User:Axver/List
This page is mostly a reproduction of a former Wikipedia article on geographical placenames that are either interesting or unusual. However, it has been amended to suit my own purposes. The copy of the old article that I used as my basis is this one, specifically this revision. Please do not edit this page.
Note: Pitcairn Island locations almost always don't have Wikipedia articles. Source for the locations is this page.
Any other redlinked or unlinked locations in the A-Z section are presumed to exist, as Google searches appear to turn up varying degrees of informaton. Use caution. Redlinked and unlinked locations in the ? section have not been Googled and are unconfirmed. Do not use without confirmation. This list is up to date to #305.
Locations in A-Z that have translations from languages other than English are believed to be correct.
Exactly what is "interesting or unusual" is of course open to debate, but most of the names fall into recognisable categories:
- Names suggesting matters sexual or scatological or insulting, usually unintentionally. For example Intercourse, Shitlington Crags, or Silly, Belgium.
- Some sex-related names are marked 1 below
- Names of unorthodox spelling or sound. For example Å or Woolloomooloo.
- Candidates for the shortest or longest word in English or other languages are marked 2.
- Names that are also listed on inherently funny word are marked 3.
- Names that describe something that is in no apparent sense as to a geographical location. For example, Why, Old Harry, Mutters, Pity Me, and Die.
- Names that match or resemble the name of another much better known place, giving opportunity for confusion (for example New York, Lincolnshire, England, or Boston (also, coincidentally, in Lincolnshire)) can be found in the List of misleading place names.
- Names that are insulting or may hurt some groups of people, such as the town of Siem Reap, Cambodia (literally "the defeat of Siam") , or the small settlement of La-Mort-aux-Juifs (literally "the death of the Jews"), in the municipality (commune) of Courtemaux, France.
Many place names that appear odd to English-speakers are from other languages. Often they are either meaningless or innocuous in their own tongue. The arguably best-known examples of this are the town of Condom, France, and the village of Fucking, Austria.
Because of problems associated with an unusual place name, some towns and cities have chosen to rename themselves.
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[edit]- 1770, Queensland, Australia
==A==
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- Å in Norway & Sweden2. Its name is Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish for "small river".
- Aa River, name of several rivers in Europe: France, Germany, Switzerland...
- Aars, Denmark
- Abbess Roding, Essex, England
- Accident, Maryland, USA
- Advance, Indiana, USA
- Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland 2
- Agency, Iowa, USA
- Agenda in Kansas, & Wisconsin, USA
- Aha, Okinawa Island, Japan
- Ah Cut, Pitcairn Island
- Ai, Ohio, USA
- Ål, Buskerud, Norway 2. Its name is Danish, Norwegian and Swedish for "eel".
- Alert, Indiana, USA, and Alert, Nunavut, Canada
- Almarosa Avenue, Torrance, California, Combination of alma rosa, the Spanish words for "rosy soul". Once named by the Los Angeles Times as one of California's most unusual street names.
- Alpha in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Ohio, USA
- Amarillo, Texas, USA: Spanish for "yellow", although most Texans pronounce the two "ll"'s as l's like in English, not like a y as in Spanish.
- Amen, Drenthe, Netherlands
- America, Limburg, Netherlands.
- Amerika, Drenthe, Netherlands
- Amerika, Saxony
- Anaconda, Montana, USA
- Antelope, Oregon, USA
- Antelope, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Apples, Vaud, Switzerland 8
- Arab, Alabama, USA (Pronounced "ay-RAB," Arab is down the road from a town called Boaz, which is a Biblical Hebrew name)
- Arm, Mississippi
- Arresting, Lower Bavaria, Germany
- Arrowbear, California, USA, midway between Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear City
- Arsenic Tubs, Arizona, USA
- Arsoli, Lazio, Italy
- Arsy, Oise, France
- Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey, USA
- Artichoke, Minnesota, USA
- As, Limburg, Belgium
- Aš, Czech Republic
- Ås, five places in Sweden (means small mountain ridge)
- Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
- Asse, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Assens, Island of Fyn, Denmark
- Athol, Massachusetts, USA
- Atomic City, Idaho, USA
- Attaching, near Munich, Germany
- Au, several towns in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland 2
- Avenue Road, a main street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and in other cities (there are six in London)
- Azusa, California, USA
==B==
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- Bachelor's Bump, East Sussex, England
- Bad Gastein, Austria
- Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Badgers Mount, Kent, UK
- Bagdad, Arizona, USA
- Bagdad, Tasmania, Australia
- Baie des Ha! Ha!, Quebec, Canada ("Ha! Ha! Bay")
- Bakewell, Derbyshire, England-known for its puddings
- Ball, Louisiana, USA
- Ballast, Drenthe, Netherlands
- Balzac, Alberta, Canada
- Ballsbridge — a suburb of Dublin, Ireland
- Bam, Iran
- Banana, Queensland, Australia 7 & 8
- Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia
- Bang On Iron, Pitcairn Island
- Bankass, Mali
- Barf (Lake District), hill in the Lake District, England
- Barking, Greater London, England
- Barrow, Alaska (northernmost city in the USA)
- Barrow-in-Furness, England
- Bastardo, Italy
- Bat and Ball, a railway station in Sevenoaks, Kent, England
- Batang Berjuntai, Selangor, Malaysia (In Malay, berjuntai means dangling. While batang could either mean a rod or a stream, in some colloquial usage, it carries a connotation of the male sexual organ.)
- Bates Motel, Ontario, Oregon
- Bath, Somerset, England
- Bath, Zeeland, Netherlands
- Bath, New York USA
- Bathmen, Overijssel, Netherlands
- Batman, Batman Province and Batman River, Turkey
- Beauty, Kentucky, USA
- Beaver (several places in the USA)1 & 7
- Beaver City, Nebraska, USA
- Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, USA
- Beaver Lick, Kentucky, USA
- Beaverton in Ontario, Canada and Oregon, USA
- Bee, Nebraska, USA
- Belchen, one of the mountains of the Black Forest, Germany
- Belchen Tunnel, Switzerland
- Belcher, Louisiana
- Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA
- Belper, Derbyshire, England3
- Bend, Oregon, USA
- Bendery, Moldova
- Ben Hur, Virginia, USA
- Best, Texas, USA
- Between, Georgia, USA
- Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Bidon 5, Sahara Desert, Africa 5
- Big Bear City, California, USA 7
- Big Beaver Road, Troy, Michigan, USA — not just a small street, but a main thoroughfare. Furthermore, from Interstate 75, one must take exit 69 to get to Big Beaver Road.
