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Elmira, New York
Elmira, New York: county seat of Chemung County in the Southern Tier near Pennsylvania, on the Chemung River. 26,523 residents (2020); known for the 1972 Agnes flood, its Civil War prison camp, and Mark Twain's grave.
Eloy Alfaro
Eloy Alfaro, also known as Durán, is a city and canton in Guayas, Ecuador, across the Guayas River from Guayaquil, named for President Eloy Alfaro and home to over 300,000 people.
Eluru
Eluru (Telugu: ఏలూరు) is a city and district headquarters in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India. Its district, formed in 2022 from West Godavari and Krishna mandals, has 28 mandals, about 2 million people (2011), and a paddy, aquaculture, and wool-carpet economy.
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely, Cambridgeshire (Isle of Ely): England's second smallest cathedral city, founded around Etheldreda's monastery of c.673 on a Kimmeridge clay island in the Fens, home to Ely Cathedral's 14th-century Octagon and a growing Cambridge commuter city.
Ely, Nevada
Ely, Nevada: White Pine County seat at 6,200 ft in the Great Basin, a former copper-mining hub served by the Nevada Northern Railway (1905-1983) and now the gateway to Great Basin National Park on U.S. 50, the Loneliest Road.
Emalahleni
Emalahleni (formerly Witbank) is a coal-mining city in Mpumalanga, South Africa; the name means 'place of coal' in Nguni languages. Founded 1903, renamed 2006, home to major coal mines and power stations. Distinct from the rural Eastern Cape municipality of the same name.
Embu das Artes
Embu das Artes (formerly Embu), a municipality in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region about 27 km from the capital, known for its 1969 Arts and Crafts Fair, colonial Jesuit historic center, Estância Turística status, and 260,113 estimated residents (2026).
Emerald Isle
Emerald Isle, North Carolina: a town on the western end of Bogue Banks barrier island on the Crystal Coast; founded by 1954 Red Springs investors, incorporated 1957, bridge-linked in 1971, population 3,797 swelling to 50,000 in summer.
Emerkingen
Emerkingen is a village in the Danube valley about 35 km southwest of Ulm, Germany, first recorded in 805 and known for its Roman fort.
Emeryville, California
Emeryville, CA is a compact city in Alameda County on San Francisco Bay's east shore between Oakland and Berkeley, incorporated in 1896 and named for Joseph S. Emery.
Emsworth
Emsworth is a harbourside town in Havant borough, Hampshire, at the head of Chichester Harbour on the River Ems. First recorded in 1216, it was a leading English oyster port until the 1902 typhoid outbreak that killed the Dean of Winchester closed its harbour.
Encinitas, California
Encinitas, California: coastal city in northern San Diego County incorporated in 1986 from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Leucadia, Old and New Encinitas, and Olivenhain; about 60,700 residents, six miles of coastline, surfing, poinsettia-growing heritage, and beach nourishment projects.
Endor (עֵין־דֹּר) (village)
Endor (עֵין־דֹּר, En-dor) was a biblical village in the Jezreel Valley, a Manasseh town in Issachar where Saul consulted a medium; identified today mainly with Khirbet es-Safsafe near Mount Tabor.
Enfield, England
Enfield, England: historic market town in North London and centre of the London Borough of Enfield; market chartered 1303, about 330,000 residents, large industrial land base, Enfield Delivers growth plan to 2040.
Engels
Engels (Энгельс) is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia, on the left bank of the Volga opposite Saratov, founded in 1747 and renamed in 1931 after Friedrich Engels.
Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area, incorporated in 1899 and home to about 30,000 people, including Dizzy Gillespie in later life.
Enna
Enna, called Castrogiovanni until 1927, is a hill city in central Sicily and capital of its landlocked province, at about 931 m elevation, famed for the cult of Demeter and a sulfur-mining past.
Enniscorthy
Enniscorthy, County Wexford town on the River Slaney; 12,310 people in 2022. Anglo-Norman castle (1190), 1798 Rebellion and Vinegar Hill, 1916 Rising, long-running flood relief scheme and planned growth to 20,000.
Enniskillen
Enniskillen (Inis Ceithleann), county town of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on islands between Upper and Lower Lough Erne; a Maguire fortress from the 15th century, founded as a Plantation town by William Cole in 1612.
Enschede
Enschede, Dutch municipality and city in eastern Overijssel near the German border; largest city of the east with about 162,700 inhabitants, regional core of Twente, site of the 2000 SE Fireworks disaster (23 dead), University of Twente, and twinned with Palo Alto.
Ensenada
Ensenada (Ensenada de Todos Santos) is a port city and municipality in Baja California, Mexico, founded as territorial capital May 15, 1882. About 444,000 residents; home to the Baja peninsula's only deep-water port, Mexico's 3rd-busiest cruise port, and the Valle de Guadalupe wine region producing about 70% of Mexican wine.
Enshi
Enshi (恩施市) is a county-level city in southwest Hubei, China, seat of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Known as the World Selenium Capital for selenium-rich soils, Enshi Yulu steamed green tea, Tenglong Cave, and landslide-prone karst terrain.
Entebbe
Entebbe, Uganda: lakeside city on Lake Victoria, 40 km southwest of Kampala; colonial capital 1894–1958, home of Uganda's only international airport, elevated to city status in 2020.
Enugu
Enugu, the Coal City, capital of Enugu State in southeastern Nigeria, founded in 1909 after coal was discovered at Udi hill; long-serving regional capital, Igbo cultural hub, about 1.1 million residents.
EPCOT (concept)
EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, was Walt Disney's 1966 plan for a 20,000-resident experimental city in Florida with a radial layout, enclosed center, and monorail transit; it was never built and became a theme park in 1982.
Épernay
Épernay, Marne sub-prefecture on the river Marne, France's Champagne capital with the 1.5 km Avenue de Champagne, 110 km of chalk cellars, UNESCO-listed since 2015; 22,174 inhabitants (2023).
Ephesus
Ephesus (Ephesos, Efes): ancient Greek and Roman port city near Selçuk, İzmir, Turkey; UNESCO site 2015. Known for the Temple of Artemis, Library of Celsus, 22,000-seat theatre, councils of 431 and 449 CE, and harbors stranded by delta siltation.
Epsom
Epsom, Surrey, England: market town about 14 miles southwest of London, Saxon origins, 17th-century spa that gave its name to Epsom salts, and home of Epsom Downs Racecourse and The Derby; borough population 80,938 (2021).
Erbil
Erbil (Hawler/Hewlêr), capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, built around the Erbil Citadel tell, ancient Arbela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2014.
Erfurt
Erfurt, capital of Thuringia, Germany, first recorded 742 as Erphesfurt; home of the 1379 University of Erfurt where Luther studied, ICE rail hub since 2017, and ranked Germany's happiest large city in 2026.