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Virginia 450,189

Maryland 602,495

Minnesota 425,403

South Carolina - 136,208

Connecticut - 144,399

Kansas - 389,255

California - 3,990,456

Colorado - 735,538

North Carolina - 872,498

Arkansas 197,000

New Mexico-560,218

North Carolina -872,498

Kansas 389,255

Mississippi 164,422

Texas 2,325,502

Washington 744,955

Oklahoma 649,021

Utah 200,591

Illinois 2,705,994

If anybody else doesn't like manually comparing (like me), head on over to https://www.online-python.com, paste this code in, and then put in states where it asks for arguments and hit "Run".

import sys

STATES = {
    'Alabama':        209880,
    'Alaska':         291538,
    'Arizona':       1680992,
    'Arkansas':       197881,
    'California':    3990456,
    'Colorado':       716492,
    'Connecticut':    144900,
    'Delaware':        70635,
    'Florida':        903889,
    'Georgia':        506811,
    'Hawaii':         337256,
    'Idaho':          228790,
    'Illinois':      2705994,
    'Indiana':        876862,
    'Iowa':           216853,
    'Kansas':         389255,
    'Kentucky':       766757,
    'Louisiana':      391006,
    'Maine':           66417,
    'Maryland':       602495,
    'Massachusetts':  692600,
    'Michigan':       672662,
    'Minnesota':      425403,
    'Mississippi':    164422,
    'Missouri':       491918,
    'Montana':        111150,
    'Nebraska':       468262,
    'Nevada':         644644,
    'New Hampshire':  112525,
    'New Jersey':     282090,
    'New Mexico':     560218,
    'New York':      8398748,
    'North Carolina': 872498,
    'North Dakota':   124844,
    'Ohio':           383793,
    'Oklahoma':       649021,
    'Oregon':         653115,
    'Pennsylvania':  1584138,
    'Rhode Island':   179335,
    'South Carolina': 136208,
    'South Dakota':   183200,
    'Tennessee':      694144,
    'Texas':         2325502,
    'Utah':           200591,
    'Vermont':         42899,
    'Virginia':       450189,
    'Washington':     744955,
    'West Virginia':   47215,
    'Wisconsin':      595047,
    'Wyoming':         63957,
}

def compare(state1, state2):
    if state1 not in STATES:
        return f'{state1} not found! Bad spelling?'
    if state2 not in STATES:
        return f'{state2} not found! Bad spelling?'

    pop1 = STATES[state1]
    pop2 = STATES[state2]

    return state1 if pop1 > pop2 else state2

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print('Usage: main.py <state1> <state2>')
        print('Replace spaces with underscores (i.e., New_Jersey not New Jersey')
    else:
        state1 = sys.argv[1].replace('_', ' ')
        state2 = sys.argv[2].replace('_', ' ')
        print(compare(state1, state2))

What a tedious quest made easy by the OP. Kudos. 45/50. Pathetically long list and I overlooked one name and put the wrong one.

This list will get you all the points, but it's factually incorrect that Ohio's biggest city by population is Cleveland with 384k. The quiz maker forgot Columbus exists and has 895k, lol. I lost 5 points because of them. :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population

10/10 - thanks!

Thank you and truth be told I would have gotten this one wrong..
Connecticut 144,900 Vs South Dakota 183,200
Who'd a thunk it?? lol

Show the answers only. I'm working on the quiz right now.

Thanks

Very surprising results in this. I would have missed many of these. Thanks!

For Ohio: Bing seems to think that Cleveland (383,000) is bigger than Columbus (860,000). As someone who lives in Columbus, Ohio I go that answer falsely wrong vs Colorado (Denver is 705,000-ish).

Thank you!

If you see one that is not on the list, please comment to add it and thus continue completing it.

50/50 Thank you!

as always, Thanks!

Thank you!

As always, thanks to all for sharing this info. A few surprises (to me) in the list. Especially a couple of surprises as to which cities had the most residents. (I was fairly good on the states, but then again a couple of the cities surprised me as to being the one that the info was based on).

Thanks!!

That's all the ones I saw -- once again thank you for putting this together!

Oregon?

Oregon

Thank you!

Thank you for making this list, I appreciate it

Thanks for all yor hard work! I got 10/10 again! Thanks to u!

Oregon is the correct answer. Not Michigan

Michigan or Oklahoma is incorrect according to the quiz.

It incorrectly says that Colorado (Denver- 715k)has a higher population than Ohio (Columbus-900k).