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Test your knowledge of US cities by their first letter in this fun and challenging quiz. Choose a letter, and try to achieve the highest population among the cities starting with that letter.

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Yes. Most quizzes allow common abbreviations, alternate spellings, and short forms. Try typing just the first few letters — if it matches, it will autofill.

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US All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter

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First choose any letter except X (only 2 cities) – then try to achieve the highest population among the US cities/towns/etc beginning with that letter. Quiz is not timed.

Try other US city by letter quizzes:
US City Letter Grid – Choose Letter | US Largest City By Letter – Choose State
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Enter any letter except X to begin.

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abcasada

1 month ago

This says 71% of people found Ankeny, IA. I have a feeling that the number of people who actually knew about Ankeny, IA before they started this quiz is a little lower than 71%…

bertimot

9 months ago

I found some ‘A’ Places that Cityquiz.io takes that this one doesn’t – i.e Attu Station, AK (though it does technically have a population of 0) and Angola on the Lake, NY (which is accepted separately from Angola NY on cityquiz, and even appears as a separate location on google maps) – also are the NJ and PA Townships (i.e Aberdeen Township and Aston Township) just accepted under Aberdeen and Aston, respectively?

May be good to cross-reference with Cityquiz.io to ensure you didn’t miss any places for other letters as well

Last edited 9 months ago by bertimot

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darin

9 months ago

Reply to bertimot

Those are CDP’s/hamlets/etc not cities – not on my city quizzes.

bertimot

9 months ago

Reply to darin

Oh I see – So they’re not incorporated? Some I’ve found this one to be missing are quite large – like tens of thousands in population – well, I dunno – your quiz, your rules, I suppose lol

Just trying to help – not that I’m a geographer… just find these quizzes interesting on what one quiz counts as valid that others don’t

Last edited 9 months ago by bertimot

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darin

9 months ago

Reply to bertimot

Yeah a lot of places actually aren’t ‘cities’ in the sense they aren’t incorporated. This includes townships in most states, towns in most states, etc.

bertimot

9 months ago

Reply to darin

Confusing stuff if you ask me lol. And yet something about discovering place names is almost addicting

Klinkhamer

1 year ago

On the Y-quiz it shows two cities within the 100-250K range which don’t exist(?)

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to Klinkhamer

Yonkers and Yuma. I see them on the map.

Klinkhamer

1 year ago

Reply to darin

Must have blacked-out or something

Last edited 1 year ago by Klinkhamer

Organist45

2 years ago

Did you forget Texarkana, AR for the letter “T”?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to Organist45

Nope – I just tried it and it took.

Organist45

2 years ago

Reply to darin

Weird. I just tried it earlier and only Texarkana, TX showed up.

ccmarvmd

2 years ago

Weird issue for L i think, everything seems to be doubled on the stats bar. For example, it says 0/100 states completed and the total number of cities for every amount (i.e. 1M+,500K-1M,…) is listed as twice as much as their actually is.

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to ccmarvmd

hmm can’t reproduce this – try just reloading the quiz. it’s working fine for me for “L” and other letters.

Retracto

5 years ago

This whole quiz could be ruined if somebody founds a city called “Alldone.”

UtenaNicoletta

5 years ago

Reply to Retracto

Such as if Aldan, PA were to name itself “Alldone, Pennsylvania” as a joke. ^^

Ovamiat

10 years ago

On the D quiz, is “Deer Lodge, MT” actually Anaconda-Deer Lodge? If so, that’s sneaky, Darin.

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to Ovamiat

no – Deer Lodge is a separate place, then ‘Anaconda-Deer Lodge’ is under the A’s.