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Tonypandy
Tonypandy is a town of 13,357 (2021) in the Rhondda Fawr valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, named for a 1738 fulling mill and known for the 1910 Tonypandy Riots; its Town Centre Strategy was adopted in February 2026.
Toowoomba
Toowoomba, the Garden City, is Queensland's largest inland city on the Darling Downs, settled from the 1840s, municipality 1860, railway 1867, GRP $15.54 billion in 2025.
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas, the state capital and fifth-largest city (about 126,000 people), home of Washburn University and the Kansas State Capitol, and the defendant city in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation ruling.
Torets'k Municipality
Torets'k Municipality (Торецька громада), also Toretsk City Council, formerly Dzerzhynska Mis'krada, is an urban hromada in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine: 19 settlements, 67.5 km², 14,034 residents, center Toretsk; institutions relocated to Ruzhyn during the war.
Torgau
Torgau, a town of about 19,000 on the Elbe in northwest Saxony between Wittenberg and Meißen, was the Ernestine electors' Renaissance residence, a Reformation center with Hartenfels Castle, and the site of the 1945 Elbe Day Allied link-up.
Toronto
Toronto, Ontario's capital and Canada's largest city (3.0 million city, 7.1 million metro), on Lake Ontario; founded as York in 1793, incorporated 1834, amalgamated 1998; major finance, tourism and transit hub.
Torquay
Torquay, Devon, England: seaside resort town in Torbay on the English Riviera, known for Kents Cavern, Torre Abbey (1196), its 1848 railway, Victorian resort heyday, and ongoing harbourside regeneration; distinct from Torquay, Victoria, Australia.
Torquay, Victoria
Torquay, Victoria: Surf Coast town on Wadawurrung country, formerly Spring Creek/Puebla, renamed 1892. Home of Bells Beach, the Rip Curl Pro, Rip Curl and Quiksilver, and the start of the Great Ocean Road.
Torrance, California
Torrance, California: a city in southwest Los Angeles County founded in 1912 by developer Jared Sidney Torrance and the Dominguez Land Company, planned by Olmsted Brothers with architect Irving Gill, incorporated May 1921; 2020 population 147,067.
Torrejón de Ardoz
Torrejón de Ardoz, a municipality of 143,526 people (2025) in the Corredor del Henares, east of Madrid; a 16th-century Villa transformed by the US air base and industry, governed by PP mayor Alejandro Navarro Prieto.
Torreón
Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico: city founded around 1850 as Rancho del Torreón, named for Leonardo Zuloaga's Nazas dam watchtower; Villa 1893, city 1907; about 808,000 inhabitants (2025 estimate).
Torrevieja
Torrevieja, coastal city in Alicante province, Valencian Community, Spain, in Vega Baja; founded on the salt lagoons of La Mata and Torrevieja, now a residential-tourism hub of over 113,000 registered inhabitants from 120 nationalities.
Tórshavn
Tórshavn, capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands on Streymoy's southeast coast, hosts the Løgting on Tinganes (parliament site since about AD 825); municipality of 23,519 people, about 41% of the national population.
Toruń
Toruń is a city in northern Poland on the Vistula River, reputed birthplace in 1473 of Nicolaus Copernicus, whose medieval old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Totnes
Totnes is a historic market town in South Hams, Devon, at the lowest bridging point of the River Dart, population 10,419 (2021). Known for its Norman castle, Saxon burh origins, and as the founding site of the Transition Towns movement in 2006.
Tottori-shi
Tottori-shi (鳥取市), Tottori City, is the capital and largest city of Tottori Prefecture, Japan, on the Sea of Japan coast. Incorporated 1889, core city 2018, area 765.31 km², population about 175,000, known for the Tottori Sand Dunes.
Touba, Diourbel Region
Touba (Diourbel Region, Senegal): holy city of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood, founded 1887 by Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba; second-largest Senegalese city (1,120,824 in 2023 census); hosts the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage on 18 Safar, drawing millions and generating over 630 billion FCFA.
Toulon
Toulon is a commune in southeastern France and the prefecture of the Var department, best known as the home of France's principal naval base on the Mediterranean.
Toulouse
Toulouse, la ville rose: fourth-largest French city (514,819 commune, 841,524 Métropole, 2023), capital of Haute-Garonne and Occitania, European aerospace hub (Airbus, CNES, Thales Alenia Space), Canal du Midi, 120,000 students, third metro line under construction.
Tourcoing
Tourcoing, commune in Nord, France (INSEE 59599), near Belgium in the Lille metropolis; former textile city, 98,772 residents in 2023, MUba museum, Bourgogne renewal, Extramobile tramway.
Tours
Tours, prefecture of Indre-et-Loire in the Loire Valley, France; ancient Caesarodunum, city of Saint Martin and Louis XI. 139,259 inhabitants (2023), seat of Tours Métropole Val de Loire.
Town
A town is a settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city; internationally defined by DEGURBA as a dense cluster of 5,000 to under 50,000 people, with varied national legal and statistical definitions.
Townsville
Townsville, North Queensland city on Cleveland Bay, largest regional city outside Queensland's southeast; population 206,260 (2025), founded 1864, named for Robert Towns, dry tropical climate, major port and defence centre.
Towson, Maryland
Towson, Maryland is an unincorporated census-designated place and the county seat of Baltimore County, just north of Baltimore. Population 59,553 (2020); home to Towson University, founded 1866, with a $2.5 billion economic impact.
Toyama (city)
Toyama (富山市) is the prefectural capital of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, with about 414,000 residents. Known for its Edo-period medicine trade, glass industry, and pioneering compact city policy recognized by the OECD in 2012.
Toyohashi
Toyohashi (豊橋市) is a core city in southeastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan, founded August 1, 1906 as Japan's 62nd city; former castle town Yoshida on the Tokaido, home to about 361,000 people, Mikawa Port's automobile imports, and tezutsu fireworks.
Toyokawa
Toyokawa (豊川市) is a city in southeastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan, founded in 1943 around the Toyokawa Naval Arsenal; known for Toyokawa Inari temple, the Toyogawa River, and about 182,000 residents.
Toyonaka
Toyonaka (豊中市) is a core city in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan, with about 398,000 residents on 36.6 km². Incorporated in 1936 after Hankyu railway suburban development, it contains part of Senri New Town, Japan's first large-scale planned new town, and Osaka International Airport.
Toyota, Aichi
Toyota (豊田市) is a city in central Aichi Prefecture, Japan, formerly Koromo until its 1959 renaming. Home to Toyota Motor Corporation's headquarters and six plants, it covers 918.32 km², has about 412,000 residents, and leads Japan in manufacturing shipment value.
Tozeur (توزر)
Tozeur (توزر), oasis city in southwestern Tunisia and capital of the Djerid on the Chott el Jerid salt lake; ~400,000 date palms, patterned-brick Ouled el Hadef medina, Star Wars film sites, and Tozeur-Nefta airport distinguish it from Douz and other desert gateways.