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Can you name the American cities by their listed surrounding suburbs*?

Enter a city in the box below
Correctly named cities will show up in the table below
Click any empty Suburbs or City to answer for that location
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger
*Note: The term suburb is used here loosely to include all suburbs, edge cities, bedroom communities, commuter communities, etc., in the vicinity of a major city.

You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.

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Suburbs	City
Yonkers, White Plains, Paramus, Bridgeport
Clayton, St. Charles, Frontenac, Chesterfield
Bellevue, Kirkland, Bothell, Bremerton
Metarie, Kenner, Slidell, River Ridge
Decatur, Marietta, Alpharetta, Smyrna
Aurora, Naperville, Joliet, Gary
Katy, Pasadena, Sugar Land, The Woodlands
Brandon, Lutz, Spring Hill, Land O'Lakes
Lowell, Cambridge, Quincy, Lawrence
Bloomington, Eagen, Edina, Woodbury
Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Englewood
Upper Darby, Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Villanova
Plano, Frisco, Mesquite, DeSoto

Suburbs	City
Lakewood, Brook Park, Maple Heights, Euclid
Sausalito, Tiburon, San Mateo, Redwood City
Dearborn Heights, Livonia, Sterling Heights, Southfield
Coronado, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Poway
Bethesda, Potomac, Arlington, Alexandria
Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, Chandler
Racine, Brookfield, Waukesha, Whitefish Bay
Carmel, Fishers, Zionsville, Greenwood
Coral Gables, Key Biscayne, Hialeah, Homestead
Pasadena, Malibu, Torrance, Redondo Beach
Towson, Ellicott City, Columbia, Rosedale
Windcrest, Alamo Heights, Schertz, Kirby
Carnegie, McKeesport, Monroeville, Evans City

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There are 103 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

	fatbeard:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:05 GMT	32 points
	Excellent geography quiz. It's good that you can't just guess random cities, you have to put them in specifically. Otherwise would've been much too easy

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	fatbeard:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:10 GMT	7 points
	Also, unless a typed them wrong repeatedly, minneapolis and st. paul didn't work seperately. Maybe they should?

	LightningWombat:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:11 GMT	2 points
	26/26 This is one of my favorites on here. There are easy ones that you just know the cities like Yonkers and NYC then there are ones that make you think like Carnegie and Pittsburgh.

	Kicking222:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:11 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. I knew 16, which I was rather impressed at myself for, and guessed seven others. As always, Booger, fabulous job.

	march:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:12 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz, only got 10, 4 of which I've been to, but not bad for a Brit!

	ShepherdBook:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:12 GMT	9 points
	The city of EAGAN is spelled wrong.

Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT

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Great quiz. I wish Evanston would have been included :-(

	RedLIon:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT	3 points
	Very difficult but very good!

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	spum66:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:23 GMT	3 points
	5 minute time limit seems way too quick. Very good quiz otherwise.

	newenglander:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:27 GMT	1 point
	stamford would have been a better nyc connecticut suburb than bridgeport, seeing that it has a much larger commuter population and is closer

	cigarette:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:27 GMT	8 points
	I'm excited to see Cleveland gettin' some respect. I drive through Euclid every day. I'm surprised Parma wasn't a clue, though. "Moon Over Parma"? Drew Carey?

	deej:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:28 GMT	87 points
	click the up arrow if you want a sequel!

	john19:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:35 GMT	4 points
	Bridgeport is not viewed as a suburb of New York. As the above poster said Stamford is better

	jonathanelbaz:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:40 GMT	1 point
	bethesda represent.

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	agrigator717:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:52 GMT	7 points
	I'm from Florida so I recognized the suburbs that belonged to Tampa but those have got to be the toughest on the list.

	lznyc212:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:53 GMT	4 points
	That was the most fun I've had with a quiz in a long time. Really worked my brain, but didn't make it hurt. :)

	cutlip:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:54 GMT	-1 points
	Missed only five - Tampa, Minn./St. Paul, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Cleveland And i'm not even from the states :D Oh well..

	Gordo:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:55 GMT	4 points
	Kelly, all four of the cities listed are absolutely suburbs of SF. It would be ridiculous to not consider any of them suburbs.

	guyleguy:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:56 GMT	5 points
	I wonder if more people would get Cleveland if some more famous suburbs were included, like Shaker Heights and Parma.

	shnubby:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:56 GMT	3 points
	@kelly, while I agree Daly City or Milbrae would have made more sense, the concept of "suburb" is extremely ambiguous and leaves a lot of wiggle room. After all, it is called the "San Francisco Bay Area."

	shnubby:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 23:59 GMT	7 points
	additionally, i just noticed that they don't necessarily list the nearest cities for any of them. For example, while Cambridge is certainly close to Boston, Lowell and Lawrence aren't even close.

	JohnJF:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:09 GMT	12 points
	@GrooGruxKing: While this game was probably nearly impossible for non-Americans, it would have been way too easy for Americans if you just had to list large cities. I normally hate guessing in order, but in this case, I think Sporcle made the right decision.

	y2jdilemma:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT	3 points
	Upper Darby, WOOT!

	Dodge:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT	5 points
	They'da made Whitefish Bay if they put 15 more miles behind her

	micah:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:25 GMT	2 points
	Right. There are cities in the South. I should remember this.

	zalagreensbury:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:26 GMT	4 points
	Whiteplains is considered a suburb of NYC, most of us look at Whiteplains as upstate for goodnesssake...no Long Island Love?

	mennoknight:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:26 GMT	4 points
	Thank you Sir Mix A Lot and your classic track "Bremelo" for allowing me to get Seattle.

	jmarshallg:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:28 GMT	5 points
	Yeah, it's not like finding the origin of English county names is region specific either.

	Sockmonkey:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	-3 points
	@zalagreensbury Long Island is a suburb of Queens. :)

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	capncokenojoke:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:34 GMT	3 points
	woo joliet! we made it on sporcle

	zigra:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:34 GMT	1 point
	Anyone besides me live in one of these cities and hate the idea that people think you live in the suburbs?

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	geowiz85:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:36 GMT	5 points
	@ GrooGrux, actually it'd be more like asking Americans to name Canadian cities based on their suburbs (ie. Surrey, Abbottsford, and Maple Ridge would be Vancouver; Whitby, Oshawa, and Mississauga would be Toronto)

	Snorkel:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:36 GMT	1 point
	@Sockmonkey: Queens is part of NYC. :)

	TIMTEBOW15:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 00:37 GMT	-4 points
	spring hill is pretty far away its closer to orlando than it is to tampa. plant city or tarpon springs would have been good too.

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