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Dōtonbori (道頓堀)
Dōtonbori (道頓堀) is a canal and 600-metre dining and entertainment strip in Chuo-ku, Osaka, begun 1612 by Yasui Dōton, once Japan's leading kabuki quarter, now famous for the Glico Running Man sign, Kani Doraku's moving crab, and kuidaore street food.
Douala
Douala, Cameroon's largest city, economic capital, and main port on the Wouri estuary; founded around Duala trading polities, colonized by Germany in 1884, then France; about 3.34 million people in 2021.
Dover
Dover (Kent, England): coastal town and ferry port in the river Dour valley, 21 miles from France. Busiest passenger ferryport; over 9 million passengers and 2 million freight vehicles in 2025; site of Dover Castle and the Bronze Age Boat.
Dover, DE Metro Area
The Dover, DE Metropolitan Statistical Area (Dover, DE MSA, CBSA code 20100) is an OMB-designated metro area covering Kent County, Delaware, around the state capital Dover, with about 195,000 residents in 2025.
Dover, Delaware
Dover, Delaware: capital of Delaware and Kent County seat, founded by William Penn in 1683, plotted 1717, permanent capital since 1779. Population 39,403 (2020); economy based on state government and Dover Air Force Base.
Downey, California
Downey, California: a Los Angeles County city of about 108,000 southeast of Los Angeles, incorporated 1956, former aerospace hub where Apollo and space shuttle craft were built, largest employer Kaiser Permanente.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Doylestown, Pennsylvania: county seat of Bucks County, a borough of about 8,300 surrounded by Doylestown Township; known for Henry Mercer's Fonthill Castle, Mercer Museum, and walkable downtown.
Drammen
Drammen, Norwegian city and municipality in Buskerud at the mouth of the Drammenselva, 40 km southwest of Oslo. Formed 19 June 1811 from Bragernes and Strømsø; timber port, then wood-processing center; merged with Nedre Eiker and Svelvik in 2020; about 106,000 residents.
Dresden
Dresden, capital of Saxony on the Elbe, had 571,510 residents at end-2025 after its first population decline since 2014; known for the rebuilt Frauenkirche, Baroque old town, Silicon Saxony microelectronics cluster, and major art collections.
Dreux
Dreux is a commune and sub-prefecture of Eure-et-Loir in northern France, at the meeting point of Normandy and Île-de-France, best known for the Chapelle royale, burial place of the Orléans family including King Louis-Philippe.
Dripping Springs, Texas
Dripping Springs, Texas: a fast-growing Hays County city on US 290 about 25 miles west of Austin, founded in the 1850s, known as the Wedding Capital of Texas, a Dark Sky Community, and a Hill Country winery and tourism destination.
Drogheda
Drogheda (Droichead Átha) is Ireland's largest town, 44,135 people in Census 2022, on the River Boyne spanning Louth and Meath. Founded under Hugh de Lacy (charter 1194), walled by 1334, sacked by Cromwell in 1649, near the 1690 Battle of the Boyne site.
Dubai
Dubai (دبي), second-largest emirate of the UAE on the Arabian Gulf; 4,114 km², 4.58 million people in 2025. Oil exports began 1969; economy now over 95% non-oil, centered on trade, tourism, aviation, and finance.
Dubbo
Dubbo is a regional city in the Orana region of central New South Wales, Australia, on the Macquarie River; the name means "red earth". Gazetted 1849, railway 1881, 2021 urban population 38,783, home of Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
Dublin
Dublin (Irish: Áth Cliath), capital and largest city of Ireland on the River Liffey; region of 1,597,700 people (28.9% of Ireland, April 2026). Viking-founded in AD 841, Norman-captured 1170; major housing rezoning for 25,000 homes in 2026.
Dublin, California
Dublin, California is a city in Alameda County in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, incorporated in 1982 and home to 72,589 people at the 2020 census.
Dublin, Ohio
Dublin, Ohio is a Columbus-area city founded in 1810 by John Sells and named by surveyor John Shields after Dublin, Ireland. Population 49,328 (2020); home to Cardinal Health, Muirfield Village, and the Dublin Irish Festival.
Dubréka
Dubréka is a town and prefecture in Maritime Guinea, immediately north of Conakry in the Grand Conakry conurbation, with a city population estimated at 352,859 in 2016.
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatian Adriatic city whose walled Old City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979; famed for 1,940-metre walls, the 1667 earthquake, the 1991-92 siege, and its Respect the City overtourism management.
Dubuque, Iowa
Dubuque, Iowa: oldest city in Iowa, on the Mississippi at the Iowa-Illinois-Wisconsin junction. Founded by lead miner Julien Dubuque (1785), chartered 1837; 2020 population 59,667, council-manager government since 1920.
Duck, North Carolina
Duck, North Carolina: Outer Banks town in Dare County known for its MSD-funded beach nourishment program (first project 2017, next in 2027) and award-winning NC 12 living shoreline resiliency project completed in 2024.
Dudley
Dudley, West Midlands market town, heart of the Black Country; home of Dudley Castle (1070), Silurian limestone hills, industrial heritage, Metro extension, and Dudley Local Plan 2041.
Duisburg
Duisburg, German city in North Rhine-Westphalia at the Rhine-Ruhr confluence; Europe's leading steel location and home of Duisport, the world's largest inland port; about 506,500 residents, first mentioned in 883.
Duisburg-Rheinhausen
Duisburg-Rheinhausen, a left-bank borough of Duisburg, Germany; former Krupp steelworks town (town rights 1934, closed 1993 after the 1987 workers' protest), now the Logport logistics site, with the Roman fortlet Werthausen on the UNESCO Lower German Limes.
Duitama
Duitama is a municipality in Boyacá, Colombia, named for the Muisca cacique Tundama, founded by the Spanish in 1602 and made a municipality in 1819 by Simón Bolívar.
Duluth, Georgia
Duluth, Georgia, a Gwinnett County city of about 31,873 (2020) northeast of Atlanta, founded as Howell's Cross Roads in 1821 and renamed in 1873 after Duluth, Minnesota.
Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth, Minnesota: Great Lakes port city at the western tip of Lake Superior, founded 1854, fifth-largest Minnesota city (88,330 in 2025), known for iron ore shipping, the Aerial Lift Bridge, and the Twin Ports harbor with Superior, Wisconsin.
Dumaguete
Dumaguete (Dakbayan sa Dumaguete), capital of Negros Oriental, Philippines; a coastal component city of about 142,000 (2024) known as the City of Gentle People, a university city centered on Silliman University, and a tourism and BPO hub.
Dumai
Dumai (Jawi دوماي, Chinese 杜迈) is a port and industrial city on Sumatra's east coast in Riau, Indonesia, 188 km from Pekanbaru; carved from Bengkalis Regency, made an administrative city in 1979 and an autonomous city by Law 16/1999 on 20 April 1999, grown from a Caltex oil port.
Dumfries
Dumfries (Dùn Phrìs), the Queen of the South, is south-west Scotland's largest town and the administrative centre of Dumfries and Galloway, on the River Nith. Royal burgh from 1186, Robert the Bruce killed John Comyn here in 1306, Robert Burns died here in 1796, and the Whitesands flood scheme began construction in 2026.