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A city in Florida, whose indigenous-derived early name of Ahapopka means "potato-eating place". Arab: A city in Marshall County, Alabama, pronounced AY-rabb, just as in a popular 1962 American novelty song... Arcade, Italy: A town in Veneto, Italy that has nothing to do with arcade game. Arcade, New York: A village in Wyoming County, New York.
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".
List of cities by GDP; List of cities by elevation; List of cities by time of continuous habitation; List of cities proper by population; 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 ...
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
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.
Lists of cities and towns list notable cities and towns in each country, and are organized by geographic area. See Lists of cities and Lists of towns for additional lists organized in different ways, such as by size.,
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .
A street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages. Grūtas Park: Alternatively known as Stalin World, this park answers the little-asked question of "what should we do with all these Soviet-era statues and monuments from our oppressive past?" Won its creator, mushroom magnate Viliumas Malinauskas, the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize.