enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_renaming

    Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area, which ranges from the change of a street name to a change to the name of a country.

  3. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming...

    Wikipedia articles must have a single title, by the design of the system; this page is intended to help editors agree on which name of a place is to appear as the title. Nevertheless, other names, especially those used significantly often (say, 10% of the time or more) in the available English literature on a place, past or present, should be ...

  4. Category:Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Geographical_renaming

    Pages in category "Geographical renaming" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps/...

    Blank area for creating Locator maps. Based on simplified Location maps. A province in the country (when the blank map is actually filled). /Area maps (en) Maps that highlight one subject area, primarily for species distributions. Locator maps: a country (red) in its region and in the world (corner map). Multi-area: ranges of animals species ...

  6. Lists of renamed places - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_renamed_places

    Renaming of cities in India Iran — List of renamed cities in Iran Kazakhstan — List of renamed cities in Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan — List of renamed cities in Kyrgyzstan Myanmar — List of renamed places in Myanmar Pakistan — List of renamed places in Pakistan Philippines. List of renamed cities and municipalities in the Philippines

  7. List of geographical naming disputes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographical...

    Disputes involving the name of a whole entity being used to refer to a part of it (totum pro parte), and vice versa (pars pro toto) American for the United States/Americas/North America: The terms 'America' and 'American' are frequently used to refer only to the United States and its people.

  8. Geographic Names Information System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_Names...

    The logo of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

  9. List of renamed places in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_renamed_places_in...

    These are the list of renamed places in the United States--- various political and physical entities in the U.S. that have had their names changed, though not by merger, split, or any other process which was not one-to-one.