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Les Cars
Les Cars is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, about 25 km southwest of Limoges, known for the ruins of the Château des Cars.
Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) is a Quebec archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with 12,941 inhabitants (2022), an economy based on fishing, salt mining, and tourism, and severe coastal erosion exposure.
Les Martys
Les Martys, Aude commune in the Montagne Noire, France, home to the Domaine des Forges, a major Roman iron-smelting center (about 50 BC to 270 AD) with a 2-3 million tonne slag heap, excavated from 1972 by Claude Domergue.
Leshan, Sichuan
Leshan (乐山, formerly Jiazhou) is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan at the Minjiang, Qingyi, and Dadu river confluence, home to the 71 m Leshan Giant Buddha, Mount Emei, and Dongfeng Weir world heritage sites; 3.15 million residents, 2025 GDP 250.2 billion yuan.
Leskovac
Leskovac (Лесковац), city in Jablanica District, southern Serbia; 58,338 urban residents (2022). Former textile hub nicknamed "Serbian Manchester," home of Roštiljijada grill festival, and Serbian National Capital of Culture 2026.
Lespignan
Lespignan, Hérault commune near Béziers with the Gallo-Roman villa of Vivios (classified 1993), Roman limestone quarries of the 1st–2nd centuries, a 1379 charter from Charles V, and the 1632 siege by Louis XIII.
Letchworth
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, is the world's first Garden City, founded 1903 on Ebenezer Howard's 1898 ideas, masterplanned by Parker and Unwin, now run by the Heritage Foundation.
Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, also called Coalbanks or Sikoohkotoki, is a southern Alberta city on the Oldman River; founded on 1870s coal mining, named for William Lethbridge, a city since 1906, population about 106,550 in 2023.
Letterkenny
Letterkenny (Leitir Ceanainn) is the largest town in County Donegal, Ireland, founded as a 1611 Ulster Plantation market town under Patrick Crawford and Sir George Marbury; known for the Letterkenny 2040 regeneration strategy, courthouse revival, and transport constraints.
Leucopetra
Leucopetra (Λευκόπετρα, "white stone"): a promontory near Rhegium in Calabria, modern Punta di Pellaro, and a Macedonian village near Beroia with a sanctuary of the Autochthonous Mother of the Gods.
Leuven
Leuven (Louvain), capital of Flemish Brabant, Belgium: a university city of 105,233 inhabitants (2025), home to KU Leuven founded in 1425, with about 50,000 students and a city-wide climate-neutrality program.
Levelland, TX Micro Area
Levelland, TX Micro Area (geoId/C30220) is a micropolitan statistical area around Levelland, Hockley County seat, west Texas; 21,495 residents in 2022, founded as Hockley City by C.W. Post in 1912.
Leverkusen
Leverkusen: district-free city in North Rhine-Westphalia between Cologne and Düsseldorf; founded 1930, enlarged 1975; named after Carl Leverkus; Bayer chemical city of about 168,300 inhabitants.
Levin
Levin (Māori name Taitoko) is a town of about 20,300 in Horowhenua, lower North Island, New Zealand. Founded 1888–89 and named for railway director William Hort Levin; neither Levin nor Taitoko was officially gazetted as of 2018.
Lévis
Lévis is a city in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite Quebec City, the province's seventh largest.
Lewes
Lewes: historic market town and former inland port on the tidal River Ouse in East Sussex, England; county town in a South Downs gap; site of the 1264 Battle of Lewes and the October 2000 flood that damaged 613 homes.
Lewiston, Idaho
Lewiston, Idaho: city at the Snake-Clearwater confluence (Tsceminicum), founded May 13, 1861 during the gold rush, first incorporated Idaho city, original territorial capital, and Idaho's only seaport.
Lewiston, Maine
Lewiston, Maine: second-largest city in Maine, on the Androscoggin River opposite Auburn. Textile mill city built on French Canadian immigration, later Somali refugee resettlement; site of the October 25, 2023 mass shooting that killed 18.
Lewisville, Texas
Lewisville, Texas: a Denton County city about 23 miles north of Dallas, incorporated 1925, population about 139,000-140,880 after the 2021 Castle Hills annexation, on Lewisville Lake along I-35E.
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky: Bluegrass region city and seat of Fayette County, governed since 1974 by the merged Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Founded 1775; population about 330,000; equine industry and Keeneland anchor its economy.
Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington, Massachusetts: Middlesex County town 11 miles northwest of Boston, incorporated 1713, population 34,454 (2020). Site of the first battle of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775; called the Birthplace of American Liberty.
Lexington, Virginia
Lexington, Virginia: independent city and Rockbridge County seat in the Shenandoah Valley, home of Washington and Lee University and VMI; 7,320 residents (2020), historic district listed 1971-1972.
Lhasa (ལྷ་ས་)
Lhasa (ལྷ་ས་, 拉萨), Tibetan for "holy land," is the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region at 3,650 m elevation, home of the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, and Norbulingka World Heritage ensemble, with 883,000 residents in 2025.
Lhoka
Lhoka (Shannan, 山南, Tibetan Lhokha) is a prefecture-level city in southern Tibet, seat Tsetang, covering 79,090 km² along the Yarlung Tsangpo; cradle of Tibetan civilization with Yumbulagang and Samye Monastery.
Lhokseumawe
Lhokseumawe, a coastal municipality in Aceh, Indonesia, between Banda Aceh and Medan; about 200,400 people (2024). Industrial city built around the Arun LNG plant (opened 1978), now home to the Arun Special Economic Zone.
Lianjiang
Lianjiang (廉江市, also Lianjiang City) is a county-level city under Zhanjiang, Guangdong, on the northern Leizhou Peninsula bordering Guangxi and Beibu Gulf; 2,835 km², about 1.87 million registered residents, red-orange farming and small-appliance industry.
Lianyungang (连云港)
Lianyungang (连云港), a prefecture-level port city in northeastern Jiangsu, China; also historically Haizhou. Eastern terminus of the Longhai Railway and New Eurasian Land Bridge; 5.27 million people, 367 million tons port throughput, Huaguo Mountain tourism.
Liaocheng
Liaocheng, or Liaocheng Shi, is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong, China, at the junction of Shandong, Hebei, and Henan, prospering on the Grand Canal in Ming and Qing times.
Liaoyang (辽阳)
Liaoyang (辽阳), formerly known as Xiangping, is a prefecture-level city in China's Liaoning province and is described as the oldest city in Northeast China, with over 2,300 years of history.
Liberia, Costa Rica
Liberia, Costa Rica, called la Ciudad Blanca, is the capital of Guanacaste province, founded as El Guanacaste in 1769, a former Nicaraguan-linked villa annexed in 1825, gateway to Guanacaste tourism via Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport.