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Test your knowledge of US cities with this Top 3 Grid Quiz. Fill in the squares with the largest cities based on population and geographical location.

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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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Directions

Fill in the 25 squares with the top three (in terms of population, or less if less than 3 qualify) US cities based on the categories in the top row and the geographical location given in the cell. For example, if you are looking at a cell with ‘CA’ in its row, and ‘2+ Words’ in the column, that cell can be filled in with ‘San Jose’ as San Jose is one of the 3 largest 2+ Words cities in CA. When a cell is completed it fills in green.

Northeast, South, Midwest and West divisions are per the US Census Bureau’s regions. West includes AK & HI.

Occasionally a cell may not have any qualifying answer, in which case it will be filled in bright green and be a gimme. Cells with two answers left will have a very dark green background, those with one answer left more of an evergreen shade, and finally bright green for those which have been completed. Some cells with only 1 or 2 valid answers will start with a green shade corresponding to how many answers are left.

hugequiz Premium members will see missed answers in red – they will be the largest city which qualified in each cell – only one miss will be shown per incomplete cell.

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Orangelotl

28 days ago

Hey! I just got Louisiana as one of the states and a column with “4th-6th largest city in state”. I tried everything in the 10 biggest I knew, and I gave up because I only got Lafayette and Lake Charles. And I missed St. George? I’ve never heard of that city, apparently it’s like a village southeast of Baton Rouge but it has 7,600 people. That’s really weird, I think it should be changed to Lafayette, Lake Charles, and Kenner if you’re not doing CDPS. Thanks!

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darin

28 days ago

Reply to Orangelotl

It’s a newly-incorporated city 🙂

Orangelotl

28 days ago

Reply to darin

Oh interesting! Louisiana is weird, that’s why I was asking 🙂

jakesamarel

7 months ago

gilroy and Morgan hill for California 0-100k?

Andy47357

1 year ago

your georgia answers for starts with s should include smyrna, snellville, and stonecrest

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to Andy47357

Per directions only the 3 largest which qualify for each cell are answers.