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25 largest cities in the Mississippi basin

25 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, tell its flag from three others, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Denver4 M
  2. 2Minneapolis3.3 M
  3. 3Cincinnati2.9 M
  4. 4St. Louis2.4 M
  5. 5Indianapolis2.2 M
  6. 6Kansas City2.1 M
  7. 7Pittsburgh2.1 M
  8. 8Columbus1.9 M
  9. 9Nashville1.7 M
  10. 10Oklahoma City1.2 M
  11. 11Memphis1.1 M
  12. 12Louisville1 M
  13. 13New Orleans821 k
  14. 14Colorado Springs446 k
  15. 15Tulsa434 k
  16. 16Omaha368 k
  17. 17Aurora359 k
  18. 18Lexington295 k
  19. 19Bolingbrook280 k
  20. 20Urbancrest256 k
  21. 21Des Moines243 k
  22. 22Wichita239 k
  23. 23Lincoln227 k
  24. 24Baton Rouge226 k
  25. 25Wheaton191 k

Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; a smaller city ranks by its GHSL urban centre (2025), or by its city-proper figure where GHSL’s centre is far larger than the list allows. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. The Mississippi basin: what lies inside the river basin’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit). Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Thomas Brinkhoff: Major Agglomerations of the World, citypopulation.de, Wikidata names (CC0).

On the map

Map of 25 largest cities in the Mississippi basin, 25 cities: each one marked on the globe

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