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  2. List of geographic acronyms and initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the initial letter or letters of the words that make up a multi-word term. For the most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from three or more other names or words. Those derived from only two names are usually considered portmanteaus and can be found in the List of geographic portmanteaus ...

  3. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Lists of abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Lists of abbreviations in the English language: . Athletics abbreviations; List of business and finance abbreviations; List of computing and IT abbreviations; List of ecclesiastical abbreviations

  5. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language A. ab abdominal ...

  6. Why is your city called that? There’s a story on how South ...

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    When Coral Ridge Properties asked for names for its new city in 1962, company co-founder Joseph Taravella offered Pompano Springs, because of its proximity to Pompano Beach. Trouble was, Taravella ...

  7. List of city nicknames in Florida - Wikipedia

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    Haines City – The Heart of Florida [30] Hialeah – City of Progress [31] Jacksonville. Jax [32] Where Florida Begins [33] Bold New City of the South [34] River City [35] Murder Capital of Florida [36] Cracksonville; Key West. Conch Republic [37] Southernmost City In The Continental United States [38] Lakeland. Swan City [39] Largo. Dime City ...

  8. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    Sharm Old Harbour (a common English name for the old harbour at Sharm el Sheikh) (harbour old harbour – Arabic) Skarðsskarð, Iceland (Pass's Pass: A mountain pass named after a farm which in turn is named after the pass to begin with.) South Australia (Australia being Latin for "southern land". Strictly, this is not a tautology for the same ...

  9. 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.