Places that start with Y
Atlaspong knows 27 places that start with Y: 1 country, 2 states and regions, 24 cities. Names run from A to Z, such as Yadgir, Yakutsk, Yalta. Did you know? Yadgir: It is known for its old fort on a rocky hill.
How to use this in the game. When the previous place ends in Y, any name on this page is a good answer. Play Atlaspong, free, and see how long your chain gets.
Countries
- Yemen. The island of Socotra here has trees that look like umbrellas.
States and regions
- Yucatan. It is home to Chichén Itzá, a great Maya city with a giant step pyramid.
- Yukon. Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, rises in its Kluane National Park.
Cities
- Yadgir. It is known for its old fort on a rocky hill.
- Yakutsk. It is the coldest big city in the world and is built on permanently frozen ground.
- Yalta. In 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met here to plan the end of World War 2.
- Yamba. This town sits at the mouth of the Clarence River and lives by fishing and tourism.
- Yamoussoukro. It is the capital of Ivory Coast and home to a huge basilica.
- Yamunanagar. It is known for its many plywood and paper factories.
- Yanam. It was a French colony for nearly 200 years and is surrounded by Andhra Pradesh.
- Yanbu. It is a big port and industrial city on the Red Sea coast.
- Yangon. Home to the golden Shwedagon Pagoda.
- Yaounde. It is built on seven hills and is the capital of Cameroon.
- Yaren. It is the unofficial capital of Nauru, which has no official capital at all.
- Yavatmal. It is a big centre for growing cotton.
- Yazd. Nicknamed the City of Windcatchers, its tall towers catch breezes to cool homes in the desert.
- Yekaterinburg. It is called the third capital of Russia, and it sits close to the line between Europe and Asia.
- Yellowknife. It sits on the shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km south of the Arctic Circle.
- Yercaud. This hill station sits about 1,515 metres up in the Shevaroy Hills.
- Yerevan. One of the oldest cities in the world, older than Rome.
- Yinchuan. It was the capital of the Western Xia kingdom about 900 years ago.
- Yogyakarta. It is the only Indonesian city still ruled by a sultan, and a centre of batik and puppet shows.
- Yokohama. It is Japan's second-biggest city by population, and its port opened to foreign trade in 1859.
- Yonkers. It is known as the City of Seven Hills.
- York. It was founded by the Romans and is still ringed by its old city walls.
- Ypres. Every three years it holds a cat festival, the Kattenstoet, with a big cat parade.
- Yuma. It grows over 175 kinds of crops, and its biggest crop is lettuce.