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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 ...
The South Australian Nomenclature Act 1917 authorised the compilation and gazetting of a list of place-names contained in a report of the previous October prepared by a parliamentary "nomenclature committee", and authorised the Governor of South Australia, by proclamation, to "alter any place-name which he deems to be of enemy origin to some ...
As of 21 February 2019 the Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW, which is maintained by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, lists 265 places that are assigned or recorded as towns in New South Wales. [1] [2] [3]
A very tasty town in Australia. Kut: Situated in Iraq, the town's name may have sounded suggestive to Dutch armed forces flying missions against ISIS, for it can mean either 'cunt' / 'pussy', or 'shit' in Dutch. Kutas: A Hungarian village that might leave a few Poles giggling a bit. "Kutas" in Polish translates as something like "cock" or "dick".
1919 Yarram Yarram postmark – the town is now Yarram These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" many crows and "Tilba Tilba" many waters. The phenomenon has been the subject of interest in popular ...
Since 1993, only local government areas in New South Wales can be declared as "cities" by the Government, under the Local Government Act 1993. [1] Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status, [2] a previous version of the Act specified that to be a city, a Council area must:
List of cities, towns and villages in Bhutan; Municipalities of Brunei; List of cities and towns in Cambodia; List of cities in China; List of villages in China; List of cities, towns and villages in Cyprus; List of cities and towns in Georgia (country) List of towns in Hong Kong; List of villages in Hong Kong; List of cities in India by population
List of towns in Western Australia; Y. List of towns and cities in Australia by year of settlement This page was last edited on 2 February 2021, at 16:44 (UTC). ...