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10,000 Biggest U.S. Cities as of the 2020 Census on a Map

There are 31,616 cities in the United States, how many can you name within the 10,000 most populated?
Includes census-designated places
Coordinates (with the exception of one) and county map from census.gov, population from citypopulation.de
For reference, the 10,000th biggest city has a population of 2,496
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Quiz by Vicky
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Last updated: September 6, 2021
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First submittedSeptember 6, 2021
Times taken8,191
Average score8.1%
Rating4.95
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70 Comments
+14
Level 55
Sep 6, 2021
WARNING: As of right now you might not be able to save quiz results, we are trying to fix that as soon as possible.
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Level 55
Sep 7, 2021
UPDATE: Sadly it is not possible to fix the problem right now.
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Level 55
Apr 5, 2023
THE QUIZ CAN NOW BE TAKEN!
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Level 74
Sep 6, 2021
This quiz is awesome! :)
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Level 68
Sep 6, 2021
I will fail!
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Level 78
Sep 6, 2021
Incredible!!!! Spotlighted.
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Level 71
Sep 11, 2021
Nominated, holy crap
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Level 81
Sep 11, 2021
Dang it. Only missed one.
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Level 81
Sep 11, 2021
Actually I got 1164.
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Level 76
Sep 11, 2021
Very good job. !!!
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Level 79
Sep 11, 2021
This is an insane quiz, but I don't know if people will want to take it if it fails to save your answers. It still doesn't as of now. Is it because of how much there is to process?
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Level 67
Sep 12, 2021
Fun! (Even though this large of a quiz made my computer really slow) I got 1326. Didn't see the note that CDP's were included. Either way 10000 is impossible.
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Level 39
Jan 9, 2023
I got 1495
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Level 75
Sep 12, 2021
The map just looks like a black hole has opened up in the KY-GA area.

Great effort on the quiz 👏

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Level 85
Jan 21, 2022
OMG, I just spent an hour on this and it didn't save my result. I wish I had read the comments before instead of after. You should put that stickied information in the caveats, if not the quiz description.

I guess this quiz is officially the biggest waste of time on the site!

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Level 55
Feb 6, 2022
I wanted to take this Quiz Really bad but 10,000 is just entirely too many answers with not enough effort to care lol. Even for an hour. Also I just read that it doesn’t save anyways so what’s the point lol. I will commend the effort and time it took to make a quiz of this caliber tho. More than I could ever do. Props to the quiz maker. I just don’t think the internet and Humanity is ready for it yet haha.
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Level 90
Apr 18, 2022
One quiz where no one is bragging how much time they had left.
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Level 60
Apr 23, 2022
It is scary how much time this quiz would've taken to make. Amazing work! It does suck i can't save my 500+ but that's liveable, quiz was fun :)
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Level 68
Apr 23, 2022
I will fail, but that won't stop me from trying :)
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Level 68
Apr 23, 2022
I also wish we had the ability to take this quiz untimed just to see how many we can get right, but that seems to be only an option on the quiz platform Sporcle at the moment.
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Level 76
Apr 24, 2022
The button to the right of pause makes a quiz untimed.
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Level 68
May 11, 2022
I just realized that. Thank you!
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Level 84
Apr 23, 2022
It looks like a sea of green near New York!
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Level 62
Apr 23, 2022
How long did this take?!?!?
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Level 96
Apr 23, 2022
So basically this quiz could be titled "Name Every American City or Town You Can Think Of"
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Level 39
Jan 9, 2023
Unless it's New England because all those towns have like 1000 people or less.
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Level 41
Apr 23, 2022
Good quiz,

Maybe one day there would by "by proximity" version of this quiz.

