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Wilmslow
Wilmslow: mainly residential commuter town in Cheshire East, England, near Manchester; key service centre, population about 24,600, around 22 minutes by train to Manchester, known for affluence, quality shopping, and Green Belt surroundings.
Winchester
Winchester: Hampshire cathedral city, Roman Venta Belgarum and Anglo-Saxon capital of Wessex, home to Winchester Cathedral (founded 1079), about 45,000 residents, district population around 127,400, governed by Winchester City Council.
Winchester, Virginia
Winchester, Virginia: independent city and Frederick County seat at the northern Shenandoah Valley entrance; founded 1744 by James Wood; most contested Civil War town (~70 changes of hands); 28,120 people (2020); Apple Blossom Festival since 1924.
Windhoek
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia, in the central highlands at about 1,650 m. Known for the 1890 Alte Feste fort, Katutura's history, and pioneering direct potable wastewater reuse since 1968.
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor, Berkshire: Thames-side English town about 20 miles west of London, site of Windsor Castle, founded by William the Conqueror around 1070, the world's largest occupied castle, home of the Order of the Garter and a planned 12th-century town.
Windsor, New South Wales
Windsor, NSW: historic Hawkesbury River town about 50 km northwest of Sydney, formerly Green Hills, renamed by Macquarie in 1810 as one of five Macquarie towns; noted for colonial heritage and severe flooding.
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario: Canada's southernmost city, on the Detroit River across from Detroit; automotive capital since 1904, busiest Canada-US commercial border crossing, Gordie Howe bridge opened 2026, population 229,660.
Winejok
Winejok, also spelled Wanyjok, is a city located in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, serving as the county headquarters since 1993.
Winneba
Winneba, traditionally known as Simpa, is a historic coastal fishing town in Ghana's Central Region between Accra and Cape Coast, famous for the Effutu people's Aboakyer deer-hunting festival.
Winnemucca, Nevada
Winnemucca, Nevada: county seat of Humboldt County on the Humboldt River and I-80, named for a Paiute chief, railroad town since 1868, population 8,431 (2020), known for its Basque community and Humboldt Museum.
Winnipeg
Winnipeg, capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, at the Forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers; incorporated 1873, 749,607 residents in 2021, estimated 850,260 in 2026, largest Indigenous population in Canada.
Winona, Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota: 'The Island City,' a Mississippi River city of about 26,500 in southeastern Minnesota, founded 1851 from the Dakota site Wapasha's Prairie, once a lumber and flour-milling boomtown.
Winslow, Arizona
Winslow, Arizona: small railroad-founded city in Navajo County on I-40 and Route 66, named for Edward Winslow, known for La Posada Hotel and the Eagles' "Take It Easy" corner.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Twin City formed 1913 by merging Moravian Salem (1766) and industrial Winston; Forsyth County seat, 2020 population 249,545, tobacco heritage, City of Arts and Innovation.
Winter Haven, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida: Chain of Lakes City in central Polk County, incorporated 1911 (town) and 1923 (city). Population grew from 33,874 (2010) to an estimated 62,313 (2025); known for its canal-connected lakes, citrus heritage, LEGOLAND, and logistics growth.
Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park, Florida: a city in Orange County about three miles north of Orlando, founded 1887 by Loring Chase and Oliver Chapman, home to Rollins College, a chain of lakes, Park Avenue, and the 1981 sinkhole.
Winterthur
Winterthur, Switzerland's sixth-largest city in canton Zurich, had 122,758 residents at end-2025. Known as Vitudurum in Roman times, a former industrial city now a museum and education center near Zurich.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Dells, once named Kilbourn, is a city in south-central Wisconsin on the Wisconsin River, known as the Waterpark Capital of the World with about 3,383 residents.
Withernsea
Withernsea is a small seaside town on the Holderness coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, about 23 miles east of Hull, with about 6,200 residents.
Witten
Witten is a city in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the southern Ruhr Metropolis. First recorded in 1214, it became a metal-industry center and hosts Germany's first private university, Witten/Herdecke.
Wittenberg
Wittenberg (Lutherstadt Wittenberg), a town of about 46,800 on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; seat of Landkreis Wittenberg. Site of Luther's 1517 95 Theses; four Reformation buildings are UNESCO World Heritage (1996).
Wittlich
Wittlich (villa witelira) is a town in Bernkastel-Wittlich district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Lieser. It is distinguished by a 140 m Roman villa built 150-200 AD, destroyed around 350, and by its 1300 town charter from the Trier archbishops.
Woking
Woking, Surrey, is a commuter town about half an hour from London by rail, home to Britain's first purpose-built mosque and first crematorium, with 103,900 people at the 2021 census.
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony city founded 1 July 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens for Volkswagen workers, renamed 1945; over 125,000 residents, Germany's highest GDP per working person and wages, lowest rent burden.
Wolfville
Wolfville is a town in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, home to Acadia University and the centre of the province's wine country, with 11 wineries within 20 km and the Grand-Pré UNESCO site nearby.
Wollongong
Wollongong, a coastal city in New South Wales about 80 km south of Sydney and capital of the Illawarra Shoalhaven region; Dharawal country, coal and port history, $17.6B GRP, population forecast near 300,000 by 2046.
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton, a West Midlands city in England's Black Country (founded as Wulfrun's Heantun, 985 AD), grew through canals, railways, and industry into a manufacturing center with city status since 2000.
Wŏnju
Wŏnju (원주시) is a city in Gangwon State, South Korea; provincial capital 1395–1895 (Gangwon Gamyeong, Historic Site No. 439), now Gangwon's largest city, a transport hub, medical-device industry center, and UNESCO City of Literature.
Wŏnsan
Wŏnsan (원산) is a port city and naval base on North Korea's east coast, the capital of Kangwŏn Province, and the country's fourth largest city, with about 363,000 people.
Woodside, California
Woodside, California: a rural residential town in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula, incorporated November 16, 1956; about 5,309 residents across 11.47 square miles, known for equestrian heritage, country estates, and redwood-lumber history.