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  2. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    Not the best place to be cat it seems. Catskill: A township and village in Greene County, New York which is usually cat friendly, and also just within the eastern edge of the similarly-named mountainous area of New York State. Cauaiauaia: A place in Angola that has the most consecutive vowels in a row of any other place name Cave-In-Rock

  4. List of city nicknames in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Tough-to-Say Place Names You're Probably Butchering - AOL

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    Mispronouncing a street or town name is a quick way to tell a local from an outsider. Here are the trickiest place names in America for you to tackle.

  6. The Daily Grind: What are the funniest names you've seen? - AOL

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    Recently on the podcast we were chatting about hilarious names that cropped up in City of Heroes back in the day. The puns! Oh, the puns! It was simply glorious. The truth here is that I love ...

  7. List of fictional countries set on Earth - Wikipedia

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    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 opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

  8. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Places and infrastructure

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    Why the town of Kawakawa is the world's best place for a rest stop. Hunga Tonga: An island that was created in 2015 after a volcano erupted between two islands and connected them until another volcanic explosion in 2022 split them up again. Jellyfish Lake: A lake where jellyfish have evolved without stingers due to a lack of predators. Jervis ...

  9. Lists of fictional locations - Wikipedia

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    Following are lists of fictional locations, as large as a universe and as small as a pub.. List of fictional bars and pubs; List of fictional castles; List of fictional city-states in literature