Springfield is the home of the Simpsons, and is also the real-life capital of which US State?
Springfield (toponym) Springfield, Illinois, the one-time home of Abraham Lincoln, is the only U.S. state capital with the name. As of 2006, it had an estimated population of 116,482. In the United States, there are four Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Areas - in Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri and Ohio; as of the 2016 census, the most populous was the one in Missouri, which had 541,991 residents. The television show "The Simpsons" is set in a town generically named "Springfield", without indicating a state. Creator Matt Groening has suggested in interviews that he chose the name because of its ubiquity; the show's intentionally contradictory information
Springfield (The Simpsons) City Television" use of Melonville, a town with a large cast of recurring characters that serves as a mini-universe for the show, and partially based "The Simpsons" on it. Because of the many contradictory statements regarding Springfield, it is impossible for the town to exist in a specific state. In "The Simpsons Movie", Ned Flanders tells Bart that Springfield is bordered by the states of Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky - of which only Ohio and Kentucky are real neighbouring states. The city's unknown and unknowable geography is a recurring joke in the series; one newspaper called it the "riddle