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Bury, Greater Manchester
Bury, Greater Manchester: market town and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, one of Greater Manchester's ten boroughs. Six towns, about 195,500 people, cotton-mill heritage, John Kay's flying shuttle, Bury Market and regeneration plans.
Busan (부산)
Busan (부산), South Korea's second-largest city and top trading port on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula; 3.3 million residents, 771.33 km², wartime capital during the Korean War, host of BIFF.
Busselton
Busselton, Western Australia: coastal city on Geographe Bay, 230 km south of Perth, seat of the City of Busselton (pop. about 45,000), home of the 1.8 km Busselton Jetty, gazetted 1847.
Busto Arsizio
Busto Arsizio, Lombardy city in Varese province, Italy; about 85,000 residents, largest in its province. Historic cotton center nicknamed the Manchester of Italy, home to the Textile Museum, far cheaper than nearby Milan.
Butembo
Butembo, a commercial city in northern North Kivu, DRC, on the RN2 between Beni and Lubero; Nande merchant hub, city status 2003, over 1.2 million residents by 2024, 11.85% annual urbanization.
Butler, Pennsylvania
Butler, Pennsylvania, also known as Butler, PA, is the county seat of Butler County, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, laid out in 1803 and the birthplace of the Bantam Jeep.
Butte, Montana
Butte, Montana: former copper-mining city, seat of consolidated Butte-Silver Bow government, once the "Richest Hill on Earth" supplying a third of world copper, a labor-movement center, and now a major Superfund site with the Berkeley Pit.
Butterworth, Seberang Perai
Butterworth is the main town of Seberang Perai, mainland Penang, Malaysia, home to Penang Sentral transport hub, the KTM/ETS railway station, the historic ferry link to George Town, and the planned Mutiara Line LRT terminus.
Butuan
Butuan (City of Butuan) is a highly urbanized city in northeastern Mindanao, Philippines, serving as the regional center of Caraga. It is recognized for its ancient trade and balangay boats.
Butwāl
Butwāl (बुटवल), Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City, is a city in Rupandehi District, Lumbini Province, Nepal, on the Tinau River at the Mahendra-Siddhartha Highway junction; 194,335 residents (2021 census), former interim Lumbini capital.
Buxton
Buxton, Derbyshire: spa town, highest market town in England, Roman Aquae Arnemetiae, home of the Crescent and Buxton Mineral water; £100 million town centre regeneration under way.
Byblos (جبيل)
Byblos (جبيل, Jbeil) is an ancient Phoenician port city 40 km north of Beirut, inhabited since Neolithic times, Egypt's cedar-wood trading partner (ancient keben), home of the Ahiram inscription, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), a city in northern Poland on the Brda and Vistula rivers, chartered in 1346, shaped by Prussian rule and the 1773–1774 Bydgoszcz Canal linking the Vistula and Oder basins; seat of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian voivode.
Bylakuppe
Bylakuppe, a town in Karnataka about 90 km from Mysore, hosts India's largest Tibetan refugee settlement complex: Lugsung Samdupling (founded 1960) and Dickey Larsoe, with roughly 15,000-18,000 residents, Sera and Namdroling monasteries, and an agrarian economy.
Bytom
Bytom (German: Beuthen) is a city in Upper Silesia, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland; chartered 1254, a former coal and metallurgy center with 144,598 residents in 2025 and ongoing EU-funded revitalization.
Cà Mau (city)
Cà Mau city (Thành phố Cà Mau), southern tip of Vietnam's Mekong Delta; provincial capital and Class II urban city until 30 June 2025, when two-tier local government ended its status; low-lying, flood-prone, now part of enlarged Cà Mau province.
Cabanatuan
Cabanatuan City, a first-class component city in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, chartered by RA 526 in 1950. Largest city in the province (343,672 in 2024), dubbed Tricycle Capital and Gateway of the North.
Cabinda
Cabinda is an exclave province of Angola separated from the rest of the country by Democratic Republic of the Congo territory, known for its oil production and FLEC separatist conflict.
Cabo de Santo Agostinho
Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco municipality in the Recife Metropolitan Region; cabense; Suape port-industrial complex, Pinzón's 1500 landfall, 219,044 residents (2026 estimate), second industrial GDP of Pernambuco.
Cabo Frio
Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil; also Cabo Frio (RJ). Coastal municipality in the Região dos Lagos, founded 1615, 222,161 residents (2022 census), known for beaches, tourism, and the Cabo Frio upwelling of cold SACW water.
Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas (Yenekamú to the Pericú) is a resort city at Baja California Sur's southern tip, Mexico. Renamed by Bolaños in 1541, a tuna cannery town from 1925, now a Los Cabos tourism hub.
Cabot, Vermont
Cabot, Vermont: rural Washington County town chartered August 17, 1781 to Jesse Leavenworth and 65 associates, named for Sophia Cabot; population 1,443 (2020), home of Cabot Creamery Cooperative founded 1919 by 94 farmers.
Cabuyao
Cabuyao, formerly the municipality of Tabuko, is a component city in Laguna, Philippines, on Laguna de Bay's southern shore; it attained cityhood in 2012 as Laguna's fifth city.
Čačak
Čačak (Чачак), western Serbian city and seat of Moravica District, founded as Gradac by prince Stracimir; first named Čačak in 1408; 73,331 city residents (2011); Serbia's first Capital of Culture, 2023.
Cáceres, Extremadura
Cáceres, Extremadura: Spanish city, capital of Cáceres province, about 96,000 inhabitants, 1,768 km² municipality. Founded as Roman Norba Caesarina (35-34 BC); walled old town, UNESCO World Heritage since 1986.
Cachoeira, Bahia
Cachoeira, Bahia is a historic colonial port town on the Paraguaçu River in Brazil, honored as the Heroic City for its role in Bahian independence.
Cadillac, Michigan
Cadillac, Michigan: Wexford County seat founded 1871 as Clam Lake by lumberman George A. Mitchell, incorporated 1877 and named for Detroit's founder; a lumber town turned manufacturing and tourism center between Lakes Cadillac and Mitchell.
Cádiz
Cádiz (Gadir, Gades, Qadis) is an Atlantic port city in Andalusia, Spain, founded by Phoenicians from Tyre around the 9th–8th century BC, later a Roman city, site of the 1812 Spanish Constitution, with about 110,000 residents.
Cadurcio
Cadurcio: Latin name of an ancient place in Roman Gaul, Barrington Atlas map 14 G4, identified with Catus (Lot), France; also a medieval toponym (Castrum de Cadurcio, Cadours) tied to the Cadurci people.
Caen
Caen, prefecture of Calvados in Normandy, France; first recorded as Cadomus in 1025, a city of William the Conqueror, 73% destroyed in 1944, rebuilt, with 109,400 inhabitants (2023) and the Mémorial de Caen museum.