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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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    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 ...

  4. The most unique street names in the world - AOL

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    Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.

  5. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    As for place names, there is Mucsaröcsöge or Csajágaröcsöge, little villages or boonies far out in the countryside, and Kukutyin [21] or Piripócs, villages or small towns somewhere in the countryside. A general place reference is the phrase (az) Isten háta mögött, meaning "behind the back of God", i.e. 'middle of nowhere'.

  6. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Places and infrastructure

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    With a full name consisting of 85 characters, this hill may be the longest place name in the world. Te Urewera: A forested area in New Zealand that is also a legal person (see below). Whanganui River: A river in New Zealand that is legally a person. Wedding Cake Rock: A rock that looks exactly like a wedding cake. Whangamōmona

  7. 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.

  8. Category:Lists of place names - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of place names, i.e. lists of places mainly ordered by place name. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. *

  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