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Brangues
Brangues, Isère commune (INSEE 38055) on the Rhône, France; village of about 614 people with the Château de Brangues, Paul Claudel's home and tomb, and the Berthet affair that inspired Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir.
Branson, Missouri
Branson, Missouri is an Ozark city 35 miles south of Springfield, incorporated in 1912, with about 12,900 residents and over 10 million annual visitors. Known for 25+ music theaters, Silver Dollar City, Table Rock Lake, and a $1.7 billion tourism economy.
Branson, MO Micro Area
Branson, MO Micro Area (CBSA 14700) is an OMB-defined micropolitan statistical area covering Taney and Stone counties in southwest Missouri, centered on Branson; about 56,500 residents, tourism-driven economy, part of the Springfield-Branson combined statistical area.
Brantford
Brantford, Ontario, "The Telephone City," a Grand River city of 104,690 (2021) where Alexander Graham Bell conceived the telephone in 1874 and made the first long-distance call in 1876.
Brașov
Brașov (German: Kronstadt, "City of the Crown") is a major Romanian city in the Carpathian curvature, first recorded in 1235 as Corona, seat of Brașov County, home to the Black Church and medieval fortifications.
Bratislava
Bratislava (Pressburg, Pozsony, Prešporok) is the capital of Slovakia on the Danube, renamed in 1919, Hungarian coronation city 1536–1830, Slovak capital since 1993, generating 28% of national GDP.
Bratsk
Bratsk (Братск) is a city of about 219,000 people in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, on the Angara River in Eastern Siberia, formed in 1955 around the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro, Vermont: a Windham County town of about 12,000 on the Connecticut River, chartered 1753 and named for William Brattle; southeastern Vermont's economic and arts hub.
Braunschweig
Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony's second-largest city with about 255,000 residents, former residence of Henry the Lion and Hanseatic city, now a German research and automotive industry center.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, founded 1880 by Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza; capital of French Equatorial Africa and Free France 1940-1943; population 2,145,783 in 2023.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Breckenridge, Colorado: Summit County resort town founded in 1859 as a gold-mining camp, home to about 5,000 residents, the Breckenridge Ski Resort's five peaks, and Colorado's largest historic district.
Breda
Breda is a city and municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands, at the Mark-Aa confluence, cradle of the House of Orange-Nassau; about 190,000 residents, city rights 1252, mayor Paul Depla, major 't Zoet redevelopment. Distinct from the Catalan pottery village Breda.
Bremen
Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), Hanseatic city on the Weser in northwest Germany; with Bremerhaven it forms Germany's smallest two-city state. First recorded 782, Hanse member 1358, UNESCO Town Hall and Roland, major port and industrial hub.
Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven, a North Sea port city at the Weser mouth, founded 1827 by Bremen under Mayor Johann Smidt; fourth-largest European container port, part of the two-city state of Bremen.
Bremerton, Washington
Bremerton, Washington, a Kitsap County city on Port Orchard Bay founded in 1891 by William Bremer around Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Population 43,505 (2020); ferry links to Seattle; shipyard undergoing a multi-billion-dollar Navy modernization.
Brentwood, California
Brentwood, California: a city in eastern Contra Costa County, 55 miles east of San Francisco, incorporated 1948; farm town turned suburb of 64,292 (2020) with u-pick cherry orchards and median household income of $142,494.
Brentwood, Essex
Brentwood, Essex: a town in southwest England's Essex county, east of London, named "burnt wood" and founded as a 12th-century pilgrim stop on the London–Colchester Roman road; borough since 1993, population about 77,000.
Brentwood, Tennessee
Brentwood, Tennessee is an affluent Williamson County suburb of Nashville, incorporated April 15, 1969 with 3,378 residents; 2020 population 45,373, median household income $182,088, median home value $1,031,300, 90 percent residential zoning.
Brescia
Brescia (Latin Brixia) is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, capital of its province, with about 200,000 inhabitants. Known for Roman Brixia, the UNESCO Longobard San Salvatore–Santa Giulia site, the 1849 Ten Days, its 2013 metro, and lakes Garda, Iseo, and Idro.
Brest, France
Brest, France: commune in Finistère, Brittany, at France's western tip; major naval port with Toulon, seat of the Atlantic maritime prefecture, 142,346 inhabitants (2023), home of the FOST submarine force.
Bridgend
Bridgend (Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a town in south Wales and the administrative center of Bridgend County Borough, which developed around a bridge on the River Ogmore.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut: the state's most populous city, on Long Island Sound in Fairfield County. First Connecticut borough (1800), industrial hub from 1840, 148,654 residents in 2020, governed by Mayor Joseph P. Ganim.
Bridgetown
Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados on Carlisle Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage colonial port town (Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, 2011) central to the sugar and slave trades, home to the modern Port of Bridgetown, and namesake of the Bridgetown climate-finance Initiative.
Bridlington
Bridlington is a seaside town, port, and parish on the East Riding of Yorkshire coast, the county's largest town. Known historically as Burlington, it centers on its medieval priory, working harbour, Old Town conservation area, and ongoing regeneration.
Brigantium
Brigantium: Latin name of several Roman-era Celtic settlements, chiefly Bregenz on Lake Constance (Austria) and Flavium Brigantium at A Coruña, Spain; also Briançon. Celtic root brigantī, 'high one'.
Brighton
Brighton, English seaside city in Brighton and Hove (pop. 277,200, 2021); resort made fashionable by George IV and the Royal Pavilion, now a tourism, digital, and commuter economy facing acute housing affordability pressure.
Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove is a unitary authority and city on England's south coast, formed in 1997, granted city status in 2000, population about 278,000, governed by a Labour-majority council and facing reorganisation into unitary councils by 2028.
Brindisi
Brindisi, known in Latin as Brundisium, is a port city in the Puglia region of southern Italy on the Adriatic coast, the historic terminus of the Via Appia.
Brisbane
Brisbane, California: small general-law city in northern San Mateo County near San Bruno Mountain, incorporated 1961, population 4,851 (2020), known for the contested 680-acre Baylands redevelopment and 2026 housing element decertification.
Bristol
Bristol (Brycgstow, "place at the bridge") is a city and port in South West England, 120 miles from London; founded 1155, county 1373, major Atlantic slave-trade port, population 495,300 (2025).