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Hobøl
Hobøl is a former municipality in Østfold, Norway, merged into Indre Østfold on 1 January 2020 with Askim, Eidsberg, Spydeberg, and Trøgstad; population 5,642 (2019), center Elvestad.
Hodeidah (الحديدة)
Hodeidah (Al Hudaydah, الحديدة) is Yemen's fourth largest city and chief Red Sea port, administrative center of Al Hudaydah Governorate, handling about 70% of Yemen's food, fuel, and medicine imports and heavily damaged in the war since 2015.
Hof, Bavaria
Hof (Bavaria) is a county-level town in Upper Franconia on the Saale, near the Saxon and Czech borders. About 46,400 residents; medieval charter of 1319, textile heritage, Iron Curtain border town, 1989 refugee gateway.
Hofheim
Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, Germany: district town 18 km from Frankfurt, with Palaeolithic finds, the Michelsberg Kapellenberg hilltop settlement, Roman Erdlager and Steinkastell forts, first mentioned 1254, town charter 1352.
Hofuf
Hofuf (الهفوف) is a city in the Al-Ahsa Oasis in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, home to Qasr Ibrahim and Suq Al-Qaysariyah and part of the 2018 UNESCO World Heritage oasis.
Hohberg
Hohberg is a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed from Diersburg, Hofweier, and Niederschopfheim; known for its excavated Roman road station near Niederschopfheim, built about 50 AD on the Basel–Mainz road. Distinct from Hohberg (Oberzent) in Hesse and Am Hohberg in Saxony.
Hohhot (呼和浩特)
Hohhot (呼和浩特), capital of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, formerly Guihua/Guisui, a second-tier city of 3.5 million known for the Yili and Mengniu dairy headquarters, Ming-era Tumote origins, and winter air-pollution challenges.
Hội An
Hội An (Phố cổ Hội An, Faifo) is a central Vietnam city whose UNESCO-listed Ancient Town, a 15th-19th century trading port of 1,107 timber buildings on the Thu Bon River, was inscribed in 1999 and faces major flooding.
Hoji ya Henda
Hoji ya Henda, a 2024 municipality in Luanda province, Angola, split from Cazenga by Decree 268/24 and named for MPLA commander José Mendes de Carvalho, killed in combat in 1968; also a bairro, commune, and Luanda avenue name.
Holguín
Holguín, Cuba's "City of Parks," capital of Holguín province in eastern Cuba; founded 1545 as Hato de San Isidoro de Holguín; about 345,000 residents, gateway to Guardalavaca beaches and Humboldt National Park.
Holland, Michigan
Holland, Michigan: west Michigan city on Lake Macatawa, founded 1847 by Dutch Calvinist settlers under Albertus Van Raalte; known for Tulip Time, De Zwaan windmill, heated downtown sidewalks, Hope College; population 35,372 (2025 est.).
Hollister, California
Hollister, California: county seat of San Benito County, founded 1872 and named for Colonel W.W. Hollister. Population 41,678 (2020), 45,695 (2025 estimate); agricultural center near the creeping section of the San Andreas Fault.
Hollywood, Florida
Hollywood, Florida: coastal city in southern Broward County between Fort Lauderdale and Miami, incorporated November 28, 1925, founded and planned by Joseph Wesley Young; 153,067 residents in 2020, home to the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk and Port Everglades.
Holon
Holon (חולון) is a city of about 192,000 residents southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 1940 from five neighborhoods, known for the Design Museum Holon by Ron Arad, Wolfson Medical Center, and large-scale urban renewal.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River, laid out as one of the first planned industrial communities in the United States.
Holywood, County Down
Holywood, County Down: town on Belfast Lough's southern shore, Northern Ireland. 7th-century church site, 1605 Hamilton planned town, railway from 1848, Benjamin Ferrey Scottish Baronial station, 4,627 residents (2011).
Home rule
Home rule is a constitutional or legislative grant of autonomy to local governments, contrasting with Dillon's Rule; about four-fifths of U.S. states grant some form, with limits from state preemption.
Homer, Alaska
Homer, once called Miller Landing, is a city of about 5,500 people in south-central Alaska on Kachemak Bay, known as the Halibut Fishing Capital of the World.
Homestead, Florida
Homestead, Florida: Miami-Dade County city incorporated 1913, gateway to Everglades and Biscayne National Parks, rebuilt after 1992 Hurricane Andrew; about 86,000 residents, majority Hispanic, agricultural roots.
Homs (حمص)
Homs (حمص), Emesa in antiquity, is Syria's third-largest city on the Orontes at the Homs Gap, home to the country's largest oil refinery; dubbed 'capital of the revolution' in 2011, devastated by the 2011–2014 siege, and a main return destination after Assad's fall in December 2024.
Homyel
Homyel (Гомель, Gomel), second-largest city of Belarus on the Sozh River, capital of Homyel Region; first recorded 1142, industrial center (Gomselmash), about 500,000 people, removed from Chernobyl contamination list in 2026.
Honda, Tolima
Honda, Tolima, is a Colombian municipality on the left bank of the Magdalena River, founded in 1539 and known as the obligatory colonial river port linking Cartagena and Bogotá.
Hongjiang
Hongjiang (洪江) refers to Hongjiang City and Hongjiang District in Huaihua, Hunan, and the Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town, a preserved Ming-Qing merchant town, once southwest China's leading trading and financial hub.
Honiara
Honiara, capital and largest city of Solomon Islands on Guadalcanal, founded after WWII on US military infrastructure and made protectorate capital in 1952; known for rapid informal settlement growth, water and sanitation gaps, flood risk, and recurring political unrest.
Honolulu
Honolulu (Hawaiian: Honolulu) is the capital of Hawaii and seat of the City and County of Honolulu on Oahu's south shore; state capital since 1959, county population 998,747 (2024), tourism-driven economy with the highest U.S. utility costs.
Hoofddorp
Hoofddorp, formerly Kruisdorp, is the largest town in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands, founded 1853 on the reclaimed Haarlemmermeer lake bed, renamed 1868, grown past 75,000 residents near Schiphol Airport.
Hooverville
Hooverville: Depression-era American shanty towns named mockingly after President Herbert Hoover; term coined by Charles Michelson in 1930. Largest was the Bonus Army's Camp Marks (15,000+); Seattle's nine-acre camp lasted 1931-1941.
Hope, Arkansas
Hope, Arkansas: county seat of Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas, a railroad town founded in the 1870s and named for James Loughborough's daughter; birthplace of Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee, known for record watermelons; population 8,952 (2020).
Hope, British Columbia
Hope, British Columbia: district municipality at the Fraser–Coquihalla river junction, 150 km east of Vancouver. Founded as HBC Fort Hope (1848–49), incorporated 1929, district 1992; 2021 population 6,686; forestry, tourism, service economy.
Horlivka
Horlivka (Горлівка, Russian Gorlovka) is a city in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine, 40 km northeast of Donetsk, founded in 1867 by mining engineer Petr Gorlov; a major Donbas anthracite-mining and chemical center, held by Russian-backed forces since 2014.