English > urban center: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts. |
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| Synonyms | city, metropolis |
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| Instances | Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle | A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders |
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| Aalborg, Alborg | A city and port in northern Jutland |
| Abadan | A port city in southwestern Iran |
| Aberdeen | A city in northeastern Scotland on the North Sea |
| Abidjan | city recognized by the United States as the capital of the Ivory Coast |
| Abilene | A city in central Texas |
| Acapulco, Acapulco de Juarez | A port and fashionable resort city on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico |
| Adana, Seyhan | A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River |
| Aden | An important port of Yemen |
| Agra | A city in northern India |
| Akron | A city in northeastern Ohio |
| Al Aqabah, Aqaba, Akaba | Jordan's port |
| Al Ladhiqiyah, Latakia | A seaport on the western coast of Syria |
| Albuquerque | The largest city in New Mexico |
| Alexandria, El Iskandriyah | The chief port of Egypt |
| Allentown | A city in eastern Pennsylvania |
| Almaty, Alma-Ata | The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998 |
| Amarillo | A city in the northern panhandle of Texas |
| Anaheim | A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles) |
| Anchorage | A city in south central Alaska |
| Ann Arbor | A city in southern Michigan near Detroit |
| Annaba | A port city of northeastern Algeria near the Tunisian border |
| Antalya, Adalia | A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya |
| Antofagasta | A port city on the Pacific in northern Chile |
| Antwerpen, Antwerp, Anvers | A busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river |
| Apeldoorn | A city of east central Netherlands |
| Aquila, L'Aquila, Aquila degli Abruzzi | The provincial capital of the Abruzzi region in central Italy |
| Arequipa | A city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city |
| Argos | An ancient city in southeastern Greece |
| Arhus, Aarhus | port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland |
| Ariana | city in Tunisia |
| Arlington | A city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth |
| Arnhem | A city in the central Netherlands on the lower Rhine River |
| Asahikawa | A city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area |
| Assur, Asur, Ashur | An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria |
| Astrakhan | A city in southwestern Russia on the delta of the Volga River |
| Aswan, Assuan, Assouan | An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt |
| Atlantic City | A city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey |
| Auckland | The largest city and principal port of New Zealand |
| Augusta | A city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah |
| Az Zarqa, Zarqa | city in northwestern Jordan |
| Babylon | The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia |
| Bahia Blanca | A port city in eastern Argentina to the southwest of Buenos Aires on an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean |
| Bakersfield | A city in south central California at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley |
| Baltimore | The largest city in Maryland |
| Bam | An ancient city in southeastern Iran |
| Bandung | A city in Indonesia |
| Banff | A popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies |
| Bangalore | An industrial city in south central India (west of Chennai) |
| Barcelona | A city in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean |
| Bari | Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast |
| Barranquilla | A port city of northern Colombia near the Caribbean on the Magdalena River |
| Basel, Basle, Bale | A city in northwestern Switzerland |
| Basra, Basia | The second largest city in Iraq |
| Bayonne | A city in northeastern New Jersey |
| Beaumont | A city of southeastern Texas near Houston |
| Beckley | A city in southern West Virginia |
| Beira | A port city in eastern Mozambique on the Mozambique Channel |
| Belem, Para, Feliz Lusitania, Santa Maria de Belem, St. Mary of Bethlehem | port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta |
| Belo Horizonte | city in southeastern Brazil to the north of Rio de Janeiro |
| Benghazi | port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra |
| Bergen | A port city in southwestern Norway |
| Berkeley | A city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay |
| Beverly Hills | A city in southwestern California surrounded by Los Angeles |
| Billings | The largest city in Montana |
| Binghamton | A city in south central New York near the border with Pennsylvania |
| Birmingham, Brummagem | A city in central England |
| Birmingham, Pittsburgh of the South | The largest city in Alabama |
| Blantyre | city in southern Malawi |
| Blida | A city in northern Algeria at the foot of the Atlas Mountains to the southwest of Algiers |
| Bloemfontein | The seat of the supreme court |
| Bologna | The capital of Emilia-Romagna |
| Bolzano | An Italian city in Trentino-Alto Adige near the Austrian border |
| Bonn | A city in western Germany on the Rhine River |
| Bordeaux | A port city in southwestern France |
| Braga | An ancient city in northern Portugal |
| Brasov | A city in central Romania in the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps |
| Braunschweig, Brunswick | A city in central Germany |
| Bremen | A city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea |
| Bremerhaven | A port city in northwestern Germany at the mouth of the Weser River on the North Sea |
| Brescia | An ancient Italian city in central Lombardy |
