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The following international geographical names are either interesting or unusual. This list is provided chiefly for its entertainment value.

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.
  • Some calendar-related names are marked 4
  • Some numerical names are marked 5
  • Some names that are interrogative pronouns are marked 6
  • Some living organisms' names are marked 7
  • Some names relating to food or drink are marked 8
• 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.

0–9

• 1770, Queensland, Australia
• 6, West Virginia, USA – former town

A

The village of Å in Norway

• Å in Norway & Sweden². Its name is Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish for "small river".
• Aa, name of several rivers in Europe : France, Germany, Switzerland...
• Aars, Denmark
• Abbess Roding, Essex, England
• Accident, Maryland, USA
• Adios, Navarre, Spain ("Goodbye" in Spanish)
• 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
• Alfalfa, Oregon, USA
• 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
• Alphabet City, a neighborhood of New York City, 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. It has been stated that the name originates with the German Am Erica = "near (the) erica/heather". This, however, is most unlikely as Erica is a feminine word in Neo-Latin as well as in Middle-High German and would therefore not have been Am. The more likely explanation would have been a naming after places in other countries, such as Kalifornien, Amerika (Saxony), Brasilien (Schleswig-Holstein, and England (Bavaria).
• Anaconda, Montana, USA
• Anaheim, California, USA, named by German settlers as the home or heim of the Santa Ana River; unusual combination of Spanish and German
• Anse-Qui-Pue (L'), Quebec, Canada ("The Cove that Stinks")
• Antelope, Oregon, USA
• Antelope, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Anus, France
• 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, New Mexico, 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
• Assawoman, Virginia, USA ¹
• 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

Road sign for Boring, Oregon

• Bachelor's Bump, East Sussex, England
• Bad Axe, Michigan, USA
• Bad Gastein, Austria
• Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany
• 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
• Bald Knob, Arkansas, USA
• Ball, Arizona and 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
• 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
• Bastard Township, Ontario
• 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
• Beauraing, Namur, Belgium
• 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
• Beer, Devon, England ⁸
• Belchen, one of the mountains of the Black Forest, Germany
• Belcher in Louisiana & Kentucky
• Belcher Islands, Nunavut, Canada
• Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA
• Belper, Derbyshire, England³
• Bend, Oregon, USA
• Bendery, Moldova
• Ben Hur, Texas, USA
• Ben Hur, Virginia, USA
• Best, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Best, Texas, USA
• Between, Georgia, USA
• Beulah, Oregon, 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.
• Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, USA
• Big Right Hand, West Virginia, USA
• Big Ugly Wilderness Area, West Virginia, USA
• Bischofsloch, Germany ("Bishop's Hole")
• Bishop's Itchington, Warwickshire, England
• Bitey Bitey, Pitcairn Island
• Bitche, France
• Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, USA
• 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 Ball, Ohio, USA ¹
• Blue Cow, New South Wales, Australia
• Blunt, South Dakota, USA
• Blunts, Cornwall, England (a number of miles southeast of Big Willy)
• 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)
• Boca Chica, Florida, USA ("little mouth" in Spanish)
• Boca Grande, Florida, USA ("big mouth" in Spanish)
• Boca Raton, Florida, USA (lit. "Mouth of the mouse" in Spanish, idiom for "Den of Thieves")
• Bonanza, Oregon, USA
• Bonar Bridge, Highland, Scotland
• 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)
• Bonkle, Lanarkshire, Scotland.³ and possibly ¹ since bonk is English slang for sexual intercourse.
• Bono, Arkansas, USA
• Boobey Brook, New Brunswick, Canada
• Booger Mountain, North Carolina, USA
• Boom, Belgium
• Booti Booti National Park, Australia
• Boring, Oregon, USA
• Boron, California, USA
• Bottom, North Carolina, USA
• Boulevard Street, a dead-end street in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
• Boutilimit, Mauritania
• Bowlegs, Oklahoma
• 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")
• 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 Lane, Barlow, England
• Brown Willy, a tor in Cornwall, England
• Bruno, Minnesota, USA
• Bryndwr, Christchurch, New Zealand (which is as flat as a pancake. "Bryndwr" is Welsh for "steep hill")
• 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
• Bumpass, Virginia, USA
• Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
• Bungle Bungles, Western Australia, Australia
• Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England ⁷
• Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England
• Burns, Oregon, USA
• Burnt Hill, Berkshire, England
• Burntwood, Staffordshire, England
• Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, Australia
• Burpengary, Queensland, 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

