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2. The weirdest town names in all 50 states, from ... - AOL

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   Local lore attributes the town's unusual name to a meeting one December night. Townsfolk had communed to discuss the name when a gust blew open the church doors where people were gathered and the ...

3. Towns With Oddball Names in Every State - AOL

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   From Eek, Alaska, to Christmas, Florida, American towns have taken on some unusual names over the years. Is your hometown in this list?

4. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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   A town with a Native American name in Washington, United States. Humpty Doo: A town 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Hundeluft: A village in Germany. Means "dog's air" in German. Hundred: Deep in this West Virginia town, where Christopher Robin plays. Actually, it is a 300 populated town. Hungry Horse

5. Welcome to Taintsville? 16 strange Florida town names ... - AOL

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   There are also many names from Native American words that sound strange to English ears, such as Okeefenokee, Estiffanulga or Okahumpka, or the many bizarre Keys and island names such as Beercan ...

6. List of palindromic places - Wikipedia

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   A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.

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. Weird Town Names: 10 U.S. Areas With the Oddest Monikers - AOL

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   By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Most of the more than 30,000 incorporated towns and cities in the U.S. listed by the Census Bureau have names that wouldn't get a second glance. But there are more than ...

9. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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   Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...