| Brest | A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany) |
| Bridgeport | A port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound |
| Brighton | A city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort |
| Brindisi | A port city in southeastern Apulia in Italy |
| Bristol | An industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon |
| Brno, Brunn | An industrial city in Moravia in Czech Republic to the southeast of Prague |
| Brownsville | A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande near its mouth into the Gulf of Mexico |
| Bruges, City of Bridges | A city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea |
| Buffalo | A city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls) |
| Bulawayo | industrial city in southwestern Zimbabwe |
| Burlington | The largest city in Vermont |
| Bursa, Brusa | A city in northwestern Turkey |
| Bydgoszcz, Bromberg | An industrial city and river port in northern Poland |
| Byzantium | An ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks |
| Cadiz | An ancient port city in southwestern Spain |
| Calgary | The largest city in southern Alberta |
| Cali | city in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area |
| Caloocan | A suburb of Manila in southwestern Luzon |
| Cambridge | A city in eastern England on the River Cam |
| Cambridge | A city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston |
| Camden | A city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia |
| Campeche | A Mexican city on the Bay of Campeche |
| Cancun | A popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula |
| Cannes | A port and resort city on the French Riviera |
| Cape Town | port city in southwestern South Africa |
| Cartagena | A port in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean |
| Cartagena | A port city in northwestern Colombia on the Caribbean |
| Casablanca | A port on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco |
| Casper | A city of east central Wyoming on the North Platte river |
| Cebu, Cebu City | An important seaport on the island of Cebu in the Philippines |
| Cedar Rapids | A city in eastern Iowa |
| Charleroi | city in southwestern Belgium |
| Charleston | A port city in southeastern South Carolina |
| Charlotte, Queen City | The largest city in North Carolina |
| Chattanooga | A city in eastern Tennessee |
| Chelyabinsk | A city in the Asian part of Russia |
| Chemnitz, Karl-Marx-Stadt | A city in east central Germany |
| Chennai, Madras | A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal |
| Cherepovets | A city of east central Russia to the north of Moscow |
| Chernobyl | A city in north central Ukraine |
| Chester | A city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia) |
| Chicago, Windy City | largest city in Illinois |
| Chihuahua | A city in northern Mexico in the state of Chihuahua |
| Chittagong | A port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal |
| Chongqing, Chungking | A city in south-central China on the Chang Jiang |
| Christchurch | industrial city at the center of a rich agricultural region |
| Chula Vista | An industrial city in southern California (south of San Diego) near the Mexican border |
| Cincinnati | A city in southern Ohio on the Ohio river |
| Ciudad Bolivar | A port in eastern Venezuela on the Orinoco river |
| Ciudad Juarez, Juarez | A city in northern Mexico on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso |
| Ciudad Victoria | A city in east central Mexico |
| Clarksburg | A city in northern West Virginia |
| Cleveland | The largest city in Ohio |
| Cologne, Koln | A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River |
| Colon, Aspinwall | A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal |
| Colorado Springs | A city in east central Colorado on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains |
| Colossae | An ancient city in south western Phrygia in Asia Minor |
| Columbus | A city in western Georgia on the Chattahoochee River |
| Concepcion | An industrial city in Chile to the south of Santiago |
| Constantina | A Romanian resort city on the Black Sea |
| Constantine | A walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers |
| Cordoba, Cordova | A city in southern Spain |
| Cordoba, Cordova | A city in central Argentina |
| Corinth, Korinthos | The modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens |
| Cork | A port city in southern Ireland |
| Corpus Christi | A city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico |
| Cotonou | Chief port of Benin on the Bight of Benin |
| Coventry | An industrial city in central England |
| Cracow, Krakow, Krakau | An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula |
| Cremona | A city in Lombardy on the Po River |
| Culiacan | A city in northwestern Mexico |
| Cumana | A port city in northeastern Venezuela on the Caribbean Sea |
| Curitiba | A city in southeastern Brazil |
| Czestochowa | A city of southern Poland whose church contains the statue of the black Madonna which attracts many pilgrims |
| Dalian, Talien, Dairen | A port and shipbuilding center in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula |
| Dallas | A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields |
| Daugavpils | A city of southeastern Latvia |
| Davenport | A city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from Moline and Rock Island |
| Dayton | A city in southwest Ohio |
| Decatur | A city in central Illinois |
| Delhi, New Delhi | A city in north central India |
| Delphi | An ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus |
| Detroit, Motor City, Motown | The largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port |
| Dijon | An industrial city in eastern France to the north of Lyons |
| Dneprodzerzhinsk | port city and industrial center in east central Ukraine on the Dnieper River |
| Dnipropetrovsk, Yekaterinoslav | city in east central Ukraine on the Dnieper River |
| Dobrich, Tolbukhin | A city in northeastern Bulgaria (north of Varna) that is the commercial center of an agricultural region |
| Dodoma | A city in the center of Tanzania that has been designated as the future capital |
| Donetsk, Donetske, Stalino | An industrial city in the Donets Basin |
| Dortmund | An industrial city in northwestern Germany |
| Douala | The largest city of Cameroon |
| Dresden | A city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River |
| Dubai | port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf |
| Dubrovnik, Ragusa | A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic |
| Duluth | A city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior |
| Durango, Victoria de Durango | A city in north central Mexico |
| Durban | A port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean |
| Durham | A city of north central North Carolina |
| Durres, Durazzo | port city in western Albania on the Adriatic |
| Dusseldorf | An industrial city in western Germany on the Rhine |
| Edirne, Adrianople, Adrianopolis | A city in northwestern Turkey |
| Ehadhamen | city in Tunisia |
| Eindhoven | city in southeastern Netherlands noted for electrical industry |
| El Paso | A city in western Texas on the Mexican border |
| Ephesus | An ancient Greek city on the western shore of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey |
| Erie | A port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania |
| Espoo | A city in southern Finland |
| Essen | A city in western Germany |
| Eugene | A city in western Oregon on the Willamette River |
| Evansville | A city in southwestern Indiana on the Ohio River |
| Faisalabad, Lyallpur | city in northeast Pakistan |
| Fargo | largest city in North Dakota |
| Ferrara | A city in northern Italy |
| Fez, Fes | A city in north central Morocco |
| Firenze, Florence | A city in central Italy on the Arno |
| Flint | A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit |
| Fort Lauderdale | A city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami |
| Fort Wayne | A city in northeastern Indiana |
| Fort Worth | A city in northeastern Texas (just to the west of Dallas) |
| Frankfurt on the Main, Frankfurt, Frankfort | A German city |
| Fresno | A city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley |
| Fukuoka | A city in southern Japan on Kyushu |
| Gafsa | A city in west central Tunisia |
| Galway | A port city in western Ireland on Galway Bay |
| Garland | A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas) |
| Gary | A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan |
| Gdansk, Danzig | A port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea |
| Geneva, Geneve, Genf | A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva |
| Genoa, Genova | A seaport in northwestern Italy |
| Gent, Gand, Ghent | port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center |
| Giza, El Giza, Gizeh | An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo |
| Glasgow | largest city in Scotland |
| Gloucester | A city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn |
| Goma | A city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda |
| Gomorrah, Gomorrha | (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants |
| Goteborg, Goeteborg, Gothenburg | A port in southwestern Sweden |
| Governador Valadares | A city in eastern Brazil to the northeast of Belo Horizonte |
| Granada | A city in southeastern Spain that was the capital of the Moorish kingdom until it was captured by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492 |
| Grand Rapids | A city in west central Michigan |
| Graz | An industrial city is southeastern Austria |
| Green Bay | A city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan |
| Greensboro | A city of north central North Carolina |
| Greenville | A city in eastern North Carolina |
| Grenoble | A city in southeastern France on the Isere River |
| Grozny, Groznyy | The capital of Chechnya in southwestern Russia |
| Guadalajara | A city in southwestern Mexico |
| Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton | A city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China |
| Guantanamo | A city in southeastern Cuba |
| Guayaquil | The largest city of Ecuador |
| Gulu | A city in northern Uganda |
| Haiphong | A port city in northern Vietnam |
| Halab, Aleppo, Alep | A city in northwestern Syria |
| Halicarnassus | An ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey |
| Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale | A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River |
| Hamburg | A port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany |
| Hamilton | A port city in southeastern Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario |
| Hamilton | The capital of Bermuda |
| Hangzhou, Hangchow | A city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay |
| Hannover, Hanover | A port city in northwestern Germany |
| Hargeisa | A city in northwestern Somalia |
| Hefa, Haifa | A major port in northwestern Israel |
| Herat | A city in northwestern Afghanistan on the site of several ancient cities |
| Herculaneum | ancient city |
| Hermosillo | A city in northwestern Mexico near the Gulf of California |
| Hiroshima | A port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan |
| Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon | A city in South Vietnam |
| Hodeida, Al-Hudaydah | An important port in Yemen on the Red Sea |
| Hohhot | A northern industrial / industrial city of China to the northwest of Beijing |
| Homyel, Homel, Gomel | industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk |
| Hong Kong | formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province |
| Houston | The largest city in Texas |
| Huambo, Nova Lisboa | A city in the mountains in western Angola |
| Hull, Kingston-upon Hull | A large fishing port in northeastern England |
| Huntington | A city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha |
| Huntsville | A city in northern Alabama |
| Hyderabad | A city in south central India in Andhra Pradesh |
| Hyderabad | A city in southern Pakistan on the Indus River |
| Ibadan | A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria |
| Inchon, Incheon, Chemulpo | A port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea |
| Independence | A city in western Missouri |
| Innsbruck | city in southwestern Austria |
| Isfahan, Esfahan, Aspadana | city in central Iran |
| Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul, Constantinople | The largest city and former capital of Turkey |
| Izmir, Smyrna | A port city in western Turkey |
| Jabalpur, Jubbulpore | An industrial city of central India to the southeast of Delhi |
| Jacksonville | Florida's largest city |
| Jaffa, Joppa, Yafo | A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean |
| Jeddah, Jed'dah, Jiddah, Jidda | port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea |
| Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera | A city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry |
| Jersey City | A city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan) |
| Jinja | A city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria |
| Joao Pessoa | A city in northeastern Brazil near the Atlantic Ocean to the north of Recife |
| Johannesburg | city in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria |
| Kaluga | A city of central Russia to the south of Moscow |
| Kananga, Luluabourg | A city in southwestern Congo |
| Kandahar, Qandahar | A city in southern Afghanistan |
| Kandy | A city of central Sri Lanka that was the last capital of the ancient kings of Ceylon |
| Kansas City | A city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River |
| Kansas City | A city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri |
| Karachi | The largest city in Pakistan |
| Katowice | An industrial city of southern Poland |
| Katsina | A city in northern Nigeria |
| Kaunas, Kovna, Kovno | A city in central Lithuania |
| Kazan | An industrial city in the European part of Russia |
| Kerbala, Karbala, Kerbela | A city of central Iraq to the south of Baghdad |
| Khabarovsk | A city on the Amur River on the border of China and the capital of Khabarovsk |
| Kharkov, Kharkiv | A city in northeastern Ukraine |
| Kimberley | city in central South Africa |
| Kirkuk | A city in northeastern Iraq |
| Kisumu | A port city in western Kenya on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria |
| Kitakyushu | A Japanese city on northern Kyushu |
| Klaipeda, Memel | A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea |
| Knoxville | A city in eastern Tennessee on the Tennessee River |
| Kobe | A port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu |
| Kolkata, Calcutta | The largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world |
| Kuala Lumpur | The largest city and former capital of Malaysia until 2005 |
| Kumasi | A city in southern Ghana |
| Kursk | A city of southwestern Russia |
| Kwangju | city in southwestern South Korea |
| Kyoto | A city in central Japan on southern Honshu |
| La Spezia | A port city in Liguria on an arm of the Ligurian Sea |
| Lagos | Chief port and economic center of Nigeria |
| Lahore | city in northeast Pakistan |
| Lancaster | A city in northwestern England |
| Lanzhou, Lanchou, Lanchow | The capital city of the Chinese province of Gansu on the Yellow River |
| Laredo | A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande |
| Las Vegas | largest city in Nevada |
| Lausanne | A city in western Switzerland |
| Le Havre | A port city in northern France on the English Channel at the mouth of the Seine |
| Leeds | A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England |
| Leicester | An industrial city in Leicestershire in central England |
| Leiden, Leyden | A city in the western Netherlands |
| Leipzig | A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs |
| Leon | A city in central Mexico |
| Leon | A city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains |
| Lexington | A city in eastern Kentucky |
| Liege, Luik | city in eastern Belgium |
| Liepaja | A city of southwestern Latvia on the Baltic Sea |
| Lille | An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border |
| Limeira | A city of southeastern Brazil (northwest of Sao Paulo) |
| Limerick | port city in southwestern Ireland |
| Linz, Lentia | city in northern Austria on the Danube |
| Liverpool | A large city in northwestern England |
| Lobito | A seaport on the Atlantic coast of Angola |
| Lodz | A large city of central Poland |
| Logrono | A city in northern Spain on the Ebro River |
| Long Beach | A city in southern California located on 8.5 miles of Pacific beachfront |
| Los Angeles, City of the Angels, L.A. | A city in southern California |
| Louisville | The largest city in Kentucky |
| Lubbock | A city in northwest Texas to the south of Amarillo |
| Lubeck | A city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port |
| Lublin | An industrial city of eastern Poland |
| Lubumbashi, Elisabethville | A city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia |
| Lucknow | A city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh |
| Lund | A city in southern Sweden |
| Luoyang, Loyang | A city in east central China |
| Lushun, Port Arthur | A major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula |
| Luxor, El-Aksur | A city in central Egypt on the east bank of the Nile that is a center for visitors to the ruins of and around Thebes |
| Lynchburg | A city in central Virginia |
| Lyon, Lyons | A city in east-central France on the Rhone River |
| Macon | A city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta |
| Maiduguri, Yerwa-Maiduguri | A city in northeastern Nigeria |
| Malaga | A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean |
| Malmo | A port in southern Sweden |
| Manchester | A city in northwestern England (30 miles to the east of Liverpool) |
| Manchester | largest city in New Hampshire |
| Mandalay | A city in central Myanmar to the north of Rangoon |
| Mannheim | A city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers |
| Maracaibo | A port city in northwestern Venezuela |
| Maracay | A city in north central Venezuela |
| Marrakesh, Marrakech | A city in western Morocco |
| Marseille, Marseilles | A port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean |
| Mashhad, Meshed | The holy city of Shiite Muslims |
| Matamoros | A city in northeastern Mexico opposite Brownsville near the mouth of the Rio Grande |
| Mazar-i-Sharif | A city in northern Afghanistan |
| Mazatlan | A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean |
| Mbeya | A city in southwestern Tanzania |
| Medan | A city in Indonesia |
| Medellin | city in western Colombia |
| Medina, Al Madinah | A city in western Saudi Arabia |
| Memphis | largest city of Tennessee |
| Memphis | An ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo) |
| Merida | The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan |
| Mesa | A city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix |
| Messina | A port city in northeastern Sicily / Sicily on the Strait of Messina |
| Mexicali | A city in northwestern Mexico near the California border |
| Miami | A city and resort in southeastern Florida on Biscayne Bay |
| Miami Beach | A city in southeastern Florida on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean |
| Milan, Milano | The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy |
| Milwaukee | largest city of Wisconsin |
| Minneapolis | largest city in Minnesota |
| Mobile | A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay |
| Mombasa | A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean |
| Montego Bay | port and resort city in northwestern Jamaica |
| Monterrey | An industrial city in northeastern Mexico |
| Montreal | A city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River |
| Morgantown | A city in northern West Virginia on the Monongahela river near the Pennsylvania border |
| Moron | A city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires |
| Mosul | A city in northern Iraq on the Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh |
| Moulmein, Mawlamyine | A port city of southern Myanmar on the Gulf of Martaban |
| Mukalla, Al-Mukalla | A port in southern Yemen on the Gulf of Aden to the east of Aden |
| Mumbai, Bombay | A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea |
| Munich, Muenchen | The capital and largest city of Bavaria in southwestern Germany |
| Murmansk | A port city in northwestern Russia on the Kola Peninsula |
| Mwanza | A city in northern Tanzania on Lake Victoria |
| Mycenae | An ancient city is southern Greece |
| Mysore | A city in southern India to the southwest of Bangalore |
| Nablus | An ancient city in the West Bank to the north of Jerusalem |
| Nagano | A city in central Honshu to the northwest of Tokyo |
| Nagasaki | A city in southern Japan on Kyushu |
| Nagoya | An industrial city in southern Honshu |
| Naha City | The chief city in the Ryukyu Islands |
| Nakuru | A city in western Kenya |
| Nalchik | A city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains |
| Namur | A city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River |
| Nanchang, Nan-chang | A walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang |
| Nancy | A city in northeastern France in Lorraine |
| Nanjing, Nanking | A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River |
| Nanning, Nan-ning | An industrial city in southern China |
| Nantes | A port city in western France on the Loire estuary |
| Naples, Napoli | A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy |
| Natal | A port city in northeastern Brazil |
| New Haven | A city in southwestern Connecticut |
| New Orleans | A port and largest city in Louisiana |
| New York, New York City, Greater New York | The largest city in New York State and in the United States |
| Newark | The largest city in New Jersey |
| Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | A port city in northeastern England on the River Tyne |
| Newport | A port city in southeastern Wales |
| Newport | A resort city in southeastern Rhode Island |
| Newport News | A port city in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of the James River off Hampton Roads |
| Niagara Falls | A city in western New York State at the falls of the Niagara river |
| Nicaea | An ancient city in Bithynia |
| Nice | A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean |
| Nijmegen | An industrial city in the eastern Netherlands |
| Nineveh | An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq |
| Nizhnyi Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod, Gorki, Gorky, Gorkiy | An industrial city in the European part of Russia |
| Norfolk | port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay |
| Northampton | The principal city of Northamptonshire |
| Novgorod | A city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River |
| Novosibirsk | A city in the Asian part of Russia on the Ob river |
| Nuremberg, Nurnberg | A city in southeastern Germany |
| Nyala | city in Sudan |
| Oakland | A city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco |
