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Al Khums
Al Khums (الخمس, "the fifth") is a coastal city in northwestern Libya, seat of Al Marqab district, port and market center near the Leptis Magna Roman ruins, population about 202,000 (2026).
Al Khuşūş
Al Khuşūş (الخصوص, Al Khusus) is a city in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, north of Cairo. A fast-growing Greater Cairo peri-urban settlement in the Al Khanka district, it grew 6.96% yearly from 1996 to 2006 and reached an estimated 524,886 people in 2026.
Al Maḩallah al Kubrá
Al Maḩallah al Kubrá, also spelled El Mahalla El Kubra or Mahalla, is a major industrial city in Egypt's Nile Delta, the center of the country's cotton-textile industry.
Al Maḩmūdīyah, Baghdad
Al Maḩmūdīyah (المحمودية), the 'Gateway to Baghdad', is a city and district in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, about 20-30 km south of the capital, with roughly 550,000 residents (2006), farmland, and a history as the heart of the 'Triangle of Death' insurgency belt.
Al Mansurah, Dakahlia
Al Mansurah (المنصورة), meaning "the victorious," is a city in Lower Egypt and the capital of Dakahlia Governorate, founded by Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil in 1221.
Al Maţarīyah
Al Maţarīyah (المطرية) is a city of 162,045 in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, capital of its markaz on Lake Manzala; distinct from the larger Cairo district El Matareya on the site of ancient Heliopolis.
Al Miqdādīyah
Al Miqdādīyah (المقدادية), formerly Shahraban, is a city and district seat in Diyala Governorate, Iraq, 42 km east of Baquba; agricultural center known for pomegranates, with 63 recorded archaeological sites.
Al Mubarraz
Al Mubarraz (المبرز) is a Saudi city in the Al-Ahsa Oasis, Eastern Province, first recorded in 1573 and capital of the Bani Khaled state in the 18th century.
Al Muharraq
Al Muharraq (المحرق), Bahrain's capital 1810–1923 on Muharraq Island, is a pearling-era heritage city with the UNESCO Pearling Path, Bahrain International Airport, and an ongoing government redevelopment project across six historic neighbourhoods.
Al Mukalla
Al Mukalla (المكلا) is a port city on Yemen's Arabian Sea coast and capital of Hadhramaut Governorate. Former Qu'aiti capital (1915), Yemen's third largest cargo port, opened 1985, fishing economy, UNESCO tentative historic city.
Al Qāmishlī
Al Qāmishlī (القامشلي; Qamishlo, Zalin), city in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, on the Turkish border. Founded under the French Mandate in the 1920s by Assyrian refugees; grain-trade center; four community names; government forces entered February 2026.
Al Rayyan
Al Rayyan is a municipality of Qatar and, within it, a major city that forms the western part of metropolitan Doha; its 826,786 residents make it Qatar's second most populous municipality.
Al-Buraimi (البريمي)
Al-Buraimi (البريمي) is an Omani oasis town and governorate capital on the UAE border, twin of Al Ain; historically the Buraimi Oasis of nine villages contested by Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Muscat in the 1950s.
Al-Hasakah
Al-Hasakah (Kurdish: Heşîçe) is a city in northeastern Syria and the capital of Al-Hasakah Governorate, situated at the confluence of the Jaghjagh and Khabur rivers.
Al-Ubayyid
Al-Ubayyid (El Obeid, Arabic الأبيض) is the capital of North Kordofan state, Sudan, a gum arabic trading crossroads nicknamed 'the bride of the sands', besieged by the RSF from 2023 to 2025.
Al’met’yevsk
Al’met’yevsk (Альметьевск) is a city in southeastern Tatarstan, Russia, on the Zay River, center of Almetyevsky District and of Tatarstan's oil industry; city since 3 November 1953, home of Tatneft, start of the Druzhba pipeline.
Alameda, California
Alameda, California: island city in Alameda County next to Oakland; 78,280 residents (2020 census), incorporated 1872, former Naval Air Station town, low-lying and planning for sea level rise.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Alamogordo, New Mexico: Otero County seat founded in 1898 as a railroad town by Charles Eddy; about 31,000 residents, adjacent to Holloman AFB, near White Sands National Park.
Alanya
Alanya (historically Alaiye) is a resort district of Antalya Province, Turkey, on a Mediterranean peninsula 137 km from Antalya city, known for its Seljuk castle, 33 m Red Tower, 70 km of beaches, and sun-and-sea tourism.
Alappuzha (ആലപ്പുഴ)
Alappuzha (ആലപ്പുഴ), formerly Alleppey, is a Kerala port town planned in 1762 by Travancore's ruler for the spice trade, developed by Dewan Raja Kesava Das, famed as the Venice of the East and center of the coir industry.
Alba Longa
Alba Longa, legendary metropolis of Rome in the Alban Hills of Latium, founded by Ascanius and destroyed by Tullus Hostilius; archaeology shows Iron Age necropolis but no city.
Albacete
Albacete (Al-Basīṭ, 'the plain') is the capital of the province of Albacete in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; 173,206 inhabitants (2023). Known for its medieval Feria, 1710 fair privilege, 1855 railway, knife-making industry, and International Brigades civil-war headquarters.
Albany, Georgia
Albany, Georgia, is a city in southwest Georgia and the county seat of Dougherty County, founded by Nelson Tift in 1836 as a Flint River cotton port.
Albany, New York
Albany, New York: capital city on the Hudson River, founded as Fort Orange in 1624, chartered 1686, state capital since 1797; population about 99,000, anchor of Tech Valley.
Albany, Western Australia
Albany (Kinjarling), Western Australia: oldest European settlement in WA, founded 1826 by Major Edmund Lockyer at King George Sound; Great Southern regional hub of about 42,000 people with the Port of Albany, agriculture, wine and tourism.
Alberobello
Alberobello, Puglia town inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 as The Trulli of Alberobello (trulli), known for over 1,500 mortarless corbelled limestone dwellings with conical roofs in Rione Monti and Aia Piccola.
Albertville, AL Micro Area
Albertville, AL Micro Area (CBSA 10700) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Marshall County, Alabama, anchored by Albertville. Population grew from 70,832 (1990) to about 103,537 (2025); it joined the Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville combined statistical area in 2012.
Albufeira
Albufeira, Al-Buhera, is a central Algarve municipality in southern Portugal: 140.66 km², 44,164 residents (2021), four parishes, a Roman and Moorish past, and a tourism economy swelling to about 400,000 in season.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico: largest New Mexico city, founded 1706 as Villa de Alburquerque; 564,559 residents (2020), Rio Grande valley, Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland AFB, Route 66 heritage.
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares, a city of 203,208 (2025) in the Community of Madrid 30 km from Madrid; Roman Complutum, site of the world's first planned university city, UNESCO World Heritage since 1998 and Cervantes's birthplace.