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Yan’an
Yan'an (延安), prefecture-level city in northern Shaanxi on the Loess Plateau; CCP headquarters 1935–1948 and cradle of the 'Yan'an spirit'; home of the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum, Hukou Waterfall, and about 2.27 million residents (2021).
Yanam (యానాం)
Yanam (యానాం, French Yanaon) is a 30 sq km enclave region of Puducherry union territory inside East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh; a former French settlement occupied in 1723 and transferred to India in 1954.
Yancheng (盐城)
Yancheng (盐城, Salt City), a prefecture-level city on the Yellow Sea coast of Jiangsu, China; largest territory and longest coastline in the province, named for its salt industry, with 2025 GDP of 804.53 billion yuan and UNESCO-listed coastal wetlands.
Yanghang
Yanghang (杨行镇) is a town in central Baoshan District, Shanghai, named after the merchant Yang Hou, who settled there when the Song court moved south in 1127.
Yangjiang
Yangjiang (阳江) is a prefecture-level city on the southwestern coast of Guangdong, China, known as the country's "Capital of Knives and Scissors" and for Hailing Island.
Yangju
Yangju (양주시) is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, north of Seoul; promoted to city status in 2003, area 310.4 km², about 310,000 residents in 2026, with Okjeong and Hoecheon new towns, GTX-C rail, and Hoeamsaji heritage site.
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်)
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်), formerly Rangoon, is Myanmar's largest city, chief port, and commercial capital. Former colonial capital from 1852 and national capital 1948–2005, now governed by YCDC across 33 townships.
Yangquan
Yangquan (阳泉) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shanxi, China, the first city created by the CCP (1947) and a major anthracite coal base now transitioning to AI computing and clean energy.
Yangsan
Yangsan (양산시, 梁山市) is a city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, between Busan and Ulsan; 371,265 residents, 485.617 km², promoted to city status in 1996, home to UNESCO-listed Tongdosa and Mulgeum New Town.
Yangzhou, Jiangsu
Yangzhou (扬州) is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu, China, founded 486 BC at the Yangtze-Grand Canal junction; a Tang-era commercial hub, Huai salt center, and UNESCO canal heritage city.
Yanhuitlan
Yanhuitlan, known in Mixtec as Yodzocahi, is a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, that was one of the most powerful señoríos of the Mixteca Alta and is best known for the Codex Yanhuitlan.
Yanji
Yanji (延吉市) is the county-level seat of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, eastern Jilin, China, near the North Korean and Russian borders. A Korean-Chinese cultural center and 'little Seoul', it became a wanghong tourism boom city from 2023.
Yankton, SD Micro Area
Yankton, SD Micro Area (CBSA 49460) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Yankton County, South Dakota, anchored by Yankton city; about 23,414 residents, 521.2 square miles, median household income $72,821.
Yantai, Shandong
Yantai (烟台), Shandong, a prefecture-level port city on the Shandong Peninsula; GDP passed 1 trillion yuan in 2023, port ranks 8th among coastal ports, and it leads China in gold, apples, and wine.
Yanzhou
Yanzhou (兖州), a district of Jining, Shandong, China; seat of the historic Yanzhou prefecture at Xiaqiu from 453 to 1913. Rail hub at the Jinghu–Xinshi crossing, major coal base, 2025 GDP 67.6 billion yuan.
Yao, Osaka
Yao (八尾市, Yao-shi) is a core city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, east of Osaka City. Founded 1948, area 41.72 km², about 257,000 residents, 9th in the prefecture, known for manufacturing including toothbrushes and ancient kofun tombs.
Yaoundé
Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon in the Centre Region, founded as the German station Yaunde in 1889; grew from 1.8 million (2005) to 3.32 million (2020), with slums, drainage deficits, and planned BRT transit.
Yarkand
Yarkand (Yärkänd; Chinese Shache; river 叶尔羌河): river, oasis, and Silk Road town in southwestern Xinjiang, China. Longest Tarim tributary, glacier-fed, with China's fourth largest irrigation district (440,000 ha).
Yaroslavl (Ярославль)
Yaroslavl (Ярославль), Russian city on the Volga at the Kotorosl confluence 250 km northeast of Moscow; founded by Yaroslav the Wise, a UNESCO World Heritage historic center with 17th-century churches and a neoclassical radial plan.
Yauco, PR Metro Area
Yauco, PR Metro Area was a former U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area defined by the OMB around Yauco Municipio in southwestern Puerto Rico. It counted 107,333 residents in 2010.
Yazd (یزد)
Yazd (یزد), historic desert city in central Iran 270 km southeast of Isfahan; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017, famed for qanats, over 700 windcatchers (badgirs), earthen architecture, and peaceful coexistence of Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism.
Yei
Yei: city in Central Equatoria, South Sudan, headquarters of Yei River County, about 150 km southwest of Juba. SPLA captured it in 1997; 2016 conflict displaced much of its population; UN-based 2025 city estimate 228,087.
YEIDA City
YEIDA City is a planned greenfield industrial and urban development by the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority on ~25,000 hectares along the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, anchored by Noida International Airport at Jewar, Film City, and industrial sectors.
Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург)
Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург), formerly Sverdlovsk, is Russia's fourth-largest city, founded 1723 and named for Catherine I. Ural industrial, transport, and cultural hub on the Iset River with about 1.5 million residents, constructivist architecture, and top Russian quality-of-life rankings.
Yelagiri (ஏலகிரி)
Yelagiri (ஏலகிரி), also spelled Elagiri, is a hill station in Tirupattur district, Tamil Nadu, in the Eastern Ghats at about 1,110 m, with 14 hamlets, Punganur Lake, Swamimalai trekking, paragliding, and a 14-hairpin ghat road.
Yellowknife
Yellowknife (Sǫ̀mbak'è), capital and only city of the Northwest Territories on Great Slave Lake's north shore; founded 1934 in a gold rush, territorial capital since 1967, population about 20,000 to 24,000, high-cost high-income northern economy.
Yendi
Yendi is a town in Ghana's Northern Region, about 60 miles east of Tamale, and the traditional capital of the Dagbon kingdom, seat of its king, the Ya-Na.
Yeosu
Yeosu (여수, 麗水) is a coastal city on the southern coast of South Jeolla Province, South Korea, a Joseon naval base and petrochemical center that hosted Expo 2012.
Yeovil
Yeovil is a South Somerset town of about 45,000, recorded in Domesday Book as Givele, historically a glove-making market town and since 1935 a helicopter-industry center via Westland Aircraft, now undergoing town centre regeneration.
Yerevan (Երևան)
Yerevan (Երևան), capital of Armenia on the Hrazdan river, founded as the Urartian fortress Erebuni by Argishti I in 783 BC; 12 districts, about 1.08 million people, and 42.1% of national industrial output.