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Bristol, Connecticut
Bristol, Connecticut, is a city in central Connecticut, located 20 miles southwest of Hartford, and is known for ESPN's headquarters and Lake Compounce, the country's oldest continuously operating amusement park.
Bristol, Tennessee
Bristol, Tennessee is a Sullivan County city of about 28,000 (2025 estimate) forming a twin city with Bristol, Virginia along State Street. Founded 1852 by Joseph R. Anderson; incorporated 1856; Birthplace of Country Music and home of Bristol Motor Speedway.
Bristol, Virginia
Bristol, Virginia is an independent city paired with Bristol, Tennessee across a state line running down State Street. Founded as Goodson in 1856, renamed Bristol in 1890, it is the Birthplace of Country Music, site of the 1927 Bristol Sessions and the Smithsonian-affiliated museum.
British Bencoolen
British Bencoolen was an East India Company settlement at Bencoolen (now Bengkulu) on Sumatra's southwest coast, established in 1685 to secure pepper and ceded to the Netherlands in 1824.
Briton Ferry
Briton Ferry (Welsh: Llansawel) is a town in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, on the Neath estuary in Swansea Bay, formerly a coal port centered on Brunel's 1861 dock, closed 1959, now a Grade II listed monument.
Brits, South Africa
Brits is a town in the North West province of South Africa, about 50 km west of Pretoria, serving the platinum mining industry and irrigated farming near the Hartbeespoort Dam.
Brixen
Brixen (Bressanone) is a South Tyrol town at the Isarco-Rienza confluence, seat of a prince-bishopric from 1027, with a Baroque cathedral (1758), Hofburg, Widmann bridge (1882), and tourism on Mount Plose.
Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton, Massachusetts: a Plymouth County city of about 106,000 south of Boston, incorporated as North Bridgewater in 1821, renamed 1874, a historic shoemaking center, "City of Champions," and home to one of the largest Cape Verdean communities in the United States.
Brody (Броди)
Brody (Броди) is a city in Lviv oblast, Ukraine, near the Galychyna-Volyn-Podillia junction: Koniecpolski fortress town (1629), Austrian free-trade town 1779-1880, once Galicia's most Jewish city, destroyed Jewish community in the Holocaust.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma: fourth-largest city in the state (124,991 est. 2025), largest Tulsa suburb in Tulsa and Wagoner counties, founded 1902 as a Katy Railroad townsite named for a Muscogee tribal town.
Broken Hill
Broken Hill, far west New South Wales mining city on the Line of Lode, the world's largest silver-lead-zinc ore seam; discovered by Charles Rasp in 1883, birthplace of BHP, National Heritage listed 2015.
Brookings, SD Micro Area
The Brookings, SD Micro Area is a micropolitan statistical area centered on Brookings in eastern South Dakota, home to an estimated 37,635 people in 2025.
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts: an independent town in Norfolk County surrounded by Boston on three sides, incorporated 1705, population 63,191 (2020). Known for rejecting Boston annexation 707-299 in 1873, Representative Town Meeting government, and high housing costs.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn, coextensive with Kings County, New York, is New York City's most populous borough, home to about 2.73 million people, roughly a third of the city.
Broome, Western Australia
Broome (Rubibi) is a pearling-port town on a peninsula in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 2,200 km north of Perth; population 16,959 (2021), known for its multicultural pearling heritage, Japanese cemetery, Cable Beach, and tourism economy.
Broomfield, Colorado
Broomfield, also known as the City and County of Broomfield, is a consolidated city and county between Denver and Boulder, Colorado's newest county since 2001, with about 79,000 residents in 2025.
Brossard
Brossard is a multicultural city on Montréal's South Shore in Montérégie, Québec, incorporated in 1958 with 3,400 residents, now about 91,525 (2021 census), served by three REM light-rail stations and home to Quartier DIX30.
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas: county seat of Cameron County at the state's southernmost tip, across the Rio Grande from Matamoros. Founded 1848 by Charles Stillman near Fort Brown; home of the Port of Brownsville (1936) and near SpaceX's Starbase; population about 188,000.
Bruges
Bruges (Brugge), West Flanders, Belgium: medieval trading metropolis, host of the Hanseatic League's chief trading post, birthplace of Flemish Primitive painting, UNESCO World Heritage historic centre since 2000, population about 120,000.
Brugge, Flanders
Brugge (Bruges), West Flanders, Belgium: medieval trading metropolis and UNESCO World Heritage site (Historic Centre of Brugge, 2000, criteria ii, iv, vi; 410 ha). Cradle of the Flemish Primitives, Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling; brick Gothic, canals, Belfry.
Brunswick, GA Metro Area
Brunswick-St. Simons, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 15260), a three-county Georgia metro (Brantley, Glynn, McIntosh) anchored by Brunswick; about 116,000 residents, tourism-led economy, 3.0% unemployment.
Brunswick, Georgia
Brunswick, Georgia: coastal city and Glynn County seat, founded 1771, population 15,210 (2020). Home to the Port of Brunswick, the busiest U.S. automobile seaport in 2024 and 2025, and gateway to the Golden Isles.
Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles/Brussel), capital of Belgium and the Brussels-Capital Region of 19 municipalities, hosts the EU institutions; known for the Brussels paradox of high GDP per capita alongside the EU's highest poverty rate among capital regions.
Bryansk
Bryansk (Брянск), city and administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, on the Desna River 379 km from Moscow; founded 985, first mentioned 1146; about 373,000 residents, machine-building economy, City of Military and Partisan Glory.
Bucaramanga
Bucaramanga, "La ciudad bonita", is the capital of Santander department, Colombia, founded 22 December 1622 as a pueblo de indios; about 620,000 inhabitants, metropolitan area 1.1 million, footwear industry hub.
Bucharest
Bucharest (București), capital and largest city of Romania on the Dâmbovița river; first attested 1459, six sectors, 240 km², about 1.71 million residents, known for severe traffic congestion, air pollution, and the Palace of Parliament.
Bucheon-si (city)
Bucheon-si (부천시) is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, between Seoul and Incheon. Created July 1, 1973 from Sosa-eup; 769,918 residents on 53.4 km²; name first used in 1914.
Buckhurst Hill
Buckhurst Hill is a residential town in southwest Essex on the London border, half within Epping Forest. Known for its 1856 railway-driven Victorian growth, St John's Conservation Area, Central line stations, and 2021 population of 11,752.
Buda
Buda, historically known as Ofen, is the hilly western part of Budapest, Hungary, on the Danube's west bank; it united with Pest and Óbuda in 1873.
Budapest
Budapest, capital of Hungary, formed in 1873 by uniting Buda, Pest, and Óbuda on the Danube. About 1.77 million people, 23 districts, thermal spas, and the least affordable housing among measured EU capitals.