New York is one of the world’s largest natural harbors which inhabits a census-estimated 2013 population of 19.9 million people in the city and the metro area. It is the most densely populated major city in the United States.
Houston is the fourth largest city in the U.S. and the largest in Texas and inhabits over 6 million people.
Miami’s metro area is the eighth most populous in the U.S., with a population of around 5.5 million.
In 2010, New Orleans had a population of 1,167,764.
Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States. In 2013, it had an estimated population of 646,449. Centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court.