| COLOMBO | The largest city and former administrative capital of Sri Lanka |
| HUMBERSIDE | Region and former administrative English county that includes the towns of Goole and Grimsby (10) |
| YANGON | Formerly Rangoon, the largest city and former capital of Myanmar, site of the Shwedagon Pagoda (6) |
| DARESSALAAM | Largest city and former capital of Tanzania (3,2,6) |
| ABIDJAN | Largest city and former capital of Cote d'Ivoire (7) |
| LAGOS | Largest city and former capital of Nigeria |
| AUCKLAND | Largest city and former capital (1840-65) |
| BATH | The largest city and settlement in the county of Somerset (4) |
| CASABLANCA | The largest city and chief seaport of Morocco |
| CHARLEROI | The largest city and municipality of Wallonia, Belgium |
| LINDSEY | Parts of ------- . the largest of the three former administrative areas of Lincolnshire (7) |
| SRINAGAR | Largest city and summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, in the Kashmir Valley (8) |
| AGRA | Indian city and former capital of the Mogul empire (4) |
| CANALZONE | Former administrative region of the U.S. on the Isthmus of Panama (5,4) |
| MANDALAY | The second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar |
| INVERNESS | City regarded as the administrative capital of the Scottish Highlands (9) |
| LIMOUSIN | A former administrative region of West-Central France, the capital of which was Limoges (8) |
| AUVERGNE | Former administrative region of France comprising the departments of Allier, Puy de Dome, Cantal and Haute Loire |
| LAPAZ | Largest city and de facto capital of Bolivia, in the Andes mountains southeast of Lake Titicaca (2,3) |
| RIDING | Any of the three former administrative divisions of Yorkshire |
