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Wafangdian
Wafangdian (瓦房店市) is a county-level city of Dalian, Liaoning, on the Liaodong Peninsula; birthplace of China's bearing industry (ZWZ, founded 1938), 3,793 km², 905,082 residents (2020 census), 2023 GDP 113.56 billion yuan.
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga, colloquially Wagga, is NSW's largest inland city, on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. Wiradjuri country; gazetted 1849, city 1946; population over 64,000; known for the Tichborne claimant, the Chiko Roll and Murrumbidgee flooding.
Waghäusel
Waghäusel, a Große Kreisstadt in Landkreis Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, formed 1975 from Kirrlach, Waghäusel, and Wiesental; known for the Eremitage palace, the Roman Wagbachkastell, and its 1837–1995 sugar factory.
Wakayama (city)
Wakayama (和歌山市) is the capital of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, at the mouth of the Kinokawa River facing the Kii Channel. A castle town founded in 1585 and seat of the Kishū Tokugawa, it had 351,067 residents in 2025.
Wakefield
Wakefield: cathedral city in West Yorkshire on the River Calder, a medieval 'Merrie City' and inland port for coal, corn, and wool; birthplace of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
Walgett, New South Wales
Walgett, NSW: outback town on the Namoi River near its Barwon junction; name means meeting place of two rivers. Seat of Walgett Shire (22,308 km², 5,497 people), farming, opal-mining gateway, 1965 Freedom Ride site.
Walla Walla, Washington
Walla Walla, Washington: county-seat city in southeastern Washington named from Sahaptin for "many waters." Founded 1862, once largest city in Washington Territory, now a wine and college town of about 34,000.
Wallasey
Wallasey is a town on the Wirral, Merseyside, opposite Liverpool; recorded in Domesday 1086, a dormitory town grown around the Seacombe, Egremont and New Brighton Mersey ferries and New Brighton resort.
Walldorf
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg town in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis near Heidelberg; first mentioned 770, town rights 1901, birthplace of Johann Jakob Astor, and worldwide headquarters of SAP SE; distinct from Mörfelden-Walldorf and Walldürn.
Walldürn
Walldürn, a town in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the UNESCO-listed Upper German-Raetian Limes; site of Kastell Walldürn (ORL 33), a mid-2nd-century Roman fort of about 160 men, a row-type Roman bath, and a 2.2 km Limes trail.
Wallsend
Wallsend, a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, on the River Tyne's north bank. Named for the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall at Segedunum Roman fort; later a coal mining and shipbuilding center undergoing town centre regeneration.
Walnut Creek, California
Walnut Creek, California: an East Bay city in Contra Costa County about 25 miles from San Francisco, incorporated 1914, population about 70,000, known for Broadway Plaza shopping, the Lesher Center for the Arts, and over 3,000 acres of preserved open space.
Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Walnut Grove, Minnesota: small city (808 people) in southwest Redwood County, founded 1870s on Plum Creek; childhood home of Laura Ingalls Wilder, setting of the Little House TV series, home to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum.
Walsall
Walsall, a West Midlands market town in the Black Country, England, famed for saddlery and leather goods; also called the home of The Saddlers. Known for its leather museum, medieval market, and Sister Dora statue.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham, Massachusetts: "Watch City" in Middlesex County, 9 miles west of Boston on the Charles River; incorporated 1738, city 1884; home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, Waltham Watch Company, Brandeis, and Bentley.
Wānaka
Wānaka, formerly Pembroke, is a lakeside South Island New Zealand town of about 9,000 at the southern end of Lake Wānaka, a base for Mt Aspiring National Park, Treble Cone, and Cardrona, named from wānanga, place of learning.
Wanxian
Wanxian (万县), today's Wanzhou District (万州区) of Chongqing, was a major upper Yangtze river port renamed Wanzhou District in 1998, and bore the largest Three Gorges resettlement.
Warangal (వరంగల్)
Warangal (వరంగల్), historically Orugallu, is a major city in Telangana, India, former Kakatiya capital (12th–14th centuries), a 2016 Smart City, home to UNESCO-listed Ramappa Temple nearby, with 1.08 million district population (2011).
Warder
Warder: town in Ethiopia's Somali Region near the Somalia border, a pastoralist market center in the Dollo/Doolo zone with a hot desert climate, chronic water-supply gaps, and major drought-resilience programs.
Warkworth, New Zealand
Warkworth (Puhinui) is a historic town at the head of the Mahurangi River in North Auckland, New Zealand, founded by John Anderson Brown around a water-powered sawmill and serving as the hub of the Matakana Coast.
Warner Robins, Georgia
Warner Robins, Georgia, the International City, is a Houston County city of about 88,000 created in 1943 around Robins Air Force Base, Georgia's largest single-site industrial complex, and named for Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins.
Warren, Michigan
Warren, Michigan: third-largest Michigan city in Macomb County, population 139,387 (2020), incorporated 1957, home of the 710-acre GM Global Technical Center and Army TACOM.
Warri
Warri, Nigeria: oil and port city in Delta State, western Niger Delta, seat of the Warri Kingdom under the Olu of Warri (Ogiame Atuwatse III). Known for its 1978 refinery, multi-ethnic Ijaw-Itsekiri-Urhobo politics, and the 2022-ordered ward delineation.
Warrington
Warrington is a market town and unitary borough in Cheshire, England, on the River Mersey between Liverpool and Manchester. Known for Roman Wilderspool, its medieval market, the wire industry ('The Wire'), New Town status, and 215,425 residents (2025 estimate).
Warsaw
Warsaw (Warszawa), capital and largest city of Poland on the Vistula; royal capital under Sigismund III Vasa from 1596, destroyed after the 1944 Uprising, rebuilt, population about 1.87 million.
Warwick
Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon. Founded as a Saxon burh in 914 by Ethelfleda, it is distinguished from Warwick Castle (built 1068) and from Warwick, Bermuda.
Wasaga Beach
Wasaga Beach is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, on Georgian Bay, home to the world's longest freshwater beach (14 km), Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, over 24,000 residents, and the Destination Wasaga beachfront redevelopment.
Washington metropolitan area
Washington metropolitan area (Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV; the DMV): the U.S. metropolitan statistical area centered on Washington, D.C., spanning DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Seventh-most populous U.S. metro, about 6.44 million residents in 2024, growing 1.4% in 2023-2024.
Washington, Tyne and Wear
Washington, Tyne, and Wear: a New Town in the City of Sunderland designated 24 July 1964, built around mining villages, home to Washington Old Hall of George Washington's family and Nissan's Sunderland plant; Metro extension planned by 2033.
Wasilla, Alaska
Wasilla, Alaska: first-class city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, founded 1917 as an Alaska Railroad town, incorporated 1974, Iditarod headquarters, 2020 census population 9,054, about 43 miles north of Anchorage.