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Cities & Locations of England

Historic Cities:

Edinburgh

Lancaster

York

Caernarvon

Lincoln

Nottingham

Cabridge

Stratford-on-Avon

Oxford

Plymouth

London

Runnymede

Hastings

Southampton

Cities:

Bath

Brighton

Canterbury

Chester

Coventry

Dover

Durham

Gloucester

Great Yarmouth

Winchester

Leicester

Portsmouth

Salisbury

Stoke-on-Trent

Newcastle-on-Tyne

Hull / Kingston-upon-Hull

Birmingham

Bristol

Kenilworth

Leeds

Liverpool

Manchester

Sheffield

The 39 Historic Shires of England

The English word for county, shire, is added to most county names. Seven counties (Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Sussex, and Yorkshire) are divided into administrative counties. London is an administrative county, but not one of the historic counties.

1. Northumberland

2. Cumberland

3. Durham

4. Westmorland

5. York

6. Lancashire

7. Cheshire

8. Derby

9. Nottingham

10. Lincoln

11. Stafford

12. Shropshire

13. Leicester

14. Rutland

15. Norfolk

16. Worcester

17. Warwick

18. Hereford

19. Bedford

20. Northampton

21. Huntington

22. Cambridge

23. Suffolk

24. Gloucester

25. Oxfor

26. Buckingham

27. Hertford

28. Essex

29. Middlesex

30. Kent

31. Surrey

32. Sussex

33. Hampshire

34. Berkshire

35. Wiltshire

36. Dorset

37. Somerset

38. Devon

39. Cornwall

Cities & Locations of India

Leh

Agra

Pune

Anga

Kuru

Goa

Delhi

Dhaka

Chedi

Bhopal

Shimla

Kochi

Bhopai

Mulaka

Kanpur

Ceylon

Panaji

Amrisa

Nagpur

Avanti

Lohore

Cochin

Kerala

Vaisali

Bhojas

Jaipur

Mallas

Vatsa

Prayag

Bendres

Videha

Asmaka

Udaipur

Mathura

Panchaia

Sravasti

Kalinga

Mysore

Lucknow

Jadhpur

Srinagar

Sholapur

Matsya

Kausambi

Bangalore

Jaisalmer

Varanasi

Darjeeling

Khajuraho

Ghandara

Gongtok

Himalaya

Chandigarh

New Delhi

Allahabad

Rawalpindi

Trivandrum

Ahichatra

Magadha

Indraprastha

Coimbatoro

Jabalpur

Hyderabad

Vidarbha

Pataliputra

Kapilavastu

Bombay (Mumbai)

Calcutta (Kolkata)

Bhubaneswar

Madras (Chennai)

Calicut (Kozhikode)

Kathmandu (in modern Nepal)

Cities & Locations of Iraq (Old Names)

Mosul

Baghdad

Tikrit

Erbil (Arbela)

Samawa

Hilla

Basra

Maidan

Sulaimaniya

Qal'a Sharqat

Samarra

Shithatha

Bir al' Mana'iyah

Al Qurna

Khanaqin

Karbala

Amara

Haditha

Mukur

Al Falluja

Hit

Habbaniya

Ramadi

Cities & Locations of Japan (Modern)

Hokkaido

Honshu

Shikoku

Kyushu

Tokyo

Osaka

Sapporo

Otaro

Asahigawa

Kushiro

Muroran

Kakodate

Niigata

Nagaoka

Yokohama

Mito

Aomori

Hachinohe

Morioka

Akita

Sendai

Tsuruoka

Yamagata

Yonezawa

Nagano

Maebashi

Utsunomiya

Toyama

Takaoka

Kyoto

Nara

Sakai

Toyohashi

Kochi

Hiroshima

Shimonoseki

Fukuoka

Wakamatsu

Yawata

Kumamoto

Sasebo

Kagoshima

Nagasaki

Omuda

Mayazaki

Nobeoka

Yakushima

Kurume

Himeji

Moji

Kokura

Wakayama

Hachijo Jama

Chiba

Yokosuka

Nagano

Okishima

Seki

Gifu

Kofu

Fukui

Fuji

Cities & Locations of Ancient Egypt (Modern Names)

Alexandria

Buto

Xois

Sais

Mendes

Tanis

Bubastis

Athribus

Nedjefet

Akhenaten

Imau

Nekhen

This

Avaris

Abydos

Edfu

Naref

Yebu

Syene

Semna

Hardai

Antinopolis

Busiris

Kheraha

Netjeru

Andjet

Elephantine

Het-Waret

Ither-Tawi

? (Saqqara)

? (Rosetta)

? (Cairo)

? (Aswan)

? (Abu Simbel)

? (Lisht / el-Lisht)

Thebes (Luxor)

Letopolis (Kom Ausim)

Lykopolis (Asyut)

Eileithyiaspolis

Ombos (Kom Ombo)

Pep & Pe (part of Buto)

Hermopolis (Tel Baqliya)

Heliopolis (part of Cairo)

Tentyris (Dendera)

Memphis / "Ankh-Tawy"

Latopolis (Esna)

Panopolis (Akhmim)

Cusae (el-Qusiya)

Hermonthis (Armant)

? (Giza / Gizza / Gizeh)

Koptos / Coptos (Qift)

Aphroditopolis (Atfin)

Ankyronpolis (el-Hiba)

Chemmis (where Isis hid from Set)

Nedit (where Set murdered Osiris)

Crocodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum)

Hermopolis Magna (el-Ashmunein)

Hierakonpolis (Kom el-Ahmar)

Herakleopolis / Heracleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina)