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Medan
Medan is the capital of North Sumatra province, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sumatra, with over 2 million people and a colonial plantation history.
Medellín
Medellín, capital of Colombia's Antioquia Department and the country's second-largest city, sits at 1,479 m in the Aburrá Valley with a 24 °C average. Known for its 1675 founding, integrated Metro and Metrocable cable cars (2004), and urban transformation reducing violence and poverty.
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford, Massachusetts: Middlesex County city on the Mystic River, settled 1630 as Matthew Cradock's private plantation, third oldest Massachusetts settlement, later a shipbuilding, brick, and rum center, home of Tufts University, population about 60,000.
Medford, Oregon
Medford, Oregon: county seat of Jackson County in the Rogue Valley, founded 1883 as an Oregon and California Railroad town, incorporated 1885, named by engineer David Loring after Medford, Massachusetts; 2020 population 85,824.
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat, Alberta: city of over 65,000 in southeast Alberta on the South Saskatchewan River, nicknamed after the Blackfoot 'Saamis'; known for its 1883 gas discovery, Kipling's 'all hell for a basement', and municipally owned gas and electric utilities.
Medina
Medina (المدينة المنورة), formerly Yathrib, is a holy city in the Hijaz, Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad made the hijra in 622 and is buried in the Prophet's Mosque, Islam's second holiest site, a pilgrimage and date-farming city of about 1.5 million.
Medina-Sidonia
Medina-Sidonia (Medina Sidonia) is a historic hilltop town in central Cádiz province, Andalusia: 487.15 km², 11,870 people (2025), Phoenician-founded, Roman Asido Caesarina, seat of the Duchy of Medina Sidonia.
Medina, Washington
Medina, Washington: small affluent residential city in King County on Lake Washington's eastern shore, northwest of Bellevue; incorporated 1955, ZIP 98039 is the state's priciest, home to Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
Medinīpur
Medinīpur (মেদিনীপুর), also Midnapore, is a town in West Bengal, India, headquarters of Paschim Medinipur district on the Kangsabati River; 2011 population 169,127, municipality founded 1865.
Meerut (मेरठ)
Meerut (मेरठ) is a city in Uttar Pradesh, India, 70 km from Delhi; the starting point of the 1857 rebellion and India's sports goods hub, with over 3,500 units and the Namo Bharat RRTS link.
Megacity
Megacity: an urban agglomeration of 10 million or more inhabitants under the UN definition. 33 existed in 2025 (19 in Asia), Jakarta (~42 million) is largest, and Dhaka is projected to lead by 2050.
Megalopolis
Megalopolis: a chain of merged metropolitan areas forming one continuous urban region, from Greek for "great city". Coined by Jean Gottmann (1961) for the Boston-Washington BosWash corridor; related to megacity, conurbation, megaregion.
Megara (Μέγαρα)
Megara (Μέγαρα) is a city in West Attica, Greece, 40 km west of Athens, seat of the Municipality of Megara. The ancient polis, with ports Nisaea and Pagae, founded Byzantion and Megara Hyblaea, fought Athens over Salamis, and hosted the Megarian school of Euclid.
Megaregions of the United States
Megaregions of the United States are networks of linked metropolitan areas spanning state lines; America 2050 identifies 11, with over 237 million people, delineated by density, growth, and connectivity criteria.
Meiktila
Meiktila (မိတ္ထီလာ) is a central Myanmar town in Mandalay Region on Lake Meiktila, a road junction and air force base city with 309,663 township residents (2014) and a 2013 anti-Muslim massacre.
Meishan
Meishan (眉山) is a prefecture-level city in central Sichuan, China, southwest of Chengdu, home to about 3.4 million people and designated a national historical and cultural city in 2026.
Meissen
Meissen (Meißen), Saxony's oldest town on the Elbe near Dresden, birthplace of European porcelain: manufactory founded 1710 in the Albrechtsburg, crossed-swords mark since 1722, wine region, about 29,000 residents.
Meizhou (梅州)
Meizhou (梅州), a prefecture-level city in northeast Guangdong at the junction with Jiangxi and Fujian, is China's Hakka cultural capital, hometown of Marshal Ye Jianying, with 5.32 million registered and 3.84 million resident people (2024).
Mek'ele
Mek'ele (መቐለ, also Mekelle), capital of Ethiopia's Tigray Regional State about 778 km from Addis Ababa; made capital by Yohannes IV (palace 1886), rapid urban growth, and center of the Tigray conflict retaken by federal forces in October 2026.
Meknes
Meknes (Arabic: مكناس) is a city in north-central Morocco and one of its four imperial cities, the capital of Sultan Moulay Ismaïl in the 17th century.
Melbourne
Melbourne, capital of Victoria, Australia, founded 1835, population 5,435,590 (June 2025). Grew rich in the 1850s gold rush; now a leading education, liveability and events city projected to reach 9.1 million by 2065–66.
Melbourne, Florida
Melbourne, Florida: a Space Coast city in southern Brevard County astride the Indian River Lagoon, incorporated 1888 and named for Melbourne, Australia; merged with Eau Gallie in 1969; 2020 population 84,678.
Melilla
Melilla, Spanish autonomous city on the north Moroccan coast, taken by Castile in 1497, autonomous since the 1995 statute, population about 87,000, EU's only African land border, disputed by Morocco.
Melitopol (Мелітополь)
Melitopol (Мелітополь), formerly Novoaleksandrovka, is a city of about 150,000 in southern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia oblast, a rail junction on the Molochna River occupied by Russia since 2022.
Melksham
Melksham: market town in west Wiltshire, England, on the Bristol Avon; 18,113 residents (2021). Domesday royal manor, 1219 market charter, cloth and rubber industries, railway since 1848.
Mělník
Mělník, Czech royal dowry town in Central Bohemia at the Elbe–Vltava confluence, first recorded 995, elevation 215 m, about 20,300 inhabitants, known for its chateau, ossuary, and Burgundy-vine wine tradition from Charles IV.
Membrey
Membrey, Haute-Saône commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, with 219 inhabitants; known for its large Gallo-Roman villa ruins, discovered 1838, classified monument historique since 1846.
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in southwest Tennessee on the Mississippi River, the largest in Tennessee, known as the home of the blues and birthplace of rock 'n' roll.
Mena, Arkansas
Mena is a city in western Arkansas and the county seat of Polk County, founded in 1896 as a railroad town in the Ouachita Mountains.
Mendoza, Argentina
Mendoza, Argentina: capital of Mendoza Province in Cuyo, founded 1561; fourth-largest metro (1.3 million), Andean oasis city famed for acequias, urban forest, Malbec wine, and the Metrotranvía.