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  2. List of national capital city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Ibn Battuta, the Berber traveller, visited Jeddah during his world trip. He wrote the name of the city into his diary as "Juddah". The British Foreign Office and other branches of the British government used to use the older spelling of "Jedda", contrary to other English-speaking usage, but in 2007 changed to the spelling "Jeddah".

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    These guys must be fans, little did the band never knew they had a city name like them. Maumee: A city in Ohio. Pronounced like "mommy". Mayo: A town in Ireland, whose name does not originate from the polarizing condiment. Mayo: A district in Pattani province, southern Thailand, whose name also does not originate from the polarizing condiment ...

  4. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Various city names are often employed as placeholders. For instance, to denote a remote, obscure place: Тьмутаракань (Tmutarakan, an ancient Crimean city which sounds in modern Russian something like "dark cockroach city", тьма таракан) Зажопинск (Zazhopinsk, "city beyond the ass")

  5. List of short place names - Wikipedia

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    It was also formerly believed to be the world's shortest river. E, a mountain in Hokkaidō, Japan; E, a river in the Highlands of Scotland; É, an ancient name for Dadu River in Sichuan, China [1] G, a village in Kayanza Province, Burundi [2] H, also known as H Island, an island in Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, in Fairfax County, Virginia

  6. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    Zabrze → Hindenburg 1 → Zabrze 2; Zawadzki → Andreashütte 1 → Zawadzkie 2; Frankenstein → Ząbkowice Śląskie 2; Zielona Góra → Grünberg 1 → Zielona Góra 2; 1 Cities in western Poland whose names were changed when Poland gained independence from Germany in 1918. 2 German cities from 1918 to 1939 that became part of Poland ...

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

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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.

  8. List of songs about cities - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of songs about cities. It is not exhaustive. Cities are a major topic for popular songs. [1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation.

  9. Place name origins - Wikipedia

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    In much of the "Old World" (approximately Africa, Asia and Europe) the names of many places cannot easily be interpreted or understood; [1] they do not convey any apparent meaning in the modern language of the area. This is due to a general set of processes through which place names evolve over time, until their obvious meaning is lost.