How many US states and capitals do you know?

Aren't there now 51 states (57 if you are a stressed Obama!)? I'm not American, so I doubt if I could name them all (and wouldn't know all of the capital cities of each). Running from left to right and more or less vertically, here is my list from memory (with capitals when I can remember them): Alaska - Washington - Seattle? Oregon - Portland California - Sacramento Wisconsin - Oregon - Utah - SLC Colorado - Denver? Nevada - Reno then there's a whole slew of states down the middle which I don't remember ... New Mexico (?) and Texas (Dallas) are somewhere in there in the South From there on, it gets hazy ... Ohio, Mississipi, Missouri are somewhere in there, then Kentucky. Michigan is up there like a glove round the Great Lakes (with a bit the other side of L. Michigan). I think its capital is not obvious - Flint, not Detroit, as you'd expect. Illinois is somewhere below it and I have a feeling that Chicago is not the capital, either! From there going east, I know where Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and District of Columbia (Washington) are and maybe New York State but the rest of the names are a jumble. Florida is easy to place (but I don't know the capital) and then above it are Georgia (Atlanta) and a lot of smaller Appalachian states whose names I know but couldn't point to on the map. I know that Maine is right up there in the north and has a good seacoast and some pretty country. I think that's pretty fair for an Englishman who has only been to the US once and knows Europe only a little better!

Hello snam23! I am not from the USA so I don't memorize the US states but I know some of them. I will try to enumerate the states that I knew. 1. New York 2. Florida 3. California 4. Ohio ( I am not sure of it) 5. Chicago (not sure too) 6. Michigan I known some but I am not sure if it a city or a state.

Not to brag, but I can still name all the US states and probably all their capitals. I learned them 50 years ago and for some reason, it has stuck.