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Le Mesge
Le Mesge is a commune in the Somme, Hauts-de-France, France (INSEE 80535, pop. 180), known for one of the largest Gallo-Roman villas found by Roger Agache's aerial survey and a royal villa donated by Childebert III to Amiens cathedral.
Le Pouzin
Le Pouzin, Ardèche commune on the right bank of the Rhône at the Ouvèze confluence, known for its 2nd-century Roman bridge, the Cluniac priory of Rompon, and the 1960-1961 CNR road bridge over the Rhône.
Le Ronssoy
Le Ronssoy is a rural commune in the Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France (INSEE 80679), near the Hindenburg Line; 577 inhabitants (2023), 751 ha, taken by British III Corps on 18 September 1918.
Leadville, Colorado
Leadville, Colorado, is the county seat and highest incorporated city in North America, founded in 1877 during a silver boom; mining continues there nearly to the present day.
League City
League City, Texas: largest city in Galveston County on Clear Creek near Clear Lake and Johnson Space Center; 114,392 residents in 2020, city 2026 estimate 125,884; founded 1890s by J.C. League.
Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa (formerly Leamington Priors) is a spa town in Warwickshire, England, on the River Leam. Its mineral springs, Royal Pump Rooms of 1814, and 1838 'Royal' title from Queen Victoria distinguish it.
Leavenworth, Washington
Leavenworth, Washington, a Cascade Mountain city of about 2,000, is a former logging and Great Northern Railway town rebuilt in Bavarian style from 1965 as a private tourism strategy, drawing over a million annual visitors.
Lecce
Lecce (Lupiae in Roman times) is the Baroque capital of the Salento peninsula in Apulia, southern Italy, nicknamed the Florence of the South for its Barocco leccese architecture in local limestone, Santa Croce, and UNESCO tentative-list status.
Leeds
Leeds, West Yorkshire city on the River Aire, England's third largest, population about 812,000. Historic woollen town, now a finance, digital, and health hub with Opera North, Northern Ballet, and a £36 billion economy.
Leesburg, Virginia
Leesburg, Virginia: county seat of Loudoun County, founded 1758 as George Town and renamed for the Lee family; largest incorporated town in Virginia, about 50,000 residents, historic 1970 National Register district, site of the 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff.
Leeuwarden
Leeuwarden (Ljouwert) is the capital of the Dutch province of Fryslân, a city of about 130,000 residents formed from three terp settlements granted city rights in 1435, seat of the Hof van Friesland since 1498, and European Capital of Culture 2018.
Leganés, Madrid
Leganés, a municipality in metropolitan south Madrid, Spain; over 191,000 inhabitants (2023), founded 1280, Villa since 1626; hosts UC3M, IMDEA Networks, and the regional AI cluster.
Legazpi, Albay
Legazpi (City of Legazpi, formerly Legaspi) is the capital component city of Albay, Philippines, chartered by RA 306 in 1948. Population 210,616 (2024); Bicol regional hub at the foot of Mayon Volcano, exposed to typhoons and lahars.
Legnano
Legnano, Lombard town in the Alto Milanese about 25 km northwest of Milan; site of Frederick Barbarossa's 1176 defeat by the Lombard League; textile-industrial past, Legnano bicycles, Palio di Legnano.
Legnica
Legnica (Liegnitz) is a county-rights city in Lower Silesia, Poland, with about 90,343 inhabitants, known for the 1241 Battle of Legnica against the Mongols, the Piast castle, and the Legnica Special Economic Zone.
Leh
Leh, capital town of Ladakh union territory, India; former Silk Route trade hub, now a high-altitude cold-desert tourist base with about 500,000 annual visitors, 133,487 district population, and rapid urbanization.
Leicester
Leicester: largest city in the English East Midlands, a unitary authority of 368,581 people (2021 census). One of the UK's first minority-majority cities, 43.4% Asian, 41% born abroad, Roman Ratae Corieltauvorum, Richard III's burial city.
Leiden
Leiden, a South Holland city of about 130,600 inhabitants, is home to the Netherlands' oldest university (founded 1575 after the Relief of Leiden) and is known for its canals, textile history, and Leiden Bio Science Park.
Leigh-on-Sea
Leigh-on-Sea (Domesday 'Legra') is an Essex town on the Thames Estuary, once a busy port, now known for Old Leigh, its cockle fishery of 14 licensed boats, MSC certification, and a £22m port regeneration.
Leikanger
Leikanger, former Norwegian municipality (no. 1419) in Sogn og Fjordane on the Sognefjorden; county administrative seat; merged into Sogndal municipality, Vestland, 1 January 2020; population 2,331 (2019).
Leipzig
Leipzig, Saxony's largest city, first recorded 1015 as urbs Libzi, a trade-fair, university, and music center. Official population 615,932 (end 2025); 1989 Monday demonstrations helped end the GDR.
Leiria
Leiria, Portugal: district capital in the Centro region on the river Lis, founded around the 1135 castle of Afonso Henriques, a city and bishopric since 1545, now an industrial and university center of about 134,000 residents.
Lembang
Lembang, a highland district (kecamatan) in West Bandung Regency, West Java, at the foot of Tangkuban Perahu north of Bandung; a Dutch-era sanatorium, tourism town, and agricultural hub near the Lembang Fault.
Lengshuijiang
Lengshuijiang (冷水江市) is a county-level city in Loudi, Hunan, China, home to the Xikuangshan antimony deposit, the world's largest; a 1969-founded mining city designated resource-exhausted in 2009.
Lentilly
Lentilly is a commune in the Rhône department, France, about 18 km northwest of Lyon, with a Chalcolithic dagger, a La Tène farm at Les Fourches, the Brévenne aqueduct arcades, the fanum of Mercruy, and an 1866 hoard of about 200 Julio-Claudian gold aurei.
Leoben
Leoben is Styria's second largest city and the district capital of Upper Styria, Austria, on the Mur river. Known for the Montanuniversität mining university (founded 1840) and the voestalpine Donawitz steelworks; about 24,500 main-residence residents.
León, Guanajuato
León, also known as León de los Aldama, is a city in Guanajuato, central Mexico, founded in 1576. It produces seven of every ten pairs of shoes made in Mexico.
León, Spain
León, Spain: provincial capital in Castilla y León on the River Bernesga, founded on a Roman Legio VI Victrix camp, former capital of the Kingdom of León, site of Europe's first Cortes in 1188, famed for its Gothic cathedral and the Camino de Santiago.
Leptis Magna (لبدة)
Leptis Magna (لبدة), also known as Lepcis Magna, is an ancient city on Libya's Mediterranean coast about 110 km east of Tripoli, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982.
Lerwick
Lerwick (Leirvik, "muddy bay") is the capital and only town of Scotland's Shetland Islands, population about 7,500, a herring-fishing port founded on Dutch trade, capital since 1708, with Town Hall (1883) and major harbour.