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Biggest Cities in the U.S. - Extreme

Try to name the 200 biggest cities in the United States by city proper population.
City proper population only. 2024 estimates.
Puerto Rico not included
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Last updated: May 19, 2025
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First submittedMarch 10, 2016
Times taken144,594
Average score44.5%
Rating4.95
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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
1,008,106
Fort Worth
997,368
San Jose
993,588
Austin
943,476
Charlotte
933,263
Columbus
891,484
Indianapolis
827,526
San Francisco
780,995
Seattle
729,019
Denver
712,919
Oklahoma City
704,963
Nashville
702,250
Washington
681,723
El Paso
678,922
Las Vegas
673,458
Boston
645,705
Detroit
640,796
Louisville
635,749
Portland
610,919
Memphis
568,271
Baltimore
563,531
Milwaukee
560,326
Albuquerque
554,013
Tucson
550,105
Fresno
535,798
Sacramento
520,070
Atlanta
517,151
Mesa
516,032
Kansas City
499,825
Raleigh
493,554
Colorado Springs
489,265
Omaha
487,014
Miami
454,808
Virginia Beach
450,901
Long Beach
443,554
Oakland
428,579
Minneapolis
417,468
Bakersfield
415,154
Tulsa
414,547
Tampa
403,672
Arlington
403,130
Aurora
400,991
Wichita
365,379
Cleveland
362,701
New Orleans
350,039
Henderson
344,967
Honolulu
344,561
Anaheim
334,854
Orlando
329,437
Lexington
324,975
Stockton
323,757
Riverside
318,683
Irvine
317,317
Corpus Christi
317,303
Newark
316,184
Santa Ana
314,915
Cincinnati
307,668
Pittsburgh
Population
City
307,465
St. Paul
307,381
Greensboro
302,824
Jersey City
301,870
Durham
300,619
Lincoln
294,034
North Las Vegas
293,286
Plano
289,600
Anchorage
288,790
Gilbert
285,300
Madison
281,714
Reno
281,231
Chandler
279,695
St. Louis
278,546
Chula Vista
276,617
Buffalo
273,203
Fort Wayne
272,086
Lubbock
267,102
St. Petersburg
265,638
Toledo
261,260
Laredo
258,575
Port St. Lucie
258,143
Glendale
258,060
Irving
255,769
Winston-Salem
254,997
Chesapeake
250,431
Garland
246,170
Scottsdale
237,963
Boise
235,388
Hialeah
235,208
Frisco
233,655
Richmond
233,025
Cape Coral
231,105
Norfolk
230,609
Spokane
230,402
Huntsville
229,159
Santa Clarita
228,202
Tacoma
228,192
Fremont
227,526
McKinney
224,775
San Bernardino
220,907
Baton Rouge
220,592
Modesto
218,455
Fontana
217,783
Salt Lake City
213,919
Moreno Valley
213,096
Des Moines
211,286
Worcester
211,040
Yonkers
209,496
Fayetteville
209,289
Sioux Falls
207,331
Grand Prairie
207,282
Rochester
205,089
Tallahassee
204,774
Little Rock
203,729
Amarillo
202,893
Overland Park
201,830
Columbus
201,737
Augusta
201,367
Mobile
200,616
Oxnard
200,117
Grand Rapids
199,924
Peoria
198,992
Vancouver
198,722
Knoxville
196,357
Birmingham
195,818
Montgomery
194,706
Providence
Population
City
193,151
Huntington Beach
191,967
Brownsville
191,496
Chattanooga
190,641
Fort Lauderdale
190,114
Tempe
189,664
Akron
187,823
Glendale
185,690
Clarksville
185,285
Ontario
183,056
Newport News
182,797
Elk Grove
182,659
Cary
180,710
Aurora
180,406
Salem
179,326
Pembroke Pines
178,786
Eugene
177,524
Santa Rosa
176,675
Rancho Cucamonga
176,578
Shreveport
172,361
Garden Grove
170,941
Oceanside
170,924
Fort Collins
170,596
Springfield
168,387
Murfreesboro
167,564
Surprise
167,426
Lancaster
165,998
Denton
163,304
Roseville
162,536
Palmdale
161,540
Corona
160,783
Salinas
160,616
Killeen
160,463
Paterson
159,102
Alexandria
159,073
Hollywood
158,440
Hayward
157,665
Charleston
157,056
Macon
156,868
Lakewood
156,792
Sunnyvale
156,752
Kansas City
154,888
Springfield
154,377
Bellevue
153,124
Naperville
151,837
Joliet
151,599
Bridgeport
150,140
Mesquite
149,617
Pasadena
149,035
Olathe
148,847
Escondido
148,808
Savannah
148,782
McAllen
148,720
Gainesville
147,966
Pomona
147,486
Rockford
146,689
Thornton
146,608
Waco
146,271
Visalia
146,097
Syracuse
144,788
Columbia
143,687
Midland
143,242
Miramar
142,023
Palm Bay
141,449
Jackson
140,808
Coral Springs
140,721
Victorville
103 Recent Comments
+3
Level 65
Jun 16, 2016
Can you please accept "LA" for "Los Angeles?"
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Level 32
Jul 2, 2020
If they did that a lot of people would accidentally get it when they tried to type something else like Lansing.
+17
Level 82
Jun 3, 2022
I always guess Lansing first when doing a "biggest cities" quiz.
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Level 60
Apr 27, 2022
Also LA means Louisiana
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Level 49
May 19, 2025
but that's not a city
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Level 56
Sep 19, 2016
83/200 and for that I get 2 points. It's funny the least rewarding quizzes (for the effort put in) such as this are the most fun to do
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Level 56
Oct 21, 2016
94 on 2nd try, but managed to miss Baltimore and Oklahoma City
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Level 32
Jul 2, 2020
I hope they start to accept this guy's name as a type-in.
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Level 95
Sep 23, 2016
Well, the only one I've never heard of is Rancho Cucamonga. I'm pretty sure this place doesn't actually exist, but is a conspiracy city like Bielefeld.
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Level 57
Jan 25, 2017
Do you not watch Workaholics?
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Level 95
Apr 11, 2019
I do not watch, and up until this moment can not remember hearing of, a show/movie/broadway singalong of that name.
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Level 74
Jul 15, 2017
While I totally agree that Bielefeld doesn't actually exists, Rancho Cucamonga is somewhere between Los Angeles and San Bernardino (touching two other cities present in the quiz).
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Level 91
May 29, 2020
I've been to Rancho Cucamonga and can attest that it, in fact, does not exist.
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Level 75
Jun 29, 2020
When I was young, comedians on TV sometimes made fun of Cucamonga (without adding the Rancho) as a play on "Kookamunga". As in, "That lady was so crazy she must have come from Cucamonga."
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Level 56
Feb 12, 2017
Here I am, sitting in DC, and guess which city I blank on?

Our nations capital :)

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Level 21
Jun 21, 2017
Isn't Vancouver in Canada?
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Level 36
May 8, 2019
And Washington
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Level 95
Jul 24, 2020
I always thought Seattle should label all the onramp signs to I-5 as "To Vancouver."
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Level 67
Feb 28, 2022
I guess technically they could! Haha but they're in opposite directions from Seattle so that would get confusing real fast. Especially since south is really Portland; and Vancouver is a sort of satelite to Portland.
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Level 60
Apr 27, 2022
So funny
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Level 74
Sep 16, 2022
Not the first one.
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Level 26
Apr 8, 2023
more than one place can have that name, its also in washington.

its like saying "isn't rochester, worcester,norfolk,lancaster,norfolk,newark,lincoln,durham and birmingham in england?"

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Level 62
Jan 10, 2024
Norfolk & Norfolk?
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Level 63
Jul 31, 2023
Vancouver's also a small city in Washington state. Canada's Vancouver is freaking enormous in comparison.
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Level 45
Aug 20, 2017
Wow, that was fun. I got 98. I missed Little Rock and Charleston... but I got Carrollton. Agree with others, living in Texas helps a lot! I missed a lot of California, which I expected would be the case.
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Level 65
Dec 4, 2017
Got 200 with 9.31 remaining, after a lot and lot of tries!
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Level 62
Jul 26, 2018
I live in Boston and I'm even in the city right now but I somehow missed ......
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Level 66
Oct 2, 2018
69 out of the 200 cities are in California and Texas alone
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Level 68
Oct 19, 2018
43! of the cities are from California alone. Wow.
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Level 54
May 31, 2025
6.04*10^52...that's a lot of cities
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Level 21
Oct 19, 2018
...I got 11..... :))))))))))))))))))))
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Level 91
Oct 20, 2018
Who else thought Extreme would be Top 500 or 1,000? The quiz for cities over 100,000 has over 300 answers.
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Level 45
Oct 20, 2018
Thank you, Jetpunk Interesting Facts, for often telling me about Pasadena. That was a small but appreciated addition to my score. And thank you, Springfield.

