Random Place Generators for States, Cities and Countries

Draw a real place from a checked list, with the capital, the population or the outline on the card.

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Every page here draws from a checked list of real places. Six lists are complete: all 50 US states with capital, population and outline, the seven continents, Japan's 47 prefectures, and every country in Europe (44), Africa (54) and South America (12).

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Five are complete to a stated rule: 846 US cities and 120 Canadian ones (every city of 50,000 people or more, plus capitals and each state's, province's or territory's three largest), 844 ZIP Code areas, one per US city, 342 colleges (10,000 students or more, plus each state's largest) and 670 US counties (100,000 people or more, plus each state's most and least populous). Six are selections: 178 country outlines, 150 airports, 149 islands, 238 languages, 73 Arabic-speaking cities and 161 ancient ones; the travel page's 300 are another. The random city generator draws from 1,398 world cities and the random coordinates generator returns a latitude and longitude.

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