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Boisar (बोईसर)
Boisar (बोईसर) is a census town in Palghar taluka, Maharashtra, population 36,151 (2011), and the nearest railway station to MIDC Tarapur, one of Maharashtra's largest chemical industrial estates, established 1972, with a CEPI score of 93.69.
Boise metropolitan area
Boise City, ID Metro Area (Boise City-Nampa MSA): five-county OMB metropolitan statistical area (Ada, Boise, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee counties) centered on Boise, Idaho; 864,243 residents in July 2025, 74th-largest US metro, about 42 percent of Idaho's population.
Boise, Idaho
Boise, formally Boise City, is the capital and most populous city of Idaho, founded in 1863 during the gold rush and named for the tree-lined Boise River.
Bokaro Steel City (बोकारो इस्पात नगर)
Bokaro Steel City (बोकारो इस्पात नगर), a planned industrial city in Jharkhand, India, built from the 1960s around the SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant with Soviet collaboration; also home to Vedanta's ESL Steel.
Boksburg
Boksburg, East Rand city in Gauteng, South Africa, within Ekurhuleni; proclaimed 1887 on Vogelfontein farm, named for ZAR State Secretary W.E. Bok; gold, coal, ERPM, Boksburg Lake, Chris Hani assassination site.
Bole, Xinjiang
Bole (博乐市, Bortala) is the county-level city seat of Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in northern Xinjiang, bordering Kazakhstan (69 km). Known for Sayram Lake, a 1992 border economic cooperation zone, and a 2025 GDP of 26.635 billion yuan.
Bologna
Bologna, Italian city, capital of Emilia-Romagna; called Felsina by the Etruscans and Bononia under Rome; seat of the University of Bologna (1088) and of 62 km of UNESCO-listed porticoes.
Bolu (city)
Bolu, city and provincial capital in Turkey's western Black Sea region at 710 m elevation; ancient Bithynium-Claudiopolis; 180,197 city-center population (2019); known for earthquakes, Abant İzzet Baysal University, and tourism.
Bolzano
Bolzano (Bozen) is the capital of South Tyrol in the Italian Alps, at 262 m in the Adige Valley. Founded as Roman Pons Drusi, annexed to Italy in 1919, it is a bilingual city of about 107,000 with Italian the majority language and strong tourism.
Boma
Boma (Mboma) is a port city in Kongo Central, DR Congo, on the north bank of the Congo River estuary; first capital of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (1886 to 1926/1929), slave-trade hub until about 1868, one of three seagoing ports with Matadi and Banana.
Bondoukou
Bondoukou, also rendered Bonduku, is a town in northeastern Côte d'Ivoire and the capital of the Zanzan Autonomous District, nicknamed the city of a thousand mosques.
Bonham, TX Micro Area
Bonham, TX Micro Area (OMB code 14300) is a micropolitan statistical area covering Fannin County, Texas, with Bonham as principal city; about 37,326 residents, median household income $72,295, part of the Metroplex region.
Bonn
Bonn is a city of about 324,000 on the Rhine in western Germany, the birthplace of Beethoven and the capital of West Germany from 1949 until reunification in 1990.
Bontang
Bontang (Kota Bontang) is a coastal city in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the Makassar Straits, home to the Badak LNG complex (trains A–H, 1977–1999) and Pupuk Kaltim fertilizer plant; population about 194,600, land area 158.23 km².
Boone, North Carolina
Boone, North Carolina: Blue Ridge mountain town, county seat of Watauga County, incorporated 1872, home of Appalachian State University and a fall-leaf tourism economy hit by Hurricane Helene in 2024.
Bootle
Bootle is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, recorded as Boltelai in Domesday Book and incorporated as Bootle-cum-Linacre in 1868. Known for its docks, the Strand shopping centre regeneration, and Salt and Tar events venue.
Bor, Serbia
Bor (Бор) is a mining town in eastern Serbia, population about 41,000, built around the RTB Bor copper mine opened in 1903 and majority-owned since 2018 by China's Zijin Mining Group.
Borama
Borama (Boorama), capital of the Awdal region in northwestern Somaliland, a high-altitude semi-arid city of roughly 150,000–360,000 people, home of Amoud University, host of the 1993 Borama peace conference, and dependent entirely on depleting groundwater.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux (Burdigala), capital of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on the Garonne, is a French port city and wine capital, UNESCO-listed in 2007 as Port of the Moon for its 18th-century classical urban ensemble; 270,000 inhabitants, 1,810-hectare World Heritage area.
Bordesholm
Bordesholm, a municipality in Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, north of Neumünster; about 7,855 residents (2024). Former Augustinian monastery island in the Bordesholmer See; home of Hans Brüggemann's 1521 Bordesholm Altar, now in Schleswig Cathedral.
Bordj Bou Arreridj
Bordj Bou Arreridj (برج بوعريريج) is a city and wilaya capital on Algeria's eastern high plateaus, named for an Ottoman fort, besieged in the 1871 Mokrani revolt, and now known as Algeria's electronics capital with Condor.
Borehamwood
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire town in Hertsmere borough, England; home of Elstree Studios since 1914 and called the British Hollywood; 36,324 residents (2021), major town centre regeneration and Sky Studios expansion underway.
Bornova
Bornova (Μπουρνόβας) is İzmir Province's third most populous district, Türkiye, at the foot of Mount Yamanlar; 452,479 people in 2025, home of Ege University's main campus, Levantine mansions, and Yeşilova Mound.
Bornstein
Bornstein: village in Neudorf-Bornstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; also the nearby late Roman Iron Age princely graves (Fürstengräber), the Sochaczew rabbinic dynasty, and a Bavarian Forest hill.
Borodyans’kyy Rayon
Borodyans’kyy Rayon (Бородянський район), former raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Borodianka; existed 1923–1962, restored 1965, abolished 2020 and merged into Bucha Raion; 934 km², 57,365 people (2013).
Borough
Borough: administrative division from Old English burh, a fortified town. Covers UK borough status under LGA 1972 s.245, London's 32 boroughs, 36 metropolitan boroughs, NYC's five boroughs, Pennsylvania's 955 boroughs, and Alaska's 16 county-equivalent boroughs.
Boroughs of New York City
The five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island), each coterminus with a state county, consolidated January 1, 1898 into the City of Greater New York, population 8,804,190 in 2020.
Borūjerd
Borūjerd (بروجرد) is a city and county seat in Lorestan province, western Iran, on the Tehran–Khuzestan highway. Known for its Saljuq-era record, Jameh Mosque, Silakhor plain agriculture, brasswork handicrafts, and seismic hazard on the Zagros Main Recent fault.
Bosaso (بوصاصو)
Bosaso (بوصاصو, also Bossaso) is a Gulf of Aden port city in northeastern Somalia, Puntland's commercial capital, with a DP World-run port (2017 concession), rapid displacement-driven growth, and about 1,067,000 residents in 2026 estimates.
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts: capital and largest New England city on the Shawmut Peninsula, founded 1630, population about 673,000. Known for its neighborhoods, harbor port, healthcare economy, and coastal flood vulnerability.