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This page is meant for Wikipedians to list articles about places with unusual names.
Numeric names
Short and medium-length names
Long place names are in the next section.
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1770 | Australian village, unusual in that very few other places in the world have digits (as opposed to spelled out numbers) in their names. |
6.44, Michigan | An abandoned railroad stop in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, not too far from Alone, Friend, Mesick, and Tin Can Corner |
Eighty Four, Pennsylvania | The town that gave birth to the 84 Lumber Company |
Accident | A town in Maryland with an unfortunate name. |
Adıyaman | A Turkish city with a very tough name. "Adıyaman" means "its name is tough" in Turkish. |
Aknīste | A town in Latvia full of people with bad skin. "Aknīste" means "acne" in Latvian. |
Air Itam | A Malaysian town, not an airline. Very important! |
Alabama, New York | A township and small community in Genesee County, New York. New York has a number of places named after other states or countries. |
Alemania | An almost ghost village in the province of Salta, in the northwest of Argentina. |
Alert, North Carolina | A small community in Franklin County, North Carolina, pronounced AY-lurt. |
Alert, Nunavut | A weather station settlement in Nunavut, Canada - it's the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth! |
Alfonsów | The name of 4 different places in Poland. Basically means "pimps". |
Alì | Small village in Sicily, Italy. |
Almond | A township and village in Allegany County, New York. You'll go nuts over it. |
Almyros | A very jelly Greek town. Means "salty" in Greek. |
Alone, Michigan | A small town in the middle of nowhere, in the same county as "Friend" |
Amadora | City near Lisbon, Portugal meaning Amateur. |
Am Dafok | A town in Central African Republic. |
American Cove | Wouldn't be so strange if it wasn't located in Canada, eh? |
Amerika | A district of a small German town. |
Amerika | A small town in the Netherlands with the same name. |
Anais | Small village in northern Portugal meaning Annals. |
Anus | Small village in central France. |
Antwerp | I don't think we need to be calling anyone's ants, let alone Belgians' "formicidae", twerps - it was the intended target of 1944's Battle of the Bulge. |
Ape | A town in Latvia. Contrary to the name you probably won't find any here. |
Apocalypse Peaks | A group of peaks in Antarctica. |
Arab | A city in Marshall County, Alabama, pronounced AY-rabb, just as in a popular 1962 American novelty song... |
Arcade, Italy | A town in Veneto, Italy. |
Arcade, New York | A village in Wyoming County, New York. |
Archery | An unincorporated community in the southwest area of the Peach State, it's where both a 1970s U.S. President lived as a boy throughout the 1930s, and had the church-based "Sublime Order of Archery" as the source for its name. |
Arnac-la-Poste | A commune in France. Phonetically it means something like "scam the post office". |
Arse | A remote district on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. |
Arsoli | An Italian town. |
Asbestos | The hospital in this Quebec town must see a lot of cases of lung cancer. |
Assawoman | An unincorporated community in Accomack County, located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. |
Assizes Harbour | A town in Newfoundland with the only harbor on earth that cares about the size of your ass. Note: It is more probably named from British English "Assizes" meaning a Court of Law. |
Assmannshausen | A town in Germany. |
Athol | A town in Massachusetts, USA. Has a road to Belchertown, MA nicknamed the "Alimentary Canal". |
Atlantic City, Wyoming | Presumably named after the New Jersey resort city of the same name. Whereas NJ's city name makes perfect sense, the nearest Atlantic shore to this town is 1,680 miles away. |
Atlantis | A city in Palm Beach County, Florida. It is also the name of a town in South Africa, part of the City of Cape Town municipality. |
Avenue Road | Is this thoroughfare in Toronto an avenue or is it a road? |
Å | Located in Moskenes, Norway, it's the largest of the several places called Å. |
Babaj Boks | A village in Kosovo that means "Grandmother boxing" in Serbian. |
Bachelor's Cove | A hamlet in Newfoundland. |
Bacon Level | A small community in Randolph County, Alabama - despite its "orthogonal frying"-sounding name, it was a thriving ceramics manufacturing area in the 19th century. |
Bad Kissingen | No romance allowed in this German "spa town" unfortunately. |
Badwater | Sadly, I don't think you're going to find much water in this hot, dry, and smelly place in the middle of a major American National Park... |
Bagdad | A small town in Arizona. |
Balıkesir | Means "fish captive" in Turkish. |
Ballsbridge | A name I can only assume came from a bunch of drunken Irishmen. |
Balls Drive | A road in Bracebridge, Ontario. |
Ballplay | It's named after a game Native Americans played to solve tribal disputes, now stop laughing - when Native Americans played their variety of "football" instead, that game's name had seven syllables! |
Balltown | A city in Iowa. |
Bald Knob | There are many places with the names Bald Knob including Bald Knob, Bald Knob, Queensland, Bald Knob, West Virginia, and one of nearly 150 mountain peaks in the United States. |
Ballinspittle | A village in County Cork, Ireland. |
Balzac | A hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada. |
Bam | A sizable southeastern Iranian city that shares its name with three small Iranian villages, it was hit in 2003 with a very tragic earthquake. |
Banana | Settlement on Kiritimati Island, Kiribati (see "Christmas Island" below). There's also one in Queensland. |
Bananal | You'll go bananas for anals here. |
Bangkok | Obviously, the Thai don't understand the connotations this name may have in English...its official name is said to be the world's longest...! |
Bangor | As the state of Maine's third-largest city, in 2015 local residents there reminded all of us that it's important to remember how to pronounce its name properly[1]... |
Bang Sue | Why yes I would love to, "in Thailand"...it is close to Bangkok, though, just to be "certain"... |
Barbecue | An unincorporated community in Harnett County, North Carolina. Considering barbecues are a big thing in North Carolina, there'd better be some good smokehouses nearby or I'm going to be very disappointed. |
Båstad | A town in Scania, Sweden. |
Bastardo | A village in Umbria, Italy. |
Bastardstown | In County Wexford, Ireland. |
Bat Cave | A small community in Henderson County, North Carolina which is not home to Batman or the Boy Wonder — curiously, Transylvania County is just west of it! |
Bat Yam | A city on Israel's Mediterranean Coast. |
Batman | A city in Turkey whose former mayor threatened to sue Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for their use of its name in the films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight (film)...perhaps he should have sued Messrs. Finger and Kane, instead? Also see other places called Batman: in Melbourne (Batman railway station, Batman's Hill, Division of Batman) and in Tasmania (Batman Highway/Bridge). |
Bath | A city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths. |
Bathmen | A village in Netherlands famous for having badly bathed men. nl:Bathmen |
Bear Dance | Come to the Big Sky Country and dance with the bears! That sounds equally adorable - and dangerous. |
Beaverlick | A town in Kentucky, USA. |
Beaverton | A suburb of Portland. "Beaver" is a slang term for vagina as well as the pubic hair on a woman. |
Bee | According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way this village in Piedmont, Italy should be able to fly. |
Beer | A village in Devon, England...apparently at only some 1,300 residents, it's too small for a microbrewery, even though it does have a "light Beer" railway of sorts... |
Beerse | Oddly, there are no bars to be found in this Belgian municipality. |
Beer Bottle Crossing | An unincorporated community in Idaho. |
Beetown | A town in Grant County, Wisconsin. |
Beeville | A city in Texas and county seat of Bee County. |
Belchertown | A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. BURP! (excuse me...) |
Bell End | A village in Worcestershire, England. Bell end is British slang for the head of the penis. |
Ben Hur | An unincorporated community in Arkansas. |
Berry Head | A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and a point near Brixham, United Kingdom. |
Bèze | A comune in France that while it doesn't translate to anything, it sounds like the French slang word "baise" which means, well "fuck". |
Bezons | A commune in France just outside of Paris. It's pronounced like the French word "baisons" which means "let's fuck". |
Biała Piska | A town in Poland that to a Russian would mean "white dick". |
Białykał | A village in Poland that means "white feces". |
Bierbaum | A former municipality in Austria probably because of all the alcoholics. Means "beer tree" in German. |
Bierbeek | A municipality in Belgium. Means "stream of beer" in Dutch. |
Big Beaver | A town in Saskatchewan, Canada and another in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, both sharing some big beavers. |
Big Bone Lick | A state park in Kentucky. |
Big Butt Mountain | Name of several mountains in North Carolina. A corruption of the word butte. |
Bimbo | The second largest city in the Central African Republic. Clearly they ran out of ideas. |
Bird-in-Hand | A town in Pennsylvania, USA - forget all about the "two-in-the-bush" here (even though that saying is said to have "originated" here), as this town could get one awful dirty. |
Biržai | A Lithuanian city that thinks that it's Wall Street. "Biržai" means "stock exchange" in Lithuanian. Unfortunately all you'll find here are beer breweries. |
Bissex | Threesomes for all!!! |
Bitch Mountain | A mountain located in Essex County, New York within Adirondack Park. |
Bitche | A town in France. |
Bitchfield | A village in Lincolnshire, England. |
Bitsch | A municipality in Switzerland. |
Bitter End | A town in Tennessee, USA. |
Black Duck | Newfoundland sure loves Black Ducks, including here, here, here, here, and here. |
Black Jack | Well I can clearly see what these people do for fun here. |
Blechhammer | This twin-location (North and South) site for Axis Powers motor fuel refining which used slave labor, named "sheetmetal hammer" in German and Blachownia Śląska in Polish, nearly five kilometers east of the southwestern Polish town of Kędzierzyn-Koźle today, got hit nearly two dozen times between June and December 1944 by Allied strategic bombing. |
Blind Bay, British Columbia | A Small Town Near Salmon Arm. |
Blowing Rock | Hopefully the "blowing" part doesn't mean what I think it does. |
Blow Me Down | A small Provincial Park on the west side of Newfoundland, directly exposed to powerful winds on Canada's wide-open Gulf of St. Lawrence which are strong enough to affect the ability of trees near the shore to grow. Sadly, has nothing to do with Popeye, including his second appearance on September 29th, 1933 called Blow Me Down!. |
Blue Ball | A village in County Offaly, Ireland. "Blue balls" is a slang term for a condition affecting the testicles. There's also a community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (USA) with that name; its derivation comes from a tavern sign. A park in Soquel, California is named this because of the gigantic blue spheres that adorn it. |
Bluff | Poker players beware - on The Last Frontier!. |
Boar Tush | A place in The Yellowhammer State that apparently really likes pig's asses. ["Tush" is an archaic word for "tusk".] |
Bodie | A ghost town and state historic park in Mono County, California, pronounced BOH-dee, and named for prospector W. S. Bodey. It is also the name of a ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington. There is also a Bodie Island in Dare County, North Carolina. |
Bohners Lake | A census-designated place in Wisconsin. "Bohners" is pronounced like "boners". |
Bonar Bridge | A village in Scotland. |
Bonesteel | A city in South Dakota. I can assure you the boners are made of steel as well here. |
Bong County | A county in Liberia, named for its Mount Bong. It's probably an ideal place if you want to smoke some good ol' cannabis (YUCK) with your friends. |
Boning Island | It's part of the West |
Boody | This place and Butts need to have a picnic together or something like that. |
Boogertown, North Carolina | An unincorporated community in Gaston County, North Carolina, in the United States[2] - here's hoping that hay fever is rare there. |
Boom | The storage place for bombs in Belgium. "Boom" also means "tree" in Dutch. |
Booti Booti | Australian National park founded in 1992, whose name could have been inspired by a "unlucky Cruise Ship to the Stars"-working ambuquad droid's favorite vocal response,[3] from 13 years previously. |
Boquete | A small town in Panama. Boquete means blowjob in Portuguese. |
Boring, Maryland | Named for a former postmaster David Boring, whose profession suited the family name. |
Boring, Oregon | Twinned with Dull, Scotland. |
Boring, Tennessee | Well-named: as of December 2024, the length of its Wikipedia entry is 1,647 characters (compared to 174,808 on this page). |
Boucheporn | The porn distribution center in France. "Bouche" can translate as a few different things but the most common ones are either "stuffy" or "mouth". |
Bourg-la-Reine | A commune in France that can mean "Bang the Queen". You don't have to ask twice! |
Bouzillé | A former comune in France. Bouzille sounds like "bousiller" which means either "to cock up" or "screw up" in French. |
Bowna | A community in the Riverina, New South Wales, Australia. Sounds like "boner", a slang term for an erection, when said in a non-rhotic accent. |
Box | A large village, civil parish and very early railroad tunnel in Wiltshire, England. |
Bra | A place in Italy |
Braggadocio | A community in the Bootheel of Missouri, in the state's southeastern corner, Braggadocio is about 40 miles from New Madrid and some epicenters of the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. |
Brainerd | A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Some nerds must have come up with this name. |
Braintree | I wonder if someone grew brain trees there, because the Braintrees will blind the weary driver — New England has two of these (one in Massachusetts - with its very own "highway split" - and one in Vermont) with a "new" one in one of those states. |
Brawl | I hear wrestling is quite popular here. |
Breeding | A place in Kentucky which I can only assume has the constant sound of Smooth Jazz playing out of the bedrooms of everyone there. |
Brest | City in Brittany, France. The other one is in Belarus. |
Bridgerule | Someone rules the bridge there - and it's not in Norway. |
Brilliant | A town in Marion County, Alabama. |
Brokenwind | I always blame it on the dog. |
Brony | A small village in Gmina Krzyżanów, Poland. Has nothing to do with My Little Pony or its fans. |
Brown Deer | A small suburb of Milwaukee. |
Brown Willy | A hill in Cornwall that gave its name to the Brown Willy effect. |
Bucketty | An Australian locality with lots and lots of buckets. And then probably some more buckets. |
Bucksnort | A town in Tennessee, United States. |
Bucksport | A coastal town in Maine, said to have a fictional neighboring town, where a famous American vampire once dwelled in fiction. |
Buda | This small (population 538 in 2010) town in Illinois is named for one of the two medieval constituents of Hungary's capital, and was once where the engines for the American version of the Renault FT tank were built a century ago. |
Buggerru | A town on the island of Sardinia, Italy. |
Bugs Bunny Lane | "Ehhh... What's Up Doc?" Bugs Bunny's home is located in Waynesville, North Carolina. |
Bugyi | A village in Hungary. Translates to female underwear. |
Bulgarograsso | A commune in the Province of Como, Lombardy, Italy. Its name translates to "fat Bulgarian." |
Bulls | Small New Zealand town near Palmerston North. It has a sister-city relationship with Cowes, England. |
