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Lakeshore, Ontario
Lakeshore, Ontario: a town in Essex County on Lake St. Clair, formed in 1999 from Belle River and four townships; 40,410 people in 2021, Essex County's largest municipality.
Lakewood, California
Lakewood, also known as Lakewood, CA, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1954 as a master-planned community of about 71,316 residents.
Lakewood, Colorado
Lakewood, Colorado: home rule suburb of about 157,000 residents immediately west of Denver in Jefferson County, Colorado's fifth-largest city. Incorporated 1969; council-manager government; Belmar downtown; 2026 zoning repeal election.
Lalibela (ላሊበላ)
Lalibela (ላሊበላ), formerly Roha, is a highland Ethiopian town and UNESCO World Heritage site (1978) with eleven 12th-13th century monolithic rock-hewn churches built under the Zagwe king Lalibela as a New Jerusalem.
Lalitpur, India
Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India (ललितपुर ज़िला), a Bundelkhand district named after its headquarters town; 5,039 sq km, 1,221,592 people (2011), separate from Jhansi district since 1974, bounded by the Betwa, Jamni, and Dhasan rivers.
Lamyatt
Lamyatt is a small Somerset hamlet near Castle Cary and Bruton, mentioned in Domesday. Its hill, Lamyatt Beacon, held a Romano-Celtic temple with votive figurines and a later sixth-to-eighth-century cemetery of mainly female burials.
Lancaster, California
Lancaster, California: high-desert Antelope Valley city in northern Los Angeles County, about 60 miles from Los Angeles. Founded as an 1876 Southern Pacific railroad water stop, incorporated 1977; about 170,000 residents, aerospace- and healthcare-driven economy.
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster, Lancashire: historic county town on the River Lune, England, named for its Roman fort; borough charter 1193, seat of the Duchy of Lancaster, home of Lancaster University, 145,006 district population (2025).
Lancaster, PA Metro Area
Lancaster, PA Metro Area (CBSA 29540) is a one-county metropolitan statistical area coterminous with Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, anchored by Lancaster city; 2025 population 563,159, 104th-largest U.S. metro, about 70 miles west of Philadelphia.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, county seat of Lancaster County, founded 1730, city 1818, one-day U.S. capital in 1777 and state capital 1799–1812; about 58,000 residents, 40% Latino, historic Central Market.
Landau
Landau in der Pfalz, a district-free city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, with about 48,000 residents; founded 1274, French fortress until 1816, university city since 1990, and Germany's largest wine-growing municipality.
Langfang
Langfang (廊坊) is a prefecture-level city in central-eastern Hebei Province, China, lying between Beijing and Tianjin and approved as a city by the State Council in April 1989.
Langley, British Columbia
Langley, British Columbia, comprises two adjacent Metro Vancouver municipalities: the City of Langley (incorporated 1955, population about 35,316) and the Township of Langley (incorporated 1873, third oldest in the province), home to Fort Langley.
Langonnet
Langonnet (Breton: Langoned), INSEE code 56100, is a rural commune of 85.4 km² in Morbihan, Brittany, canton of Gourin; 1,930 inhabitants in 2023, home to the Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame, later a national stud.
Lanivtsi Raion
Lanivtsi Raion (Лановецький район), a former district of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Lanivtsi; created 1940, 632 km², 52 villages, abolished 17 July 2020 and merged into Kremenets Raion.
Lansargues
Lansargues (Latin Lansarnica) is a commune in Hérault, Occitanie, near the Étang de l'Or between Lunel and Mauguio; a villette of the barony of Lunel from 888, with a 4th-century necropolis, La Laune Gallo-Roman site, classified Saint-Martin church, and arènes.
Lansdowne, India
Lansdowne (formerly Kaludanda) is a 1,700 m cantonment hill station in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, founded in 1887 and named after Viceroy Lord Lansdowne; it is the Garhwal Rifles headquarters, with a proposed renaming to Jaswantgarh.
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing, Michigan, the state capital since 1847 in Ingham County at the Grand and Red Cedar rivers; incorporated 1859, population 112,644 (2020), home of the 1879 Michigan State Capitol and Olds automotive heritage.
Lanuéjols
Lanuéjols names two Occitanie communes: Lanuéjols (Gard, 30139) on the Causse Noir at 900 m, attested from 1150, and Lanuéjols (Lozère, 48081), home to a Gallo-Roman mausoleum of the Pomponii, classified Monument Historique since 1840.
Lanús
Lanús is a partido of Buenos Aires Province in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded 29 September 1944, with 48 km², 462,051 inhabitants (2022 census), six localities, historic railway workshops at Remedios de Escalada, and the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.
Lanzhou (兰州)
Lanzhou (兰州), capital of Gansu, China: a 4.4-million-person Yellow River valley city, petrochemical and research hub, once severely polluted, now with 82–86% good-air days and a national rail-freight and New Area role.
Laohekou
Laohekou (老河口市), county-level city in northwest Hubei on the middle Han River under Xiangyang; named for the old river mouth, merged with Guanghua County in 1983, 2024 GDP 50.7 billion yuan.
Laprugne
Laprugne, commune in Allier (INSEE 03139), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, in the Montagne bourbonnaise near Vichy; site of the Charrier copper-tin mine (1872-1953) where roquesite was discovered, and uranium-era housing.
Lapu-Lapu City
Lapu-Lapu City (formerly Opon) is a first-class highly urbanized city on Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines, created 1961 under RA 3134; 497,813 people (2024), industry-led PhP 165.61 billion economy, home of Mactan Cebu International Airport.
Larache (العرائش)
Larache (العرائش) is a Moroccan Atlantic port city at the mouth of the Oued Loukkos, opposite the ancient ruins of Lixus, held by Spain 1610–1689 and 1911–1956, capital of a 513,936-person province.
Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming: high-plains college town at about 7,200 feet, founded 1868 on the Union Pacific Railroad, home of the University of Wyoming, Louisa Swain's 1870 vote, and the Wyoming Territorial Prison.
Larçay
Larçay, commune in Indre-et-Loire on the left bank of the Cher near Tours, France, known for its late Roman castellum (81 x 66 m, built about 256-270 AD, never finished), a reused mausoleum, a Gallo-Roman villa at Bellevue, and the Bléré-Tours aqueduct.
Laredo, Texas
Laredo, Texas: city on the Rio Grande across from Nuevo Laredo, founded 1755 by Tomás Sánchez as Villa de San Agustín de Laredo; home of Port Laredo, the busiest U.S. cargo entry point, with about $339.7 billion in 2024 trade.
Larissa (Λάρισα)
Larissa (Λάρισα), capital of Thessaly, Greece, on the Pinios River; largest city of Thessaly, about 160,000 municipal residents, same site for 8,000 years, hit by 2023 Storm Daniel floods.
Larkana (city)
Larkana (Larkano), Sindh, Pakistan: 17th largest city, headquarters of Larkana District (est. 1901), formerly Chandka and the 'City of Gardens'; near Mohenjo-daro, rice trade center, flood-prone.