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Phusro
Phusro (फुसरो) is a coal-town Nagar Parishad in Bermo block, Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, at the center of the Bermo-Phusro coalfield; 89,178 residents in 2011, 185,555 in its urban agglomeration.
Piacenza
Piacenza (Placentia) is a city of about 102,000 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on the right bank of the Po 67 km from Milan. Founded as a Roman colony in 218 BC, later a Farnese duchy seat and first city annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1848.
Pickering, North Yorkshire
Pickering, North Yorkshire: market town and civil parish of about 7,000 on the A170 at the southern edge of the North York Moors, gateway to the park, home to Pickering Castle, medieval church wall paintings, and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway terminus.
Pickering, Ontario
Pickering, Ontario: a city of about 114,000 on the western edge of Durham Region, bordering Toronto and Lake Ontario, home to the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, historic hamlets, and a doubling population projected by 2031.
Pidhaytsi Rayon
Pidhaytsi Rayon (Підгаєцький район) was a former raion of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Pidhaitsi; created 1940, abolished 1963, restored 1991, and merged into Ternopil Raion in 2020.
Pierre, South Dakota
Pierre (pronounced "pier") is the capital of South Dakota and seat of Hughes County on the Missouri River; with about 14,000 residents it is the second-smallest US state capital after Montpelier, Vermont.
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg, also called uMgungundlovu, is the capital of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, founded in 1838 and named after Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz; known for the 1893 Gandhi train incident and the Comrades Marathon.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee: city in Sevier County near Great Smoky Mountains National Park, named for Isaac Love's 1820 iron forge and extinct passenger pigeons; home to Dollywood, with $2 billion-plus annual tourism gross receipts.
Pimpri-Chinchwad (पिंपरी-चिंचवड)
Pimpri-Chinchwad (पिंपरी-चिंचवड), twin industrial city in Pune district, Maharashtra, governed by PCMC since 1982; over 4,000 manufacturing units, auto hub with Tata Motors and Bajaj Auto, population 1.73 million over 181 sq km.
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río, city and westernmost province of Cuba (Vueltabajo), capital of the country's tobacco region producing 80% of Cuban tobacco; city titled 1867, province formed 1878, near Viñales Valley.
Pindi Bhattian
Pindi Bhattian (پنڈی بھٹیاں), city and tehsil headquarters in Hafizabad District, Punjab, Pakistan; founded by Bhatti Rajputs in Akbar's time, home of folk hero Dulla Bhatti, 66,511 residents in 2023, on the M-2/M-4 motorways.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Pine Bluff, Arkansas: county seat of Jefferson County and largest city of southeast Arkansas's Delta region, founded 1819 on the Arkansas River, once a cotton and railroad center, now home to UAPB and the Pine Bluff Arsenal.
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Pinehurst, North Carolina: Sandhills village founded 1895 by James Walker Tufts with an Olmsted plan; home of Pinehurst No. 2, a National Historic Landmark district, and a four-time U.S. Open anchor site.
Pingdingshan
Pingdingshan (平顶山市), the Eagle City, is a prefecture-level coal-mining city in mid-southern Henan, established 1957, with 4.84 million residents, 10.3 billion tons of coal reserves, and a nylon new-materials industry.
Pingdu
Pingdu (平度) is a county-level city of Qingdao, Shandong, on the Jiaodong Peninsula. Converted from Pingdu County in 1989, it is Shandong's largest county-level city by area (3,166.54 km²) and a leading grain producer.
Pingliang
Pingliang (平凉市), prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu at the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia junction; 11,000 km², 1.85 million residents (2020), coal-energy base, apple and red-cattle farming, Kongtong Mountain 5A site.
Pingwu County
Pingwu County (平武县), Mianyang, Sichuan, China: mountainous county on the Gansu border and upper Fujiang, home to 335 wild giant pandas, Wanglang reserve, Baima Tibetan townships, and Bao'en Temple.
Pioche, Nevada
Pioche, Nevada: unincorporated Lincoln County seat, former 1870s silver boomtown named for financier F.L.A. Pioche, famed for the Million Dollar Courthouse, Boot Hill, and its aerial tramway.
Piraeus (Πειραιάς)
Piraeus (Πειραιάς) is the port city of Athens and Greece's largest port, ancient naval base with three harbors, now Europe's fifth-largest container port, 67% owned by COSCO since 2016.
Pisa
Pisa, Tuscany, Italy: medieval Maritime Republic on the Arno, home of the UNESCO-listed Piazza del Duomo with the Leaning Tower, the University of Pisa (founded 1334/1343), and Galileo's scientific heritage.
Pismo Beach, California
Pismo Beach, California: small San Luis Obispo County coastal city (pop. ~7,900), the 'Clam Capitol of the World', known for its pier, Pismo clam fishery history, monarch butterfly grove, and tourism-driven economy.
Pistoia
Pistoia (Pistoriae), Tuscan provincial capital 32 km from Florence; Roman-origin, Lombard stronghold, 12th–13th-century peak, Italian Capital of Culture 2017, city of art with Romanesque churches and 90,908 inhabitants (2020).
Piteşti
Pitești, county seat of Argeș County, Romania, on the Argeș river; first documented 20 May 1388, medieval trade hub, 160,262 domiciled residents in 2026, ranked 17th in City Index 2024.
Pithiviers-le-Vieil
Pithiviers-le-Vieil, a Loiret commune (INSEE 45253) southwest of Pithiviers, France, known for its Gallo-Roman baths, eight fanum temples, and 1972 merger with Bouzonville-en-Beauce.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: city at the Allegheny-Monongahela-Ohio confluence, once the US steel capital (half of national output by 1911), now an Eds and Meds economy of 307,632 people (2025).
Pittsburgh, PA Metro Area
Pittsburgh, PA Metro Area (CBSA 38300): eight-county OMB metropolitan statistical area in southwestern Pennsylvania, 28th largest U.S. metro with 2,421,992 residents in 2025; former steel heartland now centered on healthcare, universities, and technology.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, Massachusetts: largest city and county seat of Berkshire County, founded as Pontoosuck Plantation, incorporated 1761/1891, former GE transformer hub, now a Berkshires cultural center of about 43,000 people.
Piura (city)
Piura, capital of Peru's Piura Region, founded by Pizarro in 1532 at Tangarará and re-founded 15 August 1588 at El Chilcal; hot northern coastal city on the Piura River, prone to El Niño flooding and drought.
Pizhou
Pizhou (邳州, Pizhou City) is a county-level city under Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, population about 1.5 million. Known as the 'town of ginkgo and garlic': a top Chinese garlic producer (about 830,000 tonnes in 2025) and ginkgo processing center, formerly Xiapi.
Placerville, California
Placerville, California, historically known as Hangtown, is a Gold Rush city and the county seat of El Dorado County on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, incorporated in 1854.