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Qarshi
Qarshi, also rendered Karshi, is a city in southern Uzbekistan and the administrative center of Kashkadarya Region, built on the ancient city of Nasaf and celebrated under UNESCO auspices in 2006 as 2,700 years old.
Qart-Hadast (Spain)
Qart-Hadast (Qart Hadasht, 'New City') was the Carthaginian capital in Iberia, founded by Hasdrubal c. 227 BCE at modern Cartagena, Spain, over Mastia; captured by Scipio in 209 BCE and renamed Carthago Nova.
Qazvin
Qazvin (قزوین), city in northwestern Iran 130 km west of Tehran; Safavid capital 1548-1596/98 under Tahmasb and Abbas I before Isfahan; known for Chehel Sotun pavilion, Ali Qapu gate, Sa'd al-Saltaneh caravanserai, and Bāghestān gardens.
Qianjiang, Hubei
Qianjiang (潜江), Hubei, a province-directly-administered city on the Jianghan Plain: home of the Jianghan Oilfield, birthplace of China's rice-crayfish co-culture and the 'Hometown of Chinese Crawfish', and hometown of playwright Cao Yu; 2025 GDP 101.45 billion yuan.
Qibao
Qibao (七宝) is a historic canal town in Minhang District, Shanghai, named for its Seven Treasures temple, liberated May 15, 1949, and now a metro-accessible food and folk-culture destination.
Qina, Qena
Qena (Qina, Qinā) is a city in Upper Egypt, capital of Qena Governorate on the east bank of the Nile; ancient Kaine and Maximianopolis, near Dendera, a sugarcane center producing about half of Egypt's sugar.
Qingdao (青岛市)
Qingdao (青岛市), a major port city on Shandong's coast with 10.44 million people, 2025 GDP of 1,756 billion yuan, China's fourth-largest coastal port by cargo, and a German-leased colonial past (1898–1914).
Qingyang, Gansu
Qingyang (庆阳市) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu on the Loess Plateau, at the Gansu-Shaanxi-Ningxia junction; an oil, coal, and agriculture center and a national "East Data, West Computing" hub with about 2.13 million residents.
Qingyuan, Guangdong
Qingyuan (清远市) is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong, China, created in 1988 from Qingyuan County; Guangdong's largest prefecture-level city by area (19,000 km2), with about 3.99 million residents and a 2024 GDP of 225.3 billion yuan.
Qingzhou
Qingzhou (青州) is a county-level city in Weifang, Shandong, China, named for one of the ancient Nine Provinces; a former Shandong capital and Ming prefecture, known for the 1996 Longxing Temple Buddhist statue hoard.
Qionghai
Qionghai (琼海市), a county-level city on Hainan's east coast at the Wanquan River mouth, is the permanent site of the Boao Forum for Asia, with 1,710 km² of land, 515,700 residents, and a large overseas diaspora.
Qiqihar (齐齐哈尔)
Qiqihar, also known as Tsitsihar, is a prefecture-level city on the Nen River in northwestern Heilongjiang, China, known for freight wagon manufacturing and the nearby Zhalong wetland.
Qitaihe
Qitaihe (七台河市) is a prefecture-level coal city in eastern Heilongjiang, China; a designated resource-exhausted city and major coking coal base, also famed as a short track speed skating champion training hub.
Qods
Qods, also known as Shahr-e Qods, is a city in Tehran province, Iran, about 20 km west of central Tehran on the Tehran–Karaj corridor, formed in 1989 from four villages.
Qom (قم)
Qom (قم) is a city in central Iran, 125 km southwest of Tehran, a leading Shiite seminary center and pilgrimage city around the Fatima Masumeh Shrine, with over one million census population and severe water scarcity.
Qualicum Beach
Qualicum Beach is a town on the east coast of Vancouver Island, BC, north of Parksville in the Regional District of Nanaimo; incorporated 1942 as a village, 1983 as a town; pentl'ach-derived name; population about 9,387.
Quảng Ngãi (city)
Quảng Ngãi (thành phố Quảng Ngãi), provincial capital city in central Vietnam, upgraded from thị xã in 2005; liberated March 1975; center linked to Dung Quất Economic Zone and refinery.
Quantico, Virginia
Quantico, Virginia: a tiny incorporated Prince William County town, the only US town completely surrounded by a military base, Marine Corps Base Quantico, accessible only through base security gates.
Quanzhou (泉州)
Quanzhou (泉州), historically Zayton, a Fujian port city that was China's largest eastern port in the Song and Yuan dynasties; inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 as a 22-site World Heritage property, Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China.
Quartu S. Elena
Quartu S. Elena (Quartu Sant'Elena), a large town in the metropolitan city of Cagliari, Sardinia, four Roman miles from Caralis, with 38 nuraghi, the Nuraghe Diana, and the partially submerged Roman maritime villa of Sant'Andrea (2nd-4th century AD).
Quebec City
Quebec City (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 on the St. Lawrence River.
Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: Ottonian royal palatinate and capital, site of the 936 women's convent founded by Queen Mathilde, and a UNESCO World Heritage old town with over 1,300 timber-framed houses.
Queenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown, New Zealand: resort town on glacial Lake Wakatipu, Otago; 'adventure capital of the world' (bungy 1988, Coronet Peak 1947); 53,800 district residents, peak-summer swelling, tourism at 28.2% of GDP.
Quelimane
Quelimane, capital of Zambezia Province, Mozambique; port city on the Rio dos Bons Sinais founded as a Portuguese ivory trading post in 1544; low-lying city of roughly 300,000 to 350,000 people with major flood exposure.
Quetta (کوئٹہ)
Quetta (کوئٹہ), formerly known as Shalkot, is the capital and largest city of Balochistan, Pakistan, in a mountain valley near the Afghan border known as the Fruit Garden of Pakistan.
Quevedo
Quevedo, Ecuador: city and canton seat in Los Ríos Province on the Quevedo River, named for surveyor Timoteo Quevedo; cantonized 7 October 1943, agricultural and commercial hub, 150,827 inhabitants in 2010.
Quezon City
Quezon City (Lungsod Quezon), largest Philippine city by population (3.08 million in 2024) and Metro Manila land area, founded 1939, national capital 1948-1976, now hosts the Batasang Pambansa and major rail projects.
Quibdó
Quibdó, capital of Colombia's Chocó Department, is an Afro-Colombian river port on the Atrato River, departmental capital since 1947, with over 60% monetary poverty, UNESCO-listed San Pacho festival, and severe flood and earthquake risk.
Quilmes
Quilmes is a partido and city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20 km south of the capital; 125 km², 633,391 inhabitants (2022). Founded as the 1666 indigenous Reduction of the Kilmes people, declared a city in 1916, home of the Quilmes brewery.
Quincy, Illinois
Quincy, Illinois, the "Gem City," is a Mississippi River city and seat of Adams County founded by John Wood in 1819, once Illinois' second-largest city, site of an 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate, with about 39,000 residents.