| ASSEN | City in NE Netherlands; capital of the province of Drenthe |
| ARNHEM | City on the Rhine in the E Netherlands; capital of the province of Gelderland (6) |
| MAASTRICHT | City in the Netherlands, capital of the province of Limburg (10) |
| HAARLEM | City in the Netherlands, capital of North Holland province (7) |
| ZWOLLE | Town in the central Netherlands, capital of Overijssel province (6) |
| GHENT | Capital of the province of East Flanders in NE Belgium, at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys (5) |
| SHENYANG | Capital of the province of Liaoning in NE China, formerly (in the 17th-20th centuries) called Mukden (8) |
| ANTWERP | City in Belgium, capital of the province of the same name (7) |
| EDMONTON | A city in Western Canada; the capital of the province of Alberta (8) |
| LAHORE | City in Pakistan that is the capital of the province of Punjab (6) |
| PEMBA | Port city in Mozambique that is the capital of the province of Cabo Delgado |
| BANDUNG | City in Indonesia that is the capital of the province of West Java (7) |
| EMMEN | New town in Drenthe, NE Netherlands developed since World War II (5) |
| DRENTHE | Sparsely-populated rural province of the NE Netherlands on the border with Germany; capital, Assen (7) |
| ARLON | Town in Belgium which is the capital of the province of Luxembourg (5) |
| KIMBE | The capital of the province of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea |
| KATOWICE | Polish city that is the capital of the province of Silesia (8) |
| GRONINGEN | University city in the NE Netherlands (9) |
| LANZHOU | Capital of the province of Gansu in NW China, on the upper Yellow River (7) |
| RIOBAMBA | Capital of the province of Chimborazo in Ecuador (8) |