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Maihar (मैहर)
Maihar (मैहर) is a district in Rewa division, Madhya Pradesh, formed 5 October 2023 from Satna district as the state's 55th. Known for the Maa Sharda Shakti Peetha temple on Trikuta hill, the Allauddin Khan Maihar gharana, and cement industry.
Mainhardt
Mainhardt is a municipality in the district of Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, lying in the Mainhardter Wald on the Roman frontier, where a cohort fort of the Cohors I Asturum equitata stood until about 260 AD.
Mainz
Mainz (Magenza), capital of Rhineland-Palatinate on the Rhine with about 224,000 residents; Roman Mogontiacum, ShUM Jewish heritage, Gutenberg's printing city, GDP 24.6 billion euros.
Maipú
Maipú is a commune of Chile in southwestern Santiago, Región Metropolitana; second most populous commune after Puente Alto with 503,635 residents (2024 census), site of the 1818 Battle of Maipú.
Maitland, New South Wales
Maitland, New South Wales: a Lower Hunter Valley city on the Hunter River, settled from about 1818 as Wallis Plains, formerly the Hunter's chief town, now one of NSW's fastest-growing regional cities with over 200 recorded floods since European settlement.
Makassar
Makassar, formerly Ujung Pandang, is the capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city in eastern Indonesia, with a population of about 1.5 million.
Makati
Makati is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines, and the country's financial capital, centered on the Ayala-developed Makati CBD; GDP of PhP 1.27 trillion in 2025 and a long-running boundary dispute with Taguig over BGC and the Embo barangays.
Makhachkala (Махачкала)
Makhachkala (Махачкала), formerly Petrovsk-Port, is the capital of Dagestan, Russia, and a Caspian Sea port; founded 1844, renamed 1921 for revolutionary Makhach Dakhadaev, population about 600,000.
Makiyivka
Makiyivka (Макіївка, Russian Makeevka), industrial city in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine, near Donetsk; major coal-mining and metallurgical center, pop 351,820 (2014), under Donetsk People's Republic occupation since 2014.
Makurdi
Makurdi, capital of Benue State, Nigeria, on the Benue River; state capital since 1976, provincial headquarters 1927, river port and railway town, tropical savanna climate, flood-prone, about 344,000 urban residents (2020).
Malabo
Malabo, former capital of Equatorial Guinea on Bioko island, founded 1827 as Port Clarence, later Santa Isabel; oil port city of about 297,000 that lost capital status to Ciudad de la Paz in January 2026.
Malabon
Malabon (Lungsod ng Malabon), formerly Tambobong, is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila's CAMANAVA sub-region, known for Pancit Malabon, Spanish-era heritage, and chronic flooding.
Malacca City
Malacca City (Bandaraya Melaka), capital of Malaysia's Malacca state, a historic Straits port founded c. 1400 by Parameswara, ruled by the Portuguese, Dutch, British, and Japanese, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008 with George Town.
Málaga
Málaga, a Mediterranean port city and capital of Málaga province in Andalusia, Spain; sixth most populated Spanish city (577,405 in 2021). Founded by Phoenicians, conquered by the Catholic Monarchs in 1487, now a tourism, museum, and technology hub facing housing pressure.
Malahide
Malahide (Mullach Íde) is a coastal commuter town in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland, on the Broadmeadow estuary. Known for Talbot-owned Malahide Castle, a 300-berth marina, and over 40% of workers commuting to Dublin.
Malang
Malang (Kota Malang), East Java highland city in Indonesia; former Kanjuruhan kingdom seat, Dutch municipality from 1914, major education city with 60+ universities, and UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts since 2025.
Malanje
Malanje (Malange) is the capital of Malanje Province in north-central Angola, gateway to Kalandula Falls (105 m tall, 400 m wide, 77 km north), the Pungo Andongo black rocks, and Cangandala National Park, home of the giant sable antelope.
Malappuram
Malappuram (മലപ്പുറം), a district in northern Kerala, India, formed 16 June 1969 with headquarters at Malappuram town; 3,550 sq km, 4.1 million people (2011), known for Nilambur teak forests, Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, and rapid dispersed urbanization.
Malatya (city)
Malatya is a city in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, and the administrative center of Malatya Province. Known in antiquity as Melitene, it sits on the Malatya plain and was heavily damaged by the 2023 earthquakes.
Malda
Malda (Bengali: মালদা), also Maldah or English Bazar, a district and city in West Bengal, India; formed 1813, joined India 17 August 1947; known for Gour and Pandua ruins, Fazli mangoes, jute, and raw silk.
Malé
Malé (މާލެ), capital of the Maldives in Kaafu Atoll, is a roughly 8 sq km island city of over 200,000 people, one of the world's densest cities, about one meter above sea level, with its port relocating to Thilafushi by 2027.
Malegaon (मालेगाव)
Malegaon (मालेगाव) is a city and municipal corporation in Nashik district, Maharashtra, India, about 270 km from Mumbai, one of the major powerloom weaving towns of western India.
Malerkotla
Malerkotla (ਮਾਲੇਰਕੋਟਲਾ), also Maler Kotla, is a city and Punjab's 23rd district, created from Sangrur in June 2021; former Muslim princely state founded 1454, famed for the haa da naara and calm during Partition.
Malibu, California
Malibu is a coastal city in northwest Los Angeles County, California, incorporated March 28, 1991, with 21 miles of Pacific coastline, about 10,300 residents, famous beaches and surfing, and major wildfire and coastal-erosion hazards.
Mallacoota
Mallacoota is a small holiday and fishing town at the mouth of Mallacoota Inlet in far East Gippsland, Victoria, near the NSW border, known for abalone, bream fishing, Croajingolong National Park, and the 2019-20 bushfire naval evacuation.
Mallawī
Mallawī (Arabic ملوي, Coptic ⲙⲁⲛⲗⲁⱩ, "place of textiles") is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Minya Governorate, Egypt, about 38 km south of Minya; agricultural market town, home of the Mallawi Museum looted in 2013 and reopened 2016. Not the country Malawi.
Malmö
Malmö, Sweden's third largest city in Skåne, had 367,924 residents at end-2025. A former shipbuilding and industrial city turned knowledge economy, connected to Copenhagen by the Öresund Bridge, young and diverse population.
Malolos
Malolos (City of Malolos) is the component-city capital of Bulacan, Philippines, with 51 barangays and 269,809 residents (2024). Historic seat of the First Philippine Republic at Barasoain Church; low-lying coastal city prone to flooding.
Mamallapuram (மாமல்லபுரம்)
Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram, மாமல்லபுரம்), a Pallava port town on Tamil Nadu's Coromandel Coast near Chennai, famous for 7th-8th century rock-cut rathas, mandapas, the Descent of the Ganges relief, and the Shore Temple, a 1984 UNESCO World Heritage site.
Mammoth Lakes, California
Mammoth Lakes is a Mono County, California resort town in the Eastern Sierra, incorporated in 1984, home to about 7,100 people and Mammoth Mountain's 3,500 skiable acres, with a tourism-based economy and acute second-home housing pressures.