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  2. List of palindromic places - Wikipedia

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    A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.

  3. List of short place names - Wikipedia

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    U, a place in Vietnam [citation needed] Ü, a geographic division and a historical region in Tibet, China; W, a national park in Niger and Benin. Y, a commune in the department of Somme, France; Y, a river in the north of Russia. Y, a former census-designated place in Alaska, United States (recently renamed Susitna North) Ý, Vietnamese name ...

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Crossword construction in modern times usually involves the use of software. Constructors choose a theme (except for themeless puzzles), place the theme answers in a grid which is usually symmetric, fill in the rest of the grid, and then write clues. A person who constructs or solves crosswords is called a "cruciverbalist". [1]

  5. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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    Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our crossword blog. ... the last clue [60D: Fitting place for this clue's answer ...

  6. Llanfairpwllgwyngyll - Wikipedia

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    The name was submitted to Guinness World Records as the longest word to appear in a published cryptic crossword, having been used by compiler Roger Squires in 1979. The clue was "Giggling troll follows Clancy, Larry, Billy and Peggy who howl, wrongly disturbing a place in Wales (58)", where all but the last five words formed an anagram. [30]

  7. Category:Lists of place names - Wikipedia

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    List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names; List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies; List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations; List of administrative division name changes; List of placenames of Indigenous origin in the Americas; List of renamed places in Angola; List of Arabic place names

  8. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A place in Idaho, which shares a name with a similarly named place in Indonesia. Let the dogs chew over that one ... Boquete: A town in Panama. "Boquete" is a Portuguese term that means "blowjob". Boston, Kyrgyzstan: A city named Boston, on almost the exact other side of the world from the other Boston. Booti Booti: Australian National park ...

  9. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.