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Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...
The name of 2 Turkish villages. In Arabic "ḥamām" means "douche". Hamm: Those pigs sure aren't happy about this place. Hammerfest: A town in Norway. Hosting a hip hop festival here would make MC Hammer proud. Hampton Gay: A very gay village in England. Handsome Eddy: A hamlet in New York. Hang Chat: A district in Lampang province, northern ...
This is a list of place names originally used in England and then later applied to other places throughout the world via English settlers and explorers. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
When it comes to naming towns, Americans aren't always the most original. Sure, some places are entirely unique. For example, the U.S. only has one Abanda, Nubieber, and Zwingle (those are in ...
Named one of "the 25 coolest towns in America to visit in 2021" and once dubbed "America's Most Unusual Town" by Oprah Winfrey, this southern Iowa locale has a vibrant arts community surrounded by ...
Biblically sourced names are widespread and are sometimes the result of naming a settlement after its church. Names from ancient history can also be found in a number of places, although a concentration of them can be found in upstate New York. Names from these two sources can be found in the Ancient World section below the list of countries.
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.
Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.