Cities quiz
City Guesser — U.S. Cities Quiz
Free U.S. city guesser and cities quiz: pinpoint cities on the map for distance points, or play multiple choice. Also try Which City Is Bigger.
Score 0 / 50,000
Place the pin for Albuquerque
New Mexico
Click the map where you think it is. Closer = higher score (max 5,000 pts).
Tip: coastal cities and capitals are often easier anchors.
How to play
Two modes: Pinpoint (click the map; closer guesses score more of 5,000 points via distance decay) or Multiple choice (four city names with a map cue). Switch modes anytime; each mode keeps its own board. For population head-to-heads, open Which City Is Bigger.
U.S. cities quiz and city guesser in one place
Search demand splits across “city guesser,” “US cities quiz,” and “which city is bigger.” US5 keeps map pinpoint and multiple choice here, and a dedicated comparison quiz for population matchups — without spinning a thin URL per city.
Pinpoint scoring: very close clicks (about 15 miles) earn a full round score. Farther misses fall off smoothly. Alaska and Pacific insets can reject bad projection clicks so a mis-tap does not invent ocean coordinates.
From city names to US5 city hubs
Curated cities match educational banks used across Games. For living-cost and wage context, open city and state hubs — Games will not invent per-city SEO farms.
Major metro areas (study map)
Think in metro gravity, not only city limits: New York–Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Washington–Baltimore, Miami, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, Phoenix, San Francisco Bay, Seattle, and Denver show up constantly in quizzes and travel talk.
Which City Is Bigger trains population head-to-heads; this page trains location. The largest-cities reference table below is the study sheet for “largest U.S. cities” style queries without a separate thin listicle URL.
Largest U.S. cities — Top 24 (teaching populations)
Curated city populations for city-guesser and which-city-is-bigger practice. Figures are educational ranks, not a live Census API pull.
| Rank | City | State | Population | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York City | New York | 8,804,190 | Northeast |
| 2 | Los Angeles | California | 3,898,747 | West |
| 3 | Chicago | Illinois | 2,746,388 | Midwest |
| 4 | Houston | Texas | 2,304,580 | South |
| 5 | Phoenix | Arizona | 1,608,139 | West |
| 6 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 1,603,797 | Northeast |
| 7 | San Antonio | Texas | 1,434,625 | South |
| 8 | San Diego | California | 1,386,932 | West |
| 9 | Dallas | Texas | 1,304,379 | South |
| 10 | San Jose | California | 1,013,240 | West |
| 11 | Austin | Texas | 961,855 | South |
| 12 | Jacksonville | Florida | 949,611 | South |
| 13 | Fort Worth | Texas | 918,915 | South |
| 14 | Columbus | Ohio | 905,748 | Midwest |
| 15 | Indianapolis | Indiana | 887,642 | Midwest |
| 16 | Charlotte | North Carolina | 874,579 | South |
| 17 | San Francisco | California | 873,965 | West |
| 18 | Seattle | Washington | 737,015 | West |
| 19 | Denver | Colorado | 715,522 | West |
| 20 | Washington, DC | District of Columbia | 689,545 | South |
| 21 | Nashville | Tennessee | 689,447 | South |
| 22 | El Paso | Texas | 678,815 | South |
| 23 | Boston | Massachusetts | 675,647 | Northeast |
| 24 | Portland | Oregon | 652,503 | West |
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