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By population size (based in 1998 estimate)

  • Population size and 1998 estimate figures courtesy of The World Almanac and the Book of Facts, 2001 edition, rounded off to most-probable hundreds.

By state and DC

District of Columbia (DC)

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

There are no legal differences between cities and towns under the Californian law; all municipalities can call themselves as cities or towns.

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

All cities
Selected towns

Florida

Georgia

Hawai‘i

  • Technically and legally (as of 2018), all populated settlements of Hawai‘i, including Honolulu, are unincorporated Census Designated Places (CDP's).

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

  • Choice of cities based on enwiki article en:List of cities in Kentucky, as of December 18, 2019. All credit given to the contributors of the said article.

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

There are no legal differences between cities and towns of Maryland; all municipalities can call themselves as cities or towns.

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

There are no legal differences between cities and towns under the North Carolinan law; all municipalities can call themselves as cities or towns.

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

(choice of cities is largely based on en:List of cities in Oregon. All credits for the basis given to the contributors of the said article)

Pennsylvania

Choice of cities is largely based on this old revision of enwiki page Pennsylvania. A full inclusion (plus inclusion of selected boroughs) is provided in the sub-gallery given in the link above.

Rhode Island

South Carolina

There are no legal differences between cities and towns under the South Carolinan law; all municipalities can call themselves as cities or towns.

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Virginian law has more stringent and clear way of defining what is a city. Now, all cities are independent from any counties. Places in counties are either towns (e.g. Vienna of Fairfax County) or unincorporated communities termed as CDP's (e.g. the historic Yorktown of York County). More info: en:List of cities and counties in Virginia.

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming