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Places that start with B

Atlaspong knows 105 places that start with B: 17 countries, 7 states and regions, 81 cities. Names run from A to Z, such as Baden-Wurttemberg, Baghdad, Bahamas. Did you know? Baden-Wurttemberg: The Black Forest, the home of the cuckoo clock, covers much of this state.

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Countries

• Bahamas. Made up of about 700 islands.
• Bahrain. It is made up of 33 natural islands plus about 50 artificial ones.
• Bangladesh. Shares the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world.
• Barbados. Known as the land of the flying fish, it serves them with cou-cou as its national dish.
• Belarus. It shares the ancient Białowieża Forest with Poland, home of Europe's heaviest land animal, the wisent.
• Belgium. Famous for chocolate, waffles and fries.
• Belize. Off its coast lies the Great Blue Hole, a round underwater sinkhole over 300 metres wide.
• Benin. Its village of Ganvie is built on stilts in a lake and is called the Venice of Africa.
• Bhutan. It is famous for its idea of Gross National Happiness, not just money.
• Bolivia. It has two capital cities, La Paz and Sucre.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its coastline on the Adriatic Sea is only about 20 kilometres long.
• Botswana. The Okavango Delta here floods in the dry season and fills with animals.
• Brazil. The biggest country in South America. People there speak Portuguese.
• Brunei. A small country on the island of Borneo.
• Bulgaria. A yoghurt bacterium is named Lactobacillus bulgaricus after this country.
• Burkina Faso. Its name means land of honest people, and it was once called Upper Volta.
• Burundi. Lake Tanganyika, along its border, is the longest freshwater lake in the world.

States and regions

• Baden-Wurttemberg. The Black Forest, the home of the cuckoo clock, covers much of this state.
• Bahia. Its capital, Salvador, was the very first capital of Brazil.
• Bavaria. Its Neuschwanstein Castle looks so magical that it inspired the castle in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
• Bihar. Nalanda, one of the world's first great universities, flourished here over 1,500 years ago.
• Brandenburg. It wraps all the way around Berlin, Germany's capital, and its own capital is Potsdam.
• Bremen. A famous statue here shows the Town Musicians of Bremen, a donkey, dog, cat and rooster from a fairy tale.
• British Columbia. It is Canada's westernmost province, between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

