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The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
An endonym / ˈ ɛ n d ə n ɪ m / (also known as autonym / ˈ ɔː t ə n ɪ m /) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.
Sala y Gómez: one island named for two people; Lewis and Clark County, Montana: named for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; In dual naming, words in two different languages have been joined by a hyphen or a slash to become the community's (or geographic feature's) official name, often because of language politics:
Similarly, some places in New Zealand have dual Māori and English names, such as Aoraki / Mount Cook. [11] The practice of officially giving certain New Zealand places dual names began in the 1920s, [12] but dual names have become much more common in the 1990s and 2000s, in part due to Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
Biblically sourced names are widespread and are sometimes the result of naming a settlement after its church. Names from ancient history can also be found in a number of places, although a concentration of them can be found in upstate New York. Names from these two sources can be found in the Ancient World section below the list of countries.
The Maori named most of New Zealand's natural features. When Europeans began arriving in New Zealand from the 17th century they gave their own names to many geographical features and settlements, often after places in Britain or important settlers or famous British people. Recently there has been a movement to revive some Maori names.
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One of the most common reasons for a country changing its name is newly acquired independence. When borders are changed, sometimes due to a country splitting or two countries joining, the names of the relevant areas can change. This, however, is more the creation of a different entity than an act of geographical renaming. [citation needed]