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S: (n) Athens, Athinai, capital of Greece, Greek capital (the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) "in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city"
S: (n) Camelot ((Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom; according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty reigned there)
S: (n) city, metropolis, urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts) "Ancient Troy was a great city"
S: (n) Annaba (a port city of northeastern Algeria near the Tunisian border)
S: (n) Blida (a city in northern Algeria at the foot of the Atlas Mountains to the southwest of Algiers)
S: (n) Oran (a port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city)
S: (n) Constantine (a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I)
S: (n) Taiyuan (an ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production)
S: (n) Tangshan (an industrial city of northeastern China in Hebei province)
S: (n) Tianjin, Tientsin, T'ien-ching (a major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea; 3rd largest city in China)
S: (n) Wuhan (a city of central China on the Chang Jiang; the commercial and industrial center of central China)
S: (n) Hong Kong (formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers)
S: (n) Barranquilla (a port city of northern Colombia near the Caribbean on the Magdalena River)
S: (n) Cali (city in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area)
S: (n) Medellin (city in western Colombia; important coffee center)
S: (n) Cartagena (a port city in northwestern Colombia on the Caribbean)
S: (n) Soledad (a city in northern Colombia; a suburb of Barranquilla)
S: (n) Goma (a city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda)
S: (n) Kananga, Luluabourg (a city in southwestern Congo; former name (until 1966) was Luluabourg)
S: (n) Lubumbashi, Elisabethville (a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville)
S: (n) Abidjan (city recognized by the United States as the capital of the Ivory Coast; largest city of the Ivory Coast)
S: (n) Cancun (a popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula)
S: (n) Acapulco, Acapulco de Juarez (a port and fashionable resort city on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico; known for beaches and water sports (including cliff diving))
S: (n) Chihuahua (a city in northern Mexico in the state of Chihuahua; commercial center of northern Mexico)
S: (n) Torreon (a city in northern Mexico to the west of Monterrey)
S: (n) Tijuana (a Mexican city just to the south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula; popular among American tourists for racetracks and bullfights)
S: (n) Uppsala, Upsala (a city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm)
S: (n) Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle (a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital)
S: (n) Bremen (a city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea; in the Middle Ages it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Bremerhaven (a port city in northwestern Germany at the mouth of the Weser River on the North Sea; has a deep natural harbor and is an important shipping center)
S: (n) Chemnitz, Karl-Marx-Stadt (a city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile manufacturing)
S: (n) Dortmund (an industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Dresden (a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945)
S: (n) Leipzig (a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center)
S: (n) Solingen (a city in west central Germany noted for cutlery)
S: (n) Weimar (a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933)
S: (n) Bonn (a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989)
S: (n) Cologne, Koln (a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale (a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries)
S: (n) 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; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Hannover, Hanover (a port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Lubeck (a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Mannheim (a city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers)
S: (n) Munich, Muenchen (the capital and largest city of Bavaria in southwestern Germany)
S: (n) Nuremberg, Nurnberg (a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46))
S: (n) Potsdam (a city in northeastern Germany; site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945)
S: (n) Rostock (a city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea; an important member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)
S: (n) Stuttgart (a city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative architecture)
S: (n) Wiesbaden (a city in western Germany; a spa since Roman times)
S: (n) Corinth, Korinthos (the modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens)
S: (n) Argos (an ancient city in southeastern Greece; dominated the Peloponnese in the 7th century BC)
S: (n) Delphi (an ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the oracle of Delphi)
S: (n) Mycenae (an ancient city is southern Greece; center of the Mycenaean civilization during the late Bronze Age)
S: (n) Sparta (an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess; the dominant city of the Peloponnesus prior to the 4th century BC)
S: (n) Ephesus (an ancient Greek city on the western shore of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the Temple of Artemis; was a major trading center and played an important role in early Christianity)
S: (n) Patras, Patrai (a port city in western Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese on an inlet of the Ionian Sea; was a major trade center from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century BC; commercial importance revived during the Middle Ages)
S: (n) Troy, Ilion, Ilium (an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War)
S: (n) Thebes (an ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC)
S: (n) Nablus (an ancient city in the West Bank to the north of Jerusalem; the home of Jacob in biblical times)
S: (n) Sodom ((Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Gomorrah) was destroyed by God for the wickedness of its inhabitants)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Jaffa, Joppa, Yafo (a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950)
S: (n) Samaria (an ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan)
S: (n) Byzantium (an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital)
S: (n) Pompeii (ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius)
S: (n) Bolzano (an Italian city in Trentino-Alto Adige near the Austrian border; noted as a resort and for its Alpine scenery)
S: (n) Brescia (an ancient Italian city in central Lombardy)
S: (n) Ferrara (a city in northern Italy) "in the 13th century Ferrara was a center of Renaissance learning and the arts"
S: (n) Naples, Napoli (a port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region)
S: (n) Messina (a port city in northeastern Sicily on the Strait of Messina)
S: (n) Bologna (the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines)
S: (n) Brindisi (a port city in southeastern Apulia in Italy; a center for the Crusades in the Middle Ages)
S: (n) Genoa, Genova (a seaport in northwestern Italy; provincial capital of Liguria)
S: (n) Cremona (a city in Lombardy on the Po River; noted for the manufacture of fine violins from the 16th to the 18th centuries)
S: (n) La Spezia (a port city in Liguria on an arm of the Ligurian Sea; a major seaport and year-round resort)
S: (n) Milan, Milano (the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the Middle Ages)
S: (n) Pisa (a city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower)
S: (n) Syracuse, Siracusa (a city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC)
S: (n) Turin, Torino (capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy)
S: (n) Bari (capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast)
S: (n) Palermo (the capital of Sicily; located in northwestern Sicily; an important port for 3000 years)
S: (n) Firenze, Florence (a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries)
S: (n) Trento, Trent (a city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River Adige; the site of the Council of Trent)
S: (n) Venice, Venezia (the provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction)
S: (n) Sarajevo (capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I)
S: (n) Dubrovnik, Ragusa (a port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic; a popular tourist center)
S: (n) Split (an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea)
S: (n) Banff (a popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies)
S: (n) Calgary (the largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada)
S: (n) Vancouver (a port city in southwestern British Columbia on an arm of the Pacific Ocean opposite Vancouver Island; Canada's chief Pacific port and third largest city)
S: (n) Windsor (a city in southeastern Ontario on the Detroit River opposite Detroit)
S: (n) Montreal (a city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world)
S: (n) Saskatoon (a city in central Saskatchewan; the largest city in the province)
S: (n) Graz (an industrial city is southeastern Austria)
S: (n) Linz, Lentia (city in northern Austria on the Danube; noted as a cultural center)
S: (n) Salzburg (city in western Austria; a music center and birthplace of Mozart)
S: (n) Innsbruck (city in southwestern Austria; known as a summer and winter resort)
S: (n) Chittagong (a port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal)
S: (n) Antwerpen, Antwerp, Anvers (a busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460)
S: (n) Bruges, City of Bridges (a city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea; in the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League; the old city (known as the City of Bridges) is a popular tourist attraction)
S: (n) Charleroi (city in southwestern Belgium; center of an industrial region)
S: (n) Gent, Gand, Ghent (port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry)
S: (n) Liege, Luik (city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium)
S: (n) Namur (a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II)
S: (n) Liverpool (a large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports)
S: (n) Birmingham, Brummagem (a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center)
S: (n) Oxford (a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University)
S: (n) Cambridge (a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University)
S: (n) Brighton (a city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort; site of the University of Sussex)
S: (n) Bristol (an industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon)
S: (n) Leeds (a city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry)
S: (n) Leicester (an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement)
S: (n) Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (a port city in northeastern England on the River Tyne; a center for coal exports (giving rise to the expression `carry coals to Newcastle' meaning to do something unnecessary))
S: (n) Portsmouth, Pompey (a port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base)
S: (n) Coventry (an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century)
S: (n) Gloucester (a city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn)
S: (n) Reading (a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England)
S: (n) Sheffield (a steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry)
S: (n) Winchester (a city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire)
S: (n) Worcester (a cathedral city in west central England on the River Severn)
S: (n) Swansea (a port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel)
S: (n) Alexandria, El Iskandriyah (the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt)
S: (n) Aswan, Assuan, Assouan (an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby)
S: (n) Giza, El Giza, Gizeh (an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx)
S: (n) Memphis (an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo))
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Thebes (an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile River that flourished from the 22nd century BC to the 18th century BC; today the archeological remains include many splendid temples and tombs)
S: (n) Suez (a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal)
S: (n) Kolkata, Calcutta (the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding)
S: (n) Mumbai, Bombay (a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India)
S: (n) Agra (a city in northern India; former capital of the Mogul empire; site of the Taj Mahal)
S: (n) Hyderabad (a city in south central India in Andhra Pradesh)
S: (n) Chennai, Madras (a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras)
S: (n) Lucknow (a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were besieged by Indian insurgents)
S: (n) Mysore (a city in southern India to the southwest of Bangalore)
S: (n) Rasht, Resht (city in northwestern Iran near the Caspian Sea)
S: (n) Shiraz (a city in central southwestern Iran; ruins of ancient Persepolis are nearby)
S: (n) Tabriz (an ancient city in northwestern Iran; known for hot springs)
S: (n) Urmia, Orumiyeh (a city on the western side of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran)
S: (n) Qum (a city in northwestern Iran; a place of pilgrimage for Shiite Muslims)
S: (n) Persepolis (an ancient city that was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire; now in ruins)
S: (n) Basra, Basia (the second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq)
S: (n) Kerbala, Karbala, Kerbela (a city of central Iraq to the south of Baghdad; a holy city for Shiite Muslims because it is the site of the tomb of Mohammed's grandson who was killed there in 680)
S: (n) Kirkuk (a city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean)
S: (n) Mosul (a city in northern Iraq on the Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh)
S: (n) Philippi (a city in ancient Macedonia that was important in early Christianity)
S: (n) Edirne, Adrianople, Adrianopolis (a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian)
S: (n) Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)
S: (n) Ur (an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River)
S: (n) Assur, Asur, Ashur (an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Utica (an ancient city on the north coast of Africa (northwest of Carthage); destroyed by Arabs around 700 AD)
S: (n) Asahikawa (a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area)
S: (n) Nagano (a city in central Honshu to the northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine)
S: (n) Nagoya (an industrial city in southern Honshu)
S: (n) Omiya (a city of east central Honshu; a suburb of Tokyo)
S: (n) Osaka (port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan)
S: (n) Yokohama (port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan)
S: (n) Kobe (a port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu; was damaged by an earthquake in 1995)
S: (n) Kyoto (a city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan)
S: (n) Hiroshima (a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area)
S: (n) Sapporo (a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido)
S: (n) Nagasaki (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb)
S: (n) Toyohashi (a Japanese city in southern Honshu on the Pacific shore)
S: (n) Toyonaki (a Japanese city in southern Honshu; main residential suburb of Osaka)
S: (n) Toyota (an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu)
S: (n) Nancy (a city in northeastern France in Lorraine)
S: (n) Nantes (a port city in western France on the Loire estuary)
S: (n) Nice (a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera)
S: (n) Orleans (a city on the Loire river in north central France; site of the siege of Orleans by the English (1428-1429))
S: (n) Rheims, Reims (a city in northeastern France to the east of Paris; scene of the coronation of most French kings; site of the unconditional German surrender in 1945 at the end of World War II)
S: (n) Apeldoorn (a city of east central Netherlands; a popular tourist center and site of the summer residence of the Dutch royal family)
S: (n) Arnhem (a city in the central Netherlands on the lower Rhine River; site of a battle in 1944 during World War II)
S: (n) The Hague, 's Gravenhage, Den Haag (the site of the royal residence and the de facto capital in the western part of the Netherlands; seat of the International Court of Justice)
S: (n) Eindhoven (city in southeastern Netherlands noted for electrical industry)
S: (n) Nijmegen (an industrial city in the eastern Netherlands)
S: (n) Rotterdam (the 2nd largest city in the Netherlands; located in the western Netherlands near the North Sea)
S: (n) Leiden, Leyden (a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620)
S: (n) Oujda (a city in northeastern Morocco near the Algerian border)
S: (n) Tangier, Tangiers (a city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar) "the first tangerines were shipped from Tangier to Europe in 1841"
S: (n) Beira (a port city in eastern Mozambique on the Mozambique Channel)
S: (n) Auckland (the largest city and principal port of New Zealand)
S: (n) Christchurch (industrial city at the center of a rich agricultural region)
S: (n) Ibadan (a large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria; site of a university)
S: (n) Katsina (a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people)
S: (n) Lagos (chief port and economic center of Nigeria; located in southwestern Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea; former capital of Nigeria)
S: (n) Hyderabad (a city in southern Pakistan on the Indus River)
S: (n) Karachi (the largest city in Pakistan; located in southeastern Pakistan; an industrial center and seaport on the Arabian Sea; former capital of Pakistan)
S: (n) Czestochowa (a city of southern Poland whose church contains the statue of the black Madonna which attracts many pilgrims)
S: (n) Gdansk, Danzig (a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)
S: (n) Murmansk (a port city in northwestern Russia on the Kola Peninsula; the largest city to the north of the Arctic Circle; an important supply line to Russia in World War I and World War II)
S: (n) Nalchik (a city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains; an industrial center and health resort)
S: (n) Novgorod (a city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River; Russia's oldest city and an important trading center in the Middle Ages)
S: (n) Saratov (an industrial city in the European part of Russia)
S: (n) Smolensk (a city in western Russia on the Dnieper River; scene of severe fighting in World War II)
S: (n) Ufa (a city in the European part of Russia)
