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Altadena, California
Altadena, California: unincorporated Los Angeles County community of about 42,846 north of Pasadena, founded 1887, known for Black homeownership and devastated by the January 2025 Eaton Fire.
Altaussee
Altaussee, Styrian Salzkammergut municipality in Bezirk Liezen on the Altausseer See; salt mining documented from 1147, brine pipeline from 1211, summer resort since Zedlitz's 1847 Seehaus; 92 km², about 1,850 residents.
Altimir
Altimir (Алтимир) is a village in Byala Slatina municipality, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria, on the Skut river, with a Neolithic settlement at Bresta, a Bronze Age barrow necropolis, and a Roman fort; not the Catalan surname or the French Altimir case.
Alun
Alun: name of two villages in Hunedoara County, Romania, one with a Roman iron mine and marble quarry in the Poiana Ruscă Mountains, the other at the Dacian fortress of Piatra Roșie; also a Pembrokeshire river and a Welsh lead mine.
Alverdiscott
Alverdiscott (Alscott) is a village and civil parish in Torridge, Devon, England, between Barnstaple, Bideford, and Torrington. It has a 15th-century All Saints church with a Norman font, a Roman temporary camp at Higher Kingdon, and registers from 1602.
Amana Colonies
The Amana Colonies are seven villages in east-central Iowa founded from 1855 by the Community of True Inspiration, a German Pietist group that lived communally there until 1932.
Amboy, California
Amboy, California: a near-ghost town on former Route 66 (National Trails Highway) in the Mojave Desert, founded as an 1858 mining camp and 1883 railroad station, best known for Roy's Motel & Café and nearby Amboy Crater.
Ambrault
Ambrault is a commune in the Indre department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of central France, southwest of Issoudun, known for its oolitic limestone quarries at the hamlet of Boisramier.
Amityville, New York
Amityville is an incorporated village on Long Island's South Shore in Suffolk County, New York, in the Town of Babylon. Incorporated March 3, 1894, named in 1846 after Samuel Ireland's boat Amity; population 9,500 (2020).
Amnatos
Amnatos (Αμνάτος) is a village and local community in the municipality of Rethymno on Crete, built on a hilltop overlooking the Cretan Sea about 14 km east of Rethymno.
Anchor Point
Anchor Point (K'kaq') is an unincorporated community on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula near Homer, known for sport fishing and as the westernmost point reachable by road.
Angel Makers of Nagyrév
Angel Makers of Nagyrév: Hungarian women of Nagyrév, Tiszazug, who poisoned relatives with flypaper arsenic supplied by midwife Zsuzsanna Fazekas, 1911–1929; 162 murders proven at trial.
Anglares
Anglares, a medieval villar (dependent hamlet) named in charters of the eastern Pyrenees and Languedoc; first attested in 899 as a villar of villa Tezano in the county of Rosselló, and also recorded in a Gellone abbey charter.
Antelope, Oregon
Antelope, Oregon: tiny incorporated city in Wasco County (population 37, elevation 2,654 ft), founded as a stage stop, renamed Rajneesh during the 1980s Rajneeshpuram takeover, now pursuing dark-sky tourism.
Apethorpe
Apethorpe is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England, recorded as Patorp in Domesday Book. It is known for Apethorpe Palace (formerly Apethorpe Hall), a Grade I Jacobean country house with thirteen royal visits 1566-1636, and a Roman courtyard villa excavated in 1859.
Arakawa Mura
Arakawa Mura (荒川村) was a village in Chichibu District, Saitama Prefecture, formed in 1943 from Nakagawa and Shirakawa villages; it merged into Chichibu City in April 2005 and is distinct from Tokyo's Arakawa Ward.
Arbedo
Arbedo, with Castione part of Arbedo-Castione municipality in Ticino, Switzerland, is known for Iron Age Lepontic necropoleis, a circa 450 BC bronze founder's hoard of about 4,000 objects, and the 1422 Battle of Arbedo.
Arctic Bay
Arctic Bay (Ikpiarjuk, "the pocket") is a hamlet of about 1,000 on northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada's third most northerly community, founded around a 1926 Hudson's Bay post and tied to the closed Nanisivik mine.
Armonk, New York
Armonk, New York: a hamlet and census-designated place in North Castle, Westchester County, ZIP 10504, home to IBM's world headquarters (moved from NYC in 1964) and Swiss Re's US headquarters.
Arslanbob (Арстанбап)
Arslanbob (Арстанбап) is an Uzbek mountain village in Jalal-Abad Region, southern Kyrgyzstan, home to the world's largest natural-growth walnut forest, waterfalls, and a CBT homestay network active since 2001.
Artsvashen (Արծվաշեն)
Artsvashen (Armenian: Արծվաշեն; Azerbaijani: Başkənd) is a 38.1 km² Armenian exclave inside Azerbaijan's Gadabay District, captured by Azerbaijan in August 1992; distinct from Azerbaijani enclaves in Armenia.
Arugam Bay
Arugam Bay is a bay on Sri Lanka's dry-zone southeast coast, 320 km east of Colombo, near Pottuvil. Known for its right-hand point break and June–August surf season, it combines fishing and tourism livelihoods near Kumana National Park.
Ashburn, Virginia
Ashburn, Virginia: Loudoun County CDP (46,349 in 2020), formerly Farmwell, and the core of Data Center Alley, the world's densest data center cluster with ~233 buildings, $1.2B in county tax revenue, and contested 70% internet-traffic claims.
Ashuganj City
Ashuganj (আশুগঞ্জ) is a river-port town in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh, on the Meghna River, founded 1898; a power-generation and fertilizer hub with major paddy-rice trade and the Ashuganj-Akhaura four-lane corridor.
Athies
Athies, a village in the Somme department of northern France between Amiens and Saint-Quentin, known for a large Gallo-Roman villa at Bois Saint-Jean and a 6th-century Merovingian royal villa linked to Queen Radegonde.
Attari
Attari is a border village in Amritsar district, Punjab, India, opposite Wagah, Pakistan. Site of India's first Land Port and Integrated Check Post (2012), the only land trade route between India and Pakistan, closed since May 2025.
Attawapiskat First Nation
Attawapiskat First Nation (band 143) is a Mushkegowuk Cree nation on western James Bay, Ontario, signatory to Treaty 9 in 1930, known for its 2011 housing crisis, 2016 suicide emergency, the De Beers Victor Mine agreement, and a $200 million diesel-contamination lawsuit.
Aumagne
Aumagne, a commune of 722 inhabitants in Charente-Maritime, France (Vals de Saintonge), named after the Alamans, with a Roman castrum, a Neolithic polissoir, and an art nouveau winter garden.
Auroville
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental international township in Tamil Nadu/Puducherry, India, founded 28 February 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, the Mother; governed by the Auroville Foundation Act 1988 with about 3,300 residents against a planned 50,000.
Aussières
Aussières, a lieu-dit of Narbonne (Aude, Occitanie), is the Domaine/Château d'Aussières, a 559-hectare Corbières wine estate in the Fontfroide massif owned by Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) since 1999, organic since 2022.