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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 ...
A weather station settlement in Nunavut, Canada - it's the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth! Alfonsów: The name of 4 different places in Poland. Basically means "pimpville". Alice § Places: Sadly none of these towns partnered with Wonderland or Reko: Almond: A township and village in Allegany County, New York. You'll go nuts ...
There is a now-abandoned town of the same name nearby, which formerly held the record of the hottest inhabited place on Earth. Gaet'ale Pond: A small lake in Ethiopia that was created in 2005 after an earthquake. It's not bitter, it's just really, really salty. Jacob's Ladder: It's all very downhill from here. Kalakuta Republic
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Maplewood. Present-day Maplewood was formed as South Orange Township in 1861, and portions of it were taken to form the present-day South Orange in 1869. The township was officially renamed to ...
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.
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 ...
It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [3] The name of the hill (with 85 characters) has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. Other versions of the name, including longer ...