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  2. Lists of places - Wikipedia

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    1.6 Man-made geographical features. 1.7 Natural geographical features. 2 Lists of places in a country. 3 Lists of places in a state or city. 4 Lists of places by name ...

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A place in Cumbria, UK which already has an interesting name. Howlong: A town in New South Wales, Australia. Indeed, it's very long! Huế: A very colorful former imperial capital city of Vietnam. Hühnergeschrei A town in Austria. Means "Chicken screams" in German. Hump Creek

  4. Place name origins - Wikipedia

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    However, as names are applied on a larger scale, they may become less useful as place names. For instance, a relatively small, distinct upland valley (e.g. Swaledale) clearly represents a definable geographic location. However, the broad, extended valley of a major river, such as the Trent, is not easily understood as a single location. That ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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    A geographical area around the White Sea in the northern part of (European) Russia, referred to in Norse sagas. Fositesland: The kingdom of Forseti, the god of Justice. Gjöll: A river that separates the living from the dead in Norse mythology. Hel (heimr) The underworld in Norse mythology. Hvergelmir: A major spring in Norse mythology. Jotunheim

  7. List of regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.

  8. World map - Wikipedia

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    All projections distort geographic features, distances, and directions in some way. The various map projections that have been developed provide different ways of balancing accuracy and the unavoidable distortion inherent in making world maps. Perhaps the best-known projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a nautical chart.

  9. Point of interest - Wikipedia

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    Viewing POI points on a Garmin GPS. A point of interest (POI) is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting.An example is a point on the Earth representing the location of the Eiffel Tower, or a point on Mars representing the location of its highest mountain, Olympus Mons.