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This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country ...
That is, it's a list of the names of cities, towns, lakes, and other geographic places that are derived from acronyms. Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the initial letter or letters of the words that make up a multi-word term. For the most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from three or more other names or words.
Us, a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, France; Uz, a commune in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées, France; Uz, river and valley in Romania; Ūz, a village in Iran; Uz, an unincorporated community in Kentucky, US [10] Ve, a village in Norway; Ve, a group of skerries off Papa Stour in the Shetland Islands, Scotland; Vi, a village near ...
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
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Quad Cities, a region of the United States; Quad cities, Minnesota, US; Quart, Girona, a town in Spain; Quart, Aosta Valley, a town in Italy; Quart de Poblet, a town in Valencia, Spain; Quart de les Valls, a town in Valencia, Spain; Raja Ampat ('four kings'), Southwest Papua, Indonesia; Río Cuarto in Argentina and Costa Rica ('fourth river')
Lake in Webster, Massachusetts, United States: Nipmuc "Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds". [2] Believed to be the longest official one-word place name in the United States. Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein (44 letters) Farm in the North West province of South Africa: Afrikaans