Bumpass | An unincorporated community located primarily in Louisa County, Virginia, United States, but covering a small portion of both Spotsylvania and Hanover Counties as well. |
Bunyan's Cove | I guess Paul Bunyan actually lives in Newfoundland. |
Burnt Corn | A small community on the border of Conecuh and Monroe counties in Alabama. Don't eat the corn there. |
Burntout | A small community in Franklin County, Alabama. It's also been spelled as 'Burnout'. |
Butte of Lewis | The most northerly point of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. |
Butternuts | A township in Otsego County, New York. Fortunately, the "nuts" part doesn't mean what you might think it does. |
Butt Hole Road | The former name of a road in Conisbrough, Doncaster, England. It was changed to Archers Way in 2009. |
Butthole Lane | The name of a small road in Shepshed, Leicestershire, the bottom end of the lane is residential and the top of the lane is the home of Shepshed Dynamo FC. |
Butts | This place in Georgia likes that type of content. I cannot tell a lie. |
Buttzville | An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey. |
Cadbury | Where chocolate is made - but only if one does not wish to anger the people in the Keystone State's "community of chocolate"!. |
Çakallar | A village in Turkey that means "jackals". |
Calcium | For strong bones in the "Empire State", one might want to go here. |
Caleb Pusey House | A house built in 1683 located in Upland, Pennsylvania. |
Cama Porca | Village in Portugal, near Alhandra, meaning Dirty Bed. |
Canadian | I heard that in this old Texas town the inhabitants don't lock their front doors, reject weapons, and made Alanis Morissette their honorary mayor. |
Cape Disappointment | A headland located at the extreme southwestern corner of Washington State. |
Capracotta | A comune in Italy that means "cooked goat" in Italian. No wonder goats are nowhere to be found here. |
Carne Assada | A village in Portugal meaning Roast Meat. |
Cărpeniş River | A tributary of the Ialomicioara River in Romania. |
Casino | This place is not famous for gambling. |
Castrillo Matajudíos | A village in Spain, whose name means "slayer of Jews" or "kill Jews". The villagers recently voted to change the name to Motajudíos (Jews' Hill), which had been the name before the Spanish Inquisition came around. |
Catbrain | A village in South Gloucestershire, England. Everyone in there has a cat brain! Should be twinned with Katzenhirn (German for "cat brain"), a town in Germany just over five kilometers east of Mindelheim. |
Catskill | A township and village in Greene County, New York which is usually cat friendly, and also just within the eastern edge of the similarly-named mountainous area of New York State. |
Cemiterio | Village in northern Portugal, meaning Cemetery. |
California | While this might not strike you as "weird", it was named after a fictional location in a Spanish adventure novel, which was inhabited only by black women and ruled by Queen Calafia. |
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg | A lake-in-a-town in Webster, Massachusetts. "Do you think this is too much?" |
Charm | A charming Amish community in Ohio where an influx of visitors is an unfortunate intrusion. |
Cheesequake, New Jersey | An unincorporated community in New Jersey. |
Cheshire | A county in northwestern England. There is also a town called Cheshire in New Haven County, Connecticut as well as a small community called Cheshire in Ontario County, New York. Sorry, no Cheshire Cat, but blink and you may miss it. |
Chevy Chase | A township and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland near Washington, D.C., originally called "Cheivy Chace". One source mentions that actor Chevy Chase was nicknamed after this town, but both actually have associations from a historic English ballad called The Ballad of Chevy Chase. |
Chibougamau | Pronounced chi-BUUG-uh-moo, this Québec town of some 7,500 population gets its name from the Cree First Nation, and means "gathering place". |
Chicken | A census-designated place (CDP) in Alaska. |
Chicoutimi | Today the central borough of Saguenay, Québec, this town's name comes from the phrase "the end of the deep water" in the Innu First Nation language of the area. |
Chili | A township in Monroe County, New York, pronounced CHY-lye. There is also a place called Chili in New Mexico. |
China | A town in Japan that is not in China. |
Chocolate Bayou | A very tasty unincorporated community in Texas. |
Chocowinity | A town in Beaufort County, North Carolina. The name is apparently derived from the Tuscaroran word chackauene, which means "otter". |
Christmas Pie | A hamlet in Surrey, England. At least it's better than fruitcake. |
Christmas Island | An island near Java. Possibly Santa Claus' holiday resort — if St. Nick doesn't consider another island, nearly "dead-center" in the Pacific, that's spelled differently, but pronounced just about the same. |
Chinatown | Small town in Wisconsin that is not a Chinatown. |
Çıplak Island | A small uninhabited island in Turkey. "Çıplak" can be translated as either "barren" or "naked". |
Circle | A small town in Alaska originally believed to lie on the Arctic Circle, though it is actually about 50 miles (80 km) away. |
Port Circumcision | A cove in Petermann Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, in Graham Land, Antarctica. Named after the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ. |
Clam | An unincorporated community in Virginia. |
Claviers | A commune in France with runaway pianos! "Claviers" looks like the German word "klavier" which means "piano". Perhaps not so surprisingly, "claviers" means "keyboards" in French. |
Climax | A small town in Georgia (U.S. state). Also a village and township in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA, a Canadian village Climax, Saskatchewan (population 195, with two former NHL figures as past residents) an unincorporated mining village, Climax, Colorado, and an unincorporated community, Climax, North Carolina on the border of Guilford County and Randolph County, North Carolina, USA. Climax is a hamlet in the town of Coxsackie, Greene County, New York, United States. The zipcode is 12042. |
Clitheroe | A town in Lancashire, England. |
Clo-oose | It's actually farther than you think (unless you live in British Columbia). |
Cocagne | A place in New Brunswick that's pretty high on crack. In French it's pronounced like "cocaine". |
Cock Hill | A village in Ireland. |
Cockburn | A town on the border of New South Wales and South Australia. |
Cockburn | A suburb and local council in Perth, Western Australia (named after British Admiral George Cockburn, famous for burning of Washington DC, including the White House, in 1814). |
Cockburn Drive | A street in Austin, Texas. |
Cockburn Island | An island in Ontario. |
Cockburn Town | The capital city of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British territory. |
Cockburnspath | A village in Scotland. |
Cockermouth | A village in Cumbria. There is also a stream named Cockermouth River in New Hampshire. |
Cockfosters | A suburb in north London. Providing foster care to abandoned cocks since 1524! You're welcome. |
Cocking | A small town in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. |
Cocks | A village in Cornwall. |
Cockup | A village in Cumbria, England. |
Cockwood | A village in Devon. |
Coffee, Georgia | An unincorporated community in Bacon County, Georgia, west of Coffee County. The people here probably like bacon with their coffee. |
Coffin Top | A mountain on South Georgia. This is where all the dead Georgians are put. |
Come By Chance | To their surprise, two farmers in NSW were able to purchase a farm in this locality, so they named it Come By Chance. There is also a Come By Chance in the region named Atlantic Canada, which literally "lived up to its name" for two workers there in 2018. |
Comertown | A very lewd place in Montana. Another one exists in Virginia. |
Condom | French lovers play it safe in this town - it still has its own cathedral, and even had its own religious diocese from 1317 to 1801. |
Conetoe | A town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, pronounced kuh-NEE-toe. |
Conquest | A village in Saskatchewan, Canada. There is also a township and hamlet called Conquest in Cayuga County, New York. |
Cool | Residents of this California town are too cool for school — they only have one in their town. |
Cooter | A city in Missouri. "Cooter" is a slang term for vagina. |
Corps-Nuds | A commune in Brittany meaning "naked body". |
Coubisou | A commune in France that means "neck kiss" in French. Clearly the French are quite romantic. |
Coupon | An unincorporated community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Could the community be on sale at your local supermarket? |
Coward | A town that has a treetop walk that will leave any coward screaming for dear life. |
Cow Head | A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. |
Coxcomb Mountains | A mountain range in Joshua Tree National Park. |
Coxsackie | A township and village in Greene County, New York. It's actually pronounced cohk-SAH-kee. |
Crab Hill | The place in Barbados where all the crabby people go and collect crabs. |
Crackenback | That's gotta hurt! |
Crackpot | An unusual case of a place name with two double meanings. |
Crapaud | A municipality in Prince Edward Island. |
Crapo | An unincorporated community in Maryland. |
Craponne-sur-Arzon | "Sur Arzon" must be having a bad day. |
Crapstone | Village in Devon, United Kingdom. |
Cromwell | The Irish probably find this place offensive. |
Crow Wing County | A county in Minnesota. It's named after the Crow Wing River (a tributary of the Mississippi River), which in turn is named after an island at the river mouth which is shaped like a crow's wing. |
Crumps Butts | Road name in Bicester, United Kingdom. |
Csesznek | A village in Hungary. Translates roughly as "they are fucking" in Hungarian. The Czech and Slovak name for it is "Cesnek" which means "garlic". It's vampire-proof!!! |
Cumbum | I believe that is supposed to be a British way of saying Creampie. |
Cumming | This city in Georgia has been watching way too much porn lately. |
Cummings | One thing this place can assure you is that you will "cum" back. |
Cummington | A town is Massachusetts, should you live in the Berkshires, that's "cumming" to get you! |
Cut Off | Small town in Louisiana. It was cut off from the rest of Louisiana. |
Cut And Shoot | A town in Texas northeast of Conroe, Texas, on Texas Route 105, whose name seems to be instructions on building and handling a sawed-off shotgun. |
Cyców | A village in Poland that means "boobs village". Very interesting. The "Cyc" part is also pronounced kind of like "tits" for extra added hilarity. |
Dab | A small town in Pakistan. If you still dab, I suggest you stop doing it. It's just not a trend anymore. |
Dad | A village in Hungary with some daddy issues no doubt. |
Dare County | "I triple-dog-dare you!" This county in North Carolina was actually named after Virginia Dare, who was the first English child born in the New World - she missed being THE first European child born in the Americas by half-a-millennium! |
Darling | Why yes, darling. |
Darmstadt | A "sizable city of science" with a population of about 160,000 in Germany, with a "college town" situation (without actually being one) due to its many universities. Means "bowel town/city" in German. |
Decearing Egg, Japan | A small village in the Kagoshima Prefecture with a permanent population of 552. This was the proposed site for a third nuclear strike by the United States of America during World War II. The strike was aborted due to an abundance of dodos in the region, which was later identified as a chicken farm after the Japanese surrender. Then again, it could have something to do with the sorts of challenges in online computer translations between Nihongo and English...[4] |
Dead Dog Beach | A rather depressing beach in Puerto Rico. |
Dead Road | A rural road near Bunn, North Carolina which most certainly has no cemeteries located along it. |
Dead Women Crossing | A small bridge in Custer County, Oklahoma. Where a woman was murdered, said to be haunted by her ghost. |
Deadhorse | Northern terminus of the Dalton Highway in Alaska, not to be confused with Whitehorse, Yukon. |
Deadwood | A historic Old West town in Lawrence County, South Dakota most famously known for the murder of folk hero Wild Bill Hickok in 1876 while playing poker as well as the being the final resting place for him and Calamity Jane. Deadwood was named after dead trees found within the area, and most certainly has nothing to do with impotence. It is the only place in South Dakota where commercial casino gaming is legal - and was the setting of a sci-fi "story-within-a-story" when it was depicted as having a Klingon sheriff, tasked with stopping a troublesome android. |
De Cocksdorp | A town in the Netherlands. "Dorp" means "village" so it basically means "the Cocks village", probably filled with sex toys. |
Defeated | Clearly this place has a positive outlook on life. |
De Hulk | This Dutch village is not responsible for any damaged property, nor has ever had large bursts of gamma radiation documented, or anyone with the family name "Banner" ever living there. |
Deixa o Resto | Village in Portugal, meaning Leave the Rest. |
Desire | A town in Pennsylvania, USA. |
Deux Mamelles | Mountains in Senegal. French for "Two Breasts". |
Deux-Verges | A commune in France. Means "two penises" in French. |
Devil Town | A ghost town in Ohio, USA. Probably a ghost town for a good reason. |
Devil's Bit | A big hill in County Tipperary, Ireland. |
Devil's Courthouse | A mountain located in Transylvania County, North Carolina where the devil presides over life and death cases (not really). |
Devils Elbow | An unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Missouri. |
Devilsmother | A bigger hill in County Galway, Ireland. It could also mean smothering the devil. |
The Devil's Point | A mountain in Scotland. The Scottish Gaelic name "Bod an Deamhain" translates to "Penis of the Demon". |
Dicken, Kentucky | An unincorporated community in Kentucky. "Dicken" can also mean something like "fat", "plump", or "thick" in German. |
Dickheads | A bar in Green Bay, Wisconsin. |
Dick Peaks | A group of big white bulges in Antarctica. |
Dicks Butte | A mountain in California. |
Dick's Knob | A mountain in Georgia. |
Dickshooter | Both a creek and a town in gun-totin' Idaho. Don't anger any of the locals if you wish to remain in the gene pool. |
Dicktown | A town in New Jersey. America. |
Die | A rather morbid name for a commune I'd say. |
Diepenbeek | A municipality in Belgium. Means "deep ditch" in Dutch. |
Dildo | This town in Newfoundland has a mascot named "Captain Dildo" (contrast with Flin Flon); the etymology for this name is unclear. One theory is that it originally referred to a phallus-shaped peg used to lock an oar in position on a dory (small boat). |
Dinga | A city in Punjab province of Pakistan. |
Ding Dong | A town in Texas famous for its unusual name after painter Cohn Cohen Hoover was hired to paint two bells, with one saying "Ding", and the other bell saying "Dong". This town is also located in a very "resonant"-sounding area of its U.S. state. |
Dingle | A town in County Kerry, Ireland, it is the only town on the Dingle Peninsula. There's another one in Sweden. |
Dinosaur | A Statutory Town located in Moffat County, Colorado, United States. |
Disappointment Islands | A small group of Pacific islands in French Polynesia. A recent BBC website report said that tourists who visited the islands weren't disappointed - they spotted a "four-headed" coconut palm! |
Dismal Swamp | This place is some 16,740 km (10,400 mi) away from a "greater" one in the eastern United States' "tidewater" region... |
Dieren | A town in the Netherlands. Means "animals" in Dutch of which I'm sure there are a few. |
DISH | A small town in Texas that changed its name to receive free digital video recorders and satellite television for ten years. |
