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Austin, Nevada
Austin, Nevada: historic former silver-mining boomtown in Lander County on Highway 50, the Loneliest Road in America. Founded after Talcott's 1862 silver strike; boomed past 10,000 people, declined by 1887, now a small tourist and recreation town.
Avaldsnes
Avaldsnes, Karmøy, Norway: ancient royal seat on the Norðvegr strait, site of the 3rd-century Flaghaug princely grave, a medieval stone royal manor (discovered 2012), St. Olaf's Church, and a 13th-century royal harbour.
Ba Vì
Ba Vì (huyện Ba Vì), rural district in northwest Hanoi, Vietnam, on the Red and Da rivers; founded 1968, 30 communes plus Tây Đằng township, home of Ba Vi National Park and Kinh, Mường, Dao communities.
Babeldaob SouthWest - Aimeliik State
Aimeliik State, southwest Babeldaob, Palau; hamlets Ngerkeai, Elechui, Medorm, Imul, Ngchemiangel; 363 people (2020), 38.7 km2; only daughter of Milad in oral tradition; entry-stage cultural tourism.
Backa topola
Bačka Topola (Hungarian: Topolya) is a town of almost 12,000 people in northern Serbia's Vojvodina province, known for its multicultural environment and football club FK TSC.
Bad Münstereifel-Houverath
Houverath, a village district of Bad Münstereifel, Germany, since 1969; formerly an independent municipality (1816–1969). First recorded 1190 as Houerode, formerly Obersahr; 744 residents, St. Thomas church, near the Hochthürmen Roman signal station.
Bagram (بگرام)
Bagram (بگرام), also known as Begram, is a town and district in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, about 60 km north of Kabul, known for the ancient city of Kāpiśa and Bagram Airfield.
Bahna
Bahna is a commune in southeastern Neamț County, Romania, in the historical region of Moldavia, made up of eight villages and known for a long archaeological sequence.
Baker Lake, Nunavut
Baker Lake (Qamani'tuaq) is Nunavut's only inland hamlet, at the mouth of the Thelon River in the Kivalliq Region near Canada's geographic centre; population about 2,100, service community for the Meadowbank gold mine.
Bala and Pain village naming in Iran
Bala and Pain village naming in Iran is a convention where Persian words meaning upper and lower distinguish paired villages, as in Lam Beshkest-e Bala and Lam Beshkest-e Pain.
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd is a census-designated place in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on Philadelphia's western edge, named for two Welsh towns by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Balaklava District
Balaklava District (Балаклавский район) is the largest district of Sevastopol, Crimea, 54.4 thousand ha, containing Cape Sarych; first formed 1921, re-formed 1930, absorbed into Sevastopol in 1957, re-established as a city district from 2014.
Ballachulish
Ballachulish (Baile a' Chaolais) is a Lochaber village at the narrows of Loch Leven, Scotland, centred on slate quarries worked 1693–1955; ferry 1733–1975, replaced by the Ballachulish Bridge.
Bamburgh
Bamburgh, Northumberland: coastal village and site of Bamburgh Castle, also known as Bebbanburg, citadel of the Kings of Bernicia, royal fortress 1095-1603, Grade I listed, repeatedly voted the UK's best seaside destination.
Bamfield
Bamfield is a village of about 300 on Vancouver Island's Barkley Sound, in Huu-ay-aht Territory, known for the 1902 All Red Line trans-Pacific cable station, the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, and the West Coast Trail.
Bannack, Montana
Bannack, Montana: ghost town and state park near Dillon, site of Montana's first major gold strike (Grasshopper Creek, July 28, 1862) and first territorial capital, later home of the first successful US gold dredge.
Baqa'a refugee camp
Baqa'a camp (مخيم البقعة), established 1968 near Amman, is Jordan's largest Palestine refugee camp with about 128,586 residents, one of ten official UNRWA camps, formed to receive those displaced from al-Karama camp after the 1967 war.
Barak, Kyrgyzstan
Barak was a Kyrgyz exclave village in Uzbekistan's Andijan region, the only Kyrgyz enclave in Uzbekistan; isolated after a 2013 border closure, it was transferred to Uzbekistan in a 2024 land swap and its residents resettled to Jany-Barak, Osh region.
Bashiqa
Bashiqa (Başîqe) is a mixed Yazidi and Christian town on Iraq's Nineveh Plain, about 25 km east of Mosul, twin to Bahzani, known for olives, its Lebanese-like Arabic dialect, and the 2014 ISIS occupation and 2016 recapture.
Baskin, Louisiana
Baskin, Louisiana: a Lawrason Act village in Franklin Parish, north of Winnsboro, named for pioneer settler Dr. Adolphus McDuffie Baskin; population 143 (ACS 2024), once a milling and timber community, and hometown of singer Lainey Wilson.
Battagram
Battagram (also Batagram) District, Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: a fully rural mountain district of 554,133 people (2023 census) over 1,301 sq km, created in 1993 from Mansehra, hit hard by the 2005 earthquake.
Beaudesert, Queensland
Beaudesert is a rural town in the Scenic Rim region of south-east Queensland, about an hour south-west of Brisbane, with 8,127 people at the 2021 Census.
Belvédère Hotel, Furka Pass
Hotel Belvédère, Furka Pass: Belle Époque mountain hotel built 1882 by Josef Seiler beside the Rhone Glacier, expanded 1904, seen in Goldfinger (1964), closed since 2015 and owned by the Carlen family.
Bembridge
Bembridge is a village on the easternmost tip of the Isle of Wight, England, home to about 3,500 people and known for its beaches and RNLI lifeboat station.
Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Berwyn, Pennsylvania: Main Line census-designated place in Easttown Township, Chester County; formerly Cockletown and Reeseville, renamed 1877 by the Pennsylvania Railroad; 3,775 residents (2020), Tredyffrin-Easttown schools, SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale station.
Bethany (ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ)
Bethany (ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ; Arabic al-Eizariya), village on the Mount of Olives two miles from Jerusalem, home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, site of the raising of Lazarus and the traditional Tomb of Lazarus.
Bethel Heights, Arkansas
Bethel Heights, Arkansas: former city in southern Benton County on Business Highway 71 near Springdale; incorporated 1967, population 3,015 in 2020, annexed by Springdale in 2020 after sewer failures.
Betws-y-Coed
Betws-y-Coed, a Victorian village resort at the eastern gateway to Eryri (Snowdonia) in Conwy, Wales, where the Llugwy and Conwy rivers meet amid Gwydir Forest, known for Swallow Falls, its Conwy Valley railway station, and walking and adventure tourism.
Bhangarh
Bhangarh Fort, a ruined 16th–17th century Kachwaha fort town in Alwar district, Rajasthan, between Jaipur and Alwar; famed as India's most haunted site, with ASI-enforced sunset-to-sunrise entry ban and curse legends.
Bhetia
Bhetia: name of several Indian places, chiefly a village in Gola Gokaran Nath Tehsil, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh (2011 population 4,363), and a suburb of Adityapur, Jharkhand; also spelled Bhitia.