Population and Location of US State Capitals

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Population and Location of US State Capitals

This CSV file includes all of the state capitals alongside latitude, longitude, and population from the 2010 census.

Data Sources

This data file was generated from several sources, as listed below.

• Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States for the original list of state capitals.
• Go to https://gist.github.com/mbostock/4090846 for the TopoJSON state ids.
• Go to http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2011/ for the original census data.

The geocoder at http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/ was used to generate GPS coordinates for the state capitals.

us-capitals.csv