What's the largest US city with a smaller same named counterpart?

[Mangosteen]

@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.

[Mangosteen]

@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.

[Leo_Bloom]

@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)

But now I’m turning OP thread into a thread game of association…

[Mangosteen]

@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.

[Donnerwetter]

@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:

[nearwildheaven]

There’s also Des Moines, Iowa and Des Moines, Washington.

[Mr_Downtown]

Texarkana, Texas, pop. 36,411
Texarkana, Arkansas, pop. 29,919
for a ratio of 1.2

Someone else can check the Bristols.

[nearwildheaven]

@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”.

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