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Bhuna
Bhuna, an Indian place name: a town in Fatehabad district, Haryana (PIN 125111), and Himalayan localities in Haridwar and Chamoli, Uttarakhand, including a 1929 kuth cultivation site.
Bibury
Bibury is a Cotswold village in Gloucestershire on the River Coln, famed for Arlington Row, a Grade I listed 1380 monastic wool store converted to weavers' cottages, and called England's most beautiful village by William Morris.
Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement
Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, also written Bidibidi, is a refugee settlement in Yumbe District, Uganda, established in 2016 to host South Sudanese refugees fleeing civil war, growing to over 280,000 residents.
Bimbia
Bimbia is a coastal locality in Limbe 3 Subdivision, Southwest Region, Cameroon, known as a precolonial trading hub and a port of embarkation in the transatlantic slave trade.
Bir, Himachal Pradesh
Bir, Himachal Pradesh (Bir Billing), a village in Kangra district's Joginder Nagar Valley, India's paragliding capital: Billing takeoff near 2,400 m, Bir landing, 2015 World Cup host, Tibetan settlement with monasteries.
Bishopstone
Bishopstone: name of several English villages meaning 'the bishops' farm', notably two Wiltshire parishes (one with the scheduled Starveall Farm Roman villa), an East Sussex Anglo-Saxon manor, a Herefordshire village with a Roman villa, and a Buckinghamshire hamlet.
Blair Atholl
Blair Atholl (Blàr Athall) is a Perthshire village at the Rivers Tilt and Garry confluence in the Cairngorms National Park, known for Blair Castle, seat of the Dukes of Atholl, its 16th-century watermill, and its 1863 Highland Main Line railway station.
Boca Grande, Florida
Boca Grande, Florida: village on southern Gasparilla Island, a Gulf Coast barrier island, founded as an 1880s-1900s phosphate railroad port at 80-foot-deep Boca Grande Pass, now a tarpon fishing and resort community with the 1890 Port Boca Grande Lighthouse.
Bodie, California
Bodie, California: gold-mining boomtown in Mono County, now Bodie State Historic Park, a National Historic Landmark ghost town preserved in arrested decay; peaked near 10,000 residents in 1879, abandoned after 1942.
Bolshoye Maslennikovo
Bolshoye Maslennikovo (Большое Масленниково) is a village in Tutayevsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, in Chebakovskoye rural settlement; birthplace area of cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, with her grandmother's 19th-century house now a registered heritage monument.
Bolvaşniţa
Bolvaşniţa (Bolvașnița) is a commune in Caraş-Severin, Banat, Romania, with villages Bolvaşniţa and Vârciorova; known for a Roman-era gold mine and mining settlement 5 km upstream of Mehadia's castrum and 19th-century lignite mining.
Bombay Beach, California
Bombay Beach, California: a census-designated place on the east shore of the Salton Sea in Imperial County; 231 residents (2020), a former 1950s resort now known for the Bombay Beach Biennale art festival and wetland restoration.
Bonaduz
Bonaduz (Romansh Panaduz, first recorded 960 as Beneduces) is a Graubünden village in the Rhäzüns lordship, known for the 700-grave early medieval Valbeuna cemetery and a 1860-1990 Romansh-to-German language shift.
Boring, Oregon
Boring, Oregon: unincorporated census-designated place in Clackamas County near Portland, named for settler William H. Boring; population 1,931 (2020); sister community of Dull, Scotland since 2012.
Borlova
Borlova (Borló) is a village in Turnu Ruieni commune, Caraș-Severin, Romania, on the Sebeș tributary of the Timiș; a Roman-era gold-mining site with an 1885 coin hoard and a 2021 population of 1,342.
Borský Peter
Borský Peter (Búrszentpéter), a village part of Borský Mikuláš in Senica District, Slovakia, merged in 1975; known for its 14th-century fortified Gothic church of Sts. Peter and Paul and Red Army burials.
Bourg-St-Pierre
Bourg-St-Pierre (Bourg-Saint-Pierre), Valais commune in Entremont district, Switzerland, at 1,632 m on the Great St Bernard Pass road; medieval transit borough, monastery from 812/820, first recorded 1125, 212 inhabitants in 2000.
Bourton-on-the-Water
Bourton-on-the-Water, the 'Venice of the Cotswolds', is a Gloucestershire village on the River Windrush crossed by five low stone bridges, with Birdland, the Model Village and Motoring Museum, and severe overtourism pressures.
Bouse, Arizona
Bouse, Arizona: a census-designated place in La Paz County (707 people, 2020), founded 1908 as a mining camp and railhead for Swansea, first named Brayton, later a WWII tank training site.
Box
Box, Wiltshire, England: village and civil parish whose major Roman villa, a scheduled monument with 20 mosaic floors and at least 170 by 100 m of structures, was occupied from the second to fourth centuries AD.
Bracquemont
Bracquemont (Cité de Limes, Camp de César): a 50-hectare Gallic oppidum of the Calètes on a 70 m cliff near Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, an éperon barré with a fanum, now eroded by the sea; also a former commune merged into Petit-Caux in 2016.
Braemar
Braemar is a village in upper Deeside, Aberdeenshire, at the Dee-Clunie confluence in Cairngorms National Park, home of the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering since 1832; distinct from Braemar Plc, the LSE-listed shipbroker.
Bramans
Bramans, former commune in Haute-Maurienne, Savoie, France (merged into Val-Cenis 2017), on the Arc river near Italy; known for the Roman road role and the medieval Colombière copper-lead-iron mine with 11th-century timbering.
Bramhall
Bramhall, Cheshire: suburban village in Stockport, Greater Manchester, known for timber-framed Bramall Hall, the Davenport manor sold in 1877, and growth after the 1845 railway; population about 22,000.
Brandon, Florida
Brandon, Florida: unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, a suburb east of Tampa. Named for settler John Brandon (1856); 114,626 residents at the 2020 census, 33.14 square miles.
Brattahlíð
Brattahlíð (Brattahlid) was Erik the Red's farmstead in Greenland's Eastern Settlement, founded AD 982 at present-day Qassiarsuk on the Tunulliarfik fjord, now part of the UNESCO Kujataa World Heritage area with Norse ruins and reconstructions.
Břeclav
Břeclav, or Lundenburg, is a town in the Czech South Moravian Region near the Austrian and Slovak borders. It is famous for its 11th-century castle and historical Jewish community.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
Breezewood, Pennsylvania, the 'Town of Motels' in Bedford County, sits where I-70 meets the Pennsylvania Turnpike via a half-mile U.S. 30 detour with traffic lights, created by 1956 federal toll-road funding rules and now slated for a direct interchange.
Breukelen
Breukelen is a village in Stichtse Vecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, on the Vecht river; predecessor of the early medieval settlement Attingahem and namesake of Brooklyn, New York.
Brezovica, Kosovo
Brezovica (Брезовица) is a village and ski resort in the Šar Mountains, Štrpce municipality, southern Kosovo; the country's most visited winter resort, a former Sarajevo Olympics backup venue now run by the Kosovo Privatization Agency.