Cities and towns

Te Aroha

Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand spa town at the foot of Mount Te Aroha (952 m); springs gifted by chief Te Mōkena Hou, gold boom from 1880, leading 1880s–1890s health resort, Edwardian Domain and Mokena Geyser remain.

Tébessa

Tébessa (ancient Theveste/Thevestis), city in eastern Algeria near the Tunisian border; Roman colony, seat of Legio III Augusta, with arch of Caracalla, temple of Minerva, basilica of St. Crispina, Byzantine wall; UNESCO tentative list 2025.

Techiman

Techiman, historically spelled Takyiman, is a city in central Ghana, capital of the Bono East Region and of the traditional Bono state, successor to Bonoman.

Tecumseh, Michigan

Tecumseh, Michigan, a small city in Lenawee County founded in 1824 by Musgrove Evans and named for the Shawnee chief Tecumseh; 2020 population 8,680 on 5.65 square miles.

Tegal

Tegal (Kota Tegal) is a coastal city in western Central Java, Indonesia, on the Pantura corridor; founded by Ki Gede Sebayu (1580), a former VOC port and sugar-export center, now a metalworking hub prone to tidal flooding.

Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras and its largest city, founded 1578 as a Spanish silver-mining settlement; made national capital in 1880 under Marco Aurelio Soto, joined with Comayagüela as the Distrito Central in 1937.

Tehachapi, California

Tehachapi, California, is a city of about 12,000 in Kern County, set on a ridge between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert, known for the Tehachapi Loop and wind energy.

Tehran (تهران)

Tehran (تهران), capital and largest city of Iran at the foot of the Alborz mountains; Qajar capital since 1785, transformed under the Pahlavis, now a megacity of over 8.8 million facing severe water crisis and land subsidence.

Tehuacán

Tehuacán is a city and municipality in southeastern Puebla, Mexico, second most populous in the state (327,312 in 2020), seat of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, a 2018 UNESCO mixed World Heritage site noted for early plant domestication and ancient irrigation.

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv (תל אביב; Tel Aviv-Yafo), Israeli Mediterranean city founded 1909 as a garden suburb of Jaffa, merged with Jaffa in 1950; noted for the Geddes-planned White City, a 2003 UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bauhaus-era Modern Movement architecture.

Telde

Telde, a municipality in eastern Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain), second most populous on the island with 104,933 inhabitants (2025); site of the 1351 first Canarian diocese, a pre-Hispanic guanartemato, over 100 archaeological sites, and the Sanmao route.

Telford

Telford is a Shropshire new town, designated as Dawley New Town in 1963 and renamed in 1968 after engineer Thomas Telford, built on reclaimed East Shropshire coalfield land and containing the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site.

Telluride, Colorado

Telluride, Colorado: San Juan Mountains box-canyon town, founded 1878 as Columbia, silver-mining boom town, National Historic Landmark District (1961), now a ski resort and festival destination with a free gondola to Mountain Village.

Teluknaga

Teluknaga (Kecamatan Teluknaga), "Dragon Bay", is a coastal district of 13 villages in northern Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia, near Jakarta; 40.58 km2, 138,330 people (2010), a desakota peri-urban fishing and trade area.

Temara

Temara (تمارة), Morocco: city of about 380,000, seventh largest, chef-lieu of Skhirat-Témara prefecture in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra; a dormitory and satellite city south of Rabat with Almohad-era origins.

Temecula, California

Temecula is a city in Riverside County, California, about 60 miles north of San Diego, incorporated December 1, 1989 and named for the Luiseño place 'Éxva Teméeku; known for Old Town and nearly 50 wineries.

Tempe, Arizona

Tempe is a city of about 190,000 in Maricopa County, Arizona, in the East Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area, and home to Arizona State University's historic Tempe campus.

Temple, Texas

Temple, Texas: Bell County city on the I-35 corridor, founded 1880 as a Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rail camp named for engineer Bernard Moore Temple; a leading Southwest medical center with 82,073 residents in 2020.

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Temuco

Temuco (Temuko) is the capital of Chile's La Araucanía Region and Cautín Province, founded 24 February 1881 by Manuel Recabarren as a frontier fort on the Cautín River; 2024 census population 292,518.

Tengchong

Tengchong (腾冲) is a city and volcanic field in western Yunnan, China, near Myanmar, with Holocene volcanoes (Dayingshan, Maanshan, Heikongshan), the Rehai geothermal field, and intraplate volcanism on the SE Tibetan Plateau margin.

Tenkodogo

Tenkodogo (Tänküdgo in Moore) is a Mossi kingdom and town in Burkina Faso's Centre-Est region, regarded by oral tradition as the oldest of the Mossi kingdoms and their point of origin.

Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan, founded 1325 by the Mexica (Aztecs), was the island capital of the Triple Alliance in Lake Texcoco; razed by Cortés in 1521-1522, it lies beneath Mexico City, with the Templo Mayor and Huei Tzompantli excavated in its Historic Centre.

Tepeaca

Tepeaca is a city and municipality in Puebla, Mexico, known for its ancient market and founded by Hernán Cortés as Villa de Segura de la Frontera in 1520.

Tepeapulco

Tepeapulco is a town and municipality in Hidalgo, Mexico, whose name in Nahuatl means "next to the great hill"; it is known for the Xihuingo archaeological zone and for Bernardino de Sahagún's 16th-century fieldwork there.

Tepic

Tepic, capital of Nayarit, Mexico; formerly the name of the whole territory before 1917 statehood. Municipality of 425,924 (2020), 86.72% of the Tepic-Xalisco metro zone; agricultural export hub.

Tepoztlán

Tepoztlán, Morelos, a Pueblo Mágico below the Sierra del Tepozteco; former Xochimilca señorío (1200–1220), conquered 1452, home of the pulque-god sanctuary El Tepozteco and the Ex Convento de la Natividad.

Teresópolis

Teresópolis is a Brazilian municipality in Rio de Janeiro state, the state's highest city at 871 meters, named for Empress Teresa Cristina and founded in 1891.

Ternate, North Maluku

Ternate (Kota Ternate) is an island city in North Maluku, Indonesia, on volcanic Ternate Island under Mount Gamalama. Former de facto provincial capital 1999–2010, seat of the 1257 Sultanate of Ternate, population about 218,853 in 2026.

Terni

Terni (Interamna Nahars) is an Umbrian city on the Nera river, founded per tradition in 672 BC, home to the 165 m Marmore Falls and Italy's steel industry since 1884; population about 106,000.