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Perugia
Perugia, Italian city and capital of Umbria, ancient Etruscan Perusna and later Augusta Perusia, home to the University of Perugia founded by papal bull in 1308.
Pervouralsk
Pervouralsk (Первоуральск), industrial city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, 41 km west of Yekaterinburg on the Chusovaya River near the Europe-Asia boundary; founded 1732 as the Vasilyevo-Shaitansky ironworks, city since 1933, population about 111,000, centered on the PNTZ seamless pipe plant.
Pesaro
Pesaro (Pisaurum) is an Adriatic city in the Marche, Italy, co-capital of the province of Pesaro and Urbino, birthplace of Rossini, UNESCO Creative City of Music 2017, and Italian Capital of Culture 2024.
Pescara
Pescara, Adriatic coastal city and provincial capital in Abruzzo, Italy; created 2 January 1927 by merging Pescara and Castellammare Adriatico; nearly 80% destroyed in 1943 bombings; new comune with Montesilvano and Spoltore from 2027.
Peshawar (پشاور)
Peshawar (پشاور), capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, near the Khyber Pass. Ancient Gandhara city, 2023 district population 4.76 million, home of the TransPeshawar BRT and the Rs2.23 billion Safe City Project.
Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva (פתח תקווה), "Mother of the Moshavot," is a city east of Tel Aviv founded in 1878 as a Jewish agricultural colony; fifth largest Israeli city, home to Rabin Medical Center, industrial zones, and Red Line light rail.
Petaling Jaya
Petaling Jaya (PJ), Selangor, Malaysia's first planned new town, established 1952 on the Effingham Estate as a Kuala Lumpur satellite city; city status 2006; 97.2 km2, over 807,879 residents (2024).
Petaluma, California
Petaluma, California: Sonoma County city on the Petaluma River, 40 miles north of San Francisco; incorporated 1858, 2020 population 59,776, historic dairy and egg shipping center.
Peterborough
Peterborough, England: cathedral city and unitary authority in Cambridgeshire on the River Nene, 124 km north of London. Founded around a 655 monastery, designated a New Town in 1967; population 223,665 (mid-2024). Distinct from Peterborough, Ontario.
Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough is a city in south-central Ontario, Canada, on the Otonabee River along the Trent-Severn Waterway, 140 km northeast of Toronto, known for the Peterborough Lift Lock and Trent University.
Petergof (Петергоф)
Petergof (Петергоф), formerly Petrodvorets, is a town within Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland, founded by Peter the Great and famous for its 1723 palace ensemble and gravity-fed fountains.
Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg is an independent city in Virginia on the Appomattox River, 30 miles south of Richmond, best known for the 1864 to 1865 Siege of Petersburg.
Petersfield
Petersfield, Hampshire: a South Downs market town founded in the 12th century, on the London-Portsmouth line since 1859, with a 65-minute Waterloo commute, £485,000 average house prices, and a Sunday Times 2026 top-11 South East ranking.
Petit-Mars
Petit-Mars (Kervarc'h), commune in Loire-Atlantique, France, north of Nantes; named after the god Mars and the forêt de Mars. Gallo-Roman theater and Temple of Mars at the Coussol (SILVA MARTIS); 3,888 inhabitants; mayor Chrystophe Pabois since 2026.
Petrolia, Ontario
Petrolia is a town of about 6,000 in Lambton County, southwestern Ontario, incorporated in 1866 on one of North America's first commercial oil fields and Canada's top oil-producing center until 1894.
Petropavl
Petropavl (Qyzylzhar), city in northern Kazakhstan, administrative center of North Kazakhstan Region; founded 1752 as a Russian fortress on the Ishim River, rail junction, population about 222,000.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Петропавловск-Камчатский)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Петропавловск-Камчатский), founded 17 October 1740 by Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, is the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai on Avacha Bay, a Pacific port of about 162,000 people beneath active volcanoes.
Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk (Петрозаводск), capital of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, a port on Lake Onega founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as an iron and cannon factory; town from 1777, occupied by Finland 1941–1944, population about 236,000.
Peyrus
Peyrus, a commune in the Drome, France, at the gates of the Vercors 20 km east of Valence; about 610 inhabitants, first recorded 1198, known for the Romanesque chapel Saint-Pierre, tuf quarries, and a Gallo-Roman villa.
Phan Rang-Tháp Chàm
Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm (Thành phố Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm) is the capital city of Ninh Thuận province, Vietnam, on the South Central Coast; a class-II coastal city of about 79 km² at the junction of National Road 1A and Road 27, in Vietnam's driest region.
Phan Thiết
Phan Thiết, coastal city in south-east Vietnam, former capital of Binh Thuan, now wards of Lam Dong since July 2025; fishing and fish-sauce port of ~230,000 whose resort strip Mui Ne, 20 km away, is famed for dunes and kitesurfing.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's largest city (1,574,281 residents, 2025), founded by William Penn in 1682; a postindustrial hub of eds-and-meds economy, strong-mayor government, SEPTA funding crisis, and 19.7% poverty rate.
Philadelphia (Amman)
Philadelphia (Amman) was the Hellenistic and Roman name of Rabbath Ammon, the Ammonite capital renamed by Ptolemy II Philadelphus (283–246 BC), a southernmost Decapolis city, now Amman, Jordan's capital.
Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
Philipsburg is the capital of Dutch Sint Maarten, a four-street town on a sandbar between Great Bay and the Great Salt Pond, named after John Philips, living on cruise tourism and duty-free Front Street shopping.
Phnom Penh (ភ្នំពេញ)
Phnom Penh (ភ្នំពេញ), capital and largest city of Cambodia, seat of government since 1866 under King Norodom I. About 2.3 million residents; fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975; rapid growth, flooding, and the new Techo International Airport define it.
Phổ Yên
Phổ Yên (Phổ Yên) is a city in Thái Nguyên province, northern Vietnam, its southern gateway to Hanoi; a town from 2015, a city from April 2022, population over 237,000, an industrial hub anchored by Samsung's Yên Bình complex. Distinct from Phú Yên province, merged into Đắk Lắk in 2025.
Phocaea
Phocaea (Phokaia; modern Foça, Turkey), northernmost of the twelve Ionian cities with twin harbors; an Aeolian then Ionian seafaring and trading power that founded Massalia, Emporion, Alalia, and Elea, minted early electrum coinage, and fell to Persia in 546 BC.
Phoenix metropolitan area
The Phoenix metropolitan area (Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, AZ MSA) covers Maricopa and Pinal counties in the Sonoran Desert, holds about 68% of Arizona's population, exceeded 5 million residents, and is among the fastest-growing U.S. metros.
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona: capital of Arizona and fifth-largest US city, 1,665,481 residents (2025 est.), 516.70 square miles in the Salt River Valley. Founded 1868, incorporated 1881; water from Salt/Verde Rivers (60%) and Colorado River (40%).
Phúc Yên
Phúc Yên, a province-governed city in Vĩnh Phúc, Vietnam (not Phú Yên province), second city after Vĩnh Yên; established 2018, over 120 km², over 155,000 people, 30 km from Hanoi, 8 km from Nội Bài airport, industrial hub with Toyota and Honda.