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Bamenda
Bamenda, capital of Cameroon's North West Region in Mezam Division, a highland commercial hub of about 349,000 people (2026), epicenter of the Anglophone separatist conflict since 2016 and site of Pope Leo XIV's 2026 peace meeting.
Banbury
Banbury is a market town in Cherwell district, northern Oxfordshire, England, the county's largest town with about 60,000 people. Known for Banbury Cross, Banbury cakes, the Oxford Canal, Tooley's Boatyard, and its Civil War castle sieges.
Banda Aceh
Banda Aceh, capital and largest city of Indonesia's Aceh province (Serambi Mekkah), former seat of the Aceh Sultanate, renamed Kutaraja under Dutch rule, devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, rebuilt with Sharia-law status and tsunami mitigation works.
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
Banda (बाँदा) is a district and town in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India, headquarters of Chitrakoot Dham division, known for Kalinjar Fort, Shajar stone jewelry, severe water scarcity, and record heat of 48.2 °C.
Bandar Abbas
Bandar Abbas (بندرعباس), capital of Hormozgan Province on Iran's Strait of Hormuz coast, is the country's main port city, home to the Shahid Rajaee terminal handling over 85% of Iranian container trade, distinct from Chabahar outside the strait.
Bandar Lampung
Bandar Lampung, capital of Lampung Province at southern Sumatra's tip, formed from twin cities Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung; 197.22 km², 20 districts, major flood research focus, gateway port and Radin Inten II airport.
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei Darussalam in the Brunei-Muara District; renamed from Bandar Brunei on 4 October 1970 for Sultan Omar 'Ali Saifuddien; 100.36 km² municipal area, about 100,700 residents, and the Kampong Ayer water village.
Bandon, County Cork
Bandon (Droichead na Bandan) is a market town on the River Bandon in County Cork, Ireland, about 27 km southwest of Cork city. Founded as a walled plantation town in 1604 by English settlers under Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork; population 8,196 in 2022.
Bandung
Bandung, capital of West Java, Indonesia, is a highland basin city near Jakarta, site of the 1955 Asian-African Conference that founded the Non-Aligned Movement, facing flooding, subsidence, and water challenges.
Banff, Alberta
Banff, Alberta: resort town of about 8,000 inside Banff National Park, Canada's first national park (1885). Incorporated 1990; fixed 3.93 km2 townsite at 1,383 m; tourism-driven economy under federal development caps.
Bangalore
Bangalore (Bengaluru), capital of Karnataka, India, founded 1537 by Kempe Gowda; megacity of over ten million, India's third most populous city, known as the Silicon Valley of India, facing severe water stress and flooding.
Bangkok
Bangkok (กรุงเทพมหานคร, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon), Thailand's capital since 21 April 1782, a 50-district special administrative area of about 5.5 million registered people, governed by an elected governor, facing subsidence and flood risk.
Bangor, County Down
Bangor, County Down: town on Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland, also called Bangor North Down. Early monastery of St Comgall (c. 558), Antiphonary of Bangor, Hamilton plantation 1605, railway resort from 1865, now regenerating seafront.
Bangor, Gwynedd
Bangor, Gwynedd: Welsh cathedral city at the eastern Menai Strait, founded c. 525 AD by Saint Deiniol (bangor = wattle fence), Britain's oldest diocese in continuous use, home of Bangor University since 1884.
Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine, the Queen City, is a Penobscot River city of about 32,500 at the head of tide, once the world's lumber capital, incorporated as a city in 1834, rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1911, and now northern Maine's economic hub.
Bangor, ME Metro Area
Bangor, ME Metro Area: OMB-designated metropolitan statistical area covering Penobscot County, Maine, principal city Bangor. About 156,840 residents (2024), third-largest Maine metro, 276th-ranked US metro, hub for eastern Maine.
Bangui
Bangui is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic, on the Ubangi River. Founded by the French in June 1889, it had a projected 869,600 residents in 2025 and eight arrondissements.
Banhā
Banhā, also spelled Benha (Arabic: بنها), is a city on the Damietta Branch of the Nile 48 km north of Cairo, capital of Qalyubia Governorate and site of ancient Athribis.
Banī Suwayf
Banī Suwayf (Beni Suef, بني سويف) is the capital city of Beni Suef Governorate in northern Upper Egypt, about 120 km south of Cairo on the Nile's west bank, known for New Beni Suef, Heracleópolis Magna archaeology, and Beni Suef University.
Banja Luka
Banja Luka (Бања Лука), second-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina (~185,000) and seat of Republika Srpska, lies on the Vrbas river; rebuilt after the 1969 earthquake, it centers on administration, banking, and timber.
Banjar, West Java
Banjar (Kota Banjar) is a city in eastern West Java, Indonesia, on the Central Java border, formed from Ciamis Regency by Law 27/2002; 131.97 km², about 207,000 people, 2023 GRDP Rp 5.25 trillion, trade and agriculture dominated.
Banjarbaru
Banjarbaru is a city in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, the provincial capital since 2022 under Law No. 8/2022, established 20 April 1999 from Banjar Regency; 371.38 km², 262,719 people (2022), province's highest HDI.
Banjarmasin
Banjarmasin is a port city and the capital of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, on a delta of the Barito and Martapura rivers, known as the City of a Thousand Rivers.
Banjul
Banjul, formerly Bathurst until renaming, is the capital of The Gambia on an island at the Gambia River's mouth; founded by Britain in 1816, its port handles about 90% of national trade, and the city lies at sea level facing severe sea-level-rise risk.
Bannu
Bannu, formerly Daleep Nagar and Edwardesabad, is a city and district headquarters in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on the Kurram river; founded 1848, renamed 1903, agrarian Pashtun district of about 1.36 million people.
Bansko (Банско)
Bansko (Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria at the foot of the Pirin mountains, 150 km from Sofia, transformed by a 2003 gondola lift into the country's flagship ski resort.
Baoding, Hebei
Baoding (保定市), a prefecture-level city in central Hebei, China, named in 1275 for 'protecting the capital'; 22,000 km², about 11.4 million residents, National Historical and Cultural City near Beijing, with Xiong'an New Area within its territory.
Baoji (city)
Baoji (宝鸡) is a prefecture-level city in western Shaanxi, China, at the western end of the Guanzhong Plain, known for its Zhou bronzes and titanium industry.
Baoshan, Yunnan
Baoshan (保山), formerly Yongchang, is a prefecture-level city in western Yunnan, China, bordering Myanmar (167.78 km). Ancient Southern Silk Road hub, 19,637 km², 2.374 million people (2025), GDP 134.7 billion yuan, Gaoligong Mountain biodiversity, Tengchong volcanoes and hot springs.
Baotou
Baotou (包头, from Mongolian Baoketu, 'place with deer', 'Deer City') is a prefecture-level city in western Inner Mongolia bordering Mongolia, a steel, rare-earth and aluminum industrial hub known as the 'Steel City on the Grassland'.