List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities

The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities.

Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms.

The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman). The French terminations -ois / ais serve as both the singular and plural masculine; adding 'e' (-oise / aise) makes them singular feminine; 'es' (-oises / aises) makes them plural feminine. The Spanish termination "-o" usually denotes the masculine and is normally changed to feminine by dropping the "-o" and adding "-a". The plural forms are usually "-os" and "-as", respectively.

Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' /tʃ/ sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify as its -ch is pronounced /k/).

Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.

Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional. Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds.

Note: Many of these adjectivals and demonyms are not used in English as frequently as their counterparts in other languages. A common practice is to use a city's name as if it were an adjective, as in "Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra", "Melbourne suburbs", etc.

List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities

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City	Adjective	Demonym
Aalborg	Aalborgenser	Aalborgenser
Aarhus	Aarhusian	Aarhusian
Aberdeen	Aberdonian	Aberdonian
Abidjan	Abidjanais	Abidjanais
Accra	Accran	Accran
Adana	Adanite	Adanite
Adelaide	Adelaidean	Adelaidean
Addis Ababa	Addis Ababan, Addis Ababian	Addis Ababan, Addis Ababian
Ahmedabad	Amdavadi	Amdavadi
Aguascalientes	Hidrocálido	Hidrocálido
Agde	Agathois	Agathois
Aix-en-Provence	Aixois	Aixois
Albany	Albanian	Albanian
Albuquerque	Albuquerquean	Albuquerquean, Burqueño
Aleppo	Aleppine	Aleppine
Alexandria	Alexandrian	Alexandrine
Algiers	Algérois	Algérois
Almería	Almerian, Almeriense, Urcitano	Almerian, Almeriense, Urcitano
Alpine ^[which?]	Alpinian	Alpinian
Amalfi	Amalfitan	Amalfitan
Amman	Ammani	Ammani
Ammon	Ammonite	Ammonite
Amparo	Amparense	Amparense
Amsterdam	Amsterdammer	Amsterdammer
Anchorage	Anchorageite	Anchorageite
Andong	Andong, Andongite	Andongite
Ankara	Ankarite	Ankarite
Angeles	Angelino	Angelino
Angers	Anjou	Angevin
Annapolis, Maryland	Annapolitan	Annapolitan
Antakya	Antakyan, Antiochian	Antakyan, Antiochian
Antalya	Antalyan	Antalyan
Antipolo	Antipoleño	Antipoleño
Aosta	Aostan, Aostain	Aostan, Aostain
Aqaba	Aqabawi	Aqabawi
Arequipa	Arequipeño (m), Arequipeña (f)	Arequipeño (m), Arequipeña (f)
Arlington	Arlingtonian	Arlingtonian
Armagh	Armachian	Armachian
Armidale	Armidilian	Armidilian
Ashdod	Ashdodi	Ashdodi