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Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh: city and district headquarters in the Moradabad region, former Rohilla princely state founded by Nawab Faizullah Khan in 1774, home of the Rampur Raza Library and the Rampuri knife.
Ramsar, Iran
Ramsar, Iran: resort city in western Mazandaran Province on the Caspian coast, formerly Sakht Sar, famed for hot springs, high natural background radiation, Pahlavi-era palaces, and the 1971 Ramsar wetlands Convention.
Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a Kent seaside town and port on the Isle of Thanet, population about 40,000, home to the UK's only Royal Harbour (George IV, 1821), built 1749-1850, a Dunkirk embarkation point.
Rancagua
Rancagua, Chile, founded 1743 as Villa Santa Cruz de Triana, is the capital of the O'Higgins Region (257,744 people, 2024 census), known for the 1814 Battle of Rancagua, El Teniente copper mine, and the National Rodeo Championship.
Ranchi (राँची)
Ranchi (राँची), capital of Jharkhand, India, on the Chotanagpur plateau at 645 m; former summer capital of Bihar, municipal corporation since 1979, heavy-engineering and mining hub with about 1 million people (2011).
Rancho Cucamonga, California
Rancho Cucamonga is a general law city in western San Bernardino County, California, incorporated in 1977 from Cucamonga, Alta Loma, and Etiwanda; population about 174,453 (2020), area 46.5 square miles.
Rancho Mirage, California
Rancho Mirage is a Coachella Valley city in Riverside County, California, incorporated in 1973, known for country clubs, golf resorts, Desert Modern architecture, and the Disney Cotino community; population about 17,900, heavily retired and affluent.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Rancho Palos Verdes is a 1973-incorporated general law city in Los Angeles County on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, population about 39,654 (2025 estimate), known for the ongoing Portuguese Bend landslide, FEMA-funded buyouts, and dewatering remediation.
Rangiora
Rangiora is a town in the Waimakariri District of North Canterbury, New Zealand. It is the largest town in the district, with a 2023 population of 18,855 people.
Rangpur
Rangpur (রংপুর) is a major city and administrative center in northern Bangladesh, headquarters of Rangpur Division, which was formed in 2010 from eight northwestern districts.
Ranikhet (रानीखेत)
Ranikhet (रानीखेत), "queen's meadow", is a cantonment hill town in Almora district, Uttarakhand, at about 1,829 m. British cantonment since 1869, headquarters of the Kumaon Regimental Centre, with one of Asia's highest golf courses and the Chaubatia fruit orchards.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Rapid City, South Dakota: largest city of western South Dakota, founded 1876 as Hay Camp by Brennan and Scott; gateway to Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills; hit by the deadly 1972 flash flood; 2020 census population 74,703.
Raqqa (الرقة)
Raqqa (الرقة), a city on the Euphrates in northern Syria; ancient Kallinikos, Abbasid imperial capital under Harun al-Rashid, later the Islamic State's de facto capital (2014–2017), retaken by the SDF in 2017 and by the Syrian government in January 2026.
Ráquira
Ráquira is a municipality in Boyacá, Colombia, known nationally as the country's artisan capital for its pottery and ceramics, a tradition dating to the Muisca people.
Ras Al Khaimah (رأس الخيمة)
Ras Al Khaimah (رأس الخيمة), the UAE's northernmost emirate, historically Julfar, ruled by Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi. Known for Jebel Jais, manufacturing-led economy, 1.35M visitors in 2025, and the $3.9 billion Wynn resort opening 2027.
Rasht (رشت)
Rasht (رشت), capital of Gilan province and largest Iranian Caspian coast city, at 5 m elevation between the Zarjub and Gowhar-rud rivers; UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy since 2015, historic silk-trade hub and 1920-21 Socialist Republic of Persia capital.
Rason (라선)
Rason (라선), formerly Rajin-Sonbong, is North Korea's first special economic zone, established December 1991 near the China and Russia borders around an ice-free port; it became a special city in 2010 and shifted toward tourism after 2023 sanctions-era decline.
Rastatt
Rastatt is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the seat of the district of Rastatt, known for its Baroque Residential Palace and the 1714 Treaty of Rastatt.
Ratingen
Ratingen, town in Kreis Mettmann, North Rhine-Westphalia, northeast of Düsseldorf; chartered 1276 by Count Adolf von Berg, site of the 1783/84 Cromford mill, first mechanical cotton spinning factory on the European continent; about 89,000 residents.
Ratlam (रतलाम)
Ratlam (रतलाम) is a city and district in Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, formerly a Rathore Rajput princely state founded by Ratan Singh around 1650. Known for its 1829 new town, opium and salt trade, and GI-registered Ratlami Sev namkeen.
Ratnagiri (रत्नागिरी)
Ratnagiri (रत्नागिरी) is a Konkan coastal district of Maharashtra on the Arabian Sea, headquarters Ratnagiri town; 1.6 million people (2011), famed for Alphonso mangoes, cashew, fisheries, Ganpatipule temple, Tilak's birthplace, and proposed 17,200 MW nuclear projects.
Raurkela Industrial Township
Raurkela (Rourkela) Industrial Township, the Steel Township of Rourkela, Odisha: planned company township of the Rourkela Steel Plant, 210,412 residents (2011), Krupp-Demag master plan, administered by SAIL's RSP.
Ravenna
Ravenna, Adriatic city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402 AD and later Ostrogothic and Byzantine capital, with eight UNESCO early Christian mosaic monuments and Italy's only 11-km canal-port handling over 26 million tonnes a year.
Ravensburg
Ravensburg is a Große Kreisstadt of about 50,500 people in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, between Lake Constance and the Allgäu. A former free imperial city (1276) and home of the Great Ravensburg Trading Company, it is known as the city of towers and gates and for Ravensburger games.
Rawalpindi (راولپنڈی)
Rawalpindi (راولپنڈی) is Pakistan's fourth most populous city, in the Pothohar region of Punjab near Islamabad. It hosts the Pakistan Army's GHQ and served as national capital from 1959 to 1969.
Reading, Berkshire
Reading, Berkshire: Thames Valley town and unitary borough at the Kennet-Thames confluence, 182,907 residents, major UK tech and insurance center, M4 and rail hub, Saxon origins and 1121 abbey.
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania: county seat of Berks County in the Schuylkill Valley, founded 1748 by Thomas and Richard Penn, incorporated as a city 1847, population 95,112 (2020), former home of the Reading Railroad.
Recklinghausen
Recklinghausen, a city of about 120,000 in North Rhine-Westphalia at the Münsterland-Ruhr border, seat of Kreis Recklinghausen; first mentioned 1017, town since 1236, home of the Ruhrfestspiele since 1947.
Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer, Alberta: Alberta's third largest city, incorporated 1913, midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor on the QEII Highway; 115,409 residents in 2025, health care, manufacturing, and oil-and-gas service economy.
Redding, California
Redding is a city and the county seat of Shasta County, California, at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley on the Sacramento River, incorporated in 1887.