in C2, type =COUNTIF(A:A,A1) and copy down.

is this what you want?

I am just wondering that when you copy the furmula down and a city is
repeated in column A, the number will also be repeated in column C. Would
you be ok with that?

"Midjack" wrote in message
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I have a long list of cities (Col. A) and states (Col. B). I would like to
count the number of times each city occurs without having to input the
city
name each time; with the results appearing like this:

Col. A Col. B Col. C
City State Number of occurrences

Boston Massachusetts 300
Denver Colorado 250
New Orleans Louisiana 256
etc.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks