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Ayodhya (अयोध्या)
Ayodhya (अयोध्या), also known as Saket, is a city on the Saryu River in Uttar Pradesh, India, revered as the birthplace of Ram and capital of the ancient Kosala kingdom.
Ayr
Ayr is a coastal town in South Ayrshire, Scotland, 32 miles southwest of Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde, named for the River Ayr, famed as the centre of Burns Country and a leading seaside resort.
Az Zāwīyah, Az Zawiyah
Az Zāwiyah (الزاوية), coastal city in northwestern Libya about 47 km west of Tripoli; population around 350,000; hosts Libya's largest operating oil refinery (120,000 bpd) and the University of Zawiya.
Az-Zuhūr
Az-Zuhūr (الزهور) names several Arabic places, chiefly a 266,381-person city in Port Said, Egypt; also neighborhoods in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Iraq.
Azamgarh (आज़मगढ़)
Azamgarh (आज़मगढ़) is a city and district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, on the Tamsa River, founded in 1665 and headquarters of Azamgarh division (Azamgarh, Mau, Ballia); 2011 district population 4,613,913.
Azusa, California
Azusa, California: general law city in Los Angeles County, 27 miles northeast of Los Angeles at the entrance to San Gabriel Canyon; founded 1887, incorporated 1898; about 50,000 residents, municipal light and water utilities.
Baalbek (بعلبك)
Baalbek (بعلبك), ancient Heliopolis, is a Lebanese Bekaa valley city whose Roman temple complex of Jupiter, Bacchus, Venus, and Mercury, with 800-ton megaliths, was inscribed by UNESCO in 1984 and placed under enhanced protection in 2024.
Bābol
Bābol (بابل), formerly Bārforūš, is a city in Māzandarān, northern Iran, on the Bābol river; a 19th-century Caspian trade hub renamed in 1927, with 219,467 people in 2011.
Bắc Giang
Bắc Giang (Thành phố Bắc Giang), formerly Phủ Lạng Thương, a class-II city in northeastern Vietnam, capital of Bắc Giang Province until the province merged into Bắc Ninh on 1 July 2025; 258.29 km², 371,151 people after absorbing Yên Dũng district in 2025.
Bacău (city)
Bacău, county capital in Moldavia region, eastern Romania, at the Bistrița–Șiret confluence; first attested 1408, 136,087 residents (2021 census), second Nord-Est city after Iași.
Bacolod
Bacolod (City of Bacolod), the highly urbanized capital of Negros Occidental, Philippines, home of the MassKara Festival; chartered 1938, PhP 146.09 billion economy in 2023, 873,573 tourists in 2025.
Bacoor
Bacoor (City of Bacoor), a component city in Cavite, Philippines, on Manila Bay; founded 1671, briefly the 1898 revolutionary capital, cityhood by RA 10160 in 2012, population about 664,000, flood-prone commuter city.
Bad Bertrich
Bad Bertrich, a spa town in the Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Üßbach valley; Roman Bertriacum; 32 °C Glauber's-salt thermal spring, Germany's only; Prussian state spa from 1815.
Bad Nauheim
Bad Nauheim: Hessian spa town in the Wetterau, Germany, on brine springs worked by Celts from the 5th century BC, a Roman fort and Limes signal tower, later the Söderdorf Niwiheim and a 19th-century health resort.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town of about 27,900 people and the county seat of the Ahrweiler district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 1969 by merging the towns of Bad Neuenahr and Ahrweiler.
Badagry
Badagry is a coastal town in Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria, about 57 kilometers from Lagos, once a major embarkation port of the historic Slave Coast.
Badajoz
Badajoz, largest city of Extremadura, Spain, founded 875 by Ibn Marwan, reconquered 1230 by Alfonso IX; record 154,423 inhabitants in 2025, Alcazaba, bastioned walls, mayor Ignacio Gragera.
Badalona
Badalona, coastal city in Barcelonès, Catalonia, Spain, on the Mediterranean about 10 km northeast of Barcelona; over 220,000 inhabitants, Roman colony Baetulo (c. 100 BC), 4.8 km of beaches, industrial heritage, and Joventut basketball club.
Badami (ಬದಾಮಿ)
Badami (ಬದಾಮಿ), ancient Vatapi, is a Karnataka town and Early Chalukya capital with four 6th-century red sandstone cave temples, Cave 3 dated 578 CE, on UNESCO's tentative Aihole-Badami-Pattadakal list.
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden, until 1931 simply Baden, is a Black Forest spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with twelve thermal springs (56–68.8 °C, 800,000 L/day), Roman origins as Aquae around 70 AD, and UNESCO World Heritage status since 2021 as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe.
Badlapur
Badlapur (बदलापूर), a commuter city in Thane district, Maharashtra, in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, governed by Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council; 174,226 people in 2011, town since 1971, divided East and West by its railway line.
Badrinath
Badrinath, or Badrinarayan Temple town in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, is a Vishnu shrine of the Char Dham on the Alaknanda river at about 3,100 m, traditionally founded by Adi Shankaracharya, open six months yearly.
Bafoussam
Bafoussam, capital of Cameroon's West Region and Mifi department, founded 1925 by French colonial administration; Bamiléké highland trade hub of about 373,000 people, a Communauté urbaine since 2008 with three arrondissements, mayor Roger Tafam.
Bafut
Bafut is a fondom (kingdom) of the Bafut people in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, about 22 km from Bamenda, known for resisting German rule and its palace.
Bagerhat
Bagerhat (বাগেরহাট) is a coastal district in Khulna Division, southwestern Bangladesh, home to the UNESCO Historic Mosque City founded by Khan Jahan in the 15th century; district since 1984, 9 upazilas, prone to cyclones and salinity.
Baghdad (بغداد)
Baghdad (بغداد), capital of Iraq on the Tigris, founded 762 CE by Abbasid caliph al-Mansur as the Round City; Abbasid imperial capital until the Mongol conquest of 1258, later Mongol, Turkmen, and Ottoman rule, capital of Iraq since 1921, population about 8 million.
Bago City
Bago City, a component city in Negros Occidental, Philippines, founded 1575, chartered 1966 under RA 4382; 24 barangays, 191,210 people (2020), rice granary of the province, distinct from Bago in Myanmar.
Bago, Bago Region
Bago (ပဲခူး), formerly Pegu and historically Hanthawaddy, is a city in southern Myanmar and the capital of Bago Region, on the Bago River about 80 kilometers northeast of Yangon.
Baguio
Baguio: highly urbanized Philippine summer capital on a 5,000-foot Cordillera plateau, founded as an American colonial hill station under Daniel Burnham's 1905 plan; 368,426 residents (2024), water deficit of 4,000 cubic meters daily.
Bahadurgarh
Bahadurgarh (बहादुरगढ़), the Gateway of Haryana, is a city in Jhajjar district on the Delhi border, founded in 1754 and known for its footwear cluster of about 2,500 units making roughly 60% of India's non-leather footwear.