Cumming Street and Seaman Avenue in Manhattan New York City

• Cabra, Andalusia, Spain (means goat in Spanish) ⁷
• Caesar, Mississippi, USA
• Calabasas, California, USA; Spanish for "pumpkins"
• Calexico, California, USA (portmanteau of "California" and "Mexico"; it lies by the border between the two [see also: Mexicali])
• Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada, USA; portmanteau of California, Nevada and Arizona
• Camel Hump, Wyoming, USA
• Canal Street, Manchester, UK; a street with many popular gay bars and clubs. The first letter of each word is often scratched out for ironic purposes.
• Canary, Oregon, USA
• Cape Catastrophe, South Australia
• 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
• Caribou-qui-Pisse (Chute du), Quebec, Canada (lit. "Pissing Caribou Falls")
• Carne Assada, Portugal (meaning "roasted meat") ⁸
• 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, New Jersey, USA ⁸
• Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
• Chew Magna, England
• Chicken, Alaska, USA ^{7 & 8}
• Chili, New York, USA⁸ (pronounced CHYE-lye, often mispronounced by non-locals)
• Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
• Chinaman's Knob, Australia
• Chino, California, USA ("Chino" is the Spanish word for "Chinese man".)
• Chipping Sodbury, England
• Christmas Island, Australia ⁴
• Christmas, Michigan, USA ⁴
• Christmas Pie, Surrey, England ^{4 & 8}
• Christmas Valley, Oregon, USA
• Chlebowo, Poland (meaning "bread"; renamed from Niemaschchleba meaning "no one has bread") ⁸
• Chuckanut Mountain, Bellingham, Washington, USA
• Chugwater, Wyoming, USA
• Chulahoma, Mississippi, USA
• Chunky, Mississippi, and the nearby Chunky River, USA
• Climax, Colorado, Climax, Michigan, Climax, Minnesota, Climax, Georgia, Climax, North Carolina, Climax, Pennsylvania, USA and Climax, Saskatchewan, Canada ¹
• Climax Springs, Missouri, USA ¹
• Clit, Arad, Romania ¹
• Clitherall, Minnesota, USA ¹
• Clowne, Derbyshire, England
• Coachella, California and the corresponding Coachella Valley, USA; etymology uncertain, but generally attributed to a misspelling of the Spanish word conchella, or seashell.
• 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
• Cockburn, Western Australia (pronounced "Co-burn") ^{1 & 7}
• Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
• Cockfosters, London; Name of a station on the tube.
• Cocks, Cornwall, England
• Coffeeville, Mississippi, USA
• Cold Christmas, Hertfordshire, England
• Colon, Michigan, USA
• Combined Locks, Wisconsin, USA
• Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Come-by-Chance, New South Wales, Australia
• Commerce, California, USA
• Competition, Missouri, USA
• Conception Bay, Newfoundland
• Conception Junction, Missouri, USA ¹
• Concepcion, Texas, USA
• Condom, Gers, France ¹
• 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
• Cowlick, Indiana, USA
• Coxsackie, New York, USA
• Crackertown, Florida, USA
• Crackpot, Yorkshire, England
• Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, Canada
• Crap, Albania
• Crap Sogn Gion, Graubünden, Switzerland
• Crapo, Maryland
• Crapo Street, Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
• Crapolla, Italy
• Crawley, West Sussex, England
• Crook of Devon, Scotland. Jokingly twinned with the Thief of Baghdad³
• Crooked Usage, street in Hendon, London, England
• Crooks, Oregon, USA
• 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
• Cumbum, Theni District, India
• Cumming, Georgia, USA ¹
• Cumming Street, Suva, Fiji ¹
• Cumming Street, Inwood Section of Manhattan in New York (which intersects with Seaman Avenue...no kidding)
• Cunt, Turkey ¹
• Cunter, Graubünden, Switzerland ¹
• Cuntis, Pontevedra, Spain ¹
• Curry Mallet, Somerset, England
• Cut n' Shoot, Texas, USA
• Cut Off, Louisiana, USA
• Czar, West Virginia, USA

D

Sign pointing to Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador

• D'Lo, Mississippi, USA
• Dairy, Oregon, USA
• Day, Kentucky, USA
• Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany ("Intestine City")
• Deadwood, Oregon, USA
• Deaf Smith County, Texas, USA
• Dead Woman's Bottom, Somerset UK
• Death Valley, California, USA
• Decoy, Kentucky, USA
• Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, USA
• Defiance, Ohio, USA
• Del Mar, California & Del Mar, Texas, USA (grammatically-incorrect Spanish; simply translates to "of the sea")
• Delta in many places
• Desert Center, California, USA
• Destruction Bay, Yukon, Canada
• Devils Elbow, Missouri, USA
• Devil's Beef Tub, Scotland (A large depression where border rievers hid stolen cattle)
• Devil's Playground, in Mojave, California, USA
• Devil's Point, Plymouth, England
• Dial Post, Sussex, England
• Diamond, Oregon, USA
• Dice, Kentucky, USA
• Dickshooter Reservoir in Idaho, USA
• Die, Drôme, France
• Difficult, Tennessee, USA
• Dike, Oregon, USA
• Dike Road, Winter Park, Florida
• Dildo Island, South Dildo, and Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada ¹
• Dime Box, Texas, USA
• Ding Dong, Texas, USA ^{1 8}
• Dirt Road, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA
• Dirty Devil Wash, Nevada, USA
• Disappointment Islands
• DISH, Texas, named so to obtain free Dish Network for 10 years
• Dismal, Tennessee, USA
• Dix Hills, New York, USA ¹
• Doodstil, Netherlands (translates as "dead silent")
• Doo Town, Tasmania, Australia (all houses are called something to do with "doo", eg. Doo Little, Doo Drop In, Didgeri-doo, etc.)
• Donner and Blitzen River, Frenchglen, Oregon
• Donnybrook, Oregon, USA
• Double Trouble, New Jersey, USA (also name of a state park)
• Drain, Oregon, USA
• Drama Near Thessaloniki, Northern Greece
• Draw, Texas, USA
• Dresden, Staffordshire, England
• Driehuizen, Netherlands (translates as "three houses")
• Drogen, Germany (translates as "drugs")
• Dry Prong, Louisiana, USA
• Du Bois, Pennsylvania, USA
• Duel, Michigan, USA
• Dufur, Oregon, USA
• Dummer, New Hampshire, USA
• Dwarf, Kentucky, USA

