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(Other than Mount E this is the shortest place name in Japan in both Japanese phonology and orthography. All other Japanese place names in this section require at least two kana.) Ub, a town in Serbia; Ui, a town in Republic of Korea; Ug, short name for Tiszaug, Hungary; Ul, a parish in the Oliveira de Azeméis municipality in Portugal
A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2003). W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Old European names in Britain, Nomina 6 pp37–42 (1982. P. H. Reaney, The Origin of English Place Names (1960). A. Room, A Concise Dictionary of Modern Place Names in Great Britain (1983).
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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 .
Ee, one of the Cook Islands; Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone, Italy, a wine region; Fakfak, West Papua, Indonesia; Fengfeng Mining District, Hebei, China; Gan Gan, Argentina; Gargar, Armenia: not an actual reduplication in Armenian, as the two ‘r’ sounds are different in this place name and are spelled using different letters.
The official name of the place is Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, commonly abbreviated to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG. The longest non-contrived place name in the United Kingdom which is a single non-hyphenated word is Cottonshopeburnfoot (19 letters) and the longest which is hyphenated is Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe (29 characters).
from borong, a Waray word for "fog", referring to the heavy fog that once covered the place. [7] Butuan: none: from batuan, a Visayan sour fruit. Cabadbaran: Agusan del Norte: from badbad, a Cebuano word which means "to untie." [8] Cabanatuan: Nueva Ecija: from banatu, a sturdy vine that grew along the swampy banks of Rio Grande de Pampanga. [9 ...