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Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate (Warzazat, Tamghazt), Morocco's 'door of the desert', a Drâa-Tafilalet provincial capital near Marrakech known for the Kasbah of Taourirt, Atlas Studios film hub, and the 582 MW Noor solar complex.
Ouidah
Ouidah is a town in southern Benin that served for nearly two centuries as the main embarkation point of the Atlantic slave trade on the Slave Coast.
Ouistreham
Ouistreham (Riva-Bella) is a Calvados commune in Normandy at the Orne mouth, port of Caen and French terminus of the Portsmouth ferry; 9,212 inhabitants (2023), fishing port, seaside resort, coastal-flood risk management.
Oujda
Oujda (وجدة), also Oudjda, is a city in northeastern Morocco, capital of the Oriental region near the Algerian border. Founded around 994 by Ziri Ibn Attia; 506,224 inhabitants (2024 census); border closed since 1994.
Oulu
Oulu (Uleåborg), city on Finland's Gulf of Bothnia coast at the Oulujoki mouth, founded 1605 by Charles IX. Tar and salmon port, provincial capital since 1776, university and 6G technology hub, European Capital of Culture 2026.
Ouray, Colorado
Ouray, Colorado: 'Switzerland of America,' a 7,687-foot box-canyon mining town founded 1875, incorporated 1876, named for Chief Ouray; home to the Ouray Ice Park, hot springs pool, and Million Dollar Highway to Silverton.
Ourense
Ourense (Orense), Galician city and capital of Ourense province, Spain, on the Miño river. Third Galician city by population (~105,769), known for Roman bridge, San Martiño Cathedral, and thermal springs second in Europe after Budapest.
Overland Park, Kansas
Overland Park, Kansas: second-largest city in Kansas, in Johnson County southwest of Kansas City. Founded 1905 by William B. Strang Jr., incorporated 1960; about 204,000 residents, major employers include Fiserv's Aspiria fintech hub.
Oviedo
Oviedo (Uviéu), capital of Asturias, Spain: 8th-century royal foundation, capital of the Asturian kingdom until about 924, UNESCO pre-Romanesque monuments, Princess of Asturias Awards, and recurring high placings in European quality-of-life rankings.
Owensboro, Kentucky
Owensboro, Kentucky, county seat of Daviess County on the Ohio River, formerly Yellow Banks and Owensborough; about 60,900 residents, a manufacturing and tourism hub known for barbecue and bourbon.
Owerri
Owerri, capital and largest city of Imo State, southeastern Nigeria, designated state capital in 1976; a fast-growing Igbo urban center with about 716,000 (Africapolis 2015) to 2.9 million (GHS-UCDB 2020) residents, home to FUTO and Imo State University.
Owo
Owo (Ọ̀wọ̣) is a historic Yoruba city and LGA headquarters in Ondo State, Nigeria, center of the Owo Kingdom ruled by the Olowo, midway between Ile-Ife and Benin, famed for 15th-century terracotta and ivory art and the annual Igogo festival.
Oxford
Oxford, England: university city on the Thames and Cherwell, home of the University of Oxford, population about 165,200, with a knowledge-intensive economy, severe housing costs, and protected historic skyline.
Oxford, Mississippi
Oxford, Mississippi: Lafayette County college town, home of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and William Faulkner's Rowan Oak; founded 1837, population about 26,800, site of the 1962 integration crisis.
Oxnard, California
Oxnard, California: largest city in Ventura County on the Oxnard Plain, incorporated 1903 around the Oxnard brothers' sugar beet factory; about 200,000 residents, 77.1% Hispanic or Latino, gateway to Channel Islands National Park.
Oyo, Oyo State
Oyo is a city in Oyo State, Nigeria, seat of Oyo West LGA, about 45 km north of Ibadan, population 736,072 (GeoNames). It is the seat of the Alaafin and the refounded capital of the historic Oyo Empire, whose old capital Oyo Ile collapsed in the 1830s.
Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
Ozyorsk (Озёрск), formerly Chelyabinsk-40/65, is a closed ZATO city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, built 1945–46 around the Mayak nuclear complex; site of the 1957 Kyshtym disaster, Techa River contamination, spent fuel reprocessing, and a pass-regime entry system.
Paarl
Paarl, Western Cape city in South Africa's Cape Winelands, main town of Drakenstein Municipality about 60 km from Cape Town. Named 'pearl' in 1657; known for Paarl Rock, KWV wine headquarters, the Afrikaans Taalmonument, and Berg River vineyards.
Pabna District
Pābna (পাবনা) is a district of Rajshahi Division, northwestern Bangladesh, between the Padma and Jamuna rivers, created 16 October 1828 and administered from Pabna town.
Pachmarhi (पचमढ़ी)
Pachmarhi (पचमढ़ी), "Satpura ki Rani," is Madhya Pradesh's only hill station, at 1,067 m in the Satpura Range. Discovered by Forsyth in 1857, it lies within the UNESCO Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve and Satpura Tiger Reserve, known for Pandav Caves, waterfalls, rock art, and Dhoopgarh (1,352 m).
Pachuca de Soto
Pachuca de Soto, capital municipality of Hidalgo, Mexico; seat city Pachuca. Historic silver-mining center in the Comarca Minera, 314,331 inhabitants (2020), 154.01 km², Reloj Monumental landmark.
Padalarang
Padalarang is a district (kecamatan) in West Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia, west of Bandung. A 51.40 km², 10-village rail junction with a colonial-era station (1884), the first Dutch East Indies paper mill (1923), and a Whoosh high-speed rail stop.
Padang, West Sumatra
Padang, West Sumatra: capital and largest city of Indonesia's West Sumatra province on the Indian Ocean coast; about 950,512 people (2025), HDI 84.93, major port, Minangkabau cultural center, and high tsunami-hazard zone.
Padangsidempuan
Padangsidempuan (Padangsidimpuan, PSP) is a landlocked city in North Sumatra, Indonesia, surrounded by South Tapanuli Regency; largest Tapanuli city, Kota Salak nickname, autonomous since 2001, population about 240,000.
Paderborn
Paderborn, a city of 157,317 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, first recorded in 777. Known for its 1,200-year cathedral history, Germany's densest IT cluster in NRW, and the Pader springs feeding Germany's shortest river.
Padstow
Padstow (Cornish: Lannwedhenek) is a harbour town and resort on the west side of the Camel estuary, north Cornwall. Ancient fishing port tied to St Petroc's monastery; now tourism-led, with the Camel Trail, Prideaux Place, the Obby 'Oss festival and Rick Stein's seafood restaurants.
Padua
Padua (Padova, Patavium), Veneto city in northern Italy, capital of its province; home of the University of Padua founded 1222 and two UNESCO sites, the 1545 Botanical Garden and the 2021-inscribed 'Padova Urbs picta' fresco cycles.
Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah, Kentucky: county seat of McCracken County on the Ohio-Tennessee river confluence, founded by William Clark in 1827, population 27,137 (2020), a UNESCO Creative City known for quilting, floodwall murals, and river heritage.
Pagadian
Pagadian (City of Pagadian) is the capital of Zamboanga del Sur and regional center of Region IX, Philippines; 206,483 residents (2024), 54 barangays, 1st income class, coastal economy on Illana Bay.
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona: a city on Manson Mesa near the Utah border, founded in 1957 as a Bureau of Reclamation camp for Glen Canyon Dam workers, incorporated March 1, 1975, now a tourism base for Lake Powell, Antelope Canyon, and Horseshoe Bend.