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Level 54
May 7, 2022
only spotlighted quiz with 0 takes i guess
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Level 62
May 12, 2022
alright lets take this thing untimed
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Level 62
May 12, 2022
1000 in
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Level 62
May 13, 2022
2500 in
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Level 68
May 15, 2022
That was fun. I got to about 1650 or so. My hands are very tired right now! So sorry that the quiz has a flaw that makes it impossible to save results. It was fun, anyway...was waiting for a huge file to transfer between computers, anyway, so it was a pleasant way to squander an hour.
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Level 62
May 25, 2022
5000 in
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Level 62
May 25, 2022
6000 in
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Level 72
Jul 19, 2022
I found that guessing random European cities actually helps.
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Level 61
Sep 19, 2022
Got over a 1200 before time ran out. Really wish I could save the results, but Jetpunk's server just isn't cooperating.
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Level 39
Sep 20, 2022
Great quiz! Missing Bar Harbor, Maine though, just FYI
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Level 90
Oct 7, 2022
I did just the Maine towns and thought that, but it's using the Census Bureau's offsets to New England towns that totally redefine their actual borders.

After checking, the Census Bureau aligned it at 2,260 for the "Census Designated Place" in 2020. The actual municipality had 5,089. There's absolutely zero difference between towns and cities in New England. One type has a city council and city manager; the other has a town council and town manager. They can function absolutely identically, but the Census Bureau reports them in radically different ways.

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Level 71
Oct 9, 2022
This is the one quiz where it actually makes sense to post your scores! 1,136 :)
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Level 65
Oct 11, 2022
Wow this is a tough quiz! I got 1313 before giving up.
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Level 65
Jun 16, 2023
Got 1444 this time. I got Pickens but somehow missed Los Angeles :(
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Level 74
Oct 23, 2022
Since its impossible to see, putting this here for myself. Got 2032.
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Level 39
Jan 9, 2023
holy crap dude
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Level 70
Dec 16, 2022
3061, untimed over the course of a few evenings. Many random guesses, gave up to see what the map looks like with all the cities listed.
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Level 76
Jan 20, 2023
Once I couldn't name any more I started listing European cities and it helped.
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Level 45
Feb 4, 2023
finished the quiz with 11 seconds left
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Level 20
Mar 26, 2023
I got 9507 on my results, I was 493 away !!!!!!
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Level 43
May 29, 2024
Did you ever go back and complete it entirely?
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Level 62
Apr 5, 2023
677 as a European who, after running out of ideas, just entered European cities, countries, regions, fruits, vegetables, items, people names etc.
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Level 43
May 10, 2023
Honestly, even if you cheat, props to whoever aces this quiz. And did anybody else get Antelope, California, or Caribou, Maine?
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Level 41
May 4, 2024
I have heard of both. I live around an hour from Antelope, CA.
+3
Level 62
May 15, 2023
aight imma do it
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Level 77
Aug 30, 2023
2206 before I ran out of time/hands began to hurt!! Why do I do this to myself.
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Level 66
Sep 12, 2023
Got 1015 including 10 no-one else has gotten, (It helps to have lived in Texas most of my life). But here's what I left out: Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis.........Duh...Spent too much time dreaming up possible names!
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Level 62
Sep 29, 2023
guys

i did it.

after 4 months of grinding

its finally over

gg ;)

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Level 43
May 29, 2024
Did you actually do it? And if so, how long did it take you and where you already aware you had it in you to do this insane stuff?
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Level 62
Aug 23, 2024
yeah. it took about 4 months of on and off work, and was just something I did in my free time. not really grinding so idk why I said that
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Level 22
Oct 31, 2023
2755 out of my head!

With random guessing XD. I took untimed though :Þ

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Level 52
Dec 6, 2023
I got 1928
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Level 43
May 29, 2024
Is this the quiz on Jetpunk with the most answers?
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Level 67
Jun 23, 2024
finished with 50 minutes left, my parents haven't been born yet.
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Level 67
Jun 23, 2024
Got 2,106, timed. I don't think this quiz is physically possible to complete timed.
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Level 48
Aug 15, 2024
has anyone finished this 😭
+3
Level 62
Aug 23, 2024
I have
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Level 48
Sep 29, 2024
that's insane. i got exactly 1500 and it ended.
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Level 62
Oct 23, 2024
I took it untimed though
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Level 62
Oct 23, 2024
I took it untimed though
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Level 55
Nov 24, 2024
Exactly 1/10 of the quiz, that's good enough for me
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Level 71
Dec 7, 2024
What about North Pole, Alaska? Other than that, great quiz!
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Level 71
Dec 7, 2024
2024/10000 untimed

I would say that's pretty good