Unusual geographical names of the world. Interesting geographical names. The most northern, eastern and western state in America
There are settlements on the planet with such amazing names that it is difficult to believe in the fact of their existence. And to live in the city of Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan can, perhaps, only love with a good sense of humor. And it should be noted that these are not the strangest names in existence.
1. Swastika
The city of Swastika in Ontario, Canada is a rather strange place. In fact, this is not a Nazi haunt at all - the city was founded almost 30 years before Adolf Hitler began to use the swastika. The name of the city was chosen in honor of the ancient Indian sign of well-being and fertility.
2. Kingdom of Satan
In a funny and strange way, there are cities and geographic places on Earth named after hell. For example, two cities in the USA (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.
3. Peniston
The name of the town of Peniston in Yorkshire, England, probably comes from older forms of Welsh and English. Originally, the name meant "Hilltop Village". Today, everyone who is not lazy is giggling over him.
4. Nothing
The formerly inhabited (although very few people lived in it) village of Nothing in Arizona was completely abandoned in 2005. A sign at the entrance to the city says: "The devoted citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the need for work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoped for Nothing and worked for Nothing."
5. North Pole
There are cities with the name of the North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.
6. Nameless
Nameless - a small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be laid in this place with a turn to the still non-existent city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. In the end, the name stuck.
7. Moon
To the northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend in the river.
8. Mars
Tourists have recently been frequenting the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is a non-working former spaceship installed in the city, but you can also say that you visited the Martians (that's what the locals are called).
9. George Washington
George Washington is the only city in the United States that bears the full name of its founding father.
10. Ganja
The city with the most Rastaman name can be found in Azerbaijan. Moreover, this is not even a village that was named as a joke, but the second largest city in the country.
11. Chinatown
Chinatowns or Chinatowns exist in major cities around the world, but there is an entire city in Wisconsin that bears a similar name.
12. Batman
Everyone knows the famous comic book hero, but few people know that in Turkey, in the province of Batman, on the banks of the Batman River (a tributary of the Tigris River), there is a city of Batman. The main local attractions are oil refineries and a large military airbase.
13. Bastardtown
Bastardtown in County Wexford, despite its name, is a picturesque seaside Irish village.
14. Å
The settlement with such a laconic name is a beautiful seaside village in the very north of Norway. Also, six other Norwegian towns, Swedish and Danish cities have a similar name.
15. Accident
Interestingly, the town of Accident was built in the 1770s in Western Maryland by accident. Two surveyors were marking the ground by randomly choosing the same oak tree as a reference point. It was on that spot that the city was founded.
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How many amazing cities in the world! Some are famous for their craftsmen, others for historical sights, others attract guests with fun carnivals or festivals, and the fourth - with their own names. When people settle in a new place and establish a settlement, they come up with a name for this place. It can be associated with a legend, with the name of a hero, with the area where it is located, or with some kind of event. But sometimes the name causes complete bewilderment - why? Why was this place named so?
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That is exactly what the town in the state of Arizona (USA) is called - Why (why). Either its first settlers themselves were surprised why it occurred to them to stay here, or because of the transcription of the letter Y, as the official version says and the intersection of roads on which stands why.
In Germany, in the state of Bavaria, a city flourishes Kissing. A city with such a name cannot fail to flourish. I wonder if there is some special tradition associated with kissing here, or if the city glorified some famous kiss?
If something in life has failed you, try to go to South Africa. It is here that the city for the most persistent is located - try again and… try again!
Rafting enthusiasts have their own heavenly place for their hobby - a city named Slime (Dirt). For romantics in England there is a very nice place - the city Roseberry Topping (Strawberry Topping). But where I would not like to go is to a town in the Cayman Islands called Hell). Yes, the place is gloomy, located among the rocks. Here anyone can exclaim: "I live in Hell!". But tourists really like to send postcards from here to their friends - straight from Hell.
Sometimes a city with the most common name changes it to a more original one. So it happened with the resort town Hot Springs (Hot springs), whose inhabitants decided to change his name to Truth or Consequences (Truth or Consequences), yielding to temptation. The organizers of the game show of the same name promised to move production to a city that would be named after the program.
The city with the longest name is also worthy of being mentioned among the unusual ones - Taumatauakatangiangakoauauotamateapokanuenuakitanatahu. It is located in New Zealand and means the following - "The top where Tamatea Pokai Uenua played the flute for his beloved." Beautiful, isn't it? In contrast, there is a city that is just an empty place, which is exactly what the name of the town Noodle (Noodles) sounds like in Texas slang. And how to live in cities with the name Spot (Spot), Monkey's Eyebrow (Monkey Eyebrow) or even worse Idiotville (Idiotville). I can’t even imagine what the inhabitants of these cities and towns answer when asked where they come from?
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Seven temporarily liable,
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There are many cities with strange names all over the world. And our country is no exception! If you happened to travel by car across the expanses of our vast country, then you also met funny, funny and even such original names that do not withstand censorship .... But people thought when they called the place where they were going to live! Although, maybe it's all the tricks of the neighbors?
