Scale Directory
the United States Local Directory

the United States Local Directory

Browse 168,801 cities, towns, and postal-code areas across the United States, organised by region.

About the United States

the United States spans a continent-scale geography from coastal cities to inland prairies and mountain ranges. This directory lists 168,801 populated places, organised so visitors can browse from country to region to city and locate specific communities or postal-code areas of interest.

The country organises its directory of populated places by state, with each state listing its constituent cities and towns, and the pages on this site reflect that hierarchical structure. Each region page links to the cities it contains; each city page provides basic facts (coordinates, population where known, postal codes) along with prose context drawn from the underlying open datasets.

The directory covers metropolitan areas and rural communities under a federal system of 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Postal codes shown for each place are joined from the GeoNames postal dataset against the city by name and administrative region; coverage varies by country and by data-source quirk. Browse by region below, or jump directly to a featured city.

Content shown in this locale (en-us); place names and labels are localised where available from Wikidata and fall back to the canonical English form otherwise.

Browse by region

The largest urban centres in the United States by recorded population.

Places with very few people

Tiny settlements you might never have heard of — communities with only a handful of recorded residents.

Places with curious names

A selection of places with unusually long, hyphenated, or otherwise distinctive names worth a second look.