100 Most Populous US Cities

The 100 answers are the most populous incorporated places in the United States on 1 July 2025, from New York (8,584,629) down to Huntsville, AL (233,627), in the US Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimates, the same figures as our US Cities quiz. Norfolk, VA, is 101st with 231,013.

These are cities within their own limits, not metro areas. Where a city and its county are one government (Indianapolis, Nashville, Louisville), the Census counts the city without the county’s other towns; Honolulu is the urban census-designated place the Census ranks with the cities, and Washington, D.C., counts as a city.

Type a city’s name on its own, or with its state (“Portland, Oregon” or “Portland OR”). “St.”, “St” and “Saint” are the same, as are “Ft” and “Fort”. Places ranked 101st to 350th, such as Norfolk or Salt Lake City, get a note with their rank; a name shared by a city in the list and one outside it (Glendale, Arizona and California) counts for the one in the list unless you add the other state.

There is no minefield mode: naming a real city outside the list simply gets a note, and the round goes on.

US Census Bureau: City and Town Population Totals, 2020-2025 (Vintage 2025)