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City of Angels [9] [62] – based partially on the literal translation of the city's original historical full name from the Spanish language-- "The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels". City of Flowers and Sunshine [18] La-La Land [9] Shaky Town [63] Tinseltown [64] (specifically applies to Hollywood [9])
The name itself isn't so unusual, but the city is on the beach of Lake Erie in Erie County in Ohio, making it unusually confusing. Hurricane: A small community in Herkimer County, New York, that could have been "well-drenched" by the 2011 tropical cyclone named Irene. There is also a Hurricane, West Virginia (pronounced "HER-ick-in"). Hurt
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 ...
From Eek, Alaska, to Christmas, Florida, American towns have taken on some unusual names over the years. ... California. Located in Nevada County about 60 miles from Sacramento, this Gold Rush ...
California is divided into 58 counties [4] and contains 483 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city-county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
Names with yet other unusual sources include Madras, Oregon, which was named after a bolt of Madras cloth seen in the general store, and Poland, Maine, which was named after a medieval song that its first settler liked. Not all towns whose names are the same as a foreign city or country are named after that city.
The name appeared as "Zzyzx Springs" in Dmitri Borgmann's 1967 book Beyond Language.In 1977, Borgman noted his source as being "an old, undated map of San Bernardino County published by the Automobile Club of Southern California" and repeated his description of the settlement as being "a hydrologic feature and privately owned spa in San Bernardino County, California, about 8.5 miles south of ...
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