Cities and towns

Abomey-Calavi

Abomey-Calavi, a commune in Atlantique Department, southern Benin, about 18 km north of Cotonou; Benin's second most populous urban center, 656,358 residents in 2013, nine arrondissements, and among West Africa's fastest-expanding secondary cities.

Abū al-Kahṣīb

Abu al-Khasib (أبو الخصيب), also Abi al-Khasib, is a town and district southeast of Basra, Iraq, on the Shatt al-Arab, famed for date palms and hit by 2018 water salinity crisis.

Abu Dhabi (أبو ظبي)

Abu Dhabi (أبو ظبي), capital of the UAE and its largest emirate (67,340 km², 87% of the country), population 4.14 million in 2024; oil found 1958, UAE founded 1971, over 62% of national GDP.

Abū Ghurayb

Abū Ghurayb (أبو غريب), also rendered Abu Ghraib, is a large city in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, just west of Baghdad, and the seat of Abu Ghraib District.

Abuja

Abuja, Nigeria's capital since 1991, a planned city in the Federal Capital Territory (8,000 sq km) created by Decree No. 6 of 1976 to replace Lagos, developed by the FCDA under the Aguda Panel recommendation.

Acapulco

Acapulco (Acapulco de Juárez) is a Pacific resort city and port in Guerrero, Mexico, famed for its bay, La Quebrada cliff divers, and the Manila galleon route; devastated by Category 5 Hurricane Otis in 2023 and rebuilding through the Acapulco se Transforma Contigo program.

Acarigua

Acarigua is a city in Portuguesa state, Venezuela, capital of Páez municipality, forming the Acarigua-Araure conurbation with about 400,000 people, a major agricultural and agro-industrial center.

Accra

Accra, capital and largest city of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea; became Gold Coast capital in 1877. Known for Ga Mashie and Jamestown heritage, rapid growth, low-density sprawl, and recurrent flooding.

Acharnes

Acharnes (Αχαρνές, formerly Menidi) is a large municipality in northeastern Attica, Greece, with 108,130 residents at the 2021 census, formed in 2011 by merging Acharnes and Thrakomakedones, on the site of ancient Acharnae, Athens' most populous deme.

Acre, Israel

Acre (Akko, Akka) is a walled port city on Israel's northern coast, Crusader capital 1104-1291, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, and one of Israel's mixed Jewish-Arab cities with the country's lowest residential segregation index.

Ad Ponte(m) Ises

Ad Ponte(m) Ises, also Ad Pontem Ises, is a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana in Noricum at the bridge over the Ybbs river, near Ybbs an der Donau or Neumarkt, Austria, 8 miles from Arelate.

Ad-Damazin

Ad-Damazin (Arabic: الدمازين), also spelled Ed Damazin, is a city in southeastern Sudan and the capital of Blue Nile State, on the left bank of the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian border.

Ada, Oklahoma

Ada, Oklahoma: county seat of Pontotoc County in southeast Oklahoma and home of the Chickasaw Nation headquarters and East Central University. Founded 1891, incorporated 1901; 2020 population 16,481.

Adak, Alaska

Adak, Alaska: westernmost incorporated US city, on Adak Island in the central Aleutians about 1,200 miles from Anchorage. WWII Army base, then Naval Air Facility Adak until 1997; 171 residents in 2020.

Adama

Adama (formerly Nazret, ናዝሬት) is a fast-growing Ethiopian city in Oromia, about 99 km southeast of Addis Ababa on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti corridor; founded 1916, renamed 2000, population about 555,000 in 2026.

Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands

Adamstown is the capital and only settlement of the Pitcairn Islands, founded in 1790 by HMS Bounty mutineers and named for John Adams. About 50 residents, no airport, access via Mangareva, 6.4 km road from Bounty Bay.

Adana

Adana, a major city and province in southern Türkiye on the Seyhan River in the Çukurova plain, settled since about 6000 BC, capital of the Ramazanoğulları beylik, home of Taşköprü, Adana kebab, and the Orange Blossom Carnival.

Adapazarı

Adapazarı, central district and seat of Sakarya Province, Turkey, on the Adapazarı Plain. District since 1837, municipality 1868; province renamed Sakarya in 1954; heavily damaged by the 1999 Mw 7.4 Kocaeli earthquake.

Addis Ababa (አዲስ አበባ)

Addis Ababa (አዲስ አበባ), also known as Finfinne, is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia, founded in 1886 by Emperor Menelik II and home to the African Union headquarters.

Addu City

Addu City (އައްޑޫ ސިޓީ), also called Addu Atoll or Seenu, is the Maldives' southernmost city, about 540 km from Malé, with 35,359 residents, a 14 km causeway, the former RAF Gan base, and an economy of fisheries and tourism.

Adelaide

Adelaide, capital of South Australia, founded 1836 and planned by Colonel William Light with a grid and 900-hectare park lands; free-settler city of 1.39 million (2021), ranked 8th in the EIU Global Liveability Index.

Aden (عدن)

Aden (عدن) is a port city in southern Yemen, largest city of the south and seat of Yemen's internationally recognized government. Captured by Britain in 1839, a free port from 1853 and Crown Colony from 1937, it thrived on bunkering trade after the 1869 Suez Canal opening.