Geography containing XA-XZ

Can you guess these places from around the world whose names contain the sequence of letters "xa", "xb", and so on? I have given some crossword-type clues to assist in working out the missing letters of the answers.

For example, the clue "Nation where me and a company are found" could be ME-(xi)-CO.

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US state (5 letters)

Texas

The Patriots' home town, where a wild, orange canine can be seen (10)

Foxborough

Mexico loses its eastern part to a city in Guatemala (5)

Mixco

Canadian town where one destroys a valley, we hear (7)

Rexdale

Reaching the limit, mother disappears from city of Mozambique (6)

Maxixe

Open a crooked door to this university town (6)

Oxford

Cuboid-shaped container and small woodland found at W. Sussex village (8)

Boxgrove

Welsh town where one spoils pork, by the sounds of it (7)

Wrexham

Mexican volcano where a strange coot is found by Father (8)

Cotopaxi

Vacuum cleaner of a Swedish town (5)

Växjö

Yucatan town in which B is alright - but it's the end of B (8)

Tixkokob

Area which is in south-east London (6)

Bexley

Wilderness area in Devon (6)

Exmoor

Seaside location near L.A, bearing the name of a Scottish loch (6)

Oxnard

City of famous temples in Egypt (5)

Luxor

Vlad feels incomplete in an upland town of Mexico (8)

Tepexpan

Mexican city hotel where you and I repeatedly see a lord who disappeared (12)

Huixquilucan

Dublin suburb with a boulder where an urban wild dog relative might stand? (7)

Foxrock

Port in Suffolk where a cat might sneak onto a ship and hide (10)

Felixstowe

Person from the UK found in south London (7)

Brixton

Inland city in the coastal Chinese province of Jiangsu (6)

Xuzhou

City in Tennessee (9)

Knoxville

West Midlands town where Lego might be popular at Hallowe'en? (8)

Bloxwich

American motor racing abandons South Carolina for Maltese town (6)

Naxxar

The French village just west of Longwy in Lorraine (4)

Lexy

Spoil another village, in Germany this time, but this one is hell, with no hospital (8)

Marxzell

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