Cities

• Baghdad. During the Islamic Golden Age, it was one of the biggest cities in the world.
• Baku. Lying 28 metres below sea level, it is the lowest national capital in the world.
• Balasore. It is known for Chandipur beach, where the sea pulls back up to 5 km at low tide.
• Ballari. It is a Karnataka city of rocky hills, not far from the ruins of Hampi.
• Baltimore. The poem that became the US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written here in 1814.
• Bamako. It sits on the Niger River, near rapids that split the river's upper and middle valleys.
• Banda. It is famous for shazar, a stone with tree-like patterns found in the Ken River.
• Bandar Seri Begawan. It is the capital of Brunei and home to the golden domed Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque.
• Bandung. Sitting about 700 metres up, it is one of the coolest provincial capitals in Indonesia.
• Bangkok. Its ceremonial name is one of the longest city names in the world.
• Bangui. It is named after the rapids on the Ubangi River, right beside the city.
• Banjul. It sits on an island where the Gambia River meets the Atlantic, and it was once called Bathurst.
• Bankura. It is famous for the Bankura horse, a clay toy horse with long pointed ears.
• Barasat. It is the headquarters of North 24 Parganas district, just north of Kolkata.
• Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia church has been under construction since 1882.
• Bardhaman. It is famous for two sweets, sitabhog and mihidana.
• Bareilly. It is famous for jhumka earrings, and a giant jhumka statue stands in the city.
• Bariloche. It is famous for chocolate shops and for Cerro Catedral, South America's largest ski resort.
• Barmer. This desert city is famous for colourful embroidery and block-printed cloth.
• Basel. Its Kunstmuseum was the world's first art collection open to the public, in 1661.
• Basra. It is the main port city of Iraq, close to the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
• Basseterre. It is the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis and lies on the island of Saint Kitts.
• Bath. It is named after the baths the Romans built here around 2,000 years ago.
• Bathinda. Its Qila Mubarak is one of the oldest surviving forts in India.
• Begusarai. Kanwar Lake near the city is a sanctuary for migrating birds.
• Beijing. The first city to host both a Summer and a Winter Olympics.
• Beirut. People have lived here for more than 5,000 years, making it one of the oldest cities on Earth.
• Belfast. The famous ship Titanic was built in its shipyards.
• Belgaum. It is famous for kunda, a sweet made from milk and sugar.
• Belgrade. It sits where the Sava and Danube rivers meet and is one of Europe's oldest cities.
• Belmopan. It is the capital of Belize and one of the smallest capitals in the Americas.
• Belo Horizonte. It was Brazil's first planned modern city, built in the 1890s.
• Bengaluru. India's tech hub, nicknamed the Garden City.
• Benin City. It is famous for the Benin Bronzes, beautiful metal artworks made here centuries ago.
• Bergen. It is a Norwegian port city between mountains and fjords, with colourful wooden houses on its old wharf.
• Berhampur. Known as the Silk City of Odisha, it is also called the state's food capital.
• Berlin. A wall split this city in two for 28 years.
• Bern. Its name is linked to bears, and real bears live in a park by the river in the city.
• Bhagalpur. Known as the Silk City, its stretch of the Ganges is home to rare river dolphins.
• Bharatpur. Its Keoladeo bird sanctuary, a UNESCO site, is famous for its many water birds.
• Bharuch. It is nicknamed Peanut City for its tasty salted peanuts.
• Bhavnagar. The world's largest ship-breaking yard, Alang, is about 50 km away.
• Bhilai. It is home to the giant Bhilai Steel Plant and the state's oldest zoo, Maitri Bagh.
• Bhilwara. It is a Rajasthan city known as the textile city of India.
• Bhimavaram. Its Somaramam temple is one of the five great Pancharama shrines of Lord Shiva.
• Bhiwani. It is famous for its boxers and is nicknamed the Mini Cuba of India.
• Bhopal. It is called the City of Lakes because of the many lakes in and around it.
• Bhubaneswar. Nicknamed the Temple City, it was also one of modern India's first planned cities.
• Bhuj. It is the main city of Kutch, close to the white salt desert of the Rann.
• Bidar. With so many old tombs, it is nicknamed the City of Whispering Monuments.
• Bikaner. It is famous for bhujia, a crunchy spicy snack.
• Bilaspur. It is known for kosa silk saris and a fragrant rice called doobraj.
• Birmingham. It is the second largest city in the United Kingdom and an old centre of industry.
• Bishkek. It was called Frunze from 1926 to 1991, and before that Pishpek.
• Bissau. It is the capital of Guinea-Bissau, beside the wide Geba River estuary.
• Bodh Gaya. It is the place where Buddha is believed to have found enlightenment under a Bodhi tree.
• Bogota. At about 2,640 metres up, it is one of the highest capital cities in the world.
• Bokaro. It became one of India's first planned cities, built around the Bokaro Steel Plant.
• Bologna. It has the oldest university still running in the world, founded in 1088.
• Bordeaux. Its Water Mirror, a huge, very shallow pool, reflects the grand old buildings around it.
• Boston. It had America's first public park, first public school and first subway.
• Brasilia. Built in 1960, it was laid out in the shape of an aeroplane when seen from above.
• Bratislava. It is the only capital city that borders two other countries, Austria and Hungary.
• Brazzaville. It is the capital of the Republic of the Congo, facing Kinshasa across the Congo River.
• Bridgetown. It is the capital of Barbados, and its historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Brighton. Its Palace Pier, full of rides and games, stretches out over the sea.
• Brisbane. It will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2032.
• Bristol. Its Clifton Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, spans a deep gorge.
• Bruges. It is a Belgian city of canals and medieval buildings, nicknamed the Venice of the North.
• Brussels. Capital of Belgium and a main home of the European Union.
• Bucharest. Its Palace of the Parliament is one of the heaviest buildings in the world.
• Budapest. Once two cities, Buda and Pest, joined in 1873.
• Budaun. This old city lies near the Sot river, 27 km north of the Ganges.
• Buenos Aires. The name means fair winds.
• Buffalo. Buffalo wings, the famous spicy chicken wings, were invented here in 1964.
• Bujumbura. It is Burundi's largest city, set on the shore of Lake Tanganyika.
• Bukhara. It is an ancient Silk Road city in Uzbekistan with a UNESCO listed historic centre.
• Bulandshahr. Its old name was Baran, and it is part of the Delhi NCR region.
• Bursa. It is a Turkish city at the foot of Mount Uludag and an early capital of the Ottomans.
• Busan. It hosts one of Asia's most important film festivals and has famous beaches.
• Buxar. It sits on the Ganges, right at the border of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.