- Bischofsloch, Germany ("Bishop's Hole")
- Bishop's Itchington, Warwickshire, England
- Birdsnest, Virginia, USA
- Bivalve, New Jersey, USA
- Black Hammer Township, Minnesota, USA
- Blackboy Hill, Bristol, England (At the top end of Whiteladies Road)
- Blackjack, Texas, USA
- Bland, Missouri, USA
- Blewett, Texas, USA
- Blitzen, Oregon, USA
- Blizzard Gap, Oregon, USA
- Blow Me Down, Newfoundland, Canada
- Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
- Blubberhouses, Yorkshire, England
- Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, USA 1
- Blue Cow, New South Wales, Australia
- Blunt, South Dakota, USA
- Blunts, Cornwall, England
- Bo, Sierra Leone2
- Bø, in Telemark and Nordland, Norway 2
- Boaz, Alabama, USA (Boaz, which is a Biblical Hebrew name, is down the road from a town called Arab)
- Bonanza, Oregon, USA
- Bone Gap, Illinois, USA
- Bonesteel, South Dakota, USA
- Bong Bong, New South Wales, Australia
- Bong County, Liberia
- Bong Recreational Area, Wisconsin, USA
- Bongoville, Gabon (Named after President Omar Bongo of Gabon)
- Bono, Arkansas, USA
- Booger Hill, near Cumming, Georgia
- Booger Mountain, North Carolina, USA
- Boom, Belgium
- Booti Booti National Park, Australia
- Bop Bop, Pitcairn Island
- Boring, Oregon, USA
- Boron, California, USA
- Bottom, North Carolina, USA
- Boutilimit, Mauritania
- Bra, Italy
- Braga, Portugal (it means "knickers" (U.K.) or "panties" (U.S.) in Spanish)
- Braintree, a place name in the United Kingdom as well as both Massachusetts and Vermont, USA
- Bras d'Or Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Brasilien, Germany
- Breakabeen, New York, USA (close to the Dutch translation of "break a leg")
- Break Im Hip, Pitcairn Island
- Breaky Bottom, East Sussex, England
- Bredon Hill, England (translated: "hill hill hill")
- Brest, France
- Bright, Indiana, USA
- Brighton & Hove England. Only city with an ampersand (&) in its name.
- Broadstairs, Kent, England
- Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
- Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Australian mining giant BHP stands for Broken Hill Proprietary Company
- Brothers, Oregon, USA near Sisters
- Brown Cow Road, Barlow, England
- Bruno, Minnesota, USA
- Buckatunna, Mississippi, USA
- Buckhead, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Bucksnort, Tennessee, USA
- Buddha, Indiana, USA
- Bugyi, Hungary (it means "knickers" (U.K.) or "panties" (U.S.))
- Bühne, Germany (German for "Stage")
- Bullhead City, Arizona, USA; named for a nearby rock formation shaped like a bull's head; submerged soon after the completion of nearby Davis Dam
- Bulls, New Zealand 7
- Bullocks Corners, Ontario, Canada
- Bullocks Flat, New South Wales, Australia
- Bumble Hole, West Midlands, England
- Bungalow, Isle of Man
- Bungle Bungles, Western Australia, Australia
- Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England 7
- Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England
- Burns, Oregon, USA
- Burnt Hill, Berkshire, England
- Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, Australia
- Bush, Kentucky, USA
- Butt Hole Lane1, Conisbrough, England
- Butt Hole Lane1, Shepshed, Leicestershire, England
- Butt of Lewis, northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland
- Buttahatchee River, Alabama and Mississippi, USA
- Butte, Montana, USA
- Butts Valley, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Buttzville, New Jersey, USA
==C==
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- Caesar, Mississippi, USA
- Camel Hump, Wyoming, USA
- Canary, Oregon, USA
- Cape Circumcision, Bouvet Island
- Cape Disappointment, Oregon and Washington, USA
- Cape Flattery, Queensland, Australia
- Cape Foulwind, South Island, New Zealand
- Cape St. George-Petit Jardin-Grand Jardin-De Grau-Marches Point-Loretto, Newfoundland, Canada
- Caress, West Virginia, USA
- Carneys Point Township, New Jersey, USA
- Carpenter, Mississippi, USA
- Carpinteria, California, USA; Spanish for "carpenter shop"
- Carsick, Sheffield, England
- Catbrain Hill, Gloucestershire, England
- Cathedral City, California USA; named not for the house of worship but for a rock formation. There are no cathedrals in Cathedral City.
- Cathole, Devon, England
- Cattewater, Devon, England
- Center of the World, Ohio, USA
- Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA, built on property that was once the backlot of Twentieth Century Fox
- Cereal, Alberta, Canada 8
- Chaldon Herring, Dorset, England
- Chalk, Texas, USA
- Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
- Chalybeate, Mississippi, USA
- Chard, Somerset, England
- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts, USA 2
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
- Cheesequake State Park, New Jersey, USA 8
- Chew Magna, England
- Chili, New York, USA8 (pronounced CHYE-lye, often mispronounced by non-locals)
- Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
- Chinaman's Knob, Australia
- Chipping Sodbury, England
- Christmas Island, Australia 4
- Christmas, Michigan, USA 4
- Christmas Valley, Oregon, USA
- Chuckanut Mountains, and Chuckanut Bay near Bellingham, Washington, USA
- Chugwater, Wyoming, USA
- Chulahoma, Mississippi, USA
- Chunky, Mississippi, and the nearby Chunky River, USA
- Chute du Caribou-qui-Pisse, Quebec, Canada (lit. "Pissing Caribou Falls") [1]
- Clayton, many locations
- Climax, Colorado, Climax, Michigan, Climax, Minnesota, Climax, Georgia USA 1
- Climax Springs, Missouri, USA 1
- Clitherall, Minnesota, USA 1
- Clowne, Derbyshire, England
- Coalinga, California, USA; attributed to a Standard Oil installation in the area called "Coaling Station A", used as a fueling point for steam locomotives.
- Coca Cola, Colón, Panama
- Cocks, Cornwall, England
- Coffeeville, Mississippi, USA
- Cold Christmas, Hertfordshire, England
- Colon, Michigan, USA
- Combined Locks, Wisconsin, USA
- Come-by-Chance, New South Wales, Australia
- Commerce, California, USA
- Competition, Missouri, USA
- Conception Bay, Newfoundland
- Concepcion, Texas, USA
- Cookham, Berkshire, England
- Cool, California, USA
- Coolville, Ohio, USA
- Corney, Cumbria, England
- Cornucopia, Oregon, USA
- Cornville, Maine, USA 8
- Cosmos, Minnesota, USA
- Cow Head, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 7
- Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
- Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
- Coxsackie, New York, USA
- Crackertown, Florida, USA
- Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, Canada
- Crap Sogn Gion, Graubünden, Switzerland
- Crapo, Maryland
- Crapolla, Italy
- Crawley, West Sussex, England
- Crook, County Durham, England (also Cumbria, Devon); Crook, Colorado
- Crook County, Oregon, USA
- Crook Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
- Crook of Devon, Scotland. 3
- Crook Township, Hamilton County, Illinois
- Crooked Usage, street in Hendon, London, England
- Crooks, Oregon, USA
- Crooks Township, Renville County, Minnesota
- Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
- Cross-in-Hand, East Sussex, England
- Crow, Oregon, USA
- Crowborough, East Sussex, England (Yes, there are a lot of crows there.) 7
- Cumming, Georgia; Cumming, Iowa; Cumming Township, Michigan 1
- Cumming Street, Inwood Section of Manhattan in New York (which intersects with Seaman Avenue)
- Cunt, Turkey - References seem few and far between. But see here, which indicates it may be another name for Bekcitepe. And see here for a laugh.
