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  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Quiz: Can You Guess These Iconic City Skylines? - AOL

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    Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, is known for its vibrant nightlife and club scene. This city is home to the first metro system in all of Latin America and contains over 700 bookstores ...

  5. 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".

  6. List of reduplicated place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia , Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.

  7. 100 City-Inspired Baby Names, from Adelaide to Raleigh - AOL

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    Juno!) to far-flung places (how cute is Adelaide?), take a trip around the world with these adorable monikers and find the perfect one for your babe. 100 Uncommon Baby Names That Aren’t Totally ...

  8. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. List of palindromic places - Wikipedia

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    A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.