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Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg, Virginia: Montgomery County town founded 1798 by William Black on 38 acres, home of Virginia Tech (founded 1872 as a land-grant college); population 44,826 in 2020.
Blagoveshchensk (Благовещенск)
Blagoveshchensk (Благовещенск), administrative center of Amur Oblast in the Russian Far East, founded 1856, city 1858, on the Amur River opposite Heihe, China; only Russian oblast capital on a state border, linked to Heihe by a 2019 road bridge.
Blankenheim
Blankenheim, a town in the Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia (Kreis Euskirchen), first recorded as Blancio in 721; seat of the counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim, with Burg Blankenheim (1115), the Ahr source, and the Römervilla, one of the largest Roman villas in the Rhineland.
Blantyre
Blantyre is Malawi's second-largest city and its commercial and industrial capital, in the Shire Highlands. Founded by Scottish missionaries in 1876 and named after David Livingstone's birthplace.
Blavozy
Blavozy (INSEE 43032) is a commune in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, above the Loire near Le Puy-en-Velay, known for its Magdalenian rock shelter, arkose quarries, one monument historique, and the Michelin civil-engineering tire plant.
Blida
Blida (البليدة), Algeria's City of Roses, founded 1535 by Sidi Ahmed El Kebir with Andalusian refugees on the Mitidja plain southwest of Algiers; leading citrus wilaya, seismic zone III, about 554,000 residents in 2026.
Blind River, Ontario
Blind River, Ontario: a town in Algoma District on the North Channel of Lake Huron, halfway between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie. Former logging town, incorporated 1906, home to Cameco's uranium refinery.
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein, the City of Roses, is the Free State capital and South Africa's judicial capital. Founded in 1846 on J.N. Brits' farm, it was capital of the Orange Free State from 1854 to 1900.
Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington, Illinois: county seat of McLean County and twin city of Normal, population 78,680 (2020). Founded 1830s from Blooming Grove; railroad hub; State Farm, Rivian, Illinois Wesleyan, and ISU anchor its economy.
Bloomington, IN Metro Area
Bloomington, IN Metro Area (CBSA 14020) is a south-central Indiana metropolitan statistical area anchored by Bloomington and Indiana University; Monroe and Owen counties (formerly also Greene), about 162,553 residents, university-dominated economy.
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana, county seat of Monroe County and home of Indiana University Bloomington (founded as a state seminary in 1820). Population 79,168 in 2020; known for the Little 500, B-Line Trail, and a highly educated population.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Bloomington, Minnesota is a Hennepin County suburb of Minneapolis with about 90,000 residents, incorporated in 1858 and home of the Mall of America, the largest U.S. shopping complex, built on the former Metropolitan Stadium site.
Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA Metro Area
Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA (CBSA 14100): Pennsylvania statistical area around Bloomsburg and Berwick; an MSA of Columbia and Montour counties from 2013, reclassified a Columbia County micropolitan area in July 2023; 2020 population 82,863.
Blue Banana
Blue Banana (Banane bleue, Blaue Banane), also called the European Megalopolis or Dorsale européenne: a discontinuous corridor of urbanization from northwestern England to northern Italy, identified by Roger Brunet in 1989, with about 40% of the EU population.
Blumenau
Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil: municipality founded 2 September 1850 by Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau with 17 colonists; German heritage, Oktoberfest, beer capital, 361,261 people (2022 census), Itajaí-Açu floods.
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak (בני ברק), Haredi city in the Tel Aviv District, Israel; founded 1924 by Polish religious settlers, city since 1950; ~230,000 residents on 7.3 km2, over 31,000/km2, one of the world's densest cities and Israel's largest ultra-Orthodox municipality.
Bo, Southern Province
Bo is the second-largest city of Sierra Leone and the administrative seat of Southern Province, population 233,684 at 7.96 N, 11.74 W; known for Bo Government Hospital, Bo District onchocerciasis burden, and the isolated Bo-Kenema power grid.
Böbingen
Böbingen (Böbingen an der Rems), a municipality in Baden-Württemberg's Ostalbkreis on the Limes, site of Kastell Unterböbingen, a 2 ha Roman cohort fort under Antoninus Pius, occupied to about 260 CE, now a UNESCO World Heritage stop on the Deutsche Limes-Straße.
Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso, known locally as the City of Sya, is the second largest city of Burkina Faso and its main commercial center, in the west of the country.
Bobruysk
Bobruysk (Бабруйск, Бобруйск) is a city of oblast subordination in Mogilev Region, Belarus, on the Berezina River; first mentioned 1387, fortress town of 1812, major Jewish shtetl, industrial center home to the Belshina tire works.
Boca Raton, Florida
Boca Raton, Florida: coastal Palm Beach County city of about 101,600, shaped by architect Addison Mizner's 1920s resort project, the Arvida development era, and Florida Atlantic University.
Bocaue
Bocaue is a first-income-class municipality in Bulacan, Philippines, with 19 barangays and 147,755 residents (2024). Known as the Fireworks Capital of the Philippines, it was founded as a town in 1606 and holds the Pagoda sa Wawa fluvial festival each first Sunday of July.
Bocholt, Germany
Bocholt is a city of about 71,000 in the western Münsterland, district of Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, near the Dutch border. Chartered 1222, a former textile town, retail hub, cycling city, and site of a costly town hall renovation.
Bochum
Bochum, city in the central Ruhr, Germany (~375,000 residents); former coal and steel giant (74 collieries by 1929), now a university and technology hub with Ruhr University, the world's largest mining museum, and the MARK 51°7 quarter on the former Opel site.
Bodrum
Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus) is a Turkish Aegean resort town, birthplace of Herodotus, home of the Mausoleum of Mausolus, Bodrum Castle, and a major tourism and water-scarcity case.
Boerne, Texas
Boerne (pronounced Bernie) is the county seat of Kendall County, Texas, on Cibolo Creek 30 miles northwest of San Antonio. Founded 1849 by German settlers as Tusculum, renamed 1852 for Ludwig Boerne; 17,850 residents in 2020, rapid growth since.
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis, also historically called Bognor or Hothamton, is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, population about 24,000. Founded as a resort by Sir Richard Hotham in the 1780s, it gained the suffix Regis from George V in 1929.
Bogor
Bogor (Kota Bogor, formerly Buitenzorg) is a city in West Java, Indonesia, about 60 km south of Jakarta; population about 1.14 million, home to the 1817 Bogor Botanical Garden, Istana Bogor, and a KRL commuter link to Jakarta.
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia's capital and largest city at 2,640 m on the Andean savanna; ~7.9 million people, 33% of national GDP (region), TransMilenio BRT model, Ciclovía, 2024-25 water rationing, metro Line 1 under construction.
Bogra
Bogra (Bogura, বগুড়া) is an industrial city in Rajshahi Division, northern Bangladesh, gateway to North Bengal. Upgraded to Bangladesh's 13th city corporation in May 2026 with 21 wards; near Mahasthangarh.