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Billingham
Billingham: town in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, Teesside; population 33,798 (2021 parish). Known for the ICI chemical works (from 1918), the 1967 town centre, Billingham Forum ice rink, and the International Folklore Festival.
Billings, Montana
Billings, Montana: largest city in Montana and seat of Yellowstone County, founded 1882 as a Northern Pacific Railroad town, nicknamed the Magic City; 117,116 residents in 2020, 121,239 estimated 2025.
Billund, Denmark
Billund, Denmark: Midtjylland town (7,446 inhabitants, 2026), birthplace of LEGO, home of LEGOLAND (1968), LEGO House (2017), and Billund Airport, Denmark's second largest, with 3.06 million passengers in 2025.
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico, with a 2020 population of 49,449 and an economy built on casinos, tourism, seafood, and Keesler Air Force Base.
Biñan
Biñan, officially the City of Biñan, is a component city in Laguna, Philippines, south of Metro Manila. Founded 1571 by Juan de Salcedo; Rizal schooled there 1869; chartered 2009; population 584,479 (2024).
Binangonan
Binangonan is a first class municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, on Laguna de Bay, with 40 barangays (17 on Talim Island), 72.70 sq km of territory, a 1621 parish origin, and the Santa Ursula Parish church as its landmark.
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York: Southern Tier city at the Chenango-Susquehanna confluence, named for William Bingham, incorporated 1867, former cigar and manufacturing hub, home of Binghamton University, 47,969 residents in 2020.
Binjai
Binjai is a city in North Sumatra, Indonesia, near Medan in the Mebidang metropolitan area. Named after a Mangifera caesia tree, it covers 90.23 km², has 5 districts, 37 kelurahan, and about 279,302 residents (2020).
Binzhou
Binzhou (滨州) is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong, China, on the southwestern bank of Bohai Bay, formerly known as Putai and the hometown of Sun Tzu.
Biratnagar
Biratnagar (विराटनगर), capital of Koshi Province and a metropolitan city in Morang district, southeastern Nepal; Nepal's industrial capital since the 1936 Biratnagar Jute Mill, with 243,927 residents (2021) and the Jogbani border crossing.
Bīrjand
Bīrjand (بیرجند), city in eastern Iran at about 1,500 m elevation; center of Qūhestān in southeastern Khorasan, capital of South Khorasan province since 2004, long ruled by the ʿAlam family, known for saffron, barberries, and early piped water (1923).
Birkenhead
Birkenhead: town on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, opposite Liverpool. Known for Birkenhead Priory (1150), the world's first publicly funded park (1847), Cammell Laird shipbuilding, and the Birkenhead 2040 regeneration framework.
Birkirkara
Birkirkara (B'Kara) is a large historic inland town in central Malta's Northern Harbour district, with about 25,800 residents, St Helen Basilica, the Old Railway Station museum, and a reputation for central location, traffic and flooding.
Birmingham
Birmingham, UK's second-largest city (population 1,176,960 in mid-2025), a West Midlands industrial hub founded as a Saxon settlement of Beorma, chartered 1166, historic metalworking and jewellery centre.
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama: largest Alabama city regionally, founded 1871 as an iron and steel center, population about 200,000, major civil rights history site, UAB medical and banking hub.
Birobidzhan (Биробиджан)
Birobidzhan (Биробиджан) is the capital of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast, on the Bira River and Trans-Siberian Railway. Founded as Tikhonkaya station in 1912, renamed 1931, city 1937; center of a Soviet Jewish settlement project.
Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee, Arizona: former copper mining boomtown in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, county seat since 1929, once the largest city in Arizona Territory, now an artist and heritage tourism community after the 1975 mine closure.
Bishkek (Бишкек)
Bishkek (Бишкек), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan in the Chuy valley. Founded 1878, renamed 1926 and 1991; about 1 million residents, four districts, severe winter air pollution.
Bishop Auckland
Bishop Auckland, County Durham market town, seat of the Bishops of Durham at Auckland Palace; railway and coal town, later Auckland Project heritage regeneration led by Jonathan Ruffer from 2012.
Bishop, California
Bishop, California: small Inyo County city at the north end of the Owens Valley off US 395, gateway to the High Sierra and Mount Whitney, home of Mule Days, the Bishop Paiute Tribe, and world-class bouldering and trout fishing.
Bishop's Stortford
Bishop's Stortford is a Hertfordshire market town on the Essex border, on the River Stort. Also called Esterteferd; known for Waytemore Castle, the 1769 Stort Navigation, Stansted Airport proximity, and its conservation area.
Biskra
Biskra (بسكرة), ancient Vescera or Ad Piscinam, is an oasis city in southeastern Algeria at the Aurès foot, gateway to the Sahara, capital of the Ziban, with about 262,000 people and a major date palm industry.
Bismarck, North Dakota
Bismarck, North Dakota: state capital on the Missouri River, founded 1872 as Edwinton, renamed 1873 for Otto von Bismarck; 73,622 residents (2020 census), hub of government, healthcare, and energy.
Bissau
Bissau is the capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau, a port on the Geba estuary. Founded 1692, colonial capital from 1942, about 502,711 people in the 2026 census, roughly a quarter of the national population.
Bitola (Битола)
Bitola (Битола; known as Manastır or Monastir under Ottoman rule) is a city in southwestern North Macedonia at the foot of Baba Mountain, a former Ottoman administrative capital and a UNESCO City of Film.
Bitung
Bitung (Kota Bitung), North Sulawesi, Indonesia: coastal port city, home of PPS Bitung oceanic fishing port and a 534-ha Special Economic Zone; major tuna landing, canning, and export center nicknamed Kota Cakalang.
Biysk
Biysk (Бийск) is a city in southeastern Altai Krai, Russia, on the Biya River. Founded as a fortress in 1709, it is Altai Krai's second largest city.
Bjelovar
Bjelovar, city in central Croatia, seat of Bjelovar-Bilogora County. Founded 1756 by Maria Theresa as a Military Frontier center; Free Royal City 1874; 24,392 residents (2021); Day of the City 29 September.
Blackburn
Blackburn, Lancashire town and seat of Blackburn with Darwen unitary borough; former world weaving capital with 29,000 weavers in 1920; borough population 163,801 (mid-2025), ranked 11th most deprived in England.
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort and unitary authority on Lancashire's Fylde coast, famed for its Tower, three piers, Pleasure Beach and Illuminations. It draws about 18 million visitors and £1.5 billion in spend yearly, alongside major regeneration and deep deprivation.