- a seaport in Avon, in southwestern England, on the Avon River near its confluence with the Severn estuary.
- a city in central Connecticut.
- a township in southeastern Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- a deepwater seaport in eastern Rhode Island.
- a city in northeastern Tennessee, contiguous to but politically independent of Bristol, Virginia.
- a city in southwestern Virginia, contiguous to but politically independent of Bristol, Tennessee.
- a bi-state region comprising the twin cities of Bristol, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia.
- a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
- a unitary authority in SW England, created in 1996 from part of Avon county. Pop: 391 500 (2003 est). Area: 110 sq km (42 sq miles)
