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Johannesburg
Johannesburg, also called Joburg, eGoli, or City of Gold, is South Africa's largest city and Gauteng capital, founded in 1886 on the Witwatersrand gold reef; it is the country's financial hub but faces severe water, infrastructure, and governance crises.
Johnson City, Tennessee
Johnson City, Tennessee: a Tri-Cities city in Washington County, home of East Tennessee State University; 71,046 residents (2020), railroad heritage, Tweetsie Trail, and ETSU.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Johnstown, Pennsylvania: Cambria County city founded in 1800 by Joseph Johns, a steel center hit by the 1889 South Fork Dam flood (2,209 deaths) and floods of 1936 and 1977; population 18,411 in 2020.
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru, capital of Johor, Malaysia, founded 1855 as Iskandar Puteri and renamed 1 January 1866 by Temenggong Abu Bakar. Border city opposite Singapore, linked by the 1924 Causeway and the upcoming 4 km RTS Link rail service.
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois: third-largest Illinois city (150,362 in 2020), county seat of Will County, 30 miles southwest of Chicago; named for explorer Louis Joliet; canal, steel, and intermodal freight hub.
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Jonesboro, Arkansas: county seat of Craighead County on Crowley's Ridge, largest city in northeast Arkansas and fifth in the state, home of Arkansas State University and St. Bernards, founded 1859, population 83,296 (2025 estimate).
Jönköping
Jönköping, Swedish city at Lake Vättern's southern shore; chartered by Magnus Ladulås in 1284 (Sweden's oldest preserved charter), a Danish border fortress town, later a match and paper factory city; municipality 148,152 residents (2025).
Jonvelle
Jonvelle, commune in Haute-Saône, France, in a double meander of the Saône; known for a Gallo-Roman villa with bath complex (Monument Historique), a tile workshop, and a medieval priory and castle.
Joplin, Missouri
Joplin, Missouri: a city of about 53,900 in Jasper County, southwest Missouri, founded 1873 from rival mining camps and once the lead and zinc capital of the world; today a hub on Route 66 and Interstates 44 and 49.
Jorhat
Jorhat, Assam: city and district headquarters in the Brahmaputra Valley, heart of India's tea industry with 135 estates, Tocklai Tea Research Institute (1911), and Assam Agricultural University.
Jos
Jos, capital of Plateau State, Nigeria, on the Jos Plateau; founded as a tin-mining hub from 1904, once supplying about a tenth of world tin, later marked by recurring indigene-settler communal violence.
José C. Paz
José C. Paz: partido and city in northwest Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, created in 1994 from General Sarmiento, named after the La Prensa founder José Clemente Paz; 326,992 inhabitants (2022), home of UNPAZ.
Juazeiro do Norte
Juazeiro do Norte, a municipality in southern Ceará, Brazil, is the state's third most populous city (286,120 in 2022) and one of Brazil's largest pilgrimage centers, drawing over 3 million visitors yearly to the Padre Cícero statue and romarias.
Juba
Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan, on the western bank of the White Nile. Founded as a colonial town in 1927 on Bari land, it became national capital at independence on 9 July 2011.
Jubail (الجبيل)
Jubail (الجبيل) is an Eastern Province Saudi governorate on the Arabian Gulf, home to Jubail Industrial City, the world's largest single industrial development project, founded by 1975 royal decree, producing 7% of global petrochemicals.
Juli, Peru
Juli is a town in the Chucuito Province of southern Peru, on Lake Titicaca south of Puno, once called the "Rome of America" for its colonial churches.
Juliaca
Juliaca, capital of San Román province in Puno, Peru, is a high-altitude (3,824 m) altiplano commercial and transport hub, formerly Xullasca, province created 1926, population about 351,000 in 2025.
Jülich
Jülich, town in Kreis Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rur; about 35,000 residents, 90.39 km². Roman Juliacum, Pasqualini's Renaissance citadel, and Forschungszentrum Jülich research center.
Junagadh
Junagadh (જૂનાગઢ) is a city in southwestern Gujarat, India, at the foot of Mount Girnar, known for its ancient fort, Ashokan rock edicts, and as gateway to the Gir Forest.
Juneau, Alaska
Juneau, Alaska: capital of Alaska and unified City and Borough in the Panhandle, founded in the 1880 gold strike by Joe Juneau and Richard Harris, capital since 1906, roadless, government- and tourism-driven, with annual Mendenhall Glacier outburst floods.
Jupiter Island, Florida
Jupiter Island, Florida is an incorporated barrier-island town in Martin County, established 1953, population about 804-820, with nine miles of oceanfront, multimillion-dollar estates, the Hobe Sound refuge, and severe beach erosion.
Jupiter, Florida
Jupiter, Florida is a coastal Palm Beach County town incorporated February 9, 1925, population 61,047 (2020), known for the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, first lit July 10, 1860, the oldest structure in Palm Beach County.
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä, Finland's seventh-largest city (150,000 in 2025), capital of Central Finland, 'Athens of Finland' university city, home to nearly 30 Alvar Aalto buildings and about 40,000 students.
Kabankalan
Kabankalan (City of Kabankalan) is a first class component city in Negros Occidental, Philippines, the province's most populous component city (200,198 in 2020; 210,893 in 2024), with 32 barangays, townhood 1907, cityhood 1997 under RA 8297, and an unfinished domestic airport in Barangay Hilamonan.
Kabinda
Kabinda is the capital of Lomami Province in the central Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Songye-Luba town on National Route 2 with Kabinda Airport (KBN), the HGR reference hospital, and ongoing RN2 paving; distinct from Angola's Cabinda exclave.
Kabongo
Kabongo is a town in Lomami territory, Haut-Lomami Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the name of the Luba chiefly dynasty that ruled there.
Kabul (کابل)
Kabul (کابل), capital of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush valley on the Kabul River. Grew from 500,000 (2001) to 5–6 million people; 80% informal settlements; severe groundwater crisis; Taliban-ruled since 2021.
Kabwe
Kabwe (formerly Broken Hill), capital of Zambia's Central Province, grew around a lead-zinc mine (1906–1994) and is now among the world's most lead-polluted towns, with severe child lead poisoning and remediation efforts.
Kadapa (కడప)
Kadapa (కడప), formerly Cuddapah, is a city in Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh, headquarters of YSR Kadapa district; a municipality since 1868 and municipal corporation since 2004, population about 344,078 (2011).
Kaduna
Kaduna, capital of Kaduna State in northwestern Nigeria on the Kaduna River, founded by Lugard in 1917; former textile hub called the Manchester of Nigeria, now a major administrative, military, and educational center.