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100 Cities by Letter - E

Based on the clue, can you guess these cities whose names start with the letter E. Some of the romanizations from Arabic and other languages in this quiz are rare cases as to permit more cities into this quiz as it was already hard to find enough suitable places
I have included the Yellow Box to avoid premature freebees
Many of these are technically villages, towns, boroughs, or unincorporated
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City repeatedly rebuilt after devastating earthquakes in Turkey
Erzincan
City that Martin Luther called home between 1505 and 1521
Erfurt
City known for Seljuk monuments like the Twin Minaret Madrasa
Erzurum
City in home region of many Olympic long-distance runners
Eldoret
Coastal town at the mouth of the River Exe
Exmouth
City at the heart of Nicaragua’s cigar industry
Esteli
Major turmeric trading center in Tamil Nadu
Erode
New York suburb that shares it name with one of the most famous people of all time
Elizabeth
Hilltop fortress town once contested by empires in this Mediterranean state
El Kef
Highest city in the world whose population exceeds 1m
El Alto
City dominated by Hungary’s largest basilica
Esztergom
Historic trading center for gum arabic in Sudan
El Obeid
Capital of Devon and home to a Norman cathedral
Exeter
Dutch town whose zoo became a safari-style park that you can drive through
Emmen
Star-shaped fortress city on the other side of the border from Badajoz
Elvas
Dominican town famous for its traditional rodeo festival
El Seibo
Turkish city that expanded rapidly after construction of a nearby massive dam
Elazig
English seaside resort on the south coast
Eastbourne
Finnish city just west of Helsinki
Espoo
Elite boarding school attended by many British prime ministers
Eton
A Peruvian city that differs one letter from the name above
Etén
City whose name is shared with one of the Great Lakes
Erie
Industrial hub located close to San Pedro Sula
El Progreso
Famous seaside cliffs can be found here
Étretat
Nigerian city founded around coal mining
Enugu
Resort with coral reefs on the Red Sea
Eilat
Brazilian town in the state of São Paulo, famous for its weekly arts market
Embu das Artes
Dutch city that is the home of FC Twente
Enschede
Mindanaon provincial capital sharing its name with a country
El Salvador
Trading city famous for dinosaur statues on the border between two gigantic countries
Erenhot
Home to North America’s largest shopping mall
Edmonton
Oil boom city in eastern Venezuela
El Tigre
Egyptian city that is composed of 4 words
El Mahalla El Kubra
City near the world’s tallest trees
Eureka
Township associated with anti-apartheid activism
Evaton
Yangtze city that hosts a huge cargo airport hub
Ezhou
City known for cowboy poetry festivals in northern Nevada
Elko
Polish town that is both namesake for a nearby lake as well as a deer species
Ełk
Biggest suburb of California’s capital that contains the city name above
Elk Grove
City in Coffee County where you are encouraged to start a business
Enterprise
Town next to Wageningen linked to WWII airborne operations
Ede
Was once the capital city of the Ottoman Empire before Constantinople
Edirne
Dutch town that gave its name to a famous cheese
Edam
Agricultural boomtown covered by greenhouses visible from space
El Ejido
City where Louis IX was captured during the Crusades
El Mansoura
Most remote permanent settlement on Earth
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Wine town famous for “Bull’s Blood”
Eger
Atlantic port once fortified by the Portuguese but now part of Morocco
El Jadida
Industrial city whose name literally means “electric steel”
Elektrostal
Portcity where Baja-style fish tacos are very popular
Ensenada
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Home of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, a UNESCO site
Essen
Tech hub were Philips was founded and ASML resides now
Eindhoven
A cathedral nicknamed the “Ship of the Fens” rises above this English city
Ely
Ugandan airport city linked to Israel’s 1976 hostage rescue operation
Entebbe
Hungarian commuter city rapidly growing near the capital
Érd
Struck by a genocidal massacre near the end of 2025 that went largely unreported
El Fasher
City on a famous desert peninsula near Gaza
El Arish
Town whose name means “hot waters” in Catalan
Escaldes-Engordany
Planned Baroque university town closely associated with Siemens
Erlangen
Oriental version of The Big Smoke
East London
Tourist hotspot famous for limestone lagoons in the Philipines
El Nido
Location of the world’s largest building by volume
Everett
Where Barcelona’s main airport resides
El Prat de Llobregat
Mystique city rumored to exist somewhere in Latin America, perhaps in the state of Missiones
Eldorado
Capital of a disputed desert territory that famously stays grey on maps
El Aaiún
Tiny outback town claiming to be farthest from the sea
Eromanga
City close to disputed islands with Argentina
Encarnacion
One of the world’s most densely populated urban areas
Ecatepec de Morelos
Inland port on the Murray river between Mildura and Albury
Echuca
Oldest city in its country, located on the Sûre river
Echternach
Small city in Alabama that has the same name as the involuntary home of a small French man
Elba
City on the Volga river, opposite to Saratov
Engels
Largest U.S. city with a majority Hispanic population for much of its history
El Paso
Westernmost port of its country, transporting many volkswagens
Emden
Gateway town to the Perito Moreno glacier
El Calafate
City once nicknamed “Crescent Valley”
Evansville
Danish city at the northern end of the UNESCO Wadden Sea
Esbjerg
Iranian city once described as “half the world”
Esfahan
Capital of Scotland
Edinburgh
Home of the University of Oregon Ducks
Eugene
An ancient citadel continuously inhabited for thousands of years stands at the centre of this city
Erbil
Border crossing town with an animal in its name
Eagle Pass
Benelux steel center that became a European Capital of Culture in 2022
Esch-sur-Alzette
Capital of Europe’s only Buddhist-majority region
Elista
African city that contains all vowels in its name
Essaouira
Polish city on the Vistula Lagoon
Elblag
Town built on an island between two lakes on an emerald isle
Enniskillen
City whose name translates to the nickname of the island above
Esmeraldas
Historic city with a Roman temple and a chapel lined with bones
Évora
German town badly damaged by floods in 2021
Euskirchen
Super remote town near beaches ranked among the whitest on this southern continent
Esperance
Town after which a famous island is indirectly named
Ellesmere
Coastal town famous for its timezone of UTC+08:45
Eucla
Spanish city famous for Europe’s largest palm grove
Elche
Tuscan town whose football club briefly reached Serie A
Empoli
Third largest city in its small European country
Encamp
Developed around a large Ottoman fortress built after the Gothic invasions of Illyria
Elbasan
Student city of close to a million inhabitants that is famous for its tram network called EsTram
Eskisehir
Planned postwar town sometimes called Scotland’s first “new town”
East Kilbride
Municipality in a tiny Alpine principality
Eschen
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Mar 27, 2026
Erzurum was misspelled...
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Level 45
Mar 27, 2026
Fixed it