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This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are sometimes known by, officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards. Some of the nicknames are positive, while others are derisive.

A separate list of city nicknames is also available; that list covers other countries as well as certain common types of nicknames such as birthplaces, self-proclaimed capitals, and comparative nicknames.

Cities (listed by state)

Alabama

Alaska

  • Anchorage
    • City of Lights
    • Air Crossroads of the World
  • Fairbanks The Golden Heart City
  • Homer The End of the Road
  • Kenai - The Village With a Past, the City With a Future
  • Ketchikan
    • The First City
    • K-Town
  • Sitka
    • First City of Alaska

Arizona

  • Phoenix
    • Desert Storm
    • Dirty P-H-X
    • Valley of the Sun
  • Tucson - The Old Pueblo

Arkansas

California

Colorado

  • Aurora
    • Gateway to the Rockies
  • Boulder
    • The People's Republic
  • Colorado Springs
    • The Springs
    • Pikes Peak's City
  • Denver
    • City of the Plains
    • Convention City
    • Gateway to the Rockies
    • The Mile-High City
    • Paris on the Platte
    • Queen City
    • Cowtown --Somewhat outdated 19th century nickname
  • Fort Collins
    • The Choice City
  • Pueblo, Colorado
    • Steel City

Connecticut

District of Columbia

  • Washington DC
    • Capital City
    • Dark City
    • DC
    • News Capital of the World
    • The District
    • Chocolate City
    • Murder Capital of America (Late 80's - Early 90's)

Florida

Georgia

  • Albany - Good Life City
  • Atlanta
    • A.T.L.
    • A-Town -- popular among hip hop fans
    • Hotlanta
    • The Athens of the South
    • Capital of the South
    • The Big Peach
    • The Dirty A-T-L
    • The Phoenix City (of the South)
    • The New York of the South
    • The City Too Busy to Hate
    • The City In The Forest
    • Dogwood City
    • Gate City of the South
  • Augusta
    • The Garden City
    • Home of the Masters
  • Claxton - Fruitcake Capital of the World
  • Dalton - Carpet Capital of the World
  • Kennesaw - Gun-Town U.S.A.
  • Lilburn - The City of Champions

Idaho

Illinois

  • Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
    • Chambana
    • Shampoo-Banana
    • Urpaign
  • Chicago
    • Chi town
    • City of Big Shoulders
    • Cowtown
    • Hog Butcher of the World
    • Second City
    • Slaughterhouse of the World
    • Windy City
    • Paris of the Midwest
    • Chicagoland for the surrounding area
  • Galena - The City That Time Forgot
  • Joliet - The City of Champions
  • Metropolis - Hometown of Superman
  • Naperville
    • Naperthrill

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

  • New Orleans
    • The Big Easy
    • The City That Care Forgot
    • The City That Time Forgot
    • The Crescent City
    • The Queen City of the South
    • The N.O.
    • Nawlins
    • NOLA

Maine

  • Bangor - The Queen City
  • Lewiston & Auburn, Maine
    • Cities of the Androscoggin
    • L-A
  • Portland
    • Forest City
    • Hill City
  • Waterville
    • Elm City

Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Boston
    • Athens of America
    • Beantown
    • The City of Champions
    • The City of Kind Hearts
    • The Cradle of Liberty
    • The Hub -- short for hub of the universe (Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.)
    • Purity City
    • City on the Hill
  • Brockton - The City of Champions
  • Cambridge
    • Moscow on the Charles (for its extreme left politics)
    • The People's Republic of Cambridge
  • Leominster - Pioneer Plastic City. (Note: it is where the original plastic pink lawn flamingoes were first manufactured)
  • Franklin - The Source
  • Lynn
  • Rockport - The Mendocino of the East
  • Salem
    • City of Witches
    • The Witch City
  • Springfield
    • Birthplace of Basketball
  • Taunton
    • The Silver City
    • The Christmas City
    • City of Firsts
  • Westfield - The Whip City
  • Provincetown - P'Town

