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  2. List of words derived from toponyms - Wikipedia

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    chihuahua — small dog from Chihuahua, state of Mexico; china — originally chinaware, as in "wares from China" Chinese wall, artificial organizational barrier, derived from Great Wall of China; coach — a type of carriage, ultimately from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) or "carriage of Kocs", where this vehicle was first made

  3. Toponymy - Wikipedia

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    List of French exonyms for Italian toponyms; List of Latin place names in Europe; List of modern names for biblical place names; List of renamed places in the United States; List of U.S. place names connected to Sweden; List of U.S. States and Territorial demonyms; List of U.S. state name etymologies; List of U.S. state nicknames; Maghreb toponymy

  4. Category:American toponymy - Wikipedia

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  6. Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (toponymy) - Wikipedia

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    However, Colorado the state is almost never called "Colorado state" by English speakers (at least in the 'States), so that type of disambiguation would be inappropriate. Cheers! -- maveric149 As for the other rivers or anything else for that matter -- naming should give priority to what most English speakers would most easily recognize with the ...

  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 place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Marquez crater, an impact crater in the US state of Texas; Mogollon Rim a topographical and geological feature cutting across Arizona. It was called for the governor of Spanish New Mexico Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollon. Nueces Strip or Wild Horse Desert is the area of south Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande (nuts)

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

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    List of U.S. state name etymologies; Lists of U.S. county name etymologies; List of place names of German origin in the United States; List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin; List of Chinook Jargon placenames; List of non-US places that have a US place named after them