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Biggest Two-Word U.S. Cities

Guess the most populous U.S. cities whose names consist of two words.
By city proper population. 2023 estimates.
Quiz by MattPunk
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Last updated: May 17, 2024
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First submittedNovember 29, 2012
Times taken95,012
Average score56.5%
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Population
City
8,258,035
New York
3,820,914
Los Angeles
1,495,295
San Antonio
1,388,320
San Diego
978,468
Fort Worth
969,655
San Jose
808,988
San Francisco
702,767
Oklahoma City
Population
City
678,958
El Paso
660,929
Las Vegas
510,704
Kansas City
488,664
Colorado Springs
453,649
Virginia Beach
449,468
Long Beach
364,136
New Orleans
342,259
San Juan
Population
City
316,595
Corpus Christi
310,539
Santa Ana
303,820
St. Paul
291,657
Jersey City
281,754
St. Louis
274,333
Chula Vista
269,994
Fort Wayne
263,553
St. Petersburg
110 Comments
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Level 16
Feb 11, 2013
Maybe Washington DC?
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Level 49
Feb 26, 2013
Nope. Washington is the name of the city. DC is the name of the district. That's why there's a comma between them.
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Level 49
Nov 19, 2018
What about Tampa Bay? it has 2.783 million people!
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Level 33
Jun 23, 2024
no ur talking about the metro area these are the just the cities pop i think
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Level 49
Nov 19, 2018
Do people refer to Tampa Bay as Tampa?
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Level 51
Jun 23, 2024
I used to live near that area...we called it Tampa.
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Level 78
Nov 19, 2018
Tampa Bay is a body of water. Tampa is the name of the city. It's confusing because the professional sports teams in the area are all named "Tampa Bay" because they all play in technically different cities that all border the bay.
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Level 62
May 20, 2024
we need to start a petition to move the Tampa Bay Ray's stadium into the Tampa Bay and out of Tampa
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Level 53
Feb 16, 2019
It says city proper. Tampa proper has 385 000 people. Also Tampa is the city, Tampa Bay is the body of water.
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Level 56
Mar 22, 2016
Besides that, DC makes three words, "District of Columbia."
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Level 72
Sep 5, 2019
I always though it was "da city" ;) as opposed to the state
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Level 54
Jun 23, 2024
lmao i used to think it meant "da capital"
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Level 24
Feb 11, 2013
No New Haven?
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Level 57
May 2, 2013
thats what i thought... what is happening in the world these days???
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Level 53
Feb 16, 2019
Too small, only 129 000 people.
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Level 76
Feb 12, 2013
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Kansas City, Kansas. Colorado City, Colorado

Florida City, Florida. Arizona City Arizona, etc., etc.

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Level 45
Feb 13, 2013
Actually, it's Kansas City, Missouri.
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Level 57
May 2, 2013
isnt there another one in kansas too?
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Level 54
Oct 14, 2014
There is a Kansas City, Kansas, but it is part of the much larger metropolitan of Kansas City, Missouri, just like any other small city near it.
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Level 74
May 9, 2018
Kansas City, MO came first. It was named for the Kansas River.
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Level 78
Dec 13, 2019
Panama City, Florida (yes, it's a real place)
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Level 51
Jun 24, 2024
Colorado City has about 100 people lol
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Level 69
Apr 22, 2014
Virginia City (Nevada)
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Level 74
Mar 8, 2016
Arkansas City, KS
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Level 55
Mar 9, 2016
^ You guys are great. :)
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Level 56
Mar 22, 2016
London, Kentucky. Paris, Kentucky. Versailles, Kentucky.
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Level 54
Jun 23, 2024
Berlin, NH; Moscow, ID; Belgrade, MT; Hamburg, AR; Tokio, TX; New Bern, NC; Lyon, MS; Hanover, NH; New Ulm, MN; Rome, NY; Vienna, VA; Athens, GA; Paris, TX; San Marino, CA; Lisbon, OH; Manila, UT; Odessa, TX; Prague, OK; Cologne, MN; Dublin, CA; Bergen County, NJ; Strasbourg, PA
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Level 51
Jun 23, 2024
There's an actual Rome in Georgia
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Level 33
Jun 23, 2024
emphasis on the word "new" in a few of them
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Level 43
Oct 19, 2016
Michigan City, Indiana
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Level 74
May 9, 2018
Missouri City, Texas.
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Level 67
Nov 19, 2018
Indiana, PA
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Level 56
Sep 5, 2019
Peru, Indiana; Brazil, Indiana; Valparaiso, Indiana; Santa Claus, Indiana; Russiaville, Indiana.
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Level 78
Mar 2, 2020
I know this is kind of unrelated, but on the Kiritimati atoll in Kiribati, there are cities named Poland, London, Paris, and Banana.
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Level 72
May 17, 2024
Couple more fun facts:

The island is named after Christmas. The letters TI make the S sound in Gilbertese, so "Kiritimati" is pronounced similar to "Christmas".

