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Marietta, Ohio
Marietta, Ohio: county seat of Washington County at the Ohio-Muskingum rivers confluence; founded April 7, 1788 by the Ohio Company as the first Northwest Territory settlement; distinct from Marietta, Georgia.
Marignac
Marignac is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France, in the Occitanie region, lying in the Garonne valley about 30 km south of Saint-Gaudens.
Marikina
Marikina: highly urbanized city in eastern Metro Manila, Philippines, the Shoe Capital since 1887 shoemaking; 16 barangays, two districts, cityhood 1996, flood-prone Marikina River valley.
Maringá
Maringá, Cidade Canção, is a planned city in northern Paraná, Brazil, founded 10 May 1947 by Companhia Melhoramentos Norte do Paraná from Jorge de Macedo Vieira's garden-city plan; 432,635 residents (2026 estimate), Paraná's third-largest city.
Mariupol (Маріуполь)
Mariupol (Маріуполь) is a port city on the Sea of Azov in southeastern Ukraine, once a leading shipping center, which has been under Russian occupation since May 2022.
Market town
A market town is a town holding the legal right to hold a market, granted historically by royal charter, which grew as the trading center of its countryside.
Markham, Ontario
Markham, Ontario: a city in York Region northeast of Toronto, founded 1794 by Berczy settlers, population 338,503 (2021), Canada's densest technology hub with 1,500+ tech companies.
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Marlow, Buckinghamshire: Thames-side commuter and visitor town between Reading and Windsor, an old inland port with a William Tierney Clark suspension bridge (1833), links to Mary Shelley, T. S. Eliot, and Jerome K. Jerome, and the 14th-century Old Parsonage.
Marmaris
Marmaris, resort town and district of Muğla Province, Türkiye, at the Aegean-Mediterranean junction; ancient Physkos, 97,373 residents (2025), 200,000 in summer, hit by the 29 July 2021 wildfire that burned 11,548 hectares.
Marnardal
Marnardal, former municipality in Vest-Agder, Norway (1964-2020), center Heddeland, number 1021; merged with Mandal and Lindesnes into Lindesnes kommune on 1 January 2020.
Marne La Vallée
Marne-la-Vallée, a new town east of Paris created under the 1965 SDAURP with EPAMARNE (1972), spans three departments and four sectors; its Val d'Europe hosts Disneyland Paris, the region's dominant tourist employer.
Marquette, Michigan
Marquette, Michigan: largest city in the Upper Peninsula, a Lake Superior port city of about 20,600 (2020 census), seat of Marquette County, known for iron ore shipping, Northern Michigan University, and the nickname Queen City of the North.
Marrakesh (مراكش)
Marrakesh (Marrakech) is a major city in central Morocco and a former imperial capital, founded by the Almoravids around 1070, with about 1.6 million people.
Marsala
Marsala, western Sicily's largest town in Trapani province, stands on ancient Lilybaeum, founded by Motya's Phoenician refugees in 397 BC; known for Garibaldi's 1860 landing and fortified Marsala wine (over 17 degrees).
Marseille
Marseille (Massalia) is France's second-largest city and oldest city, founded by Greeks from Phocaea in 600 BC on the Mediterranean. Key facts: 873,080 inhabitants (2021), France's largest port, lowest median income among the five biggest French cities, and the Marseille en Grand recovery plan.
Martigny
Martigny, Valais, Switzerland: Rhone-valley town at the Great St Bernard and Simplon routes, ancient Octodurus/Forum Claudii Vallensium; 23,849 inhabitants (2026), Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Barryland, planned 2029 fusion with Vernayaz.
Martinez, California
Martinez, California: county seat of Contra Costa County, incorporated 1876, population about 37,000. Home of the John Muir National Historic Site, the 1849 Martinez Adobe, and major oil refineries.
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Martinsburg is the county seat of Berkeley County, West Virginia, in the Eastern Panhandle. Founded 1773 by Adam Stephen, a B&O railroad hub, Civil War battleground, site of the 1877 railroad strike; population about 19,000.
Masan
Masan (마산, 馬山), former South Korean port city in South Gyeongsang; opened 1899, rice-export port under Japanese rule, Korea's first Free Export Zone 1970, merged into Changwon 2010.
Masdar City (مدينة مصدر)
Masdar City (مدينة مصدر) is a planned sustainable urban community and business free zone in Abu Dhabi, UAE, launched in 2006 as a $22 billion carbon-neutral city project; about 35% complete, with PRT transport, passive design, and the IRENA headquarters.
Maseru
Maseru, capital and largest city of Lesotho (pop. about 220,000), founded March 1869 as a British police camp on the Caledon River; center of the country's textile industry and of urban planning efforts such as Maseru2050.
Mashhad (مشهد)
Mashhad (مشهد), Iran's second-largest city and capital of Razavi Khorasan, is the foremost Shia pilgrimage center, built around the shrine of Imam Reza (d. 818 CE), hosting about 20 million pilgrims yearly and facing a 2025 water crisis.
Massiac
Massiac, Cantal commune in Haute-Auvergne, France (15500), namesake of the Brioude-Massiac antimony district (~32,500 t Sb), site of the Bonnac gold-mining failure of 1908-1912 and the Les Gravilles basalt quarry authorized for SAS CYMARO in 2025.
Masterton
Masterton, largest town of New Zealand's Wairarapa region; founded 1854 by Joseph Masters' Small Farms Association. District population 28,900 (2025); home of the Golden Shears shearing contest and five daily trains to Wellington.
Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Matamoros (Heroica Matamoros), Tamaulipas: border city across from Brownsville, Texas; 541,979 residents in 2020; founded 1774, made a port and villa in 1826; maquiladora trade economy and new Puerto del Norte port operating since August 2025.
Mataram
Mataram (Kota Mataram) is the capital of Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province on Lombok island; 61.30 km², 452,410 people (2026), six districts, municipality since Law No. 4 of 1993.
Matera
Matera, in Basilicata, southern Italy, is famous for the Sassi, cave districts cut into the Murgia rock, inscribed by UNESCO in 1993 with the Park of the Rupestrian Churches, evacuated in the 1950s and repopulated from the 1980s.
Matheran (माथेरान)
Matheran (माथेरान), a Western Ghats hill station in Raigad district, Maharashtra, at about 800 m elevation; Asia's only vehicle-free hill station, an Eco-Sensitive Zone since 2003, with the 1907 Neral–Matheran toy train.
Mathura (मथुरा)
Mathura (मथुरा), also called Shri Krishna Janma-Bhoomi, is a holy city in Uttar Pradesh on the Yamuna, birthplace of Krishna, ancient Surasena capital, and administrative center of Mathura District.
Matola
Matola (Cidade da Matola) is the capital of Maputo Province, Mozambique, and the country's second largest city, with 1,032,197 people at the 2017 census, an industrial economy, and the Matola bulk port terminal.