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Wind River Indian Reservation
Wind River Indian Reservation: Wyoming's only reservation, about 2.2 million acres near Lander, shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes under the 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty, with the Arapaho placed there in 1878.
Wirral
Wirral, a Merseyside peninsula and metropolitan borough (E08000015) in the Liverpool City Region; 324,852 residents (2023), 66 councillors in 22 wards, unitary since 1986, new 65-councillor wards from May 2027.
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a county in England's West Midlands with six districts, a two-tier council system due to become two unitary councils in 2028, an 86% rural landscape, £1.05 billion visitor economy (2024), and a strong advanced manufacturing base.
Wrexham County Borough
Wrexham County Borough (Bwrdeistref Sirol Wrecsam) is a unitary authority in North East Wales, population about 135,100 (2021), governed from Wrexham city by Wrexham County Borough Council, established 1996, with a manufacturing-based economy and Wrexham Industrial Estate.
Wyckoff, New Jersey
Wyckoff is a township in northwest Bergen County, New Jersey, incorporated under that name in 1926 from Franklin Township, with about 16,600 residents, a five-member Township Committee, and 6.6 square miles 25 miles from Manhattan.
Xiaogan (district)
Xiaonan District (孝南区) is the sole municipal district of the prefecture-level city of Xiaogan in Hubei Province, China, forming the city's urban area since its creation in 1993.
Xinhui, Jiangmen
Xinhui District (新会区), historically Gangzhou, is a district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, in the Pearl River Delta; known for chenpi and fan-palm craft, with 2025 GDP of 107.6 billion yuan and about 913,000 residents.
Xochimilco
Xochimilco, a borough of Mexico City 28 km south of the center, is a UNESCO World Heritage canal-and-chinampa wetland, the axolotl's only wild habitat, and a trajinera tourism site.
Yarra Ranges
Yarra Ranges (Shire of Yarra Ranges) is Melbourne's largest local government area, 2,468 km² in Victoria's outer east, formed in 1994 from Healesville, Lillydale, Sherbrooke and Upper Yarra; over 150,000 residents, Yarra Valley wine region, Dandenong Ranges, $6.8 billion GRP.
Yavatmal district
Yavatmal district (यवतमाळ जिल्हा), Vidarbha, Maharashtra; 'Cotton City' where cotton covers 483,998 ha. 16 tahsils, ~2.77 million people (2011), known for agrarian distress, farmer suicides, and 2025 Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana selection.
Yenimahalle
Yenimahalle is a metropolitan district of Ankara, Turkey, established 1 September 1957 under Law 7033. Known for Ragıp Tüzün's 1940s housing scheme, Batıkent, OSTİM industrial zone, Akköprü (1222), and a 2024 population near 715,000–721,000.
Yolo County
Yolo County, California: original 1850 county in the Sacramento Valley west of Sacramento; seat Woodland; cities Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, Woodland; 216,403 residents (2020); agriculture and UC Davis dominate.
Yorkshire
Yorkshire, England's largest historic county, divided into the North, East and West Ridings; now covered by four ceremonial counties, unitary councils, and three combined authorities, with strong regional identity and a distinct devolution history.
Yuen Long District
Yuen Long District (元朗区) is one of the eighteen districts of Hong Kong, covering 14,430 hectares of the northwest New Territories, including Yuen Long town, Tin Shui Wai, and six rural townships.
Yuma County, Arizona, United States
Yuma County, Arizona: southwestern Arizona county on the Colorado River, county seat Yuma, one of four original 1864 counties; 224,449 residents (2025 est.), winter-vegetable agriculture, MCAS Yuma, Yuma Proving Ground, Mexico border ports.
Zanskar district
Zanskar district, headquarters Padum, is a new district of Ladakh, India, carved from Kargil district and notified 27 April 2026 with 26 revenue villages; a high-altitude, about 96% Buddhist region of roughly 7,000 sq km and 15,000 people.
Zemun (Земун)
Zemun (Земун) is a municipality of Belgrade, Serbia, on the right bank of the Danube; ancient Taurunum, a Habsburg frontier town from 1718 to 1918, joined to Belgrade in 1934, municipality since 1945, about 180,000 residents.
Zenica
Zenica, city in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, seat of Zenica-Doboj Canton, in the Bosna River valley 70 km north of Sarajevo; first mentioned 1436, a steel and coal center whose 130-year-old steelworks shut down in 2026.
Zernez
Zernez (Zarnetz) is a Graubünden municipality in the Swiss Lower Engadine at the Spöl–Inn confluence, 1,474 m up. Gateway to the Swiss National Park since 1914, merged with Lavin and Susch in 2015, rebuilt after an 1872 fire.
Zululand District Municipality
Zululand District Municipality (DC26) is a Category C district municipality in north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the province's largest district at 16% of its area, comprising Ulundi, Nongoma, uPhongolo, eDumbe, and AbaQulusi local municipalities, headquartered in Ulundi.