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Malingao
Malingao is a rural barangay in Kadayangan, BARMM, on Mindanao. It was formerly under Midsayap, Cotabato, and was transferred to the BARMM Special Geographic Area in 2019.
Manarola
Manarola, a Cinque Terre village and hamlet of Riomaggiore, Liguria, Italy; houses on a rocky spur along the Grappa stream; 13th-century Fieschi records, San Lorenzo church (1338), Via dell'Amore, terraced vineyards.
Manéah
Manéah (also Maneah, Manéa) is a town and sub-prefecture in Coyah Prefecture, Kindia Region, western Guinea, about 36 km from Conakry; population about 194,000 (gazetteer) to 460,000 (grid estimate), tropical climate, GMT+0.
Mangsit
Mangsit is a coastal village, hamlet, and beach in Batu Layar, West Lombok, Indonesia, just north of Senggigi; known for dark volcanic sand, boutique resorts like Qunci Villas, beginner surfing, and the 2022 Ironman 70.3 Lombok race center.
Manhasset, New York
Manhasset, New York: a North Shore Long Island hamlet and CDP in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County; 8,176 residents (2020), town seat since 1907, known for Americana Manhasset shopping and the LIRR Port Washington Branch.
Manitoba Colony, Bolivia
Manitoba Colony (Colonia Manitoba) is an Old Colony Mennonite settlement in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, founded in the early 1990s and named for a Mexican colony; known for the 2005-2009 rapes and 2011 trial behind Women Talking.
Mas Dieu
Mas Dieu is a hamlet and former mine in Laval-Pradel, Gard, Occitanie, France: an ancient lead mine (Barrington Atlas 17 C5) with a 213 m shaft sunk in 1903 and zinc-pyrite workings (Mine de la Calamine) abandoned in 1933.
Massapequa, New York
Massapequa is a hamlet and CDP in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, New York; population 21,355 (2020), settled by Thomas Jones in 1696, known for the Chiefs mascot dispute and the defunct Sunrise Mall.
Masset
Masset is a village municipality on northeast Graham Island, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, incorporated 1961, at Mile Zero of Highway 16 near Old Massett; known for fishing, the former CFS Masset base, and the Dixon Entrance Maritime Museum.
Matuga
Matuga, Kwale County, Kenya: a coastal settlement and sub-county/constituency; 194,252 residents (2019), 1,034 km2, tropical savanna climate; home to KSG Matuga Campus, KALRO research centre, housing and clinker plant projects.
Mauerbach
Mauerbach (Marktgemeinde Mauerbach) is a market town in Lower Austria at Vienna's western edge, known for the Kartause Mauerbach, a Carthusian monastery founded 1314 by Frederick the Fair, dissolved 1782, now the Bundesdenkmalamt's Archäologiezentrum.
Maynooth
Maynooth (Maigh Nuad, from Mag Nuadat) is a university town in north County Kildare, Ireland, near Dublin. FitzGerald castle from the 1170s, St Patrick's College founded 1795, Maynooth University, Census 2022 population 17,259.
McCarthy, Alaska
McCarthy, Alaska: small Wrangell Mountains community founded 1906 by John Barrett as a railroad and vice town serving the Kennecott copper mines; 2020 population 107, reached by the 59-mile gravel McCarthy Road.
McLean, Virginia
McLean, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place in Fairfax County near Washington, D.C., also called Langley for the CIA headquarters there; among the wealthiest U.S. communities, with median household income above $250,000.
Meads
Meads, Kentucky: unincorporated community in Boyd County on U.S. 60 south of Ashland, once Meads Station on the Ashland Coal and Iron Railway and later a C&O Lexington Subdivision coal shipping point.
Měcholupy
Měcholupy, also known by its German name Michelob, is a market town in Louny District, Czech Republic, about 7 km south of Žatec, first recorded in 1295.
Melukote (ಮೇಲುಕೋಟೆ)
Melukote (ಮೇಲುಕೋಟೆ), also Melkote or Thirunarayanapuram, is a temple town on Yadugiri hill in Mandya district, Karnataka, known for the Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple, Ramanujacharya's headquarters, and the Vairamudi festival.
Meonstoke
Meonstoke is a Hampshire village in the Meon valley whose outskirts hold a Roman aisled building with a collapsed facade in the British Museum and a rare hexagonal temple site, excavated since the 1980s by the University of Winchester.
Meriden, West Midlands
Meriden is a village and civil parish in Solihull borough, West Midlands, in the Meriden Gap between Birmingham and Coventry. Known for the medieval cross said to mark the centre of England, the Triumph motorcycle factory and workers' co-operative, and the National Cyclists' Memorial.
Mevagissey
Mevagissey (Cornish fishing port, also called Mevan hag Ysaye) is a village and civil parish on Cornwall's south coast near St Austell, with a Grade II listed double harbour, a 60-vessel fleet landing over £2m of fish yearly, and a pilchard and smuggling history.
Mhallami villages
Mhallami villages, also called Mhalmoye or Mḥallamīye, are the historic settlements of the Arabic-speaking Mhallami people on the Tur Abdin plateau and Midyat plain in Mardin Province, southeast Turkey.
Military dependents' village
Military dependents' village (眷村, juancun): Taiwanese settlements built from the late 1940s for ROC soldiers and mainlander families after the 1949 retreat; 86 villages rebuilt under the 1996 Act, 13 preserved as cultural parks.
Military dependents' villages
Military dependents' villages are state-built, state-managed housing for married service personnel and their families, held on permits rather than owned; Taiwan's juancun (眷村) are the archetypal case.
Mineola, New York
Mineola is an incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, and the county seat. Incorporated 1906; 20,800 residents (2020); named from Algonquin Miniolagamika, "pleasant village."
Mira Loma, California
Mira Loma, California: former census-designated place in Riverside County, once called Wineville (renamed 1930), absorbed into Jurupa Valley on July 1, 2011; 21,930 residents in 2010 and a major Inland Empire warehouse and logistics hub.
Mission Hills, California (disambiguation)
Mission Hills, California disambiguation: covers the Los Angeles San Fernando Valley neighborhood, the San Diego Uptown neighborhood, and the Santa Barbara County census-designated place (2020 population 3,571), plus the Mission Hills Community Services District.
Miwok villages
Miwok villages were the named settlements of the Plains Miwok and Sierra Miwok peoples of California, with over 100 villages recorded by name in early ethnography.
Modoc villages of the Lost River and Tule Lake area
The Modoc villages of the Lost River and Tule Lake area were permanent and seasonal settlements of the Modoc people, near Tule, Lower Klamath, and Clear Lakes and along Lost River.
Mogueric
Mogueric (Moguériec, Mogueriec) is a coastal hamlet with a small port in Sibiril, Finistère, Brittany, once North Finistère's leading lobster port until the mid-1960s; the name also denotes a dam and former mill on the Odet near Briec.
Mokambo
Mokambo is a rural commune in Sakania territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo, on the Zambian border near Mufulira; a customs post town dependent on ZESCO power, with Wasansa stadium, water and road projects.