In order of population, its villages are Tabwakea (3,001), London (1,895), Banana (1,209), Poland (351), and Paris, which is in ruins and has a population of zero.

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Level 67
Feb 10, 2021
not only Indiana, PA, but also Wyoming, PA; Washington, PA; Idaho, PA and New Texas, PA.
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Level 84
Jun 23, 2024
Wyoming the state was named for the Wyoming in PA
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Level 60
Jun 23, 2024
Also California, PA.
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Level 83
Mar 28, 2022
Cairo, Illinois.
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Level 54
Jun 23, 2024
Virginia City (Montana)
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Level 33
Jun 23, 2024
naples, florida | venice, florida | panama city, florida | saint petersburg, florida | birmingham, alabama | rome, new york | athens, georgia | rome, georgia | cairo, illinois | napoleon, ohio | napoleon, north dakota | toledo, ohio | york, pennsylvania | ontario, oregon | moscow, idaho | many copycats across the us (springfield, concord, columbia, ect.) and some city named texarkana whch is split between arkansas and texas
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Level 88
Nov 19, 2018
Colorado City is a small old neighborhood of Colorado Springs, hence it is often called Old Colorado City.
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Level 69
Jun 17, 2019
Colorado City is an actual… well, I don’t think we can really say “city”, what with its teeming population of just over 2000 people, so we’ll say it’s an actual town. You go through it on I-25 on the way to the Sand Dunes in the Sangre de Cristos.
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Level 48
Mar 10, 2024
Colorado City is in Utah. Colorado Springs is in Colorado.
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Level 75
May 17, 2024
There is an unincorporated Colorado City in Colorado, but the one you're thinking of is in Arizona, not Utah.
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Level 48
Aug 4, 2024
the city im thinking is hildale which borders colorado city on the border of utah and arizona. i always get em mixed up even though i live like 45 minutes away.
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Level 37
Jul 30, 2014
This was super hard. One more minute please, or two?
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Level 86
Aug 5, 2014
Well, I found it unexpectedly easy...
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Level 46
Jan 28, 2015
Surprised Des Moines wasn't on this list
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Level 83
Nov 5, 2022
I guessed Des Moines too. Also struck out with Cedar Rapids, Sioux Falls, and Palm Springs among others. Fun quiz.
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Level 79
Sep 10, 2015
No Grand Rapids?
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Level 43
Oct 19, 2016
I wish, but only slightly more than 200k people
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Level 79
Nov 28, 2015
New York City is three words. New York (two words) is a state. If you are not including the "City", then you need to drop Kansas City, Jersey City, and Oklahoma City.
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Level 78
Nov 30, 2015
The difference is that the official name of NYC is not actually New York City. It's just New York. It's colloquially called New York City to differentiate it from the state in which it resides. On the other hand, Kansas City, Jersey City, and Oklahoma City are the official names of those cities.
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Level 78
Jan 22, 2016
Exactly. When addressing an envelope or looking at any actual address is simply New York, New York.
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Level 72
Jun 23, 2024
Especially when writing a letter to Frank Sinatra…
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Level 75
Mar 8, 2016
The town so nice, they named it twice!
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Level 69
Jan 22, 2016
salt lake city?
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Level 67
Mar 8, 2016
Count again!
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Level 74
Sep 5, 2019
And yet New York City is listed #1. The two word New York is a state.
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Level 48
Sep 11, 2019
The official name of New York City is "New York". When writing postage to someone who lives there you will in fact write,

New York, New York. The city is added to differentiate between the state, but is not actually part of the official city name.

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Level 89
Mar 8, 2016
Double whammy...three words, and at just shy of 200,000 people it isn't large enough to make the list anyway.
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Level 65
Mar 8, 2016
Little Rock?
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Level 71
Jun 2, 2017
Exactly! It's too small!
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Level 70
Sep 23, 2018
I tried it too. Maybe there's a reason they didn't call it Big Rock...
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Level 93
Jun 18, 2019
maybe they just couldn't find a big one
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Level 51
Jun 23, 2024
XD
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Level 75
Mar 8, 2016
Fort Lauderdale? Or is that considered apart of Miami or whatever large city is around it?
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Level 74
Mar 9, 2016
There's only 172,389 people in Ft. Lauderdale. Next in the list would be Fort Wayne, IN; Chula Vista, CA; Saint Petersburg, FL; Winston-Salem, NC; Baton Rouge, LA; and San Bernardino, CA.
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Level 38
Jun 23, 2024
Now St Petersburg is in the quiz !

