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This is a list of census-designated places in Hawaii. There are no separately incorporated cities in the entire state; Honolulu County is both a city and county. There are 151 census-designated places.
[12] [16] Existing cities and towns are allowed to reorganize as a code city if they meet the population threshold and the change is approved by voters. [ 12 ] [ 17 ] As of 2022 [update] , one city remains unclassified— Waitsburg , in Walla Walla County —and continues to use the 1881 territorial charter under which it was organized. [ 12 ]
The island of Oʻahu has just over one million residents (about 70% of the state's population), and the island of Hawaiʻi is by far the largest island with an area of 4,028 sq mi (10,430 km 2)—62.7% of the state's land area.
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
Bell Island San Juan 2 2 0 Ben Ure Island Island 6 6 0 Bird Rocks San Juan 0 0 0 Black Rock San Juan 0 0 0 Blake Island: Kitsap 0.74 4 4 0 Entire island preserved as Blake Island Marine State Park. Blakely Island: San Juan 6.5 44 33 11 Blind Island: San Juan 0 0 0 Entire island preserved as Blind Island Marine State Park. Boulder Island San ...
King County, home to the state's largest city, Seattle, holds almost 30 percent of Washington's population (2,271,380 residents of 7,812,880 in 2023), and has the highest population density, with more than 1,000 people per square mile (400/km 2). Garfield County is both the least populated (2,363) and least densely populated (3.3/sq mi [1.3/km 2]).
Incorporated municipalities in the state are listed separately in a list of cities and list of towns. Due to unreliability of the source data in the Geographic Names Information System , items in this list may be historical places that no longer exist, places that are part of an incorporated city or town or a CDP, or never a community in the ...
The Census Bureau adopted metropolitan districts in the 1910 census to create a standard definition for urban areas with industrial activity around a central city. [11] At the time, Seattle had the 22nd largest metropolitan district population at 239,269 people, a 195.8 percent increase from the population of the equivalent area in the 1900 census. [12]