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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.
List of administrative division name changes. List of placenames of Indigenous origin in the Americas. List of renamed places in Angola. List of Arabic place names. List of Aramaic place names. List of places named after Armenia. List of Asian regions with alternative names. List of reduplicated Australian place names.
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. [1][2][3][4] Toponym is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature, [5] and full scope of the term also includes proper names of all ...
Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (23 letters) Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are: [33] Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas (21 letters, longest hyphenated place names in the U.S.) Rancho Santa Margarita, California.
List of things named after Queen Anne. List of places named for Lewis Cass. List of places named for DeWitt Clinton. List of places named for Christopher Columbus. List of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette. List of places named after Saint Francis. List of places named for Benjamin Franklin. List of places named for Charles de Gaulle.
This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida. Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War. Sarasota County. Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already. For ...