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I could name 10+ cities for NY, NJ, Ohio, Texas, Washington, Illinois, Hawai'i, California and Florida. 8 for Georgia and Michigan.
I couldn't name a single city for North Dakota or Wyoming, sadly.
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10+
NY - NYC, Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, White Plains, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Schenectady, etc.
Ohio - Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Massillon, Youngstown, Mentor, Elyria, Lorain, Oberlin, Toledo
New Jersey - Edison, Trenton, Jersey City, Montclair, Paramus, Oceanside, Fort Lee, Palisades Park, Hoboken, Morristown, etc.
California - SD, SF, SJ, LA, Modesto, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Oakland, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Dublin, Warm Springs, Anaheim, Irvine, Santa Ana, Riverside, San Bernardino, etc.
Texas - Dallas, Ft Worth, Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, Pasadena, Odessa, El Paso, Austin, San Antonio, Brownsville, Laredo, McAllen, etc.
Florida - Ft Lauderdale, Miami, Opa-lacka, Boca Raton, Hialeah, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa, St. Pete, etc.
Hawaii - Aiea, Honolulu, Waipio, Pearl City, Waipahu, Waianae, Nanakuli, Pearl City, Mililani, Kaneohe, Haleiwa, etc.
Illinois - Chicago, Schaumburg, Rockford, Kankakee, Champaign, Urbana, Cairo, Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, etc.
Washington - Bellevue, Seattle, Tacoma, Federal Way, Bellingham, Spokane, Olympia, Kent, Redmond, Everett, etc.
6-9
Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh, Erie, Philadelphia, Allentown, Scranton, Hershey
Georgia - Atlanta, Duluth, Macon, Alpharetta, Doraville, Athens, Savannah, Columbus
Michigan - Troy, Detroit, Pontiac, Grand Rapids, Flint, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak, Dearborn
Virginia - Newport News, Virginia Beach, Arlington, Fairfax County, Charlottesville, Richmond
3-5
Alaska - Juneau, Fairbanks, Anchorage
Arizona - Phoenix, Mesa, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Tucson, Flagstaff
Colorado - Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Aurora, Aspen
Connecticut - Bridgeport, Waterbury, Stamford, Hartford
Indiana - Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis, Gary, Carmel, Bloomington
Iowa - Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines
Kansas - Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City
Louisiana - New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette
Massachusetts - Boston, Springfield, Cambridge, Somerville
Minnesota - Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, Rochester, St. Cloud
Nevada - Henderson, Las Vegas, Reno
North Carolina - Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham
Oregon - Salem, Portland, Hillsboro
Tennessee - Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, Murfreesboro
Utah - SLC, Provo, Ogden
West Virginia - Charleston, Parkersburg, Wheeling
Wisconsin - Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee
1-2
Arkansas - Little Rock
Alabama - Birmingham, Montgomery
Delaware - Wilmington, Dover
Idaho - Boise
Kentucky - Louisville
Maine - Bangor, Portland
Maryland - Baltimore
Mississippi - Jackson
Missouri - St. Louis
Montana - Butte, Billings
Nebraska - Omaha, Lincoln
New Hampshire - Concord
New Mexico - Albuquerque, Santa Fe
Oklahoma - Oklahoma City
Rhode Island - Providence
South Carolina - Greenville, Columbia
South Dakota - Pierre
Vermont - Burlington, Montpelier
I could name 10+ cities for NY, NJ, Ohio, Texas, Washington, Illinois, Hawai'i, California and Florida. 8 for Georgia and Michigan.
I couldn't name a single city for North Dakota or Wyoming, sadly.
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10+
NY - NYC, Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, White Plains, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Schenectady, etc.
Ohio - Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Massillon, Youngstown, Mentor, Elyria, Lorain, Oberlin, Toledo
New Jersey - Edison, Trenton, Jersey City, Montclair, Paramus, Oceanside, Fort Lee, Palisades Park, Hoboken, Morristown, etc.
California - SD, SF, SJ, LA, Modesto, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Oakland, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Dublin, Warm Springs, Anaheim, Irvine, Santa Ana, Riverside, San Bernardino, etc.
Texas - Dallas, Ft Worth, Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, Pasadena, Odessa, El Paso, Austin, San Antonio, Brownsville, Laredo, McAllen, etc.
Florida - Ft Lauderdale, Miami, Opa-lacka, Boca Raton, Hialeah, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa, St. Pete, etc.
Hawaii - Aiea, Honolulu, Waipio, Pearl City, Waipahu, Waianae, Nanakuli, Pearl City, Mililani, Kaneohe, Haleiwa, etc.
Illinois - Chicago, Schaumburg, Rockford, Kankakee, Champaign, Urbana, Cairo, Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, etc.
Washington - Bellevue, Seattle, Tacoma, Federal Way, Bellingham, Spokane, Olympia, Kent, Redmond, Everett, etc.
