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Daman, India
Daman, India: coastal city and capital of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu; a Portuguese possession from 1559 until its capture in Operation Vijay, December 1961.
Damanhur
Damanhur (دمنهور, Damanhour), capital of Beheira Governorate in Egypt's western Nile Delta; ancient 'City of Horus', Greco-Roman Hermopolis Parva; railway junction on the Cairo–Alexandria line and Delta market center.
Damascus (دمشق)
Damascus (دمشق), also called Al-Sham, is the capital of Syria and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, and was the capital of the Umayyad caliphate.
Damblainville
Damblainville is a commune in Calvados, Normandy, on the Ante river, with 227 inhabitants over 6.35 km². Distinguished by a Gallo-Roman secondary agglomeration on the Monts d'Eraines and the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church.
Damietta
Damietta (Arabic: Dumyāṭ) is a port city and capital of Damietta Governorate in Egypt, on the Nile's eastern branch a few miles from the Mediterranean.
Dammam (الدمام)
Dammam (الدمام), administrative capital of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province on the Arabian Gulf; with Alkhobar and Dhahran it forms the DMA, the kingdom's third largest urban center, transformed by the 1938 Dammam No. 7 oil strike.
Dana Point, California
Dana Point is an Orange County, California city incorporated January 1, 1989, named for Richard Henry Dana Jr. Known for its 1971 harbor, whale watching, and first Whale Heritage Area in the Americas.
Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury, Connecticut: Fairfield County city on the Still River, nicknamed Hat City for its 1780s-1900s hatting industry; raided by Tryon in 1777, merged town and city in 1965, population 86,518 (2020).
Dandong
Dandong (丹东), formerly Andong until 1965, is Liaoning's largest border prefecture-level city on the Yalu River opposite Sinuiju, North Korea; a 1906 treaty port handling most China-North Korea trade, with a 2024 World Heritage Yalu River estuary wetland.
Danlí
Danlí, El Paraíso, a Honduran city and municipality founded in 1667 as San Buenaventura, a city since 1843, with about 226,000 inhabitants and a coffee- and tobacco-based economy.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Danvers, Massachusetts, formerly Salem Village, is a town of about 28,000 in Essex County, 20 miles northeast of Boston; site of the 1692 witch trials, Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Oniontown nickname, and Danvers State Hospital.
Danville, California
Danville, California: an incorporated town (1982) in Contra Costa County's San Ramon Valley, East Bay, population about 43,000. Known for historic downtown, San Ramon Valley schools, high incomes, and $1.68 million median home values.
Danville, Virginia
Danville is an independent city in southside Virginia near the North Carolina border. Founded in 1793 as a tobacco inspection station, it had 42,590 residents in 2020.
Daqing (大庆)
Daqing (大庆, "Great Celebration") is a Heilongjiang oil city built around China's largest oilfield, discovered in 1959; it made China oil-self-sufficient in 1964, held a 27-year production plateau, and is now transitioning its economy.
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's largest city, main seaport, and economic hub, former capital until 1975, with over 7 million people, a BRT system since 2016, and a port handling 90 percent of national trade.
Darbhanga (दरभंगा)
Darbhanga (दरभंगा), also called the heart of Mithilanchal, is a city in North Bihar and headquarters of Darbhanga district and division, Bihar's fifth largest city, with 371,356 town residents (2011), Maithili culture, and a rapidly expanding UDAN airport.
Darien, Connecticut
Darien, Connecticut: suburban Gold Coast town in lower Fairfield County on Long Island Sound, incorporated 1820 from Middlesex Parish; population 21,485 (2020), Metro-North commuter town, $191.9M FY2026-27 budget, 16.05 mill rate.
Darjeeling (རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང་)
Darjeeling (རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང་), the "Queen of the Hills" in West Bengal, India: Himalayan hill station ceded by Sikkim to Britain in 1835, famous for Darjeeling tea and the UNESCO-listed Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
Darkhan (Дархан) (city)
Darkhan (Дархан) is Mongolia's third-largest city and the center of Darkhan-Uul Province, founded 17 October 1961 with socialist-country aid and known as the Friendship City, a major industrial, steel, and educational center 222 km from Ulaanbaatar.
Darlington
Darlington is a market town and unitary borough in southern County Durham, England, population under 100,000. Home of the 1825 Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world's first public steam railway, and the Pease family's civic legacy.
Darmstadt
Darmstadt, a city in southern Hesse, Germany, in the Rhine-Main region; official City of Science since 1997. Known for TU Darmstadt, ESA/ESOC, EUMETSAT, the UNESCO Mathildenhöhe Artists' Colony, and the element darmstadtium.
Dartford
Dartford is a town and borough in north Kent on the River Darent near the Thames, a Roman Watling Street ford, industrial papermaking and brewing center, and between 1877 and 1903 the site of an unmatched hospital concentration of nearly 10,000 beds.
Dartmouth, Devon
Dartmouth, Devon: a deep water port town at the mouth of the River Dart, a medieval wine-trade and military harbour, site of the 1243 tide-mill dam, a 1646 Civil War surrender, and a protected conservation area in the South Devon AONB.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Punamu'kwati'jk), the City of Lakes on Halifax Harbour's east shore: founded 1750 by Alderney settlers, town 1873, amalgamated into HRM 1996, about 72,000 people, 1752 saltwater ferry, Shubenacadie Canal heritage.
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital and largest city of Australia's Northern Territory, on the Timor Sea. Founded as Palmerston in 1869, renamed 1911; Greater Darwin held 159,284 people in 2025; devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974.
Dasmariñas
Dasmariñas (City of Dasmariñas, Cavite) is a first-class component city in Cavite, Philippines, 75 barangays, 744,511 residents (2024), city since 2009, home of the Paruparo Festival, Cavite's richest LGU.
Daşoguz
Daşoguz (Дасогуз), formerly Tashauz or Dashkhovuz, is a city in northern Turkmenistan, capital of Daşoguz Province near the Uzbek border; founded 1681, cold desert climate, population about 201,142.
Datia
Datia (दतिया) is a town and district headquarters in Gwalior Division, Madhya Pradesh, India, former seat of a Bundela princely state founded in 1626, known for Bir Singh Deo Palace and the Pitambara Peeth shrine.
Daugavpils
Daugavpils, formerly Dinaburg and Dvinsk, is Latvia's second largest city and the largest in Latgale, on the Daugava river near the eastern border; 77,486 residents in 2026, major railway junction.
Daugavpils municipality
Daugavpils municipality (Daugavpils novads), a Latvian municipality 2009–2021 surrounding Daugavpils city; formed from 19 parishes of Daugavpils rajons, merged with Ilūkstes novads into Augšdaugava Municipality on 1 July 2021.