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| Aa | A village in Estonia. Also several rivers in Western Europe, and when "accented" properly, the rough, "blocky" lava found in the U.S. state of Hawaii. |
| Aa (rivers) | Three rivers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with the same name. |
| Aars | A Danish town that is a real pain in the "aars". You have been warned. |
| Armenia | No Armenians live in this city in Colombia. |
| Aarschot | Sounds a lot like "arse shot". |
| Above Rocks | A town in Jamaica that thinks it's floating. |
| Accident | “I was born in Accident.” |
| Acup | I could use "acup" of tea in this unincorporated community in West Virginia. |
| Adam | A town in Libya that is unfortunately about 2,614 kilometres (1,624 mi) away from the closest Eve. |
| Adıyaman | "Adıyaman" means "its name is tough" in Turkish, derived from its former Persian language-derived toponym Hısn-i Mansur. |
| Aeroport | A metro station in Moscow that, contrary to the name, hasn't had a functioning airport since just before 1950. |
| Afak | This town in Iraq doesn't give "afak". |
| Affendorf | "Monkey Village" in German |
| Afumați | The name of two Romanian communes. Means "smoked" in Romanian. |
| Aknīste | A town in Latvia. "Aknīste" means "pizza face" in Latvian. |
| Airdrie | A town in Scotland that either has very dry air, highly treasures its hair dryers, or they've never heard of a clothes dryer. Another one in Alberta. |
| Air Itam | A Malaysian town, not an airline. Very important! |
| Aïr Mountains | A mountain range that seems to be a bunch of air? |
| 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. |
| Alabaster, Alabama | Who's talking crap now, SHELBY?! |
| Aladdin | A place in Wyoming probably filled with street rats. Also a ghost town in California. |
| Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake | A reservoir in South Carolina that apparently needs an intervention. Renamed to "Village Lake" in 2022. |
| Alemanía | An almost ghost village in the province of Salta, in the northwest of Argentina. Its name is Spanish for "Germany". |
| Alert | 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 "pimpville". |
| Almond | A township and village in Allegany County, New York. You'll go nuts over it. |
| Almyros | A very jealous Greek town. Means "salty" in Greek. |
| Aloha | A place in Oregon, not Hawaii. |
| Alpine | An unincorporated community in Alabama that thinks it has ski resorts and tall mountains, as well as 24 other places. |
| Alone | A small town somewhere in Northern Michigan, in the same county as "Friend" |
| Amadora | City near Lisbon, Portugal meaning Amateur or Lover. |
| Åmål | A small city in Sweden. Has nothing to do with the Amal Movement |
| 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. |
| Anger | A municipality in Austria. |
| Angered | A borough in north-eastern Gothenburg, Sweden that should probably take anger management classes. |
| Angers | A very angry city in France. |
| Antique | A three-syllable province in the Philippines. |
| Anus | Small village in central France. |
| Anus Island | A lush green island off the coast of Papua. |
| Apocalypse Peaks | A group of peaks in Antarctica. |
| Apopka | A city in Florida, whose indigenous-derived early name of Ahapopka means "potato-eating place". |
| 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 that has nothing to do with arcade game. |
| Arcade, New York | A village in Wyoming County, New York. The arcade game wasn't created there either |
| 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. |
| Ares | A little municipality in Spain that's hiding the Greek god of war. Also, the Tekfur of Karacahisar visits here. |
| Arizona | Seems awfully familiar... |
| 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. |
| Arschlochwinkel | An area in Obertraun, Austria, which means "Asshole angle" in German. |
| Asbestos | The hospital in this Quebec town must have seen a lot of cases of lung cancer. Changed its name to Val-des-Sources in 2020. |
| Assawoman Bay | Separates Ocean City, Maryland from the rest of the Delmarva Peninsula. Sometimes referred to as Big Assawoman Bay to distinguish it from the adjacent Little Assawoman Bay. |
| Assawoman | An unincorporated community in Accomack County, located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. |
| Assizes Harbour | A town in Newfoundland. It is more probably named from British English "Assizes" meaning a Court of Law. |
| Assiut | The capital of Asyut in Egypt. |
| Assholmen | An island in the Ellös part of Sweden, the name looks like it translates to people that aren't very nice on that island. Just "give us 10 minutes, we'll give you an ass." |
| Assmannshausen | A town in Germany. Funny that it means "Ass man's houses" |
| Assur | Please, please please don't move the "ur" to the front. |
| Asylum | A very scary township in Pennsylvania with insane people. |
| Aš | A town in Czech Republic. Name means "i" in Lithuanian. |
| Athol | A town in Massachusetts, USA, likely named after the area of Atholl in the Scottish Highlands near Perth. Has a road to Belchertown, MA nicknamed the "Alimentary Canal". Also a town in Idaho. |
| Atlantic City, Wyoming | Presumably named after the New Jersey resort city of the same name. The nearest Atlantic shore to this town is 1,680 miles (2,700 km) away. At 37 inhabitants, it's not really a city either. |
| 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. |
| Atsiki | Turkish for "horse's dick". |
| Awsim | The most awesome Egyptian city one can ask for. |
| Å | Located in Moskenes, Norway, it's the largest of the several places called Å. |
| Babaj Boks | A tiny village in Kosovo that means "Grandmother boxing" in Serbian. |
| Babcock | A place in Georgia, USA with a "bab" cock. |
| Baby | A village in Poland where babysitting is popular. It is also the site of a little uh-oh in 2011. Also, there are six other Babys in Poland as well. |
| Bachelor's Cove | A hamlet in Newfoundland. |
