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The longest department name in France is Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (23 characters, including hyphens). The longest place name in Austria is Pfaffenschlag bei Waidhofen an der Thaya (40 characters). The longest street name in Hungary is Ferihegyi repülőtérre vezető út. It means "Road leading to the airport at Ferihegy" (28 characters)
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.
A town in West Virginia. It seems like there are a lot of towns in the United States with this name such as Idaho, Oklahoma, and North Carolina. Gay, Russia: A town in Russia, pronounced like "guy". Gaydon: A parish and village in Warwickshire, England. It's where Jaguar and Land Rover cars are made. Gay Head
When it comes to naming towns, Americans aren't always the most original. Sure, some places are entirely unique. For example, the U.S. only has one Abanda, Nubieber, and Zwingle (those are in ...
United States: Oldest town on Cape Cod [22] 1638: Rowley: Massachusetts: United States [23] 1638: Portsmouth: Rhode Island: United States: Founded by Anne Hutchinson: 1638: Exeter: New Hampshire: United States: One of the four original towns of New Hampshire.
It is one of the oldest major cities of the United States. Boston was a key city in the early American Revolution against the British Empire, eventually becoming the first city free of British rule in the United States. Boston is still one of the wealthiest and most important cities in the United States. St. John's: Newfoundland Canada: c. 1630 AD
This town just east of Oklahoma City gets its ominous name from a supposed haunted bridge in the area. In the early 1900s a woman named Katie Dewitt James was murdered, and her body was found near ...
At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world. SEE MORE: Watch Naomi Watts pronounce the longest town name in Britain