Cities That Start With V

45 cities Places Checked 9 Oct 2026

These cities that start with V are the world's big cities with 300,000 or more people, 45 in all, ranked by population. A separate list covers 14 US cities that start with V, followed by capital cities.

V has 45 cities, and India supplies a remarkable share, including Vadodara, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. Visakhapatnam, with its many syllables, suits spelling practice. Vienna, the capital of Austria, is the best-known V city in Europe.

Valencia appears twice, once in Venezuela and once in Spain, a reminder that city names travel. The US list includes Virginia Beach and a Vancouver in Washington state, which is different from the larger Vancouver in Canada.

Big cities starting with V: 45
Largest: Vadodara India
Largest in the US: Virginia Beach Virginia

Cities that start with V around the world

#	City	Country	Population
1	Vadodara	India	1.8 million
2	Vienna	Austria	1.7 million
3	Valencia	Venezuela	1.6 million
4	Virar	India	1.2 million
5	Varanasi	India	1.2 million
6	Vijayawada	India	1.1 million
7	Visakhapatnam	India	1.1 million
8	Voronezh	Russia	1.0 million
9	Volgograd	Russia	1.0 million
10	Victoria	Hong Kong	956,800
11	Viana	Angola	865,863
12	Vientiane	Laos	840,940
13	Valencia	Spain	824,340
14	Vinh	Vietnam	790,000
15	Valenzuela	Philippines	725,173
16	Vancouver	Canada	662,248
17	Villa Nueva	Guatemala	618,397
18	Vladivostok	Russia	604,901
19	Vilnius	Lithuania	542,366
20	Van	Turkey	525,016
21	Victoria de Durango	Mexico	518,709
22	Valledupar	Colombia	490,075
23	Vellore	India	484,690
24	Vereeniging	South Africa	474,681
25	Vung Tau	Vietnam	464,860
26	Virginia Beach	United States	454,808
27	Venustiano Carranza	Mexico	430,978
28	Vinnytsya	Ukraine	430,091
29	Veracruz	Mexico	428,323
30	Viet Tri	Vietnam	415,280
31	Vila Velha	Brazil	394,930
32	Vitebsk	Belarus	358,927
33	Vladimir	Russia	357,024
34	Villahermosa	Mexico	353,577
35	Vina del Mar	Chile	334,248
36	Vijayapura	India	327,427
37	Volzhsky	Russia	323,293
38	Vaughan	Canada	323,103
39	Villavicencio	Colombia	321,717
40	Varna	Bulgaria	318,737
41	Varzea Grande	Brazil	314,627
42	Vitoria	Brazil	312,656
43	Vologda	Russia	312,420
44	Vladikavkaz	Russia	306,258
45	Valladolid	Spain	300,618

US cities that start with V

City	State	Population
Virginia Beach	Virginia	454,808
Vancouver	Washington	196,442
Valencia	California	148,456
Van Nuys	California	136,443
Visalia	California	130,104
Victorville	California	122,225
Vallejo	California	121,692
Vista	California	100,890
Vacaville	California	96,803
Ventura	California	96,769
Victoria	Texas	67,574
Vineland	New Jersey	60,818
Valley Glen	California	60,000
Valdosta	Georgia	55,724

Capital cities that start with V

Capital	Country
Vaduz	Liechtenstein
Valletta	Malta
Vatican City	Vatican City
Victoria	Seychelles
Vienna	Austria
Vientiane	Laos
Vilnius	Lithuania

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Questions people ask

What is the biggest city that starts with V?

Vadodara in India, with about 1.8 million people in the GeoNames count.

What US cities start with V?

The largest are Virginia Beach, Virginia, Vancouver, Washington, Valencia, California, Van Nuys, California, Visalia, California.

What capital cities start with V?

Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Valletta (Malta), Vatican City (Vatican City), Victoria (Seychelles), Vienna (Austria), Vientiane (Laos).

Which country has the most big cities starting with V?

India, with 7 of the cities on this list.

Source: the GeoNames database: world cities with 300,000 or more people and US cities with 50,000 or more. Population figures are the latest GeoNames counts and can lag behind new census results.

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