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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Lists of fictional locations - Wikipedia

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    List of fictional railway stations; List of fictional rapid transit stations; List of fictional schools. List of fictional British and Irish universities. List of fictional Cambridge colleges; List of fictional Oxford colleges; List of fictional settlements. List of fictional towns in animation; List of fictional towns in comics; List of ...

  5. Category:Lists of place names - Wikipedia

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    List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names; List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies; List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations; List of administrative division name changes; List of placenames of Indigenous origin in the Americas; List of renamed places in Angola; List of Arabic place names

  6. List of city nicknames in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...

  7. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Places and infrastructure

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    List of cities claimed to be built on seven hills: Almost 100 different cities across all inhabited continents, trying to get the credibility of having something in common with Rome. List of micronations: Ever wanted to start your own country? List of tautological place names: Place names that contain truisms and say what they are. Phantom island

  8. Wikipedia:Silly Things - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Unusual place names – The weirdest place names in the world. Wikipedia:Unusual requests that have been posted to the village pump and other places. Wikipedia:Wikiality and Other Tripling Elephants – Stephen Colbert trolls Wikipedia! Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia

  9. List of fictional towns in film - Wikipedia

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    John Hughes stated that many of his films all took place within the same fictional Illinois town of Shermer [5]. The Breakfast Club and Weird Science both make explicit reference to the town by name. Silent Hill, West Virginia Silent Hill: Silent Hill DCP Inc., Davis Films, Konami Silent Hill is a town in Toluca County, West Virginia.