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Free City of Frankfurt
Free City of Frankfurt (Freie Stadt Frankfurt): independent German city-state 1815–1866, one of four free cities of the German Confederation and its seat; formerly a free imperial city, annexed by Prussia in 1866.
Freeport, Bahamas
Freeport, Bahamas: second-largest city, on Grand Bahama Island, founded 1955 under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement with the Grand Bahama Port Authority as a 230-square-mile tax-free zone guaranteed until 2054, now subject of a 2026 arbitration ruling.
Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, founded in 1792 by freed slaves from Nova Scotia and known as a former Royal Navy base against the slave trade.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau, a city of about 234,000 in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany, near the French and Swiss borders; home of the 1457 university and Germany's best-known "Green City" with Vauban, Rieselfeld, and a strong cycling and solar culture.
Fremantle
Fremantle (Walyalup) is a port city at the mouth of the Swan River, 20 km southwest of Perth, Western Australia. Founded 1829, proclaimed a city 1929, population about 31,700, home to WA's main container port.
Fremont, California
Fremont, California: Alameda County city on southeast San Francisco Bay, incorporated 1956 from Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Warm Springs, and Mission San Jose; about 226,000 residents and a major advanced manufacturing hub.
French Lick, Indiana
French Lick, Indiana: small Orange County town famed for its sulfur springs, French Lick Springs Hotel, Pluto Water, the 1931 FDR Governors' Conference, 1924 PGA, Larry Bird, and the Cook-restored resort and casino.
Fresno, California
Fresno, California: largest city of California's Central Valley and fifth largest in the state, founded 1872 as a Central Pacific Railroad station, incorporated 1885, county seat of Fresno County, population about 555,000, economy anchored by leading national agricultural production.
Fribourg
Fribourg (Freiburg im Üechtland), Swiss cantonal capital founded 1157 by Berthold IV of Zähringen on the Sarine; bilingual city-state until 1481, with a preserved medieval old town, 200 Gothic façades, and the bilingual University of Fribourg (1889).
Friesenheim
Friesenheim, a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, site of a Roman road station (mansio) at Bannstude on the Augst–Mainz road, discovered from a train in 1970, excavated 1973–1977, with a Diana Abnoba temple.
Frinton-on-Sea
Frinton-on-Sea, Essex seaside resort on the Essex Sunshine Coast in Tendring District; planned late-19th-century railway resort for the upper-middle class, known for its sandy Blue Flag beach, beach huts, level crossing, and Frinton Summer Theatre.
Frisco, Texas
Frisco, Texas: Collin County city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, founded 1902 as a St. Louis–San Francisco Railway town named Emerson; population grew from 116,989 (2010) to about 249,000, home of Toyota Stadium and Grand Park.
Frittlingen
Frittlingen is a municipality of 2,127 residents in the Tuttlingen district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, first documented in 797 and known for its surgical instrument industry.
Frome
Frome (pronounced "Froom") is a market town in eastern Somerset, England, founded around St Aldhelm's 7th-century monastery, once a major woollen cloth town, now known for independent shops, markets and the arts, population 28,569 (2021).
Fuchū, Tokyo
Fuchū (府中市) is a city in western Tokyo, about 22 km from Shinjuku, population about 263,000. It was the ancient provincial capital (kokufu) of Musashi Province and is home to Okunitama Jinja Shrine and the Kurayami festival.
Fuding
Fuding (福鼎) is a county-level city in Ningde, Fujian Province, China, on the Zhejiang border, recognized as the birthplace and main production center of Fujian white tea.
Fuengirola
Fuengirola, a Costa del Sol municipality in Málaga province, Spain; also Roman Suel, Andalusi Sohail. About 84,857 inhabitants (2025), 8 km of Blue Flag beaches, Sohail Castle, and a mass-tourism economy.
Fuenlabrada
Fuenlabrada, municipality in the southern Madrid metropolitan area, Community of Spain. Former 12th-century Castilian repopulation village; grew from 2,908 inhabitants in 1960 to about 190,000, an industrial and services city with Hospital de Fuenlabrada and Rey Juan Carlos University.
Fujairah (الفجيرة)
Fujairah (الفجيرة) is the only UAE emirate entirely on the eastern Gulf of Oman coast: 1,580 sq km, 70 km shoreline, population 314,829 (mid-2024), home to the Port of Fujairah oil hub and the ADCOP Hormuz-bypass pipeline.
Fujisawa
Fujisawa (藤沢市, Fujisawa-shi) is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on Sagami Bay about 50 km from Tokyo; established 1940, area 69.56 km², population about 444,000, known for Enoshima and the Shonan coast.
Fukui-shi
Fukui-shi (福井市), capital of Fukui Prefecture on the Fukui Plain, a core city of about 251,000 people; former Asakura seat at Ichijōdani, rebuilt after the 1945 air raid and 1948 M7.1 earthquake, Shinkansen opened 2024.
Fukuoka (福岡)
Fukuoka (福岡), also known through its historic quarter Hakata, is a Kyushu, Japan city of about 1.64 million formed in 1889, known for the AD 57 gold seal, Hakata Port, Fukuoka Airport, and its 1890 one-vote renaming vote.
Fukushima, Fukushima
Fukushima (福島市), capital of Fukushima Prefecture in Tohoku, Japan; a basin city of 767.72 km² with hot springs, fruit orchards, and a 1907 city charter; heavily affected by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear accident, with decontamination completed in 2018.
Fukuyama
Fukuyama (福山市) is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, facing the Seto Inland Sea. It grew from a castle town founded in 1619 and is the prefecture's second largest city, with about 470,000 people.
Fulda
Fulda, a baroque town in eastern Hesse, Germany, on the river Fulda; founded around a Benedictine monastery (744) and town charter (774). About 71,000 residents, Fulda Cathedral with St Boniface's tomb, St Michael's Church, and Hochschule Fulda distinguish it.
Fulfinium/Fertinium
Fulfinium/Fertinium was a Roman municipium and port on Curicta (Krk), Croatia, in Sepen bay near Omišalj; founded near the Fertinates' oppidum, made a municipium under Vespasian, with a 5th-century basilica and noted Roman glass finds.
Fuling
Fuling (涪陵) is a district of central-eastern Chongqing at the Yangtze–Wu River confluence, area 2,942 km², population 1.115 million; ancient Zhi, county seat since 140 BC, home of zha cai pickled mustard and the Baiheliang underwater museum. Not the Fuling medicinal fungus.
Fullerton, California
Fullerton, California: city in northwestern Orange County, founded 1887 by the Amerige brothers, incorporated 1904. Population 143,617 (2020), home of Cal State Fullerton, council-manager government.
Funchal
Funchal, capital and largest city of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal; amphitheatre city on a south-facing bay named after fennel. Chartered 1508 by Manuel I; 107,562 residents (2023); 76.22 km2; port and cruise hub.
Funza
Funza is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the Bogotá savanna about 15 km from Bogotá and the site of Bacatá, the Muisca zipa's capital at the Spanish conquest in 1537.