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Longford
Longford (An Longfort) is an Irish midlands county and its county town, named from Longphort Uí Fhearghail, the O'Farrell stronghold. Census 2022 recorded 46,751 people, the fastest county growth in Ireland, and St Mel's Cathedral is its landmark.
Longling County
Longling County (龙陵县), Baoshan, western Yunnan, China: mountainous border county between the Nu and Longchuan rivers, 2,794 km², seat Longshan; site of the 1944 Songshan and Longling battles; dendrobium and huanglongyu producer.
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Longmeadow is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, immediately south of Springfield. Settled in 1636 and incorporated in 1783, it had 15,853 residents at the 2020 Census.
Longmont, Colorado
Longmont, Colorado: Front Range city founded 1871 by the Chicago-Colorado Colony, named for Longs Peak. Population 98,885 (2020); municipal utilities including NextLight fiber; sugar-beet to high-tech economy.
Longueuil
Longueuil, Quebec: South Shore city across from Montreal, central city of the Agglomération de Longueuil (458,178 in 2025). Founded as the 1657 seigneurie of Charles Le Moyne; three boroughs, Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert, Greenfield Park; 254,483 residents in 2021.
Longview, Texas
Longview is a city in eastern Texas serving as the seat of Gregg County, founded as a railroad town in the early 1870s and home to about 83,000 people.
Longyearbyen
Longyearbyen, founded 1906 as Longyear City by John Munro Longyear's Arctic Coal Company, is the administrative center of Svalbard, Norway, at 78°10' N; a former company coal town of about 2,500 residents now focused on tourism, research, and education.
Loni
Loni is a Nagar Palika Parishad city in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh, on the Yamuna near Delhi; Census 2011 population 516,082. Also a tehsil and development block, it ranked as the world's most polluted city in IQAir's 2025 report.
Lorain, Ohio
Lorain, Ohio: lakeside city at the mouth of the Black River, 25 miles west of Cleveland; about 65,000 residents; historic steel, shipbuilding, and lake port center with a large Hispanic community.
Lorca
Lorca (Lorca, Murcia) is a city and municipality in southwestern Region of Murcia, Spain; 1,675.2 km², among Spain's largest municipalities, a medieval frontier and Baroque city hit by the 2011 earthquake.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Los Alamos, New Mexico (Site Y, PO Box 1663): secret Manhattan Project town on the Pajarito Plateau, now home to Los Alamos National Laboratory; ~19,400 residents, $147,139 median household income, 69.7% college-educated.
Los Altos, California
Los Altos, California: Silicon Valley residential city in Santa Clara County, incorporated 1952, population about 31,000, founded 1906-07 by Paul Shoup's Altos Land Co. around apricot orchards and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, second-largest U.S. city, founded 1781 as El Pueblo de la Reina de los Ángeles, incorporated 1850; 3.87 million residents (2025), major port, and Tongva heritage.
Los Ángeles, Chile
Los Ángeles, Chile: commune and capital of Biobío Province, founded 1739 as Villa de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles by Manso de Velasco; 219,441 inhabitants (2024 census); agricultural, forestry, and service center on the Isla de la Laja.
Los Gatos, California
Los Gatos, California: incorporated 1887 town in Santa Clara County at the Santa Cruz Mountains base, named for La Rinconada de Los Gatos rancho; 33,529 residents in 2020, high-income Silicon Valley suburb.
Los Mochis
Los Mochis, city in Ahome municipality, northern Sinaloa, Mexico; founded 1903 around Benjamin Francis Johnston's sugar mill after Albert K. Owen's utopian colony; 298,009 residents (2020); Chepe railway and Topolobampo port.
Los Teques
Los Teques, capital of Venezuela's Miranda state and Guaicaipuro municipality, founded as a parish in 1777, state capital since 13 February 1927; a 1,169 m Cordillera de la Costa city and Caracas bedroom community with a metro link and tropical savanna climate.
Lost city
A lost city is an urban settlement from the past whose location was unknown to scholarship for a period, through abandonment, submergence, or burial; some, like Mahendraparvata, were found again.
Loudi
Loudi (娄底市) is a prefecture-level city in central Hunan, China; 8,117 km², 3.68 million people (2025), GDP 223.73 billion CNY. Known as the world antimony capital and a steel city, with world-first antimony reserves and province-first coal reserves.
Loughborough
Loughborough is a large market and university town in Charnwood, Leicestershire, between Leicester and Nottingham, known for Loughborough University (founded 1909, first UK technological university), John Taylor & Co bellfoundry, and its 800-year-old market.
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, home of UPS Worldport and governed as Louisville Metro since 2003, is Kentucky's largest city, founded in 1778 on the Ohio River and best known for the Kentucky Derby.
Loveland, Colorado
Loveland, Colorado: the "Sweetheart City" of Larimer County, founded 1877, incorporated 1881, population about 81,000. Known for its Valentine Re-mailing Program, sugar beet and cherry heritage, and sculpture parks.
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts, is a city on the Merrimack River about 28 miles northwest of Boston, founded in 1822 as a planned industrial city and incorporated in 1836.
Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt (Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai) is a New Zealand city in the lower Hutt Valley, Wellington region, settled in 1840, a borough in 1891, a city in 1941, named for Sir William Hutt.
Lowestoft
Lowestoft is a coastal town in Suffolk, England, on the North Sea; the easternmost settlement in the United Kingdom, it had 71,327 residents in 2021.
Luanda
Luanda (São Paulo de Loanda) is the capital and largest city of Angola, founded by Paulo Dias de Novais in 1576 on the Atlantic coast; its province counted 8.67 million people, 23.7% of Angola, at the 2024 census.
Luang Prabang (ຫຼວງພະບາງ)
Luang Prabang (ຫຼວງພະບາງ), former royal capital of Lan Xang in northern Laos on a Mekong–Nam Khan peninsula; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995 for its fusion of Lao and French colonial architecture, now pressured by tourism and an upstream dam.
Luanshya
Luanshya is a mining town and district in Zambia's Copperbelt Province, site of the Roan Antelope mine, Zambia's first commercial copper mine (operations from 1927). Population 212,864 (2022 census); economy based on copper mining and agriculture.
Lubango (city)
Lubango, formerly Sá da Bandeira, is the capital of Angola's Huíla Province on the Huíla Plateau at about 1,760 m. Founded 1885 by Madeiran settlers, city 1923, renamed 1978; major highland economic and university center.
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas, the Hub City and county seat of Lubbock County on the South Plains: founded 1890, home of Texas Tech University, a West Texas health care and cotton trade center of about 273,000 people.