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  2. List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of chemical elements named after places - Wikipedia

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    This list of chemical elements named after places includes elements named both directly and indirectly for places. 41 of the 118 chemical elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects. 32 of these have names tied to the Earth and the other 10 have names connected to bodies ...

  4. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.

  5. List of counties in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    List of counties in Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was ...

  6. List of places named after people - Wikipedia

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    Sverdlovsk was the name of Dovzhansk – Yakov Sverdlov. Torez was the name of Chystiakove – Maurice Thorez. Usivka was the name of Oleksandriia – Cossack Usyk. Voroshilovgrad, Voroshylovhrad was the name of Luhansk – Kliment Voroshilov. Yekaterinin Shanets was the name of Pervomaisk – Catherine the Great.

  7. Akron, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    1086993 [2] Website. www .akronohio .gov. Akron ( / ˈækrən /) is a city in and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States. At the 2020 census, the city proper had a total population of 190,469, making it the fifth-most populous city in Ohio and 136th-most populous city in the United States. The Akron metropolitan area, covering ...

  8. Geography of Europe - Wikipedia

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    In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby islands. The two largest peninsulas are Europe itself and Scandinavia to the north, divided from each other by the Baltic Sea. Three smaller peninsulas— Iberia, Italy, and the Balkans —emerge from the southern margin of the mainland.

  9. Toledo, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    39-77000. GNIS ID. 1086537 [ 3 ] Website. toledo .oh .gov. Toledo ( / təˈliːdoʊ / tə-LEE-doh) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. [ 6 ] At the 2020 census, it had a population of 270,871, making Toledo the fourth-most populous city in Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.