Also, why is there a Kansas city outside Kansas ? Why ?

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Level 47
Jun 9, 2019
Kansas City, MO is named for the Kansas River and was actually incorporated as a city before Kansas became a state.
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Level 67
Feb 28, 2022
Learn something new every day! Thanks for sharing
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Level 53
Mar 3, 2022
In fact, Kansas City Missouri is much bigger than Kansas City Kansas
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Level 98
Nov 17, 2018
10'52'' left
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Level 98
Nov 20, 2018
12'41'' left
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Level 98
Nov 27, 2018
13'20''
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Level 98
Dec 5, 2018
13'57''
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Level 86
May 28, 2020
Now that's tall.
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Level 37
Dec 8, 2018
I missed Washington!!!
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Level 47
Mar 23, 2019
Finally got all 200, its hard when there's this many answers. Its easy to miss ones you know that you thought you typed but didn't without some sort of visual reference other than just a list.
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Level 37
Sep 25, 2019
Topeka?
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Level 40
Oct 4, 2019
152. But somehow I missed Boston, Indianapolis, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee and Cincinnati.
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Level 71
Dec 14, 2019
As an european, i surprised how much jetpunkers knows the American cities. I got only 71, and i thought it was quite good as an non american, but only 1 point for the quiz was quite disappointing.
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Level 25
Aug 12, 2021
same, im a Colombian and did 96, and some people over here in the comments doing 160 I dont know how, I think I did pretty well :)
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Level 74
Sep 16, 2022
That seems exceedingly good to me!
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Level 60
Apr 22, 2020
got 190 but cheated on the last 20
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Level 91
May 28, 2020
Whats the point then
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Level 48
Aug 15, 2024
it helps me learn. I still try without cheating a couple days later.
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Level 86
May 28, 2020
Wait, when did Oklahoma become a state? :-P (somehow danced right around OK)
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Level 72
Oct 24, 2022
1907
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Level 80
May 28, 2020
Can't think of a good reason why San Juan in Puerto Rico is excluded from this quiz. What country is it part of, if not the United States? It would be like excluding Darwin in Northern Territory and Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory from a quiz about Australia, because they don't have statehood. Australian's don't exclude our territories in general thinking but Americans have really strong prejudices towards excluding theirs.
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Level 91
May 29, 2020
Americans are exceptionally good at excluding and oppressing others while at the same time proclaiming to be a beacon of freedom and liberty.
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Level 75
Jun 29, 2020
Australia is world-recognized for its all-encompassing inclusivity. Just ask any of its indigenous people. (My first-grade teacher told me that when you point your finger at someone else, you have three fingers pointing back at yourself.)
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Level 68
Feb 22, 2022
I would say that the Australian Capital Territory isn't a great analogy, as DC is included in this quiz.

A good analogy would probably be including Nuuk in a quiz about Denmark.

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Level 82
Jun 3, 2022
"Americans have really strong prejudices toward excluding" their territories. You've apparently drawn this thesis from the exclusion of San Juan on an internet quiz?? Geez.

(And for what it's worth, the equivalent in Australia wouldn't be Canberra because the quiz includes Washington DC, but it would be as if you left out a sizable city on Christmas Island or Norfolk Island, which are external territories)