E

• E Plantation, Maine, USA
• Eagle, Lincolnshire, England
• Eagle Butte, South Dakota USA
• Earth, Texas, USA
• Eastabuchie, Mississippi, 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, Austria ²
• Ed, Sweden ²
• Ed, Kentucky, USA
• Ee, The Netherlands
• Eek, Alaska, USA
• Eel Pie Island, London, England
• Effington, USA
• 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 Cajon, California, USA (Spanish for "the box" or "the coffin")
• 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
• Elend, Germany (German word for misery)
• 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
• Enfant-Qui-Vole (Lac de l'), Quebec, Canada (lit. "Lake of the Child Who Steals")
• 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
• EU, France ^{2 & 9} (formerly Eu)
• 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

The village of Fucking, Austria.

• Fa, Aude, France ²
• Fagus, Missouri, USA
• Fair Play, South Carolina, USA
• Fairdealing, Kentucky, USA
• Fairy, Texas, USA
• Fakaofo, Tokelau ¹
• Fakfak, Indonesian New Guinea¹
• 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
• Fanny Street, in Cardiff, Wales
• Faro, Yukon, Canada, named after the Faro card game
• Fatherless Barn, West Midlands, England
• Fearsville, Kentucky, USA
• Feces de Abaixo, Portugal (Lower Feces)
• Fegefeuer, Germany (German for "purgatory")
• Felch, Michigan, USA
• Fertile, Minnesota, USA
• Feucht, Germany (German for "wet")
• Fine, New York, USA
• Fighting Cox, Co. Carlow, Ireland
• Fingerville, South Carolina, USA
• Fingringhoe, Essex, England
• Fish Camp, California, USA
• Fishkill, New York, USA ("kill" is an old Dutch word for a small stream)
• Fishs Eddy, New York, USA (the missing apostrophe in "Fishs" is deliberate)
• Fishwick, Lancashire, England ⁷
• Fister, Norway (yes, really...)
• Five Corners (several), USA ⁵
• Five Forks (several), USA ⁵
• Five Points (several), USA ⁵
• Five Points, Oregon, USA near Three Forks, Oregon
• Flat, Missouri, USA
• Fleahop, Alabama, USA
• Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
• Flintstone, Maryland USA
• Fly Don't Drive, (street name) Traverse City, Michigan, USA
• Flippin, Arkansas, USA
• Floyds Knobs, Indiana, 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
• Foulness, Essex, England
• French Camp, California, USA
• French Lick, Indiana, USA
• Frenchman's Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Fresh Kills, Staten Island, New York, USA
• 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
• Fucking, Austria ¹
• Fuk Man Road, Hong Kong
• Fuku, China ¹
• Fukyu, Japan ¹
• Future City, Illinois, USA
• Fyshwick, A.C.T., Australia

G

• Gander, Newfoundland, Canada ⁷
• Gap, Southern Alps , France
• 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)
• Gaylord, Michigan, USA and Gaylord, Minnesota.
• Gayton (several places in England) ¹
• Gay Street, Bath, England, Winter Park, Florida USA, and Columbus, Ohio USA, Greenwich Village, New York City, West Chester, Pennsylvania USA
• Gay, Michigan, USA
• Gay, West Virginia, USA
• Gay State Forest, a state forest in Chesire County, New Hampshire, USA
• Gayhill, Texas, USA
• Gays, Illinois, USA
• Gays Creek, Kentucky, USA
• Gays Place, Swindon, UK
• Gaysville, Vermont, USA
• Gelang Patah (which means broken bangle in Malay), Malaysia
• George, Washington, USA
• Germfask, Michigan, USA
• Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, England
• Gimli, Manitoba, Canada (a rural municipality)
• Gin Bottle, Arkansas, USA
• Gin Hole Landing, Florida, USA
• Gip, West Virginia, USA
• Gland, France and Gland, Switzerland
• Glasscock County, Texas, USA
• Glide, Oregon, USA
• Globe, Oregon, USA
• Gnaw Bone, Indiana, USA
• Gods Lake Narrows, Manitoba, Canada
• Goobies, Newfoundland, 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
• Gothom City, Wisconsin, USA
• 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
• Greenacres, Oregon, USA
• Grizzly, Oregon, USA
• Grong Grong, New South Wales, Australia
• Gropecunt Lane, England, United Kingdom
• Grosse Water Beach, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Grosse Tête, Louisiana, USA (meaning: "big head" in French)
• Guano Valley, Oregon, USA
• Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
• Gunbarrel Highway, Western Australia, Australia
• Gunbarrel, Colorado, USA
• Gy, Switzerland ²
• Gypsy, West Virginia, USA

H

Old cargo handling office, Hell railway station, Norway

• 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, Kentucky, USA and 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
• Hawaiian Gardens, California, USA
• Hazard, Kentucky USA
• Hazardville, Connecticut, USA
• 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
• Heart's Content, Newfoundland, Canada
• Hell, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Hel, Poland
• Hell, Norway
• Hell Corner, Berkshire, England
• Hell For Certain, Kentucky, USA
• 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 Gate, Georgia, USA
• Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
• Hell, Michigan, USA & Hell, Grand Cayman, British West Indies
• Hella, Iceland
• 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
• Helper, Utah, USA
• Hen Scratch, Florida, USA
• Hempstead, New York, USA
• Hérisson, France (meaning: "hedgehog") ⁷
• Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, USA
• Hibb's Hole, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• 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, High Point, North Carolina
• Hi Hat, Kentucky, USA
• 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
• Hobart, North Dakota, USA
• Hockin, Manitoba, Canada
• Hoeryong, North Korea (similar to Dutch "hoerenjong", meaning literally "child of a whore")
• Hoho, Laukaa, Finland
• Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA
• Hokah, Minnesota, USA
• Hole-in-the-Day Lake, Minnesota, USA
• Hole-in-the-Ground, Oregon, USA
• Hole in the Wall, Bahamas
• Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Holzinshaus, Black Forest, Germany (literally "wood into the house")
• Honker Bay, California, USA
• Hometown, Illinois
• Hometown, Pennsylvania
• Hometown, West Virginia
• Homochitto, Mississippi, USA
• Homosassa, Florida, USA
• Honor, Michigan, USA
• Hongerige Wolf, Groningen, Netherlands (translation: "hungry wolf")
• Hooker, Oklahoma, USA
• Horace, North Dakota, USA
• Hornytown, North Carolina, USA ¹
• Horloge-Qui-Boîte island (L'), Quebec (lit. "The Limping Clock")
• Horse Heaven, Oregon, USA
• Hotazel, Northern Cape, South Africa (pronounced "hot-as-hell")
• Hotchkiss, Alberta, Canada
• Hot Coffee, Mississippi, USA ⁸
• Houston Street, a main road in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York (pronounced "HOW-stin")
• How, Wisconsin, USA ⁶
• Howard City, Michigan, USA
• Howlong, New South Wales, Australia
• Humptulips, Washington, 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

• Ice Water, Mississippi, USA
• Ida Hoe Lane, (near Bancaroft On. Canada)
• 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 and Intercourse, Pennsylvania, both in USA ¹
• Ironia, New Jersey, USA
• Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia
• Ironside, Oregon, USA
• Island, Kentucky, USA
• Isles of Scilly, England (pronounced "silly")
• Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany ¹

J

• 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
• Jobsville, New Jersey, USA
• Jockey End, Hertfordshire, England
• Joe Batt's Arm, an offshore fixture in Canada
• Joe, Montana, USA (Joe Montana is a famous NFL Quarterback)
• John Catch a Cow, Pitcairn Island
• John o' Groats, Scotland
• Jot Em Down, Texas USA
• Jupiter, Florida USA
• Justiceberg, Texas, USA
• Juiz de Fora, Brazil (foreign judge in Portuguese)

K

• Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
• Kalifornien, Germany (German for California)
• Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
• Karkkila, Finland (Candyland)
• Kärpänen, Lahti, Finland ("fly" (insect) in Finnish)
• Katzenellenbogen, Germany ("Cat's elbow")
• Katzenhirn, Germany - the name literally would translate as "cat's brain".
• Kau Shi Wai, Hong Kong ("village of dog poo" in Cantonese)
• Kellys Knob, Kununurra, Australia
• Keno, Oregon, USA
• Keno City, Yukon, Canada, named after the Keno gambling game.
• Key Like Mine, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Kiester, Minnesota, USA ¹
• Kickapoo State Park, Illinois
• Kilcock, Co.Kildare, Ireland
• Kill, Co.Kildare, Ireland (near Kilcock)
• Kilo, Espoo, Finland
• Killbride, a provincial electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• 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
• Kiritimati Island, Kiribati (pronounced "Christmas" and is in fact an alternate name for the island; "ti" in Gilbertese is the "s" sound in English)
• 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 Lick, Missouri, USA
• Knob Noster, Missouri, USA
• Knockemstiff, Ohio, USA
• Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England
• Koffee Anan, Israel
• Kokomo, Indiana, USA
• Koochiching County, Minnesota, USA
• Koolyanobbing, Western Australia ¹
• 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
• Kumamoto, Japan (amusing/offensive only to speakers of Swahili--it translates as "fire cunt")

L

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

• La Hoz de la Vieja, Teruell, Spain ("The Old Woman's Sickle")
• Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada; Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Ladysmith, Wisconsin, Ladysmith, Virginia 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")
• Lamb, Michigan, USA ⁸
• Lame Deer, Montana
• Largo Labia, Rome, Italy
• Last Chance, Colorado, USA
• Latex, Texas
• Lauf, Germany ("run" in German)
• Learned, Mississippi, USA
• Le Net, Brittany, France
• Le Tampon, Réunion
• 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 George Coc'nuts, Pitcairn Island
• Little Heart's Ease, Newfoundland, Canada
• Little River, Victoria, Australia
• Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
• Little Rock, Kentucky, USA
• Little Snoring, Norfolk, England (as opposed to Great Snoring)
• Livermore, California, USA
• Liverpool, Great Britain
• Lizard Lick, North Carolina, USA
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales ²
• Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole (normally Llanfynydd), Wales ²
• Llanddewi Brefi, Wales, UK (not to be confused with the fictional Llandewi Breffi featured in Little Britain)
• 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
• Los Rábanos, Soria, Spain ("the radishes")
• Lost, Scotland
• Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland (pronounced "Lock Nay")
• Louny, Czech Republic
• Love, Illinois, USA
• Loveland, Ohio, USA
• Loveland, Colorado, USA
• Loveladies, New Jersey, USA
• Lovely, Kentucky, USA
• Lover, Wiltshire, England
• 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
• Lü, Switzerland ²

M

• Maailmanloppu, Finland ("the End of the World")
• 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.
• Manunka Chunk, New Jersey, USA
• March, Cambridgeshire, England ⁴
• Marston Bigot, Somerset, England
• Martin's Heron, Berkshire, England
• Mary Alice, Kentucky, USA
• Maryland, Monmouthshire, Wales
• Masai, Johor, Malaysia
• Mashpee, Massachusetts, USA
• Matching Tye, Essex, England
• Mavis Enderby, Lincolnshire, England
• Maybee, Michigan, USA
• Mayo, Kentucky, USA⁸
• Mayo, Yukon, Canada⁸ (named after Alfred Mayo)
• Meat Camp, North Carolina, USA
• Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Medical Springs, Oregon, USA
• Melbury Bubb, Dorset, England
• Meridian, Mississippi, USA
• Merrybent, County Durham, England
• Messy, France
• Metropolis, Illinois, USA
• Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico (portmanteau of "Mexico" and "California"; it lies by the international border [see also Calexico])
• Mexican Hat, Utah, USA
• Mexican Water, Arizona, USA
• Mianus, Connecticut, USA
• Middelfart, Funen, Denmark
• Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
• Mineral, Virginia, USA - pronounced min-rul by locals
• Minge, Lithuania, Lithuania ¹
• Minorsville, Kentucky, USA
• Mist, Oregon, USA
• Mistake Point, California, USA. He had to be born somewhere.
• Mockbeggar, England
• Moddergat, The Netherlands ("mud hole")
• Mold, Wales
• Money, Mississippi, USA
• Monitor, Alberta
• Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, USA
• Monks Risborough, England
• Monroe, Maryland, USA
• Monster, Netherlands
• Montezuma, Indiana, USA
• Mooney Mooney, NSW, Australia
• Moonlight, New Zealand
• 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
• Morón, Spain (Morón Air Base is the home of the 496th USAF Air Base Squadron)
• Moron, Switzerland
• Mough, Ireland (pronounced Muff) ¹
• Mount Jerome, Ireland
• Mount Comfort, Indiana, USA
• Mount Disappointment, Victoria, Australia
• Mount Gay, West Virginia, USA
• Mount Hopeless, Australia
• Mousehole, UK
• Mouse Sweet, West Midlands, England
• Muck, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
• Mucking, Essex, England
• Muckanaghederdauhaulia, Ireland
• Mudchute, Tower Hamlets, England
• Muff, County Donegal, Ireland
• The Mullet, an island off the coast of Ireland
• Muleshoe, Texas, USA
• Mumbles, Wales
• Murderkill River, Delaware, USA
• Mutters, Austria

N

• 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)
• Niemyje-Ząbki, Poland ("He is not cleaning his teeth")
• 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}
• Nobber, County Meath, Ireland
• Nobottle, Northamptonshire, England
• Nogo, Arkansas, USA
• No Guts Captain, Pitcairn Island
• Noisy, several locations, 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
• Nuckols, Kentucky, USA
• Nude, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Nunhead, London, England
• Nyah and Nyah West, Victoria, Australia

O

• Oatman, Arizona, USA
• Oatmeal, Texas, USA
• Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, Germany
• Öd, Austria ² (also meaning "deserted" in German)
• Odd, West Virginia, USA
• Odder, Denmark
• Oddville, Kentucky, USA
• Odododiodoo, Greater Accra, Ghana, constituency in the Ghanaian Capital
• Ogle, Kentucky, USA
• Ogre, Latvia
• Ojos de Agua, El Salvador (Spanish for "Eyes of water")
• 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 Harry, Quebec, Canada
• Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, England
• 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
• One Tree Hill, South Australia
• One Tree Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Ong's Hat, New Jersey, USA
• Oô, Pyrénées, a mountain lake and a small village, France
• 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
• Oroszlány, Hungary (a twist on "oroszlán", meaning "lion"; spelled this way, it translates to "Russian girl" in Hungarian)
• Oroville, California and Oroville, Oregon, USA ("Oro" is Spanish for "gold")
• Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
• Os, Hedmark, Norway ²
• Os, Hordaland, Norway ²
• Oskaloosa, Iowa and Oskaloosa, Kansas, USA
• Otterup, Denmark
• Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
• Overflowing River, Manitoba, Canada
• Owanka, South Dakota, USA ¹
• Oxnard, California, USA
• Oy, Germany
• Oyster, Virginia, USA
• Oz, Kentucky, USA

