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Béjaïa
Béjaïa (Bougie), Algerian Mediterranean port city and wilaya capital 230 km east of Algiers; founded as Roman Saldae, medieval Hammadid capital, Fibonacci's city, now a major port with oil pipeline terminal and refinery.
Bekasi
Bekasi: city in West Java, Indonesia, east of Jakarta in Jabodetabek; distinct from surrounding Kabupaten Bekasi. About 210.49 km², 12 districts, 2.65 million residents (2026), major industrial center and Jakarta commuter buffer, flood-prone lowlands.
Belfast
Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, founded as a chartered town in 1613 at the River Farset–Lagan confluence. It became the world's leading linen producer and a major shipbuilding city, Ireland's largest by 1911, and today has 345,418 residents.
Belgaum (ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ)
Belgaum, officially Belagavi (ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ) since 2014, is a city and district in northwestern Karnataka, formerly Venugrama. Second-largest Karnataka district by 2011 population (47,79,661), a foundry hub, and site of the state's winter legislature at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha.
Belgorod
Belgorod (Белгород) is a Russian city of about 340,000 on the Seversky Donets, founded as a 1596 fortress, capital of Belgorod Oblast, 40 km from Ukraine, and since 2022 regularly struck in the war.
Belgrade (Београд)
Belgrade, also known as Beograd or Белград, is the capital of Serbia, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, with about 1.68 million people.
Belize City
Belize City, Belize's largest city (65,222 people), principal port, and former capital until 1970, sits at or below sea level at the mouth of the Belize River, exposed to coastal, riverine, and rainfall flooding and major bridge and highway reconstruction.
Bellagio, Lombardy
Bellagio, Lombardy: the 'pearl of Lake Como', a resort town on the promontory between the lake's two southern arms, with Villa Serbelloni, Villa Melzi, the 12th-century San Giacomo basilica, and ferry links to Varenna and Menaggio.
Belleville, Illinois
Belleville, Illinois: county seat of St. Clair County, founded 1814 by George Blair (French for 'beautiful city'), largest city in southern Illinois, 2020 population 42,404, MetroLink Red Line and Scott AFB nearby.
Belleville, Ontario
Belleville, Ontario: city of 55,071 (2021) at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte, renamed from Meyers' Creek in 1816, amalgamated with Thurlow Township in 1998, and an early adopter of on-demand transit.
Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue, Washington: fifth-largest city in Washington on the east side of Lake Washington, incorporated 1953, population about 154,000-158,000, a high-tech Eastside hub with median household income $165,576 and light rail to Seattle since 2026.
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham, Washington: county seat of Whatcom County on Bellingham Bay, formed by the 1903 merger of Whatcom and Fairhaven. Population about 96,000; home of Western Washington University; high housing costs.
Bellinzona
Bellinzona, capital of Ticino, Switzerland since 1878, is a city of about 47,000 residents on the Gotthard axis, formed of 13 merged quartieri, and home to the UNESCO-listed Three Castles fortress (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro).
Bello
Bello, Antioquia, Colombia: municipality in the north of the Aburrá Valley, conurbated with Medellín, called the City of Artists, second most populous in the valley, municipality since 1913, site of the 2025 Granizal landslide.
Belmopan
Belmopan is the inland capital of Belize in Cayo District, built after Hurricane Hattie wrecked Belize City in 1961, inaugurated 1970, incorporated as a city in 2000, known as the garden city.
Belmullet
Belmullet (Béal an Mhuirthead), the main town of Erris in northwest County Mayo, Ireland, stands on the isthmus between Blacksod Bay and Broadhaven Bay; developed from the 1820s by William Henry Carter, a Gaeltacht market town linked to the 1944 D-Day weather forecast.
Bemidji, Minnesota
Bemidji, Minnesota: Beltrami County seat on Lake Bemidji, 220 miles north of the Twin Cities; population about 15,770 (2025). Known for the 1937 Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues, Bemidji State University, and its role as a regional retail, health care, and education hub.
Bến Cát
Bến Cát is a former city in Bình Dương province, southern Vietnam, about 50 km north of Ho Chi Minh City and a major industrial center.
Benalmádena
Benalmádena is a municipality in Málaga province, Andalusia, southern Spain, on the central Costa del Sol some 20 km southwest of Málaga, with a tourism-dominated economy.
Bend, Oregon
Bend, Oregon: city in Deschutes County at a bend in the Deschutes River, incorporated 1905, population 99,178 (2020). Railroad and lumber boom town turned outdoor-recreation and tourism hub with severe housing affordability strain.
Bendigo
Bendigo, Victoria: major Australian inland regional city about 150 km northwest of Melbourne, formerly Sandhurst, built on one of the world's richest 19th-century goldfields; population about 126,000.
Bendorf
Bendorf, a town in Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine; recorded as Bodofrica in 643, a Roman Limes fort site, iron industry center (Sayner Hütte, 1769), with the Kulturpark Sayn; distinct from Bendorf in Haut-Rhin, France.
Benevento
Benevento (ancient Beneventum, once Malventum) is a city in inland Campania, Italy: Roman colony from 268 BC, capital of the Lombard duchy from 571, home of the Arch of Trajan and UNESCO-listed Santa Sofia.
Bengbu (蚌埠)
Bengbu (蚌埠) is a prefecture-level city in northern Anhui, China, on the middle Huai River, nicknamed the Pearl on the Huaihe River. Known for the Neolithic Shuangdun site, its 1912 railway hub origins, and Huai River flood and pollution challenges.
Benghazi (بنغازي)
Benghazi (بنغازي), Libya's second-largest city and principal city of Cyrenaica, founded as Greek Euesperides in the sixth century BC, later Berenice; joint capital 1951, 2011 uprising origin, now eastern Libya's de facto capital.
Bengkulu (city)
Bengkulu (city), capital of Bengkulu Province, southwest Sumatra; former British settlement from 1685, home to Fort Marlborough (1714–1719); high seismic and tsunami exposure; port economy via Pulau Baai.
Benguela
Benguela: coastal city and provincial capital in western Angola, founded by the Portuguese in 1617, a major slave-trade port from the 1720s, and namesake of the Benguela Railway (CFB), the Lobito-Luau line at the heart of the Lobito Corridor.
Beni Mellal (city)
Beni Mellal (بني ملال), Morocco, capital of Béni Mellal province and the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region between the Middle Atlas and Tadla plain; founded 1668, about 222,600 residents, known for Aïn Asserdoun gardens and kasbah.
Benidorm
Benidorm, Alicante, Spain: Mediterranean mass-tourism resort founded 1325, reshaped by a 1956 vertical urban plan into Europe's densest skyscraper city and first UNE 178501-certified smart tourism destination.
Benin City
Benin City is the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria and the historic seat of the precolonial Kingdom of Benin, whose bronzes were looted by Britain in 1897.