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Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney, Nova Scotia: town founded 1785, capital of the colony of Cape Breton until 1820, named for Lord Sydney; steel and coal port on Sydney Harbour, now Cape Breton's largest community.
Syktyvkar
Syktyvkar (Сыктывкар), formerly Ust-Sysolsk until 1930, is the capital of the Komi Republic, Russia, at the Sysola-Vychegda confluence, 1,410 km northeast of Moscow; about 220,000 residents, pulp-and-paper and woodworking industries, founded 1780.
Sylhet (সিলেট)
Sylhet (সিলেট) is a city on the Surma River in northeastern Bangladesh, seat of Sylhet Division and Sylhet City Corporation (79.50 sq km, 42 wards, about 1 million people). Known for tea gardens and Shah Jalal's shrine, it faces severe waterlogging and rapid urban growth.
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York: Onondaga County seat and Central New York hub, once the nation's salt producer via the Erie Canal, now known for 126 inches of annual snow, high poverty, the I-81 Community Grid, and Micron's $100 billion fab project in nearby Clay.
Syracuse, Sicily
Syracuse (Siracusa), southeastern Sicily: Greek colony founded by Corinthians in 734 BC, Cicero's 'greatest Greek city', Byzantine capital under Constans II, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005 with Pantalica.
Syzran
Syzran (Сызрань) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia, founded in 1683 as a Volga fortress by voivode Kozlovsky; population 167,858, known for its 1683 Spasskaya Tower kremlin and historic merchant center.
Szczecin
Szczecin, also known by its German name Stettin, is a major city and Baltic port in northwestern Poland on the Oder River, and the capital of the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship.
Szeged
Szeged (Szeged, Hungary) is Hungary's third-largest city, on the Tisza–Maros confluence near the Serbian and Romanian borders. Known for the 1879 flood reconstruction, Szegedi paprika PDO, the University of Szeged, and the new BYD car factory.
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár (Alba Regia, Stuhlweissenburg), central Hungarian city of about 97,000, seat of Fejér county; founded 972 by Géza, coronation and burial town of Hungarian kings, home of Bory Castle.
Szombathely
Szombathely (Savaria, Stein am Anger), seat of Vas county in western Hungary, 76,389 residents in 2026; Roman colonia founded by Claudius on the Amber Road, home of the Iseum and Savaria Museum.
Ta'if
Ta'if (الطائف), Saudi mountain city in Makkah Region at 1,879 m elevation, 100 km from Makkah; about 1.1 million people, mild climate, and a famous Rosa damascena rose industry producing hundreds of millions of blooms yearly.
Tabora
Tabora is a town and regional capital in west-central Tanzania, founded in 1852 by Arab traders as the caravan hub Kazeh; junction of the Central Line railway to Kigoma and Mwanza, 2022 municipal population 308,741.
Tabriz (تبریز)
Tabriz (تبریز), largest city of northwest Iran and capital of East Azerbaijan province, about 1.6 million people; first Safavid capital from 1501, rebuilt after the 1780 earthquake, home of the UNESCO-listed Historic Bazaar.
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Tabuk (تبوك) is the capital city of Tabuk Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia, on the old Medina-Damascus caravan route. Population 623,665 (2022 census); landmarks include Tabuk Castle, al-Tawbah Mosque, and the Hejaz Railway Station.
Tachikawa, Tokyo
Tachikawa (立川市) is a city of about 186,000 people in western Tokyo's Tama region, a rail hub around Tachikawa Station, home to Showa Kinen Park, a former base town incorporated in 1940.
Tacloban
Tacloban (Siyudad han Tacloban), a highly urbanized city in Leyte, Philippines, is the regional center of Eastern Visayas. Chartered in 1952, hit by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, population 259,353 (2024).
Tacna (city)
Tacna, southernmost city of Peru and capital of the Tacna region near the Chile border; 'Ciudad Heroica' (1828), Chilean-occupied 1880–1929, returned by the Treaty of Lima; about 286,000 residents (2017).
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma, Washington: third-largest city in Washington and seat of Pierce County on Commencement Bay, Puget Sound. Northern Pacific terminus (1873), Port of Tacoma (1918), population 229,816 (2025 estimate).
Taganrog
Taganrog (Таганрог), Russian port city in Rostov Oblast on the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov, 70 km west of Rostov-on-Don; founded 1698 under Peter I, birthplace of Anton Chekhov, industrial port struck repeatedly in the 2022–2026 war.
Tagaytay
Tagaytay is a component city in Cavite, Philippines, chartered in 1938, about 56 km south of Manila on a 600-meter ridge overlooking Taal Volcano; a cool-climate weekend tourist destination facing water, traffic, and volcanic-hazard pressures.
Taguig
Taguig (Lungsod ng Taguig) is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines, population 1,308,085 (2024), with 38 barangays including the ten EMBO villages won from Makati in a Supreme Court boundary ruling, and home to Bonifacio Global City.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Tahlequah, Oklahoma: county seat of Cherokee County and capital of the Cherokee Nation, founded 1839 after the Trail of Tears, incorporated 1843, population 16,209 (2020), home of Northeastern State University.
Taicang
Taicang (太仓市) is a county-level city of Suzhou, Jiangsu, on the Yangtze estuary 50 km from Shanghai. Known for Taicang Port (8.736 million TEU in 2025), over 530 German firms, and historic Liujiagang, Zheng He's departure point.
Taichung (台中)
Taichung (臺中/台中), central Taiwan's special municipality since the 2010 city-county merger, is Taiwan's second-largest city with 2,868,465 residents across 29 districts, anchored by precision machinery, the Central Taiwan Science Park, Port of Taichung, and the 2021 MRT Green Line.
Tainan (台南)
Tainan (台南), also known historically as Tayouan and Tainan-fu, is Taiwan's oldest city and a special municipality of 1.85 million on the Chianan Plain, with Dutch Fort Zeelandia heritage, over 1,600 temples, and the Southern Taiwan Science Park semiconductor cluster.
Taipei (台北)
Taipei (台北), capital of Taiwan at the northeastern tip of the Taipei Basin: 271.8 km², 12 districts, 2.43 million people, densest city in Taiwan, MRT-served, subtropical monsoon climate, and Taiwan's political and economic center.
Taiping, Perak
Taiping, Perak (formerly Klian Pauh), a heritage tin-mining town in Larut, Matang and Selama District, Malaysia. Founded after the 1874 Pangkor Treaty, capital of Perak 1880s–1937, site of the country's first railway and first x-ray hospital.
Taitō (台東区)
Taitō (台東区), a Tokyo special ward formed 15 March 1947 by merging Shitaya and Asakusa wards, covers 10.11 km² with about 200,000 residents; it contains Sensō-ji, Ueno Park, and the Tokyo National Museum.
Taiyuan (太原)
Taiyuan (太原), also Jinyang or Longcheng, is the capital of Shanxi province, China, founded 497 BC and renamed after the Qin conquest of 228 BC; a Tier 2 heavy-industry city on the Fen River.
Taiz
Taiz (تعز), Yemen's third largest city, a medieval Ayyubid and Rasulid capital in the southwestern highlands on Jabal Sabir, long water-scarce and besieged by Houthi forces since 2015 and encircled again in October 2026.