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Shares its name with numerous other places in America, Britain, and beyond. The name "California" comes from a fictional location in a Spanish adventure novel, which was inhabited only by black women and ruled by Queen Calafia. Campione d'Italia: A small town in Italy, completely surrounded by Switzerland. The name means "Champion of Italy".
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.
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.
North and South America [ edit] From the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Oceania in pink. Oceania: A totalitarian superstate combining the United States and the British Empire, in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four, consisting of the entire Americas, as well as Great Britain, Ireland, Greenland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, and ...
Gindra: East African country from Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. Kangan: African nation from Anthills of the Savannah. Sangala: West African country from 24. Wakanda: Small African nation featured in the Marvel Comics series The Avengers. The nation is ruled by King T'Challa, also known as the superhero Black Panther.
This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
An island which was shown on Google Maps satellite view until 2012 despite not existing. That Wānaka Tree: A tree named after a hashtag on Instagram. Taumata: 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 ...
List Place Pronunciation Note Respelling IPA; Aberdeen, Washington: AB-ər-deen / ˈ æ b ər d iː n / Also the city in Maryland Abiquiú, New Mexico: AB-ə-kew / ˈ æ b ə k juː / Acequia, Idaho: ə-SEE-kwə / ə ˈ s iː k w ə / Achilles, Kansas: ə-KIL-iss / ə ˈ k ɪ l ɪ s / Advance, North Carolina: AD-vanss / ˈ æ d v æ n s / Also ...