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  2. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    A word identifying a person or a group of people in relation to a particular place, usually derived from the name of the place (which may be any kind of place, formal or informal, of any size or scale, from a town or city to a region, province, country, or continent) and used to describe all residents or natives of that place, regardless of any ...

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    Center of the World: A place in Ohio that is actually about 41 degrees north and 81 degrees west of the center of the world. These people need to look at a map. Chad: This country is populated and ruled by sigma males. Charm: A charming Amish community in Ohio where an influx of visitors is an unfortunate intrusion. Chateaugay: A town in New York.

  4. List of geographic acronyms and initialisms - Wikipedia

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    That is, it's a list of the names of cities, towns, lakes, and other geographic places that are derived from acronyms. Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the initial letter or letters of the words that make up a multi-word term. For the most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from three or more other names or words.

  5. 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. *

  6. List of short place names - Wikipedia

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    U, a place in Vietnam [citation needed] Ü, a geographic division and a historical region in Tibet, China; W, a national park in Niger and Benin. Y, a commune in the department of Somme, France; Y, a river in the north of Russia. Y, a former census-designated place in Alaska, United States (recently renamed Susitna North) Ý, Vietnamese name ...

  7. Lists of places - Wikipedia

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    Here is a list of places on Earth, based on specific categories. General lists of places ... List of the world's most populous cities; List of cities in India;

  8. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The anglicised form appears more tautological as the word dale in English is used to describe any valley. Glen Canyon (multiple examples) Glen of Aherlow – a glen is a long, deep valley, while Aherlow is from the Irish eatharlach, meaning "lowland between two mountains", i.e. a valley. Gobi Desert, Mongolia (Desert Desert – "Govi" is Mongolian)

  9. Toponymy - Wikipedia

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    The term toponymy comes from Ancient Greek: τόπος / tópos, 'place', and ὄνομα / onoma, 'name'. The Oxford English Dictionary records toponymy (meaning "place name") first appearing in English in 1876. [9] [10] Since then, toponym has come to replace the term place-name in professional discourse among geographers. [1]