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Hachinohe
Hachinohe (八戸市) is a Pacific-coast city in southeastern Aomori Prefecture, Japan, founded 1929, with about 210,000 residents, a major industrial port, New Industrial City status since 1964, and northern Tohoku's first international container route (1994).
Hachiōji
Hachioji (八王子市) is a core city in western Tokyo, about 40 km from central Tokyo. Incorporated 1917, population about 579,000 (2020), Tokyo's largest municipality outside the 23 wards, with 21 universities and 186.38 km² area.
Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack, New Jersey: county seat of Bergen County on the Hackensack River, 4.6 square miles, population 46,030 (2020). Lenape and Dutch origins, Washington's 1776 retreat, chartered 1921, diverse and redeveloping.
Haeju
Haeju (해주, 海州) is the capital of South Hwanghae Province, North Korea, a Yellow Sea port city about 100 km south of Pyongyang; it is the west coast's only ice-free port, second largest behind Nampho, with chemical industry and a 10,000 kW solar farm opened 2026.
Hafar Al-Batin
Hafar Al-Batin (حفر الباطن), also Hafr al-Batin, is a city and category A governorate in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province near the Kuwait and Iraq borders; 467,007 governorate residents (2022 census), hot desert climate, historic Hajj and caravan route.
Hafizabad
Hafizabad (حافظ آباد) is a city and district headquarters in central Punjab, Pakistan, founded under Mughal Emperor Akbar by his advisor Hafiz Meerak. Known as the city of rice, it hosts Pakistan's biggest rice market; city population 245,784 (2017).
Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Hagen (Stadt der FernUniversität) is an independent city of about 190,000 in Arnsberg district, North Rhine-Westphalia, at the southern edge of the Ruhr; a former steel city with the FernUniversität, 42% green space, and the Hagen-Pakt housing program.
Hagenow
Hagenow is a town in Ludwigslust-Parchim district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, about 30 km southwest of Schwerin; seat of Amt Hagenow-Land. First recorded 1194, 11,855 residents (2022), known for shoemaking, Roman Iron Age graves, and the Alte Synagoge.
Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown, Maryland, the Washington County seat and "Hub City," founded 1762 by Jonathan Hager; a railroad and I-70/I-81 crossroads of about 44,000 people near Antietam battlefield.
Hải Dương
Hải Dương (Thành phố Hải Dương), former capital of Vietnam's Hải Dương province in the Red River Delta, 57 km from Hanoi; province founded 1831, city 1997, merged into enlarged Hai Phong on 1 July 2025.
Haicheng
Haicheng (海城市) is a county-level city under Anshan, Liaoning, China, a magnesite industry center called the world magnesium capital, site of the predicted 1975 M7.3 earthquake, distinct from Haicheng District, Beihai, Guangxi.
Haifa (חיפה)
Haifa (חיפה; Arabic حيفا) is Israel's third-largest city, a mixed Jewish-Arab Mediterranean port city on Mount Carmel, capital of Haifa District, home to one of Israel's two biggest commercial ports and the Baha'i World Center.
Haikou (海口)
Haikou (海口), the Coconut City, is the capital of Hainan province on northern Hainan Island; a 3,119 km² city of 2.3 million, core of the Hainan Free Trade Port, with Meilan Airport and four districts.
Haiphong
Haiphong (Hai Phong), northern Vietnam's largest port city on the Red River Delta and Gulf of Tonkin; 4.66 million people after the 2025 Hai Duong merger; 30th-ranked container port (7.1 million TEU, 2024) with the Lach Huyen deep-water terminal and VinFast's Cat Hai factory.
Hājīpur, Bihar
Hājīpur (हाजीपुर) is a city in the Vaishali district of Bihar, India, on the northern bank of the Ganga opposite Patna, which it faces across the Mahatma Gandhi Setu.
Hakodate
Hakodate (函館市) is a city at the southern tip of Hokkaido, Japan, population about 230,000. Opened as Japan's first international trade port in 1859; now a tourism city known for Mount Hakodate's night view and Goryokaku.
Hakone (箱根町)
Hakone (箱根町) is a town in western Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its hot springs, Lake Ashi, and Mount Fuji views, drawing about 20 million visitors a year.
Haldwani (हल्द्वानी)
Haldwani (हल्द्वानी), the Gateway of Kumaon, is a municipal corporation in Nainital district, Uttarakhand, India, twin city of Kathgodam; founded 1834, population 2,01,461 (2011), commercial hub on the Gaula River.
Halebidu (ಹಳೇಬೀಡು)
Halebidu (ಹಳೇಬೀಡು), formerly Dorasamudra, is the former Hoysala capital in Hassan district, Karnataka, home to the Hoysalesvara Temple, part of the Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas inscribed by UNESCO in 2023.
Half Moon Bay, California
Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, about 25 miles south of San Francisco. Incorporated in 1959, formerly San Benito and Spanishtown, population about 11,300, known for farming, fishing, and the January 2023 farmworker shootings.
Halicarnassus (Ἁλικαρνασσός)
Halicarnassus (Ἁλικαρνασσός), ancient Greek-Carian city at modern Bodrum, Turkey; birthplace of Herodotus, Hecatomnid capital under Mausolus, and home of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia: capital and largest municipality of Nova Scotia, founded 1749 by Edward Cornwallis, amalgamated into HRM in 1996; over 500,000 people, 59.5% of provincial GDP, CFB Halifax naval base, and active provincial housing-planning intervention.
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax, West Yorkshire: Pennine market town in Calderdale, England, historically a woollen and worsted textile centre. Known for the Grade I listed 1779 Piece Hall, the only surviving Georgian cloth hall, Dean Clough mills, and ongoing town-centre regeneration.
Halle (Saale)
Halle (Saale) is Saxony-Anhalt's second-largest city, 226,186 inhabitants in 2025, on the Saale river. First mentioned in 806, birthplace of Handel (1685), seat of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (founded 1694), and 2024's fastest-growing district economy in the state.
Hallstatt
Hallstatt, Austrian lakeside market town in the Salzkammergut, Upper Austria; site of the world's oldest known salt mine (c. 1500 BC), namesake of the Hallstatt culture, UNESCO World Heritage since 1997, and a major overtourism hotspot.
Halsa
Halsa, former municipality on Nordmøre in Møre og Romsdal, Norway (pop. 1,574 in 2019, no. 1571); merged with Hemne and part of Snillfjord into Heim municipality, Trøndelag, on 1 January 2020 under the municipal reform. Distinct from Halsa in Meløy, Nordland.
Halstock
Halstock, Dorset village with a Romano-British villa (Halstock Roman Villa) excavated 1967–1985 by Ron Lucas, occupied c. AD 140–400; also St Juthware legend and 847 grant to Sherborne Abbey.
Hama (حماة)
Hama (حماة), known as Hamath in antiquity, is a large city in central Syria on the Orontes River, best known for its wooden waterwheels and the 1982 massacre.
Hamadan
Hamadan (Hamedan, همدان), western Iran, ancient Ecbatana, Median capital and Achaemenid summer residence at ~1,800 m on Alvand; star-shaped 1933 plan, 401,000 people by 1996, Hegmataneh UNESCO site inscribed 2024.
Hamamatsu
Hamamatsu (浜松市) is a designated city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on the Pacific coast between Tokyo and Osaka. A 2005 merger of 12 municipalities made it Japan's second-largest city by area; it hosts Suzuki, Yamaha, and Kawai.