| Bacon | A county in Georgia, USA, next to Coffee. |
| 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. |
| Baconton | A place in Georgia, USA. |
| Bad Axe | A city in Michigan. |
| Bad Kissingen | No romance allowed in this German "spa town" unfortunately. |
| Bad Laer | This city must love Imagine Dragons and Selena Gomez. |
| Bagabag | Known as "gateway to the Banaue Rice Terraces". |
| Bagdad | A small town in Arizona. Also a small town in Tasmania, Australia. |
| Bagshot | A village in England. |
| Bahama | Small community near Durham, North Carolina. Pronounced "buh-HAY-muh". |
| Baka | A village in Slovakia close to Horný Bar. Very sussy, apparently. |
| Baku | The capital of Azerbaijan. The city's name comes from the Persian Bād-kube which means "wind-pounded city". And no, the meme wasn't created there. |
| Bald Head | A village in Maine. It is also the name of an island and lighthouse in North Carolina where Cape Fear is located. |
| 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. |
| Balıkesir | Means "fish captive" in Turkish. |
| Ballsbridge | Named after the Ball family, merchants who built and owned the original bridge. |
| Balls Mills | A place in Pennsylvania. |
| Ballston Spa | A village in New York. |
| Ballsville, Virginia | A place in Virginia. |
| 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. |
| Ballinspittle | A village in County Cork, Ireland. |
| Ballykillaboy | An ominously named townland in County Kilkenny, 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. |
| Banana | A small port in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| Bananal | You'll go bananas for anals here. |
| Ban Dan | A district in Buriram province, northeastern Thailand. Sorry, Dan. You can't go there. |
| Bandung | I hear that residents here have to cross city borders just to relieve themselves. |
| Bane | A place in West Virginia. I guess the West Virginians see this place as a NECESSARY EVIL...that joke would've killed it 8 years ago. Also in Nigeria, Iran, Lebanon, and Slovenia. |
| Bang | A small village in Iran. |
| Bangkok | While English-speakers may find this city's name to be funny, its official name is said to be the world's longest, which does make a hard man humble at one point. |
| Bang Mun Nak | A district in Phichit province, upper central Thailand. "Mun Nak" means "otter poop" in Thai, and the issue about the other word can be found in nearby entries. |
| 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 Son | Railway and metro stations located in Bang Sue, a district of Bangkok. What a combo here. |
| Bang Sue | Why yes I would love to, "in Thailand"...it is also in Bangkok, though, just to be "certain"... |
| Bank | A city in Iran that if the name is anything to go by, is probably going to get robbed at some point. |
| Banning | A city in California where nothing remains legal for more than 15 minutes. |
| Banzai | A place in China - whose province was only blockaded by the IJN during the war, despite their ships' sailors being the ones who'd more likely shout, "BANZAIIIIII!!!!!" |
| Barbecue | An unincorporated community in Harnett County, North Carolina. It seems barbecue is a big thing in North Carolina. |
| Barh | If you're looking for a bar here, you won't find one. |
| Båstad | A town in Scania, Sweden. |
| Bastardo | A village in Umbria, Italy. |
| Bastardstown | A townland 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! |
| 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. |
| 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. Also see other places called Batman: in Melbourne (Batman railway station, Batman's Hill, Division of Batman) and in Tasmania (Batman Highway/Bridge). Batman was never raised in this city. |
| Baton Rouge | It means "red stick" in English. Why is the stick red? Nobody knows! |
| Battle | An English village in East Sussex. Where the Battle of Hastings actually happened. Sorry Hastings! |
| Bay of Pigs | A bay in Cuba that lacks any pigs. |
| Beans and Bacon mine | Sandwiched between various mines and quarries around Bonsall, Derbyshire |
| Bear Dance | Come to the Big Sky Country and dance with the bears! That sounds equally adorable - and 100% dangerous. It will be better if Billy Bob will hang around here, especially his drunk Looney Bird. |
| Beaver | A city 30 miles from Pittsburgh, and the seat of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Though named after the nearby Beaver River, "Beaver" is a slang term for vagina as well as the pubic hair on a woman. |
| Beaverlick | A town in Kentucky, United States. See above. |
| Beaverton | A suburb of Portland. See above. |
| Bee | According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way either this village in Piedmont, Italy or 6 different towns across 6 states in America, should be able to fly. |
| Bee Cave | A city in Texas. It is not actually a cave of bees. It is also notable for being the birthplace of engineer tf2. |
| 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. |
| 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-Gay | The residents of this Arkansan unincorporated community must have a drugstore nearby... preferably with some pain relievers. |
| Benin City | A city, just not in Benin but in Nigeria instead. Perhaps the place looks so much like the country of Benin that whoever named it thought they were there? |
| Benis | A village which was erected in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Now associated with the catchphrase of the anti-Finnish Spurdo Spärde meme. |
| Bere | A village in Botswana. "Bere" means "put away" in Afrikaans. “Bere” means “beer” in Romanian. |
| Bergen | A municipality in the Netherlands. Means "mountains" which is strange considering the elevation is a mere 1 m (3 ft) above sea level. Another one in Limburg, also at an astounding 16 m (52 ft). |
| Berry Head | A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and a point near Brixham, United Kingdom. |
| