Countries or places which start with B:
1. Babel @ Tower of Babel
2. Babylon - ancient city in Mesopotamia. It was the capital of Babylonia in the 2nd millennium BC
and was famous for its Hanging Garden
3. Babylonia - an ancient region and powerful kingdom of Mesopotamia
4. Baffin Island - a large island in te Canadian Arctic, Situated at the mouth of Hudson Bay.
5. Baghdad - the capital of Iraq
6. Bahamas - a country consisting of a group of islands off the SE coast of Florida, part of the West
Indies - capital Nassau
7. Bahrain - a sheikhdom consisting of a group of islands in the Persian Gulf - capital Manama
8. Baikal, Lake - a large lake in southern Siberia. It is the largest freshwater lake in Europe and Asia
and, with a depth of 1,743 m, the deepest lake in the world.
9. Baile Atha Cliath - Irish name for Dublin
10. Baku - capital of Azerbaijan
11. Balearic Islands - a group of islands in the western Mediterranean forming a self-governing
region of Spain, with four large islands (Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, formentera)
and seven smaller ones - capital Palma
12. Bali - mountainaous island of Indonesia.
13. Balkans - the countries occupying the Peninsula in SE Europe bounded by the Adriatic and
Jonian Seas in he West, the Aegean and Black Seas in the east, and the Mediterranean
in the south
14. Ballarat - city in Victoria, Australia, formerly the centre of a rich gold-mining industry
15. Balmoral Castle - a Scottish castle used by the British royal family as a holiday residence.
16. Baltic Sea - an almost landlocked sea of northern Europe, between Sweden, Finland, Russia,
Poland, Germany, and Denmark.
17. Baltimore - a port in north Maryland, USA
18. Bamako - capital of Mali
19. Bandar Seri Begawan - capital of Brunei, on the island of Borneo
20. Bangalore - city in south central India, capital of the state of Karnataka
21. Bangkok - capital and chief port of Thailand
22. Bangladesh - country of the Indian subcontinent, in the Ganges delta
23. Bangui - the capital of the Central African Republic
24. Banjul - capital of Gambia
25. Barbados - an island country of the West Indies, part of the Windward Island group - capital
Bridgetown.
26. Barbuda
27. Barcelona - a city on the coast of NE, Spain- capital of Catalonia
28. Barents Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia
29. Basilicata - region of southern Italy - capital Potenza
30. Basle - a commercial and industrial city in NW switzerland
31. Basque Provinces - self- governing region of northern Spain - Capital Vitoria
32. Basra - a city and port of Iraq on the Shatt al-Arab waterway
33. Basse-Normandie - regoin of NW France, on the English Channel - chief city, Caen
34. Basseterre - capital of St. Kitts and Nervis in the Leeward Island, on the island of St. Kitts
35. Bass Strait - channel separating tasmania from the mainland of Australia
36. Bastille - a fortress and prison in Paris. It was stormed by a mob on 14 July 1789, an event which
marked the start of the French Revolution.
37. Bath - a spa town in SW England, founded by the Romans
38. Bavaria - a state of southern Germany, capital Munich
39. Bayeux - a town in Normandy in France, famous for the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth
about 70 metres long, illustrating events leading up to the Norman Conquest and made
between 1066 and 1077
40.Bay of Bengal, Bay of Biscay
41. Bayreuth - town in Bavaria in Germany, where regular festivals of Wagner's operas are held
42. Bedfordshire - a country of south central England, country town Bedford
43. Beijing - the capital of China
44. Beirut - the capital of Lebanon
45. Belarus - a country in eastern Europe, capital, Minsk. Formerly called Belorussia
46. Belau
47. Belfast - the capital and chief port of Northern Ireland
48. Belgium - a country in Western Europe on the south shore of the North Sea and English Channel;
capital, Brussels
49. Belgrade - capital of Serbia
50. Belize - a country on the Caribbean coast of Central America; capital, Belmopan. Former
name(until 1973) British Honduras
51. Belmopan - the capital of Belize
52. Belorussia -former name for Belarus
53. Belsen - a Nazi concentration camp in the second World War, in NW Germany
54. Benelux - the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg as an economic union
55. Bengal - a former province in the north-east of the Indian subcontinent. in 1947, it was divided
into West Bengal, which became a state of India and East Bengal, now Bangladesh.
56. Bengal, Bay of - a part of the Indian Ocean lying between India to the west and Burma and
Thailand to the east.
57. Benin - a country of West Africa; capital, Porto Novo. Former name (until 1975) Dahomey.
58. Ben Nevis - a mountain in western Scotland. Rising to 1,343 m it is the highest in the British
Isles.
59. Bergen - a port in SW Norway, a centre of the fishing and North Sea oil industries.
60. Bering Sea - an arm of the North Pacific lying between NE Siberia and Alaska.
61. Bering Strait - a narrow sea passage which separates the eastern tip of Siberia from Alaska and
links the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea, about 85 km wide at its narrowest
point
62. Berkeley - a city in western California, a site of a campus of the University of California
63. Berkshire - a former county of southern England, west of London, divided in 1998 into six
unitary authorities.
64. Berlin - the capital of Germany. At the end of the Second World War the city was divided into
two parts: West Berlin, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany, and East Berlin, the
capital of the German Democratic Republic. The two parts were reunited in 1990.
65. Berlin Wall - a fortified wall built in 1961 by the communist authorities between East and West
Berlin. it was opened in November 1989 after the collapse of the communist
regime in East Germany and later dismantled.
66. Bermuda - a UK overseas territor consisting of about 150 small islands off the coast of North
Carolina; capital, Hamilton.
67. Bermuda Triangle - an area of the western Atlantic Ocean where a large number of ships and
aircraft are said to have mysteriously disappeared.
68. Berne - the capital of Switzerland.
69. Bethlehem - a small town near Jerusalem; it was the native city of King David and, according to
the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke, the birthplace of Jesus
70. Beverly Hills - a city in California, on the NW side of Los Angeles, the home of many film star.
71. Bharat - Hindi name for India
72. Bhopal - the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh
73. Bhutan - a small independent kingdom on the south-eastern slopes of the Himalayas; capital,
Thimphu
74. Biafra - a state proclaimed in 1967, when part of eastern Nigeria declared independence. In the
ensuing civil war the new state's troops were defeated, and by 1970 it had ceased to exist
75. Big Ben - the great clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London and its bell
76. Bihar - a state in NE, India; capital Patna
77. Bikini - an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific, used by the US between 1946 and
1958 as a site for testing nuclear weapons.
78. Bilbao - a port and industrial city in northern Spain
79. Billingsgate - a large London fish market originally situated near London Bridge and now
located at the Isle of Dogs in the East End.
80. Birmingham - an industrial city in west central England
81. Biscay, Bay of - the North Atlantic between the north coast of Spain and the west coast of
France, noted for its strong currents and storms.
82. Bishkek - the capital of Kyrgyzstan
83. Bissau - the capital of the African country of Guinea-Bissau
84. Black Country - an industrial district of the English Midlands
85. Black Forest - a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, lying to the east of the Rhine valley
86. Black Hole of Calcutta - a dungeon 6 metres square in Fort William, Calcutta, where perhaps as
many as 146 English prisoners were imprisoned overnight after the
capture of the city by the nawab (governor) of Bengal in 1756. only
twenty-three prisoners were alive the next morning.
87. Blackpool - a seaside resort in NW England
88. Black Sea - a tideless almost landlocked sea bounded by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey,
Bulgaria and Romania
89. Bloemfontein - the capital of Free State province and judicial capital of South Africa.
90. Blue Nile - one of the two main headwaters of the Nile, rising in NW Ethiopia and meeting the
White Nile at Khartoum
91. Blue Ridge Mountains - a range of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US, stretching from
southern Pennyslvania to northen Georgia
92. Bodrum - a resort town on the coast of western Turkey, site of the ancient Greek city of
Halicarnassus
93. Bogota - the capital of Colombia. Official name Santa Fe De Bogota
94. Bohemia - a region forming the western part of the Czech Republic
95. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - official name for Venezuela
96. Bolivia - a landlocked country in South America; capital, La Paz
97. Bologna - a city in northern Italy; capital of Emilia-Romagna region.
98. Bombay - former name (until 1995) for Mumbai
99. Bonaire - one of the two main islands for the Netherlands Antillies; chief town, Kralendijk
100. Bondi - a coastal resort in New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
101. Bonn - a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, the capital of the Federal
Republic of Germany from 1949 until the reunification of Germany in 1990.
102. Bordeaux - a port of SW France on the River Garonne, capital of Aquitaine and a centre of the
wine trade.
103. Borneo - a large island of the Malay Archipelago
104. Bosnia-Herzegovina - a country in the Balkans in SE Europe, formally a republic belonging to
the federation of Yugoslavia; capital Sarajevo
105. Bosporus - a strait connecting the Black Seas with the Sea of Marmara, with Istanbul at its
south end
106. Boston - the capital of the US state of Massachusetts
107. Botany Bay - a bay in New South Wales, Australia, the site of Captain James Cook's landing in
1770.
108. Botswana - a landlocked country in southern Africa; capital, Gaborone
109. Boulogne - a ferry port and fishing town in northern France
110. Bournemouth - a resort on the south coast of England, a unitary council formerly in Dorset.
111. Bradford - an industrial city in northern England, a unitary council formerly in Yorkshire
112. Brahmaputra - a river of southern Asia, rising in the Himalayas and flowing through Tibet, NE
India and Bangladesh, to join the Ganges at the Bay of Bengal
113. Brasilia - the capital of Brazil
114. Bratislava - the capital of Slovakia
115. Brazil - the largest country in South America capital, Brasilia
116. Brazzaville - the capital of the Republic of Congo
117. Bremen - a state of NE Gernamy; capital, Bremen
118. Brest 1 - a port and naval base in France, on the Atlantic coast of Brittany
119. Brest 2 - a river port and industrial city in Belarus.
120 .Bridgetown - the capital of Barbados
121. Brighton - a resort on the south coast of England., noted for its Regency architecture. It
became a city in 2000
122. Brisbane - the capital of Queensland, Australia
123. Bristol - a city and port on the River Avon in SW England.
124. Bristol Channel - a wide inlet of the Atlantic between South Wales and the south-western
peninsula of England, narrowing into the estuary of the River Severn.
125. Britain - the island containing England, Wales and Scotland, and including the small adjacent
island.
126. British antarctic Territory - part of Antarctica claimed by Britain in 1962, formerly part of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies.
127. British Columbia - a province on the west coast of Canada; capital, Victoria
128. British Empire - a former empire consisting of Great Britain and its colonies, territories, and
dependencies, which reached its peak around 1920, when over 600 million
people were ruled from London.
129. British Honduras - formerly name for Belize
130. British Isles - a group of islands lying off the coast of NW Europe, including Britain, Ireland,
the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Orkney Island, the Shetland Islands, the Scilly
Isles, and the channel Islands.
131. British Virgin Islands
132. Brittany - a region of NW France, on the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel; chief city.
Rennes
133. Brno - an industrial city in the Czech Republic, the capital of Moravia
134. Broads - a network of shallow lakes, linked by slow-moving rivers, in Norfolk and Suffolk
135. Broadway - a street running through the length of Manhattan in New York, famous for its
Theaters
136. Bronx - a borough in the north-east of New York City
137. Brooklyn - a borough of New York City
138. Bruges - a city in NW Belgium, caital of the province of West Flanders
139. Berunei - a sultanate on the NW coast of Borneo; capital Bandar Seri Begawan
140. Brunswick - an industrial city and former duchy and state of northern Germany
141. Brussels - the capital of Belgium and home of the headquarters of the European Commission
142. Bucharest - the capital of Romania
143. Buchenwald - a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War, near the village of
Buchenwald in eastern Germany.
144. Buckingham Palace - the London home of the British sovereign since 1837
145. Buckinghamshire - a county of central England; conty town, Aylesbury
146. Budapest - the capital of Hungary
147. Buenos Aires - the capital and chief port of Argentina
148. Bujumbura - the capital of the African country of Burundi
149. Bulawayo - an industrial city in western Zimbabwe
150. Bulgaria - a contry in SE Europe on the western shores of the Black Sea; capital, Sofia
151. Burgundy - a region of east central France; chief city, Dijon
152. Burkina Faso - a landlocked country in western Africa; capital, Ouagadougou. Former name
(until 1984) Upper Volta
153. Burma - a country in SE Asia, on the Bay of Bengal; capital, Naypyidaw. Official name Union
of Myanmar
154. Burundi - a central African country on the east side of Lake Tanganyika; capital, Bujumbura
155. Byelorussia
156. Byzantine Empire - the empire in SE Europe and Asia Minor(present-day Turkey) formed form
the eastern part of the Roman Empire in AD 395. It came to an end with
the loss of Constantinople (fomerly Byzantium) in 1453.
157. Byzantium - an ancient Greek city, founded in the 7th century BC, at the southern end of the
Bosporus. It was rebuilt by Constantine the Great as Constantinople (modern
Istanbul)
Sources from Oxford English Dictionary
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