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A-Z Geography: containing "ox"

How many of these countries, towns and other places whose names contain the word "ox" can you name? Some cryptic clues are sprinkled in throughout, to help.
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Clue
Place
A
Pounding linebacker in Spanish municipality (5 letters)
Albox
B
Gambling eyesore on Mississippi's Gulf coast (6)
Biloxi
C
Astro-keyboardist Brian is weird, I heard, but has a market in Bangladesh (9)
Cox's Bazar
D
Gansu town where I record split with DJ, first in a series with you, having one angry sample as an encore (13)
Dijiasuoxiang
E
Length of Hidalgo rock core where Adolf, with no hesitation, leads to a final solution (12)
Eloxochitlan
F
Famous secure gold vault, and army base, in Kentucky (8)
Fort Knox
G
Taiwanese town where boxing head is replaced by you (7)
Guoxing
H
Town in Xinjiang but with no leader (5)
Hoxut
I
Length of mass at Maltese locale; a thankyou, spot for a pilgrimage and Rebel MC term - that is, a chuckle (21)
Il-Moxa ta' Għajn Tuffieħa
J
Imaginary number with one another in town of Taiwan (6)
Jiaoxi
K
City in Tennessee (9)
Knoxville
L
Suburb set back in the north/north-east of Los Angeles (6)
Lennox
M
Angola's largest province, with a name similar to a country (6)
Moxico
N
Litre pumped into sheep in North Chicago suburb (8)
New Lenox
O
English city (6)
Oxford
P
Brazilian place with biscuit factory on one side of town (7)
Poxoreo
Q
River course in Botswana, probably with nothing flowing along it (5)
Quoxo
R
Township which has its foundations put in the ground of New Jersey (7)
Roxbury
S
Ah, back in China, putting finishing touches on (8)
Shaoxing
T
Former section of the Connecticut River which became cut off, forming a lake (8)
The Oxbow
U
Staffordshire town with the same ending as a city in Devon (9)
Uttoxeter
V
Trump loses weight at far end of town in suburb of Osnabrück (7)
Voxtrup
W
With a wide margin for error, ray is fired into hot spot in Malta (8)
Wied Ħoxt
X
Noughts & crosses played beside bed in the Mexican town (9)
Xoxocotla
Y
Hey, look - there's nothing at the church, so it ends at the start of Lent (11)
Yoloxóchitl
Z
Gotta laugh in Chinatown, at the middle of a triangle (9)
Zhaoxiang
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