State Capitals Hidden in State Names: Kentucky, Indiana, New Hampshire, Maryland, Connecticut, Georgia

This is a clever word puzzle: each of these six state names contains the name of its capital city as a consecutive substring.

Correction: The original answer listed the capitals but the "hidden" claim is false. None of these capitals are substrings of their state names.

Actual Capitals

• Kentucky → Frankfort
• Indiana → Indianapolis
• New Hampshire → Concord (not Manchester)
• Maryland → Annapolis (not Cumberland)
• Connecticut → Hartford (not Danbury)
• Georgia → Atlanta (not Augusta)

States Where Capital IS Hidden in Name

• Oklahoma → Oklahoma City (trivial)
• Indiana → Indianapolis contains "Indiana" (reverse)
• Massachusetts → Boston (no)
• Arkansas → Little Rock (no)

Best real examples of capital names within state names:

• North Carolina → Raleigh (no)
• South Carolina → Columbia (no)

Actually, no U.S. state name contains its capital as a substring (except trivial "Oklahoma City" in "Oklahoma"). The original puzzle answer was incorrect.