(tried Winston-Slame, Baton Rouge and San Bernardino but nope)

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Level 91
Aug 31, 2017
Not meant to be a statement about this quiz but I hate city proper questions. Using that as a baseline cities like Tucson and Fresno are 50% larger than Miami and Atlanta, the 8th and 9th largest metropolitan areas of the country.
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Level 68
Sep 5, 2019
For a quiz like this I prefer city proper. We are looking for population of a city not half of the state around it. Metropolitan area is way too subjective and several of the answers in this quiz wouldn't make it because they would be within another's metro area (San Jose, Jersey City and Fort Worth to name a few).
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Level 48
May 9, 2018
California and Texas account for half of the answers.

And it took me till reading through half the comments for it to finally dawn on me why Salt Lade City wasn't working. I stubbornly tried it at least 4 times, double checking for spelling.

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Level 78
Dec 13, 2019
Even if it was right, It would be salt laKe city, not salt laDe city
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Level 88
Nov 19, 2018
How is Colorado Springs so unkown to people? Home of the US Olympic Training Center, the United States Air Force Academy and "America's Mountain" Pikes Peak
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Level 85
Jun 17, 2019
I knew it, but because it's home to a handful of right-wing political and fundamentalist Christian groups.
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Level 88
Sep 5, 2019
So you know about it because of Focus on the Family and not because USAFA and the Olympic Training Center/US Olympic Committee? Interesting.
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Level 74
Sep 5, 2019
Don't forget Homicide Hunter, Joe Kenda!
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Level 66
Jul 12, 2019
San Juan?
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Level 37
Aug 30, 2019
Where is Santa Fe
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Level 42
Jun 20, 2020
new mexico
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Level 67
Feb 19, 2023
it's not a very big city.
+1
Level 79
Sep 5, 2019
What about Salt Lake City? Oh wait, it's three words...
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Level 69
Sep 5, 2019
Lol I didn't realize it was "U.S." until like halfway through. Like I was guessing St. Petersburg for Russia :/
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Level 57
Feb 5, 2021
I mean, it worked
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Level 69
Sep 5, 2019
BUT WHERE IS LOS SANTOS?????
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Level 51
Sep 5, 2019
That's just in GTA
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Level 35
Sep 6, 2019
Order is all out of wack...
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Level ∞
Sep 7, 2019
Okay, fixed the one city that was out of order.
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Level 37
Sep 27, 2019
Russian Saint Petersburg not on there.
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Level 65
May 5, 2020
From the 7th least guessed I got Jersey City and Fort Wayne, should've gotten Virginia Beach, otherwise I've never heard of the 4 remaining.
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Level 52
Mar 31, 2021
Since you haven't said in the caveats that commonwealths and territories are excluded, San Juan would technically work
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Level 48
Jan 14, 2022
new york CITY
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Level 21
Nov 1, 2022
new york city is three words
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Level 43
Dec 30, 2022
No Salt Lake City? I though that had like 300,000 people.
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Level 22
Feb 28, 2023
203,000 approximately
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Level 22
Feb 28, 2023
Fun fact: The largest city in the U.S. is a 3-word city (New York City)
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Level 73
May 29, 2024
Nope
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Level 79
Mar 8, 2023
Get Fort Wayne, miss San Francisco, that's how it goes.
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Level 17
Mar 27, 2023
I tried New Amsterdam and it didn't work
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Level 82
Sep 3, 2023
I suspect you were born in the 1600s, no?
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Level 69
Jun 22, 2023
St Louis and St Paul are out of order.
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Level 48
Jan 13, 2024
If your counting Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Jersey City, etc... then New York City shouldn't count. But, you could make a "Biggest Three-Word US Cities" quiz.
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Level 41
Apr 14, 2024
Well, sir. If you had read previous messages you would have seen that the official name of New York City is actually just New York. People add city know the difference between New York City and New York State
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Level 78
May 17, 2024
One day San Juan, PR is going to be included in these quizzes. It's an American city and it's 2 words. Meets the criteria if you ask me.
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Level 88
May 18, 2024
Looks like your wish your wish came true.
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Level 74
May 21, 2024
Amazed not at how many people think that New York City is its actual name, but at how stubborn those people are not to read the many comments which might inform them otherwise.

You'd think it would get old "correcting" people without spending the most minimal possible effort making sure you were the one who was correct.

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Level 69
Jun 25, 2024
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Level 55
Jun 25, 2024
I thought the whole name was New York City? Pretty sure New York is the state.
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Level 56
Nov 1, 2024
Why is San Juan not included as an answer? I understand it is not in a state but it is still US territory, and therefore it is an US City.