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Yibin
Yibin (宜宾) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Sichuan, China, at the Jinsha–Minjiang confluence where the Yangtze begins. Known as City of Baijiu (Wuliangye) and City of Chinese Power Battery, with 4.6 million residents and a 2024 GDP of 400.6 billion yuan.
Yichun, Jiangxi
Yichun (宜春) is a prefecture-level city in northwest Jiangxi, China, distinct from Yichun in Heilongjiang. It has about 6.1 million people, 18,700 km², Mingyue Mountain (5A), selenium hot springs at Wentang, and Zen Buddhist heritage.
Yinchuan
Yinchuan (银川, Yínchuān), capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, on the upper Yellow River; former Western Xia capital (1038–1227), city formally established 1947, regional capital since 1958; 2.94 million residents, 2025 GDP 303.35 billion yuan.
Yingkou (city)
Yingkou (营口市) is a prefecture-level port city in Liaoning, China, at the Liao River mouth on Liaodong Bay; the first Northeast treaty port (1861), with 2.33 million people, 156 billion yuan GDP, and a 220-million-ton port.
Yingtan
Yingtan (鹰潭) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangxi, China, on the Xin River, known as the Copper Capital for its huge Guixi Smelter and for Longhu Mountain.
Yishui
Yishui County (沂水县) is a county of Linyi in south-central Shandong, China, in the Yimeng Mountains, named for the Yi River and bearing the name since 596 AD.
Yiwu (义乌)
Yiwu (义乌), a county-level city in central Zhejiang under Jinhua, China, founded as Wushang County in 222 BC; home of the world's largest small-commodity wholesale market, with 2025 trade of 836.5 billion yuan.
Yixing (city)
Yixing (宜兴市), a Wuxi-administered county-level city in southern Jiangsu at the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui junction on Lake Tai; China's "Pottery Capital" famed for zisha teapots, a national historical city since 2011, population 1.28 million, GDP 253 billion yuan (2025).
Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta (Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat) is the capital of Indonesia's Special Region of Yogyakarta, founded 1755 after the Treaty of Giyanti split Mataram; seat of Sultan Hamengku Buwono, 32.5 km2, 14 districts, major student city.
Yokkaichi, Mie
Yokkaichi (四日市市) is Mie Prefecture's most populous city, on Ise Bay, home of Japan's first petrochemical complex and the 1960s Yokkaichi asthma pollution episode and 1972 landmark lawsuit.
Yokohama (横浜)
Yokohama (横浜), capital of Kanagawa Prefecture on Tokyo Bay, is Japan's second-largest city with about 3.75 million residents. Its port opened in 1859; landmarks include Minato Mirai 21, Landmark Tower, and Chinatown.
Yokosuka
Yokosuka (横須賀市), Kanagawa Prefecture city on the Miura Peninsula facing Tokyo Bay; former Imperial Japanese naval port founded around the 1865 arsenal, now hosting JMSDF and US Seventh Fleet, with about 400,000 residents and a growing tourism industry.
Yola
Yola, Nigeria: capital of Adamawa State, founded 1841 by Modibbo Adama as Adamawa Emirate capital, seat of the Lamido, on the Benue River; twin city Jimeta; state capital since 1991.
Yongji
Yongji (永济市, Yongji Shi), ancient Puban, a county-level city under Yuncheng, Shanxi, on the Yellow River; 1,208 km², 373,500 residents (2024), GDP 17.22 billion yuan; home to Guanque Tower, Pujiu Temple, Five Old Peaks, and CRRC Yongji Electric. Distinct from Yongji County, Jilin.
Yongkang
Yongkang (永康) names a Zhejiang county-level city, China's hardware capital and largest electric-razor exporter; Yongkang District of Tainan, Taiwan; and Yongkang Street, a famous food district in Taipei's Da'an.
Yonkers, New York
Yonkers, New York: Westchester County's largest city and New York State's third largest, on the Hudson River just north of the Bronx; about 212,000 residents, named for the Dutch jonkheer van der Donck.
Yorba Linda, California
Yorba Linda is a city in north Orange County, California, population 68,336 (2020), incorporated November 2, 1967, birthplace of Richard Nixon and home to his presidential library and museum.
York
York (Eboracum, Eoforwic, Jorvik) is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, founded by Rome in AD 71, Viking capital until 954, home of York Minster, and now a major heritage tourist economy.
York, Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania: county seat of York County, laid out 1741 on Codorus Creek; seat of the Continental Congress 1777-1778 where the Articles of Confederation were adopted; 2020 population 44,800.
Yorktown, Virginia
Yorktown, Virginia: unincorporated York County community on the York River, founded 1691 as a colonial tobacco port; site of the October 19, 1781 siege where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, preserved in Colonial National Historical Park.
Yoshkar-Ola
Yoshkar-Ola (Йошкар-Ола, "Red City"), formerly Tsarevokokshaisk and Krasnokokshaisk, is the capital of Mari El, Russia, founded in 1584 as the fortress Tsaryov city on Kokshaga by decree of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich; population about 296,000.
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio: Mahoning Valley city founded 1797 by John Young, incorporated 1802; a major steel center whose Youngstown Sheet and Tube closure on Black Monday 1977 began decline from a 1930 peak of 170,002 to about 59,000 today.
Ypres
Ypres (Dutch: Ieper) is a West Flanders municipality in Belgium, a medieval cloth city, destroyed in World War I and rebuilt, now the unofficial capital of Flanders Fields with the Menin Gate Last Post and UNESCO-listed belfry.
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti, Michigan: a Washtenaw County city on the Huron River, founded 1825 and named for Demetrius Ypsilanti; home of Eastern Michigan University, 20,648 residents in 2020.
Yreka, California
Yreka is the county seat and largest city of Siskiyou County, Northern California, founded in the 1851 Gold Rush, incorporated April 21, 1857, and once named capital of the proposed State of Jefferson.
Ystradgynlais
Ystradgynlais, a Welsh-speaking town in the upper Swansea Valley, southwest Powys, Wales; population 8,270 (2021). Known for the 1837 Ynyscedwyn anthracite hot-blast iron smelting breakthrough by David Thomas and George Crane, coal mining, and painter Josef Herman's 1944-1955 residency.
Yuanping
Yuanping (原平市, formerly Guo County 崞县) is a county-level city of Shanxi, China, administered by Xinzhou, covering about 2,550 km² in the Xinding Basin. Known for coal-machinery manufacturing, coal, aluminum, and pear production, with Tianyashan 4A scenic area.
Yuba City, California
Yuba City is a city in Sutter County, California, near the Feather River and Sutter Buttes, 40 miles north of Sacramento. Population about 70,000; hub of the Yuba-Sutter agricultural region and a major Punjabi Sikh community.
Yulara, Northern Territory
Yulara is a purpose-built tourist town in the Northern Territory near Uluru, named from Pitjantjatjara for "howling dingo"; gazetted 1975, resort opened 1984, now the Ayers Rock Resort base for Uluru-Kata Tjuta visitors.
Yulin, Guangxi
Yulin (玉林市) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangxi, China, established 1997, administering Yuzhou, Fumian, Rongxian, Luchuan, Bobai, Xingye, and Beiliu. Population 5.765 million (2025), GDP 243.7 billion yuan, known as the "Lingnan metropolis."