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Test your knowledge of US cities in this mind-bending quiz! Can you name the largest cities for the most common 3-letter sequences in place names?

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US Largest Cities By Most Common 3-Letter Sequences

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Name the largest US cities for each of the most common 3-letter sequences appearing across all US place names (i.e. ‘New York’ contains ‘new’, ‘yor’ and ‘ork’ – spaces not included). Sequences listed in order of most to least common, with # of occurrences of each sequences across all US place names shown, along with population range of the answer. For determining sequences, ‘St’ was abbreviated in place names.

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