Springfield, MA is quite a bit bigger, though. In fact, Springfield, MO is also larger (at least comparing metropolitan areas) than the capital of Illinois. T

Springfield, MA is quite a bit bigger, though. In fact, Springfield, MO is also larger (at least comparing metropolitan areas) than the capital of Illinois. This situation happens again between Augusta, GA (where the PGA Masters are held) and Augusta, ME (the capital), and perhaps most confusingly for students, between Salem, OR (the capital) and tiny Salem, MA, which owes its outsized reputation to the infamous witch trials. But for me as a child, the winner was surely Juno Beach, FL, colloquially "Juno", which was where the snowball shack and the pier were (with its overcrowded surf break), while for most people the syllables in "Juneau" probably refer to somewhere much colder.