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These are the list of renamed places in the United States--- various political and physical entities in the U.S. that have had their names changed, though not by merger, split, or any other process which was not one-to-one. It also generally does not include differences due to a change in status, for example, a "River Bluff Recreation Area ...
It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
Many of these place names were chosen after local geography or eponymous colonial figures. Many of the place name changes occurred under the authenticité programme in the 1960s and 1970s during the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko. In some cases, the names had genuine pre-colonial usage or had already been used unofficially during the colonial ...
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Buffalo, Texas, temporarily renamed itself "Blue Star, Texas" in 1993 and 1994 when the Dallas Cowboys faced the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl, and later renamed itself "Green Star, Texas" in 1999 when the Dallas Stars faced the Buffalo Sabres in the Stanley Cup Finals (Buffalo is approximately 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Dallas; in all ...
Places in Andaman & Nicobar Islands Port Blair (after Archibald Blair, Esq, Captain in the Maritime Establishment of the East India Company at Bombay) Ritchie's Archipelago (after John Ritchie, 18th-century British marine surveyor)
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names; List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies; List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations; 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