Listed below are the largest combined statistical/metropolitan/micropolitan areas in each state, including each state capital/territorial capital, in order of the population.
1. Anchorage
2. Fairbanks
3. Juneau (state capital)
1. Seattle
2. Spokane
3. Olympia (state capital; 24th largest city in state)
1. Portland
2. Salem (state capital)
3. Eugene
1. Boise (state capital)
2. Idaho Falls
3. Coeur d’Alene
1. Billings
2. Missoula
3. Helena (state capital; 6th largest city in state)
1. Los Angeles
2. San Francisco (San Jose-Oakland)
3. San Diego
4. Sacramento (state capital)
Honorable Mention: Benicia (an older capitol building is located here, at Benicia Capitol State Historic Park)
1. Honolulu (state capital)
2. Hilo
American Samoa (U.S. Territory)
1. Pago Pago (territorial capital)
Guam (U.S. Territory)
1. Hagåtña (territorial capital)
Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. Territory)
1. Saipan (territorial capital)
1. Cheyenne (state capital)
2. Casper
3. Gillette
1. Denver (state capital)
2. Colorado Springs
3. Fort Collins
1. Salt Lake City (state capital)
2. St. George
3. Logan
Honorable Mention: Fillmore (an older capitol building is located here, at Territorial Statehouse State Park)
1. Las Vegas
2. Reno
3. Carson City (state capital; 6th largest city in state)
1. Phoenix (state capital)
2. Tucson
3. Prescott
1. Albuquerque
2. Las Cruces
3. Santa Fe (state capital)
1. Dallas-Fort Worth (largest metro)
2. Houston (largest city)
3. San Antonio
4. Austin (state capital)
5. El Paso
1. Oklahoma City (state capital)
2. Tulsa
3. Lawton (Fort Sill)
1. Fargo
2. Bismarck (state capital)
3. Grand Forks
1. Sioux Falls
2. Rapid City
3. Pierre (state capital; 8th largest city in state)
3. Grand Island
1. Overland Park-Kansas City (suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri)
2. Wichita
3. Topeka (state capital)
1. Des Moines (state capital)
2. Cedar Rapids
3. Davenport
Honorable Mention: Iowa City (5th largest city in state; an older capitol building is located here)
1. Saint Louis
2. Kansas City
3. Springfield, MO
4. Jefferson City (state capital; 15th largest city in state)
Honorable Mention: St. Charles
2. Grand Rapids (Muskegon–Holland)
3. Lansing (state capital)
4. Kalamazoo-Battle Creek
5. Saginaw
6. Jackson
1. Milwaukee
2. Madison (state capital)
3. Green Bay
Honorable Mention: Belmont (old capitol building located here)
1. Minneapolis-Saint Paul (state capital)
2. Duluth
3. Rochester
1. Chicago
2. Rockford
3. Springfield, IL (state capital; 6th largest city in state)
Honorable Mention: Vandalia (an older capitol building is located here)
1. Indianapolis (state capital)
2. Fort Wayne
3. South Bend
Honorable Mention: Corydon (an older capitol building is located here)
1. Cleveland
2. Columbus (state capital)
3. Cincinnati
4. Dayton
5. Toledo
Honorable Mention: Chillicothe (a replica of an older capitol building is located here)
1. Portland
2. Bangor
3. Augusta (state capital)
4. Rockland
1. Manchester
2. Concord (state capital)
1. Burlington
2. Montpelier (state capital; 17th largest city in state)
1. Boston (state capital; an older capitol building, the Old State House, is also located here)
2. Springfield
1. Providence (state capital)
1. Hartford (state capital)
2. Bridgeport
3. New Haven
2. Buffalo
3. Rochester
4. Albany (state capital)
5. Syracuse
1. Philadelphia
2. Pittsburgh
3. Harrisburg (state capital)
1. Newark (New York City metro area)
2. Trenton (state capital)
1. Wilmington
2. Dover (state capital)
1. Baltimore
2. Rockville (Washington DC metro area)
3. Annapolis (state capital; 7th largest city in state)
1. Northern Virginia (Arlington-Alexandria – Washington DC metro area)
2. Hampton Roads (Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News)
3. Richmond (state capital)
1. Charleston (state capital)
2. Morgantown
3. Huntington
Honorable Mention: Wheeling (5th largest city in state; an older capitol building is located here)
1. Louisville
2. Lexington
3. Frankfort (state capital; 13th largest city in state; an older capitol building is also located here)
1. Nashville (state capital)
2. Memphis
3. Knoxville
Honorable Mention: Greeneville (a replica of an older capitol building for the proposed state of Franklin is located here)
1. Little Rock (state capital)
2. Fayetteville
3. Fort Smith
3. Lafayette
1. Jackson (state capital; an older capitol building is also located here)
2. Gulfport
3. Hattiesburg
1. Birmingham
2. Mobile
3. Huntsville
4. Montgomery (state capital)
1. Charlotte
2. Raleigh (state capital)
3. Greensboro
1. Greenville
2. Columbia (state capital)
3. Charleston
1. Atlanta (state capital)
2. Savannah
3. Macon
Honorable Mention: Milledgeville (an older capitol building is located here)
1. Miami
2. Orlando
3. Tampa
4. Jacksonville
5. Tallahassee (state capital; an older capitol building is also located here; 7th largest city in state)
Puerto Rico (U.S. Territory)
1. San Juan (territorial capital)
U.S. Virgin Islands (U.S. Territory)
1. Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island (territorial capital)
2. Christiansted, St. Croix Island
3. Cruz Bay, St. John Island