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Vallejo, California
Vallejo, California: Solano County city on San Pablo Bay, once state capital and home of Mare Island Naval Shipyard; about 123,000 residents, ferry link to San Francisco, emerged from 2008-2011 bankruptcy.
Valletta
Valletta (Il-Belt, Città Umilissima) is the fortified capital of Malta, founded in 1566 by the Order of St John after the Great Siege and named for Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980 with 320 monuments in 55 ha.
Valparai (வால்பாறை)
Valparai (வால்பாறை) is a Selection Grade Municipality hill town in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, on the Anaimalai Hills at about 3,500 feet, known for tea and coffee plantations, 40 hairpin bends, and wildlife.
Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile's second largest city and historic Pacific port, founded 1536; World Heritage historic quarter inscribed 2003; leading merchant port until the 1914 Panama Canal opening.
Van, Turkey
Van, Turkey: city on the eastern shore of Lake Van, largest city of the Eastern Anatolia Region; ancient Urartian capital Tuşpa, rebuilt after 1918 destruction and the 2011 earthquakes, metropolitan municipality since 2012.
Vancouver
Vancouver, Canada, is a coastal seaport city of 662,248 in British Columbia, the core of a 2.65 million person metropolitan region and host of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver, Washington is a Columbia River city in Clark County across from Portland, with about 199,700 residents (2025), Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, a 2026-2045 Comprehensive Plan, and the I-5 Interstate Bridge replacement.
Vannes
Vannes (Breton Gwened) is the prefecture of Morbihan in Brittany, France, founded as Gallo-Roman Darioritum. 55,790 inhabitants (2023), mayor David Robo, ducal Breton capital, half-timbered old town on the Gulf of Morbihan.
Vapi
Vapi (Gujarati: વાપી), industrial city in Valsad district, Gujarat, India, on the Damanganga River between Daman and Dadra and Nagar Haveli; GIDC estate founded 1967, municipal corporation since 1 January 2025, a critically polluted chemical-manufacturing cluster.
Varāmīn
Varāmīn (ورامين), also Varamin, is a city in Tehran Province, Iran, capital of Varamin county about 35 miles southeast of Tehran; 225,628 people in 2016, a historic Shi'i center and Ilkhanid provincial capital known for its Jameh Mosque and melons.
Varanasi (वाराणसी)
Varanasi (वाराणसी), also called Kashi or Banaras, is an ancient city on the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh, India. A million-class city since 1991 with 1.4 million in its 2011 agglomeration, it is a major pilgrimage and tourism center facing urban sprawl and sewage-driven Ganga pollution.
Varces-Allières-et-Risset
Varces-Allières-et-Risset (INSEE 38524) is an Isère commune south of Grenoble, formed 1 July 1955 by merging Allières-et-Risset with Varces; 8,542 inhabitants in 2023, member of Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, between the Drac and Gresse rivers.
Varese
Varese, Lombard provincial capital at 382 m near the Swiss border; garden city of about 80,000 on seven hills by Lake Varese, with four provincial UNESCO sites and a manufacturing economy.
Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso
Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso: second-largest city of Mato Grosso, Brazil, founded 1867 during the Paraguayan War, emancipated 1948; industrial hub opposite Cuiabá, site of Marechal Rondon International Airport, 323,172 inhabitants (2026 estimate).
Vasco da Gama, Goa
Vasco da Gama (Vasco) is a port city in Mormugao taluka, South Goa, on the Zuari river, named by decree of 1917. It serves Mormugao Port, hosts the railway terminus, Kadamba bus stand, and lies near Dabolim airport.
Västerås
Västerås is a city and municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden, on Lake Mälaren about 100 kilometers west of Stockholm; with 161,240 inhabitants in 2025 it is Sweden's seventh largest municipality.
Vasto
Vasto (ancient Histonium) is a coastal town of about 40,600 in Chieti province, Abruzzo, on the Golden Gulf; Roman municipium, D'Avalos seat, home to Punta Aderci reserve and the Costa dei Trabocchi.
Vaughan
Vaughan is a city in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, just north of Toronto, one of Canada's fastest-growing cities, which attained city status in 1991 and had a 2021 Census population of 323,103.
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Vega Baja is a municipality on Puerto Rico's central north coast, founded 1776 as Vega Baja del Naranjal; population 54,414 (2020 Census), known for Puerto Nuevo beach, the Melao Melao nickname, and as Bad Bunny's hometown.
Vejle
Vejle is a Danish city at the head of Vejle Fjord in eastern Jutland, first mentioned in 1256. Known as "Denmark's Manchester" for its cotton industry, it grew from about 3,300 inhabitants in 1850 to a municipality of roughly 124,000 today.
Velankanni (வேளாங்கண்ணி)
Velankanni (வேளாங்கண்ணி), also Vailankanni, is a coastal town in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, home to the 16th-century Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health, a major multi-faith Catholic pilgrimage site called the Lourdes of the East.
Velbert
Velbert, the "City of Locks" in the Mettmann district, North Rhine-Westphalia, lies between Düsseldorf, Essen, and Wuppertal. First recorded 875; lock and fittings industry since about 1700; three districts, Velbert-Mitte, Langenberg, and Neviges, merged in 1975; about 82,000-85,000 residents.
Vélez-Málaga
Vélez-Málaga, capital of the Axarquía comarca in Málaga province, Spain; a 10th-century Nasrid medina taken by Ferdinand in 1487, with 87,798 inhabitants (2025), coastal nuclei Torre del Mar and Caleta de Vélez, and avocado farming.
Veliko Tarnovo (Велико Търново)
Veliko Tarnovo (Велико Търново), medieval Tarnovgrad, is a city on the Yantra River in northern Bulgaria, capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire from 1186, centered on the Tsarevets fortress with royal palace and Patriarchate.
Veliky Novgorod (Великий Новгород)
Veliky Novgorod (Великий Новгород), Novgorod the Great: ancient Russian city on the Volkhov River, first mentioned 859, capital of the medieval Novgorod Republic until Muscovy's 1478 annexation, UNESCO World Heritage site.
Vellore (வேலூர்)
Vellore (வேலூர்), Tamil Nadu: fort city and district headquarters known for Vellore Fort, the 1806 mutiny, CMC Vellore hospital, VIT, and leather exports.
Vendres
Vendres, a commune in the Hérault department, Occitanie, France, on the Étang de Vendres, known for the Gallo-Roman villa "Temple de Vénus" with baths of about 80 AD, a circular fishpond tower, and a Roman aqueduct.
Vendresse
Vendresse, Ardennes commune (INSEE 08469) in Grand Est, France, about 20 km south of Charleville-Mézières; 479 inhabitants (2022). Known for the La Cassine château and Cordeliers convent (1571, 1579), the fortified 12th-century Saint-Martin church, and the les Longues Fauchées Iron Age site.
Venice
Venice (Italian: Venezia) is a city in the Veneto region of northeast Italy, built on 118 small islands in a lagoon and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987.
Venice, Florida
Venice, Florida is a city in Sarasota County on the Gulf of Mexico, planned in the 1920s and known as the Shark Tooth Capital of the World.