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Nusaybin
Nusaybin (Nisêbîn; ancient Nisibis) is a border town in Mardin Province, Turkey, opposite Qamishli, Syria. Ancient Roman provincial capital and Church of the East school center; its Syria crossing is closed.
Nussloch
Nussloch (Nußloch), a municipality of about 10,700 in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis near Heidelberg, first documented 766 in the Lorscher Codex; lead-zinc-silver mining from Roman times to 1954 and limestone quarries shaped its history.
Nuuk
Nuuk (Godthåb) is the capital and largest city of Greenland, founded in 1728, with about 20,400 residents, a 2,200 m international airport opened in 2024, and the seat of the Inatsisartut parliament.
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya, also called Little England, is Sri Lanka's highest town at about 1,868 m, a British colonial hill station founded in 1818, center of Ceylon tea country, with a cool 15.8 °C mean climate and rapid tourism-driven urbanization.
Ny-Ålesund
Ny-Ålesund, at 78°55'N on Svalbard, is the world's northernmost year-round research station, a former coal mining town (Kings Bay, 1916–1962) now hosting international Arctic climate and environmental research under Norwegian management.
Nyeri
Nyeri, a highland town about 150 km north of Nairobi and headquarters of Nyeri County, Kenya, between Mount Kenya and the Aberdares; founded as a colonial fort in 1902, economy led by tea, coffee and dairy.
Nyingchi
Nyingchi (林芝, sNying-khri), a prefecture-level city in southeastern Tibet on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as the Jiangnan of Tibet; forested valleys at 3,100 m, the Grand Canyon, Namcha Barwa, and the 2021 Lhasa–Nyingchi railway.
Nyíregyháza
Nyíregyháza is a city of county rank in northeastern Hungary and the seat of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, with about 115,000 residents making it the country's seventh most populous settlement.
Nzérékoré
Nzérékoré (N'Zérékoré), capital of Guinea's Forest Region near the Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire borders; multiethnic commercial hub of roughly 270,000–316,000 people, seat of Nzérékoré Region and Prefecture, with a regional airport and university.
Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois: inner-ring Cook County village incorporated 1902, just west of Chicago; about 54,000 residents, Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, 1968 fair housing ordinance and managed integration, and the Shape Oak Park zoning reform effort.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the "Secret City," was built in 1942 as the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment and headquarters site, incorporated in 1959, and is now a nuclear research hub with Orano, Oklo, X-energy, and TVA projects.
Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in Alameda County, California, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco. The 2020 Census counted 440,646 residents, and its port handles 99 percent of Northern California's containerized goods.
Oakville, Ontario
Oakville, Ontario: lakeside town in Halton Region, Greater Toronto Area; 213,759 residents (2021 Census), founded 1827 by William Chisholm, incorporated 1857, amalgamated with Trafalgar Township 1962.
Ōarai, Ibaraki
Ōarai (大洗町) is a coastal town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, about 100 km from Tokyo, known for the Aqua World aquarium with Japan's largest shark collection, Oarai Isosaki Shrine, and the Sunflower ferry to Tomakomai, Hokkaido.
Oaxaca City
Oaxaca City (Oaxaca de Juárez), capital of Oaxaca state, Mexico; founded 1529 as Antequera on a colonial grid plan; UNESCO World Heritage with Monte Albán since 1987; 270,955 residents (2020); major tourism economy.
Oban
Oban (Gaelic an t-Òban, "the little bay") is a west-coast Scottish port town in Argyll and Bute, seafood capital and ferry gateway to the Inner Hebrides, with a working harbour handling over 13,000 vessels annually.
Oban, New Zealand
Oban is the sole settlement of Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand's third-largest island, on Halfmoon Bay 30 km south of Bluff. About 400 residents; ferry from Bluff, 20-minute flight from Invercargill; gateway to Rakiura National Park.
Oberdorla
Oberdorla is a village in the Thuringian Basin near Mühlhausen, Germany, lying at the geographic center of the country and known for its ancient sacrificial bog.
Obernburg
Obernburg am Main, a Bavarian town of about 8,800 in Miltenberg district, stands on a Roman Main Limes cohort fort (Nemaninga, Cohors IIII Aquitanorum) with a beneficiarius station; a town since 1313 under Mainz, UNESCO Limes World Heritage since 2005.
Obuase
Obuase (modern spelling Obuasi) is a gold-mining city in Ghana's Ashanti Region, seat of the Obuasi Municipal Assembly; mining began with the 1897 Ashanti Goldfields concession, and the 2021 census counted 104,297 residents.
Ocala, Florida
Ocala, Florida: county seat and largest city of Marion County in north-central Florida, the "Horse Capital of the World" with about 600 thoroughbred farms, Silver Springs glass-bottom boats, and the fastest-growing U.S. metro in 2025.
Ocaña, Norte de Santander
Ocaña is a city and municipality in the Colombian department of Norte de Santander, founded in 1570 and known for hosting the Gran Convención of 1828.
Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, Maryland is a barrier-island resort town in Worcester County, between the Atlantic and Sinepuxent Bay. Founded around the 1875 Atlantic Hotel, incorporated 1880, population 6,844 (2020), Maryland's primary seaside resort.
Oceanside, California
Oceanside, California: coastal city in northern San Diego County, incorporated July 3, 1888; population 174,068 (2020). Known for its 1,954-foot pier, 3.5 miles of beaches, adjacency to Camp Pendleton, and tourism- and biotech-driven economy.
Octon
Octon: a Yorkshire settlement in Thwing parish recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book (held by King William, formerly Grimkel, 3 hides), and separately an ancient sanctuary site in Gaul catalogued as BAtlas 15 A2.
Odawara
Odawara (小田原市, Odawara-shi) is a city in western Kanagawa, Japan, gateway to Hakone. Hojo castle town, Tokaido post station, site of the 1590 siege by Hideyoshi; population about 186,000.
Odda (town)
Odda is a town of 4,750 inhabitants (2025) at the head of Sørfjorden in Ullensvang, Vestland, Norway, and one of the country's first industrial towns, built around Odda Smelteverk (1908–2003), the Tyssedal hydropower station, and the Odda nitrophosphate fertilizer process.
Odense
Odense, Denmark's third-largest city on Funen, first recorded in 988 as an episcopal see; name means "Odin's sacred place". Viking fortress Nonnebakken, Cnut the Holy's 1086 murder, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, climate-neutral 2030 target.
Odesa (Одеса)
Odesa (Одеса), Ukraine's third-largest city and main Black Sea port, founded 1794 by Catherine II on the Ottoman fortress site of Khadzhybei; a free port 1819–1859, a 19th-century grain-export and multiethnic hub, now a UNESCO endangered World Heritage site sustaining wartime grain trade.
Odessa, Texas
Odessa, Texas: Ector County city in the Permian Basin oil region, founded 1886 by the Odessa Land and Townsite Company, incorporated 1927, council-manager government, 2020 population 114,428.