Michigan

  • Albion - The Smart City
  • Ann Arbor
    • A-Squared
    • Tree Town
  • Battle Creek - Cereal City
  • Charlevoix - Charlevoix the Beuatiful
  • Detroit
    • The City of Champions
    • The Motor City
    • Motown
    • Motor-Town
    • Hitsville USA
    • The Paris of The West
    • Daytwah (French pronunciation of Detroit)
    • D-Town
    • Detoilet
    • Murder Capital
    • The Renaissance City
    • The City on the Strait
    • The D
    • Hockeytown
    • America's Most Canadian City
    • Amityville
    • Arsenal of Democracy
    • The 313
    • Rock City
  • Flint
    • Flint town
    • That 810
  • Grand Rapids
    • Furniture City
    • Second City of Michigan
    • The Valley City
  • Jackson - Birthplace of the Republican Party
  • Kalamazoo
    • Celery City
    • Kazoo (often spelled in print as "K'zoo")
  • Lansing
    • L-town
    • L-A (Lansing Area)
    • That 517
    • Capitol City
  • Marquette
    • Superior City
  • Newberry - Moose Capital of Michigan
  • Niles - The City of Four Flags
  • Sault Ste. Marie - The Soo
  • Saginaw
    • Sag Nasty
  • Sturgis - Curtain Rod Capital of the World
  • Taylor
    • Taylor-tucky
  • Traverse City
    • TC
    • Cherry Capital of the World
  • Ypsilanti
    • Ypsi
    • Ypsitucky

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

  • Cape Girardeau - The Rose City
  • Caruthersville - Birthplace of the Bootheel
  • Chadwick - The Copperhead Capital of the World
  • Kansas City
    • City of Fountains
    • Cowtown
    • Heart of America
  • Neosho - The Flowerbox City
  • Sedalia - The Queen City of the Prairie
  • St. Louis
    • City With a Future
    • The Gateway City
    • Gateway to the West
    • St. Louie (strongly discouraged in most contexts)
    • The "Lou"
    • The Mound City
    • S.T.L.
  • Springfield
    • Queen City of the Ozarks
    • Birthplace of Route 66

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

  • Las Vegas
    • America's Playground
    • City of Lights
    • Entertainment Capital of the World
    • Sin City
    • Lost Wages
    • Glitter Gulch
  • Reno
    • The Biggest Little City in the World
    • Skeeno -- among punk rock fans
  • Winnemucca - City of Paved Streets

New Jersey

New Hampshire

New Mexico

New York

  • Albany
    • Smallbany
  • Amsterdam
    • The Carpet City
  • Binghamton
    • Parlor City
    • Carousel Capital of the World
  • Bronx
    • Boogie Down
    • BX
  • Brooklyn
    • The city of churches
    • The city of trees
    • BK
    • Brooknah
    • Brooknam
    • Crooklyn
  • Buffalo
    • B-Lo
    • Bison City
    • The City of Good Neighbors
    • The Nickel City
    • The Queen City (of the Great Lakes)
  • Cooperstown
  • Cortland
    • The Crown City
  • Florida
    • The Onion Capital of the World
  • Fulton
    • City With a Future
  • Geneva
    • Lake Trout Capital of the World
  • Hammondsport
    • Cradle of Aviation
  • New Rochelle
    • New Rock City
  • New York City
    • The Big Apple
    • The Concrete Jungle
    • The Capital of the World
    • The First Capital of America
    • The Unofficial Capital of America
    • The City
    • The City So Nice They Named It Twice
    • The City That Never Sleeps
    • Empire City
    • Gotham City
    • The Melting Pot
    • N.Y.C.
    • The City With The World's Most Famous Arena
    • The World's Second Home
  • Rochester
    • The Flour City
    • The Flower City
    • Crochester
    • Kodak City
    • Ra-Cha-Cha
    • The R-O-C
    • The Rock
    • Snapshot City
    • Rottenfester
    • Crapchester
  • Rye
    • Border Town
  • Saratoga Springs
    • The Spa City
    • Toga (slang term, less used)
  • Schenectady
    • The Electric City
  • Staten Island
    • Shaolin
    • The Forgotten Borough
  • Syracuse
    • Salt City
    • Central City
    • The 'Cuse
    • Typewriter City
    • City of Bridges
    • Sewerpukes
  • Troy
    • The Collar City
  • Williston Park
    • Willy P
    • Dub Park

