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Ageo
Ageo (上尾市, Ageo-shi) is a city in southeastern Saitama Prefecture, Japan, 35 km from Tokyo. Incorporated July 15, 1958 as the prefecture's 19th city, it grew from about 37,000 residents to roughly 230,000, with Nakasendō post-town roots.
Agoura Hills, California
Agoura Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, in the Santa Monica Mountains foothills near the eastern Conejo Valley, straddling U.S. 101 about 36 miles west of downtown Los Angeles, incorporated December 8, 1982.
Agra (आगरा)
Agra (आगरा), city on the Yamuna in western Uttar Pradesh, India; former Mughal capital and home of the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, and Fatehpur Sikri. Known for its footwear and marble-inlay industries, Agra Metro, and severe air and Yamuna pollution.
Agrigento
Agrigento (Girgenti; ancient Akragas, Agrigentum), Sicilian city founded around 580 BC by Gela colonists; its Valley of the Temples Doric temples became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and the city was Italian Capital of Culture 2025.
Aguadilla-Isabela, PR Metro Area
Aguadilla-Isabela, PR Metro Area (CBSA 10380), also titled Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastián, is a northwestern Puerto Rico metropolitan statistical area of eight municipios, with about 250,000 residents in 2023 and 53,100 nonfarm jobs.
Ahmadpur East
Ahmadpur East (Ahmadpur Sharqia) is a city and tehsil headquarters in Bahawalpur District, southern Punjab, Pakistan, founded in 1748 by Ahmed Khan; 196,618 city residents at the 2023 census, on the Sutlej near the Cholistan Desert.
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, also known as Amdavad, is the largest city of Gujarat, India, on the Sabarmati River. Founded in 1411, it became India's first World Heritage City in 2017.
Ahmednagar (अहमदनगर)
Ahmednagar (अहमदनगर), also Ahilyanagar, is a city in central Maharashtra, India, founded in 1494 by Ahmad Nizam Shah I as capital of the Nizam Shahi sultanate.
Ahvaz (اهواز)
Ahvaz (اهواز) is the capital of Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran, on the Karun river. A major oil-region industrial city of about 1.4 million, it ranks among the world's most polluted cities, with mean PM10 of 222 µg/m³ (2008–2019).
Aiken, South Carolina
Aiken, South Carolina: city of about 33,800 in Aiken County, near Augusta, Georgia. Known for the Winter Colony resort era, equestrian sports and polo since 1882, Hitchcock Woods, and the nearby Savannah River Site.
Ait Melloul
Ait Melloul (Aït Melloul, أيت ملول) is a city in the Inezgane-Aït Melloul prefecture, Souss-Massa, Morocco, part of Greater Agadir, known for its large industrial zone (355 ha) that packs 90% of Morocco's Souss-Massa fruit and vegetable exports.
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence (Ais de Provença), historic capital of Provence in southern France, founded as Roman Aquae Sextiae in 122 BC; 149,695 inhabitants (2026), university and judicial city at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire, part of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis.
Aizawl
Aizawl, also known as Aijal, is the capital and most populous city of Mizoram in northeastern India, perched on a ridge roughly 1,132 meters (3,715 ft) above sea level.
Ajaccio
Ajaccio (Corsican Aiacciu), capital of Corse region and Corse-du-Sud on Corsica's west coast; founded by Genoa in 1492, birthplace of Napoleon (1769), first French city liberated in 1943; 76,320 inhabitants in 2023 and France's second cruise port.
Ajax
Ajax, Ontario: a Durham Region town of 126,666 (2021) in the Greater Toronto Area, founded in 1941 around a Defence Industries Limited shell-filling plant and named for HMS Ajax of the Battle of the River Plate.
Ajman (عجمان)
Ajman (عجمان) is the smallest UAE emirate by area, about 260 sq km on the Arabian Gulf between Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain, ruled by the Al Nuaimi family since the 18th century, with 504,846 people (2017) and GDP above AED 36 billion (2023).
Ajmer (अजमेर)
Ajmer (अजमेर), also Ajayameru, is a city in central Rajasthan, India, founded by the Chauhan dynasty and famed for the Ajmer Sharif Dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti and nearby Pushkar.
Akashi
Akashi (明石市, Akashi-shi) is a core city in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, on the 135°E Japan Standard Time meridian facing the Akashi Strait. About 305,000 people; known for Akashi Castle, sea bream, octopus, nori aquaculture, and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.
Akola (अकोला)
Akola (अकोला) is a city and district headquarters in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India, on the Morna River. Known as the Cotton City, it has 7 tehsils, a 1898 cotton market, and 1,813,906 people (2011).
Akron, OH Metro Area
Akron, OH Metro Area: two-county metropolitan statistical area (Summit and Portage counties) in northeastern Ohio, primary city Akron; about 702,000 residents, former rubber industry center, adjacent to Cleveland.
Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio, is a city in northeastern Ohio and the seat of Summit County, founded in 1825 and known as the rubber capital of the world.
Aksaray, Aksaray
Aksaray, Aksaray: the capital city of Aksaray Province in Central Anatolia, Turkey, on the Silk Road; ancient Garsaura/Archelais, renamed by Seljuk sultan Kılıçarslan II; province population 441,136 (2025).
Aksu City
Aksu City (阿克苏市), seat of Aksu Prefecture in Xinjiang, China: a Silk Road oasis town between the Tien Shan and Taklamakan, 18,184 sq km, Turkic name meaning 'white water', cotton and fruit oasis economy.
Aktobe
Aktobe (Ақтөбе), formerly Aktyubinsk, a city on the Ilek River in western Kazakhstan, founded as a fortress in 1869, administrative center of Aktobe Region, about 585,000 residents in 2025, a chromium, ferroalloy, and oil and gas hub.
Akure
Akure, capital of Ondo State, Nigeria since 1976, a medium-sized Yoruba city in the southwest. Seat of the Deji, home of FUTA; built-up land grew from 14% (1991) to 38% (2020).
Akureyri
Akureyri is a town in northeastern Iceland at the head of the fjord Eyjafjörður, the largest urban area outside the capital region, with about 20,000 inhabitants.
Al Ahmadi (district)
Al Aḩmadī (الأحمدي), Kuwait's second-largest city and capital of Al Ahmadi Governorate, is a planned oil company town founded in 1946-1947 by the Kuwait Oil Company, named for Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, built on Garden Suburb principles, and now on Kuwait's UNESCO Tentative List.
Al Ain (العين)
Al Ain (العين) is an oasis city in Abu Dhabi, bordered by Oman and known as "The Spring." The city is the location of UNESCO Cultural Sites and has ancient Bronze Age ruins.
Al Diwaniyah
Al Diwaniyah (الديوانية), capital of Al-Qadisiyah Governorate in southern Iraq on the Shatt Al-Diwaniya Euphrates branch, about 180 km south of Baghdad; city of about 392,000 with an agricultural economy, very low living costs, and strained services.
Al Hoceïma
Al Hoceïma (الحسيمة, Alhucemas, formerly Villa Sanjurjo) is a Mediterranean port city in Morocco's central Rif, capital of Al Hoceïma province, renamed in 1956, with a national park, Dutch-Belgian diaspora, and seismic risk.