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Durgapur (দুর্গাপুর)
Durgapur (দুর্গাপুর), the Steel City or Ruhr of India, is a planned industrial city in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, on the Damodar River, designed by Stein and Polk, home to SAIL's Durgapur Steel Plant, NIT Durgapur, and shifting toward IT and semiconductors.
Durham Castle
Durham Castle is a Norman fortress in Durham, England, begun in the late eleventh century under William the Conqueror and home for centuries to the Prince-Bishops of Durham.
Durham Castle and Cathedral
Durham Castle and Cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Durham, England, inscribed in 1986, home to Norman buildings housing the relics of St Cuthbert and Bede.
Durham County
Durham County, North Carolina, a Piedmont county formed in 1881 from Orange and Wake counties, seat Durham. Home to Duke University and part of Research Triangle Park; 343,628 residents (2024 estimate); adopted a data center moratorium in 2026.
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metro Area
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA (code 20500): metropolitan statistical area covering Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Person counties; 649,903 residents (2020 census), part of the Research Triangle and Raleigh-Durham-Cary CSA.
Durham, England
Durham, England: cathedral city in County Durham on a River Wear peninsula, seat of the medieval Prince-Bishops, home to Durham Castle and Cathedral (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1986) and Durham University (1832).
Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina: Piedmont city and Durham County seat, nicknamed the Bull City for Bull Durham tobacco. Grew from an 1850s railroad station; home to Duke University, NC Central, and Research Triangle Park; population about 305,000.
Durisdeer
Durisdeer Roman fortlet (SM670), an Antonine-period Roman fortlet in the Lowther Hills pass, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; 18 by 24 m internally, excavated 1938, guarding the Roman road from Crawford into Nithsdale.
Durisen family
Durisen family, an outer main-belt asteroid family named for asteroid 5567 Durisen (1953 FK1); among the reddest Gaia DR3 main-belt families, formerly X-complex, possibly T-/D-type, a proposed 5:2J resonance source of T-/D-type near-Earth asteroids.
Durius Valles
Durius Valles is an IAU-named valley system on Mars in Terra Cimmeria, about 223 km across, centered near 17.4°S, 172.1°E; named for the Latin name of the Douro River and drained into De Vaucouleurs basin.
Durley Hill
Durley Hill, Keynsham, Somerset: site of a large Romano-British courtyard villa under a Victorian cemetery, excavated 1922-4 by Bulleid and Horne, with rare hexagonal triclinia, mosaics, and 3rd-4th century occupation.
Durmitor
Durmitor: limestone massif in northern Montenegro's Dinaric Alps, also Durmitor National Park (founded 1952), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980 with Bobotov Peak 2,525 m, 18 glacial lakes, and the Tara River Gorge, Europe's deepest gorge.
Durnomagus
Durnomagus, Roman cavalry fort (Reiterkastell) at Dormagen on the Lower Germanic Limes, Germania Inferior; garrisoned by the Ala I Noricorum from about 85 AD, UNESCO World Heritage since 2021.
Duro(i)coregum
Duro(i)coregum (Duroico Regum), an unlocated Roman road station in Gallia Belgica on the Peutinger Table route from Cassel to Amiens; name probably corrupt, site proposed near Cramont or Domqueur, France.
Durobrivae (Water Newton)
Durobrivae (Water Newton) was a Roman small town in Cambridgeshire on Ermine Street at the River Nene crossing; largest walled small town in England, home of the Water Newton Treasure, the earliest Christian liturgical silver in the Roman Empire.
Durocobrivis
Durocobrivis (Durocobrivae), Roman minor settlement under modern Dunstable, Bedfordshire, at the Watling Street and Icknield Way crossroads; listed in the Antonine Itinerary, occupied 1st to 4th century, distinct from Durobrivae.
Durocornovium
Durocornovium was a Romano-British small town on Ermin Street between Cirencester and Silchester, near Wanborough, Swindon, Wiltshire. About 25 ha, occupied mid-1st to 4th century AD, peak AD 244-367; now a Scheduled Monument.
Durolitum
Durolitum was a Romano-British posting station on the London–Chelmsford road in the Antonine Itinerary, tentatively placed at Little London, Chigwell, Essex, or near Romford; meaning 'the strong lodge'.
Durotincum
Durotincum (Durotingum, Durotinco), Roman Alpine road station in Gallia Narbonensis near La Grave and Villar-d'Arène, Hautes-Alpes, France, on the Peutinger route between Cularo (Grenoble) and Brigantio (Briançon); distinct from the Lemovices capital of the same name.
Durrës
Durrës, historically Epidamnus and Dyrrachium, is Albania's second largest city and main seaport, about 33 kilometers west of Tirana, handling over 90 percent of national port cargo.
Durrës District
Durrës District (rrethi i Durrësit), a former Albanian district now within Durrës County; six administrative units, 175,110 census-2011 population, Albania's largest port handling over 90 percent of port volume.
Durrington Walls
Durrington Walls, a Later Neolithic henge enclosure near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, is Britain's largest henge at about 490 by 468 meters, enclosing a major Grooved Ware settlement with timber circles, later ringed by a 2-km-wide circle of Neolithic shafts.
Durrueli di Realmonte
Roman maritime villa at Realmonte, Agrigento, Sicily, identified as the villa marittima of Publius Annius; discovered 1907 during railway works, excavated by Antonino Salinas and by a University of Tsukuba team under Masanori Aoyagi, with peristyle, mosaics of Neptune and Scilla, and private baths.
Duse Bay
Duse Bay is a bay on the south side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, between View Point and Tabarin Peninsula, discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 and named for Lt. Samuel A. Duse.
Dush
Dush, also known as Kysis or Qasr Dush, is an ancient town and temple site at the far southern end of Egypt's Kharga Oasis, with Roman monuments.
Dushanbe (Душанбе)
Dushanbe (Душанбе, دوشنبه, "Monday"), formerly Dyushambe and Stalinabad (1929–1961), is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan, in the Hisor valley at ~823 m altitude, a Soviet-created capital since 1924 with about 851,000 residents in 2019.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf (Dusseldorp), city on the Rhine and state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1946; chartered 1288, sixth largest German city, 659,312 residents in 2025, major trade-fair, fashion, and Japanese business hub.
Düsseldorf District
Düsseldorf District (Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf) is one of the five administrative districts of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, covering the state's densely settled northwest from its seat in Düsseldorf.
Dutch Cape Colony
The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie) was a European colony at the Cape of Good Hope, founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652 as a refreshment station.
Dutch Caribbean
Dutch Caribbean: the six Caribbean islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba), reorganized on 10 October 2010 when the Netherlands Antilles dissolved into three constituent countries and three Dutch special municipalities.