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Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire, formerly Dunleary and Kingstown (1821–1920), is a coastal town 12 km south of Dublin, population about 26,500, built around its 1817 asylum harbour, Ireland's first railway (1834), and a former ferry port.
Dundalk
Dundalk (Dún Dealgan), County Louth, Ireland: a walled Anglo-Norman port town founded in the 12th century, named after the fort linked to Cú Chulainn; second largest Irish town, 43,112 people in 2022.
Dundee
Dundee, Scotland's fourth largest city on the Firth of Tay (population 148,390 in 2025), was the world jute capital in its Juteopolis era and is now a tech- and university-led city with UNESCO City of Design status.
Dundo
Dundo is a city in northeastern Angola, capital of Lunda Norte province. Founded in 1919 as the headquarters town of the Diamang diamond company, it became provincial capital in 2000 and a city in 2014.
Dunedin
Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is a New Zealand South Island city on Otago Harbour, founded by Scottish settlers in 1848; a Gaelic form of Edinburgh, it was the country's largest city around 1880 and is now a university and medical research centre.
Dunedin, Florida
Dunedin, Florida, a Gulf Coast city in Pinellas County between Tampa and Clearwater, founded by Scottish merchants J.O. Douglas and James Somerville, named for Dùn Èideann, home of Toronto Blue Jays spring training, Honeymoon and Caladesi islands, and the Pinellas Trail.
Dunfermline
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland: ancient royal capital and city since 2022. Home to Dunfermline Abbey, royal mausoleum of Robert the Bruce, birthplace of Charles I and Andrew Carnegie.
Dungannon
Dungannon (Dún Geannain) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in the Mid Ulster district. Former seat of the O'Neill lordship on the Hill of The O'Neill, now a diverse town with Neighbourhood Renewal designation and town-centre regeneration.
Dungarvan
Dungarvan (Dún Garbhán) is a coastal market and port town in County Waterford, Ireland, at the head of Dungarvan Harbour on the River Colligan. Chartered by King John in 1215, it is a former county town, RSES Key Town, and terminus of the 46 km Waterford Greenway.
Dunhuang (敦煌)
Dunhuang (敦煌) is a Silk Road oasis city in Gansu, China, at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, home to the Mogao Caves (492 caves, 45,000 m² of murals) and the 1900-discovered Library Cave manuscripts.
Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duinkerke) is a port city in Nord, Hauts-de-France, France's third-largest port, site of the 1940 Operation Dynamo evacuation, 72% destroyed in WWII, now a battery-manufacturing hub with free buses.
Duque de Caxias
Duque de Caxias, Baixada Fluminense municipality in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, created 1943 from Nova Iguaçu and named for the Duke of Caxias; 808,161 people (2022), oil refining and industrial economy.
Durango, CO Micro Area
Durango, CO Micro Area (CBSA 20420), the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area, is a one-county OMB labor-market area coterminous with La Plata County, Colorado, population about 56,300, anchored by the city of Durango.
Durango, Colorado
Durango, Colorado: county seat of La Plata County in the Animas River valley near Four Corners, founded 1880 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, home to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and a tourism-driven economy.
Durban
Durban (eThekwini), South Africa's third-largest city in KwaZulu-Natal, founded 1824 as Port Natal, renamed 1835 after Sir Benjamin D'Urban; busiest South African port, major Indian community, apartheid segregation legacy, 2022 floods.
Düren (city)
Düren is a Kreisstadt in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne on the Rur; about 94,500 residents, first recorded 747, paper industry since 1576, center destroyed in the 1944 air raid and rebuilt.
Durg (city)
Durg (दुर्ग) is a city on the east bank of the Shivnath River in Chhattisgarh, India, headquarters of Durg District and, with Bhilai, the state's second largest urban area.
Durgapur (দুর্গাপুর)
Durgapur (দুর্গাপুর), the Steel City or Ruhr of India, is a planned industrial city in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, on the Damodar River, designed by Stein and Polk, home to SAIL's Durgapur Steel Plant, NIT Durgapur, and shifting toward IT and semiconductors.
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metro Area
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA (code 20500): metropolitan statistical area covering Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Person counties; 649,903 residents (2020 census), part of the Research Triangle and Raleigh-Durham-Cary CSA.
Durham, England
Durham, England: cathedral city in County Durham on a River Wear peninsula, seat of the medieval Prince-Bishops, home to Durham Castle and Cathedral (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1986) and Durham University (1832).
Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina: Piedmont city and Durham County seat, nicknamed the Bull City for Bull Durham tobacco. Grew from an 1850s railroad station; home to Duke University, NC Central, and Research Triangle Park; population about 305,000.
Durrës
Durrës, historically Epidamnus and Dyrrachium, is Albania's second largest city and main seaport, about 33 kilometers west of Tirana, handling over 90 percent of national port cargo.
Dushanbe (Душанбе)
Dushanbe (Душанбе, دوشنبه, "Monday"), formerly Dyushambe and Stalinabad (1929–1961), is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan, in the Hisor valley at ~823 m altitude, a Soviet-created capital since 1924 with about 851,000 residents in 2019.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf (Dusseldorp), city on the Rhine and state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1946; chartered 1288, sixth largest German city, 659,312 residents in 2025, major trade-fair, fashion, and Japanese business hub.
Duyun
Duyun (都匀) is a county-level city in Guizhou, China, seat of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. About 349,000 urban residents (2020), 65.88% urbanized, it is the planned regional central city of southern Guizhou.
Düzce, Düzce
Düzce, Düzce: the city and province in northwestern Türkiye, Türkiye's 81st province since December 1999, on the North Anatolian Fault, struck by the 1999 Mw 7.2 earthquake, with an EU-funded sustainable mobility plan (2023–2025).
Dwarka (દ્વારકા)
Dwarka (દ્વારકા), Gujarat: coastal pilgrimage town in Devbhumi Dwarka district, seat of the Dwarkadhish Temple and Sharada Matha, site of submerged-city marine archaeology and the Sudarshan Setu link to Beyt Dwarka; distinct from Delhi's Dwarka sub-city.
Dyrr(h)achium/Epidamnos
Epidamnos/Dyrrhachium (Durrës, Albania), Greek colony founded 627 BC by Corcyra and Corinth; Roman Adriatic port, Via Egnatia terminus, Caesar-Pompey battle site, amphitheatre.
Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Dzerzhinsk (Дзержинск), formerly Rastyapino, is Russia's second city of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a planned Soviet chemical-industry city chartered 30 March 1930, a WWII munitions hub, and a site of major chemical-waste remediation.
Eagle Pass, Texas
Eagle Pass, Texas, county seat of Maverick County on the Rio Grande opposite Piedras Negras, Coahuila; founded as El Paso del Aguila, about 28,000 residents, two international bridges, and center of the Shelby Park border standoff.