- Cuntis, Pontevedra, Spain 1
- Curry Mallet, Somerset, England
- Cut n' Shoot, Texas, USA
- Cut Off, Louisiana, USA
- Czar, West Virginia, USA
D
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- D'Lo, Mississippi, USA
- Dairy, Oregon, USA
- Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany ("Intestine City")
- Day, Kentucky, USA
- Deadwood, Oregon, USA
- Deaf Smith County, Texas, USA
- Death Valley, California, USA
- Decoy, Kentucky, USA
- Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, USA
- Defiance, Ohio, USA
- Desert Center, California, USA
- Destruction Bay, Yukon, Canada
- Devils Elbow, Missouri, USA
- Devil's Playground, in Mojave, California, USA
- Devil's Point, Plymouth, England
- Dial Post, Sussex, England
- Diamond, Oregon, USA
- Dice, Kentucky, USA
- Difficult, Tennessee, USA
- Dike, Oregon, USA
- Dildo Island and South Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada 1
- Dime Box, Texas, USA
- Ding Dong, Texas, USA 1 8
- Dirty Devil River, Utah, USA
- DISH, Texas, named so to obtain free Dish Network for 10 years
- Dismal, Tennessee, USA
- Dix Hills, New York, USA 1
- Doo Town, Tasmania, Australia (all houses are called something to do with "doo", eg. Doo Little, Doo Drop In, Didgeri-doo, etc.)
- Donner und Blitzen River, Frenchglen, Oregon
- Dork Canal, Oregon
- Down Rope, Pitcairn Island
- Drain, Oregon, USA
- Drama, Greece in the Drama Prefecture
- Draw, Texas, USA
- Drogen, Germany (translates as "drugs")
- Dry Prong, Louisiana, USA
- Duel, Michigan, USA
- Dufur, Oregon, USA
- Dummer, New Hampshire, USA
- Dwarf, Kentucky, USA
E
[edit]- E Plantation, Maine, USA
- Eagle, Lincolnshire, England
- Eagle Butte, South Dakota USA
- Earth, Texas, USA
- East Fishkill, New York, USA
- East Northport, New York, USA
- East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada
- Easter Island, Chile 4
- Eaton, Ohio
- Ecce Homo, Schwyz, Switzerland 1
- Eclectic, Alabama, USA
- Economy in Indiana, and Pennsylvania, USA and Nova Scotia, Canada
- Ecum Secum, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Ed, Sweden 2
- Ed's Coc'nuts, Pitcairn Island
- Eek, Alaska, USA
- Eel Pie Island, London, England
- Effort, Pennsylvania, USA
- Egg, Austria 8
- Egg an der Günz, Germany
- Egg, Switzerland 8
- Egg Harbor, New Jersey, USA
- Eighty Eight, Kentucky, USA 5
- Equality, Alabama, USA
- Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, USA 5
- El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula, USA (Full name of "Los Angeles")
- Elbow, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Electra, Groningen, Netherlands
- Elephant Butte, New Mexico, USA 7
- Elephant and Castle, London, England (a well-known road intersection)
- Embarrass, Minnesota, USA
- Embarrass, Wisconsin, USA
- Empire, Michigan, USA
- Energy, Texas, USA
- Enter, Twente, Netherlands
- Enterprise, Oregon, USA
- Entrance, Alberta, Canada
- Erode, India
- Eromanga, Australia (Japanese for hentai manga)
- E. S. Nigger Brown Stand, a section of a rugby stadium in Toowoomba, Australia 7
- Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ("Food") 8
- Esquilant Bivouac, New Zealand
- Eustace, Texas, USA
- Evry, France
- Eye, Cambridgeshire, Eye, Herefordshire, Eye, Suffolk, as well as the River Eye, England, and River Eye, Scotland,
- Eyebrow, Saskatchewan, Canada
F
[edit]- Fa, Aude, France 2
- Fagus, Missouri, USA
- Fair Play, South Carolina, USA
- Fairdealing, Kentucky, USA
- Fairy, Texas, USA
- Fakaofo, Tokelau 1
- Fancy Farm, Kentucky, USA
- Fanny, West Virginia, USA
- Fanny Bay, British Columbia
- Fanny on the Hill, public house in Welling, south east London, England
- Fannystelle, Manitoba, Canada
- Faro, Yukon, Canada, named after the Faro card game
- Fatherless Barn, West Midlands, England
- Fearsville, Kentucky, USA
- Fegefeuer, Germany (German for "purgatory")
- Felch, Michigan, USA
- Fertile, Minnesota, USA
- Feucht, Germany (means "wetness" in German)
- Fine, New York, USA
- Fingerville, South Carolina, USA
- Fish Camp, California, USA
- Fister, Norway
- Five Corners (several), USA 5
- Five Forks (several), USA 5
- Five Points (several), USA 5
- Flat, Missouri, USA
- Flattie, Pitcairn Island
- Fleahop, Alabama, USA
- Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
- Flintstone, Maryland USA
- Fly Don't Drive, (street name) Traverse City, Michigan, USA
- Flippin, Arkansas, USA
- Flying H, New Mexico, USA
- Foch, West Virginia, USA
- Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC, USA
- Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England (the "l" is silent)
- Fonzo, West Virginia, USA
- Forks of Salmon, California, USA
- Fort Bliss US Army Post, Texas, USA
- Fossil, Oregon, USA
- Foul Mile, Sussex, England
- French Camp, California, USA
- French Lick, Indiana, USA
- Frenchman's Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada - see Battle of Frenchman's Butte
- Friend, Kansas, USA
- Friend, Oregon, USA
- Friendly, Maryland, USA and Friendly, West Virginia, USA
- Friendship, Wisconsin, USA
- Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England
- Frog Level, Virginia, USA
- Frognot, Texas, USA
- Fryingpan River, Colorado, USA
- Fryup, Yorkshire, England 8
- Future City, Illinois, USA
- Fyshwick, A.C.T., Australia
G
[edit]- Gander, Newfoundland, Canada 7
- Gap, Pennsylvania, USA
- Garden, Michigan, USA
- Garden of Eden, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Gary, Indiana, USA
- Gas, Kansas, USA
- Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA (recently renamed Aquinnah)
- Gayton (several places in England) 1
- Gay Street, Bath, England, Winter Park, Florida USA, and Columbus, Ohio USA, Greenwich Village, New York City
- Gay, Michigan, USA
- Gay, West Virginia, USA
- Gay State Forest, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
- Gayhill, Texas, USA
- Gays, Illinois, USA
- George, Washington,USA
- Germfask, Michigan, USA
- Gimli, Manitoba, Canada (a rural municipality)
- Gin Hole Landing, Florida, USA
- Gip, West Virginia, USA
- Gland, Switzerland
- Glide, Oregon, USA
- Gnaw Bone, Indiana, USA
- Gods Lake Narrows, Manitoba, Canada
- Goodyear, Arizona, USA 4
- Goonoo Goonoo, New South Wales, Australia (pronounced "gunna g'noo")
- Goose Green, Vermont, USA; also in the Falkland Islands
- Goree, Texas, USA
- Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, a train station in Gwynedd, Wales 2
- Grand Tetons, a mountain range in Wyoming, USA (meaning: "big nipples" in French) 1
- Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, USA
- Grandmother Gap, North Carolina, USA
- Great Neck, New York, USA
- Grizzly, Oregon, USA
- Grong Grong, New South Wales, Australia
- Gropecunt Lane, England, United Kingdom
- Gross, Nebraska
- Grosse Water Beach, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Grosse Tête, Louisiana, USA (meaning: "big head" in French)
- Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
- Gunbarrel Highway, Western Australia, Australia
- Gunbarrel, Colorado, USA
- Gy, Switzerland 2
- Gypsy, West Virginia, USA
H
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- Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (this name has been referenced on many rock and popular music songs from as early as 1918)
- Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri, USA
- Half.com, Oregon, USA (it is sponsored by eBay)
- Halfway Bush, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Halfway, Missouri, USA and Halfway, Oregon, USA
- Halfway House, Newfoundland, Canada
- Halo, West Virginia, USA
- Ham, Wiltshire and Ham, Kent (the latter is near Sandwich, Kent), both in England 8
- Hamtramck, Michigan, USA
- Happy, Texas, USA
- Happy Adventure, Newfoundland, Canada
- Happy Union, Texas, USA
- Hard, Austria
- Hardman, Oregon, USA
- Haseley Knob, Warwickshire, England
- Hazard, Kentucky USA
- Hazardville, Connecticut, USA
- Headache, Pitcairn Island
- Head of Grassy, Kentucky, USA
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a historic site in Alberta, Canada
- Headland, Alabama, USA
- Health Steele, New Brunswick, Canada. 3
- Hearts Content National Scenic Area, Pennsylvania
- Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Heart's Delight, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Heart's Desire, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Hell, Gelderland, Netherlands
- Hel, Poland
- Hell, Norway
- Hell Corner, Berkshire, England
- Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, USA
- Hell's Gate, on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada
- Hell Gate, a portion of the East River in New York, USA
- Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
- Hell, Grand Cayman, British West Indies
- Hella, Iceland
- Helper, Utah, USA
- Hen Scratch, Florida, USA
- Hempstead, New York, USA
- Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, USA
- Hicksville, New York, and Hicksville, Ohio, USA
- High Level, Alberta, Canada
- High Point, a mountain in Sussex, New Jersey, USA — the highest point in the state
- Hi Hat, Kentucky, USA
- Hill of Difficulty, Pitcairn Island
- Himmelreich, Germany (meaning: "kingdom of heaven", small town in the Black Forest, located at the end of the Höllental, the "hell's valley")
- Himmelspforte, Germany (meaning: "heaven's gate")
- Hīt, Iraq
- Ho, Ghana
- Hoard, Clark County, Wisconsin, USA
- Hockin, Manitoba, Canada
- Hoho, Laukaa, Finland
- Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA
- Hokah, Minnesota, USA
- Hole for Matts, Pitcairn Island
- Hole-in-the-Day Lake, Minnesota, USA
- Hole-in-the-Ground, Oregon, USA
- Hole in the Wall, Bahamas
- Honker Bay, California, USA
- Hometown, Illinois
- Hometown, Pennsylvania
- Hometown, West Virginia
- Homosassa, Florida, USA
- Honor, Michigan, USA
- Hook, New Zealand
- Horace, North Dakota, USA
- Horneytown, North Carolina, USA 1
- Hornyhead Mountain, North Carolina
- Horse Heaven, Oregon, USA
- Hotchkiss, Alberta, Canada
- Hot Coffee, Mississippi, USA 8
- How, Wisconsin, USA 6
- Howard City, Michigan, USA
- Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, Australia
- Hungry Horse, Montana, USA
- Hungry Law, a peak on the England–Scotland border
- Hungry Mother State Park, Virginia, USA
- Hurricane, Utah, USA
- Hurricane, West Virginia, USA (pronounced Her-i-kin)
- Hurt, Virginia, USA
- Hustler, Wisconsin, USA
I
[edit]- Idiotville, Oregon
- Idle Hour, New York, USA
- Idyllwild, California, USA
- Ii, Finland 2
- IJ, river in the Netherlands
- Indented Head, Victoria, Australia
- Index, Washington, USA
- Indian Cabins, Alberta, Canada
- Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Indian Queens, Cornwall, England
- Industry, California, USA
- Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California (street with the head office of Apple Computer)
- Innaloo (suburb of Perth, Western Australia)
- Intercourse, Alabama 1
- Ironia, New Jersey, USA
- Ironside, Oregon, USA
- Island, Kentucky, USA
- Isles of Scilly, England (pronounced "silly")
J
[edit]- Jackman, Maine, USA
- Jackpot, Nevada, USA
- Jamboree, Kentucky, USA
- Jedi Way, East Freetown, Massachusetts (street)
- Jerry City, Ohio, USA
- Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, USA (about 250 miles from the Jersey Shore)
- Jewell, Oregon, USA
- Jiggalong, Western Australia, Australia
- Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
- Job, Kentucky, USA
- Jockey End, Hertfordshire, England
- Joe Batt's Arm, an offshore fixture in Canada
- Joe, Montana, USA
- John Catch a Cow, Pitcairn Island
- John o' Groats, Scotland
- Johnny Fall, Pitcairn Island
- Jot Em Down, Texas USA
- Jot Em Down Store, Georgia, USA
- Jupiter, Florida USA
- Justiceburg, Texas, USA
K
[edit]- Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- Katzenellenbogen, Germany ("Cat's elbow")
- Katzenhirn, Germany (literally "cat's brain" in German)
- Kellys Knob, Kununurra, Western Australia
- Keno, Oregon, USA
- Keno City, Yukon, Canada, named after the Keno gambling game.
- Ketchikan, Alaska
- Kiester, Minnesota, USA 1
- Kickapoo State Park, Illinois
- Kilcock, Co.Kildare, Ireland
- Kilmore Church, Isle of Mull [2]
- Kilo, Espoo, Finland
- Kilbride, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (and a number of unconfirmed, redlinked places called Kilbride at the disambiguation page.)
- Kill, County Kildare, Ireland
- Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA
- Kill Van Kull, New York and New Jersey, USA
- Killer is a part of the town of Burladingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the Killer Valley (Killertal), which curiously enough was named after the village rather than after the river that flows through it, the Starzel. Before its incorporation into Burladingen, the signpost marking the village's entrance was frequently stolen.
- Killingworth, Tyne and Wear, England
- Kilmacow, Co. Waterford, Ireland
- King Cole, Oregon, USA
- King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Kissimmee, Florida, USA (properly pronounced "kis-SIMM-ee" (IPA [kǝˈsɪmɪ]), but usually mispronounced "KISS-a-me" ([ˈkɪsǝmiː]) by non-locals). The Osceola Astros Class A Minor league baseball team changed its name to the Cobras when they moved to Kissimmee.
- Kissing, Germany
- Klang Valley, Malaysia
- Kleuter, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (lit. "toddler")
- Kloten, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Kloten is the Dutch word for "testicles," and is frequently used as an expletive.
- Knickerbocker, Texas, USA
- Knob Noster, Missouri, USA
- Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England
- Kokomo, Indiana, USA
- Koochiching County, Minnesota, USA
- Koshkonong, Wisconsin, USA
- Krk, Croatia
- Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit — the poetic name of Bangkok, Thailand 2
- Krypton, Kentucky, USA
L
[edit]- L'Anse-Qui-Pue, Quebec, Canada ("the cove that stinks" in French) [3]
- L'Ete des Baleines, Quebec, Canada ("the spring of whales" in French) [4]
- L'Horloge-Qui-Boîte, Quebec, Canada ("the clock that drinks" in French) [5]
- Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada; Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA
- Lady's Hole, cave near Beadnell, Northumberland, England
- Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, Australia
- Lake Minnewanka, Alberts, Canada
- Lake Tahoe, USA
- Lake Titicaca, in Peru and Bolivia
- Lalala, Gabon
- La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (literally "The Slaughter")
- Lame Deer, Montana
- Largo Labia, Rome, Italy
- Last Chance, Colorado, USA
- Latex, Texas
- Learned, Mississippi, USA
- Left Hand, West Virginia
- Levelland, Texas, USA
- Liberal, Kansas, USA
- Lick Skillet, Texas, USA
- Lickey End, Worcestershire, England
- Licking, Missouri, USA
- Licking County, Ohio, USA
- Lignumvitae Key, Florida, USA
- Lime, Oregon, USA
- Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA1
- Little Big Horn, Montana, USA
- Little Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 5
- Little Heart's Ease, Newfoundland, Canada
- Little River, Victoria, Australia and Little River, New Zealand
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Livermore, California, USA
- Liverpool, Great Britain
- Lizard Lick, North Carolina, USA
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales 2
- Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole (normally Llanfynydd), Wales 2
- Load, Kentucky, USA
- Locust Valley, New York, USA
- Log Cabin, Texas, USA
- Lonerock, Oregon, USA
- Loggerheads, Wales
- Loogootee, Indiana, USA
- Lookingglass, Oregon, USA
- Looneyville, Texas, USA
- Loon Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Loop, Texas, USA
- Long Bottom, Ohio
- Lord Hereford's Knob — hill on the Welsh–English border
- Lorne, Victoria, Australia
- Lost, Scotland
- Louny, Czech Republic
- Love, Illinois, USA
- Loveland, Ohio, USA
- Loveland, Colorado, USA
- Lovely, Kentucky, USA
- Loving, New Mexico, USA
- Loving County, Texas, USA
- Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
- Loyal, Oklahoma, USA
- Loyal, Wisconsin, USA
- Luck, Wisconsin, USA
- Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Lulworth, Tasmania, Australia
- Lü, Switzerland 2
M
[edit]- Mace, Indiana, USA
- Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland
- Magnet, Nebraska, USA
- Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA
- Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
- Man Fuk Road, Homantin, Hong Kong
- Ma-Me-O Beach, Alberta, Canada (beach)
- Manly, Iowa, USA and Manly, New South Wales, Australia
- Manteca, California, USA, Spanish word for lard.
- March, Cambridgeshire, England 4
- Marston Bigot, Somerset, England
- Martin's Heron, Berkshire, England
- Maryland, Monmouthshire, Wales
- Masai, Johor, Malaysia
- Mashpee, Massachusetts, USA
- Matching Tye, Essex, England
- Matt's Fever, Pitcairn Island
- Mavis Enderby, Lincolnshire, England
- Maybee, Michigan, USA
- Mayo, Yukon, Canada8 (named after Alfred Mayo)
- Meat Camp, North Carolina, USA
- Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
- Melbury Bubb, Dorset, England
- Meridian, Mississippi, USA
- Merrybent, County Durham, England
- Messy, France
- Metropolis, Illinois, USA
- Mexican Hat, Utah, USA
- Mexican Water, Arizona, USA
- Mianus, Connecticut, USA
- Middelfart, Funen, Denmark
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
- Mineral, Virginia, USA
- Minorsville, Kentucky, USA
- Mist, Oregon, USA
- Mistake Point, California, USA
- Mockbeggar, England
- Moddergat, The Netherlands ("mud hole" in Dutch)
- Mold, Wales
- Money, Mississippi, USA
- Monitor, Alberta
- Monks Risborough, England
- Montezuma, Indiana, USA
- Moonee Ponds, Victoria
- Mooney Mooney, New South Wales, Australia
- Moonlight, New Zealand (source)
- Moonlight Flat, New Zealand (One in Nelson and one in Otago)
- Moosehead Lake, Maine, USA
- Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
- Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Morehead, Kentucky, USA
- Moretonhampstead, Devon (longest one-word place name in England)
- Moron, USA (the original name of Taft, California)
- Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Moron, Mongolia
- Moron, Switzerland
- Mough, Ireland (pronounced Muff) 1
- Mount Jerome, Ireland
- Mount Comfort, Indiana, USA
- Mousehole, UK
- Mouse Sweet, West Midlands, England
- Muck, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Mucking, Essex, England
- Muggenbeet, Overijssel, The Netherlands (Dutch for "mosquito bite")
- Muckanaghederdauhaulia, Ireland
- Mudchute, Tower Hamlets, England
- Muleshoe, Texas, USA
- Mumbles, Wales
- Mutters, Austria
N
[edit]- Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
- Namlos, Austria ("No name")
- Nameless, Tennessee, USA
- Nar Nar Goon, Victoria, Australia
- Nasty, Hertfordshire, England
- Natters, Austria
- Nauraushaun, New York, USA
- Navasota, Texas, USA
- Neck City, Missouri, USA
- Needles, California, USA
- Nempnett Thrubwell, Somerset, England
- Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England
- Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England
- New Invention, Shropshire, England
- New Invention, Walsall, England
- Newtwopothouse and neighbouring Twopothouse in Ireland (among the few properly translated placenames in Ireland)
- Niceville, Florida, USA
- Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand
- Nimrod, Minnesota, USA
- Nimrod, Oregon, USA
- Ninety Six, South Carolina, USA 5
- Ninety Six Corners, New York, USA 5
- Ninetynine Oaks, California, USA 5 & 7
- Nobottle, Northamptonshire, England
- Nogo, Arkansas, USA
- No Guts Captain, Pitcairn Island
- Noisy, several locations in France
- Nomansland, Wiltshire, and Nomansland, Devon, England
- Nome, Alaska, USA (after the nearby Cape Nome; '? Name' misread by a map maker as 'C. Nome')
- Noodle, Texas, USA 8
- No Name, Colorado, USA
- No Name Key, Florida, USA
- Nonpareil, Oregon, USA
- No Place, County Durham, England
- Noone, New Hampshire, USA
- Norco, California, USA; abbreviation of "North Corona"
- Normal, Illinois, USA
- Normal Heights, a community in San Diego, California, USA (named for the State Normal School in University Heights)
- North, South Carolina, USA
- North Freedom, Wisconsin, USA
- North Pole, Alaska, USA
- Northwest South River Drive, Miami, Florida, USA
- Nothing, Arizona, USA
- Notrees, Texas, USA
- Notschrei, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (means "Emergency cry" (not call))
- Nova Iorque, Brazil (means New York in portuguese)
- Novice, Texas, USA
- Nowhere, Arizona, USA
- Nowhere Else, Tasmania, Australia
- Nunhead, London, England
- Nyah and Nyah West, Victoria, Australia
O
[edit]- Oatman, Arizona, USA
- Oatmeal, Texas, USA
- Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, Germany
- Odd, West Virginia, USA
- Odder, Denmark
- Oddville, Kentucky, USA
- Odododiodoo, Greater Accra, Ghana, constituency in the Ghanaian capital
- Ogle, Kentucky, USA
- Ogre, Latvia
- Oh Dear, Pitcairn Island
- Okietown, Oregon, USA
- Okonoko, West Virginia, USA
- Old, Northamptonshire, England
- Old Crow, Yukon, Canada
- Old Dad Mountains, USA, geographical feature in the Mojave Desert
- Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
- Old Swan, Liverpool, England
- Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England
- Old Woman Springs, California, USA
- Oliver Paipoonge, Ontario, Canada
- Oma, Wisconsin, USA, the German shortened version for grandmother
- One Hundred and Two River, Iowa and Missouri, USA
- Ong's Hat, New Jersey, USA
- Oombulgurri, Western Australia, Australia
- Opa-locka, Florida, USA
- Opdyke, Texas, USA
- Opelousas, Louisiana, USA
- Opp, Alabama, USA
- Optic Lake, Manitoba, Canada
- Orange, California, USA, city in Orange County, and Orange, New Jersey, USA8
- Orly, Paris
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
- Os, Hedmark, Norway 2
- Os, Hordaland, Norway 2
- Oskaloosa, Iowa and Oskaloosa, Kansas, USA
- Otterup, Denmark
- Out the Small, Pitcairn Island
- Overflowing River, Manitoba, Canada
- Owanka, South Dakota, USA 1
- Oxnard, California, USA
- Oy, Germany
- Oyster, Virginia, USA
- Oz, Kentucky, USA
P
[edit]- Pahrump, Nevada, USA
- Paint, Pennsylvania, USA
- Paint Lick, Kentucky, USA
- Pakenham Upper, Victoria, Australia
- Panthersville, Georgia, USA
- Paps of Anu, mountains in Co. Kerry, Ireland
- The Paps of Jura, mountains on the Isle of Jura, Scotland
- Parachute, Colorado, USA
- Paradise, New Zealand
- Paradise, California, USA
- Paradise, Michigan, USA
- Paradise, Pennsylvania, USA
- Paradiso, Switzerland
- Patriot, Indiana, USA
- Pease Pottage, West Sussex, England 8
- Peck, Michigan, USA 1
- Peckerwood Lake, a lake in Arkansas, USA 1
- Peculiar, Missouri, USA
- Pee Pee Township, Pike County, Ohio, USA
- Peel, Ontario, Canada
- Peerless, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Peewee, West Virginia
- Penguin, Tasmania, Australia 7
- Penisarwain, Gwynedd, Wales 1
- Peñíscola, Spain (also means (the) penis sticked in French) 1
- Pennsylvania, Gloucestershire, England
- Perisher Blue, New South Wales, Australia
- Perl, Germany (and those who work with the Web may be amused to find Apach, France adjacent)
- Petting, Germany
- Pettit, Texas, USA (pronounced "petite")
- Philadelphia, Mississippi, USA
- Phuket, Thailand 1
- Picpus (Paris underground railway station)
- Picpus Cemetery, Paris, France
- Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton, England
- Pidley, Cambridgeshire, England 1
- Pie, West Virginia
- Pie Town, New Mexico 8
- Pissy, France
- Pistol River, Oregon, USA
- Placentia, California, USA
- Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 1
- Plain Dealing, Louisiana, USA
- Plaster City, California, USA
- Pleasureville, Kentucky, USA
- Plush, Oregon, USA
- Point Blank, Texas, USA
- Point Happy, a geologic feature in La Quinta, California, USA
- Polar, Texas, USA
- Police, Poland
- Poowong, Victoria, Australia
- Popcorn, Indiana, USA
- Port Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Possum Grape, Arkansas, USA
- Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, USA
- Possum Trot, Kentucky, USA
- Possum Trot, Missouri, USA
- Pot Holes and Bears Den State Forest, a state forest in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
- Pratt Cemetery, Lattingtown, New York
- Pratt's Bottom, London, England 1
- Prattville, Alabama
- Primate, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Pride, Kentucky, USA
- Princes End, Tipton, England
- Pringle, Texas, USA 8
- Prospect, Oregon, USA
- Prosper, Oregon, USA
- Puddletown, Dorset, England
- Pukë, Albania
- Pump Bottom near Chichester, England.
- Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, Canada
- Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, USA
- Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, a state park in Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
- Puyallup, WA, USA
- Puzzletown, Pennsylvania, USA
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[edit]- Quail, Texas, USA
- Quaking Houses, County Durham, England
- Queen Camel, Somerset, England
- Quicksand, Kentucky, USA
R
[edit]- Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado, USA
- Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, USA
- Rain, Bavaria, Germany (there are two towns with that name and both in Bavaria)
- Ramrod Key, Florida, USA
- Ramsbottom, Lancashire, UK (fr. Old English meaning "valley (botham) of wild garlic (rham)")
- Rat's Hole, Pitcairn Island
- Re, Vestfold, Norway 2
- Reading in various places (pronounced "Redding")
- Readymoney Cove, Cornwall, England
- Rectum, Netherlands
- Reklaw, Texas, USA (Walker spelled backwards - near Sacul (Lucas spelled backwards)
- Red Dirt, Pitcairn Island
- Red Shirt, South Dakota, USA
- Rest and be Thankful, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
- Remote, Oregon, USA
- Rice, California, USA; abandoned small town in the southern Mojave Desert8
- Riddle, Oregon, USA
- Rifle, Colorado, USA
- Ringoes, New Jersey, USA
- Rising Sun, Indiana, USA
- River Styx, many locations
- Roach, Missouri, USA
- Roast Meat Hill Road, a street in Killingworth, Connecticut, USA
- Robert Lee, Texas, USA
- Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
- Rocket Pool, England
- Rollingstone, Minnesota, USA
- Ronkonkoma, New York, USA (stress on the second syllable)
- Root, Lucerne, Switzerland
- Rosenhayn, New Jersey, USA
- Rottenegg, Austria 8
- Rottingdean, Sussex, England
- Royalty, Texas, USA
- Rufus, Oregon, USA
- Rule, Texas, USA
- Rum, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland 8
- Rum, Austria 8
- Rust, Austria
- Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England
- Ry, Denmark 2
- Rye, New York, USA
- Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset, England
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- Safe, Missouri, USA
- Saint-Tite, Quebec, Canada (pronounced "St Tit")
- Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
- Samendorf, Austria ("town of semen" in German)
- Sandwich, Illinois, USA 8
- Sandwich, Kent, England 8
- Sandwich, Massachusetts, USA 8
- Sandy, Bedfordshire, England – especially its informal postal abbreviation "Sandy Beds"
- Santa Claus, Georgia, USA
- Satsuma, Alabama, USA
- Scrapfaggot Green, Essex, England
- Screamer, Alabama, USA.
- Scunthorpe, England. The name causes problems with some child-protection filters owing to the presence of the word "cunt".
- Searchlight, Nevada, USA
- Secretary, Maryland, USA
- Seething, Norfolk, England
- Seldom Seen Roadhouse, Victoria, Australia
- Semen, Indonesia 1
- Stepaside, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Seven Corners, Virginia, USA
- Seven Hills, Ohio, USA
- Sex Rouge, a mountain in the Swiss Alps 1
- Sexdrega, Sweden
- Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada 1
- Shafter, California, USA1
- Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Shag Island, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Indian Ocean (dependency of Australia)
- Shag Island, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada 1
- Shag River, New Zealand 1
- Shahada (a town), Nandurbar district, Maharashtra state, India
- Shamrock, Texas, USA 7
- Shelfanger, Norfolk, England
- Shellow Bowells, England
- Shellpile, New Jersey, USA
- Sheriff Hales, Shropshire, England
- Ship Landing Point, Pitcairn Island
- Shit, Iran
- Shite Creek, Idaho
- Shittlehope, Durham, England
- Shoulderblade, Kentucky, USA
- Show Low, Arizona, USA
- Siesta Key, Florida, USA
- Silica, Minnesota, USA
- Silly, Belgium
- Simmering, Vienna, Austria
- Simplex Drive, Westminster, Massachusetts, USA (home of SimplexGrinnell)
- Siren, Wisconsin, USA
- Sissy, France (commune)
- Sisters, Oregon, USA near Mt. Bachelor
- Sixes, Oregon, USA
- Six Feet, Pitcairn Island
- Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, England
- Skaneateles, New York, USA (pronounced like skinny Atlas)
- Skookumchuck River, Washington, USA
- Skunk's Misery Road in Locust Valley, New York
- Skyline, Minnesota, USA
- Slack Bottom, West Yorkshire, UK
- Slag Lane, Trowbridge, UK
- Slapout, Oklahoma, USA
- Slaughter Beach, Delaware, USA
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan, USA
- Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, USA
- Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, USA
- Smiley, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Smut Eye, Alabama, USA
- Snafu Lake, Yukon, Canada
- Snapfinger, Georgia, USA
- Snodland, Kent, England
- Sodom Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Solitude, Indiana, USA
- Sots Hole fenland hamlet in Metheringham parish, Lincolnshire, England
- Spit Junction, New South Wales, Australia
- Splatt, Devon, England
- Split, Dalmatia, Croatia
- Splott, Cardiff, Wales
- Spooner, Wisconsin, USA
- Spread Eagle, Wisconsin, USA 1
- Spunk Creek, Minnesota, USA and related bodies of water such as Middle Spunk Lake 1
- Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada
- Stamping Ground, Kentucky, USA
- Stateline, Nevada, USA
- Stiffkey, Norfolk, England
- Stoner Hill, Hampshire England
- Strata Florida Abbey, Dyfed, Wales
- Studholme, New Zealand
- Sublimity, Oregon, USA
- Sugar Land, Texas, USA
- Sugarloaf, New York, USA
- Sugar Press, Pitcairn Island
- Sugar Tit, Kentucky, USA
- Sumerduck, Virginia, USA
- Sunk Island, Yorkshire, UK
- Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
- Surprise, Arizona, USA
- Surprise, Nebraska, USA
- Swallow, Lincolnshire, England
- Swampoodle, District of Columbia, USA
- Swan Lake, Mississippi, USA
- Swastika, Ontario, Canada
- Sweet Gum Head, Florida, USA
- Sweet Home, Oregon, USA
- Swords, County Dublin, Ireland
- Sylt, island in Germany; pronounced "zoolt"
T
[edit]- Ta Da Dump Road, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA
- Taintsville, Florida, USA
- Talent, Oregon, USA
- Tangent, Oregon, USA
- Tarfu Lake, Yukon, Canada
- Tarzan, Texas, USA
- Tarzana, California, USA
- Telegraph, Texas, USA
- Telephone, Texas, USA
- Tennis, Kansas, USA
- Ten Sleep, Wyoming, USA
- Terry Hie Hie, New South Wales, Australia
- The Edge, Pitcairn Island
- The Shoe, Wiltshire, England
- The Wash, eastern England
- The Woodlands, Texas, USA
- Them, Denmark
- Thermal, California, USA
- Thief Lane, York, England
- Thong, Kent, England
- Thousand Oaks, California, USA 5 & 7
- Thousand Palms, California, USA 5
- Thousandsticks, Kentucky, USA
- Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
- Ticklerton, Shropshire, England
- Tiddleywink, Wiltshire, England
- Tiengeboden, Gelderland, Netherlands
- Tightsqueeze, Virginia, USA
- Tightwad, Missouri, USA
- Timtit's Crack, Pitcairn Island
- Titiroa, New Zealand
- Titisee, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 1
- Titlis, Switzerland 1
- Titsey
- Toadsuck, Texas, USA
- Toadsuck, Perry County, Arkansas, USA
- Toast, North Carolina, USA 8
- Tollgate, Oregon, USA
- Tolstoy, South Dakota, USA; see also Tolstoy#Places
- Tomato, Arkansas, USA
- Tombstone, Arizona, USA
- Tongue, Scotland
- Tool, Texas, USA
- Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
- Touristville, Kentucky, USA
- Train, Bavaria, Germany
- Transylvania, Louisiana, USA
- Trash Branch, Alabama
- Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, Canada
- True, Wisconsin, USA
- Tuba City, Arizona, USA
- Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland
- Tumtum, Brazil [6]
- Tuntenhausen, Germany ("queers' houses" in German)
- Turkey, Kentucky, USA
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
- Tuxedo, New York, USA
- Tuxedo, Texas, USA
- Twatt, Orkney Islands, Scotland 1
- Twenty, Lincolnshire, England 5
- Twentynine Palms, California, USA 5
- Twin Arrows, Arizona, USA
- Twinsburg, Ohio, USA 7
- Twist, Arkansas, USA
- Two Boars Roll, Pitcairn Island5
- Two Dot, Montana, USA
- Two Egg, Florida
- Two Guns, Arizona, USA 5
U
[edit]- U, Ponape, Caroline Islands
- Ubehebe Crater and Little Hebe, geologic formations in Death Valley National Park, USA
- Ugley, Essex, England
- Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia
- Ultima, Victoria, Australia
- Uncertain, Texas, USA
- Under the Coffee, Pitcairn Island
- Unity, Oregon, USA
- Unnamed Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia
- Up In Ti, Pitcairn Island
- Upend, Cambridgeshire, England
- Upotipotpon, Victoria, Australia
- Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
