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According to the Associated Press style guide, some American cities are considered well-known enough they don’t need a state abbreviation. This makes sense, since most people know where they’re located. Here’s the full list of U.S. cities that fall under this criteria, according to the AP.
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington
Are there any cities you think should be added to the above list? Have Austin, Charlotte, etc. become well-known enough that they should be added?
Any on the list you feel are not well-known enough and may require the state?
The AP style guide is not free. You can Google yourself to find some categories though like city names, etc. that others have taken from the official publication.
According to the Associated Press style guide, some American cities are considered well-known enough they don’t need a state abbreviation. This makes sense, since most people know where they’re located. Here’s the full list of U.S. cities that fall under this criteria, according to the AP.
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington
Are there any cities you think should be added to the above list? Have Austin, Charlotte, etc. become well-known enough that they should be added?
Any on the list you feel are not well-known enough and may require the state?
I agree 100%... I've seen grown adults think Philly was it's own state.
Washington should always be called Washington, D.C. or Washington State.
It's funny, having grown up in Pennsylvania, when I heard Washington, while living there, I knew 95%+ of the time they were referring to DC, and even I, myself, would just use Washington to refer to DC.
Fast forward and I end up living in Arizona twice, for a total of 7 years, and when I heard Washington, while living there, I knew 95%+ of the time they referring to the state.
It's definitely an East Coast/West Coast thing going on there!
Tampa, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Nashville, Memphis, Albuquerque, Des Moines (possibly), Fargo (possibly), Little Rock (possibly), Wichita (possibly)
Also college towns like Gainesville, Ann Arbor, Ithaca, Bozeman (plus Bozeman is also where most people fly into when they go to Yellowstone).
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