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A-Z Geography: containing "par"

How many of these countries, towns and other places whose names contain the word "par" can you name? I have given clues, sometimes cryptic, to assist.
For example, the clue "The answer is a French city" could be (Par)-IS.
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Clue
Place
A
Brazilian city, translated as "Appeared from Goiânia" - a weird, crap idea (18)
Aparecida de Goiânia
B
Town in which to bop, and rap backwards, in Germany (7)
Boppard
C
Town in New Mexico; also a shrubland ecosystem of the American West (9)
Chaparral
D
It's a day to score a par in this Indian town (7)
Dayapar
E
Town of Honduras whose name means "the paradise" (9)
El Paraíso
F
Haitian town, a name meaning Parisian bottom, or to "found" (12)
Fond Parisien
G
Winter Olympic venue in Germany (21)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
H
Make a mess of tee shot but still make four, at Iranian location (8)
Hashtpar
I
Turkish city named after a hardcore city-state of ancient Greece (7)
Isparta
J
City where I find the name of a fishy-sounding Brazilian river and state (8)
Ji Paraná
K
Swedish town which a well-known cider is named after (10)
Kopparberg
L
French town, translated as "Le Touquet Paris beach" (19)
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage
M
Area of Singapore, meaning "Carnival procession of the sea" (12)
Marine Parade
N
American place name, referring to the French capital (8)
New Paris
O
Kansas City suburb which can only be reached by a terrestrial journey (12)
Overland Park
P
South American nation (8)
Paraguay
Q
Green area, and football team, in Glasgow (10)
Queens Park
R
Alternative meadow where A-Team actor George is standing, by village in Oxfordshire (18)
Rotherfield Peppard
S
Germanic-sounding South Carolina city named after those ancient Greeks (11)
Spartanburg
T
Error at hotel in a suburb of a town in New Zealand (8)
Te Hapara
U
Mountain rising up from a valley in a Himalayan country (9)
Uparisina
V
City where the government of Chile is based (10)
Valparaiso
W
Wiltshire village, a name meaning light-coloured church district (11)
Whiteparish
X
Park in Xi'an where the dynasty ring a gong (16)
Xingqinggong Park
Y
Jaguar with no head, terrifying a decent town of Venezuela (11)
Yaguaraparo
Z
In a respectable town of Mexico (8)
Zináparo
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