Map of Arizona Cities

Arizona Map with Cities and Towns: How to Read It

An Arizona map with cities and towns labelled looks lopsided the first time you see it, and that is not a drawing error — it is the state's geography. Roughly three out of every five Arizonans live inside a single metropolitan area, so the city names crowd together in one corner of the map while enormous stretches of the north and west carry only a handful of labels. Reading the map is mostly a matter of knowing those four clusters:

• The Valley of the Sun (central): Phoenix and its ring of large suburbs — Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Scottsdale, Tempe, Peoria and Surprise — all in Maricopa County. Nine of Arizona's ten largest cities sit inside this one cluster, which is why the map's densest label field is here.
• The southern corridor: Tucson in Pima County, plus Casa Grande and Marana strung along Interstate 10, then Sierra Vista, Douglas and Nogales near the Mexican border.
• The northern plateau: Flagstaff, Page and Williams in Coconino County, along with Prescott and Sedona in the central highlands. These are Arizona's high-elevation towns — Flagstaff sits near 7,000 feet and gets real snow.
• The Colorado River edge: Yuma in the southwest, and Lake Havasu City, Kingman and Bullhead City to the northwest in Mohave County. Every one of these grew up around river water or a river crossing.

The blank space between the clusters is not empty land. Northeastern Arizona is largely the Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation, where communities such as Window Rock, Chinle and Tuba City are unincorporated and so appear on many maps in lighter type — or not at all. If a place you are looking for is missing from a city map of Arizona, that is usually why.

Largest Cities in Arizona by Population

Populations below are 2020 U.S. Census counts for the city limits, not the wider metro area. Each city links to its own map page, and each county links to its county map.

Arizona has 91 incorporated cities and towns in total, plus several hundred unincorporated communities, census-designated places and tribal chapters that appear on detailed maps. The distinction matters when you compare maps: a state highway map may label only the 91 incorporated municipalities, while a topographic or tribal map will show far more names in the same space. To see which county each of these places falls in, use the Arizona county map and city-to-county lookup; for the highways connecting them, see the Arizona road map.