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Budaun (city)
Budaun (बदायूँ, Badāyūn), city and district headquarters in Uttar Pradesh, India, near the Ganga; Sufi heritage, Iltutmish's Jami Masjid (1223), 159,285 residents in 2011, 235 km from Delhi.
Budva
Budva, Montenegro's Adriatic resort town and center of the Budva Riviera, over 2,500 years old with a walled Old Town; leading beach tourism destination, also known for uncontrolled investor-driven construction called Budvanizacija.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal) is Argentina's capital and largest urban area on the Río de la Plata: 2.9 million residents, a 16.4-million metropolitan region, autonomy since 1994, and marked socio-spatial inequality.
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a city in western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie, laid out in 1804 by Joseph Ellicott, with a 2020 population of 278,349.
Buga, Valle del Cauca
Buga, formally Guadalajara de Buga, is a colonial city in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and a pilgrimage site for its Basílica del Señor de los Milagros.
Bujumbura
Bujumbura, formerly Usumbura, is the largest city of Burundi and its economic capital, at the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika. It was the political capital until 2019, when Gitega took over.
Būkān
Būkān (بوکان, Kurdish Bôkan) is a Kurdish city in West Azerbaijan province, Iran, in Mukriyan on the Simineh river; county seat, about 193,500 people (2016), center of Kurdish publishing and the 1946 Mahabad Republic era.
Bukhara
Bukhara (Buxoro), Uzbekistan: 2,000-year-old Silk Road city, capital of Bukhara Region, UNESCO World Heritage historic centre since 1993, famed for the Ismail Samani tomb and Poi-Kalyan minaret.
Bulakan, Bulacan
Bulakan is a coastal municipality in Bulacan province, Philippines; former first provincial capital, founded 1572, 14 barangays, 75,565 people (2015), and site of the New Manila International Airport in Barangay Taliptip.
Bulandshahr (बुलंदशहर)
Bulandshahr (बुलंदशहर), formerly Baran, is a district of Uttar Pradesh between the Ganga and Yamuna, near Delhi in the NCR; 3.5 million people (2011), Khurja pottery, Narora nuclear plant.
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe's second largest city, with 665,940 people at the 2022 census, built on the site of King Lobengula's royal kraal and long a mining and industrial center.
Bulcy
Bulcy (also Bulet) is a small commune in the Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, INSEE 58042, near La Charité-sur-Loire; 146 inhabitants (2023), known for its oolitic limestone quarry that supplied the nave of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire abbey.
Bullhead City, Arizona
Bullhead City, Arizona: Colorado River city in Mohave County across from Laughlin, Nevada; incorporated 1984, 2020 population 41,348, named for a bull-shaped rock now under Lake Mohave.
Bunbury, Western Australia
Bunbury, known as Goomburrup in Noongar, is Western Australia's largest regional city, a coastal port about 175 kilometers south of Perth serving the South West region.
Bunia
Bunia is the capital of Ituri Province in northeastern DR Congo, on a 1,275 m plateau near Lake Albert. Population estimates range from about 328,000 to 944,000; it faces armed-group conflict, displacement, and a 2026 Ebola outbreak.
Buôn Ma Thuột
Buôn Ma Thuột (Ban Mê Thuột), capital of Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, largest Central Highlands city; named for Ede chief Ama Thuột; founded 1904; Vietnam's Robusta coffee capital with World Coffee Museum and biennial coffee festival.
Buraydah
Buraydah (بريدة), also Buraidah, is the capital of Al-Qassim Region in central Saudi Arabia; 677,647 residents (2022 census), seat of the regional Emirate, and host of the world's largest annual dates carnival with SAR 3.2 billion in sales.
Burbank, California
Burbank, California: charter city in the eastern San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, about 12 miles northeast of downtown LA. Known as the Media Capital of the World; 107,337 residents (2020); incorporated 1911; home to Warner Bros., Disney, and Hollywood Burbank Airport.
Burewala
Burewala (بورے والا), city and tehsil headquarters in Vehari District, southern Punjab, Pakistan, on the Delhi–Multan Road; canal-colony origin (village 122/EB), 361,664 city population at the 2023 census, agricultural milling economy.
Burgas (Бургас)
Burgas (Бургас) is a Black Sea port city in eastern Bulgaria, center of Burgas Province. Key facts: about 189,000 city residents (2025), 5.22% of national GDP from its district, major oil refinery, port, and airport.
Burgos
Burgos, Castile and León city in northern Spain, capital of the unified kingdom of Castile and León for five centuries; Gothic cathedral (World Heritage), stop on the Camino de Santiago, near Atapuerca, about 176,000-180,000 residents.
Burhanpur (बुरहानपुर)
Burhanpur (बुरहानपुर), city on the Tapti River in Madhya Pradesh, India; founded 1400 AD, Farooqi capital, Mughal Deccan base where Mumtaz Mahal died in 1631; known for Shahi Qila, Jama Masjid, Asirgarh Fort, and the Kundi Bhandara qanat water system.
Burladingen
Burladingen, a town in the Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, in the Killertal; home of the Roman fort Burladingen-Hausen (c. 80 AD, Vespasian, Alblimes) with its vicus and a second march camp found in 2006.
Burlington, Ontario
Burlington, Ontario: a city in Halton Region on Lake Ontario's western shore, about 70 km west of Toronto; population 186,948 (2021 census), a city since 1974, founded from Joseph Brant's 1784 land grant.
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont: the state's largest city (44,743 in 2020) on Lake Champlain, home of UVM, its municipal electric utility (first US city fully renewable in 2015), Sanders-era progressive politics, and a tight housing market.
Burnaby
Burnaby is a city in British Columbia at the centre of Metro Vancouver, BC's third-largest city with over 249,000 residents. Incorporated September 22, 1892 and named for Robert Burnaby, it hosts Simon Fraser University, BCIT, and Metrotown.
Burnley
Burnley is a Lancashire mill town on the River Brun and Calder, once a major cotton-weaving center; home of Queen Street Mill, Turf Moor, the Weavers' Triangle, and among England's most deprived yet most affordable districts.
Bursa
Bursa, historically Broussa, is a city in northwestern Türkiye at the foot of Uludağ Mountain and the first capital of the Ottoman Empire, taken in 1326.
Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire town on the River Trent, also called Burton-on-Trent; famed as the world brewing capital for its gypsum-rich water, the source of Burtonisation, with an abbey founded in 1002 by Wulfric Spot.
Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk market town named for St Edmund, king killed by Danes in 869; site of one of England's richest Benedictine abbeys (refounded 1020, dissolved 1539), the 1214 barons' meeting linked to Magna Carta, and today's Abbey Gardens and cathedral.