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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 especially short or long names.
While English-speakers may find this city's name to be funny, its official name is said to be the world's longest, which does make a hard man humble at one point. Bang Mun Nak: A district in Phichit province, upper central Thailand. "Mun Nak" means "otter poop" in Thai, and the issue about the other word can be found in nearby entries. Bangor
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 list of popular place names is derived from the US FIPS55 place name database (158,000 US place names) and the US GEOnet name server database (5.6 million non-US place names). 1,716 San José (or San Jose) 1,691 San Antonio; 1,246 Santa Maria (or Santa María) 1,212 Santa Rosa; 1,191 San Pedro; 1,166 San Juan; 1,017 San Francisco; 989 San ...
With a full name consisting of 85 characters, this hill may be the longest place name in the world. Te Urewera: A forested area in New Zealand that is also a legal person (see below). Whanganui River: A river in New Zealand that is legally a person. Wedding Cake Rock: A rock that looks exactly like a wedding cake. Whangamōmona
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.
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.
Movie-Inspired Wi-Fi Names. Inigo the Modem. Alice in WonderLAN. The LAN Before Time. Where The Wild Pings Are. Routers Of The Lost Ark. Spiderman’s World Wide Web. Marty McWi-Fi. Titanic Syncing.