S: (n) Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn (a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43)
S: (n) Novosibirsk (a city in the Asian part of Russia on the Ob river; largest city in Siberia)
S: (n) Yalta (a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945)
S: (n) Samarkand, Samarcand (city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century)
S: (n) Barcelona (a city in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean; 2nd largest Spanish city and the largest port and commercial center; has been a center for radical political beliefs)
S: (n) Cadiz (an ancient port city in southwestern Spain)
S: (n) Cartagena (a port in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean)
S: (n) Granada (a city in southeastern Spain that was the capital of the Moorish kingdom until it was captured by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492; site of the Alhambra (a palace and fortress built by Moors in the Middle Ages) which is now a major tourist attraction)
S: (n) Geneva, Geneve, Genf (a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations)
S: (n) Lausanne (a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center)
S: (n) Zurich (the largest city in Switzerland; located in the northern part of the country) "Zurich is the center of the German-speaking part of Switzerland"
S: (n) Antalya, Adalia (a port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya)
S: (n) Halicarnassus (an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus)
S: (n) Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul, Constantinople (the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church)
S: (n) Pergamum (an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here)
S: (n) Sardis (an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; as the capital of Lydia it was the cultural center of Asia Minor; destroyed by Tamerlane in 1402)
S: (n) Jinja (a city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria)
S: (n) Huntsville (a city in northern Alabama; center for space research)
S: (n) Mobile (a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay)
S: (n) Anchorage (a city in south central Alaska) "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska"
S: (n) Mesa (a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix)
S: (n) Tucson (a city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century)
S: (n) Anaheim (a city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles); site of Disneyland)
S: (n) Bakersfield (a city in south central California at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley)
S: (n) Berkeley (a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley)
S: (n) Beverly Hills (a city in southwestern California surrounded by Los Angeles; home of many Hollywood actors)
S: (n) Chula Vista (an industrial city in southern California (south of San Diego) near the Mexican border)
S: (n) Fresno (a city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley; center of an important agricultural area and gateway to the Sierra Nevada Mountains)
S: (n) Long Beach (a city in southern California located on 8.5 miles of Pacific beachfront; was a resort until oil was discovered in 1921)
S: (n) Los Angeles, City of the Angels, L.A. (a city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States)
S: (n) Oakland (a city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco; primarily and industrial urban center)
S: (n) Pasadena (a city in southwestern California to the east of Los Angeles)
S: (n) San Diego (a picturesque city of southern California on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border; site of an important naval base)
S: (n) San Francisco (a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge)
S: (n) San Jose (a city in western California located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay to the south of San Francisco; a center for computer and electronics industries)
S: (n) Santa Ana (a city in southern California to the east of Long Beach)
S: (n) Santa Clara (a city of west central California; residential area with light industry)
S: (n) Colorado Springs (a city in east central Colorado on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains; popular tourist center and site of the United States Air Force Academy)
S: (n) Pueblo (a city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs)
S: (n) Bridgeport (a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound)
S: (n) New Haven (a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University)
S: (n) Fort Lauderdale (a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations)
S: (n) Jacksonville (Florida's largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida)
S: (n) Miami (a city and resort in southeastern Florida on Biscayne Bay; the best known city in Florida; a haven for retirees and a refuge for Cubans fleeing Castro)
S: (n) Miami Beach (a city in southeastern Florida on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; known for fashionable resort hotels)
S: (n) Orlando (a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World)
S: (n) Tampa (a resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico)
S: (n) Augusta (a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments)
S: (n) Columbus (a city in western Georgia on the Chattahoochee River; industrial center)
S: (n) Macon (a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta)
S: (n) Savannah (a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river)
S: (n) Chicago, Windy City (largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan)
S: (n) Decatur (a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here)
S: (n) Peoria (a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River)
S: (n) Sioux City (a city in northeastern Iowa where the Big Sioux River joins the Missouri)
S: (n) Kansas City (a city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri)
S: (n) Wichita (the largest city in Kansas; located in southern Kansas on the Arkansas River)
S: (n) Lexington (a city in eastern Kentucky; noted for raising thoroughbred horses)
S: (n) Louisville (the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby)
S: (n) New Orleans (a port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year)
S: (n) Shreveport (a city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border)
S: (n) Portland (largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state)
S: (n) Baltimore (the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center)
S: (n) Cambridge (a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
S: (n) Springfield (a city and manufacturing center in southwestern Massachusetts on the Connecticut River)
S: (n) Worcester (an industrial and university city in central Massachusetts to the west of Boston)
S: (n) Salem (a city in northeastern Massachusetts; site of the witchcraft trials in 1692)
S: (n) Ann Arbor (a city in southern Michigan near Detroit; site of the University of Michigan)
S: (n) Detroit, Motor City, Motown (the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor)
S: (n) Flint (a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing)
S: (n) Grand Rapids (a city in west central Michigan; noted for manufacturing furniture)
S: (n) Duluth (a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior)
S: (n) Minneapolis (largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities)
S: (n) Independence (a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail)
S: (n) Kansas City (a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas)
S: (n) Saint Louis, St. Louis, Gateway to the West (the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century)
S: (n) Billings (the largest city in Montana; located in southern Montana on the Yellowstone river)
S: (n) Omaha (largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest)
S: (n) Las Vegas (largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess)
S: (n) Reno (a city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage)
S: (n) Manchester (largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)
S: (n) Atlantic City (a city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center)
S: (n) Albuquerque (the largest city in New Mexico; located in central New Mexico on the Rio Grande river)
S: (n) Buffalo (a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls))
S: (n) New York, New York City, Greater New York (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)
S: (n) Binghamton (a city in south central New York near the border with Pennsylvania)
S: (n) Niagara Falls (a city in western New York State at the falls of the Niagara river; tourist attraction and honeymoon resort)
S: (n) Rochester (a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry)
S: (n) Schenectady (a city of eastern New York on the Mohawk river; it prospered after the opening of the Erie Canal)
S: (n) Tulsa (a major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river; once known as the oil capital of the world and still heavily involved in the oil and gas industries)
S: (n) Eugene (a city in western Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university)
S: (n) Portland (freshwater port and largest city in Oregon; located in northwestern Oregon on the Willamette River which divides the city into east and west sections; renowned for its beautiful natural setting among the mountains)
S: (n) Allentown (a city in eastern Pennsylvania; an industrial and commercial center)
S: (n) Erie (a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania)
S: (n) Chester (a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia))
S: (n) Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love (the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania)
S: (n) Pittsburgh (a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh)
S: (n) Scranton (an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania)
S: (n) Newport (a resort city in southeastern Rhode Island; known for the summer homes of millionaires; important yachting center)
S: (n) Brownsville (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande near its mouth into the Gulf of Mexico; has a channel that accommodates oceangoing ships)
S: (n) Dallas (a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields)
S: (n) El Paso (a city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez)
S: (n) Fort Worth (a city in northeastern Texas (just to the west of Dallas); a major industrial center)
S: (n) Garland (a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas))
S: (n) Houston (the largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
S: (n) Laredo (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)
S: (n) Lubbock (a city in northwest Texas to the south of Amarillo)
S: (n) Provo (a city in north central Utah settled by Mormons)
S: (n) Burlington (the largest city in Vermont; located in northwestern Vermont on Lake Champlain; site of the University of Vermont)
S: (n) Newport News (a port city in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of the James River off Hampton Roads; large shipyards)
S: (n) Norfolk (port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy)
S: (n) Virginia Beach (the largest city in Virginia; long overshadowed by Norfolk but growing rapidly since 1970; with 28 miles of public beaches tourism is a major factor in the economy; site of three United States Navy bases)
S: (n) Seattle (a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Rainier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington)
S: (n) Spokane (a city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border)
S: (n) Tacoma (a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle)
S: (n) Huntington (a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha)
S: (n) Morgantown (a city in northern West Virginia on the Monongahela river near the Pennsylvania border; site of the University of West Virginia)
S: (n) Parkersburg (a city in northwestern West Virginia on the Ohio river)
S: (n) Wheeling (a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river)
S: (n) Green Bay (a city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan)
S: (n) Milwaukee (largest city of Wisconsin; located in southeastern Wisconsin on the western shore of Lake Michigan; a flourishing agricultural center known for its breweries)
S: (n) Racine (a city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee)
S: (n) Casper (a city of east central Wyoming on the North Platte river)
S: (n) Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon (a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina)
S: (n) Haiphong (a port city in northern Vietnam; industrial center)
S: (n) Aden (an important port of Yemen; located on the Gulf of Aden; its strategic location has made it a major trading center of southern Arabia since ancient times)