P

• Packer's Corner, Guilford, Vermont, USA
• Pahrump, Nevada, USA
• Paint, Pennsylvania, USA
• Paint Lick, Kentucky, USA
• Pakenham Upper, Victoria, Australia
• Palestina, Gelderland, Netherlands
• 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, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Paradise, Pennsylvania, USA
• Paradiso, Switzerland
• Pariis, Estonia
• 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
• Peep-o-Day, near Wanganui, New Zealand
• Peerless, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Peewee, West Virginia
• Peinlich, a village on the Isle of Skye, Scotland (means embarrassing in German)
• Penguin, Tasmania, Australia ⁷
• Penis, Uruguay ¹
• Penisarwain, Gwynedd, Wales ¹
• Peñíscola, Spain (also means (the) penis sticked in French) ¹
• Penistone, South Yorkshire, England ¹
• Pennsylvania, Gloucestershire, England
• Peor es nada, Chile (means worse is nothing in Spanish)
• 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
• Pickle Street, West Virginia (unincorporated town, on US 33)
• Picpus (Paris underground railway station)
• Piddle, river in Dorset, England, which runs from near Puddletown to Poole harbour
• Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton, located on this river
• Pidley, Cambridgeshire, England ¹
• Pieru, Saarijärvi, Finland (means fart in Finnish)
• Pie, West Virginia
• Pie Town, New Mexico ⁸
• Pig's Eye -- original name of Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Pis Pis River, Nicaragua
• Pispala, Finland (means Don't pee here in phonetic French)
• Pissy, France
• Pistol River, Oregon, USA
• Pity Me, County Durham, England
• Placentia, California, USA
• Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹
• Plain Dealing, Louisiana, USA
• Plainview, Oregon, 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 Chesire County, New Hampshire, USA
• Powwow River State Forest, a state forest in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
• Pratt's Bottom, London, England ¹
• Prattville, Alabama
• Prickwillow, England ¹
• Primate, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Pride, Kentucky, USA
• Princes End, Tipton, England
• Pringle, Texas, USA ⁸
• Prospect, Oregon, USA
• Prosper, Oregon, USA
• Prussia Cove, Cornwall, England
• 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
• Pussy, France ¹
• Puyallup, WA, USA
• Puzzletown, Pennsylvania, USA

Q

• Quail, Texas, USA
• Quaking Houses, County Durham, England
• Quamba, Minnesota, USA
• Queen Camel, Somerset, England
• Quicksand, Kentucky, USA
• Quién Sabe Mountains, California, USA; geographical feature in the Mojave Desert; Spanish for "who knows?"

R

• 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)")
  • Upper Ramsbottom, a humourously named village about half a mile north of Ramsbottom
• Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA ³
• Rancho Mirage, California, USA; possibly the only place name in the world combining words from both Spanish and French
• Rrapë, Albania
• Re, Vestfold, Norway ²
• Reading in various places (pronounced "Redding")
• Readymoney Cove, Cornwall, England
• Reklaw, Texas, USA (Walker spelled backwards - near Sacul (Lucas spelled backwards)
• Red Shirt, South Dakota, USA
• Residência Fuck, Brazil
• 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, Ohio, USA
• Roach, Missouri, USA
• Roast Meat Hill Road, a street in Killingworth, Connecticut, USA
• Robert's Arm, Newfoundland, Canada
• 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
• Rough and Ready, California, USA
• Royalty, Texas, USA
• Rufus, Oregon, USA
• Rule, Texas, USA
• Rum, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland ⁸
• Rum, Austria ⁸
• Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia ⁸
• Rust, Austria
• Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England
• Ry, Denmark ²
• Rye, New York, USA
• Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset, England

S

Shag Point, New Zealand

• Sacul, Texas, USA (Lucas spelled backwards)
• Saddam Hussein, Sri Lanka (the Iraqi dictator donated money to the town after a destructive 1978 cyclone.)
• Safe, Missouri, USA
• Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec, Canada
• Saint-Tite, Quebec, Canada (pronounced "St Tit")
• Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
• Samendorf, Austria ('town of semen')
• Sandwich, Illinois, USA ⁸
• Sandwich, Kent, England ⁸
• Sandwich, Massachusetts, USA ⁸
• Sandy, Bedfordshire, England – especially its informal postal abbreviation "Sandy Beds"
• Salsipuedes, California, USA (meaning: "leave if you can" in Spanish)
• Santa Claus, California, USA
• Santa Claus, Georgia, USA
• Santa Claus, Indiana, USA
• Santa Claus, Ohio, USA (There is a Christmas-related theme park there)
• Saracen's Head, Lincolnshire, England
• Satan's Kingdom, Vermont, USA
• Satsuma, Alabama, USA
• Schenectady, New York, USA (Pronounced "Ske-NECT-i-dee". It's ZIP code is "12345".)
• 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
  • Also the name of an intersection in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (now rebuilt in a more traffic-friendly arrangement)
• Seven Hills, Ohio, USA
• Sex Rouge, a mountain in the Swiss Alps ¹
• Sexbierum, the Netherlands
• Sexdrega, Sweden
• Sexmoan, Pampanga, Philippines (now renamed Sasmuan) ¹
• Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada ¹
• Shafter, California, USA¹
• Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. (A shag is a sort of seabird.)
• Shag Island, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Indian Ocean (dependency of Australia)
• Shag Island, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada ¹
• Shag Point, New Zealand 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
• Shit, Iran
• Shitagoo Lake, Quebec, Canada
• Shitlington Crags, Northumberland, England
• Shitterton, England (near Bere Regis)
• Shittlehope, Durham, England
• Shoulderblade, Kentucky, USA
• Show Low, Arizona, USA
• Comarca de Siberia, Spain
• Sideview, Kentucky, USA
• Siem Reab, Cambodia (meaning defeat Siam)
• 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 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
• Slough, England (rhymes with "cow")
• Slutsk, Belarus
• Smackover, Arkansas, 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
• Sommerloch, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany ⁴ (meaning: "summer slump")
• Sort, Lleida, Spain (means luck in Catalan)
• Sots Hole fenland hamlet in Metheringham parish, Lincolnshire, England
• Soweto, South Africa (derived from an abbreviation of "South Western Townships")
• 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
• Spurger, Texas, USA
• Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada
• Stamping Ground, Kentucky, USA
• Stateline, Nevada, USA
• Stiffkey, Norfolk, England
• Stoner Hill, Hampshire England
• Stora Stjärtvecket, Sweden
• Strata Florida Abbey, Dyfed, Wales
• Sublimity, Oregon, USA
• Sugar Land, Texas, USA
• Sugarloaf, New York, USA
• Sugar Tit, South Carolina, USA ¹
• Sugar Tit, Kentucky, USA
• Sumerduck, Virginia, USA
• Sunk Island, Yorkshire, UK: a polder south of Ottringham
• 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
• Sweat Gum Head, Florida, USA
• Sweet Home, Oregon, USA
• Swords, County Dublin, Ireland
• Sylt, island in Germany; pronounced "zoolt"

