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  2. List of national capital city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Ibn Battuta, the Berber traveller, visited Jeddah during his world trip. He wrote the name of the city into his diary as "Juddah". The British Foreign Office and other branches of the British government used to use the older spelling of "Jedda", contrary to other English-speaking usage, but in 2007 changed to the spelling "Jeddah".

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    While English-speakers may find this city's name to be funny, its official name is said to be the world's longest, which does make a hard man humble at one point. Bang Mun Nak: A district in Phichit province, upper central Thailand. "Mun Nak" means "otter poop" in Thai, and the issue about the other word can be found in nearby entries. Bangor

  4. List of short place names - Wikipedia

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    A, a former village in Kami-Amakusa city, Kumamoto, Japan; Á, a farm in Dalabyggð municipality, Dalasýsla, Iceland. Á is Icelandic for "river". Ά, an eco-hippie community in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina [citation needed] D, a river in Oregon, United States. It was also formerly believed to be the world's shortest river.

  5. List of national capitals - Wikipedia

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    On 2 July 2012, some government functions moved to Sejong City, which became the de facto administrative capital. Singapore Singapore: City-state. Skopje North Macedonia: Europe: Sofia Bulgaria: South Tarawa Kiribati: Oceania: South Tarawa is a settlement on the atoll of Tarawa. St. George's Grenada: North America: St. Helier Jersey: Europe

  6. Lists of cities - Wikipedia

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    List of cities with the most skyscrapers; List of cities with more than one commercial airport; List of city name changes; List of largest cities throughout history; List of national capitals; List of ghost towns by country; List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants; Lists of city flags; World's most livable cities; Global city

  7. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    Zabrze → Hindenburg 1 → Zabrze 2; Zawadzki → Andreashütte 1 → Zawadzkie 2; Frankenstein → Ząbkowice Śląskie 2; Zielona Góra → Grünberg 1 → Zielona Góra 2; 1 Cities in western Poland whose names were changed when Poland gained independence from Germany in 1918. 2 German cities from 1918 to 1939 that became part of Poland ...

  8. List of Latin names of cities - Wikipedia

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    Little is known about how Romans adapted foreign place names to Latin form, but there is evidence of the practices of Bible translators.They reworked some names into Latin or Greek shapes; in one version, Yerushalem (tentative reconstruction of a more ancient Hebrew version of the name) becomes Hierosolyma, doubtlessly influenced by Greek ἱερος (hieros), "holy".

  9. List of long place names - Wikipedia

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    The full name is in both the seal and the flag of the city. The longest names for communes in France are Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson, Marne (45 characters including hyphens), Saint-Germain-de-Tallevende-la-Lande-Vaumont, Calvados (44 characters), and Beaujeu-Saint-Vallier-Pierrejux-et-Quitteur, Haute-Saône (43 characters).