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A list of articles about places with unusual names from around the world, organized by alphabetical order. Find out the meanings, origins and stories behind names like Aa, Alert, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake, and more.
Learn about the history and meanings of some place names that are considered unusual, humorous, or offensive in different languages and cultures. See examples from Austria, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, and more.
This web page lists some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services that have such issues due to censorship, blurring, or low resolution. It does not show a blurred satellite image of the earth, but it mentions some countries and regions that are partially or completely obscured.
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 we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Find fictional places from various genres, regions, and media on this Wikipedia page. Browse through lists of fictional bars, castles, countries, islands, planets ...
A comprehensive list of fictional towns, cities and counties from various media, such as comics, films and books. Find out the names, creators, publishers and notes of each fictional settlement, from Basin City to Zion.
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D globe based on satellite imagery, aerial photography, and GIS data. Users can explore the Earth, add their own data, view photos, Street View, and more, but also face privacy and security issues.
Not so funny. Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln: A Hungarian-Jewish man who was, at various times, a UK Member of Parliament, German World War I spy, Nazi collaborator and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama. Tuskegee Syphilis Study: One of the darkest and most bizarre biological experiments in US history, one which spanned decades. Roman von Ungern-Sternberg