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Murree (مری)
Murree (مری) is a hill station in Punjab, Pakistan, founded by the British in 1851 as a military sanatorium at about 2,000 m elevation; Pakistan's most visited hill station, with Mall Road, cantonments, landslide-prone Murree Formation geology, and heavy tourism.
Murrhardt
Murrhardt (vicus murrensis) is a town in Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Upper German-Rhaetian Limes. It has a 2.2 ha Roman cohort fort of the Cohors XXIV voluntariorum, a fort bath found in 2010, and the Benedictine abbey St. Januarius founded around 817 with first abbot Walterich.
Murrieta
Murrieta, a city in Riverside County, California, incorporated July 1, 1991 and named for sheep rancher Juan Murrieta; population about 114,000, grown via I-15 commuter expansion.
Murshidabad (মুর্শিদাবাদ)
Murshidabad (মুর্শিদাবাদ), a district and historic city in central West Bengal, was the capital of the Bengal Nawabs from 1704 under Murshid Quli Khan until the British moved the treasury to Calcutta in 1772; its Hazarduari Palace is the leading monument.
Murwāra
Murwara (Hindi: मुड़वारा, also Mudwara), officially Murwara (Katni), is a municipal corporation city on the Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, and headquarters of Katni district. Population 221,883 (2011); major railway junction with India's largest yard and diesel loco shed.
Murwillumbah
Murwillumbah is a Northern Rivers town on the Tweed River, NSW, about 30 km from the Queensland border; Tweed Shire's administrative and commercial centre, population 9,812 (2021), hit by the record 2022 flood.
Muscat (مسقط)
Muscat (مسقط), capital of Oman on the Gulf of Oman, historic port held by Portugal until 1650; governorate of six wilayats, about 1.55 million people, low-density linear sprawl, Greater Muscat Structure Plan and planned metro.
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Muscle Shoals, Alabama: largest city in Colbert County, incorporated 1923, population 16,275 (2020). Known for Wilson Dam, TVA history, and FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound studios, home of the Muscle Shoals Sound.
Muskegon, Michigan
Muskegon, Michigan: Lake Michigan port city and Muskegon County seat, once the 'Lumber Queen of the World' (665 million board feet shipped in 1887); 38,318 residents in 2020, ferry to Milwaukee, and Muskegon Lake delisted as an EPA Area of Concern in 2025.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee, Oklahoma: county seat of Muskogee County, founded January 1872 as a Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway station in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation; federal seat of Indian Territory, 2020 population 36,878.
Mussoorie (मसूरी)
Mussoorie (मसूरी), the Queen of the Hills, is a Garhwal Himalaya hill station in Uttarakhand at about 2,005 m, founded by Captain Frederick Young in the 1820s, a gateway to Gangotri and Yamunotri, now strained by over 2 million annual tourists and landslide hazard.
Mutare
Mutare (Umtali until 1982) is Zimbabwe's third largest city and capital of Manicaland Province, population 224,802 (2022 census), founded 1891, moved three times, gateway to Beira port.
Muzaffarabad
Muzaffarabad (Urdu: مُظفّر آباد) is the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, at the confluence of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers, named after Sultan Muzaffar Khan.
Muzaffargarh
Muzaffargarh (مظفر گڑھ), city and district in southern Punjab, Pakistan, founded 1794 by Nawab Muzaffar Khan between the Chenab and Indus rivers; agrarian, poor, and heavily flood-prone (2010, 2025 floods).
Muzaffarnagar (मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर)
Muzaffarnagar (मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर), the "Sugar Bowl of India," is a district and city in western Uttar Pradesh, founded in 1633 under Shah Jahan, known for 11 sugar mills, the world's largest jaggery market, and NH-58 location.
Muzaffarpur (मुज़फ़्फ़रपुर)
Muzaffarpur (मुज़फ़्फ़रपुर) is a district in north Bihar, India, formed in 1875 from Tirhut and named after Muzaffar Khan. Known as the Land of Litchi, it holds the GI-tagged Shahi Litchi and hosts the ICAR-National Research Centre on Litchi.
Mwene-Ditu
Mwene-Ditu, a railway city in Lomami Province, central DR Congo, in Luilu district at about 959 m elevation; city population estimates range from about 189,000 to over 250,000, with a large central market and RN1 road rehabilitation.
Mỹ Tho
Mỹ Tho (Vietnamese: Mỹ Tho) is a Mekong Delta city on the Tien River, 70 km southwest of Ho Chi Minh City; former capital of Tien Giang province, its district-level status ended 1 July 2025, its area now forming five wards of Dong Thap province.
Myeik
Myeik, historically known in English as Mergui, is a city in southern Myanmar on the Andaman Sea, the main fishing port and gateway to the roughly 800-island Myeik Archipelago.
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv (Миколаїв), southern Ukrainian city at the Boh-Inhul confluence, capital of Mykolaiv oblast; founded 1789 as a shipyard, major shipbuilding and port center, held through the 2022 invasion and regained piped water in 2025.
Mymensingh
Mymensingh (ময়মনসিংহ), city and divisional headquarters in northern Bangladesh, 121 km north of Dhaka on the Brahmaputra; district created 1787, municipality 1869, Bangladesh's 8th division seat since 2015, city corporation population 576,722 (2022).
Myra
Myra: ancient Lycian city at modern Demre, Turkey, one of six leading Lycian League cities with three votes, port Andriake, Roman theatre, 4th-century BCE rock-cut tombs, and bishopric of Saint Nicholas.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: resort city in Horry County on the Grand Strand, incorporated 1938, city 1957, named for wax myrtle trees; 40,937 residents (2025 est.) and a $26 billion tourism economy.
Mysore (ಮೈಸೂರು)
Mysore (Mysuru, ಮೈಸೂರು), southern Karnataka city, former Wodeyar princely capital 139 km from Bengaluru. Known for Dasara, Amba Vilas Palace, ashtanga yoga, cleanliness rankings, and Rs 5,000 crore IT exports.
Mytishchi
Mytishchi (Мытищи) is a Moscow Oblast satellite city on the Yauza River, 19 km from Moscow, first mentioned in 1460, a city since 1925, home to the Metrovagonmash carriage works and the source of Moscow's first water pipeline.
Mzuzu
Mzuzu is the third largest city in Malawi, capital of the Northern Region, on the Viphya Plateau. Founded as a 1940s tung oil estate, declared a city in 1985; 221,272 residents in 2018, governed by Mzuzu City Council.
N'Djamena
N'Djamena, formerly Fort-Lamy, is the political capital of Chad, founded by the French in 1900 and renamed in 1973, at the confluence of the Chari and Logone rivers on the border with Cameroon.
Naas
Naas, also known as Nás na Ríogh, is the county town of County Kildare, Ireland, about 30 km from Dublin and home to Kildare County Council. It recorded 23,127 residents in 2022.
Nablus (نابلس)
Nablus (نابلس), founded 72 CE as Flavia Neapolis near Shechem, is the northern West Bank's commercial hub: Old City kasbah, Nabulsi soap, Mount Gerizim Samaritans, Balata camp, Area A governance, and post-2023 checkpoint and raid pressures.
Nacala
Nacala, Mozambique: city in Nampula Province (pop. ~240,000) and site of Africa's east coast's largest natural deep-water port, terminus of the 912 km Nacala Corridor railway serving Malawi, Zambia, and Moatize coal exports.