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Destin, Florida

Destin, Florida: resort city in Okaloosa County on the Emerald Coast, founded by fisherman Leonard Destin, incorporated 1984, about 14,000 residents, home to Florida's largest charter fishing fleet.

Detroit

Detroit, the largest city in Michigan, was founded by the French in 1701 and grew into the heart of the American automotive industry as the Motor City.

Devprayag (देवप्रयाग)

Devprayag (देवप्रयाग), also Deoprayag, is a pilgrimage town in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, where the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers meet to form the Ganga; last of the five Panch Prayag, home to Raghunathji Temple.

Dewas (देवास)

Dewas (देवास) is a city and district in western Madhya Pradesh, India, on the Malwa plateau near Indore. Formerly twin princely states (Dewas Senior and Junior), it is an industrial town, soy-processing center, and Chamunda Mata temple site.

Dezful

Dezful (دزفول), also Dezhpol, is an ancient city in northern Khuzestan, Iran, on the Dez River, defined by its Sasanian bridge-dam attributed to Shapur I or II, shavadan underground rooms, and sugarcane agriculture.

Dezhou

Dezhou (德州) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong, China, on the north bank of the Yellow River, known as China Solar City for its solar energy industry.

Dhahran (الظهران)

Dhahran (الظهران) is a city in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, part of the Dammam metro area, home to Aramco headquarters and KFUPM, site of the 1938 Dammam Well No. 7 oil discovery, population 143,936 (2022).

Dhaka (ঢাকা)

Dhaka (ঢাকা), capital and largest city of Bangladesh on the Buriganga River; Mughal provincial capital from 1610 as Jahangirnagar, capital of Bangladesh since 1971, now a megacity of about 11-18 million.

Dhanbad (धनबाद)

Dhanbad (धनबाद) is a district in northeast Jharkhand, India, called the Coal Capital of India for the Jharia coalfield. Created 1956 from Manbhum district; Census 2011 population 28,46,954; BCCL coal mining, coal fires, and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.

Dhangaḍhi̇̄

Dhangadhi (धनगढी), a sub-metropolitan city in Kailali District, Sudurpashchim Province, far-western Nepal near the Indian border; provincial hub of about 198,792 people (2021), 261.75 sq km, 19 wards, known for extreme heat and green-transition waste management.

Dhar (धार)

Dhar (धार) is a historic town in south-western Madhya Pradesh, India, former Paramara capital under Raja Bhoja, seat of the Bhoj Shala, later capital of the Malwa sultanate and Pawar princely state.

Dharamshala

Dharamshala (धर्मशाला), hill city in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India; seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile at McLeod Ganj since 1960. British cantonment founded 1849; elevations 1,250–1,750 m; Seismic Zone V.

Dharān

Dharān (धरान), also Dharān Bāzār, is a sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari District, Koshi Province, Nepal, at the Terai-foothill junction; 173,096 people in the 2021 census, a former Limbuwan seat at Vijayapur, a British Gurkha recruitment town, and home of BPKIHS.

Dharwad (ಧಾರವಾಡ)

Dharwad (ಧಾರವಾಡ), Karnataka district and town forming the Hubballi-Dharwad twin city; administrative and educational hub with Karnatak University, 4,263 sq km, 1.85 million people (2011), GI-tagged Dharwad pedha.

Dhiban, Jordan

Dhiban (ذيبان), Jordanian town in Madaba Governorate, 70 km south of Amman; ancient Moabite capital Dibon, findspot of the 1868 Mesha Stele; modern town settled in the 1950s, about 15,000 residents.

Dhirkot

Dhirkot (Dheerkot, Dheer Kot), hill town and tehsil in Bagh District, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, at 1,676 m on the Kohala-Bagh road; gateway to Neela Butt and Sudhan Gali; not the Nepali Dhurkot rural municipality.

Dhule (धुळे)

Dhule, also written धुळे, is a district in northwestern Maharashtra, India, headquartered at the city of Dhule, which was formed from the old West Khandesh district.

Dĩ An

Dĩ An, also written Di An, is a city in southern Bình Dương province, Vietnam, lying between Ho Chi Minh City, Biên Hòa, and Thủ Dầu Một.

Diamond Bar, California

Diamond Bar is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1989 and named for the Diamond Bar cattle ranch brand registered in 1918. Population about 55,000; master-planned by Transamerica from 1956.

Dibrugarh (ডিব্রুগড়)

Dibrugarh (ডিব্রুগড়), the Tea City of India, is an industrial city and district headquarters in Upper Assam on the Brahmaputra, now being developed as Assam's second capital with a new Legislative Assembly complex.

Điện Bàn

Điện Bàn (Điện Bàn): historic district, prefecture, and 2015-2025 district-level town of Quảng Nam, Vietnam, now wards of Đà Nẵng after the 2025 provincial merger; home to Điện Nam - Điện Ngọc Industrial Park and the 400-year Phước Kiều bronze casting village.

Diersheim

Diersheim (Rheinau-Diersheim, Ortenaukreis, Germany), village on the right bank of the Rhine about 20 km northeast of Strasbourg, site of two 1st-century AD cremation cemeteries of the Suebi 'Oberrheingermanen', excavated in the 1930s (Oberfeld) and 2015-2020 (Diersheim II).

Digha (দীঘা)

Digha (দীঘা), formerly Beerkul, is West Bengal's most popular seaside resort in Purba Medinipur, with Old and New Digha beaches, casuarina groves, a Jagannath temple, and severe coastal erosion.

Dihok

Dihok (Duhok, Dohuk; Syriac Nohadra) is the capital of Duhok Governorate in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, founded as a town in 1887 under Ottoman rule, a governorate seat since 1969, a university city, and a major refuge for displaced people since 2014.

Dijon

Dijon, capital of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France; 162,650 inhabitants, UNESCO-listed historic centre within the Climats vineyard site, ducal palace, mustard and crème de cassis gastronomy, and TGV links under two hours from Paris.

Dili

Dili (Díli), capital and main port of Timor-Leste, founded by Portugal in October 1769 after abandoning Lifau; about 317,000 residents, roughly 40 percent with piped water, served by Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport.

Dimapur (दीमापुर)

Dimapur (दीमापुर) is a city on the Dhansiri River in Nagaland, India, the state's largest city, commercial hub, and airport town, and the ancient capital of the Kachari kingdom.

Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk

Dimitrovgrad (Димитровград), formerly Melekess, is Russia's Ulyanovsk Oblast's second city, renamed in 1972 for Georgi Dimitrov; about 111,000 residents, home to the RIAR nuclear research institute and MBIR reactor project.

Dimona (דימונה)

Dimona (דימונה) is a development town turned city in Israel's Negev Desert, founded 19 September 1955 by North African immigrants, population about 40,000, planning growth to 100,000 under a 2018 five-billion-ILS housing agreement.

Dinajpur

Dinajpur (দিনাজপুর), city and district headquarters in Rangpur Division, northwestern Bangladesh, 413 km from Dhaka; municipality since 1869; 2020 city population about 234,852; district of 3,437.98 sq km with 3,315,238 people (2022 census).