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Puerto Princesa
Puerto Princesa, capital city of Palawan, Philippines (MIMAROPA). Founded 1872, chartered 1970; largest Philippine city by area at 253,982 ha; population 316,384 (2024); home of the UNESCO-listed Subterranean River National Park.
Puerto Williams
Puerto Williams is a Chilean port town on Navarino Island in the Beagle Channel, reclassified as a city in 2019 and the world's southernmost city by Chile's reckoning.
Pukekohe
Pukekohe, a town 52 km south of Auckland, New Zealand, in the Franklin district; name means Hill of the kohekohe. Produces about a third of New Zealand's vegetables; rail-linked 1875, borough 1912, satellite growth town.
Pula
Pula (Pola), largest city of Istria, Croatia, a Roman-founded Adriatic port with 52,220 residents (2021). Known for the Arena amphitheatre, sixth largest preserved, and its Austro-Hungarian naval port history.
Pulaski, Tennessee
Pulaski, Tennessee: county seat of Giles County in southern Middle Tennessee, founded 1809 and named for Count Pulaski. Known as the 1865 birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan; population 8,397 (2020), home of UT Southern.
Pullman, Washington
Pullman, Washington: largest city in Whitman County and home of Washington State University's main campus, incorporated 1888, population about 33,756 (2025 estimate), set in the Palouse's four-hill college town.
Pune (पुणे)
Pune (पुणे), also called Poona, is Maharashtra's second-largest city after Mumbai, at the Mula-Mutha river confluence. Known as the Oxford of the East and cultural capital of Maharashtra, it is an auto, IT, and education hub with an expanding metro.
Punggol
Punggol is a planning area and HDB new town in Singapore's North-East Region, redeveloped from farmland into a smart eco-town of nearly 200,000 people, home to the 50-hectare Punggol Digital District, SIT campus, and Punggol Coast MRT station.
Puning
Puning (普宁) is a county-level city in eastern Guangdong, China, administered under Jieyang. Founded as a county in 1563, it is a major textile and garment hub.
Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas, Chile: capital of the Magallanes region on the Strait of Magellan, founded 1848 after Fuerte Bulnes; ~126,000 people, 17,846 km² commune, west winds over 120 km/h, duty-free zone, green hydrogen.
Punta Cana
Punta Cana, originally Punta Borrachón, is the Dominican Republic's leading beach resort region on the country's eastern tip, developed from 1969 by Frank Rainieri and Theodore Kheel, home to Punta Cana International Airport and over 50 km of beaches.
Punta del Este
Punta del Este is a resort city in Maldonado, Uruguay, where the Río de la Plata meets the Atlantic and one of South America's best-known beach resorts.
Punta Gorda, Florida
Punta Gorda, Florida: Charlotte County city on Charlotte Harbor, founded as Trabue in 1884, incorporated 1887; railroad and fishing port, landfall site of Hurricane Charley (2004), population about 20,000.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Punxsutawney is a borough in Jefferson County, western Pennsylvania, home of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil and the annual Groundhog Day ceremony at Gobbler's Knob; population 5,769 (2020), incorporated 1850.
Puri (ପୁରୀ)
Puri (ପୁରୀ) is a coastal city in Odisha, India, seat of the 12th-century Jagannath Temple, one of the Char Dham pilgrimage centres, and home of the annual Rath Yatra chariot festival.
Purnia (city)
Purnia (पूर्णिया, Purnea), Bihar city, headquarters of Purnia district and Purnea division; municipal corporation of 46 wards; 2011 population 282,248 (UA 312,669); district formed 10 February 1770.
Purwokerto
Purwokerto is a large town in Central Java, Indonesia, the capital of Banyumas Regency at the base of Mount Slamet, and a busy transit point between Jakarta and Yogyakarta.
Pushkar (पुष्कर)
Pushkar (पुष्कर), Rajasthan pilgrimage town 15 km from Ajmer, site of sacred Pushkar Lake with 52 ghats, the world-famous Brahma temple, and the annual five-day Pushkar Camel Fair, one of the world's largest cattle fairs.
Putian
Putian (莆田市) is a prefecture-level city in central coastal Fujian, China; birthplace of Mazu, a National Historical and Cultural City, and a footwear and arts-and-crafts manufacturing hub with 3.18 million residents.
Puttaparthi (పుట్టపర్తి)
Puttaparthi (పుట్టపర్తి), formerly Gollapalli, is a town in Sri Sathya Sai district, Andhra Pradesh, birthplace of Sathya Sai Baba and site of the Prasanthi Nilayam ashram; population 31,610, a 2nd Grade Municipality since 2023.
Puyloubier
Puyloubier, commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, France (INSEE 13079), on the southern piedmont of Montagne Sainte-Victoire; wine village of AOC Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire, Roman villa sites, Saint-Ser ermitage, Domaine Capitaine Danjou.
Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk (Пятигорск), resort city in Stavropol Krai, Russia; largest city of the Caucasian Mineral Waters with over 40 mineral springs, founded 1780, named 1830 after Mount Beshtau, Lermontov's duel site, and center of the North Caucasus Federal District since 2010.
Pylos (Πύλος)
Pylos (Πύλος), medieval Navarino, is a town in Messenia, Greece, home to the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor and its ~1,100 Linear B tablets, the 425 BC Spartan surrender at Sphacteria, and the 1827 Battle of Navarino.
Pyongyang (평양)
Pyongyang (평양), capital of North Korea, is a closed, privileged planned city of about 3 million. Distinguished by socialist micro-district planning, the completed 50,000-flat Hwasong housing drive (2021–2026), jangmadang marketization, and Kim Jong-un's 2026 "global city" pledge.
Pyramiden (Пирамида)
Pyramiden (Пирамида, "the Pyramid") is a former Soviet coal-mining settlement on the Billefjorden in central Svalbard, Norway, abandoned as a mining community in 1998 and now visited by tourists as a preserved ghost town.
Pyrgos, Elis
Pyrgos (Πύργος), capital of the Elis regional unit in the Western Peloponnese, Greece; named for a 1512 tower, port Katakolo, 19 km from Ancient Olympia; municipality formed 2011, population about 25,600.
Qā’em Shahr
Qā’em Shahr (Persian: قائمشهر), formerly Shahi, is a city in northern Iran's Mazandaran province, capital of Qaem Shahr County, with about 205,000 people in 2016.
Qaanaaq
Qaanaaq, also the current Greenlandic name for Thule, is Greenland's northernmost town, founded in 1953 when 116 Inughuit were relocated from Uummannaq for the Thule Air Base; population 619 (2021), two supply ships yearly.
Qalqilya (قلقيلية)
Qalqilya (قلقيلية), also spelled Qalqiliya, is a Palestinian city of about 56,000 in the northern West Bank, the only one fully encircled by Israel's separation wall since 2002.
Qarchak
Qarchak (قرچک), city and county capital in Tehran Province, Iran, 20 km southeast of Tehran; grew from brick-kiln village to 269,158 county population; home of the 7,000-year-old Pardis mound and Qarchak Prison.