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Bhagalpur (भागलपुर)
Bhagalpur (भागलपुर), the Silk City of Bihar on the Ganges, is a divisional headquarters famous for Tussar silk (GI-registered) and the ruins of Vikramshila University; district population 3,037,766 (2011).
Bharatpur, Bagmati Province
Bharatpur (भरतपुर), Nepal: metropolitan city and headquarters of Chitwan District in Bagmati Province, on the Narayani River. 369,268 people (2021 census), 432.95 km², 29 wards; commercial, healthcare, and education hub of south central Nepal.
Bharuch (ભરૂચ)
Bharuch (ભરૂચ), formerly Broach and classical Barygaza, is an ancient port city on the Narmada in Gujarat, India, a Roman-era trade hub and now a chemicals and textiles industrial center.
Bhavnagar (ભાવનગર)
Bhavnagar (ભાવનગર) is a port city in Saurashtra, Gujarat, founded by Bhavsinhji Gohil in the 1720s; first princely state to join India (1948), population 643,365 (2011), known for diamond polishing, salt, and nearby Alang ship-breaking yard.
Bhawana
Bhawana (بھوانا, also Bhowana) is a city and tehsil of Chiniot District, Punjab, Pakistan, created 2 February 2009; 2023 census: city 39,270, tehsil 428,617. Distinct from Bawana, Delhi.
Bhilai (भिलाई)
Bhilai (भिलाई), twin city of Durg in Chhattisgarh, India, is an industrial city built around the SAIL Bhilai Steel Plant, established 1955 with Soviet aid, commissioned 1959, capacity 7 MTPA, sole Indian maker of railway rails.
Bhilwara
Bhilwara (भीलवाड़ा), the Textile City of Rajasthan in the Mewar region; district formed 1949; city population 359,483 (2011); major polyester-viscose suiting producer with 18 spinning mills and about 44% of state yarn capacity.
Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh
Bhimavaram (భీమవరం), West Godavari district headquarters in Andhra Pradesh since April 2022; Godavari delta city of about 147,000 (2011), home of the Somarama Pancharama temple and India's largest brackishwater shrimp aquaculture cluster.
Bhiwandi (भिवंडी)
Bhiwandi (भिवंडी), also called Bhiwandi Nizampur, is a city in Thane district, Maharashtra, about 58 km from Mumbai, known as a major powerloom textile center.
Bhopal (भोपाल)
Bhopal (भोपाल) is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and headquarters of Bhopal district, known as the City of Lakes for its natural and artificial lakes.
Bhubaneswar (ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର)
Bhubaneswar (ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର) is the capital and largest city of Odisha, India, known as the Temple City of India. Its 11th-century Lingaraj Temple anchors an old temple town beside a planned modern capital designed in 1946.
Bhuj (ભુજ)
Bhuj (ભુજ), historic capital of the Kutch region in Gujarat, India; center of bandhani, Ajrakh, and embroidery crafts and gateway to the Great Rann of Kutch; rebuilt after the Mw 7.7 earthquake of 26 January 2001.
Bhusawal
Bhusawal, a city and municipal council in Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, on the Tapi river; major Central Railway junction (BSL) and home of Bhusawal Thermal Power Station; 2011 population 187,421.
Białystok
Białystok, capital of Podlaskie Voivodeship in northeastern Poland, largest city of the region with 289.2 thousand residents (2025), Branicki Palace "Polish Versailles", 1943 ghetto uprising, birthplace of Esperanto's Zamenhof.
Biarritz
Biarritz, Basque Biarritz, is an Atlantic resort city in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. A former whaling village transformed by Empress Eugénie and Napoleon III's 1854 Villa Eugénie, now the Hôtel du Palais, it is famed for surfing, Belle Époque villas, and coastal erosion.
Bida
Bida is a city in Niger State, north-central Nigeria, seat of the Bida Emirate and the Etsu Nupe (Yahaya Abubakar since 2003). Founded mid-19th century as Nupe capital, known for brass, glass, and dyeing crafts.
Bidar (ಬೀದರ್)
Bidar (ಬೀದರ್), hill-top city in north-eastern Karnataka; Bahmani capital from 1424, Barid Shahi seat, home of Bidri ware, the laterite Bidar Fort, karez qanats, Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib, and an IAF Hawk training base.
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is a German city in North Rhine-Westphalia, founded around 1214 by the Counts of Ravensberg. About 343,500 residents, Sparrenburg castle landmark, Bielefeld University (1969), and first place for objective quality of life in the 2026 Glücksatlas city ranking.
Big Apple
The Big Apple, New York City's nickname, was popularized by racing writer John J. Fitz Gerald from 1921, spread by 1930s jazz musicians, and revived officially in 1971.
Big Bear Lake, California
Big Bear Lake is an incorporated San Bernardino County, California resort city at about 6,759 feet elevation, population about 5,000, built around a snow-fed reservoir dammed in 1884 and 1912, known for Big Bear Mountain Resort skiing and lake recreation.
Bihać
Bihać, city on the Una river in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, seat of Una-Sana Canton. First recorded 1260, Ottoman from 1592, Austro-Hungarian 1878, besieged 1,201 days in the 1992–1995 war; 56,261 municipality residents in 2013.
Bihār Sharīf
Bihār Sharīf (बिहार शरीफ) is a city in the Indian state of Bihar and headquarters of Nalanda district, known for its historic Muslim tombs and pilgrimage shrines.
Bijapur
Bijapur, officially Vijayapura since 2014, is a city in northern Karnataka, India, former capital of the Adil Shahi sultans (1489-1686), home to the Gol Gumbaz mausoleum with the world's second largest dome and its Whispering Gallery.
Bijie
Bijie (毕节市) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guizhou at the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou junction; Guizhou's most populous city (6.61 million, 2025), a 1988 poverty-alleviation and ecological pilot zone with 2025 GDP of 254.1 billion yuan.
Bikaner (बीकानेर)
Bikaner (बीकानेर), historically also spelled Bikanir, is a city in north-western Rajasthan, India, founded in 1488 by the Rathore prince Rao Bika and known for Junagarh Fort, red sandstone carving, and its camel research center.
Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast
Bila Tserkva (Біла Церква), city on the Ros River in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, about 80 km south of Kyiv; founded as Yuriiev in 1032, home to the Oleksandriia dendrological park, population roughly 200,000.
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh: district headquarters city, second largest in the state, seat of the Chhattisgarh High Court at Bodri (Nyayadhani). About 400 years old, named after fisherwoman Bilasa; Kalachuri and Maratha heritage, rice and Kosa industry, Arpa river.
Bilbao
Bilbao, city in Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain (population 348,089 in 2024). Former industrial port transformed after 1970s deindustrialization, chiefly via the 1997 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Bilbao effect in urban regeneration.
Bilbeis
Bilbeis (بلبيس, Belbeis) is a city in Sharqia governorate, Egypt, on the eastern Delta edge. Medieval capital of the Eastern Province, besieged by Crusaders in 1163–64 and 1168, home to a documented medieval Jewish community and the Sadat Quraysh mosque.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Білгород-Дністровський), also historically Akkerman and Cetatea Albă, is a Ukrainian city in Odesa Oblast on the Dniester Liman, built on ancient Greek Tyras and known for the 9-hectare Akkerman Fortress on UNESCO's tentative list.