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Which Cities are More, Equally, or Less famous/well-known than the State They're in? It could be name recognition, state/city culture, Landmarks, etc. Also, Multiple cities In a single State can be listed
More Famous: NYC is more famous than NY State
Equally Famous: Philly is Equally as famous as PA
Less Famous: VA is more famous than any city within it.
(I'm trying to pick places that haven't been mentioned already).
More Famous: Myrtle Beach and Charleston, South Carolina are more famous than South Carolina is itself.
Equally Famous: New Jersey is as famous as cities inside New Jersey (Newark, Cape May, Trenton, Asbury Park, Atlantic City etc).
Less Famous: Connecticut and New Hampshire are more famous than any city in each state.
Is Connecticut more famous than New Haven, the home of Yale?
That's a good point, but I'm not sure if many people know Yale is in New Haven. People (I'm guessing) know Yale is in Connecticut somewhere, just not sure if majority know it's actually New Haven. You could be right, but just my guess.
Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles all fit the bill of being more famous, though SF is a strong contender in CA.
LA being more famous than California is possibly the biggest upset in the country, but there's a strong argument for it. Personally when I think of California, LA is the first place that comes to mind. If someone says "West Coast," LA is the first place that I think of.
I can see Myrtle Beach being equally famous, but I don't know if it's more famous.
I wouldn't put any New Jersey city on the level of Jersey itself.
I agree with Connecticut and New Hampshire; in fact, I'd say Boston is more famous than New England as a whole.
Interesting! I feel Myrtle Beach is more well known than South Carolina is only because I feel like South Carolina is overlooked by North Carolina and Georgia on the whole. I guess I understand what you mean with New Jersey, but all I hear about the state itself (beside history) is the stupid stereotypes people have given it. I seem to know more about the different cities than the state collectively. As a New Englander (and anybody really interested in geography) I know other cities and towns in each of the New England states, but generally I agree that most people correlate Boston more than anything else in New England.
Doesn't answer the question though. I guess it comes down to the Wizard of Oz vs. Gunsmoke. LOL.
I would submit that Kansas is more famous than any city within it. Dodge City? Heck, I'm not sure I even realized it was in Kansas. It's in the Old West, as another poster put it. Is Kansas City more famous? No, because it's in Missouri. And sure, there's a Kansas City in Kansas, but if someone mentions Kansas City, 99 times out of 100 they're talking about the one in Missouri.
New York, of course, is the classic case of a city outshining its state. The actual name of the city is New York City, but people call it New York just as often, if not more so. Whereas, if people are talking about the state in which it resides, they'll often say New York State. This never happens with Kansas, Oklahoma, or any other state that has a city with the name of the state plus "City" within its borders.
Equally Famous: New Jersey is as famous as cities inside New Jersey (Newark, Cape May, Trenton, Asbury Park, Atlantic City etc).
I would submit that for the large majority of people who don't live within a few hundred miles of the Garden State, New Jersey is more famous than any city within. Ask anyone west of the Mississippi if they've heard of New Jersey, and nearly everyone will say yes. Now ask them to name a city within the state. Geography nerds will come up with Trenton, the state capital. A few others might pick Atlantic City, because of its gambling fame. But that's probably about it.
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Originally Posted by vivo
Is Connecticut more famous than New Haven, the home of Yale?
Pretty much everyone has heard of the Ivy League. I'll bet if you asked people to name these schools, nearly everyone would get Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, probably in that order. (After that, the name recognition would drop off sharply.) Now, ask them where these schools are located. Most people will know that Harvard is in Boston (it's actually in Cambridge, but close enough), but they'd have to think about the rest of them. So I personally think that Connecticut is more famous than any city within it.
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