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List of primary urban areas in England by population
Primary urban areas in England: 56 continuous built-up city areas of over 125,000 people, as defined by Centre for Cities and ONS built-up area data, distinct from city regions.
List of smallest cities in the United Kingdom
The list of smallest cities in the United Kingdom ranks the country's 76 cities by size: St Davids, Wales, is smallest by population and Wells is England's smallest.
List of the largest population centres in Canada
Largest population centres in Canada: Statistics Canada urban areas of 1,000+ people at 400+ per km2, classed small, medium, or large urban (100,000+). Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver lead; 41 CMAs held 31.2 million people in 2025.
List of towns and cities in England by historical population
Population figures for English towns and cities, from ONS built-up areas (Birmingham 1,121,375 in 2021) to historical censuses and pre-census estimates showing London, Manchester, and Liverpool's rank reversals since 1680.
List of towns and cities in Norway
List of towns and cities in Norway, based on SSB tettsted (urban settlement) statistics: built-up areas of 200+ inhabitants, separate from historical city status; Oslo largest at 1,119,478 (2026).
List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
Towns and villages in Northern Ireland are officially listed through NISRA's Settlement 2015 classification, with eight population bands from Belfast (Band A) down to villages under 1,000 (Band H), and Census 2021 settlement data published from November 2023.
List of towns in England
List of towns in England: no official government list exists; the ONS statistically defines 1,082 English towns as built-up areas of 5,000 to 225,000 residents, with 112 major towns and cities above 75,000.
List of towns in New York
New York's 933 towns are general-purpose local governments that, with the state's 62 cities, cover every part of New York State outside New York City.
List of towns in the United Kingdom
List of towns in the United Kingdom: no single official list exists; ONS counts 1,186 settlements of 5,000–225,000 people in England and Wales, plus built-up area classes, 69 chartered cities, and the new towns programme.
List of towns in Wales
List of towns in Wales: Welsh towns defined by town council status (Local Government Act 1972) or ONS built-up area statistics; 104 Welsh settlements of 5,000–225,000 people; seven cities including Cardiff, Swansea, and Wrexham.
List of U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations
Ranks U.S. cities and metro areas by Hispanic population: New York City leads with about 2.4 million Hispanic residents, followed by Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio, and Chicago.
List of United States cities by area
A ranking of United States cities by land area, based on U.S. Census Bureau boundary data for places in the 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.
List of United States cities by population
Ranks U.S. incorporated places by resident population, updated annually in Census Bureau Population Estimates Program vintages. New York City leads (8.8 million in 2020); Vintage 2025 covers April 2020 to July 2025.
List of United States cities by population density
Ranking of U.S. incorporated places by population density (people per square mile). Census data show New York City densest large city at 27,781.2/sq mi (2013), then San Francisco, Jersey City, Paterson, Cambridge; rankings depend on boundaries and thresholds.
Listowel
Listowel (Lios Tuathail) is a market town on the River Feale in County Kerry, Ireland, population 4,861 (2022). Known for Listowel Castle, the 1888 Lartigue monorail, and Writers' Week, Ireland's oldest literary festival, founded 1970.
Lists of cities
Lists of cities: compilations of urban settlements by population, status, or country. Key sources include UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (DEGURBA, 12,000+ cities of 50,000+), national lists like GOV.UK city status, and definition-sensitive rankings (Jakarta 42M, Dhaka 37M, Tokyo 33M).
Lists of cities by country
Lists of cities by country: reference city lists per country, complicated by differing definitions of city proper, urban agglomeration, and UN DEGURBA density-based cities.
Lists of cities in Europe
Lists of cities in Europe rank urban settlements by population or function; figures depend on definitions. Eurostat's Urban Audit and the EU-OECD harmonized city and functional urban area definitions (2011) standardize them.
Lists of populated places in the United States
Lists of US populated places draw on Census Bureau place geography (incorporated places plus census designated places) and USGS GNIS, with annual Gazetteer Files providing names, codes, and coordinates.
Lithgow, New South Wales
Lithgow, New South Wales: Central West NSW town west of the Blue Mountains, named 1827 for William Lithgow. Coal and railway town from 1869; first Australian steel by 1900; LGA population 20,740.
Litoměřice
Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) is a royal town in northern Bohemia on the Elbe at the Ohře confluence, 69 km from Prague; founded 1219, diocesan seat since 1655, wine center, 22,627 residents in 2025.
Little Popo
Little Popo, or Petit Popo, was the European name for Aného in modern Togo, a slave-trading port and the first capital of German Togo from 1886 to 1897.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas: capital and largest city of Arkansas on the Arkansas River, named for the 1722 'la petite roche' outcropping; site of the 1957 Little Rock Nine Central High desegregation crisis; 2020 population 202,591.
Littleton, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado: home-rule city and Arapahoe County seat about 11 miles south of Denver, founded by engineer Richard Sullivan Little, platted 1872, incorporated 1890, population 45,652 (2020).
Liupanshui
Liupanshui (六盘水), a prefecture-level city in western Guizhou, China, formed in 1964 from Liuzhi, Panxian, and Shuicheng counties as a Third-Front coal base; a karst, cool-summer "China Cool Capital" of about 3.03 million residents.
Liuzhou
Liuzhou (柳州, Longcheng) is a prefecture-level industrial city in central Guangxi, China, on the Liu River; founded as Tanzhong County in 111 BC, named Liuzhou in 634, and one of Guangxi's two mature green-economy cores with Nanning.
Livermore, California
Livermore, California: Alameda County city founded 1869, easternmost in the Bay Area, population 87,955 (2020). Known for its 50-plus wineries, one of California's oldest wine regions, and Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories.
Liverpool
Liverpool: city and metropolitan borough on the Mersey estuary, North West England. Founded 1207; major Atlantic port, leading slave trade port 1750–1807; population 486,100 (2021); UNESCO World Heritage site 2004, delisted 2021.
Livingston, Montana
Livingston, Montana, is a city of about 8,040 people in Park County on the Yellowstone River, founded as a Northern Pacific Railroad town in 1882.
Livingston, New Jersey
Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, incorporated in 1813 and named for Governor William Livingston. A suburb 21.9 miles from New York City with 31,330 residents (2020), nine public schools, and Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center.