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Listed here are 237 cities and towns in our country whose names begin letter B. By clicking on the name of the city, you will be taken to a page with a description of the main attractions of the city and its interactive map.

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Each city's page lists hotels, cafes (restaurants), souvenirs and services for travelers. For each attraction, hotel, service, photographs and reviews of real visitors are collected, the objects are sorted by rating, calculated based on reviews.

Just below, 125 foreign cities starting with the letter B are listed separately.

Social place names starting with the letter B

Country names starting with B

1. The Bahamas (Commonwealth of the Bahamas) is a country in Central America
2. Bangladesh (Bengal) is a state in Hindustan (Asia).
3. Barbados is a country in Central America
4. Bahrain is a state in Arabia (Asia).
5. Belize (formerly British Honduras) is a country in Central America
6. Belgium is a country in Europe.
7. Belarus, Belarus is a state in Europe.
8. Benin is a country in Africa.
9. Ivory Coast is the former name of Côte d'Ivoire, a state in West Africa.
10. Burma (Myanmar) is a state in Southeast Asia
11. Bulgaria is a country in Europe.
12. Bolivia is a country in South America.
13. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a state in Europe.
14. Botswana (Africa).
15. Brazil is a country in South America.
16. Britain - see Great Britain (Europe).
17. Brunei (Brunei Darussalam) is a state in Hindustan (Asia).
18. Burkina Faso (Africa).
19. Burundi (Africa).
20. Bhutan is a state in Hindustan (Asia).

Region names starting with B

1. Bavaria is a state in Germany.
2. Baden is a region in southwestern Germany, part of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg
   .
   The center of Baden is the city of Karlsruhe
   .
3. Bashkiria (Bashkortostan) is a republic in the Volga Federal District of Russia.
4. Bermuda is a territory in North America owned by Britain.
5. Brandenburg is a state in Germany with the capital Potsdam. The name comes from the Slavic word Branibor
   - it was a forest that fenced off the Slavs from the Germans.
6. Buryatia is a republic in the Siberian Federal District of Russia.

Names of capitals and major cities starting with the letter B

1. Baghdad is the capital of Iraq (Middle East).
2. Basel is a city in Switzerland, the capital of the semi-canton of Basel-Stadt
   .
3. Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan.
4. Bamako is the capital of Mali (Africa).
5. Bangui is the capital of the Central African Republic.
6. Ban(g)kok is the capital of Thailand (Southeast Asia).
7. Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of Brunei (Hindustan).
8. Banjul is the capital of Gambia (Africa).
9. Basseterre is the capital of Saint Christopher and Nevis (Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis) (Central America).
10. Batumi is the capital of the Adjara Republic in Georgia (Transcaucasia).
11. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon (Middle East).
12. Belgorod is the center of the Belgorod region in the Central Federal District of Russia.
13. Belgrade is the capital of Serbia. Capital of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY, Europe).
14. Belmopan is the capital of Belize (Central America).
15. Berlin is the capital of Germany (Europe).
16. Bern is a German-speaking city in Switzerland, its actual capital. Administrative center of the canton of Bern
    .
    It has about 300 thousand people (fourth in the confederation in terms of population after Zurich
    ,
    Geneva
    and
    Basel
    ).
17. Birobidzhan is the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Republic (EAR) in the Far Eastern Federal District of the Russian Federation.
18. Bissau is the capital of Guinea-Bissau (Africa).
19. Bishkek (old name - Frunze) is the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
20. Blagoveshchensk is the center of the Amur region (Amur region) in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia.
21. Bloemfontein is the legal capital of South Africa (South Africa).
22. Bogota (Santa Fe de Bogota) is the capital of Colombia (South America).
23. Bombay, Mumbai is a city in India (Asia).
24. Bonn is the former capital of West Germany. Located in North Rhine-Westphalia
    , on the Rhine River. Population - approximately 315 thousand inhabitants (2007).
25. Brazzaville is the capital of the People's Republic of Congo (Africa).
26. Brasília [Brazil?] is the capital of Brazil (South America).
27. Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia (Europe).
28. Bremen is a city in Germany. Part of the state of Bremen. It is the tenth largest city in Germany (population about 550 thousand people).
29. Bremerhaven is a city in the state of Bremen (Germany).
30. Bridgetown is the capital of Barbados (Central America).
31. Brussels is the capital of Belgium (Europe).
32. Bryansk is the center of the Bryansk region in the Central Federal District of Russia.
33. Budapest is the capital of Hungary (Europe).
34. Bujumbura [Bujumbura?] is the capital of Burundi (Africa).
35. Bukhara is a city in Uzbekistan (Central Asia).
36. Bucharest is the capital of Romania (Europe).
37. Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina (South America).

