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  2. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A township in Granville County, North Carolina. A locality within Burwood East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The capital city of Tank District, Pakistan, and located near Dera Ismail Khan. Apparently this place loves tanks. A town in Estonia. "Tapa" means "kill" in Estonian. A river in North Carolina.

  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 galactic communities. List of fictional islands. Planets in science fiction. List of fictional police states. List of fictional prisons. List of fictional railway stations. List of fictional rapid transit stations. List of fictional schools. List of fictional British and Irish universities.

  5. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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    A location in Slavic folk mythology related to witchcraft. Baltia: An island of amber somewhere in northern Europe. Biringan city: A mythical city that is said to invisibly lie between Gandara, Tarangnan, and Pagsanghan in Samar province of the Philippines. Biringan means "the black city" or the city of the Unknown in Waray. Brittia

  6. 10 of the most mysterious sites spotted via Google Earth - AOL

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    Google Earth gives people the power to search remote areas of the globe, and those virtual treks have resulted in some rather intriguing discoveries. Here are 10 mysterious sites spotted via ...

  7. List of popular place names - Wikipedia

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    This list of popular place names is derived from the US FIPS55 place name database (158,000 US place names) and the US GEOnet name server database (5.6 million non-US place names). 1,716 San José (or San Jose) 1,691 San Antonio; 1,246 Santa Maria (or Santa María) 1,212 Santa Rosa; 1,191 San Pedro; 1,166 San Juan; 1,017 San Francisco; 989 San ...

  8. List of Greek place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language. Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including: Historic Greek regions, including: Ancient Greece, including colonies and contacted peoples. Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples. Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, including ...

  9. List of oldest continuously inhabited cities - Wikipedia

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    Name Historical region Present location Continuously inhabited since Notes Cholula: Old Cholula Mexico: c. 1000 [25] – c. 500 BC [26] [need quotation to verify] Pre-Columbian Cholula grew from a small village to a regional center during the 7th century. The city was the site of the Massacre of Cholula during the military campaign of Hernán ...