| Oaxaca, Oaxaca de Juarez | A city of southeastern Mexico |
| Odessa, Odesa | A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea |
| Odessa | A city in western Texas |
| Omaha | largest city in Nebraska |
| Omdurman | A city of Sudan |
| Omiya | A city of east central Honshu |
| Omsk | A city in the Asian part of Russia |
| Oran | A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city |
| Orizaba | A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz) |
| Orlando | A city in central Florida |
| Orleans | A city on the Loire river in north central France |
| Osaka | port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay |
| Osasco | A city in southeastern Brazil |
| Ostrava | An industrial city in northwestern Czech Republic in the Moravian lowlands |
| Oujda | A city in northeastern Morocco near the Algerian border |
| Oviedo | A city in northwestern Spain near the Cantabrian Mountains |
| Oxford | A city in southern England to the northwest of London |
| Padua, Padova, Patavium | A city in Veneto |
| Palermo | The capital of Sicily |
| Papeete | The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti |
| Parkersburg | A city in northwestern West Virginia on the Ohio river |
| Pasadena | A city in southwestern California to the east of Los Angeles |
| Paterson | A city of northeastern New Jersey |
| Patras, Patrai | A port city in western Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese on an inlet of the Ionian Sea |
| Peoria | A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River |
| Pergamum | An ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey |
| Perm, Molotov | A city in the European part of Russia |
| Persepolis | An ancient city that was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire |
| Peshawar | city in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass |
| Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love | The largest city in Pennsylvania |
| Philippi | A city in ancient Macedonia that was important in early Christianity |
| Pinsk | A city of southwestern Belarus |
| Pisa | A city in Tuscany |
| Pittsburgh | A city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River |
| Plano | A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas) |
| Plovdiv, Philippopolis | An ancient city in southern Bulgaria |
| Pompeii | ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius |
| Port Sudan | port city in Sudan on the Red Sea |
| Portland | largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state |
| Portland | Freshwater port and largest city in Oregon |
| Porto, Oporto | port city in northwest Portugal |
| Portsmouth, Pompey | A port city in southern England on the English Channel |
| Portsmouth | A port city in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River opposite Norfolk |
| Potsdam | A city in northeastern Germany |
| Provo | A city in north central Utah settled by Mormons |
| Puebla, Puebla de Zaragoza, Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza | A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau |
| Pueblo | A city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs |
| Punta Arenas | A city in southern Chile on the Strait of Magellan |
| Pusan | A city in southeastern South Korea on the Korean Strait |
| Quezon City | city on Luzon adjoining Manila |
| Qum | A city in northwestern Iran |
| Racine | A city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee |
| Rasht, Resht | city in northwestern Iran near the Caspian Sea |
| Rawalpindi | An ancient city in northeastern Pakistan |
| Reading | A city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England |
| Recife, Pernambuco | A port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic |
| Reno | A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains |
| Rheims, Reims | A city in northeastern France to the east of Paris |
| Rio de Janeiro, Rio | The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil |
| Riverside | A city in southern California |
| Roanoke | A city in southwestern Virginia |
| Rochester | A city in western New York |
| Rockford | A city in northern Illinois |
| Rosario | A port city on the Parana River in eastern central Argentina |
| Rostock | A city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea |
| Rostov, Rostov on Don, Rostov na Donu | A seaport on the Don River near the Sea of Azov in the European part of Russia |
| Rotterdam | The 2nd largest city in the Netherlands |
| Saint John, St. John | A port in eastern Canada |
| Saint Louis, St. Louis, Gateway to the West | The largest city in Missouri |
| Salem | A city in northeastern Massachusetts |
| Salem | A city in southern India |
| Salzburg | city in western Austria |
| Samaria | An ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel |
| Samarkand, Samarcand | city in southern Uzbekistan |
| San Antonio | A city of south central Texas |
| San Bernardino | A city in southern California to the east of Los Angeles |
| San Diego | A picturesque city of southern California on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border |
| San Francisco | A port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers |
| San Jose | A city in western California located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay to the south of San Francisco |
| San Juan | The capital and largest city of Puerto Rico |
| San Luis Potosi | A city in central Mexico |
| San Pedro Sula | industrial city in northwestern Honduras |
| San Sebastian | A city in northern Spain on the Bay of Biscay near the French border |
| Santa Ana | A city in southern California to the east of Long Beach |
| Santa Ana | A city in western El Salvador |
| Santa Clara | A city of west central California |
| Santa Cruz | A city in central Bolivia |
| Santiago de Cuba, Santiago | A port city in southeastern Cuba |
| Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago | city in the northern Dominican Republic |
| Santos | A port city in southwestern Brazil on an offshore island near Sao Paulo |
| Sao Bernardo do Campo | A city in southeastern Brazil |
| Sao Goncalo | An industrial city in southeastern Brazil across the bay from Rio de Janeiro |
| Sao Joao de Meriti | A city in southeastern Brazil that is a residential suburb of Rio de Janeiro |
| Sao Jose dos Campos | A city in southeastern Brazil to the northeast of Sao Paulo |
| Sao Louis | A city on an offshore island in northeast Brazil |
| Sao Paulo | An ultramodern city in southeastern Brazil |
| Sapporo | A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido |
| Sarajevo | Capital and largest city of Bosnia |
| Saratov | An industrial city in the European part of Russia |
| Sardis | An ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey |
| Saskatoon | A city in central Saskatchewan |
| Savannah | A port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river |
| Sayda, Saida, Sidon | The main city of ancient Phoenicia |
| Schenectady | A city of eastern New York on the Mohawk river |
| Scranton | An industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania |
| Seattle | A major port of entry and the largest city in Washington |
| Sebastopol, Sevastopol | A city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea |
| Semarang, Samarang | A port city is southern Indonesia |
| Setubal | A port city on the Atlantic coast of Portugal to the southeast of Lisbon |
| Sevilla, Seville | A city in southwestern Spain |
| Sfax, Safaqis | The second largest city in Tunisia |
| Shanghai | The largest city of China |
| Sheffield | A steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry |
| Shenyang, Mukden, Moukden, Fengtien | A city in northeastern China |
| Shiraz | A city in central southwestern Iran |
| Shreveport | A city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border |
| Sioux City | A city in northeastern Iowa where the Big Sioux River joins the Missouri |
| Sioux Falls | largest city in South Dakota |
| Smolensk | A city in western Russia on the Dnieper River |
| Sodom | (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Gomorrah) was destroyed by God for the wickedness of its inhabitants |
| Soledad | A city in northern Colombia |
| Solingen | A city in west central Germany noted for cutlery |
| Sousse, Susa, Susah | A port city in eastern Tunisia on the Mediterranean |
| South Bend | A city in northern Indiana |
| Soweto | A large collection of African townships to the southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa |
| Sparta | An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess |
| Split | An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea |
| Spokane | A city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border |
| Springfield | A city and manufacturing center in southwestern Massachusetts on the Connecticut River |
| Springfield | A city of southwestern Missouri |
| St. Augustine, Saint Augustine | A resort city in northeastern Florida |
| St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg | A city in the European part of Russia |
| St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg | A city in western Florida on Tampa Bay |
| Stavanger | A port city in southwestern Norway |
| Strasbourg, Strassburg | city on the Rhine in eastern France near the German border |
| Stuttgart | A city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative / innovative architecture |
| Sucre | The judicial capital and seat of the judiciary in Bolivia |
| Sudbury | A city in south central Canada in Ontario |
| Suez | A city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal |
| Sur, Tyre | A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea |
| Swansea | A port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel |
| Syracuse, Siracusa | A city in southeastern Sicily / Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC |
| Syracuse | A city in central New York |
| Tabora | A city in western Tanzania |
| Tabriz | An ancient city in northwestern Iran |
| Tabuk | A city in northwestern Saudi Arabia |
| Tacoma | A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle |
| Taegu, Tegu | A city in southeastern South Korea |
| Taichung | A city in Taiwan |
| Taif | A city in western Saudi Arabia to the east of Mecca |
| Taiyuan | An ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production |
| Tamale | A city in northern Ghana |
| Tampa | A resort city in western Florida |
| Tampere, Tammerfors | An industrial city in south central Finland |
| Tampico | A port city in eastern Mexico |
| Tanga | A port city in northeastern Tanzania on the Indian Ocean |
| Tangier, Tangiers | A city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar |
| Tangshan | An industrial city of northeastern China in Hebei province |
| Tarabulus, Tripoli, Tarabulus Ash-Sham, Trablous | A port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea |
| Tartu | A city of southeastern Estonia that was a member of the Hanseatic League |
| Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yalo, Tel Aviv-Jaffa | The largest city and financial center of Israel |
| Temuco | A city in central Chile to the south of Concepcion |
| Tepic | A city in west central Mexico |
| The Hague, 's Gravenhage, Den Haag | The site of the royal residence and the de facto capital in the western part of the Netherlands |
| Thebes | An ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC |
| Thebes | An ancient Egyptian city on the Nile River that flourished from the 22nd century BC to the 18th century BC |
| Thessaloniki, Salonika, Salonica, Thessalonica | A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea |
| Thorshavn | The administrative center of the Faroe Islands |
| Thunder Bay | A port city in Ontario on Lake Superior |
| Tianjin, Tientsin, T'ien-ching | A major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea |
| Tijuana | A Mexican city just to the south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula |
| Timbuktu | A city in central Mali near the Niger river |
| Toledo | An industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie |
| Toledo | A city in central Spain on the Tagus river |
| Torreon | A city in northern Mexico to the west of Monterrey |
| Toulon | A port city and naval base in southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast |
| Toulouse | A city on the Garonne River in southern France to the southeast of Bordeaux |
| Tours | An industrial city in western France on the Loire River |
| Toyohashi | A Japanese city in southern Honshu on the Pacific shore |
| Toyonaki | A Japanese city in southern Honshu |
| Toyota | An industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu |
| Trento, Trent | A city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River Adige |
| Trondheim, Nidaros | A port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord |
| Troy, Ilion, Ilium | An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War |
| Tucson | A city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges |
| Tulsa | A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river |
| Turin, Torino | Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy |
| Tuxtla Gutierrez | A city in southeastern Mexico |
| Ufa | A city in the European part of Russia |
| Uppsala, Upsala | A city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm |
| Ur | An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River |
| Urmia, Orumiyeh | A city on the western side of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran |
| Utica | An ancient city on the north coast of Africa (northwest of Carthage) |
| Utica | A city in central New York |
| Utrecht | A city in the central Netherlands |
| Valencia | A city in eastern Spain on the Mediterranean |
| Valencia | An industrial city in northern Venezuela |
| Valparaiso | The chief port and second largest city of Chile |
| Vancouver | A port city in southwestern British Columbia on an arm of the Pacific Ocean opposite Vancouver Island |
| Varna | A port city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Black Sea |
| Vatican City, Citta del Vaticano | The capital of the State of the Vatican City |
| Venice, Venezia | The provincial capital of Veneto |
| Veracruz | A major Mexican port on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Veracruz |
| Verona | A city in Veneto on the River Adige |
| Versailles | A city in north central France near Paris |
| Vicente Lopez | An industrial suburb of Buenos Aires |
| Villahermosa, Villa Hermosa | A city in southeastern Mexico |
| Vina del Mar | A resort city on the Pacific in central Chile |
| Virginia Beach | The largest city in Virginia |
| Vladivostok | A seaport in the Asian part of Russia |
| Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn | A city in the European part of Russia on the Volga |
| Waco | A city in east central Texas |
| Waterbury | A city in west central Connecticut |
| Waterford | A port city in southern Ireland |
| Weimar | A German city near Leipzig |
| Wheeling | A city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river |
| Wichita | The largest city in Kansas |
| Wichita Falls | A city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border |
| Wiesbaden | A city in western Germany |
| Wilmington | The largest city in Delaware |
| Winchester | A city in southern England |
| Windsor | A city in southeastern Ontario on the Detroit River opposite Detroit |
| Winston-Salem | A city of north central North Carolina |
| Worcester | A cathedral city in west central England on the River Severn |
| Worcester | An industrial and university city in central Massachusetts to the west of Boston |
| Wroclaw, Breslau | A city in southwestern Poland on the Oder |
| Wuhan | A city of central China on the Chang Jiang |
| Wurzburg, Wuerzburg | A city of south central Germany |
| Xian, Sian, Singan, Changan, Hsian | A city of central China |
| Yalta | A resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea |
| Yokohama | port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan |
| Youngstown | A city in northeast Ohio |
| Zabrze | An industrial city in southern Poland |
| Zaragoza, Saragossa | An ancient city on the Ebro River in northeastern Spain |
| Zaria | A city in north central Nigeria |
| Zomba | A city in southern Malawi |
| Zurich | The largest city in Switzerland |
| Parts | city center, city centre, central city | The central part of a city |
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| civic center, municipal center, down town | The center of a city |
| concrete jungle | An area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant |
| financial center | The part of a city where financial institutions are centered |
| inner city | The older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city |
| medical center | The part of a city where medical facilities are centered |
| Narrower | national capital | The capital city of a nation |
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| provincial capital | The capital city of a province |
| state capital | The capital city of a political subdivision of a country |
| Broader | municipality | An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government |
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| Spanish | capital, ciudad, urbe |
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| Catalan | ciutat, metròpoli, urbs |
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