Can you name the US cities that contain the highest percentage of the population of their state ?

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Dominant Cities Quiz

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Created by: mcbain -
Contributed: December 4th, 2009
Published: December 9th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 188,524

Tags: Population Quizzes, State Quizzes, City Quizzes, united, United States, highest, percentage, percent, contain, dominant, cities

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	fatfifer:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 19:32 GMT	10 points
	i was really stumped for answers when boston and denver were rejected:(

	JonahBlack:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 19:37 GMT	3 points
	ack! I was sure sioux falls was going to be on there. Apparently I what I wasn't sure of was how to spell sioux...

	MrVette83:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 19:50 GMT	2 points
	I was certain of Albuquerque, NM. I just kept spelling it wrong. Other than that Providence and Omaha were the only two to escape me. Good quiz.

	NoFunShogun:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 20:00 GMT	3 points
	Great idea for a test! Had a few head scratchers, and never would've gotten Sioux Falls.

	Ivar:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	14 points
	The sporcle people should also do this kind of quiz, except about countries.

	newtex:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 20:11 GMT	32 points
	Boston and Denver suffer because the question is using city limits population and not metro area. The city of Boston only has 620,000 people or about 9.5% of Massachusetts. Metro Boston has 69% of the population of Massachusetts. The city of Denver also has about 600,000 people or 12% of the state of Colorado. Metro Denver would be about 50% of Colorado.

	Scout_Number_4:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 20:24 GMT	-3 points
	Got Sioux Falls and Honolulu, missed Anchorage--(!)

	Geo_Crazy:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 20:37 GMT	4 points
	Should do a metro area one, too. Honolulu has a lot of "suburbs" which might make Hawaii #1 on a list. The problem would be that many metros span 2+ states, like New York, DC, Philadelphia, Portland, Cincinnati, Boston, and Charlotte. Regards to Denver, Aurora and Lakewood are suburbs with at least 200,000+, so Denver would not make this list.

	archicello:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 20:58 GMT	1 point
	argh, also cannot spell 'sioux', although it looks pretty obvious now that i see it. good time limit. the midwest states all feel like they could be in the running.

	ParadiceCity9:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 21:03 GMT	1 point
	So I got Anchorage...but not Chicago. What a fail.