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Mollis
Mollis, village in canton Glarus, Switzerland, near the Walensee. Archaeology: Gallo-Roman temple at Hüttenböschen (excavated 1962/1964) and pre-13th-century building at the Salzwaage (2023/2025 digs).
Monowi, Nebraska
Monowi, Nebraska, a village in Boyd County, is the only incorporated place in the US with a population of one: Elsie Eiler, its mayor, clerk, treasurer, librarian, and tavern owner, founded 1902.
Monsey, New York
Monsey is an unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, near Spring Valley and Suffern. Population 26,954 (2020), density 11,760 per square mile, majority Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish, served by East Ramapo schools and Route 59.
Montauk, New York
Montauk is a hamlet in East Hampton town at Long Island's easternmost tip, about 126 miles from New York City. Known for its 1796 lighthouse, top NY fishing port, Ditch Plains surfing, and $184 million coastal protection project.
Montecito, California
Montecito is an unincorporated census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific. Known for extreme wealth (median household income $231,005, home values at or above $2 million) and the deadly January 9, 2018 post-wildfire debris flow that killed 23 people.
Montong
Montong (Kecamatan Montong) is a district in Tuban Regency, East Java, Indonesia, elevation 244 m, Wikidata Q12202861; distinct from Montong Ajan (Central Lombok), Montong Gading (East Lombok), and other same-named Indonesian localities.
Mooseland
Mooseland: a small rural village on the Eastern Shore of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, 68 km northeast of Halifax; also the English name of the Älgriket moose park near Tingsryd, Sweden, and a German peat-moss project (MOOSland).
Moraviţa
Moraviţa (Temesmóra, Moravicza) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania, near the Serbian border on the Moravița River, with villages Moravița, Stamora Germană, Dejan, and Gaiu Mic, first recorded as Moraviskos in 1018.
Mount Kisco, New York
Mount Kisco is a coterminous village and town in northern Westchester County, New York, incorporated as a village in 1875 and independent since 1978. Population about 10,959 (2020); Metro-North Harlem Line station; commercial hub of northern Westchester.
Mozambique gas projects and resettlement
Resettlement for Mozambique's LNG projects on the Afungi peninsula in Cabo Delgado displaced more than 1,500 households, moving Quitupo and Senga villagers to the purpose-built village of Quitunda.
Mullaghmore, County Sligo
Mullaghmore, County Sligo: small seaside village on a Donegal Bay peninsula, home to Classiebawn Castle, a Palmerston-era stone harbour, and the expert-only big-wave reef at Mullaghmore Head.
Mürren
Mürren, also called Muerren, is a car-free Swiss mountain village at 1,650 m in the Bernese Oberland, municipality of Lauterbrunnen, at the foot of the Schilthorn; birthplace of alpine slalom racing and site of the 1931 first world ski championships.
Murton, County Durham
Murton is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, between Seaham and Hetton-le-Hole, transformed by Murton Colliery, sunk from 1838 and closed in 1991.
Mwene
Mwene (Мвене) is a populated place in Sandoa territory, Lualaba Province, DR Congo, at 9°49′S 22°52′E, elevation about 908 m, GeoNames population 295,683, roughly 1,033 km southeast of Kinshasa near the Angolan border.
Mystic, Connecticut
Mystic, Connecticut: a coastal village and census-designated place (pop. 4,348, 2020) split between Groton and Stonington, not a municipality. Historic shipbuilding port, home of Mystic Seaport Museum and Mystic Aquarium.
Nabi Musa (النبي موسى)
Nabi Musa (النبي موسى, Prophet Moses) is a Muslim shrine and pilgrimage site near Jericho in the West Bank, monumentalized by Sultan Baybars in 1269.
Nafplio (Ναύπλιο)
Nafplio (Ναύπλιο), also Nauplion or Anapli, is a seaport in the eastern Peloponnese and capital of Argolis; first capital of modern Greece 1827–1834, with the Palamidi, Acronafplia, and Bourtzi fortresses.
Nagar Naluākot
Nagar Naluākot (নগর নলুয়াকোট), also Nogor Noluakot or Sutoria, is a locality in Patuli, Belabo Upazila, Narsingdi District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh; population about 273,000, elevation 19 m, postal code 1652. Not the Nepali Nuwakot.
Nāgarpur
Nāgarpur (নাগরপুর) is an upazila of Tangail District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh: 266.77 sq km, 319,296 people (2022 census), 12 unions, declared a thana in 1906 and an upazila in 1983.
Naina Devi
Naina Devi (नैना देवी) is a Shakti Peetha goddess temple, chiefly the hilltop shrine in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, where Sati's eyes are believed to have fallen; a namesake temple stands at Nainital, Uttarakhand.
Namche Bazaar
Namche Bazaar (Nauje), a Sherpa trading town at 3,440 m in Khumbu, Nepal, gateway to Everest and Sagarmatha National Park; historic Tibet trade hub, Saturday market, acclimatization stop, seat of Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality.
Neatsville, Kentucky
Neatsville, Kentucky: unincorporated Adair County community on the Green River, 14 miles northeast of Columbia, at KY 206/KY 76; incorporated 1847, destroyed by an early-1900s Green River flood.
Nedakonice
Nedakonice, a village in Uherské Hradiště District, Zlín Region, Czech Republic, on the Morava river; first mentioned 1220 as Velehrad monastery property, site of the 1420–21 Hussite Nový Tábor camp.
Neftenbach
Neftenbach: municipality in Bezirk Winterthur, canton Zürich, Switzerland (first recorded 1209; 5,726 inhabitants in 2020), site of the large Roman villa rustica at Steinmöri with a 1,243-coin hoard found in 1986.
Negev Bedouin
The Negev Bedouin, also called Israeli-Bedouin, are Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel indigenous to the Negev desert, about 300,000 people, many in unrecognized villages without water or electricity.
Nehvizdy
Nehvizdy is a market town in the Czech Republic east of Prague, recorded in the Barrington Atlas as an ancient cemetery or necropolis site, first mentioned in writing in 1352 and raised to a town in 1515.
Nekmaria
Nekmaria (نكمارية) is a village and commune in Achaacha daira, Mostaganem Province, Algeria, and the site of a Roman settlement on the Djebel Kerkour plateau recorded by Gsell; known for the 1845 Pélissier enfumade of the Ouled Ryah.
Netheravon
Netheravon, a village and parish in the Avon valley on eastern Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England; Domesday estate, Roman villa, Beaufort sporting estate, and military airfield and parachute centre.
Neuvy-sur-Barangeon
Neuvy-sur-Barangeon, a commune of about 1,305 inhabitants in the Cher department of Sologne, France, known for the Gallo-Roman site of La Villatte, the rejected Noviodunum identification, and forged inscribed bricks.
New Harmony, Indiana
New Harmony, Indiana: small Wabash River town (population 690) in Posey County, site of the Harmonist commune under George Rapp (1814-1825) and Robert Owen's secular Owenite experiment (1825-1827), now a National Historic Landmark District.