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Third city in the US to reach 1 million. Chicago overtakes Philadelphia as the nation's second most populous city shortly after they both pass the 1 million mark. 3 Philadelphia: Pennsylvania: 1,046,964: Second city in the US to reach 1 million. 4 Brooklyn: New York: 806,343: This is the last census where the City of Brooklyn is counted as an ...
The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History (2005) Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300055366.; second edition 2010; McComb, David G. The City in Texas: A History (University of Texas Press, 2015) 342 pp. Pierce ...
Defunct companies of the United States by city (16 C) Former buildings and structures in the United States by populated place (20 C) Jewish-American history by city (25 P)
The site compared 182 cities—including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state—across three dimensions: entertainment and recreation ...
First city founded by Europeans, although not continuously inhabited, in Puerto Rico. Abandoned in 1521 with the removal of the capital to San Juan. 1510 Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien: Urabá: Colombia First city founded by Europeans on the continent of South America. 1510 Nombre de Dios: Colon: Panama
A most iconic American lighthouse, the Cape Hatteras Light Station protects one of the most treacherous sections of the Atlantic coastline. With its trademark black-and-white swirl, it's as famed ...
This is a list of the five most populous incorporated places and the capital city in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited territories of the United States, as of July 1, 2023, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau.
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.