6-9
Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh, Erie, Philadelphia, Allentown, Scranton, Hershey
Georgia - Atlanta, Duluth, Macon, Alpharetta, Doraville, Athens, Savannah, Columbus
Michigan - Troy, Detroit, Pontiac, Grand Rapids, Flint, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak, Dearborn
Virginia - Newport News, Virginia Beach, Arlington, Fairfax County, Charlottesville, Richmond
3-5
Alaska - Juneau, Fairbanks, Anchorage
Arizona - Phoenix, Mesa, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Tucson, Flagstaff
Colorado - Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Aurora, Aspen
Connecticut - Bridgeport, Waterbury, Stamford, Hartford
Indiana - Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis, Gary, Carmel, Bloomington
Iowa - Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines
Kansas - Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City
Louisiana - New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette
Massachusetts - Boston, Springfield, Cambridge, Somerville
Minnesota - Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, Rochester, St. Cloud
Nevada - Henderson, Las Vegas, Reno
North Carolina - Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham
Oregon - Salem, Portland, Hillsboro
Tennessee - Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, Murfreesboro
Utah - SLC, Provo, Ogden
West Virginia - Charleston, Parkersburg, Wheeling
Wisconsin - Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee
1-2
Arkansas - Little Rock
Alabama - Birmingham, Montgomery
Delaware - Wilmington, Dover
Idaho - Boise
Kentucky - Louisville
Maine - Bangor, Portland
Maryland - Baltimore
Mississippi - Jackson
Missouri - St. Louis
Montana - Butte, Billings
Nebraska - Omaha, Lincoln
New Hampshire - Concord
New Mexico - Albuquerque, Santa Fe
Oklahoma - Oklahoma City
Rhode Island - Providence
South Carolina - Greenville, Columbia
South Dakota - Pierre
Vermont - Burlington, Montpelier
None
North Dakota
Wyoming
You were close on NJ but there is no Oceanside. However there is an Ocean City, Ocean Grove, Ocean Township and Oceanport.
Easy. Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville, Montgomery, and the various suburbs that go along...
Alabama makes it easy; their four main cities are all strung out in a north-south row along I-65. The only other one that pops into my head is Anniston.
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I couldn't name a single city for North Dakota or Wyoming, sadly.
I think you've just proven the OP's point. There are some states where no one thinks of the cities within those states, but only the state itself. These are places where there are no large cities, so it's easy to overlook the ones they have and think only of the state as a whole.
For the record, this is what I came up with off the top of my head. Though, I have an unfair advantage, because I visited both North Dakota and Wyoming recently.
North Dakota: Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks, Pembina, Valley City.
Wyoming: Cheyenne, Casper, Sheridan, Gillette, Laramie, Wamsutter. (No one has ever heard of Wamsutter, but I remember it because my in-laws were involved in a car accident there, some number of years ago.)
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Florida - Ft Lauderdale, Miami, Opa-lacka, Boca Raton, Hialeah, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa, St. Pete, etc.
Hawaii - Aiea, Honolulu, Waipio, Pearl City, Waipahu, Waianae, Nanakuli, Pearl City, Mililani, Kaneohe, Haleiwa, etc.
Florida: you skipped Orlando?!? There's also West Palm Beach, Sarasota, Bradenton, Fort Myers, Naples, Melbourne, Daytona Beach, Pensacola, and on and on and on.
Hawaii: you skipped Hilo, which is (or recently was) the state's second-largest city, and the only one of the top 10 that's not on Oahu.
What is the major city in Jersey that dominates people's image of it? I can think of probably 4 that are household names.
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Philly and New York
Precisely. Sure, there's the minor technicality that New York City and Philadelphia are not, technically speaking, actually in New Jersey. But those two cities have far more in common with the Garden State than they do their own states. Honestly, if somehow the state boundaries could be redrawn such that those two cities were incorporated into New Jersey, you'd probably make most people in all three states happy.
It's not hard to name cities that actually are in New Jersey. The hard part is naming any that are not part of the New York or Philadelphia metropolitan areas. Are there any? I'm not even sure.
As far as states only known for their cities, Illinois (Chicago) is the only one I can think of.
SC definitely isn't a state I think of without any well-known cities. Charleston has become very popular and desirable within the past few decades. Greenville has become one of the new trendy southern cities, and even Clemson is fairly well-known because of how successful the university's sports teams have been recently. Columbia isn't on everyone's radar, but its metro area is home to well over 800k people. The other states yes, but SC is definitely an outlier on this list.
It's not hard to name cities that actually are in New Jersey. The hard part is naming any that are not part of the New York or Philadelphia metropolitan areas. Are there any? I'm not even sure.
The beach towns (Atlantic City, Ocean City, Cape May, etc.) are in the Philly CSA but not the MSA.
SC definitely isn't a state I think of without any well-known cities. Charleston has become very popular and desirable within the past few decades. Greenville has become one of the new trendy southern cities, and even Clemson is fairly well-known because of how successful the university's sports teams have been recently. Columbia isn't on everyone's radar, but its metro area is home to well over 800k people. The other states yes, but SC is definitely an outlier on this list.
Don't forget Myrtle Beach. Hilton Head is also pretty well-known. But in SC's case, I'd say it has well-known destinations but not "cities" as the term is commonly used. It doesn't help that the state's annexation laws are so restrictive that it doesn't have any municipalities of 150K+.
A lot of people just know that the Carolina cities are in one or the other, but are confused as to which one. And it's not just Charlotte and Charleston.
I don't think it's an accurate assessment to ask people on this board to name cities in certain states.
Someone visiting this board are obviously more interested in cities, geography, etc. than the general populace.
Trying to look from their perspective, I'm certain 70% of these cities name here would be unknown to them.
On that point, besides Denver, how many other Colorado cities are well known. I would say Vail & Aspen would come first before Colorado Springs or Fort Collins.
Boulder?
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