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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 ...
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 ...
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
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 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. List of places named for Pope John Paul II. List of places named for Nathanael Greene. List of places named for Sam Houston.
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.
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 ...
The school district is considering renaming School 33 on Webster Avenue in her honor. From his home in Geneseo, Livingston County, retired senior editor Jim Memmott writes Remarkable Rochester ...