100 3+ Word Cities by Clue

Only common names of cities are included - for example Bangkok's official Thai name and ceremonial name are over 3 words, but aren't included. Cities where I used the official name are given an asterisk *

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Largest city in Staffordshire ceremonial county, and is the only polycentric city in the U.K.	Stoke-on-Trent
Largest city in Hesse state and home to the European Central Bank	Frankfurt am Main
Second largest city in Rio Grande do Sul state	Caxias do Sul
*Second largest city in Veracruz state	Xalapa de Enríquez
Second largest city in Cuba	Santiago de Cuba
Notable city in Wisconsin state located at the southern end of Lake Winnebago	Fond du Lac
Name either "Carmen" city in Campeche state or Quintana Roo state	Ciudad del Carmen \| Playa del Carmen
City in northwestern Czechia, and was the most destroyed Czech city during World War II	Ústí nad Labem
Indian city named after a famous explorer, located on the western tip of the Mormugao peninsula, west of Panaji	Vasco da Gama
City in Minas Gerais state, or as Bhad Bhabie would say - "Judge me Outside, how 'bout dat!"	Juiz de Fora
Capital of Tristan da Cunha	Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Second largest city in Paraguay	Ciudad del Este
Named after a French King and Bolivian silver mines	San Luis Potosí
Southernmost city on the Baja California peninsula, and popular tourist destination	Cabo San Lucas
Major municipality in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and has one of the highest population densities in the Americas	São João de Meriti
"Major" city in Guadeloupe that is home to the island's main international airport	Pointe-à-Pitre
Capital of Argentina's northern most province, and	San Salvador de Jujuy
*Capital of Norte de Santander department and located on the Venezuelan border	San José de Cúcuta
Capital of Galicia autonomous community and home to an important cathedral (shrine of James the Great)	Santiago de Compostela
Eighth largest city in Guatemala, and in Guatemala department but shares a name with a bordering department	San Juan Sacatepéquez
This city in Guanajuato state has a UNESCO-inscribed historic center, but almost became a ghost town in the early 20th century	San Miguel de Allende
Notable suburb of Monterrey that is considered as Latin America's richest city	San Pedro Garza García
*Capital of Bolívar department, and has a UNESCO-inscribed colonial walled city	Cartagena de Indias
*Capital of a state in north-central Mexico	Santiago de Querétaro
Capital of a same-named province in southern Thailand	Nakhon Si Thammarat
Capital of Martinique	Fort-de-France
Third largest city in northern Ontario province or second largest city on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan state	Sault Ste. Marie
Largest inland city in the U.A.E.	Al Ain City
*Largest suburb of Greater Mexico City	Ecatepec de Morelos
President Teodoro Obiang moved his country's capital city to this city, in center of Río Muni, earlier this year	Ciudad de la Paz
Largest city in Gharbia governorate and home to Misr Spinning and Weaving Company	El Mahalla El Kubra
Name either of the capitals (executive / legislative / judicial) of the Canary Islands	Santa Cruz de Tenerife \| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Notable Egyptian resort town on the Red Sea	Sharm El Sheikh
Capital of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	King Edward Point
Capital of a same-named province in northwestern Algeria	Sidi bel Abbès
Largest city in southern Costa Rica, and also in the Brunca socioeconomic region	San Isidro de El General
Capital of a same-named Argentinian province, and the southernmost extent of Quechua-speaking communities	Santiago del Estero
Second largest city in Goiás state	Aparecida de Goiânia
Third largest city in Rio de Janeiro state and situated on Guanabara Bay	Duque de Caxias
Major coastal city in Anzoátegui state, bordering the state capital, Barcelona	Puerto La Cruz
Largest city in Bolivia	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Largest city in Taiwan	New Taipei City
Second largest city in Honduras, and known as "Murder Capital of the World" in the early 2010s	San Pedro Sula
Fifth largest city in Argentina and major coastal city	Mar del Plata
Capital of Christmas Island	Flying Fish Cove
Highest (elevation) capital city in Europe, and has easily recognizable stone architecture (free 5K)	Andorra la Vella
Second largest city in the Dominican Republic	Santiago de los Caballeros
This city is its country's third largest city, behind Chaguanas and San Fernando	Port of Spain
Principal city in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-___ metropolitan area	West Palm Beach
Notable city in southern Ceará state that is literally north of Petrolina's twin city	Juazeiro do Norte