T

• 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; based on the name of fictional character Tarzan
• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu Hill, New Zealand
• Tehachapi, California, USA and the corresponding Tehachapi Pass
• Telegraph, Texas, USA
• Telephone, Texas, USA
• Tennis, Kansas, USA
• Ten Sleep, Wyoming, USA
• Te Puke, New Zealand
• Te Urewera National Park, New Zealand ("Te Urewera" is Maori for "the burnt penis")
• Terre Haute, Indiana, USA (pronounced "terruh hoat")
• Terry Hie Hie, New South Wales, Australia
• Teutopolis, Illinois, USA
• Texarkana, Texas, USA and Texarkana, Arkansas, USA are twin cities on their states' common border
• The Bungalow, Isle of Man
• 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
• Three Cocks, Wales
• Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
• Ticklerton, Shropshire, England
• Tiddleywink, Wiltshire, England
• Tiengeboden, Gelderland, Netherlands (translates as "ten commandments")
• Tightsqueeze, Virginia, USA
• Tightwad, Missouri, USA
• Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; commonly credited to the Spanish phrase "Tia Juana", or "Aunt Jane". The name is actually from the Yuman tiwan, or "near the sea".
• Tis Grias To Pidima, Andros, Greece ("The Old Woman's Leap")
• Titisee, Baden-Württemberg, Germany ¹
• Titlis, Switzerland ¹
• Tittmoning, Austria ¹
• Tittybong, Victoria, Australia ¹
• Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ¹
• 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
• Towcester, Northamptonshire, England (pronounced "toaster")
• Township of East Garafraxa, Ontario, Canada
• Train, Bavaria, Germany
• Transylvania, Louisiana, USA
• Treinta y Tres, Uruguay (thirty-three)⁵
• Trepalle, Italy (meaning "three balls")
• Tria Pente Pigadia, Greece (popular skiing location near the town of Naousa, North Greece. Translates as "Three Five Wells")
• Troia, Calabria, Italy (means "sow" or "slut" in slang) ¹
• Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, Canada
• True, Wisconsin, USA
• Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, USA; originally Hot Springs, but changed its name on a promise that a game show would tape an episode there.
• Tuba City, Arizona, USA
• Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland
• Tuntenhausen, Germany ("Fag-ville")
• Turda, Cluj, Romania
• Turkey, Kentucky, USA
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
• Tutaekuri River, New Zealand ("Tutaekuri" is Maori for "dogshit")
• Tuxedo, New York, USA
• Tuxedo, Texas, USA
• Twatt, Orkney Islands, Scotland ¹
• Twatt, Shetland 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

• U, Ponape, Caroline Islands
• U (Coclé), Panama
• Ubehebe Crater and Little Hebe, geologic formations in Death Valley National Park, USA
• Ugley, Essex, England
• Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia
• Ultima, Victoria, Australia
• Unalaska, Alaska, USA
• Uncertain, Texas, USA
• Unity, Oregon, USA
• Unnamed Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia
• Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, Germany
• Up In Ti, Pitcairn Island
• Upend, Cambridgeshire, England
• Upotipotpon, Victoria, Australia
• Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
• Upper Soda, Oregon, USA
• Upper Swan, Western Australia, Australia
• Upperthong, Yorkshire, England
• Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Usa, Oita, Japan
• Useless Loop, Western Australia, Australia
• Utopia, Texas, USA
• Uz, Kentucky, USA

V

• Vader, Washington, Small city in Southwest Washington
• Vagino, Kurganskaya Oblast, Russia ¹
• Valerie Jean, California, USA; unincorporated small town in southeast Riverside County
• Valtimo, Finland ⁷(means artery in Finnish)
• Varkaus, Finland (means theft in Finnish)
• 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
• Virgin, Utah, USA ¹
• Virginia Water, Surrey, England
• Virginville, Pennsylvania, USA ¹
• Vulcan, Alberta, Canada

