 84

Nov 8, 2017

First quiz where Fargo was an answer! Go bison! :P

Level 71

Jul 12, 2021

Figured since I live here, I'd better get them right. Though, without the oil boom, I might well have never gotten Williston or Dickinson.

Level 70

Nov 24, 2017

Unbelievable misses: New York, Atlanta, Detroit.

Level 69

Mar 20, 2018

Got 114, missed Atlanta where I have been 5 times. Got Elko, Alexandria and Scottsbluff though!

Level 69

Apr 12, 2021

Got 142 this time around!

Level 43

May 9, 2019

Fun quiz! Not sure how you decide what names to accept for cities of not. If you accept colloquial names then Steamboat should be accepted for Steamboat Springs, Co. Having grown up in Colorado I can tell you that it is usually shortened. If you are only accepting full names of course, then never mind. Can tell you how many things I guessed when Steamboat didn't work!

Level 45

Jul 13, 2021

Same here man. I think he just pulled from a list, and isn't familiar with the town so didn't know it was referred to as Steamboat by basically everyone who knows it's there lol.

Level 81

Aug 11, 2019

Nice quiz, although as a UK resident I hadn't heard of many of these, I spent the next 3 hours "driving" around Google Streetview to see what half of these towns look like.

Level 87

Dec 10, 2019

132. Got Bemidji, MN. Missed Chicago. D'Oh!

Level 36

Apr 22, 2020

Got 111 first time. Turns out I'm one of the few who got Susanville, pays going off to small places nearby. Recognized Bend and Medford instantly

Level 77

Sep 1, 2020

Looks like the US got smallpox, but got all in first try.

Level 80

Nov 4, 2020

If US cities were socially distanced:

Level 51

Dec 4, 2020

Third caveat crushed my hopes

Level 53

Apr 25, 2021

I somehow missed Orlando and Cincinnatti.

Level 62

Jul 12, 2021

Good quiz; I like the fact that it removes annoying suburbs and things.

I had the song Texarkana by R.E.M. going round my head the whole quiz, but never thought to type it in.

Level 67

Jul 12, 2021

Got Butte because I thought Chico (I haven't got it) was nearly to Butte County...

Level 64

Jul 12, 2021

This is a great quiz! It's finally paying off to have spent all that time living in and driving through sparcely populated regions of the US. I was one of the 8% who got Vernal, only because of the film Road to Redemption. 155/214 and yet somehow I forgot Tallahassee.

Level 71

Jul 12, 2021

Wow, Ridgecrest, CA.

Guys, if you haven't been to there or to its "naval base" China Lake, it's seriously creepy. They do secret testing out there and you can definitely tell why. It's got a serious Hills Have Eyes vibe going on.

Level 62

Jul 12, 2021

you were right...I did fail....

Level 45

Jul 13, 2021

Can you accept "Steamboat" for "Steamboat Springs"? I live in Colorado and everybody calls in Steamboat.

Level ∞

Jul 13, 2021

Sure.

Level 92

Jul 19, 2021

OK, there is a reason the thumbnail looks so much like the Portland (Maine) Museum Of Art

Level 95

Dec 19, 2021

Philadelphia is within 100km of NYC.

Level 63

Jun 28, 2022

Google says it's 130 km

Level 55

Jul 20, 2022

198/214. Could have gotten every one except Mitchell, SD if only I remembered those 15.

Level 43

Oct 6, 2022

Where is Lincoln Nebraska?

Level 69

Jul 11, 2024

Within 100km of Omaha so doesn't make the list.

Level 69

Dec 4, 2022

This is easily one of my favorite quizzes. I got 138, which means I was 5 short of getting 2/3 right, so I am kind of kicking myself.

If my brain was absolutely on fire, I could have gotten maybe an additional 15, so slightly less than 3/4 which would be about 160.

My biggest misses were Reno, NV, Port St. Lucie, FL, and Augusta, GA.

At least I was strong on my native state of Mississippi and environs. I got all of the locales in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee right, missing one in Arkansas (Texarkana – kicking myself for missing that one), well, actually, I forgot Dothan, which I am kicking myself over, as well. (cont'd)

Level 69

Dec 4, 2022

Going into this quiz, I knew it would be one that I would want to put a good bit of work into to get as many right as possible, but I was doing this about 4:45 am with 600mg of Gabapentin in my system. I thought that if I could control my impulses and wait until I was more awake some time tomorrow or the next day, I would do at least a little better. But I couldn’t help myself, so I didn’t perform as well as I could have. Others I missed that I could have possibly gotten with caffeine instead of gabapentin would have included Syracuse, Erie, Abilene, Sault Ste. Marie (kicking myself over that one as that is where I entered Canada when going there to immigrate for 5 years), Marquette (a wonderful little town I spent an afternoon in and remember as a very highly-rated town to live in), Valdosta, Kalispell, and Hays (had a memorable stopover there when I was on a Greyhound, once).

Anyway…bravo. This quiz was an excellent exercise and good reminder of room for personal improvement.

Level 64

Aug 21, 2023

i didn't siphon enough of my random-cities-far-away-from-any-big-ones knowledge from when i used to be a weather nerd and watch the weather channel but i got some, also me being a frequent observer of google maps definitely helped

Level 54

Jun 11, 2024

140 but incorrectly remembered Liberal KS as "Liberty" KS :(

Level 62

Oct 18, 2024

100% first try!

Level 87

May 25, 2025

88 Percentile = 2 points?

Level 81

May 25, 2025

Fun quiz. Accept just 'DC'?

Level ∞

May 25, 2025

Fixed

Level 81

May 27, 2025

San Juan?

Level 25

Jun 25, 2025

The one quiz where San Francisco, Long Beach, Santa Ana, St Paul, Fort Worth and a bunch of other usual suspects don't work!

Level 67

Jun 29, 2025

Surprised by how far La Crosse is to Rochester and Eau Claire is to Minneapolis.

Surprised that Scranton, Hilo, and Pueblo didn't make the list.

Level 59

Jul 9, 2025

I like how you have a US based quiz where no one knows what a kilometer is.

Level 54

Jul 9, 2025

140 first try!

Level 82

Jul 9, 2025

Hm. Should Hilo and Kahului be on here? Straight-line distance from Hilo to Honolulu is over 400 km, from Kahului to Honolulu is 151 km. Kahului is about 26k, Hilo about 46k.

Level 28

Jan 21, 2026

San Francisco hello?