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Largest city in Balkh province and home to the Great Blue Mosque (supposedly houses the tomb of Caliph Ali)	Mazar-i-Sharif
Major municipality in Greater São Paulo metropolitan area, and named after Bernard of Clairvaux	São Bernardo do Campo
Capital of a same-named now-defunct governorate, and named for the start date of Operation Badr	6th of October City
*Major southern Russian city located on Europe's fifth largest river, literally	Rostov-on-Don
Fourth largest city in Egypt	Shubra El Kheima
Sixth largest city in U.A.E. and capital of a same-named Emirate	Ras Al Khaimah City
Third largest city in Bahia state	Vitória da Conquista
*Largest city in Guerrero state and Mexico's largest beach/balneario resort city	Acapulco de Juárez
Previously known as "Saigon"	Ho Chi Minh City
Notable city in southern Quebec province, and host of Canada's largest hot air balloon festival	Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Notable city in Essex ceremonial county, and home to the world's longest pleasure pier	Southend-on-Sea
*Municipality located in Greater Mexico City whose name signifies "Four Houses" in Nahuatl and Mexico's first indigenous president	Naucalpan de Juárez
Capital of Ascoli Piceno province, and most important center of Riviera delle Palme	San Benedetto del Tronto
Southernmost city in Uruguay and a popular resort destination	Punta del Este
Second largest city in Bahia state	Feira de Santana
Fifth largest city in Argentina, where the United Provinces of South America declared independence from Spain in 1816	San Miguel de Tucumán
Capital of a same-named province in Panama	Bocas del Toro
Town in New Mexico state with a famously unusual name	Truth or Consequences
Capital of a same-named Thai province, located at the "skinniest" part of Thailand	Prachuap Khiri Khan
Home to California Polytechnic State University, and located halfway between San Francisco / Los Angeles	San Luis Obispo
Founded by Brigham Young in 1847 and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics	Salt Lake City
Northernmost city in England and home to the Gateshead Millennium Bridge	Newcastle upon Tyne
Largest city in Cádiz province, and world capital of sherry fortified wine	Jerez de la Frontera
Major suburb of Recife, and second largest city in Pernambuco state	Jaboatão dos Guararapes
Name either "São José" city within the ten largest cities in São Paulo state	São José dos Campos \| São José do Rio Preto
World capital home to Istana Nurul Iman, the world's largest residential palace	Bandar Seri Begawan
Name either "Macorís" city in the Dominican Republic, that is also in the top 10 largest in the country	San Pedro de Macorís \| San Francisco de Macorís
Major suburb of Belo Horizonte, with a name meaning "Snowy Creek"	Ribeirão das Neves
Fourth largest city in Ecuador, known as Tsachila* in Quechua	Santo Domingo de los Colorados
Fourth largest city in Yorkshire and the Humber region and home to a Premier League club	Kingston upon Hull
Third largest city in Mauritius	Beau Bassin-Rose Hill
Notable city in Punjab province, originally named as "Noshehra"	Rahim yar Khan
Twin city with Valparaíso, Chile, and known as "The Garden City"	Viña del Mar
"The Big Apple" and most linguistically diverse city in the world	New York City
City on the U.S. border that is the fourth largest city in Sonora state	San Luis Río Colorado
Second largest city in Utah state	West Valley City
Westernmost city in Paraná state, and located near the largest waterfall system in the world	Foz do Iguaçu
Largest city in northern Mindanao and capital of Misamis Oriental province	Cagayan de Oro
Largest city in East Africa, but is not a world capital	Dar es Salaam
City in Bouches-du-Rhône province whose inhabitants are called "Aixois"	Aix-en-Provence
World capital located within its country's largest city, Colombo	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
World capital located on the Gulf of Gonâve, and epicenter of a massive 2010 earthquake	Port-au-Prince
Sixth largest city in Florida state and home to the New York Mets Low-A affiliate	Port St. Lucie
Capital of Guernsey	St. Peter Port
Largest city in Rio de Janeiro state outside of the Greater Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area	Campos dos Goytacazes
*Largest city in Carinthia state, and home to Europe's largest non-sea beach	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Capital of Nord-Ouest department, and was the site of the first black slave revolt (1679)	Port-de-Paix
Home to Copacabana beach, Sugarloaf Mountain, and located on Guanabara Bay	Rio de Janeiro
Egyptian New Urban Community named for the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War	10th of Ramadan City
*Major city in Khabarovsk krai located on the Heilong River	Komsomolsk-on-Amur