| PORTONOVO | Capital and second-largest city of Benin by population, in the SE near the border with Nigeria (5-4) |
| ROTTERDAM | Port and second largest city in the Netherlands (9) |
| LOUGHDERG | 40 km lake and second-largest in Republic of Ireland (*gurgled oh!) (5,4) |
| WALVISBAY | Port and second largest city in Namibia (6,3) |
| BRNO | Second-largest city of the Czech Republic, in the SE at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers (4) |
| TEENAGERS | According to the Office for National Statistics, 7.75 per cent of the UK population in 2018 |
| TENNESSEE | State in the SE United States |
| ABUDHABI | Capital and second-largest city in the United Arab Emirates (3,5) |
| HANOI | The capital and second largest city of Vietnam (5) |
| LAKETANGANYIKA | Body of fresh water in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the longest and second-largest of its kind on earth (4,10) |
| AHHUI | Province of eastern China whose capital and second-largest city is Hefei (5) |
| ANKARA | The capital and second largest city of Turkey (6) |
| EDMONTON | The capital and second largest city of Alberta, Canada (8) |
| YAOUNDE | The capital and second-largest city of Cameroon (7) |
| PORTMORESBY | Capital city of Papua New Guinea, in the SE on the Gulf of Papua ( 4,7) |
| DAMASCUS | Capital and second-largest city of Syria (8) |
| LINCOLN | Capital and second largest city of Nebraska |
| RIO | Former capital and second largest city in Brazil (3) |
| MAHON | Capital and second-largest city of Minorca |
| KITWE | Situated in the Copperbelt Province, the second largest city (size and population) in Zambia (5) |
