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Population
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Fun Fact
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City
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6,089,815
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Almost fifty percent of this city is covered by trees.
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Atlanta
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4,941,632
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This city is home to the country’s first public beach (Revere Beach), first lighthouse (Little Brewster Lighthouse), first college (Harvard) and first subway (Tremont Street Subway).
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Boston
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4,845,832
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There was a time that this city’s ancient waterways were rich with crops of squash, corn, beans, and pumpkins — the latter of which almost led to the city being named Pumpkinville.
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Phoenix
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3,690,261
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This city has more shoreline along the Mississippi River (26 miles) than any other American city. This city and Baton Rouge are the only U.S. capitals on the river itself.
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St. Paul
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2,963,821
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Although this city is exactly one mile high, it is not the U.S. capital with the highest elevation (Santa Fe and Cheyenne are higher).
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Denver
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2,844,510
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At 6.7 square miles, this city is the smallest U.S. capital by land size.
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Annapolis
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2,397,382
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This city is the oldest incorporated city in the state of California (1850).
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Sacramento
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2,283,371
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This city is the largest U.S. city that doesn’t have a professional sports team.
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Austin
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2,138,926
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Nearly half of all Americans live within 500 miles of this city, including those living in Chicago, New York City, and Atlanta.
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Columbus
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2,111,040
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This city has been dubbed “Naptown” over the years for its slow-paced, sleepy reputation.
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Indianapolis
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1,989,519
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This city’s Centennial Park contains the only replica of the Greek Parthenon, which houses the tallest enclosed sculpture in the Western Hemisphere (Athena Parthenos).
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Nashville
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1,676,579
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The first planned American act of the Revolutionary War occurred in Narragansett Bay in this city.
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Providence
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1,425,695
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This city is the most recently founded state capital (1910).
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Oklahoma City
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1,413,982
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This city is the home of the first historically black university in the South, Shaw University.
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Raleigh
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1,314,434
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This city served as the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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Richmond
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1,257,936
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This city is the only U.S. capital with three words in its name.
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Salt Lake City
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1,213,531
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Teddy Roosevelt took the first presidential automobile ride in history on the streets of this city in 1902.
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Hartford
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1,016,508
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This city has the highest average annual temperature of any U.S. state capital.
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Honolulu
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899,262
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This city began as a fort in 1614 and is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the U.S.
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Albany
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870,569
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At 450 feet tall, this city’s capitol building is the tallest in the country.
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Baton Rouge
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829,470
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This city was the first U.S. city named after Christopher Columbus, and it was almost named Washington instead.
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Columbia
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764,718
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This city is home to the largest population of Basque Americans in the U.S. (15,000).
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Boise
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748,031
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The capital building in this city finished construction in 1842, making it the oldest capital building in the country.
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Little Rock
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709,466
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This city was originally named “Fort Raccoon” after the Raccoon River.
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Des Moines
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680,796
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This city is the only U.S. state capital built on an isthmus.
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Madison
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Population
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Fun Fact
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City
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591,978
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This city is the only U.S. capital built on top of a volcano. This volcano is located under the Mississippi Coliseum.
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Jackson
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591,712
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This city is home to the Rockville Bridge, which was built in 1902 and is the longest stone arch bridge in the world. |
Harrisburg
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541,297
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This city was the birthplace of Oldsmobile in 1897, eleven years before the Ford Motor Company created the Ford Model T.
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Lansing
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433,353
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This city is the second-most populous city in Oregon after Portland.
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Salem
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387,340
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This city was the U.S. Capital for the last two months of 1784.
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Trenton
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386,047
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This city was the first U.S. city with an electric streetcar system known as “the Lightning Route.”
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Montgomery
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384,298
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This city was the only state capital of the Confederacy not to be captured or burned during the Civil War.
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Tallahassee
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340,217
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This city was named after President Abraham Lincoln in 1867, only two years after he was assassinated.
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Lincoln
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294,793
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This city is the northernmost state capital in the contiguous U.S.
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Olympia
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258,859
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The first U.S. museum (est. 1773) and theater (Dock Street Theatre, est. 1736) are located in this city.
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Charleston
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233,152
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This city is the closest state capital to the geographic center of the U.S. (which is two miles north of Lebanon, Kansas).
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Topeka
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208,640
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This city became the third capital of Illinois thanks to the work of Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 to 1861.
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Springfield
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181,851
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This city differed from the rest of Kent County regarding slavery, and was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Dover
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154,823
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This city is the oldest state capital (founded in 1610), and also the highest U.S. capital at 7,000 feet above sea level.
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Santa Fe
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153,808
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This city was named for the “concord,” or harmony, after a boundary dispute between the neighboring towns Rumford and Bow.
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Concord
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150,309
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This city was laid out by Daniel Morgan Boone, son of famous pioneer Daniel Boone.
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Jefferson City
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133,626
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This city has the lowest average winter temperature of all state capitals (even Juneau).
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Bismarck
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123,642
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This city is home to Fort Western, the oldest wooden fort in the United States (built in 1794).
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Augusta
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100,512
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Located only eight miles north of the Colorado border, this city is one of the furthest U.S. capitals from its own state’s geographic center.
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Cheyenne
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83,058
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This city was originally named “Last Chance Gulch” as a small mining town. It almost became “Crabtown” or “Pumpkinville” before being named after Saint Helena in Minnesota.
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Helena
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75,393
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This city was the only Union capital that was overtaken and occupied by the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.
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Frankfort
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58,639
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This city is one of only two state capital cities bordered by another state.
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Carson City
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32,255
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Geographically, this city is the largest state capital at 2,716 square miles.
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Juneau
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20,745
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This city is the only U.S. capital without access to an expressway.
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Pierre
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7,477 (City Proper)
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This city is the sole state capital without a McDonald’s.
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Montpelier
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