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Tiverton

Tiverton, Devon market town on the River Exe; site of the Bolham Hill Roman auxiliary fort (1.4 ha, scheduled 1990), Tiverton Castle founded 1106 for Richard de Redvers, and nearby Cranmore Castle hillfort.

Tjøme

Tjøme, Norwegian island and former municipality in Vestfold (1837–2017), merged with Nøtterøy into Færder kommune on 1 January 2018; 24.5 km² island, 4,928 inhabitants (2017), known for Verdens Ende and summer tourism.

Tlalnepantla, México

Tlalnepantla de Baz, a municipality in the State of Mexico in the Mexico City metropolitan area; 672,202 inhabitants (2020), seat at 2,250 m, renamed de Baz in 1978 for Gustavo Baz Prada, mayor Raciel Pérez Cruz 2025–2027.

Tlaquepaque

Tlaquepaque (San Pedro Tlaquepaque), Jalisco municipality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area; Pueblo Mágico since 2018, famed for pottery, petatillo ceramics, blown glass, El Parian, and the Regional Ceramics Museum; 687,127 residents in 2020.

Tlaxiaco

Tlaxiaco, called Ndisi Ndu in Mixtec, is a city and municipality in the Mixteca Alta of northwestern Oaxaca, Mexico, and the seat of its district; an Aztec garrison was established there after 1451.

Tobruk (طبرق)

Tobruk (طبرق) is a port city in eastern Libya near the Egyptian border, famed for the 242-day 1941 siege, later seat of the recognized House of Representatives government, population about 135,000.

Tockington

Tockington, Gloucestershire (Tocca's tun), a South Gloucestershire village in Olveston parish, site of a large Roman courtyard villa at Tockington Park Farm excavated in 1887-8 by Sir John McLean, with a Domesday manor held by King William in 1086.

Tocumwal

Tocumwal, a Murray River town in Berrigan Shire, NSW, site of the Southern Hemisphere's largest 1942 wartime aerodrome, RAAF base to 1960, the Tocumwal Aviation Museum, gliding, and a 2021 population of 2,862.

Tofino

Tofino (n̓ačiqs) is a district municipality of about 2,000 people on the Esowista Peninsula in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia; named for Spanish hydrographer Vicente Tofino de San Miguel, post office 1909, incorporated 1932, resort municipality since 2008.

Tokoroa

Tokoroa is a forestry town in South Waikato, New Zealand, on State Highway 1, built from the 1940s to house workers at the Kinleith pulp and paper mill; named for a Ngāti Kahupungapunga rangatira, it grew fastest in the 1960s.

Tokorozawa

Tokorozawa (所沢市) is a city of about 343,000 in southwestern Saitama Prefecture, 30 km from Tokyo; site of Japan's first airfield (1911), Sayama Hills, Sakura Town, and a 2050 net-zero decarbonization ordinance.

Tokushima (city)

Tokushima (徳島市) is the capital of Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, a Yoshino River delta castle town founded in 1585, home of the August Awa Odori festival drawing over one million visitors, population about 241,000.

Tokyo (東京)

Tokyo (東京), Japan's capital and only metropolis, covers 23 special wards, Tama, and island groups; 14.273 million residents (2025), 2,199.94 km², formerly Edo, renamed 1868, metro area about 37.2 million.

Tokyo City (東京市)

Tokyo City (東京市, Tōkyō-shi) was the Japanese municipality covering central Tokyo from May 1, 1889 to July 1, 1943, growing from 15 wards to 35-ward Greater Tokyo City before abolition in the merger with Tokyo Prefecture that created Tokyo Metropolis.

Toledo, Central Visayas

Toledo (Lungsod ng Toledo) is a coastal component city in Cebu, Central Visayas, Philippines; chartered 1960, formerly Hinulawan/Jinulauan, known as the Copper City for the Atlas/Carmen Copper mine and the ferry link to San Carlos, Negros.

Toledo, Ohio

Toledo, Ohio (the Glass City) is Ohio's fourth largest city, a Lake Erie port on the Maumee River with about 263,000 residents, a glass and automotive manufacturing history, and a 300,000-resident goal for 2045.

Toledo, Spain

Toledo, Spain: historic Castilla-La Mancha capital 70 km south of Madrid, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, the "city of the three cultures" on the Tagus, a major cultural tourism destination facing depopulation and planning pressures.

Toli-Toli

Toli-Toli (Tolitoli) is a regency and town in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, capital Baolan, 4,079.77 km2, 226,794 people (2021). Former Kingdom of Tolitoli; names Totolu, Tontoli (1858), Tolitoli (1918); split from Buol in 2000; agriculture about 41% of the economy.

Toliara

Toliara (Tuléar) is a port city on Madagascar's southwest coast, capital of Atsimo-Andrefana region, ~180,000-250,000 people, semi-arid climate, home of the Great Reef of Toliara and the Toliara mineral sands project.

Toluca

Toluca, formally Toluca de Lerdo, is the capital of the State of Mexico, about 57 km west of Mexico City and known for its high altitude.

Tolyatti

Tolyatti (Тольятти, formerly Stavropol-on-Volga, Togliatti), a Volga city in Samara Oblast, Russia; founded 1737, renamed 1964 for Palmiro Togliatti, home of AvtoVAZ and Lada, about 700,000 residents in three districts.

Tomakomai

Tomakomai (苫小牧市) is a Pacific-coast city in Hokkaido, Japan, south of Sapporo; a paper-industry city since 1910 with Tomakomai Port, a major international trading port handling about a third of Hokkaido's cargo.

Tomsk

Tomsk (Томск), city in western Siberia and administrative center of Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Founded 1604 by decree of Boris Godunov; Siberia's first university (1888); noted for historic wooden architecture and student population.

Tonalá, Jalisco

Tonalá, Jalisco (Tonallán): municipality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Mexico; Jalisco's principal pottery and craft center with its Thursday and Sunday tianguis; 591,800 inhabitants (2025 estimate); municipal recognition by acuerdo 366 of 17 September 1873.

Tongchuan, Shaanxi

Tongchuan (铜川) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi, China, with about 803,700 people. A coal and cement city once called "the city invisible on satellites," it was designated resource-depleted in 2009 and is transitioning its economy.

Tongchuanshi

Tongchuanshi (Tongchuan Shi, 铜川市) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi, China, north of Xi'an. A former coal and cement base producing 70% of Shaanxi's coal, it was named resource-exhausted in 2009 and now pivots to tourism around the Yaozhou kilns, Sun Simiao, and Zhaojin.

Tonghua

Tonghua (通化) is a prefecture-level city in southeast Jilin province, China, on the Yalu River border with North Korea. Known for ginseng, wine, pharmaceuticals, and revolutionary history; GDP 592.14 billion yuan in 2025.

Tongliao

Tongliao (通辽), formerly Jirem League, is a prefecture-level city in eastern Inner Mongolia on the Horqin grassland; 59,535 km², 2.75 million residents (2025), a major corn, beef, coal, and aluminum base and center of Mongol culture.

Tongling

Tongling (铜陵), Anhui's "Copper Capital," is a prefecture-level city on the lower Yangtze with 1.3 million residents, a 3,000-year copper mining history, and a resource-based economy in transition.

Tonk (city)

Tonk, Rajasthan: district-headquarters city on NH-12, former princely state founded by Nawab Amir Khan (1806), merged into Rajasthan in 1948; known for Sunehri Kothi, Jama Masjid, and Persian-Arabic manuscript collections.