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

  • Akron
    • Rubber City
    • A-K-Rowdy Rowdy
    • Lil' A-town
    • Crack-ron
  • Bryan - The Fountain City
  • Canton - Birthplace of Football
    • FameTown
    • Lil' Chicago
    • 3-3-0
    • Worst Little city
  • Chardon - Piece of shit town
  • Chillicothe
    • Chillicompton
    • Chillitucky
  • Cincinnati
    • Cincy
    • Sports Capital of Ohio
    • Queen City (of the West)
    • Porkopolis
    • Since It's Nasty
    • The Nati
  • Cleveland
    • The Forest City
    • C-Town
    • The Comeback City
    • The New American City
    • America's North Coast
    • The Best Location in the Nation
    • The City of Bridges
    • Metropolis of the Western Reserve
    • Mistake by the Lake (derisive)
  • Columbus
    • C-Bus
    • Cowtown
    • The Crossroads of Ohio
  • Dayton
    • Gem City
    • Birthplace of aviation
  • Mansfield
    • The Heart of Ohio
    • Carrousel Capital of Ohio
  • Massillon - City With a Future
  • Toledo
    • The Glass City
    • Frog Town
    • Corn City
  • Xenia -- Windy City, because of a significant tornado
  • Youngstown
    • Murdertown, USA (1963-?)
    • Y-Town
    • Yo. (often used in mailing addresses)

Oklahoma

  • Altus - The City With a Future to Share
  • Beaver - Cow Chip Throwing Capital of the World
  • Norman - Weather Capital of the World
  • Oklahoma City
    • The Renaissance City
    • The City (of Oklahoma)
    • OKC

Oregon

Pennsylvania

  • Allentown - Cement City
  • Bethel Park - Municipality of Champions
  • Bethlehem - Christmas City
  • Erie - The Gem
  • Hershey - Chocolate Town, USA
  • Lancaster - Red Rose City (In the War of the Roses, the red rose was the symbol of the House of Lancaster)
  • Philadelphia
    • City of Brotherly Love
    • The Illadelph
    • Philly
    • Quaker City
    • City of Brotherly Shove
    • Philthadelphia
    • Birthplace of America
    • The 215 (reference to area code)
  • Pittsburgh
    • The 'Burgh
    • City of Bridges
    • Erie Senior
    • The City of Champions
    • Iron City
    • Steel City
    • Renaissance City
    • Football Capital of the World (More NFL Hall of Famers, NFL Coaches and NFL Players grew up in the metroarea then anywhere else on earth. No Superbowl has ever been played without a Pittsburgher on each team).
    • Workshop to the World
    • Arsenal of Democracy
    • Arsenal of Liberty
    • Arsenal of Freedom
    • Robo-burgh
    • City of Stairways
    • The Birmingham of the North
    • The San Francisco of the East
    • The Paris of Appalachia
    • The Little Apple
  • York

Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

  • Leola - Rhubarb Capital of the World

Tennessee

  • Bristol - Food City
  • Chattanooga
    • Dynamo of Dixie
    • The Scenic City
    • Chat Town
  • Clarksville
    • The Queen City
    • Gateway to the New South
    • ClarksVegas
    • C-Ville
  • Cookeville
    • Hub City
  • Knoxville
    • The Marble City
    • K-Town
    • The Streaking Capital of the World
    • Knox Vegas
  • Memphis
    • Birthplace of the Blues
    • The River City
    • Bluff City
    • M-Town
    • Memphrica
  • Nashville
    • The Athens of the South
    • Music City
    • The Protestant Vatican
    • Ca$hville
    • The Ville
    • NashVegas
  • Oak Ridge
    • The Secret City
    • The Atomic City

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

  • Bickleton - Bluebird Capital of the World
  • Redmond
    • Mordor
    • Nerdburg
  • Seattle
    • Emerald City -- official since 1982
    • Jet City
    • Queen City (of the Pacific Northwest) -- official from 1869-1982
  • Spokane
    • Lilac City
    • The Inland Empire
    • Spokavegas
    • Spokompton
    • Spokanistan
    • Spokaloo
    • Spotucky
    • Spokorn
    • Spoklahoma
    • The Can
    • Skybridge City
  • Tacoma
    • City of Destiny
    • Tackyoma
    • America's #1 Wired City
  • Toppenish
    • Where The West Lives On
    • City of Murals
    • City of Murals and Museums
  • Walla Walla
    • The City That Was So Nice They Named It Twice
    • Walla2
    • Wallyworld
  • Wenatchee - Apple Capital of the World
  • Yakima - The Palm Springs of Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

See also: Wisconsin Community Slogans (PDF)

Wyoming

  • Cody - Rodeo Capital of the World
  • Douglas - Jackalope Capital of the World
  • Frannie - The Biggest Little Town in Wyoming
  • Laramie - Gem City of the Plains
  • Lowell - The Rose City of Wyoming
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