State Capitals Quiz

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Fun Fact: Juneau is the largest state capital by area. With 2,716 square miles of land area, it is huge!

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Fun Fact: Located only eight miles north of the Colorado border, Cheyenne is one of the furthest U.S. capitals from its own state’s geographic center.

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Fun Fact:  Carson City is the smallest metropolitan statistical area (#366 out of 366) in the country. 

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Fun Fact: Dover differed from the rest of Kent County regarding slavery, and the city was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.

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Fun Fact: Indianapolis is the largest U.S. city that is not on a navigable river.

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Fun Fact: Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, is the most populous state capital in the U.S.

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Fun Fact: Montgomery, the capital of the state of Alabama, was the first city with an electric streetcar system known as “The Lightning Route“.

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Fun Fact: The capital building in Little Rock finished construction in 1842, making it the oldest capital building in the country.

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Fun Fact: Although Denver is exactly one mile high, it is not the U.S. capital with the highest elevation. (Santa Fe and Cheyenne are higher).

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Fun Fact: Concord was named for the “concord” or harmony, after a boundary dispute between the neighboring towns Rumford and Bow.