Road sign with Wedding inscribed on it (Berlin, Germany)

W

• Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
• Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
• Walla Walla, Washington, USA ³
• Walnut, California, USA ⁸
• Wanda, Minnesota, USA
• Wangford, Suffolk, England ¹
• Wanglik (Hengli), Guangdong, China ¹
• Wangs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland ¹
• Wangs, Minnesota, USA ¹
• Wank, mountain in Bavaria, Germany ¹ (see List of British English words not used in American English)
• Wankdorf, suburb of Bern, Switzerland, and motorway interchange A1 / A6 ¹
• Wankers Corner, Oregon, USA ¹
• Wankham, Upper Austria, Austria ¹
• Wankie, former name of Hwange, Zimbabwe ¹
• War, Friesland, Netherlands
• War, West Virginia, USA
• Ware, Massachusetts, USA
• Ware, Hertfordshire, England ⁶
• Warman, Saskatchewan, Canada
• The Wash, Lincolnshire & Norfolk, Eastern England
• Washdyke, Timaru, New Zealand
• Washington Court House, Ohio,USA
• Watanobbi, New South Wales, Australia
• Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
• Waxahachie, Texas, USA
• Weare, New Hampshire, USA (pronounced "ware") ⁶
• Wedding, Germany
• Weed, California, USA
• Weedpatch, California, USA
• Weener, Germany
• 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).
• Wendy-cum-Jolly, Hertfordshire, England ¹
• Westward Ho!, Devon, England (the punctuation mark is part of the name. The town takes its name from the title of a book by Charles Kingsley)
• Wetmore, Oregon, USA
• Wetwang, Yorkshire, England ¹
• Whakapapa skifield, New Zealand, and many other similar placenames ("Wh-" is pronounced as "F" in some dialects of Maori) ¹
• Wham, West Yorkshire, England
• What Cheer, Iowa, USA
• Where Freddy Fall, Pitcairn Island
• Where Minnie Off, Pitcairn Island
• Where Reynolds Cut The Firewood, Pitcairn Island
• Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate (street), York, North Yorkshire, England
• Whiteladies Road, Bristol, England (Down the road from Blackboy Hill)
• Whorehouse Meadow, Frenchglen, Oregon
• Whroo, Victoria, Australia
• Why, Arizona, USA ⁶
• Whynot, Mississippi, USA
• Wide Open, Tyne and Wear, England
• Wigley, Derbyshire, England
• Wigley, Hampshire, England
• Wigley, Shropshire, 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
• 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.)
• Wombwell, South Yorkshire, England
• Woodenbong, New South Wales, Australia
• Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
• Woon Gumpus Common, Cornwall, England
• Wonder, Oregon, USA
• Wong Way , street in Singapore
• 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
• Wurmloch, Romania (German for "wormhole")
• Wuxi, Jiangsu, China (means "no tin" in Chinese)
• Wyalkatchem, a town in Western Australia about 150 km NE of Perth
• Wymore, Nebraska, USA
• Wynot, Nebraska, USA
• Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire, England

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Y

• 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
• Yorkeys Knob, a suburb of Cairns, Queensland, Australia
• Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England
• Young America, Minnesota, USA
• You Yangs, a group of peaks near Geelong, Victoria
• Yp Desert, western United States
• Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
• Yreka, California, USA

Z

Sign to Zzyzx Road, on Interstate 15, California

• Zap, North Dakota, USA
• Zig Zag, New South Wales, Australia
• Zigzag, Oregon, USA
• Zelienople, Pennsylvania, USA
• Zonguldak, Turkey
• Zzyzx, California, USA

See also

• List of misleading place names
• List of tautological place names
• List of unusual English words
• Rude Britain
• Street sign theft
• List of toponyms (names derived from place names)
• Toponymy
• List of unusual personal names
• Wikipedia:Unusual articles

Further reading

• Far from Dull: and other places ISBN 095422177X
• Rude Britain - with selected photographs and explanations of rude-sounding places and street names

Start here

Interest in place names which are sometimes considered amusing or unusual exists in a number of countries.

There are many reasons why place names have been considered amusing or unusual.

Short or long place names

Some place names are sometimes considered unusual because they are extremely short, or extremely long.

"Rude names"

Some place names are sometimes considered amusing because they appear to be rude to some people.

In some such places, for example Shitterton in Dorset, residents have been reported as being proud of the name in question. The village of Fucking in Austria, meaning "(place of) Focko’s people." has a traffic sign with its name on it, beside which tourists often stop to have their photograph taken. It is a commonly stolen street sign. Significant public funds have been spent on replacing the stolen signs. In 2004, mainly due to the stolen signs, a vote was held on changing the village's name, but the residents voted against doing so. In August 2005, the road signs were replaced with theft-resistant signs welded to steel and secured in concrete to prevent further chances of the sign being stolen.

Literature about place names sometimes considered amusing or unusual

A number of books have been published on the subject of place names sometimes considered amusing or unusual (e.g. Bailey & Hurst 2005)

Bibliography

Rob Bailey and Ed Hurst (2005) Rude Britain ISBN 0752225812

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