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Milpitas, California
Milpitas, California: a Santa Clara County city at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, incorporated 1954, known as the Crossroads of Silicon Valley, with about 80,000 residents and major tech employers.
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes: Buckinghamshire new town designated 23 January 1967, Britain's largest post-war new town, built on a 1 km road grid with 322 km Redways; recommended for renewed new-town status in 2025.
Milton, Ontario
Milton, Ontario: town in Halton Region, Canada; founded 1821-22 by Jasper Martin, incorporated 1857; 2021 population 132,979, projected 400,400 by 2051; new Official Plan adopted 2026.
Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city, incorporated 1846 from three settlements at the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers on Lake Michigan; 577,222 residents in 2020, council-mayor government, German-immigrant brewing and manufacturing heritage.
Minaminaka Gun
Minaminaka Gun (南那珂郡, Minaminaka District) was a district of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, created in 1884 from the split of Naka District, centered on Obi, and abolished March 30, 2009 when Kitago and Nango merged into Nichinan City.
Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton is a small Cotswold town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 4 miles south of Stroud, with a population of 5,096 at the 2021 census.
Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia
Minden is a town of about 84,000 in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia, seat of Kreis Minden-Lübbecke. First recorded as Minda in 798, a former Hanseatic episcopal town known for the Mittelland Canal's Wasserstraßenkreuz over the Weser and the 1759 Battle of Minden.
Mingguang, Anhui
Mingguang (明光市), formerly Jiashan County, is a county-level city of Chuzhou in northeastern Anhui, China, on the Jianghuai watershed. Created as a county in 1932, renamed 1994; 2020 population 485,627; 2024 GDP 32.15 billion yuan.
Mingora
Mingora (مینگورہ), largest city and commercial hub of Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, twin to administrative Saidu Sharif; 333,091 residents in 2017, prone to urban flooding, on N-45/N-95.
Minna
Minna is the capital of Niger State, Nigeria, and seat of Chanchaga LGA. A Gbagyi hill town named for a fire-spraying custom, it grew after the 1910-1911 railway and became state capital in 1976.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis, the largest city in Minnesota, sits on the Mississippi River at St. Anthony Falls. Once the flour-milling capital of the world, it now anchors the Upper Midwest economy.
Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the Twin Cities, is Minnesota's two-core metropolitan region on the Mississippi River: 2024 city populations of 435,233 and 313,375, an MSA near 3.8 million, Metropolitan Council governance since 1967, and a milling-to-railroad economic history.
Minot, North Dakota
Minot, North Dakota: the "Magic City," fourth-largest city in North Dakota, founded 1886 on the Great Northern Railroad. Known for Minot Air Force Base, the 2011 Souris River flood, and Norsk Høstfest.
Minsk (Мінск)
Minsk (Мінск, Минск), capital of Belarus on the Svislach river; first recorded 11th century as Menesk, Magdeburg law 1499, Russian annexation 1793, Byelorussian SSR capital, about 2,010,000 residents.
Minya
Minya (المنيا), the "Bride of Upper Egypt", is a Nile city about 250 km south of Cairo and capital of Egypt's most populous Upper Egypt governorate, with ancient roots as Oryx and Menat Khufu.
Miraj (मिरज)
Miraj (मिरज), city in Sangli district, Maharashtra, part of Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad municipal corporation; former Patwardhan princely jagir, famed for sitar and tanpura making (2024 GI tags), railway junction and medical hub.
Miramar, Florida
Miramar, Florida, a Broward County city incorporated May 26, 1955 with under 200 residents, named after a Havana suburb; grew to about 135,000-143,000 people, fourth largest in Broward.
Miri
Miri, coastal city in northern Sarawak, Malaysia, second largest in the state; site of Malaysia's first oil well (Miri No. 1, Canada Hill, 1910) and first refinery (1914); city status 20 May 2005; borders Brunei.
Mirpur Khas
Mirpur Khas (میرپور خاص) is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, and the capital of Mirpur Khas District. It was the seat of the Talpur Mirs until 1843.
Mirzāpur, Uttar Pradesh
Mirzāpur (मीरजापुर), or Mirzapur-cum-Vindhyachal, is a city on the Ganges in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, headquarters of Mirzapur District, known for carpets, brassware, the Vindhyachal Shakti Peeth, and its clock tower on the IST reference longitude.
Miskolc
Miskolc, city in northeastern Hungary at the foot of the Bükk Mountains, seat of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county; 154,500 residents (2019). Former "steel city" with Diósgyőr steelworks (1770-2009), first mentioned 1173, home of the University of Miskolc.
Misratah
Misratah (Misrata, مصراتة, Misurata) is Libya's third largest city, a Mediterranean port about 187 km east of Tripoli, with a Berber name meaning place of plentiful water, the country's largest seaport, LISCO steel, and a free zone.
Mission Viejo, California
Mission Viejo is a master-planned city in southern Orange County, California, begun in 1963 on 10,000 acres of Rancho Mission Viejo, incorporated March 31, 1988, population about 90,000, with 55 parks and Lake Mission Viejo.
Mississauga
Mississauga is a city in the Region of Peel, Ontario, west of Toronto; incorporated 1974, Canada's sixth largest city, home to Pearson airport, 501,500 jobs, and the Official Plan 2051 growth framework.
Missoula, Montana
Missoula, Montana: second-largest Montana city and Missoula County seat, founded 1860 as Hellgate trading post, home of the University of Montana (opened 1895); population 73,489 in 2020, at the Clark Fork and Bitterroot rivers.
Mitchell, SD Micro Area
Mitchell, SD Micro Area (CBSA 33580) is a South Dakota micropolitan statistical area around Mitchell, covering Davison, Hanson, and Sanborn counties, with about 25,800 residents and a 2.0 percent unemployment rate.
Mito
Mito (水戸) is the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, about 100 km northeast of Tokyo; a former Tokugawa Gosanke castle town, home to Kairakuen garden, the Mito School, and the Dai Nihon-shi.
Mitrovicë
Mitrovicë (Kosovska Mitrovica), city in northern Kosovo at the Ibar-Sitnica confluence; Ottoman market town, Trepča lead-zinc mining center, divided since 1999 into Serb north and Albanian south, partitioned into two municipalities in 2013.
Mixco
Mixco, Guatemala: municipality west of Guatemala City founded 1526 as Santo Domingo Mixco; Pokomam roots, Mixco Viejo conquest, 508,148 estimated 2026 residents, Mixco fault hazard.
Miyazaki (city)
Miyazaki (宮崎市) is the capital city of Miyazaki Prefecture in southeastern Kyushu, Japan. Founded 1924, a core city since 1998, about 387,000 residents, 36 km Pacific coastline, resort and mythology tourism.