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Nations & Places

1490 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 23 of 25.

Israel's economic capital on the Mediterranean; primary civilian target in the Iran-Israel war.

Largest Canary Island; Spanish autonomous region, major tourism and cruise hub in the eastern Atlantic.

Giant Kazakh oilfield; Chevron's primary CPC export asset, implicated by Ukraine's Novorossiysk strike.

Southern US state whose new map, signed 7 May 2026, eliminated Cohen's majority-Black 9th district.

Terminal de Contenedores de Mariel

Cuba's deep-water container port at Mariel, controlled by GAESA and designated by OFAC after its mid-June transfer to Coral Maritima.

Second-largest US state; top crude producer, ERCOT grid operator, 2026 midterm battleground.

Texas's 9th District

Majority-Latino US House district in the Houston area.

Southeast Asian constitutional monarchy; tightening visitor-visa policy while running the priced DTV long-stay route.

City in Maharashtra, India, adjoining Mumbai.

Coastal Kent district containing Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs.

Oregon city on the Columbia River, home to a Google data-centre campus begun in 2006.

Dutch city housing the country's national government and the seat of the Dutch Investment Screening Bureau.

Greece's second city; first location outside Athens to receive the STR registration ban in March 2026.

Tierra del Fuego

Argentine province at the southern tip of South America; Andes-virus endemic zone and Antarctic cruise departure hub.

Border city in Baja California, Mexico, approved as Iran's 2026 World Cup base camp, requiring the squad to cross into the US for all three group matches.

Iconic public space in New York City that was the site of the first fan-violence incident at a US host city during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Madagascar's main seaport, on the east coast.

Mie Prefecture port city known for Ise Grand Shrine; added accommodation tax from April 2026.

Japan's capital and Asia's largest metro economy; a 90%-import-dependent city exposed to Gulf energy shocks.

Torbat-e Heydarieh Prison

Iranian prison in Khorasan Razavi province; entered wartime execution register 19 May 2026.

Canada's largest city; 2026 World Cup host at BMO Field, and a test case for mega-event social costs.

Toronto Pearson Airport

Canada's largest international airport; where Iranian football officials were refused entry on 29 April 2026.

France's principal naval base on the Mediterranean coast; homeport of the French Navy's Mediterranean fleet.

East London borough with the UK's highest Muslim population share, targeted by Your Party.

Council ward in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.

Trapeang Prasat

District of Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia.

Central Texas county whose seat is Austin, the state capital.

Town in Brandenburg's Teltow-Fläming district, about 36 km south-west of central Berlin.

Welsh-founded city in Chubut, Argentine Patagonia; regional wool-processing and tourism hub.

Passenger railway around Mexico's Yucatán peninsula.

Northern Italian port and refining terminal hub.

Deep-water harbour city on Sri Lanka's northeast coast; now holding interned Iranian warship crew.

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean twin-island nation; home to Atlantic LNG supplying European and Asian buyers.

Lebanon's northern Mediterranean city, struck by Israel during the 2026 regional war.

Tristan da Cunha

UK Overseas Territory, South Atlantic; world's most remote inhabited island, no airstrip or hospital.

Tróia Peninsula

Portuguese peninsula at Setúbal Bay; site of the Navy's REPMUS uncrewed-systems exercise.

Norway's largest gas field, operated by Equinor in the North Sea, supplying roughly 30% of Norwegian gas production.

Eastern DRC province recording its first confirmed Bundibugyo cases this window.

Russian Black Sea refinery city; exports ran 91% below May 2025 after sustained Ukrainian strikes in 2026.

Arizona city hosting Iran's planned World Cup training base at Kino Sports Complex.

Tunbridge Wells

Kent borough selected as a flexible voting pilot for the May 2026 local elections.

Capital of Tunisia, whose fans face $15,000 US visa bonds for the World Cup.

North African nation qualifying for 2026 World Cup whose fans face US visa bond barriers.

Transcontinental NATO member; TurkStream transit state and diplomatic hinge between Russia, Iran and the West.

Region of central Italy; capital Florence.

Ohio city that passed a unanimous one-year data-centre ban in late April 2026.

Texas's 35th congressional district, a San Antonio-Austin corridor seat redrawn under PlanC2333 and rated Leans Republican for 2026.

Ancient Phoenician port in southern Lebanon; UNESCO site and front-line conflict zone since March 2026.

Tyumen refinery

The Tyumen refinery is a major oil-processing plant in western Siberia roughly 2,000 km from the Ukrainian border, processing approximately 9 million tonnes of crude per year; it was struck by Ukrainian drones on 20 June 2026 in the war's deepest strike to date.

Storengy's largest German pore gas storage site; one of six given a reduced 45% fill target.

East African state; confirmed urban Bundibugyo Ebola cluster in Kampala and Wakiso, May 2026.

Dutch municipality in North Holland that struck a waste-heat deal bypassing its own data-centre ban.

Industrial city in Russia's Komi Republic, home to Lukoil's Ukhta oil refinery.

Eastern European country under Russian full-scale invasion since February 2022.

German city on the Danube, home to DEUTZ engine and Hensoldt radar plants

Industrial city on South Korea's south-east coast.

Smallest UAE emirate; western anchor of Iran's claimed PGSA maritime zone at Hormuz.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Gulf federation and Iran-conflict front-line state; halted trade and payments with Iran in August 2026.

P5 nuclear power, NATO member and G7 economy; a constitutional monarchy of four nations.

Federal constitutional republic; world's largest economy and leading military power under President Trump.