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Hengyang
Hengyang (衡阳, Hengzhou, Wild Goose City) is a prefecture-level city in central-south Hunan on the Xiang River, south of Mount Heng; 6.36 million people, 2025 GDP 468.955 billion yuan, site of the 47-day 1944 Battle of Hengyang.
Henley-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames is a historic riverside market town in South Oxfordshire, England, first recorded in 1179 and best known as the home of Henley Royal Regatta, held annually since 1839.
Heppenheim
Heppenheim, a Hessian district town on the Bergstrasse with about 28,000 residents, first mentioned in 755, known for Starkenburg castle (1065), St. Peter's "Dom der Bergstraße", and wine-growing.
Heraklion (Ηράκλειον)
Heraklion (Ηράκλειον), capital of Crete, largest urban centre with ~200,000 people; 179,302 municipality residents (2021). Former Chandax/Candia; Venetian landmarks, 10M-passenger airport, new Kasteli airport opening 2028.
Herat (هرات)
Herat (هرات), western Afghanistan's third largest city and provincial capital on the Hari River, ancient Artacoana/Aria; Timurid capital of Shah Rukh and Sultan Husayn Bayqara, famed for the Musalla complex, Friday Mosque, and citadel.
Hereford
Hereford, cathedral city and county town of Herefordshire, England, on the River Wye near the Welsh border; population about 58,000–62,000. Known for the Mappa Mundi, Hereford cattle, cider, and severe A49 congestion addressed by a planned bypass.
Hermosa Beach, California
Hermosa Beach is a 1.43-square-mile beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, incorporated January 14, 1907, with about 19,700 residents, a 1,228-foot pier, two miles of Strand beachfront, and high summer visitor attendance.
Hermosillo
Hermosillo, capital of Sonora, Mexico, founded 1700 as Santísima Trinidad del Pitic by Juan Bautista de Escalante; renamed 1828, definitive state capital 1879; 936,263 municipal residents (2020).
Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia: kreisfreie Stadt in the central Ruhr area, 156,266 inhabitants on 51.42 km², fourth-densest German city; former coal town (Shamrock, Mont-Cenis), chartered 1897, now logistics and health economy.
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Hershey, Pennsylvania: unincorporated community in Derry Township, Dauphin County, founded 1903 by Milton S. Hershey around his chocolate factory; home of Hersheypark, the Milton Hershey School, and The Hershey Company headquarters.
Herzogenaurach
Herzogenaurach, Bavarian town in district Erlangen-Höchstadt near Nuremberg, home of Adidas and Puma headquarters founded by the rival Dassler brothers; also Schaeffler/INA precision engineering.
Heshan, Hunan
Heshan District (赫山区) is a district of Yiyang City, Hunan, China, created in 1994 from Yiyang County; 1,278.7 km², about 858,400 residents, GDP 75.8 billion yuan (2025), distinct from Heshan City, Guangdong.
Hetauda
Hetauda (हेटौंडा) is a sub-metropolitan city in Makwanpur District, Bagmati Province, Nepal, and the province's capital. At the Tribhuvan–Mahendra highway junction, it had 193,576 residents in 2021 and hosts Nepal's largest industrial estate.
Hetton-le-Hole
Hetton-le-Hole is a former coal-mining town in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, also called Heppedune. Known for Hetton Colliery (1822–1950) and Stephenson's 1822 Hetton Colliery Railway to the River Wear.
Hexham
Hexham: market town in west Northumberland, England, on the River Tyne 20 miles west of Newcastle; founded around Wilfrid's 7th-century monastery and Hexham Abbey, with the 1766 Shambles market and Tyne Valley rail line.
Heyuan
Heyuan is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Guangdong, China, established in 1988 with a population of 3.22 million, known for its hot springs and dinosaur fossils.
Heze
Heze (菏泽市, formerly Caozhou) is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong, China, at the Jiangsu-Henan-Anhui junction; known as China's peony capital, with 8.5 million residents and a 2024 GDP of 480.3 billion yuan.
Hezhou
Hezhou (贺州) is a prefecture-level city in northeast Guangxi, China, bordering Guangdong and Hunan; distinct from Ezhou and the Tang-era Hezhou in Anhui. Forest-covered karst city, 2024 GDP 964.42 billion yuan, major flood-control and mining-area restoration projects.
Hialeah, Florida
Hialeah, Florida: Miami-Dade County city incorporated 1925, founded by James Bright and Glenn Curtiss, named for "high prairie"; sixth largest Florida city, 95 percent Hispanic, home to historic Hialeah Park Racetrack.
Hickory, North Carolina
Hickory, North Carolina: anchor city of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton MSA at the I-40/US 321 junction. Founded as Hickory Tavern (1863 charter); former furniture, hosiery, and textile manufacturing center now diversified into fiber optics and data centers.
Hidden Hills, California
Hidden Hills, California: a guard-gated, equestrian city of about 1,900 residents at the western San Fernando Valley's edge, incorporated October 19, 1961 as Los Angeles County's 73rd city, with no commercial services and equestrian zoning on all parcels.
Hienuki Gun
Hienuki Gun (稗貫郡, Hienuki District) was a district of Iwate Prefecture, Japan, first recorded in 811 in the Nihon Kōki and dissolved January 1, 2006 when Ōhasama and Ishidoriya merged into Hanamaki City.
Higashihiroshima
Higashihiroshima (東広島市) is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, founded 1974, home to Hiroshima University and the Saijo sake district with seven breweries on Sakagura-dori Street, a national historic site, and Micron's Hiroshima semiconductor plant.
Higashiosaka
Higashiosaka (東大阪市) is a Core City in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, formed in 1967 by merging Fuse, Kawachi, and Hiraoka. Known as a manufacturing city of small factories and for Hanazono Rugby Stadium.
High Point, North Carolina
High Point, North Carolina: Piedmont Triad city in Guilford County, founded 1859 on the North Carolina Railroad; the "Home Furnishings Capital of the World" and host of the semi-annual High Point Market furniture trade show.
High Wycombe
High Wycombe (Wicumun, first recorded 970) is a Buckinghamshire market town, Britain's historic chair-making centre: 4,700 chairs a day by 1875, home of G-Plan, Parker Knoll, Ercol, chair arches, the Mayor Weighing, and RAF High Wycombe.
Highland Park, Illinois
Highland Park, Illinois: Lake County city on Lake Michigan about 25 miles north of Chicago, population about 30,000; home of the Ravinia Festival and site of the July 4, 2022 parade shooting.
Hill station
Hill station: high-elevation colonial retreat town, first at Penang (1786) and in British India and the Dutch East Indies in the early 1800s; sanatoria, summer capitals like Simla, now Asian tourist towns facing subsidence and carrying-capacity limits.
Hillah
Hillah (Al-Hilla, الحلة), capital of Babil Governorate in central Iraq on the Shatt al-Hillah branch of the Euphrates; founded 495 AH/1101-1102 AD by the Mazyadid Sadaqah, a Shia scholarly center beside Babylon's ruins, 470,917 people in 2024.
Hillerød
Hillerød, North Zealand town in Denmark, formerly named Frederiksborg (1772-1908); home of Frederiksborg Castle, Museum of National History, S-train line A terminus, municipality of about 55,400.