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Zhangjiajie (张家界)
Zhangjiajie (张家界), formerly Dayong, is a prefecture-level city in northwest Hunan, China, home to the Wulingyuan UNESCO World Heritage Site with over 3,000 quartz sandstone pillars and a tourism-driven economy.
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou (张家口), historically Kalgan, a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei, China, gateway to Beijing and Inner Mongolia; co-host of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (Chongli snow events), severe water shortage, and a national renewable energy demonstration zone.
Zhangye
Zhangye (张掖, Zhāngyè), historically Ganzhou, is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu on the Hexi Corridor, founded as a Han commandery in 111 BC, a Silk Road hub known for the Danxia Rainbow Mountains, corn seed production, and the Dafo Temple reclining Buddha.
Zhangzhou (漳州)
Zhangzhou (漳州) is a prefecture-level coastal city in southern Fujian, China, near Xiamen and Quanzhou. Founded as a prefecture in 686, it had a 2025 GRP of 615.41 billion yuan and became a net clean-power exporter.
Zhanjiang
Zhanjiang (湛江), formerly known as Guangzhouwan (广州湾) and nicknamed "Harbor City", is a major port city in southwestern Guangdong, China, at the southernmost tip of the Chinese mainland and home to the South Sea Fleet.
Zhaoqing (肇庆)
Zhaoqing (肇庆), historically Duanzhou, is a prefecture-level city in midwest Guangdong on the Xijiang River, the largest mainland Greater Bay Area city by area (14,891 km²), with about 4.12 million people, a 2025 GDP of 297.5 billion yuan, and fame for Duan inkstones, Seven Star Crags, and Dinghu Mountain.
Zhaotong
Zhaotong (昭通) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Yunnan, China, at the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan junction; historic Silk Road gateway, mountainous terrain, 2025 GDP 210.34 billion yuan.
Zheleznodorozhnyy, Moscow Oblast
Zheleznodorozhnyy (Железнодорожный), a former city in Moscow Oblast east of Moscow, grew from the 1861 Obiralovka railway station, was renamed in 1939, became a city in 1952, and merged into Balashikha in 2015.
Zhengding
Zhengding (正定), Hebei county near Shijiazhuang; ancient walled city, national historical and cultural city since 1994; home of Longxing Temple, Linji school birthplace, and dense Song-Tang architecture.
Zhengzhou (郑州)
Zhengzhou (郑州), capital of Henan Province and one of China's eight ancient capitals, is a national central city of about 13.1 million people, home to the early Shang capital site, a double-cross rail hub, and major electronics, automobile, and frozen-food industries.
Zhongwei
Zhongwei (中卫) is a prefecture-level city in central-western Ningxia, China, at the Ningxia-Gansu-Inner Mongolia junction on the Tengger Desert's edge. Known for straw-checkerboard desert control, Shapotou tourism, and its 'Eastern Data, Western Computing' data center hub.
Zhongxiang
Zhongxiang (钟祥市) is a county-level city in Jingmen, central Hubei, on the middle Han River. Birthplace of the Jiajing Emperor, home of the UNESCO-listed Xianling Mausoleum, and a phosphorus-chemical center with 2025 GDP of 682.69 billion yuan.
Zhoukou
Zhoukou (周口市) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Henan, China, on the Sha, Ying, and Jialu rivers. Formerly Zhoujiakou, a Ming-Qing trade port, it is now Henan's largest agricultural city and a major inland river port.
Zhu Cheng City
Zhucheng (诸城), a county-level city of Shandong under Weifang, China; formerly Dongwu County, renamed 598, made a city in 1987. Known as "China's Dragon City" for its giant hadrosaur fossils; 2025 GDP 92.27 billion yuan, population about 1.05 million.
Zhuanghe
Zhuanghe (庄河市) is a county-level city under Dalian, Liaoning, on the north Yellow Sea coast of the Liaodong Peninsula; 3,739 km² land, 742,000 residents, port city, sole Chinese breeding site of the black-faced spoonbill.
Zhubei
Zhubei (竹北市), county seat of Hsinchu County, Taiwan, north of Hsinchu City across the Toucian River. Fastest-growing suburban HSR station area, population over 220,000, science-park-driven growth.
Zhucheng
Zhucheng (诸城) is a county-level city in southern Weifang, Shandong, China, population about 1.1 million. Known as China's dinosaur city for its Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group fossil beds, Zhuchengtyrannus, and China's largest dinosaur tracksite.
Zhuhai (珠海)
Zhuhai (珠海) is a Guangdong prefecture-level city on the western Pearl River estuary, a 1980 special economic zone bordering Macao, with 2.52 million people, 262 islands, GDP of 447.91 billion yuan in 2024, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
Zhumadian
Zhumadian (驻马店) is a prefecture-level city in central-southern Henan, China, named for a Ming-era courier-horse station. It administers 9 counties plus Yicheng District, has 9.66 million registered residents, and is a major grain and agro-processing hub.
Zhuzhou (city)
Zhuzhou (株洲市), a prefecture-level city in eastern Hunan, China, core of the Chang-Zhu-Tan agglomeration and southern China's largest rail hub; one of eight First Five-Year Plan industrial cities, birthplace of China's first electric locomotive, aviation engine, air-to-air missile, and cemented carbide; 2025 GDP 406.35 billion yuan.
Zhytomyr (Житомир)
Zhytomyr (Житомир) is a city on the Teteriv River in northern Ukraine, administrative center of Zhytomyr oblast, about 130 km west of Kyiv. First recorded in 1240, granted Magdeburg law in 1444, Volhynia gubernia capital from 1804, birthplace of rocket engineer Sergei Korolov.
Zibo
Zibo (淄博市) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China, site of ancient Qi capital Linzi and the Jixia Academy; a petrochemical and ceramics hub of 4.7 million people, famous since 2023 for barbecue tourism.
Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor, capital of Senegal's Ziguinchor Region and main city of Casamance on the Casamance River; regional population 628,865 (2024), rice farming, urban agriculture, MFDC conflict since 1982 with 2025 peace accord, airport and Agropole Sud projects.
Zihuatanejo
Zihuatanejo, often marketed with nearby Ixtapa as Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, is a Pueblo Mágico fishing town and resort on a sheltered bay on Guerrero's Costa Grande, on Mexico's Pacific coast, known for beaches like Playa La Ropa.
Zinder (city)
Zinder, locally known as Damagaram and formerly spelled Sinder, is a city in southern Niger, capital of Zinder Region, about 900 km east of Niamey.
Zingsheim
Zingsheim is a village in Nettersheim, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, seat of the municipal administration, first recorded as Cinesheym in 893, with a Roman Matronae Fachinehae temple (Vor Hirschberg) at its edge.
Zion, Illinois
Zion (formerly Zion City), Lake County, Illinois: a theocratic utopian city founded in 1900 by faith healer John Alexander Dowie, ruled by Wilbur Glenn Voliva until the mid-1930s, later home to shuttered nuclear plants; 2020 population 24,655.
Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá is a city in Cundinamarca, Colombia, about 50 km north of Bogotá, known for a salt mine worked since before the conquest and its underground Salt Cathedral.
Zitong
Zitong (梓潼县) is a county in Mianyang, Sichuan, seat Wenchang town, 276,996 residents (2020). Known for Qiqushan's Wenchang ancestral temple and the Two Bombs City, the 1969–1992 nuclear weapons academy headquarters.
Ziyang
Ziyang (资阳) is a prefecture-level city in central Sichuan, China, founded as a county in 135 BC and made Sichuan's youngest prefecture-level city in 2000; distinct from Ziyang District of Yiyang, Hunan.