Disko | It seems that this island in Greenland is still stuck in the 1970s. |
Dog Village | A hamlet in Devon, United Kingdom near Broadclyst. Twinned with Caterham. |
Dog Walk | An unincorporated community in Kentucky that doesn't want you to forget to walk your dog...unless you do not have one! |
Dollar | A very wealthy Scottish town. |
Dolphin's Barn | An Irish barn for land dolphins, but not the British variety from Sir Thomas' "flying zoo", as those require hangars instead. |
Donald Duck Island | an unorganized island in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. Don't get fooled by the REAL Donald Duck. |
Doodstil | A hamlet in Groningen, Netherlands, that translates to "dead silent". |
Đông Thái | If Thai people spoke English, they'd probably find the name of this Vietnamese village quite charming. |
Dongo | Dongo, Congo sounds great. There's also a Dongo in Angola, the Central African Republic, Italy, and Mali. |
Dorking | A town in England where every door is treated as a king. |
Do Stop | A place in Kentucky very much into the idea of consent. |
Downhill | Town in the United Kingdom.¨ |
Dragonville | Careful, Skyrim players might flock to this place like crazy. |
Drama, Greece | A city in Greece. To its credit, the views of the mountain from this city are pretty dramatic. |
Drogenbos | A municipality in Belgium. Means "drying forest" in Dutch. |
Dry Prong | A very lewd person will get a bit of a chuckle out of this place. |
Dublin | The capital of Ireland has long been thought to have been full of people "dublin" their money for over 12 centuries, as it was founded by Vikings in 841 AD — who often used Arab coins when it was founded! (I'm keeping that joke in because it's hilarious.), also a town in Ohio. |
DuBois | A city in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, named for lumber magnate John DuBois. |
Duck | The Tarheel State's newest Outer Banks seaside town (incorporated in 2002), it spawned the name of a growing doughnut shop chain. |
Due West | People in this "central-western" Palmetto State community have been heard to say, 'Go west!' |
Dull | It is as well. Tediously grouped with Boring, Oregon and Bland Shire, New South Wales to form a Dull, Boring and Bland "League of Extraordinary Communities". |
Dum Dum | A northeastern neighborhood of Kolkata, it has a boys' high school there, and used to have an arsenal that made now-illegal bullets. |
Dümmer | Dum Dum's German twin. |
Dunedoo | A town New South Wales, Australia
Pronounced Dunny-doo, "dunny" being an Australian slang for toilet. |
Earth | A town in Texas, United States. |
Eastern Tickle | Maybe the eastern part of Fogo Island is ticklish? |
Edelschrott | A municipality in Austria that is more or less an oxymoron. Means "premium junk". |
Eek | A town, island and a river in Alaska, United States. One would likely be shouting "Eek!" themselves, if they ever took a polar bear plunge in their river there, twenty miles distant from the Bering Sea... |
Effin | A town in Ireland that's wondering why it's raining all the "effin" time. |
Egg | No, they do not make eggs in this Austrian town. |
Eggnog, Utah | This place and Santa Claus need to team up and throw a Christmas party. |
Egypt, New York | A small community in Monroe County, New York. |
Egypt, Pennsylvania | An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States. |
Eighty Four | A town in southwestern Pennsylvania. |
El Pito | A small coastal town about 1.5 km southeast of Cudillero in Asturias, Spain, meaning The Dick. |
Elsa | A Small Town In Central Yukon,Canada, Next To Keno City. |
Elvis Lives Lane | A small street in Ottawa, Ontario that bore the name from 1991 to 2012. Was this a hint from the King that he is still alive? |
Embarrass | A small municipality and township in Minnesota. The unofficial record low temperature in Minnesota was taken here, and is −64 °F (−53 °C), which was reached in February 1996. Unofficial because although verified, it was not taken by the National Weather Service. There is also an Embarrass, Wisconsin. |
Emo | A village in County Laois, Ireland. Also Emo in Ontario, Canada. |
Empire | BEHOLD THE COLORADO EMPIRE!!! |
England | City in Arkansas. If you live there, then you could say that England is your city. |
Erect | A small community in Randolph County, North Carolina. |
Erode | City in Tamil Nadu, India with a population of 521,776. The name might have its origin in the Tamil phrase Eru Odai meaning two streams based on the presence of two water courses, Perumpallam and Kalingarayan Canal. |
Eromanga | A small town in Queensland, Australia. The name may come from an Aboriginal word that means "hot gale plain" or "windy plain", though the language and dialect is unknown.[5][6] |
Eureka | "Eureka! I'm rich!", its residents were known to say — it was founded four months before its state joined the Union. |
Executive Committee Range | A mountain range in Antarctica, including one Mount Cumming, named for a member of the Antarctic Executive Committee. |
Eye | A town in Suffolk, England. There are also places with this name in Herefordshire and Cambridgeshire. |
Faggot Hill | A hill in Boylston, Massachusetts, United States. |
Fail | A village in Portugal. |
Fair Play or Fairplay | The name for places located in California, Colorado, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin. |
Fakaofo | A populated island in Tokelau. |
Fakfak | A town in Indonesia. |
Fanny | A township in Minnesota. "Fanny" is a slang term for the vulva. Also a Fanny in West Virginia. |
Faroe Islands | Once thought to be a summer retreat for the Egyptian Pharaohs, it turned out that ancestors of the Vikings may have been the first to visit there. |
Felchville | A place in Massachusetts. Might not look like much, but once you read what "felching" is, you'll be quite amused. Another one is in Vermont. |
Feltwell | A village in Norfolk, England. |
Fertile | Given only 50 people live in this Saskatchewan town, I'd say it hasn't lived up to its name. |
Fickmühlen | Means "fucking mill" in German. |
Fingringhoe | A village in Essex, England. |
Fifty-Six | A city in northern Arkansas. |
Fishkill | A town along the Hudson River. "Kill" translates to "stream" from Dutch. |
Fjuckby | A lonely Swedish village that wants to change its name, and a resemblance to the name of a certain Austrian village — as it bears a similarity to not just "fuck", but also the Swedish "juck" which means "pelvic-thrust" so you can hardly blame them. |
Flateby | Means "lesbian village" in Norwegian. |
Flesh Hovel Lane | A road in Barrow Upon Soar, Leicestershire, England. Its name originates from the time of the Quorn Hunt, where horses that were no longer fit for purpose where taken to slaughter at the abattoir situated on Flesh Hovel Lane. |
Flin Flon | A city located on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada. It is named after fictional character Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin from an adventure novel called The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock. They are also known for having a very-"explosive-sounding" junior ice hockey team. |
Flippin | There is no McDonalds here so flipping burgers is off the table. They probably just flip the bird instead. |
Florence, South Carolina | A town in the path of Hurricane Florence. |
Fluffy Landing | A place with pink unicorns and rainbows. |
Flushing | The name historically came from a town in the southwestern Netherlands. Also a village in Cornwall and a town in Michigan. |
Foot of Ten, Pennsylvania | A census-designated place 5 miles from Puzzletown, Pennsylvania. |
Football Mountain | A mountain in Antarctica. |
Fort Cockhill | An 18th century military fort. |
Foulness Island | An island off the east coast of Essex. It actually smells quite nice there. |
Frankenstein | Neither Victor nor Herman ever lived or worked here...it's named after Gottfried Franken, who donated land for the construction of a church in 1890. |
Frenchbeer | A small Hamlet in Devon, United Kingdom. The town bartender must make a lot of trips through the Chunnel to get beer on tap. |
Friend | A small town in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, in the same county as "Alone" |
Friendship | A town in Knox County, Maine. Okay, who's been making lots of friends there? |
Fries | McDonalds should probably think about relocating their headquarters to this place. |
Frog Eye | A small community in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. |
Frostproof | First settled permanently in the 1880s, this "friendly" Central Florida city of about 3,000 was thought to be "frostproof" in regards to winters for the numerous citrus orchards there, as early as the late-1890s. |
Fucking | A town in Austria whose signs keep disappearing, and which had a pilsner beer partly inspired by its name. The name is pronounced to rhyme with "looking". At least we all know what this town's favorite pastime is. |
Fugging | This is when you find out that Austria has gone overboard. |
Fukah | If only the Egyptians could put "mother" in front of this city's name. |
Fukechō Station | This train station is where couples go to cheat on each other. "Fukechō" means something along the lines of "cheating city" or "infidelity town" in Japanese. |
Fundu Moldovei | A commune in Romania. Means "Moldova's butt" in Romanian. I'm sure Moldova is quite fond of this place. |
Funny River | A town in Alaska, that's about 5,020 km (3,118 miles) from the similarly-named fleuve drôle in southern Québec. |
Fuquay-Varina | A town in Wake County, North Carolina. They were originally separate towns (Fuquay Springs and Varina) before the two places merged in 1963. |
Future City, Illinois | An unincorporated community in Illinois. |
Future City, Kentucky | Another "future city" that isn't actually a future city. |
Fuxing District, Taoyuan | The biggest district by area in Taoyuan City, Taiwan - thanks to its spelling, if one "pinyinned" it when speaking its name, it should come out sounding like foo-SHIHNG. |
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Gaidouronisi | One of two names for an uninhabited Greek island a bit south of Crete. Means "donkey island" in Greek. |
Galatas | A town in Greece that seems to be a bigger fan of cows than the Hindus. Means "milkman" in Greek. |
Ganja | A city in Azerbaijan. No, they don't supply marijuana, so don't even think about it. |
Gap | A commune in France. |
Gassin | Fortunately nobody has been gassed here. |
Gassville | A city in Arkansas that knows a thing or two about cutting the cheese. |
Gay, Georgia | This little town in Georgia, USA could put itself out of business, because in Georgia, it's legal to fire employees based on sexual orientation. |
Gay, Michigan | A small community in Michigan, USA located in the Upper Peninsula. The town has a tavern called The Gay Bar. |
Gay, Russia | A town in Russia. |
Gaydon | A parish and village in Warwickshire, England. It's where Jaguar and Land Rover cars are made. |
Gayhead | The former name of a town in Massachusetts. |
Gays Row | A street in Suffolk, Virginia. |
Gebeler | Means "The pregnants" in Turkish. |
Geilenkirchen | A town in Germany whose name means "horny churches". |
Gene Autry, Oklahoma | A town in south-central Oklahoma that named itself after Gene Autry. |
George | A town in central Washington. The streets are named after varieties of cherries. |
Germ | A very infectious French commune. |
Giggleswick | Something is always funny to these guys. A village in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, GB |
Gipsy | An unincorporated community in Missouri. |
Gero | A city in Japan which if spelled like this げろ in Japanese means either "bullseye" or "spew" as in vomiting. |
Gnojnice | A village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Basically means "manureville" in Croatian. |
Good Grief | It has a population of three with two dogs and one old grouch - and a bit too cold for Peanuts to grow. |
Good Intent | A town in New Jersey, USA. |
Goodenough Island | The most mediocre island in the world. |
Goofy Ridge | A census-designated place in Illinois. It's known for its sense of humor. |
Goose Pimple Junction | An unincorporated community in Virginia. |
Gogogogo | Get out the car, get out the car, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll... |
Gore | No, they don't play murder mysteries or practice the Running of the Bulls in this New Zealand town. |
Gore Mountain | There's nothing horrifying about this mountain peak. It's actually a popular ski resort within Adirondack Park as well as being the highest point in Warren County, New York. In this case, the mountain is named after an unsurveyed tract of land called a "gore". |
Gorno Uyno | Means "Upper Dickville" in Bulgarian. |
Gotham | Wayne Manor is a few miles to the north of this Nottinghamshire village. |
Grand-Mère | A town in Quebec, Canada whose name means "Grandmother". |
Granma Province | A province in Cuba that respects it's elders. |
Grave | A Dutch town with the souls of the dead! |
Grave Yard | A place in Barbados populated by zombies, mummies, the walking dead, and Michael Jackson. |
Gravity | A very down-to-earth city in Iowa I'd say. |
Great Kills | A New York City neighborhood. I've heard some parts of New York can be violent... |
Great Snoring | A village in Norfolk. Also see Little Snoring. |
Greece, New York | A township in Monroe County, New York just outside of Rochester. |
Grenade | A very explosive French commune. |
Grimstad | A city in Norway. Means "uglytown", au contraire actually. |
Gropecunt Lane | An old name for various streets in London where prostitutes did their business. |
Großer Beerberg | At the top of this mountain in Germany lies a treasure trove of freshly made German beer. |
Großklein | A municipality in Austria that is quite an oxymoron. Translates as "big-small". |
Gross | A village in Knox County, Nebraska. With a population of 2 is better than 1. Okay one of the two just farted in my conversation. |
Guarromán | A very dirty city in Spain. "Guarro" means "dirty" in Spanish. |
Guide County | A county in China that serves as the guide to the Tibetan "Trika" treaters. |
Gum Tree | When you lie half way between people who apparently like to lick mud and give the one finger salute you got to wonder where the crazy will stop. Don't worry it's probably all for the tourists. |
Gun Barrel City, Texas | (Cowboy voice) This here's a city in Henderson County, Texas. Only in Texas, pard'ner. |
Gunskirchen | You don't want to piss off the churches in this Austrian town, the churches are armed! |
Ha! Ha! River | Also a fleuve drôle, as it's a "funny river" in Quebec. |
Hackballscross | Damn! That's gotta hurt! |
Hackensack | Watch out for lovers who do this. New Yorkers still do not get this joke. |
Half.com | A small town in Oregon that, in December, 1999, changed its name for a year to receive $100,000, computers for its public schools, and other financial considerations from its corporate namesake at the height of the dot.com bubble. |
Halfmoon | A township and small community in Saratoga County, New York. |
Haljala | A borough in Estonia with fish that can walk. "Hal" means "fish" and "jala" means leg in Estonian. Hopefully none of those walking fish are sharks. |
Ham | The pigs might find this place offensive. |
Ham Lake | The pigs sure aren't going to come swimming here any time soon. |
Hammerfest | A town in Norway. Hosting a hip-hop festival here would make MC Hammer proud. |
Handsome Eddy | A hamlet in New York. |
Hang Chat District | A very chatty district in Thailand where they hang people! |
Hard | *Insert penis joke here* |
Härnösand | A town in Sweden. Can be translated as "here sneezed duck". |
Happy Adventure | A village in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. |
Haseley Knob, Warwickshire | Something to do with Nutella. |
Hazard | The county seat of Perry County, Kentucky. |
Hazardville | A section of the town of Enfield in Hartford County in Connecticut. It must be known for its hazards all over the place... |
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump | A UNESCO-recognized Canadian National Historic Site in the Albertan foothills of the Rocky Mountains. |