Judge for yourself: Bolshoy Pupsy (a village in the Tver region), Deshevki (a village in the Kaluga region), Such (a village on Sakhalin), Bolshoye Struikino (a village in the Novgorod region), Ovnishche (a village in the Tver region), Dno ( a city near Pskov), Trusovo (a village in the Komi Republic), Kosyakovka (a village in Bashkiria), Krutye Khutor (a village in the Lipetsk region), Novopozornovo (a village in the Kemerovo region), Bolotnaya Rogavka (a village in the Novgorod region), Old Worms (a village in the Kemerovo Region), Verkhnye Zachatie (a village in the Chekhov District), Durakovo (a village in the Kaluga Region), Hare Bubble (a river in the Kemerovo Region), Kozyavkino (a village in the Kemerovo Region), Tsatsa (Volgogradskaya region), Zveronozhka (a river in the Moscow region), Mukhodoevo (a village in the Belgorod region), Yes-yes (a village in the Khabarovsk Territory), Bolshoye Bukhalovo (a village in the Vologda region), Zhabino (a village in Mordovia), Dudes (a village in the Perm region), Musorka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region), Bezvodovka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region) and even Good Bees (in the Ryazan region)!
Great pleasure is experienced by people who travel in their own car. They get vivid impressions not only from contemplating the beauty of the surrounding area, but also from the names of settlements, rivers, lakes.
If you plan to travel a considerable distance in your car, then take a pen and notebook with you to write down the names of cities, towns, villages and rivers that you meet on your way. In the future, you will not only be guaranteed victory in the Cities game, but you will also be able to amuse your friends and family with funny and unusual toponyms.
For starters, I want to bring to your attention the following interesting names of real geographical objects:
- Cocaine mountains - a river in the Perm region;
- Lysaya Balda - a river in the Ukrainian village of Zaryanoye;
- Dno is the name of a city near Pskov;
- Bunny bubble - a river in the Kemerovo region;
- In the Ulyanovsk region - the village of Musorka;
- Red Grave - a village in the Donetsk region;
- Chuvaki - a village in the Perm region;
- Tukhlyanka - a river on Sakhalin;
- Bolshie Pupsy - a village in the Tver region;
- Machekhin End - a village in the Tver region;
- Krutye Khutora - a village in the Lipetsk region;
- Tsatsa - a village in the Volgograd region;
- The village of Kurilovka in the Saratov region;
- Yes, yes - a village in the Khabarovsk Territory;
- This is a village on Sakhalin Island;
- Kuyoklo is a village in the Tver region.
If you are going to Omsk, then you will meet on your way:
the rivers Bernyazhka, Nyukhalovka, Byzovka, Ingaly, Avlukha;
the villages of Pochekuevo, Shchuevoz, Takmyk, Kurnosovo, Bolshiye Murly, Chebakly, Uvalnaya Bitiya and others.
Here are some interesting place names! Each such name, of course, has its own history of origin. What now seems funny to us in ancient times had a completely different meaning. You can ask the locals where the name of their village or village or river came from. Old people will tell a lot of interesting things, however, there are fewer and fewer of them every day.
It is a pity that our history flows like a river into oblivion.
It is a pity that we are ready to laugh at an unusual name without asking about the history of its origin.
Fortunately, there are enthusiasts who collect bit by bit and save such information. After all, a nation that does not know its history, its roots, is weak and vulnerable. Esotericists, clairvoyants and healers say that living people are given strength by their ancestors, the so-called family tree or family egregore.
Don't forget to bring a notepad and pen with you!
In fact, there are a huge number of such unusual and funny names throughout Russia. Who invents them, I wonder?
I bring to your attention some of them.
In the city of Myshkin, everything is really saturated with the spirit of a mouse. Not in terms of smell, no. The mouse is present everywhere as a symbol. Firstly, the city itself is quite mouse-sized: 6,000 people live in it. Secondly, there is a wonderful Mouse Museum. And thirdly, the city, like a mouse, hid from the present and quietly exists somewhere between Uglich and Rybinsk. There is a city with the name Koshki, it is located in the Samara region.
The village with the exotic name Polovinka (located in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, 30 km from Urai).
I suggest you visit the village of Chuvaki, in the Perm region. Far, of course, but what a name.
Somewhere in the water basin of the Lukhovitsky district, a river flows with the breathtaking name Voblya. And the old embassy road from the time of Boris Godunov ran along the banks of the Potudan and Ublya rivers. The names have survived to this day.
More recently, residents of the village of Lokhovo, Cheremkhovo district, Irkutsk region, decided to change the name of their settlement. The villagers even arranged a competition for a new geographical name. But in vain! Actually, “loh” is the name of a shrub with strongly smelling flowers and edible berries, and among ichthyologists, the term “loh” refers to salmon in the period after spawning. In the explanatory dictionary of Vladimir Dahl there is a word close to the current jargon, but only feminine - in the old days a stupid woman was called a sucker.
