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A small town in Missouri, United States. Knob Noster: A town in Johnson County, Missouri. Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. Knock: A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word ...
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 ...
It is simply the evolution of a word, first co-opted by Russians, then by the United States Board on Geographic Names. What is the world’s most populous city?: Top 10 most populous cities in the ...
From Eek, Alaska, to Christmas, Florida, American towns have taken on some unusual names over the years. Is your hometown in this list?
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 ...
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.
C-Town [citation needed] City of Champions – Popularized in 2016 after area native Stipe Miocic won the UFC World Heavyweight Championship, the Lake Erie Monsters (now known as the Cleveland Monsters) won the Calder Cup , and the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Championship all within a six-week span in that calendar year.
Carlton – A Great Little Town [7] Columbia City – City of Beauty and Livability [8] Cornelius – Oregon's Family Town [9] Cottage Grove – Covered Bridge Capital of Oregon [10] Dayton – Rich In History . . . Envisioning Our Future [11] Depoe Bay. Whale Watching Capital of the Oregon Coast [12] The World's Smallest Harbor [13]