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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 2020 Census estimates
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First submittedNovember 3, 2016
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Population
City
8,253,213
New York
3,970,219
Los Angeles
2,677,643
Chicago
2,316,120
Houston
1,708,127
Phoenix
1,578,487
Philadelphia
1,567,118
San Antonio
1,422,420
San Diego
1,343,266
Dallas
1,013,616
San Jose
995,484
Austin
920,570
Jacksonville
903,852
Columbus
900,350
Charlotte
877,903
Indianapolis
769,714
Seattle
735,538
Denver
712,816
Washington D. C.
691,531
Boston
681,534
El Paso
671,295
Nashville
665,369
Detroit
662,368
Las Vegas
662,314
Oklahoma City
656,751
Portland
649,705
Memphis
618,338
Louisville
589,067
Milwaukee
562,540
Albuquerque
553,571
Tucson
530,267
Fresno
512,838
Sacramento
512,550
Atlanta
497,159
Kansas City
478,393
Omaha
474,414
Raleigh
471,525
Miami
451,231
Virginia Beach
433,111
Minneapolis
407,599
Tampa
403,166
Tulsa
391,731
Wichita
389,476
New Orleans
385,725
Bakersfield
378,589
Cleveland
341,555
Honolulu
327,248
Corpus Christi
324,735
Lexington
304,548
Cincinnati
299,226
Pittsburgh
297,878
Greensboro
297,645
St. Louis
289,457
Orlando
287,095
Anchorage
272,398
Fort Wayne
263,640
Laredo
263,094
Madison
262,611
Lubbock
259,290
Reno
254,479
Buffalo
232,226
Richmond
229,776
Boise
222,050
Spokane
219,052
Baton Rouge
212,312
Des Moines
209,715
Port St. Lucie
206,950
Birmingham
205,225
Rochester
204,087
Salt Lake City
202,964
Huntsville
200,972
Cape Coral
200,031
Grand Rapids
Population
City
199,654
Amarillo
197,866
Little Rock
197,468
Augusta
196,442
Columbus
196,326
Tallahassee
196,268
Montgomery
190,223
Knoxville
187,809
Sioux Falls
187,746
Mobile
184,786
Shreveport
184,742
Chattanooga
183,428
Brownsville
168,090
Springfield
157,821
Jackson
152,737
Macon
147,069
Midland
143,632
Savannah
141,229
Syracuse
139,714
Charleston
134,027
Cedar Rapids
132,130
Columbia
125,209
Fargo
124,794
Wilmington
124,769
Columbia
124,407
Abilene
119,862
Rochester
119,260
College Station
118,407
Evansville
115,473
Beaumont
113,671
Springfield
109,736
Billings
109,428
Peoria
108,222
Tyler
105,851
Santa Maria
105,405
Wichita Falls
103,836
Green Bay
102,867
Chico
101,886
Bend
101,868
South Bend
101,799
Davenport
101,612
San Angelo
99,811
Yuma
99,058
Roanoke
95,429
Albany
95,077
Erie
94,779
Greenville
94,322
Yakima
92,852
Asheville
92,456
Redding
92,378
St. George
89,576
Fayetteville
89,390
Champaign
85,773
Duluth
84,515
Kennewick
83,412
Medford
82,759
Sioux City
79,859
Jonesboro
78,864
Rapid City
76,848
Missoula
74,018
Bismarck
73,939
Flagstaff
70,839
Albany
69,414
Dothan
69,087
Eau Claire
67,402
Jackson
66,838
Victoria
66,803
Portland
64,142
Idaho Falls
63,447
Grand Junction
58,498
Casper
58,353
Great Falls
Population
City
57,246
Lake Havasu City
56,668
Valdosta
55,950
Grand Forks
53,204
Harrisonburg
51,411
Twin Falls
51,163
La Crosse
51,004
Grand Island
50,970
Bozeman
47,596
Roswell
47,428
Minot
46,998
Monroe
45,879
Charleston
45,806
Hattiesburg
45,573
Alexandria
44,156
Farmington
42,989
Altoona
42,899
Burlington
41,588
Cape Girardeau
39,589
Quincy
39,339
Hobbs
38,511
Wausau
38,303
Tupelo
38,091
Clovis
36,221
Texarkana
36,011
Meridian
35,722
Del Rio
34,955
Lufkin
34,465
Butte
34,336
Pullman
33,734
Panama City
32,220
Gillette
31,998
Bangor
31,849
Juneau
30,696
Fairbanks
29,749
Williston
29,664
Carlsbad
29,135
Ridgecrest
29,009
Parkersburg
28,315
Greenville
28,180
Aberdeen
26,687
Dodge City
26,652
Eureka
25,329
Kalispell
24,375
Ottumwa
23,767
Key West
23,527
Dickinson
23,202
North Platte
22,943
Rock Springs
21,253
Gallup
20,829
Hays
20,531
Elko
20,308
Marquette
19,673
Blythe
18,821
Liberal
18,095
Sheridan
15,734
Traverse City
15,697
Mitchell
15,452
Bemidji
14,930
Jamestown
14,425
Susanville
14,373
Scottsbluff
14,078
Sterling
13,708
Pierre
13,359
Sault Ste. Marie
13,169
Steamboat Springs
11,876
Woodward
11,578
Show Low
10,819
Riverton
10,488
Pecos
10,468
Vernal
10,222
Glenwood Springs
92 Comments
+8
Level ∞
Nov 3, 2016
I wrote my dot-placing program so I had to use it. It looks like the United States has contracted a case of the measles.
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Level 44
Feb 25, 2018
after were finished it looks kinda like Skittles

pox!

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Level ∞
Nov 3, 2016
Got 129 on my first try but missed some obvious ones.
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Level 56
Mar 24, 2017
Got 147, missing only one answer that got over 50% - I should have gotten Sacramento, oh well
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Level 69
Sep 24, 2017
San Francisco didn't make the cut?
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Level 75
May 9, 2019
San Jose
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Level 62
Apr 26, 2021
San Jose is larger by city proper but basically functions as a suburb of it.
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Level 57
Jul 12, 2021
what? san jose is its only city not part of san francisco.
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Level 62
Apr 26, 2021
The only obvious ones I missed were Tallahasse and Pierre, which I thought had less than 10,000 people.
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Level 75
Mar 23, 2023
Pierre around 14,000 but Tallahassee about 200,000.
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Level 82
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.
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Level 75
Nov 3, 2016
God bless Texas.
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Level 60
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.
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Level 25
Nov 3, 2016
Agree
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Level 65
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. :)
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Level 72
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.
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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.
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Level 83
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.
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Level 83
Jun 27, 2017
Personally I thought this was one of the best quizzes I've taken here.
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Level 44
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
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Level 91
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?
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Level 48
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.
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Level 89
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.
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Level 91
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.
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Level 80
Nov 5, 2016
I like to think 46% isn't bad for a Brit whose never travelled west of the Hudson.
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Level 71
Jun 8, 2017
I'll tolerate it.
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Level 47
Nov 5, 2016
Kinda funny to do a quiz on the USA and measure it in Kilometres
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Level 47
Nov 5, 2016
... and I spelled it wrong. I'm so American.
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Level 65
Dec 4, 2016
I got 130 but missed Sacramento and San Jose.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Level 72
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.
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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.
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Level 51
Jan 21, 2017
I got Lufkin and somehow missed both Tampa and San Antonio
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Level 67
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.
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Level 83
Jun 23, 2017
155 on my first try. Ya beat me.
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Level 54
Mar 23, 2017
Great tough quiz!
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Level 59
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
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Level 89
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.
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Level 74
Mar 24, 2017
Good point. Hilo should be on here.
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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.
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Level 75
Dec 19, 2019
Well so is Honolulu I think
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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
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Level 34
Mar 23, 2017
I missed Philidelphia and got Colorado Springs. #facepalm
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Level 60
Mar 23, 2017
Managed to get all of Texas and those cities on the Texas border in other states. So that's worth something.
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Level 60
Mar 23, 2017
Also, typing in Wichita gives both Wichita and Wichita Falls, which doesn't seem right.
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Level 91
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.
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Level 79
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!
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Level 91
Mar 27, 2017
Good luck with that, sir!
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Level 64
Jan 28, 2022
Almost there :)
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Level 42
Apr 12, 2024
How many have you visited so far?
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Level 15
Mar 27, 2017
got it after using google maps and taking unlimited
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Level 34
Mar 28, 2017
After a few days of practice, finished with 8:04 left.
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Level 54
Jun 11, 2017
A Real American would know every single city on this quiz.
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Level 83
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.
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Level 73
Aug 14, 2017
Amazing quiz, geospatially very interesting. So the population cutoff was 10,000 I take it?
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Level 70
Aug 19, 2017
Huh? I thought the U.S. hasn't adopted the metric system?
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Level 82
Nov 8, 2017
First quiz where Fargo was an answer! Go bison! :P
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Level 68
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.
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Level 69
Nov 24, 2017
Unbelievable misses: New York, Atlanta, Detroit.
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Level 68
Mar 20, 2018
Got 114, missed Atlanta where I have been 5 times. Got Elko, Alexandria and Scottsbluff though!
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Level 68
Apr 12, 2021
Got 142 this time around!
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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!
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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.
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Level 78
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.
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Level 85
Dec 10, 2019
132. Got Bemidji, MN. Missed Chicago. D'Oh!
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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
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Level 67
Sep 1, 2020
Looks like the US got smallpox, but got all in first try.
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Level 78
Nov 4, 2020
If US cities were socially distanced:
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Level 51
Dec 4, 2020
Third caveat crushed my hopes
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Level 54
Apr 25, 2021
I somehow missed Orlando and Cincinnatti.
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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.

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Level 65
Jul 12, 2021
Got Butte because I thought Chico (I haven't got it) was nearly to Butte County...
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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.
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Level 68
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.

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Level 57
Jul 12, 2021
you were right...I did fail....
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Level 45
Jul 13, 2021
Can you accept "Steamboat" for "Steamboat Springs"? I live in Colorado and everybody calls in Steamboat.
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Level ∞
Jul 13, 2021
Sure.
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Level 89
Jul 19, 2021
OK, there is a reason the thumbnail looks so much like the Portland (Maine) Museum Of Art
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Level 86
Dec 19, 2021
Philadelphia is within 100km of NYC.
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Level 63
Jun 28, 2022
Google says it's 130 km
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Level 51
Jul 20, 2022
198/214. Could have gotten every one except Mitchell, SD if only I remembered those 15.
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Level 39
Oct 6, 2022
Where is Lincoln Nebraska?
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Level 67
Jul 11, 2024
Within 100km of Omaha so doesn't make the list.
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Level 71
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)

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Level 71
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.

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Level 65
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
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Level 54
Jun 11, 2024
140 but incorrectly remembered Liberal KS as "Liberty" KS :(
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Level 61
Oct 18, 2024
100% first try!