How it works
A random city in Tennessee can be any of the 345 cities and towns in the Census Bureau's 2025 estimates, from Nashville to Cottage Grove, the smallest.
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Three cities that are also counties
Nashville is merged with Davidson County, Lynchburg with Moore County and Hartsville with Trousdale County, and each card says so. Nashville's figure leaves out six smaller cities that lie wholly or partly in Davidson County, Belle Meade and Goodlettsville among them; they have cards of their own.
Random places in Tennessee, county by county
All 95 counties have a city or town. The County list has room for 80, the ones with the largest places. Seven names point to the wrong county: Franklin is in Williamson County, Jackson in Madison County and Henderson in Chester County.
- Blountville, the seat of Sullivan County, is not incorporated and has no card. Every other county seat in Tennessee has one.
Questions and answers
How many cities are in Tennessee?
Tennessee has 345 municipalities in the Census Bureau's 2025 estimates. The file names 182 of them cities and 160 towns; the other three are the merged governments. Six have 100,000 people or more.
What is the difference between a city and a town in Tennessee?
The two words have no legal meaning in Tennessee and do not depend on size. Smyrna, a town, has 63,321 people, more than all but ten other places, and Medon, a city in Madison County, has 198.
What is the smallest town in Tennessee?
Cottage Grove, in Henry County, with 66 people in the 2025 estimates. Hickory Valley in Hardeman County has 80 and Orme in Marion County 85. No other place has under 100.
What are the largest cities in Tennessee?
Nashville, the capital, with 721,074 people, then Memphis with 609,647, Knoxville with 202,021, Chattanooga with 194,144 and Clarksville with 188,829.