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Farnborough, Hampshire
Farnborough is a town in Hampshire, England, southwest of London, best known as the birthplace of British aviation, where Samuel Cody made Britain's first official airplane flight in 1908.
Farnworth
Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, historically in Lancashire. Known for coal pits from 1611, underground canals to Worsley, a 1939 municipal borough, and the Farnworth Green regeneration.
Faro, Portugal
Faro, Portugal: Algarve capital on the Ria Formosa, ancient Ossónoba, Moorish Ukxûnuba, bishopric seat since 1540; municipality of 202.57 km², 80,256 residents in 2025.
Farrukhābād
Farrukhābād (फ़र्रूख़ाबाद) is a city in the Ganges plain of Uttar Pradesh, India, and the seat of Farrukhabad district, founded in 1714 by Nawab Mohammad Khan Bangash.
Fatehpur Sikri (फ़तेहपुर सीकरी)
Fatehpur Sikri (फ़तेहपुर सीकरी), the City of Victory, is Akbar's purpose-built Mughal capital near Agra, built 1571–1573, capital until 1585, a 1986 UNESCO World Heritage Site of red sandstone monuments.
Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
Fatehpur (फतेहपुर) is the headquarters town of Fatehpur District, one of 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, in the Ganga–Yamuna doab between Kanpur and Prayagraj; district population 2,632,733 (2011). Not to be confused with Fatehpur Sikri or Fatehpur Chaurasi.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas: second-largest city in the state and county seat of Washington County, home of the University of Arkansas (founded 1871). Settled 1828, renamed from Washington Courthouse in 1829; fast-growing Ozark city of about 101,858 residents.
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Fayetteville, North Carolina, or Fayetteville, NC, is a city in southeastern North Carolina and the seat of Cumberland County, with 208,501 people, beside Fort Bragg.
Federal Way
Federal Way is a city in King County, Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma, incorporated February 28, 1990, population about 101,000, known for parks, cultural diversity, and Link light rail.
Feicheng, Shandong
Feicheng (肥城), county-level city in Shandong under Tai'an, at Mount Tai's western foot; 1,277 km², about 858,000 residents; industrial economy in steel, chemicals, energy storage, and the Feicheng peach.
Feira de Santana
Feira de Santana, the Princesa do Sertão, is Bahia's second most populous city (663,408 estimated 2026), founded around a cattle fair on the Fazenda Sant'Anna dos Olhos d'Água, emancipated in 1832–1833, and Brazil's largest North-Northeast road junction.
Feldioara
Feldioara (Földvár, Marienburg), Brașov County, Romania: village with a medieval fortress long regarded as the Teutonic Knights' Transylvanian headquarters (1211–1225); mortar radiocarbon dating confirmed its early 13th-century stone walls.
Fengcheng, Chongqing
Fengcheng Subdistrict (凤城街道) is a subdistrict of Changshou District in Chongqing, China, on the north bank of the Yangtze River and the seat of the district government.
Fengcheng, Liaoning
Fengcheng (凤城市) is a county-level city under Dandong, Liaoning, China, named for Ming Phoenix Castle at Phoenix Mountain. Majority Manchu (75.1%), 2024 GDP 21.19 billion yuan, Dwa climate, Fenghuang Mountain scenic area.
Fergana (city)
Fergana (Fargʻona) is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, the administrative center of Fergana Region in the south of the Fergana Valley. It was founded in 1876 as New Margilan.
Ferguson, Missouri
Ferguson, Missouri: inner-ring St. Louis suburb in St. Louis County, incorporated 1894 as Ferguson Station, about 18,500 residents, council-manager government, majority-Black population, federal consent decree police department.
Fermoy
Fermoy (Mainistir Fhear Maí) is a town in east County Cork, Ireland, on the River Blackwater. Founded as a 12th-century Cistercian monastery site, the modern town was built from 1791 by John Anderson around British military barracks.
Ferrara
Ferrara, Italian city in Emilia-Romagna and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995, extended 1999 with the Po Delta), Este-ruled Renaissance capital whose 1492 Addizione Erculea by Biagio Rossetti pioneered modern town planning.
Ferrières-sur-Beaulieu
Ferrières-sur-Beaulieu (officially Ferrière-sur-Beaulieu), commune 37108 in Indre-et-Loire, France, near Loches; 703 inhabitants in 2023, named from Latin ferraria for Gaulish iron mines, with a 13th-century Angevin-vaulted church of Saint-Gilles.
Fet
Fet: former municipality in Akershus, Norway, on Nedre Romerike with center Fetsund; founded 1838, merged with Skedsmo and Sørum into Lillestrøm municipality on 1 January 2020.
Fez (فاس)
Fez (فاس), northern Morocco's city of over one million people, founded by the Idrisids 789–808, Marinid capital in the 13th–14th centuries; its medina is a 280-ha UNESCO World Heritage Site (1981).
Fez, Morocco
Fez (فاس, Fes), Morocco's third-largest city (1,167,842 residents, 2024 census), founded by the Idrisids 789–808 AD; Marinid capital, home of al-Qarawiyyin, UNESCO-listed medina since 1981.
Fianarantsoa
Fianarantsoa, also called Fianar, is a highland city in south-central Madagascar, capital of Haute Matsiatra and cultural capital of the Betsileo. Founded in 1830 by Queen Ranavalona I as a southern twin of Antananarivo, it hosts the University of Fianarantsoa and the FCE railway to Manakara.
Fiesole
Fiesole (Faesulae): hill town and comune above Florence in Tuscany, 42.19 km², 13,876 inhabitants (2022). Ancient Etruscan settlement with Roman theatre, baths, temple, archaeological museum founded 1878, and the Estate Fiesolana festival.
Figueira da Foz
Figueira da Foz, a city and municipality at the mouth of the Mondego river on Portugal's Atlantic coast; village in 1771, city in 1882; 60,670 residents (2023), 379 km2, known for its port, beaches, casino, and eroding, dredged coastline.
Filey
Filey is a seaside town in North Yorkshire, England, on the North Sea coast between Scarborough and Flamborough Head, known for its late Roman signal station at Filey Brigg.
Findlay, Ohio
Findlay, Ohio: county seat of Hancock County in northwestern Ohio on I-75, population 40,313 (2020). Founded from Fort Findlay (1812), boomed on 1880s gas, and hosts Marathon Petroleum headquarters.
Finnøy
Finnøy: island group and former municipality in Rogaland, Norway, merged into Stavanger with Rennesøy on 1 January 2020; center Judaberg, Finnfast tunnels (2009), 157 islands, greenhouse tomato farming, Abel's birthplace. Distinct from Finnøya in Ålesund.
Firebaugh, California
Firebaugh is a small agricultural city in Fresno County, California, on the San Joaquin River about 43 miles west of Fresno, with a 2020 population of 8,096.
Fīrozābād
Firozabad (Firozabad, Suhag Nagri), Uttar Pradesh city 40 km from Agra, India's Glass City; world's largest glass bangle producer, 70% of unorganized-sector glass, Mughal-era origins, Taj Trapezium Zone.