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Cumberland, Maryland
Cumberland, Maryland, county seat of Allegany County, incorporated 1815, named for the Duke of Cumberland. Former transportation hub and Maryland's second largest city; C&O Canal terminus; 2020 population 19,076.
Cumming, Georgia
Cumming, Georgia: county seat of Forsyth County, about 40 miles north of Atlanta. Founded 1833 on 1832 Cherokee land lottery lots, incorporated December 1834, named for War of 1812 colonel William Cumming; population 7,318 in 2020.
Cunnamulla
Cunnamulla, outback Queensland town on the Warrego River, seat of Paroo Shire; Kunja name meaning big waterhole; 1,233 people at the 2021 census, 44.4% Indigenous; wool-boom past, artesian hot springs, levee-protected floodplain.
Cupertino, California
Cupertino, California: Santa Clara County city incorporated October 10, 1955 as its 13th city (vote 231-185), population about 58,000-60,000, home of Apple's headquarters, formerly an orchard town in the Valley of Heart's Delight.
Curug, Banten
Curug is a town and district (kecamatan) in Tangerang Regency, Banten, on Java, Indonesia, near the Jakarta metropolitan area and named after the Sundanese word for waterfall.
Cusco
Cusco (Cuzco, Qusqu), Peru: former capital of the Inca Empire Tawantinsuyu at 3,400 m, Spanish refounded 1534, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, gateway to Machu Picchu.
Cushing, Oklahoma
Cushing is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma, serving as the delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate crude and one of the world's largest oil storage hubs.
Cuttack (କଟକ)
Cuttack (କଟକ), Odisha's former capital until 1948, is a millennium-old city at the Mahanadi–Kathajodi delta apex, home to Barabati Fort (1229 AD) and the state's business hub.
Cypress, California
Cypress, California: charter city in northwestern Orange County, incorporated July 24, 1956 as Dairy City, renamed 1957; dairy-farming origin, 50,151 residents (2020), Cypress College, median home value $913,900.
Cyrene, Libya
Cyrene (Shahat, شحات), ancient Greek colony of Thera founded ca. 631 BC in Cyrenaica, Libya; major Hellenistic and Roman city famed for silphium trade; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1982, on the Danger List since 2016.
Częstochowa
Częstochowa, southern Polish city on the Warta River, home of the Jasna Góra Pauline monastery and Black Madonna shrine drawing millions of pilgrims yearly; about 201,000 official residents (225,000 estimated, 2025), founded on Magdeburg Law in 1357.
Da Lat
Da Lat (Đà Lạt), highland capital of Lam Dong province, Vietnam, at 1,475 m on the Lam Vien Plateau; French colonial hill station founded 1916, cool 17.8 °C climate, pine forests, Xuan Huong Lake, and flower-and-vegetable farming economy.
Da Nang
Da Nang (Đà Nẵng), formerly Tourane, is a centrally run city in central Vietnam. In 2025 it merged with Quảng Nam province, covering 11,859.59 km² with about 3.07 million people and 94 commune-level units.
Dachang, Shanghai
Dachang (大场), located in northern Shanghai's Baoshan District, is a town named for a Song dynasty salt field. The town currently holds a population of 445,587.
Dachau, Bavaria
Dachau, Bavaria (Große Kreisstadt Dachau): Upper Bavarian town northwest of Munich on the Amper, 48,361 residents (2023), first recorded 805, artists' colony town, site of the first Nazi concentration camp and its 1965 memorial.
Dadu (city)
Dadu (Sindhi: دادو) is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, headquarters of Dadu District on the western bank of the Indus, 160 km north of Hyderabad. 2023 census: 188,317 residents, Pakistan's 52nd largest city; Kalhora-era founding.
Dadu (大都) (Beijing)
Dadu (大都), also Khanbaliq or Cambuluc, was the Yuan dynasty capital built by Kublai Khan from 1267 on present-day Beijing, with 24 m earthen walls, 11 gates, and a central axis that shaped later Beijing.
Daegu (대구)
Daegu (대구, 大邱) is a metropolitan city in southeastern South Korea, a basin city with Korea's second-highest recorded temperature (40°C, 1942). Metropolitan city since 1995, it absorbed Gunwi-gun in 2023, has about 2.35 million people, and a 74.5-trillion-won GRDP.
Daejeon (대전광역시)
Daejeon (대전광역시), a South Korean metropolitan city of about 1.44 million between Seoul and Busan, hosts Daedeok Innopolis, Korea's oldest science park, with 30 government research institutes and over 1,200 high-tech firms.
Dahod (દાહોદ)
Dahod (દાહોદ), also Dohad, is a city on the Dudhimati River in eastern Gujarat, India, birthplace of Aurangzeb (1618), headquarters of Dahod district formed in 1997, a Smart City, and site of a 9,000 HP electric locomotive plant.
Dajal
Dajal is a town in the Rajanpur District of Punjab, Pakistan, located at 29.5577° N. It is named after Daud, a grazier who camped under a jal tree.
Dakar
Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal, on the Cap-Vert peninsula, founded by France in 1857 and former capital of French West Africa.
Dalby, Queensland
Dalby, Queensland: rural town on the northern Darling Downs, Western Downs Region, on Myall Creek. Founded 1854, railway 1868; 12,758 people (2021); grain, cotton and livestock service centre with major flood history.
Dalian
Dalian (大连), a sub-provincial port city on the Liaodong Peninsula between the Yellow and Bohai seas, is Northeast China's maritime gateway: 7.54 million people, 2,211 km coastline, 2024 GDP of 951.69 billion yuan, and the Dalian Commodity Exchange.
Dallas
Dallas is a city in north Texas and the seat of Dallas County, founded in 1841 and now the ninth largest city in the United States.
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (DFW) is the North Texas conurbation around Dallas and Fort Worth, the fourth-largest US metro area with 8.3 million people in 2024, leading the nation in net migration and spanning a 19-county region.
Dalton, GA Metro Area
Dalton, GA Metro Area (CBSA 19140): two-county northwest Georgia MSA (Whitfield, Murray), 144,160 people, carpet-manufacturing "Carpet Capital of the World," heavily Latino, with PFAS contamination legacy.
Dalton, Georgia
Dalton, Georgia, county seat of Whitfield County, is the Carpet Capital of the World, home to Shaw and Mohawk Industries, founded as Cross Plains in 1847 on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, with a majority-Hispanic population of about 35,000.
Dalūpura
Dalūpura (Dallo Pura, Dalupura) is a census town in Mayur Vihar, East Delhi, India, with 154,791 residents at the 2011 Census, PIN 110096; distinct from two villages named Dalupura in Madhya Pradesh.
Daly City, California
Daly City, California: city in northern San Mateo County on San Francisco's southern border, incorporated March 22, 1911, named for rancher John Donald Daly; about 104,901 residents (2020), dense suburb known as the Gateway to the Peninsula.