Names of regional centers (and interesting villages) starting with the letter B

1. Beloglinskaya is a regional center in the Krasnodar Territory.
2. Belorechensk is a regional center in the Krasnodar Territory.
3. Bryukhovetskaya district center in the Krasnodar region.

Cities of Russia. Lists and ratings

The five largest cities in Russia include Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, and Nizhny Novgorod .

In total, there are 15 cities in Russia with a population of more than 1 million people (2020). Krasnodar and Saratov are also approaching cities with populations of over a million.

Cities with over a million people in Russia. List

Cities with a population of more than 1 million people

The ranking of cities was prepared based on Rosstat data for 2020

Rating 2019

Rating of million-plus cities for 2022

The ranking of cities was prepared based on Rosstat data for 2019

Cities of Russia with a population from 100 thousand to 1 million people

The list of cities is compiled based on Rosstat data for 2020

Rating 2019

Rating of Russian cities by population for 2019

The list of cities was compiled based on Rosstat data for 2019

Sources

Reports and bulletins of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) rosstat.gov.ru

Cities of the "Golden Ring" of Russia

The Golden Ring traditionally includes eight main cities - Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov Veliky, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo, Suzdal, Vladimir , which are located in five regions (Moscow, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Yaroslavl)

In different sources of Soviet and post-Soviet times, the number and composition of the cities of the Golden Ring vary. Sometimes various organizations and tour operators add other settlements to the Golden Ring route such as Uglich, Alexandrov, Bogolyubovo, Gus-Khrustalny, Dmitrov, Gorokhovets, Kalyazin, Kideksha, Murom, Myshkin, Palekh, Plyos, Rybinsk, Tutaev, Yuryev-Polsky, Shuya and so on.

How many cities are there in Russia?

1115 cities on the territory of the Russian Federation

Number of cities in Russia by region

Sources

Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation www.gks.ru

The most comfortable cities for living in the Russian Federation

Rating of large cities of the Russian Federation according to the quality of the urban environment

(based on the urban environment quality index according to estimates by the Government of the Russian Federation, 2022)

The full rating of cities can be found here index-city.rf

The urban environment quality index is a tool for assessing the quality of the material urban environment and the conditions for its formation. The index is formed by the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation.

The quality of the urban environment was analyzed in 1,114 Russian cities, divided by the Ministry of Construction into seven groups based on population. The assessment took into account 36 indicators that characterize housing, road networks, landscaping, public business and social and leisure infrastructure, as well as city space. For example, the proportion of the population living in dilapidated housing, the number of deaths in road accidents, road congestion, the state of green spaces, the concentration of cultural heritage sites, the accessibility of sports facilities, and the proportion of children among the population were assessed. The index methodology states that the Ministry of Construction used its own data, information from Rosstat, Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, cartographic and geographic systems, as well as information from social networks.

The safest cities in Russia

The real estate service Domofond.ru found out how Russians assess the level of safety in their areas and compiled a rating of 200 Russian cities by safety level. On average across the country, respondents rated the level of security at 6.8 points. The safest among Russian cities was Yeysk (Krasnodar Territory) - 8.6 points, and the least safe - Shakhty (Rostov Region) - 4.5 points.

Rating of millionaire cities by safety level (2019)

Rating of Russian cities by safety level Domofond.ru

domofond.ru/statya

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