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Toronto (29) 5397
Trenton 3
Trois-Rivières

Use for: Three Rivers

2
Tuktoyaktuk 1
Turkey (1)

Use for: Türkiye, Republic of Turkey, Turkey, Republic of

  • Indigenous Anatolian peoples were invaded by Indo-European Hittites, forming empire ca. 1900 BCE; ruled by Persians 6th century BCE, then Greeks, then Romans 1st century BCE; settled by Turks from central Asia 11th century; was heart of Ottoman Empire 13th-19th centuries; official language is Turkish.
4
Ukraine (2) 10
Unionville 2
United Kingdom (52) 27
United States (183) 129
Utah (2) 9
Utica 1
Valcartier 1
Vancouver (1) 220
Vancouver Island 3
Vanguard 1
Vatican City 4
Vaudreuil-Dorion 1
Vaughan 1
Venezuela

Use for: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

  • Area settled extensively by 2000 BCE; various tribes of Caribs and Arawaks developed cultures in area that linked Andes civilizations and those of Caribbean and the Amazon basin; sighted by Columbus in 1498; settled by the Spanish by 1520; part of Gran Colombia 1823-1830; official language is Spanish, though various Amerindian dialects are also spoken.
1
Venice (1) 12
Vermont 1
Vernon 0
Verona 1
Versailles 3
Vicksburgh 1
Victoria 17
Victoria (AUS) 1
Vienna, Austria 2
Vilnius 1
Virginia (1) 2
Wales 2
Walla Walla 1
Walthamstow 1
Wapella 1
Warwickshire 0
Washington (3) 1
Washington Place 0
Washington, D.C. 3
Waterloo 14
Wausakee 1
Wausau 1
Welland 3
Wellesley 1
West Baden Springs 1
West Germany (former nation) 22
West Hill (neighbourhood) 0
Westmount 1
Weston 1
Wetzlar 2
Wexford (neighbourhood) 0
Whistler 4
Whitby 2
Whitehorse
  • Situated on the Alaska Highway; connected by rail to Skagway, Alaska & by air to major cities in N America; Yukon headquarters for Royal Canadian Mounted Police; metropolitan area was expanded in the Whitehorse River valley in 1971.
1
Wichita 3
Wick 1
Wienhausen 3
Williamsburg 1
Willowdale (neighbourhood) 2
Windsor 9
Winkler 1
Winnipeg 23
Wisconsin (6) 1
Withrow Park 1
Woburn (neighbourhood) 0
Woodbridge 1
Woodstock

Use for: Untitled

3
Wrexham 2
Wyoming (1) 0
Yarmouth 1
Yellowknife
  • Largest settlement in Northwest Territories; situated on N shore of Great Slave Lake; gold was discovered in area in 1934; connected by highway to Hay river & Alberta.
1
Yeovil 0
Yokohama 2
York 7
York Mills 1
Yorkville (neighbourhood) 1
Youngstown, OH 1
Yukon Territory (1)
  • Borders Arctic Ocean to the north, Northwest Territories to the east, British Columbia to the south, and Alaska to the west; site of Mount Logan, nation's highest mountain; contains deposits of silver, lead, gold, and cadmium.
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Zurich 1
Île des Soeurs

Use for: Nuns' Island

3
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