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The 50 largest cities in the United States, from New York (8.8 million) to Boise. Click a dot for population and its city map.

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50 largest US cities

#	City	State	Population (2020)
1	New York	`NY`	8,804,190
2	Los Angeles	`CA`	3,898,747
3	Chicago	`IL`	2,746,388
4	Houston	`TX`	2,304,580
5	Phoenix	`AZ`	1,608,139
6	Philadelphia	`PA`	1,603,797
7	San Antonio	`TX`	1,434,625
8	San Diego	`CA`	1,386,932
9	Dallas	`TX`	1,304,379
10	San Jose	`CA`	1,013,240
11	Austin	`TX`	961,855
12	Jacksonville	`FL`	949,611
13	Fort Worth	`TX`	918,915
14	Columbus	`OH`	905,748
15	Indianapolis	`IN`	887,642
16	Charlotte	`NC`	874,579
17	San Francisco	`CA`	873,965
18	Seattle	`WA`	737,015
19	Denver	`CO`	715,522
20	Washington	`DC`	689,545
21	Nashville	`TN`	689,447
22	Oklahoma City	`OK`	681,054
23	El Paso	`TX`	678,815
24	Boston	`MA`	675,647
25	Portland	`OR`	652,503
26	Las Vegas	`NV`	641,903
27	Detroit	`MI`	639,111
28	Memphis	`TN`	633,104
29	Louisville	`KY`	633,045
30	Baltimore	`MD`	585,708
31	Milwaukee	`WI`	577,222
32	Albuquerque	`NM`	564,559
33	Tucson	`AZ`	542,629
34	Fresno	`CA`	542,107
35	Sacramento	`CA`	524,943
36	Kansas City	`MO`	508,090
37	Mesa	`AZ`	504,258
38	Atlanta	`GA`	498,715
39	Omaha	`NE`	486,051
40	Colorado Springs	`CO`	478,961
41	Raleigh	`NC`	467,665
42	Miami	`FL`	442,241
43	Minneapolis	`MN`	429,954
44	New Orleans	`LA`	383,997
45	Cleveland	`OH`	372,624
46	Honolulu	`HI`	350,964
47	Pittsburgh	`PA`	302,971
48	Anchorage	`AK`	291,247
49	Boise	`ID`	235,684
50	Salt Lake City	`UT`	199,723

Where the big cities are

Texas has five cities in the top 15 (Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth) and California has four (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco). Only two of the 50 largest cities — Anchorage and Honolulu — lie outside the contiguous states, and only one, Washington, is not in a state.

City-proper rankings differ from metro rankings. Chicago's metro is larger than Houston's although Houston overtook it as a city, and Miami ranks 44th as a city but 9th as a metro.

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50 largest US cities

Where the big cities are

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