# What's the largest US city with a smaller same named counterpart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 11, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667 "2015-09-11T13:30:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/61 "2015-09-13T16:52:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Little Rock, AR 197,357 Area:117 square miles > > Little Rock, CA 1,377 Area: 1.8 square miles Actually it is _Littlerock_, CA, not Little Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/62 "2015-09-13T17:02:40Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > OK, found one better: > > Anyang, China (5M+) and Anyang, South Korea (with 617K). But Anyang is what appears to be a “prefecture-level city” which–someone help me out here–appears to be more of something like a county area. That said, it appears what would be normally classified as the city part is around 2M, so it looks like 617K is the number to beat now. While the English spelling for “Anyang” may be the same the pronunciation is completely different. Also Chinese uses a completely different form of writing than South Korea. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/63 "2015-09-13T17:09:16Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Come to think of it, these towns aren’t very far from Bowling Green, either. One time, when I lived in that region, the local paper printed some birth announcements from the Bowling Green Birth Center - the one in Kentucky, that is. They must have gotten a feed from somewhere and it slipped by the editor. Bowling Green, MO has a couple of doctor’s offices and that’s it; they don’t even have a critical access hospital, let along a freestanding birthing center. :rolleyes: Bowling Green, down by NYC City Hall, is the oldest park in the city and is probably near-empty some nights. In 1677 the city’s first public well was dug in front of Fort Amsterdam at Bowling Green.[2] In 1733, the Common Council leased a portion of the parade grounds to three prominent neighboring landlords for a peppercorn a year, upon their promise to create a park that would be “the delight of the Inhabitants of the City” and add to its “Beauty and Ornament”; the improvements were to include a “bowling green” with “walks therein”. The surrounding streets were not paved with cobblestones until 1744. > **[Bowling Green (New York City)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_(New_York_City))** > > Bowling Green is a small, historic, public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the southern end and address origin of Broadway. Located in the 18th century next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam, it served as a public gathering place and under the English was designated as a park in 1733. It is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th-century cast iron fence. The park included an actual bowling green a... But now I’m turning OP thread into a thread game of association… ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/64 "2015-09-13T17:12:35Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > China has two cities named Fuzhou. The _smaller_ one has over 2 million people. While the English spelling may be the same, both Fuzhou(s) are not only pronounced differently but also the Chinese characters are different as well. ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/65 "2015-09-13T17:18:30Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > But now I’m turning OP thread into a thread game of association… Now that Bowling Green has been mentioned, I’m reminded of the spectacular skyline of Manhattan: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Manhattan_Kansas_Downtown_overhead.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Manhattan_Kansas_Downtown_overhead.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/66 "2015-09-13T18:25:46Z")
There’s also Des Moines, Iowa and Des Moines, Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/67 "2015-09-14T04:32:35Z")
Texarkana, Texas, pop. 36,411 Texarkana, Arkansas, pop. 29,919 for a ratio of 1.2 Someone else can check the Bristols. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667/68 "2015-09-14T21:20:05Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > Texarkana, Texas, pop. 36,411 > Texarkana, Arkansas, pop. 29,919 > for a ratio of 1.2 > > Someone else can check the Bristols. Here’s a song called “Texarkana”. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpP4gGYuZSU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-us-city-with-a-smaller-same-named-counterpart/730667.md?page=3)