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Level 91
Sep 17, 2022
It's simply the way people pull data. The Census Bureau lists all statistics for the country and then separately for territories. The entire constitutional requirement for a census is for congressional apportionment. Territories are not an integral part of the country. They can and do leave the control of the U.S. The states cannot. (Remember the Civil War?) Puerto Rico has time and time and time again had the opportunity to become a state with full representation or to become an independent nation. They choose instead to be U.S. citizens who don't pay the heavy federal income taxes regular U.S. citizens do, and harbor businesses which get away income tax free as well. I'd gladly save all that money every year not to have a useless congressman. No campaign ads to listen to.
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Level 68
May 29, 2020
Got 131. Was missing one of the ones over 1 million population. Couldn't figure it out. Thought I had typed San Diego. Guess not. Thought of a few more in Texas as time expired. I went alphabetically thru the states which helped.
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Level 68
Aug 1, 2021
160 on my second try 14 months later. Missed 4 that I guessed the first time.
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Level 55
Jun 28, 2020
151 - not bad for a Brit :)
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Level 56
Jun 29, 2020
Got 41 - I am satisfied with that. I guess I would only guess more in the German cities quiz.
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Level 80
Jun 30, 2020
Aarrggghhh, I got just one below the average score (88, the avg. being 89). But I would say pretty good for someone who has never been to the U.S (me).
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Level 81
Jun 30, 2020
Going with city proper populations leads to some really odd omissions. And some weird ordering.
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Level 73
Jul 1, 2020
200/200
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Level 71
Jul 1, 2020
Knew most of these cities, though lots of cities I didn't know were in California and Florida. Gosh, that's a huge amount of cities there.
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Level 46
Aug 13, 2020
Got 161
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Level 83
Aug 18, 2020
So you put Washington DC in as Washington, with DC not as an acceptable type-in. As someone from the DC area with family living in the city itself, we've often referred to the city as DC. Almost no one I know calls it "Washington" without saying "DC" along with it.
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Level ∞
Aug 18, 2020
Fixed, thanks.
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Level 60
Oct 2, 2020
Got 134
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Level 59
Dec 8, 2020
Apparently, I have skipped over all of Texas. How has this happened??
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Level 73
Jun 20, 2021
got 144 first try, but forgot Honolulu, Anchorage, and Virginia Beach. completely forgot about Hawaii and Alaska
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Level 73
Aug 28, 2021
170 this time around, but this time I forgot that Nebraska even existed so forgot Lincoln and Omaha, also forgot Akron somehow
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Level 63
May 17, 2023
I started with Alaska, which helped, but still missed Hawaii.
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Level 25
Aug 12, 2021
I could only do 96, and I missed Newark, Jersey City, Raleigh and St Paul somehow, I don't know, my mind just erased them, but either way, I think I did kinda good.
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Level 73
Oct 28, 2021
How many other non-Americans got Pasadena because of The Big Bang Theory?
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Level 74
Jun 3, 2022
Me.
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Level 74
Jun 3, 2022
Non American here. I found 90 and yet I was awarded 0 points...that's quite unfaire.
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Level 44
Jul 29, 2022
To me the most surprising thing about this quiz is the fact that at least one person missed New York and LA. I feel like everyone should have some type of knowledge on New York
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Level 76
Sep 16, 2022
*sigh* Gotta love being a non-American, basically being locked out of a bunch of quizzes simply by virtue of not being American.
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Level 92
Sep 16, 2022
Gotta love pointless complaining about too many American-based quizzes.
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Level 68
Sep 19, 2022
You are welcome to create a quiz of the 200 most populated cities of whatever chaotic country you are the Lord of. City proper, not metro (what are we, animals?)
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Level 91
Sep 27, 2023
I mean, this isn't like an American pop culture or general knowledge quiz where you gain a decent advantage from having lived in the country. You can learn cities in the U.S. without living there, in this case, one is not contingent on the other.
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Level 72
Oct 24, 2022
Average score is 86? Insane.
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Level 78
Nov 30, 2022
California is the China of the USA. All those big cities and I can only name like 5 of them.
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Level 30
Dec 8, 2022
142/200. Can't believe I missed Springfield, Little Rock, and Boise.
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Level 24
Feb 13, 2023
So, if you add a map and make it a little bit longer, this might be one of my fav quizzes.
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Level 26
Apr 8, 2023
I got 152, I'm British,

surprised Galveston weren't on there though.

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Level 63
May 17, 2023
I'm surprised Corona isn't higher in light of recent events.
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Level 50
Jun 19, 2023
California, Arizona, Texas and Florida are brutal!!
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Level 93
Jun 21, 2023
I need more time and more brains.
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Level 46
Jul 14, 2023
192/200 and somehow missed Little Rock, Boise, and Augusta
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Level 56
Apr 6, 2024
122/200 and i’ve never been to the US

Great quiz btw

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Level 28
Oct 17, 2024
"Chesapeak" should not work for Chesapeake, that's just being lazy
+1
Level 28
Oct 17, 2024
I got 38... with help from the comments....

as an American........

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Level 46
Nov 14, 2024
my city killeen made the list
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Level 43
Dec 10, 2024
I'm from Cary-North Carolina and it's actually not a city it's a town. Just a really big town.
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Level 63
Feb 6, 2025
Having mastered the US cities above 100k population quiz, I knew that I knew all the cities, but even still, couldn't think of them all on the first try. Got 174 though, so not bad.
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Level 55
Apr 6, 2025
You should update Fort Worth.
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Level 71
May 19, 2025
Typing out the entire official name for Macon-Bibb County is very tedious. Recommend the common name, Macon.
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Level ∞
May 19, 2025
Fixed
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Level 16
Jun 13, 2025
Arent these figures outdated