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A-Z Geography: containing "men"

How many of these countries and towns whose names contain the word "men" can you name? Some cryptic clues are sprinkled in throughout, to help/make things worse.
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Clue
Place
A
Country in western Asia
Armenia
B
Large river port in northern Germany
Bremen
C
Common Hispanic place name; also an opera, and description of garage mechanics
Carmen
D
S.E. Norwegian city where sheep can be found
Drammen
E
Dutch locale where Van Gogh once resided, in the eastern province of Drenthe
Emmen
F
Town in Veracruz, Mexico; if P. Cunk changed gender and married midfielder Juan, this might be her new name
Filomeno Mata
G
Starting at Geneva, north goes east and velocity vanishes, to end up in D.R. Congo (perhaps due to Large Hadron Collider?)
Gemena
H
Wisconsin town for old men
Holmen
I
German town where we hear the sick fellows cry of pain
Ilmenau
J
Cuban cocktail of Christ Almighty and a parent-killing brother
Jesus Menendez
K
The port again, and a friend, seen mostly in Ukraine
Kremenchuk
L
Delivery of our woman to Brazil
Livramento de Nossa Senhora
M
Sleepy-sounding World Cup host city in the Andes of Argentina
Mendoza
N
The capital of Chad
N'Djamena
O
Dutch town with a population of a thousand
Ommen
P
Opera-singing mechanics return, this time on the beach in a Mexican resort
Playa del Carmen
Q
Maltese grandmaster in compressed state with standing stone
Qasam Tal-Menħir
R
Moscow suburb where I agree there's nothing in the air
Ramenskoye
S
The state capital of California
Sacramento
T
Country in Asia
Turkmenistan
U
Ford written off on outskirts of Bavarian town
Ummendorf
V
Yet more operatic automobile techs appear at the house in Nicaragua
Villa El Carmen
W
Fort Worth suburb, so-called because it was founded by people of European origin amid Native American villages; also famous for its cat, Browser, who the municipality tried to evict from the library, but who was eventually allowed to go on living there
White Settlement
X
Chinese megacity on the Taiwan strait
Xiamen
Y
Mysterious Chinese place in Gansu, initially listed by one database as a city of 350,000 population, yet a Google search for it has no results for such a place and the Maps entry for its name and Gansu province indicates a spot where no roads lead to
Yingmen
Z
Say no prayers for this closed town in Russia, off-limits due to its missile testing site
Znamensk
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