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1490 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 10 of 25.

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HamriyahAEUAE port in Sharjah emirate; loading point for the sanctioned tanker Rich Starry on the first day of CENTCOM's Hormuz blockade enforcement.
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Hard Rock StadiumMiami venue hosting 2026 World Cup matches, including England's quarter-final win and third-place playoff.
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HaringeyGBNorth London borough; projected too close to call between Labour and Greens in 2026.
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HarlowGBEssex district that filed the most recent of five reorganisation judicial reviews.
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Harraby SouthGBWard on Cumberland Council in Carlisle, Cumbria.
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Harris CountyUSMost populous Texas county and third largest in the US; its seat is Houston.
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HarwellGBOxfordshire science campus hosting STFC's national physics laboratories.
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HastingsGBEast Sussex town; PollCheck projects possible Green control in 2026 local elections.
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Haut-UeleCDEastern DRC province affected by the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.
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HavanaCUCuba's capital and government seat; site of the 2026 compound utility collapse and first cacerolazo protests.
Havana CathedralCUCatedral de San Cristóbal de La Habana; venue of the 9 May 2026 thanksgiving mass for Pope Leo XIV's first pontifical anniversary.
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HaverhillGBSuffolk market town; Codis CDMO spray-drying site, 29 jobs via LSIMF 2026.
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HaveringGBLondon borough controlled by Reform UK since May 2026.
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HeidelbergDEUniversity city on the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, home to the country's oldest university.
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HelsinkiFIFinnish capital; hosted the 2026 JEF summit that closed the Channel to shadow fleet.
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Hengam IslandIRSmall Iranian island south of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz.
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HengoedGBSouth Wales village; Norgine pharmaceutical site, over £20m LSIMF award 2026.
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HenicheskUAHenichesk is a port town in Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast on the north shore of the Azov Sea whose road bridge was reduced to a single lane by June 2026, constraining Russian east-bank logistics.
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Hennepin CountyUSMinnesota county containing Minneapolis; co-plaintiff in Trump administration lawsuit over withheld evidence.
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Hertzsprung basinLarge lunar far-side impact basin, ~570 km wide; observed by Artemis II crew during flyby.
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Hill CountyUSTexas county south of Dallas, centred on Hillsboro and governed by its commissioners court.
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HinckleyGBTown in Leicestershire, England, near Coventry; site of Digital Concepts Engineering's planned first dedicated UGV manufacturing facility.
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HiroshimaJPJapanese city and capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, destroyed by the first atomic bomb in 1945
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HodeidahYEYemen's major Red Sea port; Houthi-controlled, near Bab al-Mandeb; key humanitarian supply entry.
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HokkaidoJPJapan's northernmost main island and largest prefecture, capital Sapporo.
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Holborn and St PancrasGBWestminster constituency in Camden, held by Keir Starmer from 2015 to 2026.
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HolguínCUEastern Cuba province; nickel mining hub bearing the longest blackouts in the 2026 energy crisis
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HolonILIsraeli city south of Tel Aviv, struck by Iranian cluster missiles as air defences failed.
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HolyroodGBThe Scottish Parliament building and the institution it houses; site of the 2026 election that brought Reform UK into Holyrood for the first time.
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HomielBYBelarusian city near Ukraine's border, hosting Russia-aligned drone relays and a new airborne brigade.
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HondurasHNCentral American state confronting screwworm while its open ship registry draws security scrutiny.
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Hong KongHKSpecial Administrative Region of China; hub for Iran sanctions-evasion shells facing continuous OFAC designation.
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Hooley, Merstham and NetherneGBSurrey ward; Green Party gained it from the Conservatives on 41.8% on 6 August 2026.
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Hormozgan ProvinceIRSouthern Iranian coastal province controlling the Strait of Hormuz and capital Bandar Abbas.
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HoulaLBSouthern Lebanese village occupied by Israel twice, now inside its 2026 buffer zone.
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HoustonUSTexas megacity and fourth-largest US city; 2026 World Cup host; home of NASA Johnson Space Center.
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Houston StadiumUSNRG Stadium's 2026 World Cup name; hosted Morocco's last-16 win over co-host Canada.
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HryshyneUASettlement north-west of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast; seized by Russian forces in March 2026.
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HuescaESProvince in Aragón, north-eastern Spain; part of the Amazon data centre cluster subject to Spain's first DC lawsuit.
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HuliaipoleUAFront-line Zaporizhzhia town where Russia concentrated its highest offensive intensity in March 2026.
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HunanCNInland province of south-central China and a large user of agricultural spraying drones.
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HungaryHUCentral European EU and NATO member transitioning from Orbán's sixteen-year rule to a Tisza-led government.
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HuntingdonshireGBDistrict an MP says the Government's option D would split between two unitaries.
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HüüruEELocality west of Tallinn, Estonia, hosting data-centre capacity.
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HyderabadINMajor Indian technology city; secondary GCC hub named by NASSCOM for US multinational expansion in FY2026.
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IA-02USIowa's 2nd congressional district, Cook-rated Lean Republican after June 2026 tariff pressure.
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IcelandISNorth Atlantic island country and founding NATO member, without standing armed forces.
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IdahoUSConservative western US state with a Republican-controlled government and sparse, largely rural population.
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IlamIRIranian province on the Iraqi border, among the hardest-hit Kurdish regions in the 2026 conflict.
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IllinoisUSMidwest US state centred on Chicago, the third-largest American city.
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Imam Khomeini PortIRIran's main commercial deep-water port on the Persian Gulf; a sanctioned Iranian supertanker headed here on 15 April 2026 challenging the US blockade.
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Imam Reza shrineIRMashhad shrine of the eighth Shia Imam; Ali Khamenei's confirmed burial site.
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IncheonKRSouth Korean metropolitan city west of Seoul, home to the country's main international airport.
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IndiaINSouth Asian republic and fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP in 2026.
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IndianapolisUSIndiana's capital city, where a council committee now recommends a data-centre moratorium through 2027.
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Indian OceanThird-largest ocean, bounded by Africa, Asia, Australia and the Southern Ocean.
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IndonesiaIDSoutheast Asian G20 archipelago; Gulf-oil importer astride Malacca Strait; also tightening its nomad-visa regime.
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Inzenham-WestDEBavarian gas storage facility owned by NAFTA Speicher, exempt from Germany's reduced 45% fill target.
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IowaUSMidwestern US state; agricultural economy, reliably Republican since 2016, a 2026 Senate battleground.
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IranIRThe Islamic Republic of Iran; theocratic OPEC-member state ruled by its Supreme Leader.