Heart Butte, Montana | Part of the United States Postal Service's official "Valentine re-mailing" project. Follow their directions, and the US Federal Government will stamp "Heart Butte" on your letter, as the originating postmark.[7] |
Heckmondwike | Small town in West Yorkshire. This name is funny in this area of England as Heck is a synonym for Hell. |
Hell, Michigan | Only 294 miles (473 km) from Paradise. |
Hell, Norway | A village in Norway that hosts the annual "Blues in Hell". music festival. |
Hell for Certain | An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States. |
Hell Gate | Area of water near Wards Island and Queens, New York, that's got a "spouting Devil" for a neighbor nearly 6.4 miles (10.4 kilometers) due north of it. |
Hellevoetsluis | A small city in the Netherlands that can be translated as "Hell's Foot Lock" in Dutch. |
Hell's Kitchen | A neighborhood in New York City, New York. I wish they actually filmed the show here. |
Hells Halfacre | A small community in Harrison County, Kentucky. There was also a place in Alabama called Hell's Half Acre, but has since changed its name to Half Acre. Hell's Half Acre are also names for a canyon in Arizona, a talus in Arkansas, a lava field in Idaho and an escarpment in Wyoming. |
Helsinki | Why yes Finland, "Hel" is sinking. |
Herm | This French commune needs a herm statue. |
Hevonkakki | An island in Finland that means "horse shit." |
High Point | A city primarily in Guilford County, North Carolina. The small community of Horneytown is right next door. |
Hindu | Most of the inhabitants of this town are Christian or irreligious. |
Hippo | No hippos live here unfortunately. |
Hitler Men's Wear Shop | A shop in India that was a British colony during World War II against Hitler. The owner wanted attention and did not understand the political connotation when he chose the name. It was changed in 2012. |
Ho | A town in Ghana known for its gardening equipment. |
Ho-Ho-Kus | What is this, Santa Claus getting something stuck in his throat? |
Hog's Back Bridge | A small bridge in Ottawa, Canada. |
Hole of Horcum | A big hole in North Yorkshire, England. |
Holysloot | A village in the Netherlands. "Sloot" is the Dutch word for "ditch" so it basically means "holy ditch". |
Homsar | "AaAaAaAaAah'm an Iranian village." |
Hongerige Wolf | A village in Groningen, Netherlands that translates to "hungry wolf." |
Hooker | A town in Oklahoma, USA that is not named for a Union major general from the 1860s, and at only 2,000 in population, it's probably too small for a prostitution business. |
Hookerton | A town in Greene County, North Carolina. |
Hoosac Tunnel | A New England railroad tunnel that goes all the way from North Adams, MA to Florida, despite its length. |
Hop Bottom | A borough in Pennsylvania, USA. |
Hörby | A town in Sweden with lots and lots of whores. Can mean "whore village" in Swedish. |
Horlivka | All the whores live here so all people do here is fuck whores and listen to Jinjer. |
Horn | A town in Austria. |
Horneytown | An unincorporated community in North Carolina, USA. Unfortunately for the locals, Hookerton is over 140 miles (230 km) away. |
Horní Police | A town in Czech Republic that has a very, um, energetic police force. |
Horný Bar | A village in Slovakia. |
Horonkylä | A town in Finland that means "town of the bitch" in Finnish. Must have been talking about a female dog. |
Horseheads | A township and village located in Chemung County, New York. |
Hospital | A village without a hospital in County Limerick, Ireland. |
Hotazel | A town in South Africa that got its name from play on "hot as hell". At least it's right on the post card. |
Hot Coffee, Mississippi | Number of coffee shops in Hot Coffee: zero. |
House | A village in New Mexico, in which yes, there is at least one house. There's also a House in North Carolina. |
Howlong | A town in New South Wales, Australia. Indeed, it's very long! |
Huế | A very colorful former imperial capital city of Vietnam. |
Hühnergeschrei | A town in Austria. Means "Chicken screams" in German. |
Humptulips | A town with a Native American name in Washington, United States. |
Humpty Doo | A town 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. |
Hungry Horse | Only 16 miles from Whitefish. |
Huron, Ohio | The name itself isn't so unusual, but the city is on the beach of Lake Erie in Erie County in Ohio, making it unusually confusing. |
Hurricane | A small community in Herkimer County, New York, that could have been "well-drenched" by the 2011 tropical cyclone named Irene. |
Huy | A municipality in Belgium. If translated from Russian, it means "cock". |
Hygiene | An unincorporated community in Colorado. |
Idiotville | A ghost town in Oregon. |
Idiot Creek | A river in Oregon. |
Imalone | A very lonely place in Wisconsin. |
Inchmore | Yes please. |
Indore | An Indian city that should probably go outside more often. |
Inexpressible Island | An island off the southern tip (?!?) of Antarctica that simply cannot be described by words. |
Innaloo | A suburb in Perth, Western Australia. |
Intercourse | An Amish town in Pennsylvania, United States. There is also a small community called Intercourse in Alabama. |
Ios | The island in Greece where Homer died, is named like an operating system. |
Ireland's Eye | A place in Ireland. |
Ireland | A hamlet in Bedfordshire, England, green with envy for an island almost 400 km (245 miles) away in the North Atlantic, where Wicklow Head is. |
Iron Knob | A place in South Australia, Australia. It's believed they carry objects with more than just their two arms. |
Italy, New York | A township and hamlet in Yates County, New York. |
Itzehoe | It's a hoe? |
Jackass Mountain | Named – probably – for a muletrain that fell off the edge into an adjacent canyon. |
Jackpot | An unincorporated community in Nevada, United States. It is quite far from Sin City, but don't fret, there are a handful of casinos here to suit your gambling needs. |
Jam | A city that produces petroleum products in southern Iran. |
Jamaica | Neighborhood in Queens (New York City), New York, known for its major railroad hub station on the Long Island Rail Road. |
Jambes | A town in Belgium that means "legs". |
Java | An island in Indonesia. There is also a township and small community called Java in Wyoming County, New York. Coffee, anyone? |
Jęczydół | A village in Poland were kids get to learn about the birds and the bees no doubt. Means "moan pit" in Polish. |
Jednorożec | A village in Poland. Means "unicorn" in Polish, and fittingly has a unicorn on the coat of arms as well. |
Jeuk | A former municipality in Belgium now part of the municipality of Gingelom. "Jeuk" means "itching" in Dutch. |
Jim Thorpe | A borough in Pennsylvania bearing the name of Jim Thorpe. |
Jim Jim | Australian waterfall. |
Jiz | A village in the Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. |
Jobstown | Ironically the job market isn't doing so hot there. I guess they're "Dublin" down. |
Joe Batt's Arm | A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. |
Jupiter | A town in Florida, United States with some film and television history. |
Kaansoo | An Estonian village with all the pleasure you can find. "Kaansoo" means "cover" but "kaan soo" can be translated as "all the sex". |
Kaczki | A village in Poland that translates to "ducks". Anaheim's hockey team might take a liking to this place. |
Kake | The "kake" is a lie. |
Kanakanak | A palindromic-sounding settlement established near Dillingham, Alaska, following the 1918 flu pandemic and part of present-day Dillingham. The name derives from the practice of counting noses at the orphanage. On top of that, Kanake is coincidentally a German slur towards immigrants. |
Kannus | A town in Finland where everyone gets "kanned". Must do wonders for the job market there. |
Kansas, Oklahoma | OklaDOT uses this town, nearly in Arkansas but close enough to the State of Kansas as to be confusing, as a control city. More amusingly (or maybe worse yet), US 59 crosses both the state and the town. Even more amusingly, the town is located in Delaware County. |
Kantautai | A village in Lithuania that means "Canadians". |
Kanye | A town in Botswana in the southern District. Namesake of Rapper Kanye West. |
Karcag | A city in Hungary with a serious rash. Translates as "scratchy" in Hungarian. |
Kecskemét | A city in Hungary. Translates as "goats walking" in Hungarian. |
Keisterville | A town in Pennsylvania, United States. Keister was once a common U.S. slang term for the buttocks. |
Kermit | Unfortunately no frogs live in this hot and sweaty Texas town. |
Kfar Pines | A town in Northern Israel. The second word is pronounced similar to "penis." |
Kick 'em Jenny | An active underwater volcano near Grenada. The name itself may be a reference to the waters sometimes being extremely rough. |
Kicking Horse River | A river in British Columbia. |
Kiek in de Kök | Talk about going below the belt - especially in Gdansk, the German city of Magdeburg, and the Estonian capital!. |
Kiester | A town in Minnesota, United States, which was once featured in a commercial for the hemorrhoid medicine Preparation H. |
Ki Ki | Small Australian town. Doesn't love you. |
Kilcock | A town in Ireland. |
Kill | A village in County Kildare, Ireland. |
Kill Devil Hills | A very famous town in North Carolina, where the Pioneer Era of Aviation began! |
Kill Van Kull | This strait separates New York State's southernmost island from Newark, New Jersey. |
Kilbride | A neighbourhood of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada where marriages "end horribly." |
Killingly | This town in Windham County, Connecticut surprisingly has a very low violent crime rate. |
Kilnaboy | A village, townland and civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. |
Kilkenny | "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" |
Killmacow | A small village in County Kilkenny, Ireland - curiously, dairy farming seems to be nearly absent there. |
Kilmore | This rather violent-sounding title is the name of 13 different places, mostly in Ireland and Scotland. |
King of Prussia | The location of the King of Prussia Mall. |
Kissing | A municipality in Bavaria. |
Kißlegg | A town in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany that has got a strange affinity towards kissing legs. |
Kivesjärvi | A village in Finland named after a lake. Translates to "testicle lake". |
Kleena Kleene | A unusually dry, relatively "cool"-climate recreational community in British Columbia, which could sound appealing to germophobes. |
Kloschwitz | A village in Germany. Means "toilet sweat" in German. |
Kloten Balsberg railway station | A railway station that I'm sure the Dutch find quite amusing. "Kloten" bears a resemblance to "klot" which means "fuck" and "bals" which means well, "balls". |
Knobhead | A mountain in Antarctica. |
Knob Lick | A small town in Missouri, United States. |
Knock | A village in Ireland. |
Knockemstiff | Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor may like it here - in the Buckeye State. |
Kokkola | Coca-Cola might want to remind this Finnish town how to spell. |
Koksijde | A town in Belgium. |
Kommunizm | A town and jamoat in northwestern Tajikistan. These guys must have been fans of the Soviet Union, or perhaps of their own party from the Soviet days. |
Konkapot River | This river in southwestern Massachusetts sounds like you wouldn't want to wash your cookware in it, as it might get ruined, possibly from its heavy metal pollution. |
Kotzen | Kotzen is a verb that means "to vomit" in German. |
Kouchibouguac | A Canadian coastal national park in New Brunswick - the park and its most prominent river have this name, from the Mi'kmaq indigenous people. |
Krakow | A legendary Polish prince gave his name to this medieval-founded Polish city, where he wanted to literally "get the drop" on a troublesome dragon living just beneath him! |
Krimpen | A town in the Netherlands where I can only assume they have a storage house for dwarves. "Krimpen" is a Dutch verb that means "to shrink". |
Krypton | Superman's favorite place on earth - if he's not at his lonely Arctic battlement... |
Kuttekoven | A sub-municipality part of the municipality Borgloon in Belgium. "Kuttekoven" means "cunted coffins" in Dutch. |
La Barre | This small French "commune" town in the area of eastern France, near to northwestern Switzerland, is said to be the future hometown of a famous space captain in fiction. |
Lake Butte des Morts | A lake in Wisconsin, located just to the west of Lake Winnebago. Translates from French to "Lake Mound of the Deads". |
Lake Disappointment | An ephemeral salt lake in a remote area of Western Australia. |
Lake Elmo | A town in Washington County, Minnesota. |
Lake Titicaca | The largest lake in South America, between the borders of Peru and Bolivia. Sole home of a very wrinkly frog; and in fiction, the supposed home of the Great Cornholio. |
La Mort aux Juifs | French hamlet, literally meant ‘the death to the Jews,’ but in Old French was spelt la mare au juin (the liquid manure pond). It was eventually split into Les Croisilles and La Dogetterie, effectively deleting this grotesque toponym. |
Landmark, Manitoba | A Small Town In Southeastern Manitoba Near Lorette, Manitoba And Winnipeg. |
Lánycsók | A village in Hungary that means "girl kiss" in Hungarian. |
Lauf | Most like the hometown of Forrest Gump. "Lauf" means "run" in German. |
Lederhose | Unfortunately, lederhosen do not come from here. |
Left Hand | An unincorporated community in West Virginia full of southpaws! |
Legionowo | A town in Poland with the Legion of the Dead. Over 50,000 strong! |
Lekkerkerk | A town in the Netherlands with lots and lots of candy. Means "delicious church" in Dutch. I think the church is made of pie. |
Lemu | A county in Finland. Translates to Stink. |
Lesbos | The quirky little Greek island with over 80,000 lesbians. Suck on that San Francisco! Seriously, the people from here are called "lesbians". To make things even more hilarious, "lesbos" translates to either "forested" or "woody". |
Le Tampon | A city in Saint-Pierre, Réunion. |
Liberal | Despite the name, the majority of residents voted for Trump in 2016. |
Lick Fork | Gives me an appetite. A town in West Virginia. |
Lickey End | A village in England. |
Lihula | A town in Estonia that is of the more robust persuasion let's just say. "Lihula" means "fat" in Estonian. |
Linnusitamaa | A small island in Estonia. It means "bird shit land". No wonder it's uninhabited...and too bad it was never one of the islands where avian feces were once mined... |
Liphook | The village in the East Hampshire, England where the piercing craze begun. |
Lit | A place in Sweden that shines very bright. |
Litsmetsa | Means "whore forest" in Estonian. |
Little Boots | Bring your little boots if you have them. It's a road in Maryland. |
Little Canada | You think this is a Canadian town? Wrong. |
Little Dix Bay | A bay on the island of Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. |
Little Heaven | An unincorporated community in Delaware. |
Littlejoy Road | A road in Newton Abbot, England. There's little joy there! |
Little Rock | Capital and largest city in Arkansas. |
Little Snoring | A village in Norfolk. Also see Great Snoring. |
Lizard | A village in Cornwall. |
Lizard Lick | An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina, home of Lizard Lick Towing & Recovery. |
Lolland | An island in Denmark known for its sense of humor. Also LOL-land just sounds nice. |
Lone Tree | This poor tree in Colorado needs a whole municipality of just over 10,000 population to keep it company. |
Long Dick Creek | A stream in Iowa. |
Longdong | The Chinese clearly want to fire back at the whole "small asian penis" thing. So much that there are 6 other places in China named "Longdong". |
Looney Creek | A creek in Oregon next to Stupid Creek. "Ah-bi-bi-beeah-bi-bi-beeah-bi-bi-beeah That's All Folks!" |
Looneyville | New York, West Virginia, and Texas each have places for people of the more mentally insane persuasion. |
Lord Hereford's Knob | It's rather big, is in Wales, and has been immortalised in song. |
