When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place...

    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)

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_geography_terms...

    In the Spanish-speaking world, a neighborhood or community within a larger urban area, generally with informal boundaries, though in some places the term may refer to a formal subdivision of a municipality. barrow See tumulus. barysphere The Earth's core and mantle considered together, i.e. all of the Earth's interior beneath the lithosphere ...

  4. List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and...

    Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms refer also to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)

  5. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names

    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.

  6. List of long place names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names

    "Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds". [2] Believed to be the longest official one-word place name in the United States. Twee­buffels­met­een­skoot­morsdood­geskiet­fontein (44 letters) Farm in the North West province of South Africa: Afrikaans "The spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot".

  7. List of geographic acronyms and initialisms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic...

    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.

  8. Lists of places - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_places

    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;

  9. List of fictional countries set on Earth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional...

    This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.