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  2. Category:Lists of place names - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of place names, i.e. lists of places mainly ordered by place name. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A place in Idaho, which shares a name with a similarly named place in Indonesia. Let the dogs chew over that one ... Boquete: A town in Panama. "Boquete" is a Portuguese term that means "blowjob". Boston, Kyrgyzstan: A city named Boston, on almost the exact other side of the world from the other Boston. Booti Booti: Australian National park ...

  4. List of reduplicated place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia , Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.

  5. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.

  7. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy ; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .

  8. Lists of places - Wikipedia

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    List of national capitals by name (present and past) List of capitals and larger cities by country; List of current and former capital cities within U.S. states; List of metropolitan areas by population; List of the world's most populous cities; List of cities in India; List of planned cities; List of city nicknames in the United States; List ...

  9. Category:Alternative place names - Wikipedia

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