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A-Z Geography: containing "red"

How many of these towns and other entities whose names contain the word "red" can you name? Some cryptic clues are sprinkled in throughout, to help.
For example, "Noise made with force in American city" could be Redding: (Red)-DIN-G.
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Clue
Place
A
Town in Ecuador named after former vice president José Alfredo Wenceslao del Corazón de la Concepción Baquerizo Moreno, which, thankfully for sign-makers (and everybody else), uses a shorter form (22 letters)
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno
B
Colour of a Dutch city where they have a knack for football (5)
Breda
C
Given praise on location in Devon (8)
Crediton
D
Tanzanian breakdown service split up by communist (6)
Dareda
E
Israeli village where a German, lacking vitamin, veered off the road (8)
Ein Vered
F
The provincial capital of New Brunswick (11)
Fredericton
G
Opening shots of French war lead to a town in Chad (7)
Guereda
H
In this Costa Rican province, it's heriditary, so just don't try (7)
Heredia
I
Reading the type of light seen in Sweden, but with gravity instead of francium (7)
Ingared
J
Brazilian town whose name translates to "John Alfred" (11)
Joao Alfredo
K
Prepared to take a photograph in town of India? (9)
Kamareddi
L
Border city in Texas on the Rio Grande (6)
Laredo
M
Guy called Fred on one of a series of locations in southern Italy (11)
Manfredonia
N
At new Moscow suburb, peered in a confused way at a litre of potassium in oxygen (15)
Novo-Peredelkino
O
The solution to the clue is on a lake in the French Pyrenees (6)
Oredon
P
Speared in Lisbon at the Spanish walls (7)
Paredes
Q
Country house round about a village in Spanish (15)
Quintana Redonda
R
Sea, and river
Red
S
In town of Guinea, sang a colourful beginning to an intro (9)
Sangaredi
T
Drag tree to a town in South Wales (8)
Tredegar
U
Town of a million near Nagpur, India (5)
Umred
V
South Africa steals Scottish capital, gets it registered and makes it into a paradise (10)
Vredenburg
W
Village in Luxembourg where strange lad had babies with a million of us (12)
Waldbredimus
X
Dubious fortification in Malta bearing a common Spanish surname (14)
Ximenes Redoubt
Y
Are you ready to rock and party? You have the right, in this part of Abidjan (11)
Youoredoula
Z
Writer Emile, before soda gets shaken up with Bolognese (11)
Zola Predosa
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