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6th of October (city)
6th of October City (مدينة السادس من أكتوبر) is an industrial satellite city in Giza Governorate, Egypt, established by presidential decree in 1979 about 32 km from central Cairo.
Agadir (أكادير)
Agadir (أكادير, ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a Moroccan Atlantic coastal city of about 505,000 people, capital of Souss-Massa, rebuilt as a modernist planned city after the 29 February 1960 earthquake that killed a third of its 35,000 residents.
Ait Melloul
Ait Melloul (Aït Melloul, أيت ملول) is a city in the Inezgane-Aït Melloul prefecture, Souss-Massa, Morocco, part of Greater Agadir, known for its large industrial zone (355 ha) that packs 90% of Morocco's Souss-Massa fruit and vegetable exports.
Al Hoceïma
Al Hoceïma (الحسيمة, Alhucemas, formerly Villa Sanjurjo) is a Mediterranean port city in Morocco's central Rif, capital of Al Hoceïma province, renamed in 1956, with a national park, Dutch-Belgian diaspora, and seismic risk.
Al Khums
Al Khums (الخمس, "the fifth") is a coastal city in northwestern Libya, seat of Al Marqab district, port and market center near the Leptis Magna Roman ruins, population about 202,000 (2026).
Al Khuşūş
Al Khuşūş (الخصوص, Al Khusus) is a city in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, north of Cairo. A fast-growing Greater Cairo peri-urban settlement in the Al Khanka district, it grew 6.96% yearly from 1996 to 2006 and reached an estimated 524,886 people in 2026.
Al Maḩallah al Kubrá
Al Maḩallah al Kubrá, also spelled El Mahalla El Kubra or Mahalla, is a major industrial city in Egypt's Nile Delta, the center of the country's cotton-textile industry.
Al Mansurah, Dakahlia
Al Mansurah (المنصورة), meaning "the victorious," is a city in Lower Egypt and the capital of Dakahlia Governorate, founded by Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil in 1221.
Al Maţarīyah
Al Maţarīyah (المطرية) is a city of 162,045 in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, capital of its markaz on Lake Manzala; distinct from the larger Cairo district El Matareya on the site of ancient Heliopolis.
Alexandria (الإسكندرية)
Alexandria (الإسكندرية) is a Mediterranean port city in northern Egypt at the Nile Delta's northwest corner, founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Algiers (الجزائر)
Algiers (الجزائر, al-Jazā'ir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, a Mediterranean port city of about 3 million. Known for its UNESCO-listed Kasbah (1992), Ottoman Regency history (1516–1830), French rule (1830–1962), and the country's largest port and airport.
Annaba (city)
Annaba (عنابة), ancient Hippo Regius and colonial Bône, is a Mediterranean port city in northeastern Algeria at the Seybouse river mouth, Saint Augustine's episcopal see 391–430, known for its Roman ruins, basilica, port, and tram project.
Az Zāwīyah, Az Zawiyah
Az Zāwiyah (الزاوية), coastal city in northwestern Libya about 47 km west of Tripoli; population around 350,000; hosts Libya's largest operating oil refinery (120,000 bpd) and the University of Zawiya.
Az-Zuhūr
Az-Zuhūr (الزهور) names several Arabic places, chiefly a 266,381-person city in Port Said, Egypt; also neighborhoods in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Iraq.
Bahri
Bahri (Khartoum North, الخرطوم بحري) is the industrial third of Sudan's Triangular Capital on the north bank of the Blue Nile, founded around 1898 railway sheds, Sudan's largest industrial center, recaptured by the army in early 2025.
Banhā
Banhā, also spelled Benha (Arabic: بنها), is a city on the Damietta Branch of the Nile 48 km north of Cairo, capital of Qalyubia Governorate and site of ancient Athribis.
Batna (city)
Batna (باتنة), capital of Batna Province in northeastern Algeria, founded 1844 as a French military camp controlling the Sahara road; briefly Nouvelle Lambèse, renamed Batna 1849; 289,504 residents (2008), sixth largest Algerian city.
Béjaïa
Béjaïa (Bougie), Algerian Mediterranean port city and wilaya capital 230 km east of Algiers; founded as Roman Saldae, medieval Hammadid capital, Fibonacci's city, now a major port with oil pipeline terminal and refinery.
Benghazi (بنغازي)
Benghazi (بنغازي), Libya's second-largest city and principal city of Cyrenaica, founded as Greek Euesperides in the sixth century BC, later Berenice; joint capital 1951, 2011 uprising origin, now eastern Libya's de facto capital.
Beni Mellal (city)
Beni Mellal (بني ملال), Morocco, capital of Béni Mellal province and the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region between the Middle Atlas and Tadla plain; founded 1668, about 222,600 residents, known for Aïn Asserdoun gardens and kasbah.
Bilbeis
Bilbeis (بلبيس, Belbeis) is a city in Sharqia governorate, Egypt, on the eastern Delta edge. Medieval capital of the Eastern Province, besieged by Crusaders in 1163–64 and 1168, home to a documented medieval Jewish community and the Sadat Quraysh mosque.
Biskra
Biskra (بسكرة), ancient Vescera or Ad Piscinam, is an oasis city in southeastern Algeria at the Aurès foot, gateway to the Sahara, capital of the Ziban, with about 262,000 people and a major date palm industry.
Blida
Blida (البليدة), Algeria's City of Roses, founded 1535 by Sidi Ahmed El Kebir with Andalusian refugees on the Mitidja plain southwest of Algiers; leading citrus wilaya, seismic zone III, about 554,000 residents in 2026.
Bordj Bou Arreridj
Bordj Bou Arreridj (برج بوعريريج) is a city and wilaya capital on Algeria's eastern high plateaus, named for an Ottoman fort, besieged in the 1871 Mokrani revolt, and now known as Algeria's electronics capital with Condor.
Cairo (القاهرة)
Cairo (القاهرة), Egypt's capital and largest Arab world city, founded 969 AD by Jawhar al-Siqilli as Fatimid capital; fourth Islamic Egyptian capital after Fustat, Al-Askar, Al-Qata'i; Historic Cairo is a 1979 UNESCO site; over 19 million in Greater Cairo.
Casablanca (الدار البيضاء)
Casablanca (Dār al-Bayḍā', "the white house") is Morocco's largest city and economic capital on the Atlantic coast: 4.2 million inhabitants, about a third of national GDP via Casablanca-Settat, founded as Anfa, rebuilt 1770, French protectorate port hub.
Chefchaouen (شفشاون)
Chefchaouen (شفشاون), the Blue City of Morocco's Rif Mountains, founded 1471 by Moulay Ali Ben Rachid; 46,168 residents (2024). Famous for blue-washed medina walls whose origin is debated: Jewish, thermal, and tourism theories, none definitive.
Chlef
Chlef (الشلف), Algeria, formerly Castellum Tingitanum, Orléansville, and El Asnam, is the capital of Chlef Province, 200 km from Algiers, rebuilt after the 1954 and 1980 earthquakes.
Constantine, Algeria
Constantine (قسنطينة), Algeria, ancient Cirta, capital of Numidia, rebuilt by Emperor Constantine; a plateau city over the Rhummel gorge, the 'City of Bridges', national heritage site since 2004.
Damanhur
Damanhur (دمنهور, Damanhour), capital of Beheira Governorate in Egypt's western Nile Delta; ancient 'City of Horus', Greco-Roman Hermopolis Parva; railway junction on the Cairo–Alexandria line and Delta market center.