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2. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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   Name of a few places in Mexico as well as a municipality in Spain. "Matamoros" translates to "killer of Moors" in Spanish. Matanzas: Name of a handful of places. The name means "massacre" or "slaughter" in Spanish. Maton Abajo: A barrio in Cayey, Puerto Rico, next to Maton Arriba. Maton means killer in Spanish and arriba and abajo mean up and ...

3. 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.

4. 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 ...

5. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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   The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...

6. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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   The legendary location of Jesus Christ's Temptation, traditionally placed at Jebel Quruntul or 'Ushsh el-Ghurab near Jericho in the West Bank: Nbu: The Mandaic name for the planet Mercury. Pandæmonium: The capital of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Piriawis: The sacred life-giving river of the World of Light in Mandaean cosmology. Pleroma

7. List of locations in the world with an English name - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of place names originally used in England and then later applied to other places throughout the world via English settlers and explorers. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .