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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Paris, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods , the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020. [ 4 ]

  5. Lists of populated places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The following is a set–index article, providing a list of lists, for the cities, towns and villages within the jurisdictional United States. It is divided, alphabetically, according to the state , territory , or district name in which they are located.

  6. 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.

  7. List of U.S. cities named after their state - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of U.S. cities (or census-designated areas) named for the state in which they are located. Locations which are no longer functioning cities (including former cities and present ghost towns) are marked with an asterisk (*). Alabama City, Alabama* (Now part of Gadsden, AL zip code) Arizona City, Arizona; Arkansas City, Arkansas

  8. List of places named after places in the United States

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    California (U.S. state) Western United States: Cambridge: Nova Scotia Canada ... Ohio Place Names: The Origin of the Names of Over 500 Cities, Towns, and Villages.

  9. Paris of the West - Wikipedia

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    The description Paris of the West or in some cases Paris of America has been applied to a number of locations, including: Buenos Aires , Argentina [ 1 ] Cincinnati , Ohio, United States [ 2 ]