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Acilia-Castel Fusano-Ostia Antica
Acilia-Castel Fusano-Ostia Antica is Rome's largest frazione (143,096 people, 2021) in Municipio X, covering nine coastal zones, the Ostia Antica ruins, the Castel Fusano pine forest, and the Roma-Lido railway.
Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz ("Alex") is Berlin's central square and busiest transport hub in Mitte, renamed for Tsar Alexander in 1805, rebuilt as the GDR capital's center, and now the site of the Kollhoff master plan's 130–150 m tower projects.
Bad Cannstatt
Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart's oldest and most populous district (Cannstatt, Kurstadt), on the Neckar; Roman fort around 90 AD, first mentioned 708, merged with Stuttgart 1905, second-largest mineral water output in Europe after Budapest.
Bad Godesberg
Bad Godesberg, a southern district of Bonn, Germany, was an independent spa town and West Germany's diplomatic quarter 1949–1999; site of the 1959 SPD Godesberg Program, incorporated into Bonn in 1969.
Bielany
Bielany, a Polish place name from Old Polish biel (marsh) with suffix -any, names Warsaw's green northern district (131,420 residents, Camaldolese monastery 1639), a rural gmina in Sokołów County, and villages near Kęty, Wrocław, and Toruń.
Bondy
Bondy is a commune in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, 9 km northeast of Paris, with 53,342 inhabitants on 5.5 km². Known for the former Bondy forest, the 1814 Battle of Paris, and two planned Grand Paris Express line 15 stations.
Cacém
Cacém, part of the city of Agualva-Cacém in Sintra municipality, Portugal; a railway-belt commuter district of about 81,000 residents (with Agualva), city status 2001, Polis regeneration, parish median €2,995/m² in 2026.
Chalandri
Chalandri (Χαλάνδρι, Halandri), municipality in northeastern Athens, Attica, Greece; ancient deme of Phlya, home area linked to Euripides and Themistocles; 77,102 residents (2021), independent municipality since 1944, metro Line 3 and Rematia stream.
Chamartín
Chamartín (Chamartín de la Rosa) is district 05 of northern Madrid, Spain: 917.55 ha, about 148,000 residents, six barrios including El Viso and Prosperidad. Annexed to Madrid in 1948; home to the Santiago Bernabéu, Chamartín station, and the Madrid Nuevo Norte redevelopment.
Champs-Élysées
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is a roughly two-kilometer avenue in Paris running from Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, known for luxury retail.
Ciudad Lineal
Ciudad Lineal, or Linear City, is a district of Madrid named for the pioneering linear-city suburb conceived by Arturo Soria y Mata and begun in 1894.
De Wallen
De Wallen (the Walls) is Amsterdam's largest and oldest red-light district, east of the Damrak, with window prostitution since the 15th century, brothel legalization in 2000, Project 1012 closures, and a planned Erotic Centre relocation.
Evosmos
Evosmos (Εύοσμος), formerly Neos Koukloutzas and earlier Harmanköy, is a suburb and municipal unit of Kordelio-Evosmos, Thessaloniki, Greece; 9.927 km², 79,221 residents (2021), shaped by 1920s Asia Minor refugee settlement.
Fontvieille, Monaco
Fontvieille is Monaco's southwestern district built on reclaimed land (1966–1973) under Prince Rainier III, designed by Manfredi Nicoletti. It hosts Stade Louis II, the heliport, a marina, the highest state-housing share, and the Principality's richest green space.
Freetown Christiania
Freetown Christiania (Fristaden Christiania), a self-governing car-free community founded in 1971 on a former Copenhagen barracks, owned since 2012 by Fonden Fristaden Christiania; Pusher Street's hash market was dismantled by residents in April 2024.
Friedrichshain
Friedrichshain, known during Nazi rule as Horst-Wessel-Stadt, is a densely built district in eastern Berlin, now a center of the city's nightlife and a sought-after residential area.
Fuorigrotta
Fuorigrotta is a western Naples district, named for the Roman Crypta Neapolitana tunnel through Posillipo. Known for the Diego Armando Maradona (ex San Paolo) Stadium, the Mostra d'Oltremare fair, and the University of Naples engineering campus.
Gelsenkirchen-Schalke
Gelsenkirchen-Schalke is a district of Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr area of Germany, immediately north of the city center, known chiefly as the home of football club FC Schalke 04.
Getxo
Getxo, Getxon (Basque), a coastal municipality in Bizkaia, Basque Country, on the Estuary of Bilbao near Bilbao; five districts, about 76,000 inhabitants, the 1893 Vizcaya Bridge, beaches, cliffs and grand bourgeois villas.
Huddinge
Huddinge is a municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, south of Stockholm City, second-largest in the metropolitan area with 115,046 inhabitants (Q2 2026), a AAA-rated commuter suburb with Campus Flemingsberg.
Ilioúpoli
Ilioupoli (Ηλιούπολη), Municipality of Ilioupolis, a municipality on the southwestern slopes of Mount Hymettus in southeastern Athens, Greece; founded as a planned suburb in 1925-1928 by the Drandakis-Pagkalos company, named after Heliopolis of Cairo, population 78,153 (2011).
Keratsíni
Keratsini (Κερατσίνι), also Keratsini-Drapetsona, is a working-class port suburb of Piraeus, Attica, Greece. Formerly an industrial belt (Saint George's Power Plant, 1926), now deindustrialized, with about 70,000-91,000 residents and no metro or rail service.
Kista
Kista is a district in northern Stockholm, Sweden, built 1975–1980 and known as Sweden's Silicon Valley; home to the Kista Science City ICT cluster with Ericsson, IBM and KTH, now facing Ericsson's relocation to Hagastaden.
Kreuzberg
Kreuzberg, Berlin district named after the 66 m Kreuzberg hill in Viktoriapark; former West Berlin peripheral area, SO 36 squatter and alternative center, over 180 nationalities, and among Berlin's most expensive rental districts (19.42 EUR/m², 2024).
Kurfürstendamm
Kurfürstendamm (Ku'damm), Berlin's 3.5-km boulevard in Charlottenburg from Breitscheidplatz to Rathenauplatz; a 16th-century electoral riding path turned 53-m-wide boulevard by Bismarck's 1875 decree, opened as a boulevard with the 1886 steam tram, and the City West's main shopping street.
La Rambla, Barcelona
La Rambla (Les Rambles), Barcelona's 1.2 km emblematic boulevard from Plaça de Catalunya to the old port, built over a 13th-century wall canal, with five named sections, Canaletes fountain, Boqueria, Liceu, and a 2027 renovation.
Marienplatz
Marienplatz is Munich's central square, formed at the city's founding around 1158 as its market square, formerly called Schrannenplatz and renamed in 1854 after the Mariensäule, flanked by the New Town Hall and Glockenspiel.
Marseille 13
Marseille 13 is the 13th arrondissement of Marseille (postal code 13013), the city's most populous with 95,112 residents (2023), containing eight priority neighborhoods with 27,339 residents and large 1960s housing estates such as Frais Vallon.
Mokotów
Mokotów (Mokotowo) is Warsaw's most populous left-bank district, incorporated in 1916, with about 220,000 residents, five M1 metro stations, the Służewiec office hub, and parks including Pole Mokotowskie and Królikarnia.
Monte Carlo
Monte-Carlo is Monaco's famous casino district, named in 1866 after Prince Charles III and built by the Société des Bains de Mer around the 1865 Casino de Monte-Carlo; home to the Salle Garnier, the Monaco Grand Prix start, and €54,009/m² property prices.