Do not snooze. The name of this place near the city of Artemovsky, Sverdlovsk region, they say, appeared after 1914, when a railway line was laid there. There were no buildings, and therefore the train slowed down a little there. Future passengers had to jump on the train literally on the move at the driver’s shouts: “DO NOT YAWN!”
In the Sverdlovsk region there is a settlement Gazeta. Where the name came from - no one remembers.
The village of Rassol got its name not from the famous drink, but from the river Rassolka. The river was named in connection with the steel industry that existed here in the old days.
The village of Kosyakovka, Sterlitamaksky district of Bashkiria.
Bolshaya Pyssa is a settlement in the Komi-Udorsky district. Of course, there is also Malaya Pyssa nearby. And you shouldn't have refused to live here! It is here that the unique holiday “Chechchalan Lun” is celebrated. On the Annunciation near the walls of houses they put chocks, they put boards on them and jump for a whole week. Children, youth and unmarried women participate in this action. Compete - who will jump higher and not fall off the board. The higher you jump, the longer and happier your life will be.
Sometimes geographic features are too long or too short, extremely funny or hard to pronounce names. Sometimes they are so ridiculous that you have to wonder - how could someone come up with such a thing? So, see for yourself.
The longest place names in the world
An example would be a small lake in the US state of Massachusetts. The name of this reservoir consists of more than 40 letters and it is almost impossible to pronounce it non-stop and the first time. The name of this lake is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. This abracadabra, translated from the Indian language of the locality, means: "I will fish on this side, you will fish on the other side, and no one catches anything in the middle." It was in this way that two Indian tribes, who once lived on opposite sides, concluded an agreement. Thus, the lake got such a long name.
An even longer name is given to a small station near Wales in the UK. Train tickets starting or ending at this station are listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest train tickets. Their length is 15 cm long. The name of the station consists of 54 letters and sounds like: Llanfirepulguiguillgogericutridrobullaantisiliogogogok, for ease of pronunciation and spelling of the name, it was shortened to Llanfire. The name of the station, translated from the Welsh dialect, means: "a church in the lowland, which is overgrown with white hazel, located near a river with a whirlpool near the cave". The translation of the name reliably accurately describes the geographical area in which the old station is located. Old-timers say that such a name of the once old and unknown station was invented by a local joker who wished to remain in the shadows. He did this in order to glorify his unremarkable little-known village. Since then, tourists began to flock to the small town, who were attracted by the unusual name. There is a known case of theft of a sign with the full name of the city from the station building, apparently it was stolen by some collector.
"The place where Tamatea, a man with very long legs, a famous man who devoured mountains, who moved them, climbed mountains to play the flute for his beloved." This is how the even longer name of the village located in the northern part of the island of New Zealand is translated. The name itself consists of 83 letters and is pronounced as:
The well-known capital of Thailand, the city of Bangkok has the longest name in the world written in Thai. It is officially listed in the Guinness Book of Records. It consists of 147 characters, and it is very difficult to read it. The translation of the name describes the location of the city in the style of the Eastern sages and means: “The great city, the city of angels, which contains the treasures of the gods, the great land that no one can conquer, the kingdom that will always prosper, this is the place where the palace of the gods is located, in which live gods capable of reincarnating as spirits, a wonderful land bestowed by the gods.
The shortest place names in the world
For example, the names that are presented on the maps in the form of the letter A are found in many parts of the world. For example, a river in Germany or a place on the Lofot Islands, as well as small villages in France and Sweden.
The letter I as the name has two small towns located in the north and west of France and the coast of Finland, respectively.
The unique French town, located in the south, is called Nauh, which is read as O.
On the territories of Sweden and France there are cities with the name Yu. The river in the north of Russia has the same name.
The letter E stands for the name of a small town in Belgium, and the port with an analogous name is located near Burma.
Wu is a geographical name given to cities in South Korea and the Caroline Islands located in the Pacific Ocean. The same name belongs to the left tributary of the Mekong River, located in Asia.
The funniest place names in the world
Tarakan is the name of a small island and the city of the same name off the eastern coast of the Indonesian island of Kalimantan.
Penyok is a village in Novosibirsk Oblast.
Kalach is a city in Volgograd Oblast
Sapozhok is a city in Ryazan Oblast
Dno is a village in the Pskov region
Zheludok is a village in the Grodno region of Belarus
The strangest place names in the world
The village of Nothing in Arizona, USA.
The city of Swastika in Ontario, Canada is a rather strange place. In fact, this is not a Nazi haunt at all - the city was founded almost 30 years before Adolf Hitler began to use the swastika. The name of the city was chosen in honor of the ancient Indian sign of well-being and fertility.
On Earth, there are cities and geographical places named after hell. For example, two cities in the USA (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.
There are cities with the name of the North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.
Nameless is a small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be laid in this place with a turn to the still non-existent city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. In the end, the name stuck.
To the northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend in the river.
Tourists have recently been frequenting the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is a non-working former spaceship installed in the city, but you can also say that you visited the Martians (that's what the locals are called).
In the 1770s, the town of Casualty was built in Western Maryland. Two surveyors were marking the ground by randomly choosing the same oak tree as a reference point. It was on that spot that the city was founded.
