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The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including spaces). The longest place name in the Netherlands is Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk (28 characters, including a hyphen). The longest street name is Laan van de landinrichtingscommissie Duiven-Westervoort in Duiven.
Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.
The street name usually forms part of the address (though addresses in some parts of the world, notably most of Japan, make no reference to street names). Buildings are often given numbers along the street to further help identify them. Odonymy is the study of road names.
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.
In 14 of these metros, the most homes were located on a street named after George Washington, including in Cleveland. We wonder if poor Grover is rolling over in his grave about that.
There are more than 1,000 streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. around the world, according to estimates by Derek Alderman, a professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Ì, Scottish Gaelic name for island of Iona, Scotland (also called Ì Chaluim Chille) L, two lakes in Nebraska both named for their right-angled shape [3] [4] Ô, a castle near Mortrée, France; O, a river in Devon, England; Ó Street, a street in Terézváros, Budapest, Hungary; O, a river in Toyama, Japan; Ø, a hill in Jutland, Denmark. Ø ...
The top 10 ‘coolest street in the world’ High Street, Melbourne. Hollywood Road, Hong Kong. East Eleventh, Austin. Guatemala Street, Buenos Aires. Commerical Drive, Vancouver. Jalan Petaling ...