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Indianapolis
Indianapolis, capital of Indiana since 1825, is a purpose-built capital founded in 1821 with a one-mile-square plat, central circle, and four diagonal avenues adapted from Washington, DC; metro population about 2.2 million.
Indio, California
Indio, California: Coachella Valley city founded 1876 as a Southern Pacific Railroad stop, incorporated 1930 as the valley's first city; date capital and home of the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals, population about 94,000.
Indore (इंदौर)
Indore (इंदौर) is the largest city of Madhya Pradesh, India, and headquarters of Indore district and division, topping the Swachh Survekshan cleanliness survey from 2017 through 2023.
Inglewood, California
Inglewood, California: Los Angeles County city of about 102,000 near LAX; incorporated 1908, aerospace and aviation history, home of SoFi Stadium, the Forum, and Intuit Dome.
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a city in Bavaria, Germany, on the Danube north of Munich, historically a ducal residence and fortress and today the home of Audi.
Innichen
Innichen (San Candido) is a market municipality in the upper Puster Valley, South Tyrol, Italy, at 1,174 m. Founded around a 769 Benedictine monastery, oldest abbey in Tyrol; 3,204 residents (2011); on the Pustertalbahn.
Innisfail, Queensland
Innisfail, Queensland: Cassowary Coast town in far north Australia, known for Art Deco architecture; 2021 census population 7,173 (urban centre); hit by Cyclone Larry in 2006.
Innsbruck
Innsbruck, capital of Tyrol, Austria, at 574 m in the Inn valley on the Brenner route; 132,820 residents, Habsburg residence, twice Winter Olympics host, Alpine warming hotspot.
Interlaken
Interlaken, Swiss Bernese Oberland town between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz on the Bödeli plain; gateway to the Jungfrau Region with 3.7 million overnight stays in 2025 and active Airbnb regulation.
Inuvik
Inuvik, Northwest Territories: planned town founded 1958 to replace Aklavik, largest Canadian community north of the Arctic Circle, Dempster Highway terminus since 1979, population 3,337 (2025).
Invercargill
Invercargill (Waihōpai), New Zealand's southernmost and westernmost city and capital of Southland, population 57,900 (2023); founded 1856 by John Turnbull Thomson, service hub for a farming hinterland.
Inverness
Inverness (Inbhir Nis), Scotland's most northerly city on the River Ness and Moray Firth, capital of the Highlands. Royal burgh under David I, newest Scottish city (2000), £315m City Region Deal, £47m castle attraction opened 2026.
Ioannina (Ιωάννινα)
Ioannina (Ιωάννινα, Yannena), city in northwestern Greece, capital of Epirus on Lake Pamvotis; 64,896 residents (2021), Byzantine foundation, Ottoman era under Ali Pasha 1788–1822, joined Greece 1913.
Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, the Johnson County seat in Iowa, was the second and last territorial capital and first state capital until 1857, and is home to the University of Iowa.
Ipoh
Ipoh, capital of Perak, Malaysia, is a former tin-mining boom town known as the City that Tin Built. Declared a city on 27 May 1988, it had about 903,000 metro residents in 2026 and is governed by Ipoh City Council.
Ipswich
Ipswich (Gipeswic) is the county town of Suffolk, England, at the head of the Orwell estuary. One of only four Middle Saxon emporia, it grew from a 7th-century trading port into a borough of about 139,600 people (2021).
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Ipswich, Massachusetts: Essex County North Shore town incorporated 1634 on the Agawam site, settled 1633 by John Winthrop Jr.; noted for First Period houses, Crane Beach, and Plum Island refuges.
Iqaluit
Iqaluit, formerly Frobisher Bay, is the capital and largest city of Nunavut, Canada, on Baffin Island. Population about 7,400 to 9,000; government-dominated economy; housing growth limited by water capacity; no road links outside.
Iquique
Iquique, port city and capital of Chile's Tarapacá Region; former nitrate shipping hub, site of the 1879 naval battle, home of the ZOFRI duty-free zone, pop. 191,468 (2017).
Iquitos
Iquitos is the largest city of the Peruvian Amazon and capital of Loreto, on the Amazon near the Río Nanay mouth, reachable only by river or air; a Rubber Boom port city with about 371,000 people and heavy flood exposure.
Irapuato
Irapuato, city and municipality in Guanajuato, Mexico; 'Strawberry Capital of the World' and Bajío auto-parts and agro-industrial hub; 592,953 inhabitants (2020), founded traditionally 15 February 1547.
Irbid
Irbid (إربد), ancient Arabella, is Jordan's second-largest city, 65 km north of Amman, seat of Irbid Governorate. Greater Irbid Municipality has about 908,000 residents; a Decapolis city with Bronze Age origins and major universities.
Iringa
Iringa is a highland town in southern Tanzania, capital of Iringa Region, founded in 1896 as the German fort "New Iringa" against Chief Mkwawa; 2022 municipal population 202,490, elevation about 1,625 m.
Irkutsk (Иркутск)
Irkutsk (Иркутск), Siberian city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast on the Angara River, 66 km from Lake Baikal. Founded 1661 by Yakov Pokhabov; historic wooden architecture on UNESCO tentative list; oldest museum (1782) and university (1918) in Eastern Siberia.
Irpin
Irpin (Ірпінь) is a city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, about 25 km from Kyiv on the Irpin River. Founded 1902 as a railway junction, a garden suburb and health resort, heavily destroyed in the 2022 Russian invasion and since largely rebuilt.
Irvine, California
Irvine, California: master-planned Orange County charter city incorporated December 28, 1971, built on the Irvine Ranch around UC Irvine under William Pereira's plan; population about 318,764 (2025).
Irving
Irving, Texas: city between Dallas and Fort Worth, founded 1903 by Schulze and Brown, incorporated 1914, named for Washington Irving; 13th-largest Texas city, about 257,000 residents, Las Colinas district, nine Fortune 500 headquarters.
Iserlohn
Iserlohn is a town of about 91,300 people in the Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; granted town rights around 1250 by the Counts of the Mark, historically a metalworking center, also called Waldstadt (forest city).
Isernia
Isernia (Aesernia in Roman times) is a hill town of about 20,700 people and provincial capital in Molise, southern Italy, founded as a Latin colony in 263 BC, home to the 700,000-year-old Isernia La Pineta Paleolithic site, the cathedral of San Pietro Apostolo, and the National Palaeolithic Museum.
Isesaki
Isesaki (伊勢崎市) is a city in southeastern Gunma Prefecture, Japan, on the Tone River; 139.44 km², 211,651 residents (2025), formed by the 2005 merger with Akabori, Azuma, and Sakai, known for Isesaki meisen silk and the World Heritage Tajima Yahei residence.