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  2. List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country ...

  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. List of places with numeric names - Wikipedia

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    Twin City, Georgia, in Emanuel County, Georgia, US Twin City, nickname for Winston-Salem , North Carolina, US Two Bridges, Manhattan , a neighborhood in New York City, United States

  5. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...

  6. Lists of cities - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. 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. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.

  8. List of short place names - Wikipedia

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    Yi, a name of three counties in Hebei, Liaoning and Anhui, China; Yí, a river in Uruguay; Y P, a desert in the western United States; Ys, a mythological city in Brittany; Yu, a county in Hebei, China; Yu, a county in Shanxi, China; Yu, a river on the north of Russia; YĆ«, a former town, now district in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan

  9. List of cities in the Americas by year of foundation - Wikipedia

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    Oldest continuously inhabited French established settlement in the United States. 1634: St. Mary's City: Maryland: United States 1634: Trois-Rivières: Quebec: Canada 1634: Willemstad: Curaçao: Netherlands: Oldest continuously inhabited Dutch established settlement in the Caribbean. 1635: Concord: Massachusetts: United States 1635: Dedham ...