Losevo | A rural locality in Russia. The Lithuanian name for it is "Kiaušai" which can mean either "eggs" or "balls". Funny how eggs also happen to look a bit like testicles. |
Lost | A genuine Scottish hamlet's name. |
Love | Going by the 50 inhabitants I'd say there hasn't been a whole lot of it going on. |
Loveladies | Clearly a place full of players. |
Loveland | A municipality in Colorado. Fittingly it's nicknamed "The Sweetheart City". Another one's in Ohio and that one's called the "Sweetheart of Ohio". How lovely. |
Lower Dicker | A Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Weald of East Sussex. Also a nearby settlement. |
Lubersac | A commune in France that offers plenty of lubricant for a pleasant time in the sack. |
Lucky Boy | A ghost town in Nevada, USA. |
Lukla | One might think you'd be "fortunate" here in Nepal, especially if one had a safe landing - as its only airport's 527 meter-long single runway runs "uphill" and "downhill" by some 82 meters (269 ft) from end to end. |
Luunja | A borough in Estonia. Aside from looking like "looney", "luunja" means "bone" in Estonian. Make of that what you will. |
Madmans Gully Road | Right next door to Beechworth Asylum. |
Madona | Little did Madonna know that Latvia named a town after her. |
Madrid, Iowa | Pronounced /ˈmædrɪd/ |
Mafia Island | An island off the coast of Tanzania. Fortunately organized crime is probably not an issue here. |
Magician Heights | Small crossroads in Grand Traverse County, Michigan - it isn't known if either Mandrake or Dr. Strange ever considered retiring here. |
Malcocinado | A municipality in Spain. Means "badly cooked" in Spanish. |
Mango | No, there aren't any mangoes in this town in Italy. |
Mannekensvere | Clearly this village in Belgium is a fan of manniquins. |
Many Farms | A census-designated place in Arizona. |
Mäo | The Chinese may find this Estonian village a bit reminiscent. |
Margarita | Are you thirsty? |
Marker | A town where 3,400 Norwegians have marked their home. |
Mars | In 1882, the name of the community was changed to Mars from Overbrook since the railroad already had a stop with the name "Overbrook". No one is sure how the name "Mars" came into being. Some say it was Park's wife who enjoyed astronomy, or it was shortened after Samuel Marshall's name. |
Mashpee | A town in Massachusetts' Cape Cod peninsula - and is also the home of a Native American tribe on the Cape. |
Massacre Island | A small island in Ontario. |
Matamoros | Name of a few places in Mexico as well as a municipality in Spain. "Matamoros" translates to "Moor killer" in Spanish. |
Matelica | These guys must be fans. |
Meat Mountain | A mountain in northwestern Alaska. |
Meddybemps | A very small town (population of 157, in 2010) in Washington County, Maine, its "plural" name apparently cannot define what a single "meddybemp" is. |
Medicine Hat | The name for this city in Alberta, Canada is also a type of horse marking. |
Meisenheim | A town in Germany probably named by horny schoolboys. Means "tits home" in German. |
Meme | A place apparently named after memes. The 9 year olds may enjoy this hot and sweaty place. |
Merlino | Yes, "Merlino" is the Italian for "Merlin". |
Mesick | A village in Michigan. |
Meeteetse | A town in Wyoming. |
Methwold | I guess finding someone who isn't high as a kite here is supposed to be quite difficult. |
Meuse | A river that is bound to leave a few Germans chuckling. "Meuse" is pronounced like the German word "Möse" which means "cunt" - it was, however, the major obstacle to cross in the Battle of the Bulge! |
Mexican Hat | Named after a rock that looks like a sombrero, which is a traditional hat worn in Mexico. |
Mexican Water, Arizona | A community and trading post with in the Navajo Nation (and the best Navajo Tacos are found there). |
Mexico | An unincorporated community in Maryland, United States. Also a city in Missouri, and in New York. |
Miass | Both a river and a city in Russia. |
Mianus | Properly pronounced "my-ANN-us", it's a neighborhood in Greenwich, Connecticut — a freeway bridge over its river suffered a scary collapse in 1983. |
Middelfart | It's the fart in the middle of Denmark. In the Danish language, Middelfart means 'average speed'. |
Mile and a Quarter | Too bad that it's 1.45 miles away from the beach though. Even in Barbados you're still a quarter mile short. |
Mil-Homens | Village in Portugal, meaning Thousand Men. |
Minisink | A township in Orange County, New York. |
Miracle Whip | The only municipality in Lafayette County, Florida, changed its name to Miracle Whip in late August 2018 due to a "krafty" publicity deal with an American giant of prepared foods.[8][9] |
Mercedes | A name of 7 different places in the world. Unfortunately, there are no places called "Benz" in the world. Such a shame. |
Micanopy | A town in Florida that wont share their canopy. |
Miccosukee | A lewd place in Florida. Expect to see a lot of fellatio here. |
Mickey Mouse | A road in Cleveland, Georgia, and a road in Horace, North Dakota. Don't be telling from the REAL mouse. |
Mikołajki | A town in Poland. Means "little santas" in Polish. |
Miroși | A commune in Romania where they clearly don't shower. Can be translated as "you smell". |
Mirror | Mirror, mirror on the wall. |
Misery | A small village in France. |
Misery River | A very sad river in northern Michigan. |
Mistake Peak | A mountain peak in Antarctica. Man, it was really an accident! |
Mistake Island | An island off the coast of Maine. |
Mistaken Island | An island near Western Australia. You must be thinking of another island... |
Mockbeggar | Not exactly a nice thing to do to those down on their luck. Three villages of that name, two in Kent and one in Hampshire, England. |
Moddergat, the Netherlands | A village in Dongeradeel in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. The name of the village means 'mud hole' in Dutch and in West Frisian - see Murderkill River below. |
Mogyoród | A small village in Hungary. Means "your nuts" in Hungarian. |
Mold | You've got to head for the land of the Red Dragon to see for yourself! |
Mollie's Nipple | There are at least seven of them. |
Money | An unincorporated community in Mississippi, most notable for being the site of Emmett Till's lynching. Money doesn't grow on trees here though, especially since the former post office is located in a mobile home. |
Moneymore | A place where you'll earn more money. |
Monkey Run, Arkansas | An unincorporated community. |
Monkey's Eyebrow | Unincorporated community in Kentucky. |
Monkstown | No monks live in Newfoundland unfortunately. |
Monowi | The first pair of syllables of this Cornhusker State town's name describe it well - as "mono-" is the ancient Greek for "single", only one person lives there! |
Montcuq | Can be pronounced like "mon cuq" which is French for "my ass". "Montcuq" also means "cuckoo mountain". |
Monteton | This very sensitive French village translates as "my nipple" in French. |
Mooball[10] | A town in New South Wales, Australia. |
Mooers | A town in New York I can only assume they let the cows name. |
Mooloolah | Because "moolah" just wasn't enough. |
Moon | Local lore tells of a waning crescent moon that descended to plow furrows in farmer's fields with its sharp cusp but killed many excited witnesses who cursed and praised the Moon's early morning activities. |
Moose Factory | Well, where'd you think they came from? |
Moose Jaw | A city in Saskatchewan, Canada. |
Mooseland | A small rural community in Nova Scotia. Very appropriate name for a town in Canada. |
Mooselookmeguntic Lake | A small lake in the US state of Maine, with the third longest name in the USA. Also the last sentence in a very long bad pun, but since a trail almost connects it and "his" home of Katahdin, be careful around Pamola, as "his" form is partly described in the first two syllables. |
More Tomorrow | A village in Cayo District, Belize. |
Morgan Hill | Located at the bottom of a valley (specifically Silicon Valley), this low-elevation town is named after one Mr. Hill. |
Mormon Bar | No more Mormons here unfortunately. |
Mörön | A town in Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia. |
Morón | An Argentine city. |
Moss | A town in Norway. |
Moszna | The castle will take you aback... until you find out the village name translates to "scrotum". |
Mount Buggery | A steep hill in the Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia. Within 8 km are Mt Despair, Mt Speculation, Horrible Gap, Hells Window and The Devils Staircase, all overlooking a valley named The Terrible Hollow. The first explorers must have been having a bad week. |
Mount Cannibal | A hill near Garfield, Victoria. It's probably wise to keep well clear of hungry locals. |
Mount Cocks | A mountain in Antarctica. |
Mount Dick | A mountain in the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. |
Mount Disappointment | A rather uninspiring hill on the edge of Melbourne. |
Mount Despair | Amazingly, there are three different mountains with this name, two in the USA and one in Australia. |
Mount Mee | A place for people who feel special. |
Mount Misery | The name of a number of locations, primarily mountain summits, throughout the world. A well-known one would be a volcano located on the island of Saint Kitts, now called Mount Liamuiga. |
Mount Richthofen | This Colorado mountain might sound like The Red Baron had once flown over it - it's actually named for one of the famous flying ace's uncles. |
Mount Slaughter | A mountain peak in Antarctica. Kills people! |
Mount Terrible | A rotten place to go skiing in Victoria, Australia. |
Mount Terror | Names of two mountains, one in Antarctica, the other in Washington. Great places for a family picnic, especially if one's family name just might be Addams or Munster. |
Mount Toogood | A mountain in Antarctica. |
Mount Typo | The mountain of typographical errors. |
Mousehole | A fishing village in Cornwall, England. |
Muck | This island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland is actually quite clean. |
Mudchute | An area of London, England. |
Mud Lick | A place in Kentucky with some questionable dietary decisions. Hopefully they learn. |
Muff | A village in County Donegal, Ireland. |
Murderkill River | A 35 km (22 mile) long river in the state of Delaware, its violent-sounding name might actually come from the Dutch word modder (mud). |
Mymensingh | Capital of the Mymensingh Division of Bangladesh. |
Mỹ Sơn | I am disappoint! |
Mystic | A 17th century-founded historic city in Connecticut, United States, notable for its historic seaport and a major aquarium; and which has a city named for it in Iowa. |
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Nag's Head | A beach town in North Carolina. |
Nagybajom | A village in Hungary with a huge problem. Means "my big problem" in Hungarian. Clearly this place was a mistake. |
Naháč | A village in Slovakia. Means "naked guy" in Slovak. |
Nameless | Yeah, that's a name, so you're wrong. |
Nani | Town in Afghanistan that means "what" in Japanese, and is the name for the older sister to her younger sibling's very troublesome alien colleague. |
Narnia | A town in central Italy, now called Narni. The imaginary place in The Chronicles of Narnia novels created by author C. S. Lewis was named after the town. |
Nasty | It's actually a nice place. |
Needles | A city in San Bernardino County, California. Don't worry...you won't get pricked. |
Neger | The name of two rivers in Germany. Let's just leave it there. |
Nemenčinė | A city in Lithuania that means "not foolish" in Lithuanian. I could consider this funny in that 56% of the population here is ethnically Polish but I won't. |
Neprošteno | A village in Macedonia. Means "unforgiven". |
Nether Wallop | That's gotta hurt. |
Neutral | This Kansas place gives nobody a darn about your world conflicts. |
Nevada, Iowa | Pronounced "nuh-VEY-duh". |
Neversink | A township and small community in Sullivan County, New York. No, it's not a Titanic reference. |
New Erection | A hamlet in Virginia, USA. The old one got a bit soft. |
Newbuildings | There are always new buildings. |
New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | What the heck, Pennsylvania?! Is one Philadelphia not enough for you? |
New York, Texas | This small community in Henderson County, Texas probably has a relationship with Texas, New York. Also a village in Lincolnshire, England, a few miles from Boston, Lincolnshire. |
Nice | It's actually a nasty place...if one's not fond of the French Riviera. |
Niepiekła | A village in Poland that means "not hell" in Polish. |
Niger | Country in West Africa. Racist, if not pronounced "nee-zhair" like the French would - as French is its official language. This isn't Xbox Live, so adding an additional "G" isn't funny. |
Nipple Peak | A mountain peak in Antarctica. |
Nippletop | A mountain located in Essex County, New York within the largest state-protected area in the "lower-48" United States. |
Nimrod | Name of a few different places in the US. |
No Man's Land | A small hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom. |
No Name | A town in Colorado, United States. |
No Place | I guess the residents were too dumb to realize it's a place in County Durham, United Kingdom. |
Nobber | A village in County Meath, Ireland. |
Nob End | A place near Kearsley, Bolton. |
Nob Hill | A neighborhood in San Francisco. |
Nokia | No Kia's are allowed here - and even the telephone firm named for it left there in 2008! |
Nõmme | An administrative district in Tallinn full of candy! "Nõmme" means "yummy" in Estonian. |
Nork | A small residential area near Epsom Downs in Surrey, England, on the border with Greater London. Also a suburb of Yerevan, Armenia. |
Normal | A town in Illinois, United States. Home of first public university of Illinois. There is also a small community called Normal in Alabama, part of the city of Huntsville and home to Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. |
North | A small town in South Carolina...in the center of the state, partly founded by an "appropriately" (?!?)-named CSA veteran! |
North Piddle | A parish in Worcestershire, England. |
North Pole, Alaska | A city in Alaska, United States. |
North Pole, New York | A hamlet in Essex County, New York, United States with a theme park called Santa's Workshop. |
Norway, New York | A township and small community located in Herkimer County, New York. |
Nose | A "two-syllable town" in Japan. |
Nosy Be | An island off the coast of Madagascar. The people there tend to be quite nosy. Probably because they haven't eaten in a while. |
Nothing | A small abandoned town in Arizona, United States. |
Noua Țara Românească, Michigan | Translates to "New Romanian Lands" from Romanian, better known as Lakeside Resort |
Nowe Rumunki | A village in Poland that means "New Romanian Women" in Polish. Wonder what that's in reference to. |
Nowhere | An unincorporated community in the middle of Oklahoma, United States. |
Nowhere Else[11] | In Tasmania, Australia. Contrary to the name, there are in fact other places, including Paradise and Promised Land, both nearby. |
Number Eight | A town in Macon County, Missouri. Do I need to say anything? |
Ob | A town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It means "about" in Russian. Hmm...it also shares its name with the world's seventh-longest river, only nine kilometers away! |
Obama | A town in Fukui prefecture, Japan that means "little beach" in Japanese. Gained publicity in 2008 as it shares its name with a US president. |
Obasute Station | A train station that deals in the business of senicide. "Obasute" or "Ubasute" means "abandoning an old woman" in Japanese. There's also a mountain in Japan with similar kanji 冠着山 (obasuteyama) that basically means something like "throw-grandma-away mountain". |
Odd | Where the teachers from Normal can expect to wind up after graduation! |
Odd Down | A suburb of the English city of Bath, Somerset. |
Ofakim | A city in southern Israel that seems to have been named by someone who was pretty exasperated with some dude. |
Ogre | A city in Central Latvia. They are like onions. |
Ohey | A Francophone hometown that gives a very warm welcome...«Allo, comment t'allez-vous?» |
