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Alcântara, Maranhão
Alcântara is a municipality on the western coast of Maranhão, Brazil, across the Baía de São Marcos from São Luís, known for its colonial center and quilombola communities.
Alcobendas
Alcobendas, city and municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, north of Madrid; 123,222 residents (2025), 45 km², major business hub with over 16,000 companies and the La Moraleja district.
Alcorcón
Alcorcón is a municipality about 13 km southwest of Madrid in the Community of Madrid, also called part of the Gran Sur. A former Arab-origin pottery and farming town of 1,028 people in 1955, it grew to over 171,000 inhabitants by 2023.
Aldershot
Aldershot, Hampshire, England: garrison town known as the Home of the British Army since the 1854 founding of the British Army's first permanent training camp; also a Rushmoor borough town and parliamentary constituency.
Aldyn-Bulak
Aldyn-Bulak (Алдын-Булак, "Golden Source") is an ethnocultural yurt complex opened 2011 on the Ulug-Khem river 45 km from Kyzyl, Tuva; also a Tuva locality and a Kyrgyz village.
Aleppo (حلب)
Aleppo (حلب), Syria's second largest city, a trade hub since the 2nd millennium B.C.; its UNESCO-listed old city, citadel and souk were heavily damaged in the 2012–2016 battle, with reconstruction ongoing.
Alert, Nunavut
Alert, Nunavut is the site of Canadian Forces Station Alert, the world's northernmost permanently inhabited location, 817 km from the North Pole on Ellesmere Island, a signals intelligence and atmospheric research outpost resupplied by Operation Boxtop.
Alessandria
Alessandria is a Piedmontese city in northwest Italy, officially founded 3 May 1168 and named for Pope Alexander III. Third Piedmont municipality by population (~91,000) and first by area, at the Tanaro-Bormida confluence, with the 1728 Cittadella fortress and heavy flood exposure.
Ålesund
Ålesund, Norwegian coastal town in Møre og Romsdal, largest city between Bergen and Trondheim. Rebuilt in Art Nouveau style after the 23 January 1904 fire that left 10,000 of 12,000 residents homeless; major fishing, cruise, and maritime port.
Alexandria (الإسكندرية)
Alexandria (الإسكندرية) is a Mediterranean port city in northern Egypt at the Nile Delta's northwest corner, founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana: parish seat of Rapides Parish on the Red River near the state's geographic center; founded by Alexander Fulton in 1805; 2020 population 45,275; regional hub and major ICE deportation-flight airport.
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia: independent city in Northern Virginia on the Potomac across from Washington, D.C. Founded 1749 as a tobacco port; part of D.C. 1801-1847; Union supply center in the Civil War; population about 159,467.
Algeciras
Algeciras (Al-Yazirat Al-Jadra) is a Spanish port city in Cádiz on the Bay of Gibraltar, founded as Moorish Algeciras, destroyed in 1379, refounded after 1704, and home to Spain's leading port with over 100 million tons of traffic.
Algiers (الجزائر)
Algiers (الجزائر, al-Jazā'ir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, a Mediterranean port city of about 3 million. Known for its UNESCO-listed Kasbah (1992), Ottoman Regency history (1516–1830), French rule (1830–1962), and the country's largest port and airport.
Algund
Algund (Lagundo) is a municipality in the Burggrafenamt district of South Tyrol, northern Italy, immediately northwest of Merano; fruit farming, tourism, and the Forst brewery sustain it.
Alhambra, California
Alhambra, California, a San Gabriel Valley city in Los Angeles County incorporated July 11, 1903 and named by Benjamin Wilson after Washington Irving's book; 82,868 residents in 2020, 51% Asian, part of the Chinese ethnoburb.
Alibag (अलिबाग)
Alibag (अलिबाग), also Alibaug, is a coastal town and Raigad district headquarters in Maharashtra, across the harbour from Mumbai. Known for Kolaba Fort built by Shivaji in 1680, Kanhoji Angre's Maratha naval base, beaches, and ferry access from the Gateway of India.
Alicante
Alicante (Alacant), Mediterranean port city and provincial capital in Spain's Valencian Community; 366,221 inhabitants (2025), EUIPO seat, University of Alicante, Santa Bárbara castle, beaches, Tabarca, and Alicante-Elche airport with 19.95 million passengers.
Alice Springs
Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is a Northern Territory outback town of about 29,000-31,000 people, founded as the 1871-72 Overland Telegraph repeater station named after Alice Todd, with the township of Stuart renamed Alice Springs in the early 1930s.
Alice, TX Micro Area
Alice, TX Micro Area (CBSA 10860) is a micropolitan statistical area in South Texas centered on Alice, covering Jim Wells and Brooks counties, with about 45,600 residents in 2024 and a Hispanic-majority population.
Aligarh (अलीगढ़)
Aligarh (अलीगढ़), historically Kol or Koil, is a city in western Uttar Pradesh, India, headquarters of Aligarh district, known as the lock city and for Aligarh Muslim University, founded as MAO College in 1875.
Alkmaar
Alkmaar is a city and municipality in North Holland, Netherlands, known for its cheese market on the Waagplein and its resistance to the 1573 Spanish siege.
Allègre
Allègre, today Allègre-les-Fumades, is a commune in the Gard, Occitanie, France, with 779 inhabitants in seven hamlets, a ruined 12th-century castrum, ancient nymph-cult thermal springs, and the modern Thermes des Fumades spa.
Allen, Texas
Allen, Texas, a Collin County city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (also called Allen, TX), named for Ebenezer Allen; population about 113,000 in 2025, median household income about $131,000, anchored by Allen ISD and SH 121 corridor employers.
Allenc
Allenc is a commune in Lozere, Occitanie, France, about 20 km east of Mende in historic Gevaudan. Known for its dolmen de la Prade, Roman cippe de Gemina, medieval church of St Pierre (first recorded 1123), and former lead and barite mines.
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metro Area
The Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area (code 10900), also called the Lehigh Valley, covers Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton, and Warren counties; about 887,600 residents in 2025, Pennsylvania's third-largest metro.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown, Pennsylvania: third-largest city in the state, county seat of Lehigh County, founded 1762 by William Allen. Majority-Latino city on the Lehigh River anchoring the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metro.
Allonzier-la-Caille
Allonzier-la-Caille (also written Allonzier la Caille), commune in Haute-Savoie, France, INSEE code 74006, 2,253 inhabitants (2023), 13 km north of Annecy; known for the Pont suspendu de la Caille (1839) and the disused Bains de la Caille thermal site.
Almaty (Алматы)
Almaty (Алматы), known as Verniy until 1921 and Alma-Ata until 1993, is the largest city of Kazakhstan, in the southeast at the northern foot of the Tien Shan.
Almere
Almere, a new town in Flevoland, Netherlands, built from 1975 on polder reclaimed from the IJsselmeer; youngest Dutch city, multi-core design, 230,500 residents, municipality since 1984, Oosterwold self-build district.