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Argenteuil
Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise sous-préfecture on the Seine northwest of Paris; INSEE code 95018. 106,130 inhabitants (2023), former wine town and abbey, Monet's residence 1872–1878, major industrial suburb by 1930, Métropole du Grand Paris member.
Argos
Argos (Άργος) is an ancient city in Argolis, northeastern Peloponnese, one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited cities, with Neolithic Aspis settlement, an 83-row rock-cut theatre, Roman baths, and the Larissa castle.
Argos, Peloponnese
Argos (Άργος), city in Argolis, northeastern Peloponnese, seat of the Argos–Mycenae municipality; 12 km from Nafplio, 128 km from Athens. Continuously inhabited about 6,000 years; Pheidon's coins, 83-row rock-cut theater, Roman baths.
Argostoli
Argostoli (Αργοστόλι) is the capital and largest town of Kefalonia, Greece, holding about a third of the island's population. Rebuilt after the 1953 magnitude 7.2 earthquake, it is known for the De Bosset stone bridge, Lithostroto street, and harbor loggerhead turtles.
Arica
Arica is a Pacific port city in northernmost Chile, capital of the Arica y Parinacota Region near Peru and Bolivia. Founded in the 1540s, it was a colonial silver outlet for Potosí, became Chilean by the 1929 Treaty of Lima, and guards the world's oldest artificial mummies of the Chinchorro culture.
Arifwala
Arifwala (عارف والہ), also Arif Wala, is a city and tehsil headquarters in Pakpattan District, Punjab, Pakistan; founded 1908 as Chak No. 61/EB, population 157,063 (2023 census), an agricultural grain-market town.
Arkhangelsk (Архангельск)
Arkhangelsk (Архангельск), also Archangel, is a Russian city and seaport on the Northern Dvina River 27 km from the White Sea. Founded 1584 as New Kholmogory, it was Russia's only port in the 16th-17th centuries and remains a major Arctic port.
Arles
Arles, a Rhône-side commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence, France; largest commune of metropolitan France at about 759 km², with Roman and Romanesque monuments inscribed by UNESCO in 1981 and 51,811 inhabitants in 2023.
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Arlington Heights, Illinois: a Cook County village of about 77,000 northwest of Chicago, incorporated 1887, formerly Dunton; known for its Metra-linked downtown, large park district, and the 326-acre former Arlington Park site bought by the Chicago Bears.
Arlington, Texas
Arlington, Texas, a city of about 400,000 in Tarrant County midway between Dallas and Fort Worth; founded 1876, incorporated 1884, home of AT&T Stadium, the Texas Rangers, Six Flags Over Texas, and UT Arlington.
Arlit
Arlit is a mining town in the Agadez Region of northern Niger, on the southern edge of the Sahara, built around one of Africa's principal uranium mining districts since 1969.
Armagh
Armagh (Ard Mhacha) is Northern Ireland's ecclesiastical capital, a small cathedral city where St Patrick founded his church in 445; it has twin St Patrick's cathedrals, Georgian heritage, and about 15,000 residents.
Armavir, Krasnodar Krai
Armavir (Армавир), city in southeastern Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the Kuban River near the Urup mouth, 202 km from Krasnodar. Founded 1839 by Cherkesogai Armenians, city status 1914; railway engineering and food industry center, population about 204,000.
Armenia, Quindío Department
Armenia is a Colombian city and capital of the Quindío Department, founded on October 14, 1889. It is a central economic hub for the coffee axis.
Arnhem
Arnhem (Gelderland capital, eastern Netherlands, on the Rhine near Germany) is a city of about 172,000, known for the 1944 Battle of Arnhem and John Frost Bridge, postwar reconstruction, Burgers' Zoo, Sonsbeek park, and its government and energy-focused economy.
Arrah, Bihar
Arrah (Ara, आरा), Bihar, headquarters of Bhojpur district, formerly of Shahabad; known for the 1857 Siege of Arrah and Kunwar Singh; 120.10 km NH-119A corridor approved 2025.
Arras
Arras, prefecture of Pas-de-Calais in Hauts-de-France, France; formerly Nemetacum and a Spanish Netherlands stronghold until 1640. Known for its UNESCO belfry and Vauban citadel, baroque Grand'Place, and the 1917 Battle of Arras.
Arrigas
Arrigas, a commune in the Gard department, Occitanie, France, in the Cévennes near Le Vigan; 219 inhabitants (2023). Known for the former copper-zinc mine at le Teulas, worked from Gallo-Roman times and industrially from 1896 to 1907.
Arromanches-les-Bains
Arromanches-les-Bains, a Calvados commune on Gold Beach, Normandy, site of the Mulberry B artificial harbour that landed 2.5 million troops after D-Day; home of the Musée du Débarquement and visible harbour remains.
Arrowtown
Arrowtown (Kā Muriwai) is a historic 1862 gold-rush town on the Arrow River, Otago, New Zealand, 20 km from Queenstown, known for Buckingham Street heritage buildings, the restored Chinese miners' settlement, and the Lakes District Museum.
Arsinoe/Taucheira
Arsinoe/Taucheira (Teuchira, modern Tocra, Libya), a Greek port of the Cyrenaican Pentapolis, renamed Arsinoe under the Ptolemies, a Roman colony, Byzantine stronghold until 645.
Artux
Artux (阿图什市, Artush, Atushi) is a county-level city in Xinjiang and seat of Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture; an arid oasis known as the home of figs and Munage grapes.
Arusha
Arusha is a city in northeastern Tanzania on the slopes of Mount Meru, the country's third-largest city, a safari and tanzanite trade hub, township 1948, municipality 1980, city 2012.
Arvada
Arvada is a Colorado city of about 123,000 northwest of Denver, founded in 1870 and named by Mary Ann Wadsworth after Hiram Arvada Haskins; site of Colorado's first gold discovery (1850) and once the 'celery capital of the world.'
Arzamas-16
Arzamas-16, now Sarov in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, was the closed Soviet city where the first Soviet atomic bomb and early hydrogen bombs were developed, beginning in 1946.
Asaba
Asaba is an Igbo town on the west bank of the Niger River, opposite Onitsha in Delta State, Nigeria, briefly capital of the Royal Niger Company in the mid-1880s.
Asahikawa
Asahikawa (旭川市) is Hokkaido's second-largest city, in the Kamikawa basin of central Hokkaido. Known for Asahiyama Zoo, Asahikawa Furniture, record cold of −41 °C, and as a gateway to Daisetsuzan.
Asansol (আসনসোল)
Asansol (আসনসোল) is an industrial city in West Bengal, India, and headquarters of Paschim Bardhaman district, built on coal mining, steel, and railways in the Raniganj coalfield region.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Asbury Park is a Jersey Shore city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, founded in 1871 by James A. Bradley, named for Bishop Francis Asbury, known for early infrastructure firsts, its segregated resort era, and its boardwalk and music revival.
Ash Sharqāt
Ash Sharqāt (الشرقاط), also Al-Shirqat, is a town in Salah al-Din Governorate, Iraq, on the Tigris, beside the ruins of ancient Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat), first Assyrian capital and UNESCO World Heritage in Danger site.