Distances of H II region from GLOSTAR D-configuration VLA observations plotted on top of an artist’s rendition of the Milky Way. The red stars represent the positions of H II regions with distances adopted from the literature, while the green triangles represent H II regions for which we derived the kinematic distances (see text for details). We adopt a distance of 1.4 kpc for Cygnus X H II regions represented by white diamond.