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  2. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A township in Granville County, North Carolina. A locality within Burwood East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The capital city of Tank District, Pakistan, and located near Dera Ismail Khan. Apparently this place loves tanks. A town in Estonia. "Tapa" means "kill" in Estonian. A river in North Carolina.

  3. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    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 especially short or long names.

  4. List of city nicknames in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...

  5. Tough-to-Say Place Names You're Probably Butchering - AOL

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    Mispronouncing a street or town name is a quick way to tell a local from an outsider. Here are the trickiest place names in America for you to tackle.

  6. How do places get their names? Here are the origins of 22 ...

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    After people from the communities of Centerville, Cheapside, Morehousetown, Northfield, Squiretown, Teedtown and Washington Place began petitioned to become one community in 1811, Livingston was ...

  7. Wikipedia:Silly Things - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars – Occasionally, Wikipedians get into edit wars over the most petty things. Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create. Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man. Wikipedia:Silly Things/Wikipedia's article on George W. Bush.

  8. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    Why the town of Kawakawa is the world's best place for a rest stop. Hunga Tonga: An island that was created in 2015 after a volcano erupted between two islands and connected them until another volcanic explosion in 2022 split them up again. Jellyfish Lake: A lake where jellyfish have evolved without stingers due to a lack of predators. Jervis ...

  9. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    The United States Postal Service has published a list of the most common city and post office [2] names within the United States, as of 2020: Cities. Post offices. 1 Franklin (31) 1 Clinton (26) 2 Clinton, Washington (29 each) 2 Madison (25)