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Singkawang (山口洋)
Singkawang (山口洋, Hakka San-Khew-Jong) is a coastal city in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, of about 504 km² and over 250,000 people, known for its Hakka-Chinese heritage, the Cap Go Meh tatung festival, and its reputation as a tolerant multicultural city.
Sorsogon City
Sorsogon City: component city and capital of Sorsogon province, Philippines, created 2000 by merging Bacon and Sorsogon municipalities under RA 8806; 64 barangays, 187,670 residents (2024), gateway to Visayas and Mindanao.
South Tangerang
South Tangerang (Kota Tangerang Selatan, Tangsel) is a city in Banten, Indonesia, split from Tangerang Regency by Law 51/2008 on 26 November 2008; about 1.5 million people, 7 districts, private new towns BSD City, Bintaro Jaya, Alam Sutera.
Sukabumi
Sukabumi (Soekaboemi) is a city in West Java, Indonesia, at the foot of Gunung Gede and Pangrango; founded as a Dutch Gemeente on 1 April 1914, 48.33 km², 7 districts, 33 kelurahan.
Sungai Buloh
Sungai Buloh is a town and mukim in Petaling district, Selangor, Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur. Known for the 1930 leprosy settlement (Valley of Hope), Hospital Sungai Buloh, KTM/MRT interchange, and industrial property market.
Sungai Petani
Sungai Petani (SP) is an industrial city in Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia, the state's second largest city. Municipal population 545,053 (2020); grew from rubber plantations to industry via KSDC and Penang spillover.
Surabaya
Surabaya (Kota Pahlawan), capital of East Java, Indonesia; major port city and core of Gerbangkertosusila metro; 2025 GRDP IDR 830.54 trillion, 5.87% growth, HDI 85.65.
Surakarta (city)
Surakarta (Solo, Surakarta Hadiningrat), city in Central Java, Indonesia; seat of the Kasunanan royal court founded 1746 after the move from Kartasura; divided from Yogyakarta by the 1755 Giyanti Treaty; population about 529,000.
Tacloban
Tacloban (Siyudad han Tacloban), a highly urbanized city in Leyte, Philippines, is the regional center of Eastern Visayas. Chartered in 1952, hit by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, population 259,353 (2024).
Tagaytay
Tagaytay is a component city in Cavite, Philippines, chartered in 1938, about 56 km south of Manila on a 600-meter ridge overlooking Taal Volcano; a cool-climate weekend tourist destination facing water, traffic, and volcanic-hazard pressures.
Taguig
Taguig (Lungsod ng Taguig) is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines, population 1,308,085 (2024), with 38 barangays including the ten EMBO villages won from Makati in a Supreme Court boundary ruling, and home to Bonifacio Global City.
Taiping, Perak
Taiping, Perak (formerly Klian Pauh), a heritage tin-mining town in Larut, Matang and Selama District, Malaysia. Founded after the 1874 Pangkor Treaty, capital of Perak 1880s–1937, site of the country's first railway and first x-ray hospital.
Tangerang
Tangerang (Kota Tangerang) is a city in Banten Province, Indonesia, west of Jakarta in Jabodetabek. Largest city in Banten, about 1.96 million people, 178.35 km2, 13 districts, home to Soekarno-Hatta airport and over 1,000 factories; distinct from Tangerang Regency and South Tangerang.
Tanjung Pinang
Tanjung Pinang (Tanjungpinang), capital of Indonesia's Kepulauan Riau province on Bintan Island; former Dutch Residente Riouw seat and first Riau capital until 1959; about 237,000 people; gateway to heritage Penyengat Island.
Tanjungbalai
Tanjungbalai (Tanjung Balai) is a city in North Sumatra, Indonesia, at the mouth of the Asahan River, tied to the Asahan Sultanate founded in 1620, a Dutch gemeente from 1917, now 6 kecamatan, 31 kelurahan, 60.52 km².
Tarakan
Tarakan (Kota Tarakan) is the largest city and only municipality of North Kalimantan, Indonesia, on an island off northeastern Kalimantan; a former Dutch oil town seized by Japan in 1942, now the province's economic gateway.
Tarlac City
Tarlac City (City of Tarlac) is the 1st-class component city and capital of Tarlac province, Central Luzon, Philippines; 401,892 residents (2024), 76 barangays, founded as a town in 1788, cityhood under RA 5907 and RA 8593, at the SCTEX-TPLEX-CLLEX junction.
Tasikmalaya
Tasikmalaya (Kota Tasikmalaya), the Pearl of the Eastern Priangan, is a landlocked municipality in southeastern West Java, Indonesia, formed 17 October 2001 from Tasikmalaya Regency; 10 districts, 69 kelurahan, about 759,000 people, craft-economy center known for batik and embroidery.
Tawau
Tawau is a district and town on Sabah's southeast coast, Malaysia, near the Kalimantan border; third largest Sabah urban center, 372,615 people (2020 census), 416,400 (2025 est.), agriculture, port, and Semporna island tourism gateway.
Taytay, Rizal
Taytay is a densely populated municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, conurbated with Metro Manila's eastern edge and known as the "Woodworks and Garments Capital of the Philippines", with 386,451 residents in 2020.
Tegal
Tegal (Kota Tegal) is a coastal city in western Central Java, Indonesia, on the Pantura corridor; founded by Ki Gede Sebayu (1580), a former VOC port and sugar-export center, now a metalworking hub prone to tidal flooding.
Ternate, North Maluku
Ternate (Kota Ternate) is an island city in North Maluku, Indonesia, on volcanic Ternate Island under Mount Gamalama. Former de facto provincial capital 1999–2010, seat of the 1257 Sultanate of Ternate, population about 218,853 in 2026.
Toledo, Central Visayas
Toledo (Lungsod ng Toledo) is a coastal component city in Cebu, Central Visayas, Philippines; chartered 1960, formerly Hinulawan/Jinulauan, known as the Copper City for the Atlas/Carmen Copper mine and the ferry link to San Carlos, Negros.
Toli-Toli
Toli-Toli (Tolitoli) is a regency and town in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, capital Baolan, 4,079.77 km2, 226,794 people (2021). Former Kingdom of Tolitoli; names Totolu, Tontoli (1858), Tolitoli (1918); split from Buol in 2000; agriculture about 41% of the economy.
Tuban
Tuban is a town and port on the north coast of East Java, Indonesia, about 90 km west of Surabaya, and was a main harbor of the Majapahit empire.
Tuguegarao
Tuguegarao, capital of Cagayan province and regional center of Cagayan Valley, Philippines; founded as a pueblo in 1604, capital since 1839, population 153,502 in 2015, hot climate, flood-prone Cagayan River Basin city.
Ubud
Ubud, a town in Gianyar Regency, central Bali, is Indonesia's cultural tourism hub, also called Bali's art center. Known for Tegallalang rice terraces and a tourism model dating to the 1930s, it now faces overtourism: about 2 million annual visitors, 350 ha of rice-field conversion, and 90 tons of plastic waste daily.
Valenzuela, Metro Manila
Valenzuela (formerly Polo) is a highly urbanized city in northern Metro Manila, Philippines: 47.02 sq km, 33 barangays, 714,978 residents, named after Katipunan physician Dr. Pio Valenzuela, cityhood 1998.
Vigan
Vigan, a city in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, at the Abra River delta; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 (criteria ii, iv), the best-preserved planned Spanish colonial town in Asia, with its Mestizo district of 233 historic buildings.
Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta (Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat) is the capital of Indonesia's Special Region of Yogyakarta, founded 1755 after the Treaty of Giyanti split Mataram; seat of Sultan Hamengku Buwono, 32.5 km2, 14 districts, major student city.