Ohio, New York | A township and small community in Herkimer County, New York, obviously named after the state of Ohio. |
Ojai | A city in Ventura County, California, pronounced OH-hi. So...hello to you, too. |
Okahumpka | All humping allowed here, in this Sunshine State locale! |
Onancock | A town in Virginia, United States. |
Once Brewed and Twice Brewed | Villages in Tyne and Wear, near Newcastle upon Tyne. |
Orál | Capital of West Kazakhstan. |
Orly | The French "commune" that partly hosts the Paris-area airport, that was completed five years too late for The Lone Eagle to be able to land there! |
Oshita Building | A building located in Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. Oh "Bleep" a building. |
Oshkosh | Sometimes invoking the mild expletive "B'gosh!", once a year its airport becomes the world's busiest airfield! |
Ovens | The hottest village in all of Ireland. |
Owo | OwO, what's this? It's a city in Nigeria which looks like an emoji use to express shock. |
Oy | A rural locality in the "deepest part of Siberia", within Russia. Some used to think a lot of Russians like to say "Oy" - but it's been popular (and spelled a bit different) in the UK, as well! |
Paese | A town in Italy that means "town", so Italy has a town that means "town". Those Italians sure are creative. In French however it resembles a French slang word "baise" which means "fuck". |
Pain Court | Lash punishments are dealt out daily here. |
Paint Lick | An unincorporated community in Garrard County, Kentucky. Let's just hope that they don't have lead-based paint. |
Painted Post | A village in Steuben County, New York. |
Pal | A very friendly Andorran village. |
Palli (Turku) | Name of a place in Finland that is also sometimes spelled "Pallivaha". "Palli" means "ball" and "vaha" means "wax" in Finnish and Estonian so it basically means "ball wax". At least the Estonians get to join in. |
Papa | An island in the Scalloway Islands, Shetland, Scotland. |
Pápa | Another Hungarian town (this one with a "cute accent"), but still with daddy issues. Also translates as "pope" in Hungarian. |
Paraíba | A state in Brazil. In the Tupi language, it means "bad for navigation". |
Pardeeville | An Amish town in Wisconsin. |
Paskalomatunturi | A mountain in Finland. Name translates to "Shit Holiday Mountain". |
Pau Grande | Two towns in Brazil whose names translates to "big stick" or "big wood". However, "pau" doesn't only mean wood, but it can also be one of the many euphemisms for penis. |
Pauvres | A commune in France that means "poor people". Guess they axed their tourism potential. |
Peculiar | A town in Missouri, where various theories exist to explain the origin of the town's name. The town motto: "where the odds are with you". |
Pécs | Doesn't look like much but it's actually pronounced quite similar to that word for a female dog. Those Hungarians sure are clever. |
Pedrovo | A small village in Slovenia. Translates as "gayville". |
Pee Dee | There's another Pee Dee in Anson County and is also the name of a river and of a Native American tribe (compare with The Bay State's Mashpee, above)...gawddamn...! |
Pee Pee | A township in Ohio. Probably wants a visit from Beaver. |
Pee Pee Island | An Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. |
Peepeekisis | A Cree First Nation. |
Peinlich | A hamlet in Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Peinlich is the German word for "embarrassing". |
Penacova | A town in Portugal. Means "pé na cova" means "foot in hole" in Portuguese. |
Penetanguishene | A town on Ontario's Lake Huron coastline - with a history that made it a bilingual town, in a primarily English-speaking Canadian province. |
Peniscola | A midsized coastal town within Spain's Valencian Community. Don't drink the piña colada. |
Penistone | It has caused generations of Yorkshiremen to smirk. |
Pennycomequick | An area of Plymouth, England where pennies are mistreated. |
Petting | Absolutely no sexual connotations. Seriously! |
Pforzheim | A very gassy German city. "Pforz" bears a slight resemblance to the German verb "furz" which means "fart" so it can mean "fart home". |
Phuket | A city in Thailand. Pronounced kind of like "fuck it". A popular destinations for sexual reassignment surgery. |
Picha | A village in Iran that is bound to make a few Portuguese people laugh. "Picha" means "sting" in Portuguese but it can also mean "penis". |
Pičín | A village in the Czech Republic that's pronounced like "pitch in". In Czech it means "pussy place". |
Pie Corner | Where can you find some pie in Barbados? |
Pie Town | New Mexico's attempt to fire back at Barbados - and "guess what", there is at least one restaurant in town that can serve it up for you! |
Pig | Well, that's not very "bluegrass-nice". |
Pikveld | A small town in the Netherlands. Means "dick field" in Dutch. Dicks are certainly an unusual crop I can tell you that. |
Pill | A village in North Somerset, England, which does have a medicinally-skilled chemist. |
Pilot Butte | Pilot Butte is an extinct volcano located in Bend, Oregon, and a large town in Saskatchewan, Canada. |
Piteå | A Swedish town named after pie and tea. No not that pie! The other one! |
Piscataway | Not exactly the best thing to do to your cat. |
Pissy | A village in Burkina Faso. |
Pity Me | Feel sorry for those who live there. It's actually a village on the outskirts of Durham, Co Durham, GB. |
Plain | A town in Washington likely named after the geographical feature, but you still have to wonder what the founders were thinking. |
Plungė | A city filled with plungers. |
Poil | A town in France whose name translates to "body hair". Also has a dirty connotation in French. In "Brooklyn-ese", it's the name of a fictional, bowler-wearing ghost's girlfriend. |
Point No Point | This name is rather pointless. |
Poland, New York | A village in Herkimer County, New York. It's also the name of a township in Chautauqua County, New York. |
Police | A town in Poland (pronounced po-lee-tze). Until the Second World War it was called Pölitz, its German name; when during WW II, its motor fuel refining facilities had the stuffings blown out of them nine times by American and British aircrews. |
Pomme de Terre Lake | A Lake located in Hickory County, Missouri. If you don't see what's wrong here, in French, "pomme de terre" literally means "potato". Tell me, when you think of Missouri, do you think of their famous potatoes? |
Poo | A town in Himachal Pradesh, India. |
Poo Poo Point | a mountain peak in Issaquah, Washington |
Pool | Lots of pool parties to find here. |
Poop | A town in Yucatan, Mexico, Next to Ekpedz, Mexico. |
Poop Hill | A hill in the United Kingdom in desperate need of better plumbing. |
Poopo | Just what you need in South America. |
Poowong | A small town in Australia. |
Pop | A place in Uzbekistan that's being inflated like a balloon! |
Popcorn | A place in the Hoosier State, where they make popcorn and sell it in stores such as Walgreens. |
Pörnbach | This is the place where all that German Dungeon Porn comes from. |
Porno | A village in Nigeria. The prince might need a little more than help this time. |
Pornóapáti | The distribution center for Hungarian porn. Fitting as it means "Porno abbey's" or "porno party", which means it could be the source for a certain very naughty Magyar phrasebook from decades ago. |
Poverty | An unincorporated community in Kentucky with lots of poor people. |
Poundsgate | A village in Devon, England. |
Powersville | The personal residence of Austin Powers and tons of Krypton. |
Pratt's Bottom | A village in the London Borough of Bromley, originally Spratts Bottom. |
Pray | A very religious Italian town. Also in France, Montana, and Wisconsin. |
Presidente Prudente | City in Brazil, named after president Prudente de Morais. Sounds extra weird due to the fact that literally translated, it means "prudent president". |
Prickend | Former name of West Chislehurst, London; which also contains Prickend Pond (a pond) and Prick End (a street). |
Proletarsk | As if Kommunizm weren't enough... |
Prosperous | An actually not so prosperous town in Ireland. |
Puck | Somehow this coastal Polish city has no ice hockey team. And right across Puck Bay, Hel can be found, especially if one is reading a Marvel Comics work that mentions its "queen". |
Puddletown | A village in Dorset, United Kingdom. Also several nearby villages along the River Piddle, such as Piddletrenthide. |
Pukë | A town in Albania. |
Pumpkin Center | Name of a bunch of places in the US. Those pumpkins must be quite proud of themselves. |
Pungpinan | A small subdistrict in Sweden. Means "tortured scrotum" in Swedish. |
Punkeydoodles Corners | A hamlet in Ontario known for its name and frequent sign theft. |
Purchase | A good place to purchase some Pepsi (as it's home to the headquarters of parent company Pepsico). |
Pussay | A commune in France. |
Püssi | A town in Estonia. Yes, there are pussies here. And even funnier yet, "Püssi" translates to "the gun" in Estonian. One can only speculate to what "the gun" really is. |
Pussy | A village in the Rhone Alps. |
Pussy Creek | A creek in Harrison Township, Ohio. |
Putsonderwater | Means "well without water" in Afrikaans. Now I know why it's abandoned. |
Puurmani' | A borough in Estonia. "Puur" means drill and "mani" means man so you can look at it as "drill man". Don't worry, I'm sure it's just a euphemism for a penis. |
Queer Mountain | A mountain in Antarctica. |
Rabbit Hash | A small town in Northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati. Four dogs have been successively elected Mayor there... |
Radium, Kansas | How'd you like to live in a town named after a radioactive element? |
Ragged Ass Road | A street in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. |
Rammelsbach | Means "screwing creek" in German. |
Rape | This is the traditional term for a subdivision of the county of Sussex, in England. The county had several "rapes": the rape of Arundel, the rape of Bramber, etc. |
Räpina | A city in Estonia that means "rapping" in Estonian. Don't get too excited, the people here are probably too white to be any good. |
Rapture | Would you kindly visit us? |
Ratten | A municipality in Austria that means "rats". There's also a Rattenberg in Austria "rats mountain". |
Rectum (nl) | A hamlet in the municipality of Wierden, Netherlands. |
Red Deer | A city in Alberta, Canada. |
Red Deer Hill | A farming community in Saskatchewan south of Prince Albert and is within the Rural Municipality of Prince Albert No. 461. |
Red House | The least populous town in New York, United States. |
Reddick | With any luck, they'll paint their flagpole red as a suitable euphemism. |
Red Lion | Name of 5 different places in the US, an airport, a creek, a bunch of pubs in England, and in Australia. The lions are probably soaked in the blood of Christians. Clearly Nero left his mark on the world because lions aren't normally red. |
Red Shirt | No doubt a Star Trek reference. |
Reet | A town in Belgium within the municipality of Rumst. "Reet" means "butt" in Dutch. |
Regina | The capital of Saskatchewan that the 12 year olds will love as it rhymes with "vagina". More hilariously it was named in honor of Queen Victoria. |
Riešketai | A small village in Lithuania that means "nuts". |
Rifle | A city in Colorado. |
Rimsting | A municipality in Germany. |
Rimswell | A village in Yorkshire, whose inhabitants may have prehensile tongues. |
Řitka | A village in the Czech Republic that means "butthole" in Czech. |
Ritoznoj | A village in Slovenia. Means "ass-sweat" in Slovenian. |
Riverside | Not an "unusual" name to most of us...the one in California used to have a famous auto-racing circuit until 1989, but the one in Iowa is where a famous space captain of the future could be born. |
Roca Puta | A surfing spot in the Basque Country that can be translated as either "fucking rock" or "Whore Rock". |
Roach | A town in Florida. In this town, one can hear "Last Resort" (song) playing in the distant background. |
Rock | A village in Cornwall. |
Rock City, New York | This tiny hamlet in the Hudson Valley of New York State is only some 3.5 kilometers due east of the late Cole Palen's famous aviation museum. |
Rolândia | A city in Paraná, Brazil, Rola means cock in Brazil, so translating to English it means Cockland or Dickland |
Romeo | An unincorporated community in Florida with no Juliet to be found. Poor Romeo. |
Roses | Sounds like a lovely place. |
Rottenegg | A small town in Austria. Man, when I ate eggs from there, it made me SICK! |
Rough and Ready | This place in California likes it nice and rough. I'm not talking about Hanna-Barbera, making its first television series. |
Rrapë | I think this Albanian village forgot how to consent for sex. |
Rum | A very strong drunken Austrian town. |
Russia, New York | A township and small community located in Herkimer County, New York. |
Ruyton-XI-Towns | XI pronounced "eleven" (Roman numerals). |
Saaranpaskantamasaari | A small island in Finland. It means "an island shat by Saara". |
Safe Harbour | Its abandoned status suggests that it's not very safe. |
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! | The only town name with two exclamation points. (There is a Baie des Ha! Ha! in Saguenay, Quebec but it is not an incorporated municipality.) It's also some 145 km away from the lake, and aforementioned fleuve drôle that share the "exclamative" part of its name. Like Wawa, Ontario (which natively means "goose"), Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is a remote point in an otherwise-populous province, located directly on the Trans-Canada Highway but nowhere near anything. |
Sainte-Verge | A commune in France. "Verge" means "penis" in French so it essentially means "Saint Penis" in French. |
Saldus | A town in Latvia filled with cake! "Saldus" means "sweet" in Latvian. Sorry but that cake is actually a lie. |
Saligos | A small commune in France that means "creep". |
Salmon Arm, British Columbia | A Small City Near Kamloops. |
Salt Lick | Clearly the dietary choices of the residents here need to be called into question. |
Sand | A village in Hungary. |
Sandy Balls | An area of parkland in Hampshire, England. |
Sandwich | A town in Barnstable County, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Also twinned with Sandwich, England. What a yummy name — and at least one of the British royals of that name might just agree! |
Santa Claus | A city in Spencer County, Indiana, United States founded in 1841, adopting its current name in 1856; that has the only Santa Claus postmark in the U.S. Postal system - it shares its name with a 1941-founded city in Toombs County, Georgia, United States and a ghost town in Arizona. |
Sarilhos Pequenos | Village in Portugal, meaning Small Troubles. |
Satan's Kingdom | The name of two villages in the United States' New England region, one in Massachusetts and the other in Vermont. |
Sauce | Indeed I'll have sauce with that. |
Ščavnica | A river in Slovenia. Translates roughly to "piss". And the German name for it is "stainz". So much for the environment. |
Schlangenbad | A town in Germany. The "schlang" part is pronounced kind of like "schlong". Also means "snakes pool" in German, possibly from the German word for a spa town. |
Schönegg | A municipality in Austria. "Schön" means "beautiful" in German so this place has very beautiful eggs! |
Scratch Ankle | An unincorporated community in Alabama. |
Scratch Face Lane | A road near Ide, Exeter, England. |
Scratch My Arse Rock | An atoll off the coast of Palmerston Island in the Cook Islands. |
Scratchy Bottom | A clifftop valley near Durdle Door, Weymouth in Dorset, England. |
Scrubbers End | A street in the often snow bound town of Dinner Plain, Victoria, Australia that leads to the err... "industrial" part of the town. |
Seč | The name of 2 different abandoned settlements in Slovenia. "Seč" means "urine" in Slovenian. |
Šeduva | A city in Lithuania. Means "slavery" in Lithuanian. Fortunately that's not the city's trade sector. |
Seeth | A municipality in Germany. The towns name in Danish is "Sæd" which means "sperm". |
Seix | The condoms, as well as the area's local cathedral, are only 196 km (122 miles) away!!! |
Semens | A town in the south of France. |
Seven Devils | A town on the border of Avery and Watauga counties in North Carolina. When you thought one devil was enough...guess again. |
Sexau | A village in Germany. |
Sexbierum | Three vices in one name. |
Sexi | If only the ancient Phoenicians were around today to know what the current connotations of this name is now. |
Sexmoan | Former name of Sasmuan, Pampanga. |
Sexsmith | While this northwestern Alberta community in Canada might have an "educational"-sounding name to some, its some-2,600 residents live in what was once known as the "Grain Capital of the British Empire". |
Shades of Death Road | Located in central Warren County, New Jersey, its name has given rise to many local legends about ghosts and other paranormal activity along the road, many of which have been documented in Weird NJ magazine. |
Shag Rocks | At least four different places with this name: in Massachusetts, South Georgia, Tasmania, and Western Australia. |
Shagnasty Island | Not to be confused with Love Island, which is in South Georgia. |
Shamrock | No leprechauns live in this Texas town. |
Shanghai | An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States. |
Shangri-La | A city in China, not quite the fictional one mentioned in the book Lost Horizon by James Hilton but does have some basis on this place as it was renamed Shangri-La from Zhongdian in 2001 in order to promote tourism. |
Sheepy Magna | A village in the parish of Sheepy, Leicestershire, England. Not to be confused with Sheepy Parva. |
Shingay cum Wendy | A parish in Cambridgeshire, England. |
Shit | Holy shit, here are at least three villages in Iran with this name: one in Kermanshah Province, one in Mazandaran Province, and one in Zanjan Province! |
Shitterton | A hamlet in Dorset, England. Sounds like a right shit hole. |
Shoofly | A small community in Granville County, North Carolina, located in Tally Ho township. |
Shop | A village in Cornwall, England. |
Shortlands | An area of the London Borough of Bromley, England. |
Short Pump | A census-designated place in Virginia. |
Shoulderblade | I think a Bluegrass State town named after the scapula is humerus. |
Shtit | Two naughty words in one little Bulgarian village. These guys must be very proud. |
Shush | The county seat of the same-name county in south-westernmost Iran, one could say it's amazingly quiet there at night...it also has a six-millennia old Sumerian city located there. |
Siberia | Unincorporated community in California. |
Siem Reap Province | A province in Cambodia. When the province was controlled by Siam it was called "Siemmarat" which means "Siam's territory". Now under the control of Cambodia "Siem Reap" means "Siam defeated". I can see these two have been playing nice clearly. |
Sieroty | A village in Poland that translates to "orphans". Now why is there no orphanage there? |
Silly | A town in Belgium, that's barely 27 km from the border with France — you can never take its citizens seriously, and you'd likely have to pronounce it as see-yee to get it right...! |
Silly Department | This department's employees probably don't take their jobs too seriously. Pronounced "seely". Yes, they're that "seely" - but it's in a small West African nation, with French as its official language (like the Belgian locale mentioned just above). |
Šilutė | A city in Lithuania that "silutes" all of its guests! |
Sisevac | A small Serbian village that means "boobs village". Must be for the tourists. |
Sissiboo River | This river is in Nova Scotia, and its name could possibly be based on the French for "six owls" (six-hiboux). |
Six Mile Bottom | A village in Cambridgeshire, England. |
Skullbone | An unincorporated community in Tennessee. |
Ski | A town in Norway. Apparently a big fan of skiing. |
Slapout | A community in Elmore County, Alabama, where hand-to-hand combat skills will get you a long way. |
Slaughter | Also see Upper Slaughter, Lower Slaughter, and Slaughter, Washington (since renamed Auburn, Washington) |
Slaughterville | A site of grisly murders and uprisings. So much so that PETA tried to get the town to rename itself to "Veggieville". The town told them to go fuck themselves. |
Slaughter Beach | It's probably best not to go to the beach at night in this Delaware town, lest the sands be stained red by the morning... |
Slave Lake | A town in Alberta, Canada. |
Sleepy Eye | A city in Brown County, Minnesota. It is not far from Walnut Grove where Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder lived during her childhood. |
Sleepy Hollow | A village in Westchester County, New York which was basis for the famous short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. The name was changed from North Tarrytown to Sleepy Hollow in 1996 which was the traditional name for the area before incorporation. There is also a place called Sleepy Hollow in Illinois. |
Slemmestad | A village in Røyken municipality, Norway. The name means "mean town" in Norwegian. |
Slicklizzard | A small community in Walker County, Alabama. |
Slippery Rock | Also known as Slimy Pebble...so yes it is actually slippery there. |
Slizké | A village in Slovakia that means "slimey". |
Slut | The only thing this Swedish village is missing is a brothel. |
Slutsk | This Belarusian place needs to be twinned with that Swedish village... |
Smackover | From the French "sumac covert," meaning covered in sumac. Or from the French "chemin covert," meaning covered path or bridge. |
Smug | A settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Debrzno, within Człuchów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. |
Snake Mountain | The name of mountains located in North Carolina/Tennessee (border) and Vermont. Skeletor and his henchmen do not live at either one of them. |
Snave | A small hamlet in England that might leave a few Danes quite charmed. "Snave" in Danish means "to french kiss". |
Snowflake | The place for people who feel special. Also one in Manitoba. |
Soda Springs | A town founded by junk food extremists who somehow managed to replace all natural water sources with Coke springs, Pepsi waterfalls, and Mountain View ponds. |
Sodom | Name of a few different places in the world. |
Sofia University Mountains | A mountain range in Antarctica. |
Sopchoppy | A tiny Florida Panhandle community of just under 500 in population within the Sunshine State's Wakulla County, its Muskogee name for "acorn stem" isn't known to have made their local pastime of "worm grunting" any more popular there "as yet"... |
Stara Nova Vas | A village in Slovenia that is quite an oxymoron. Means "Old New Village". |
Su Kacha | A village in Iran that the Czechs are sure bound to love. "Su Kacha" bears a resemblance to "Šukačka" which means "fuckfest". Now watch as the Czech tourists come flocking over here. |
Solo | Chewie! |
Sorge | A village in Germany. Means either "sorrow" or "worry" in German, and to some, "honoring" the name of Josef Stalin's top spy in Japan!. |
Spa | A cozy and comfy place with a race track... that isn't in Spa. Oddly enough, the term "spa" is derived from the towns name. |
Spermezeu | A commune in Romania. Means "Sperm God" in Romanian. |
Špičkovina | A village in Croatia that can be translated to mean "female genitalia village". |
Spital-in-the-Street | Be careful where you walk in this English town. |
Split | A Croatian city prone to breaking off from the mainland. It's right on the post card. |
Splunge | A place in Mississippi, that's clearly a fan of Monty Python.[12] |
Spread Eagle | A place in Wisconsin. Watch out for the tight pants - and sharing the name for a particularly tough, six-pin split in bowling! |
Spuyten Duyvil | Name means "spoutin' devil" in old Dutch. |
Squall's Teat | A mesa in west Texas, USA. Visible from I-10 outside of Fort Stockton. Looks like a titty. |
Squirrel, Idaho | A unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho. A dog's favorite place. |
Srpska Crnja | A village in the north of Serbia. Translates to "Serbian nigger," 'crnja' being the derogatory term for Black people in the country. |
St. Nazianz, Wisconsin | These guys need to change their names, pronto...then again, the "fascist-sounding" part of that town's name actually comes from central Turkey! |
Staines-upon-Thames | Wonder where those "staines" came from? |
Stale | A Polish village that lives up to its name. |
Stalin Hair Salon | Another place in India. What's with India and naming stores/salons after crazy dictators? |
Staunton | The only thing unusual about this city in western Virginia is how it's pronounced, which is STAN-tuhn. |
Stege | A town in Denmark that means "roast" in Danish. Who's firing up the grills? |
Stepaside | A suburb of Dublin, Ireland. |
Stillwater | A City in Oklahoma 60 km from Oklahoma City. It is home to Oklahoma State University. |
Stinking Bay | An unincorporated community in Arkansas that doesn't exactly shout out good personal hygiene, does it? |
Stolec | The name of 3 different Polish villages. "Stolec" means "excrement" in Polish. And that's when these places said goodbye to their tourism sector. |
Stone-cum-Ebony | A civil parish in England. |
Stoptide | Near Rock. |
Stow cum Quy | A parish in England. |
Strahlungen | A municipality in Germany that means "radiation" in German. That's sure to boost your tourism sector. |
Strangeways | A very fitting name for a prison. |
Strangolagalli | A comune in Italy. Means "strangle cocks" in Italian. |
Stupid Creek | A creek in Oregon, next to the looniest creek ever. |
Stupid Lake | A lake in Manitoba, Canada, which got a 55 on its last IQ test. |
Stupid Rule Lane | A road in Paso Robles, California. |
Suches | This place doesn't like your plan. It "suches". |
Sucker Lake | A lake in Ontario, Canada. |
Suckow | A village in Germany that sucks. |
Sugartit | A town in Kentucky. Another one's in South Carolina. |
Sumerduck | A town in Fauquier County, Virginia. The town was named after the fact that ducks flocked there in the summer. |
Superior Bottom | A town in West Virginia, USA |
Supporting Party Mountain | A mountain in Antarctica. |
Surju | A village in Estonia that means "death" in Estonian. That'll brighten the mood for the tourists. |
Surprise | A city in Maricopa County, Arizona. Would you be surprised living in this city? |
Swastika | No Nazis live here. A 1908 mining town in northern Ontario, which adamantly insisted "Hitler be damned"; they had the name first - at least the town was never named Hakenkreuz, and has never had an If Day. |
Sweden, New York | A township in Monroe County, New York. |
Swornegacie | A village in Poland that means... "dutiful panties". |
Szparki | A place in Poland. "Szparki" translates to "crevices" in Polish which in Polish is a slang term for "pussy". |
T-Z
Tainai | A city in Japan which if used with this kanji 胎内 means "inside the womb". |
Taft | A city that shares its name with a U.S. President, which is especially strange since it is in Iran. There is also a town named Taft in Oklahoma, and in California. |
Tally Ho | A township in Granville County, North Carolina. |
Tamale, Ghana | Town in Ghana. It's very delicious. |
Tapa | A town in Estonia. Likely to become the next murder capital of the world as "tapa" means "kill" in Estonian and Finnish. |
Tar River | A river in North Carolina. It's not as sticky as you think. |
Tarm | A town in Denmark. Means "intestine", "bowel", or "gut" in Danish. |
Tarzana | A neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles in California, located on the former site where author Edgar Rice Burroughs once lived. It is named after fictional African jungle character Tarzan, a creation by Burroughs. |
Teakettle, Belize | A village near the border with Guatemala. |
Taylors Mistake | Named after a shipping accident. |
Te Puke | A town in New Zealand, known for kiwifruit packing and a wood processing plant called Pukepine. |
Te Urewera | Area in New Zealand, name means "burnt penis" in the Māori language. |
Tenderloin | It has the best butchers in the world. |
Tendernob | Area in San Francisco between Nob Hill and Tenderloin. |
Termonfeckin | Town in County Louth, Ireland. |
Teufelsmoor | A bog region a bit north of Bremen. "Teufel" means "devil" in German. A very devilish part of Germany no doubt. |
Texas, New York | A small community in Oswego County, New York. What makes this weirder is that this community is located near the village of Mexico. What makes this even weirder is that there's also a New York, Texas. |
The Office Girls | No, the female employees of Dunder-Mifflin are not associated with these two nunataks in Victoria Land, Antarctica. |
This | Commune in France that I cannot touch. |
Thong | A hamlet in Kent, England. See also Upperthong and Netherthong (below). |
Three Cocks | A village in Powys, Wales. More commonly known by its Welsh name Aberllynfi. |
Tickle Cock Bridge | A pedestrian underpass bridge in Castleford, England. |
Tiddleywink | Probably one of the strangest sounding places out there, it's about 8.6 kilometers (just over five miles) north-northeast of a very historic Box. |
Țigănești | A commune in Romania that means "gypsy". |
Tightsqueeze | An unincorporated community in the center of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. |
Tightwad | A small town in Henry County, Missouri with a population of around 70. All of them are Scrooge. |
Tillicum Beach | Till I cum beach? Must be a nude beach. |
Time | Yes, Norwegians take time so seriously they even named a municipality after it. |
Tin Can Corner | A small crossroads in Grand Traverse County, Michigan |
Tiny Town | A place in Kentucky with lots of dwarves. |
Titting | A municipality in Bavaria. |
Tittmoning | A village in Bavaria. Strategically located near Fucking. |
Titty Hill | A hamlet in the civil parish of Milland in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. |
Titz | A German town probably named by a bunch of horny schoolboys. |
Toad Suck | Now that's just plain mean. |
Toast | A small community in Surry County, North Carolina, located near Mount Airy. |
Tobaccoville | A town on the border of Forsyth and Stokes counties in North Carolina, right in the heart of tobacco country. |
Todendorf | Means "dead village" in German. |
Tokat | A very violent Turkish city. "Tokat" means "slap" in Turkish. |
Tomato, Arkansas | A town on the Mississippi River in Arkansas. |
Tombstone | A historic Old West town in Cochise County, Arizona most famously known for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881. While some designing for Tombstone Pizza has an Old West look which may lead to some people thinking the brand was named after the Arizona town, it was actually based on a tavern called the Tombstone Tap in Wisconsin formerly owned by its founders. The tavern was located across from a cemetery. |
Tønder | A town in Denmark that means "barrels" in Danish. I'm sure the residents and their German neighbors hope the barrels are full of beer. |
Tonnes | A strong contestant for the heaviest postal code, weighing in at 8750 Tonnes. |
Tootsi | A borough in Estonia that really likes tootsie rolls. |
Tornado | A place in West Virginia named after a natural disaster. Kansas and Oklahoma have been dating this place for quite a while. |
Torpenhow Hill | A place whose name would mean "HillHillHill Hill"... if it existed. |
Torun | This Polish city certainly doesn't have far to run. If only Pheidippides knew what this place was, then he wouldn't have had to run 26 miles. |
Tourrettes | A French commune with Tourette syndrome. |
Tours | Makes sense for the country that gets the most tourists. Hopefully they don't let it get to their head. |
Tõrva | A city in Estonia. Means "tar" in Estonian. |
Transylvania County | A county located in North Carolina. Neither the historical Prince Vlad Tepes, nor the fictional Dracula based on the prince, have ever resided in the area, but there is a Bat Cave nearby. |
Traseiros | Village in the Algarve, Portugal, meaning Backside. |
Trécon | Want a village with a funny name but don't want the sign to get stolen? Go the direction of the French village whose name means "very stupid" or "big idiot" in French. |
Troia | A town in Italy that means "whore". And this place has a cathedral. One can only wonder what the nuns do there in their spare time. |
Trollhättan | A city in Västra Götaland County, Sweden where Saab cars were made. Its name translates to "troll's bonnet". |
Trosa | A town in Sweden. Can mean either "panties" or "underwear" in Swedish. |
Trumpington | The 45th president of the US of A is bound to like this place. |
Truth or Consequences | A town in New Mexico that renamed itself simply so it could host the show that bore its name. |
Truttikon | A municipality in Switzerland that the Dutch are sure to love. "Trut" means "bitch" in Dutch so it can be read as "bitch icon". |
Tuba City | Named after Tuuvi, a Hopi man who introduced Mormonism to the American Natives. |
Tubbercurry | The second-largest town in terms of both population and land area in County Sligo, Ireland. I'll have a tub o' curry with that. |
Tuckahoe | A village in New York, where a popular 1970s "spinoff" of Archie Bunker's sitcom was based. |
Tuntenhausen | A municipality in Germany. Means "faggot village" in German. |
Tupenurme | A village in Estonia that means "vagina pasture" in Estonian. Now I know where I want to live. |
Turbo | You can get here by fast boats featuring "concussion-inducing bumps as the launch jumps the waves". |
Turda | A city in Romania. |
Turkey | Gobble gobble. There is also a town called Turkey in Sampson County, North Carolina. |
Turkey Scratch | An unincorporated community in Arkansas. What? You don't think turkeys don't get itchy too? |
Twatt | A small settlement on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. |
Twentynine Palms | My, my...that's a lot of hands - adjacent to one of the toughest American military training centers in the nation's Department of Defense. |
Two Dot | Named after a local rancher's livestock‑branding pattern.[13] |
Two Egg | An unincorporated community in Florida. |
U | A municipality on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia. |
Uck | River in Sussex, England. Signs for the river have been subject to frequent vandalism, resulting in the local council fitting specially shaped signs to reduce the potential to add letters to the name. |
Udovice | A village in Serbia. Means "widows" in Serbian. |
Ugley | The inhabitants are actually quite pretty. |
Umm-Bab | Town in Qatar. Now you know where Hanson got their song idea from. |
Um Dafuq | A little place in Sudan. |
Unalaska | A town in Alaska whose name makes it sound like it's not happy with its situation. |
Upper Dicker | A village in the Weald of East Sussex. |
Upper Sandusky | Town in Ohio south of Sandusky. |
Upperthong and Netherthong | Two villages in West Yorkshire, England. |
Uranus, Missouri | A town famous for their fudge factory. |
Useless Loop | A very small town in coastal Western Australia, that exports sea salt like crazy! |
Vagina | Village in Siberia. Pronounced "wa-gee-nah," but we know otherwise. |
Valentine | A city in Nebraska where it's always Valentine's Day!!! |
Van | Unfortunately this place existed long before motorized vehicles were invented. |
Varakļāni | A town in Latvia. Means "cowardly" in Latvian. |
Varvarin | Town in Serbia. Name translates to Barbarian. |
Vatan | A town in France that means "go away". Clearly these guys aren't fans of tourists. |
Veliki Krš | A mountain in Serbia. Means something like "big pile of junk" in Serbian. |
Venda das Raparigas | Village in Portugal, meaning Girls Sale. |
Venta de Baños | A small town in Spain that has found their trade revenue. "Venta de Baños" means "bathrooms for sale" in Spanish. |
Venus | Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania. |
Vergina | A small town in Greece. |
Viekšniai | A city in Lithuania that means "crazy" in Lithuanian. |
Village of Four Seasons | Village in Missouri. |
Vintrosa | A small town in Sweden. Means "wine panties" in Swedish. |
Violência | Village in Portugal, meaning Violence. |
Viols-le-Fort | A place in France. If translated from French, the place would be named "Rape-the-Fort". Challenge accepted. |
Virgin | If you plan on getting laid, I'd suggest crossing this place off on your "where to go next" list. |
Virgin Islands, Virginia, etc. | Apparently, they haven't been having enough fun after hours... They're nowhere near the Isle of Man (British Isles) either |
Virgin's Cove | A little cove in Newfoundland for all the virgins. |
Vold Station | A railway station in Norway that is currently abandoned. No wonder considering that "vold" means "violence" in Norwegian. |
Võõpsu | A village in Estonia with very dirty people. Means "dirty" in Estonian. |
Voorhees | This township in Camden County, New Jersey (which has no "Elm Street") is mostly a safe place to live, but the local police department have spent years attempting to track down a certain serial killer who strikes on Friday the 13th. |
Voorheesville | Don't visit this place on Friday the 13th...unless one's name might be Freddy! |
Võsu | A very dangerous borough in Estonia. Means "knife" in Estonian. |
Vulcan | A town in Alberta, Canada, that was named long before Star Trek came about (and some nine years before its creator was born), but since the Trekkies seemed to flock there regardless, they just gave in and just went with it, complete with a statue of the Starship Enterprise with Klingon writing and an annual convention. |
Vyzakia | A village in Cyprus. Can be translated as either "buckets" or "tits" in Greek. |
Waakirchen | This small Bavarian village is just east, by some two kilometers, of a rescue site from a Nazi death march of prisoners from Dachau by Nisei-ethnicity U.S. Army artillery soldiers in early May 1945. |
Wacahoota | People get pretty violent towards those Hooter girls here. |
Wagga Wagga | Don't call Wagga Wagga, Wagga. OK? Pronounced Wog-ga (doubled up), rather than Wag-ga. |
Waikikamukau | Why kick a New Zealand moo cow? Seriously, leave them alone - this placename's "speaking rhythm" might even match the initial five notes of one of Judge Doom's favorite cartoon lures. |
Wall | A town in South Dakota known for its Drug store. |
Walla Walla | City and county named for the Walla Walla people - this city's name was also mentioned in Howard, Fine and Howard's work Cash and Carry. |
Wallops Island | A fairly "punchy"-sounding island off Virginia's Atlantic coast...the last syllable of its ancient name of "Kegotank" might just be appropriate, to hold the liquid propellants that might be used at its space launch facility. |
Wallyford | A town in East Lothian, Scotland. |
Wanchese | A town in Dare County, North Carolina that just wants some cheese. |
Wangerland | The town's coat of arms is a topless mermaid. Hmmm, it all makes sense now. |
Wank | A small hamlet (small rural settlement too small to be considered a village) which is part of the municipality of Nesselwang in Bavaria, Germany. There is also a mountain called Wank in the nearby Estergebirge Mountain range. |
Wankers Corner | A village in Oregon, United States. |
Wankum | A town in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. |
Warp Drive | A street in Dulles, Virginia, with its own exit from a nearby freeway, notable for being the headquarters of the Orbital ATK aerospace company. Both its management and the Loudoun County board of supervisors are heavy with Trekkers. |
Warsaw | The capital of Poland has definitely seen a war or two in its time. No shit. There are also a number of places in the United States (as well as one in Canada) named Warsaw. |
Waspik | This Dutch village deals in the business of washing your genitals. Means "washing dick" in Dutch. |
Waterfoot | You'll always come into this place with wet feet. |
Waterloo | Because even Napoleon had to go to the bathroom. It's in Iowa too, and is also the name of a winning song. There is also a township and village named Waterloo in New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day. |
Waterproof | A village in Louisiana. Lived up to its name quite well in 2008 when a drought destroyed much of the corn crop. |
Wawa | Named using the Chippewa word for goose, "Wawa". The Pennsylvania town, located near Philadelphia, was formerly called Grubb's Bridge. It is also the namesake of Wawa gas station and convenience stores located throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. |
Wealthy | An unincorporated community in Texas. It's actually very very poor. |
Wedding | A locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany, where one could "tie-the-knot" if desired; as at least two churches are here, with one of these rebuilt after WW II. |
Wee Waa | Pronounced "Wee War". Shouldn't that be happening in the toilets? |
Wee Wee Hill | A Hill in Highland Township, Indiana. |
Weed | This town in Siskiyou County, California, where more than the elevation is high. |
Weener | A town in Germany. |
Weiner, Arkansas | This community is the home of "The Natural State's" annual rice festival. |
Welcome | A small community in Davidson County, North Carolina. |
Welcome Home | An unincorporated community in Arkansas with a very sweet name. |
Westward Ho! | The only place in the United Kingdom with an exclamation point in the official name. Funny enough, going any farther westward would land you right into the Bristol Channel. |
Wetwang | A village in East Yorkshire, England. |
Whakatane & Whakapapa | Nothing special about these New Zealand place names, until you realise the native (Māori) pronunciation of 'Wh' comes out as 'F' ... |
What Cheer | A small coal town in Keokuk County, Iowa. |
Whiskeytown | A small community in Shasta County, California. |
Whitehorse | "If you wanna ride..." Actually, I don't think that's where the hit song by Laid Back came from. |
Why | A small town in Arizona, USA, that just makes you and me wonder why... |
Whynot | A small community in Randolph County, North Carolina. |
Wideopen | A village in Northumbria, near Newcastle upon Tyne. |
Wichsenstein | A village in Germany. "Wichsen" means either "wank" or "jerk off" in German. |
Wilsford cum Lake | A civil parish in England. |
Windpassing | *Insert fart joke here.* |
Wixhausen | A borough within the city of Darmstadt. Means "cum/wank village". And this is within the city that translates to "bowel town/city". |
Wonowon | A settlement in northern British Columbia, Canada, named for its historical location at Mile 101 of the Alaska Highway, and could someday have a metric name of Wonsixtythree. |
Wooden Shoe Village, Michigan | A small unincorporated community in Gladwin County, Michigan |
Woody | This place and Erect are a match made in heaven. |
Wookey Hole | Chewbacca approves of this place in Western England...since it is in the UK, can one imagine Peter Mayhew calling it home? |
Woolloomooloo | Presumably, the Aboriginals thought this question - how many S's in Mississippi - was getting boring. It does have something to do with Monty Python's Ocker-sounding Bruces sketch. |
Worms | Famed for its Diet of Worms during Medieval times. |
Wyalusing, Wisconsin | I don't know, maybe because you're not good at it - or has someone not found its legendary "treasure" as yet? |
Yap | A very talkative island in Micronesia that doesn't ever shut up. |
Yeehaw Junction | A small place in south-central Florida and about 40 miles north of Lake Okeechobee, Yeehaw Junction is where three highways join: the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, US-441, and Florida Hwy 60. |
Yell | AN ISLAND IN SHETLAND, SCOTLAND. THE MAIN SETTLEMENT IS CALLED Template:Scl. |
Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan | In spite of its name, the grass is not yellow. |
Younghusband | The name of a settlement and peninsula in South Australia. |
Yum Yum | A very tasty unincorporated community in Tennessee. No there is no cake! That cake is still a lie! |
Zigzag | A small town in Oregon, USA, named after the nearby Zigzag River. Zig Zag is also the name of a railway station on the Blue Mountains Line in New South Wales |
Zijtaart | Means "cake on the side" in Dutch. Yes, the cake is still a lie. |
Zimna Wódka | A village in Poland with a bit of a drinking problem. Means "cold vodka" in Polish. |
Žitorađa | A village in Serbia. Means "wheat gives birth" in Serbian. |
Zuidbroek | A village in the Netherlands. Means "southern pants" in Dutch... for a village in the northern part of the Netherlands. |
Zwölfaxing | A southern suburb of Vienna in Austria, it's not known if it has anything to do with the development of telecommunications. |
Zzyzx | The location of Zzyzx Road, which was once alphabetically the last street name in the world. Also the name of a film, noteworthy for its box office gross of $30, hardly enough to buy two tickets and a large popcorn. |
Long place names
- Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion
- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
- This fourteen-syllable Massachusetts lake's name is the longest place name in the United States, and 6th longest in the world — when the last six syllables aren't used by themselves, as is usually seen on maps of its area.
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
- The longest officially recognised place name in the United Kingdom. It is found in Wales on the Isle of Anglesey, and is situated near the A5.
- El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula
- The original name of Los Angeles. The name means "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola".
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
- A small hill with a big name in New Zealand.
- Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein
- A farm about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Pretoria, South Africa.
- Krungthep Mahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathani Burirom-udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amonphiman Awatansathit Sakkathattiya Witsanu Kamprasit
- It is Bangkok's full ceremonial name and translates as City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Visvakarman at Indra's behest. The name is even listed in Guinness World Records as the world's longest place name.
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Translates to English from Malayalam to "City of Lord Anantha". The name is so hard to say in English, it is usually called "Trivandrum".
- Gasselterboerveenschemond
- Longest placename in The Netherlands. The name plate hardly fits in the village.
Rude words contained inside the name
- Scunthorpe
- Prickwillow
- Dickleburgh
- Assling
- Cockerham
- Farthinghoe
- Penistone
- Cockwood
- Cockermouth
- Wyre Piddle
- Cumbria
- Toppenish
- Cockfosters
- ICEX
Streets and bridges
See also
- List of unusual articles
- List of tautological place names
- List of unusual deaths
- Category:Lists of things considered unusual
- Place names considered unusual
- List of long place names
- List of short place names
- Rude Britain
- Scunthorpe Problem
External links
References
- ^ Burnham, Emily. "Bangor, Wales agrees with "We Are Bangor" video — it's -GOR, not -GER". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Unusual place names
- ^ Ambuquad Tina's favorite vocal response
- ^ The "Decearing Egg" Translation Video
- ^ "Eromanga (town) (entry 11831)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ^ "Eromanga (locality) (entry 42940)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ^ https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/valentine-post-office-names.htm
- ^ WCTV. "Mayo, Florida jokingly changed to "Miracle Whip."". Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ^ jamie.wachter@gaflnews.com, Jamie Wachter. "#NoMoreMayo: North Florida town changes name to Miracle Whip". Suwannee Democrat. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ^ "Mooball, NSW 2483". Google Maps. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
- ^ Nowhere Else TAS 7306 (1970-01-01). "41.377324,146.262946 - Google Maps". Maps.google.com.au. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
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- ^ Page, Casey (2014-03-19). "Montana's unusual place names". Billings Gazette. ISSN 2372-868X. Archived from the original on 2016-02-11.
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