- Upper Soda, Oregon, USA
- Upper Swan, Western Australia, Australia
- Utopia, Texas, USA
V
[edit]- Vader, Washington, USA
- Vagino, Kurganskaya Oblast, Russia 1
- Vache-Qui-Pisse (Cap de la), Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada (lit. "Cape Pissing Cow")
- Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, Argentina (lit. "One-Eyed Deer")
- Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta, a train station on the Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu–Renigunta, Andhra Pradesh line, India
- Venusberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Ventongimps, Cornwall, England
- Veribest, Texas, USA
- Void, Meuse, France (now merged with a neighbouring place to form Void-Vacon)
- Virgin, Nevada, USA 1
- Virginia Water, Surrey, England
- Virginville, Pennsylvania, USA 1
- Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
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[edit]- Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
- Waipu, New Zealand
- Walnut, California, USA 8
- Wanda, Minnesota, USA
- Wangford, Suffolk, England 1
- Wangs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland 1
- Wangs, Minnesota, USA 1
- Wankdorf, suburb of Bern, Switzerland, and motorway interchange A1 / A6 1
- Wankers Corner, Oregon, USA 1
- Wankham, Upper Austria, Austria 1
- War, Friesland, Netherlands
- War, West Virginia, USA
- Ware, Massachusetts, USA
- Ware, Hertfordshire, England 6
- Warman, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Washdyke, Timaru, New Zealand
- Washington Court House, Ohio,USA
- Watanobbi, New South Wales, Australia
- Water Drop, Pitcairn Island
- Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
- Waxahachie, Texas, USA
- Weare, New Hampshire, USA (pronounced "ware") 6
- Wedding, Germany
- Weedpatch, California, USA
- Weequahic, Newark, New Jersey, USA (pronounced "weekwake")
- Weiner, Arkansas, USA
- Weir, Mississippi, USA (Pronounced "ware") 6
- Welcome, Minnesota, USA
- Welcome, South Carolina, USA
- Wendens Ambo, Essex, England. The name means "both Wendens" (originally two small settlements, but conflated by mediaeval cartographers).
- Wetmore, Oregon, USA
- Wham, Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England
- What Cheer, Iowa, USA
- Where Dan Fall, Pitcairn Island
- Where Freddy Fall, Pitcairn Island
- Where Minnie Off, Pitcairn Island
- Where Tom Off, Pitcairn Island
- Whiteladies Road, Bristol, England (Down the road from Blackboy Hill)
- Whroo, Victoria, Australia
- Whynot, Mississippi, USA
- Wide Open, Tyne and Wear, England
- Wigley, Derbyshire, England
- Wigtwizzle, South Yorkshire, England
- Window Rock, Arizona, USA
- Windpassing, Austria
- Windpassing, Germany
- Wingletang Down, Cornwall, England
- Wink, Texas – in Winkler County
- Winkler, Manitoba, Canada
- Winter, Wisconsin, USA 4
- Wisdom, Montana, USA
- Wombwell South Yorkshire, England
- Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
- Woon Gumpus Common, Cornwall, England
- Wonder, Oregon, USA
- Wonowon, British Columbia at milepost 101 on the Alaska Highway
- World's End, Berkshire, England
- Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (home of the Diet of Worms) 7
- Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia
- Wyalkatchem, Western Australia
- Wymore, Nebraska, USA
- Wynot, Nebraska, USA
- Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire, England
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[edit]Y
[edit]- Y, Alaska, USA 2
- Y, Somme, France 2
- Yaphank, New York, USA
- Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA
- Ybor City, Florida, USA
- Yea, Victoria, Australia
- Yeehaw Junction, Florida, USA
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England
- Young America, Minnesota, USA
- Yp Desert, western United States
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
- Yreka, California, USA
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- Zap, North Dakota, USA
- Zig Zag, New South Wales, Australia
- Zigzag, Oregon, USA
- Zelienople, Pennsylvania, USA
- Zonguldak, Turkey
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[edit]- Eastertime: Down the God, Pitcairn Island
- 9 May: Maxwell Montes, Ishtar Terra, Venus
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The following require translation confirmation (and some require confirmation of their existence too):
- Enfant-Qui-Vole (Lac de l'), Quebec, Canada (lit. "Lake of the Child Who Steals")
- Feces de Abaixo, Portugal (Lower Feces)
- Gelang Patah (which means broken bangle in Malay), Malaysia
- Juiz de Fora, Brazil (foreign judge in Portuguese)
- Karkkila, Finland (Candyland)
- Kärpänen, Lahti, Finland ("fly" (insect) in Finnish)
- Kau Shi Wai, Hong Kong ("village of dog poo" in Cantonese)
- Maailmanloppu, Finland ("the End of the World")
- Niemyje-Ząbki, Poland ("He is not cleaning his teeth")
- Peor es nada, Chile (means worse is nothing in Spanish)
- Quién Sabe Mountains, California, USA; geographical feature in the Mojave Desert; Spanish for "who knows?"
- Salsipuedes, California, USA (meaning: "leave if you can" in Spanish)
- Tis Grias To Pidima, Andros, Greece ("The Old Woman's Leap")
The following require confirmation of their existence (any red links/unlinked locations in the A-Z section above have been confirmed and information can be found via Google):
- 6, West Virginia - former town
- Ed, Austria 2
- Ed, Kentucky, USA
- Ee, The Netherlands
- Gays Creek, Kentucky, USA
- Gays Place, Swindon, UK
- Gaysville, Vermont, USA
- Globe, Oregon, USA
- Hellgate Pond, Georgia, USA
- Hellhole Branch, Georgia, USA
- Hellhole Mountain, Georgia, USA
- Hells Gate, Georgia, USA (not the same as Hell Gate, GA)
- Hells Gate, Queensland, Australia
- Hollow, Oregon, USA
- Koffee Anan, Israel
- Lamb, Michigan, USA 8
- Le Net, Brittany, France
- Pis Pis River, Nicaragua
- Satan's Kingdom, Vermont, USA
- Shitagoo Lake, Quebec, Canada
- Wisdom's Bottom, Oxfordshire, England (not a settlement name, but appears on maps as a geographical feature. A bottom is a dry valley or hollow.)