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Moab, Utah
Moab, Utah: Grand County seat and gateway to Arches and Canyonlands national parks. Population about 5,200; incorporated 1902; transformed by the 1950s Charlie Steen uranium boom and now a desert tourism and outdoor recreation hub.
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama: oldest city in the state, founded by the French in 1702 on Mobile Bay; Gulf Coast port city of about 200,000 residents, home of America's original Mardi Gras, Airbus A320neo assembly, and a new downtown airport terminal.
Mocuba
Mocuba, city and district in Zambézia Province, Mozambique, on the Licungo and Lugela rivers; about 124,650 city residents, tea-cotton-timber transit hub, EU-funded Milange road, planned Assembly of the Republic seat.
Modakeke
Modakeke is a town in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria, settled around 1830 by Oyo-speaking refugees on land granted by the Ooni of Ile-Ife, its neighbor and long-standing rival in one of Nigeria's most persistent communal disputes.
Modena
Modena (Latin Mutina), city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; Roman colony founded 183 BC, buried Roman city 5 m deep, 1099 Romanesque cathedral, UNESCO site since 1997, Este duchy capital from 1598, 183,763 residents.
Modesto, California
Modesto, California: Central Valley city and seat of Stanislaus County, population 218,464 (2020). Known for Tuolumne River water supply with MID, agricultural economy, McHenry Museum, and 2050 growth plan.
Modīnagar
Modīnagar (मोदीनगर), also spelled Modinagar, is an industrial city and municipal body in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh, on NH-34 between Ghaziabad and Meerut; founded 1933 by Gujarmal Modi as a Modi Group mill township, now a tehsil with two RRTS stations.
Moers
Moers, city in Kreis Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, west of Duisburg on the Lower Rhine; chartered 1300, seat of the Counts of Moers, Prussian from 1702, coal-mining city from 1904, about 101,000-106,000 inhabitants, landmark Moers Castle and Das Geleucht.
Mogadishu
Mogadishu (Muqdisho), capital and largest port of Somalia on the Indian Ocean; population estimates 1.7–2.9 million, main economic hub with Bakara market, Albayrak-managed seaport, and seat of the federal government.
Mohali (ਮੋਹਾਲੀ)
Mohali (ਮੋਹਾਲੀ), officially Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, is a planned city in Punjab, India, southwest of Chandigarh, founded after the 1966 Punjab reorganization; 18th district since 2006, Tricity member, IT hub with GMADA and NIPER.
Mohammedia
Mohammedia (المحمدية), formerly Fedala, is a port city in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco, between Casablanca and Rabat. Population about 322,000; it hosts the Samir refinery and a port handling about 95% of Morocco's hydrocarbon imports.
Mokpo
Mokpo (목포) is a port city in southwestern South Korea at the mouth of the Yeongsangang River, opened as Korea's fourth treaty port on 1 October 1897, with about 214,500 residents, a 41.3 km² harbor, and a modern-history tourism base for the Sinan archipelago.
Molde
Molde is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, on the Romsdalsfjord, the county's administrative center, known as the town of roses and home of Moldejazz.
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek), a Brussels-Capital Region commune, postal code 1080. Former 'Little Manchester' industrial suburb; Charleroi Canal 1832, first continental passenger train 1835; about 95,000 residents.
Moline, Illinois
Moline, Illinois is a Mississippi River city of about 42,400 in the Quad Cities and global headquarters of Deere & Company, founded as a town in 1848 when John Deere moved his plow factory there.
Mombasa
Mombasa: coastal city and Kenya's second largest city, capital of Mombasa County (212.5 km², 939,370 people in 2009). Swahili port since the 8th century; Fort Jesus (1593–96) is a UNESCO site; its port handled 45.45 million tons in 2025.
Mompox
Mompox, formally Santa Cruz de Mompox, is a colonial river port on the Magdalena River in Colombia's Bolívar Department, founded in the late 1530s and made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
Monastir, Tunisia
Monastir (المنستير) is a peninsula city and port on Tunisia's eastern coast, capital of Monastir governorate (599,769 inhabitants, 2024). Known for its 796 ribat, Bourguiba's birthplace and mausoleum, beach tourism, textiles, and an eroding, eutrophic bay.
Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach, formerly München-Gladbach and Gladbach-Rheydt, is a kreisfreie city in North Rhine-Westphalia near Düsseldorf, founded around the 974 abbey of St. Vitus, with about 277,000 residents, 44 Stadtteile, and a textile-industry heritage.
Monclova
Monclova is a city in central Coahuila, Mexico, founded in 1689 as Santiago de la Monclova and once the first colonial capital of Texas. Known as Mexico's steel capital, it was built around AHMSA, whose 2022 closure and 2024 bankruptcy triggered an economic crisis and auction.
Moncton
Moncton is a city in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada, on the Petitcodiac River. It is New Brunswick's largest city and Canada's first officially bilingual city.
Monemvasia (Μονεμβασιά)
Monemvasia is a fortified medieval town on a Greek island, named for its "single entrance." It flourished as a Byzantine port before passing through Venetian and Ottoman rule, being first liberated in 1821.
Monō Gun
Monō District (桃生郡, Monō-gun) was a rural district of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, first recorded in 771 in Mutsu Province and abolished April 1, 2005, when its seven towns merged into Ishinomaki and Higashimatsushima.
Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe, Louisiana: parish seat of Ouachita Parish on the Ouachita River, twin city of West Monroe. Population 47,702 (2020), 35.9% poverty rate, regional hub for health care, education, and Delta Air Lines history.
Monrovia
Monrovia is the capital and largest city of Liberia, founded 1822 and renamed in 1824 for President James Monroe. It is the country's government seat, main port city, and most densely populated urban area.
Monrovia, California
Monrovia, California: a San Gabriel Valley city incorporated December 15, 1887 as the fourth city in Los Angeles County, named for founder William N. Monroe; about 38,000 residents, 164 historic landmarks, and a Metro A Line station opened in 2015.
Mons, Wallonia
Mons (Flemish Bergen), capital of Hainaut province in Wallonia, Belgium; hilltop city of about 98,000 on the Trouille. Known for its 87 m Baroque belfry (UNESCO 1999), Spiennes flint mines, Doudou festival, and 2015 European Capital of Culture title.
Monségur
Monségur (Montsegur in Gascon) is a bastide commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, founded by Eléonore de Provence in the 1260s on the Dropt river; distinct from Montségur in Ariège and from a namesake in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Mont-Saint-Hilaire is a city in Montérégie, Quebec, on the Richelieu River at the foot of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada's first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1978), home to McGill's Gault Nature Reserve and a center of apple growing.
Mont-Saint-Michel
Mont-Saint-Michel: tidal island commune in Normandy's Manche department with a Gothic Benedictine abbey founded in 966, UNESCO-listed in 1979, Europe's highest tides up to 15 m, managed solely by the EPIC since 2026.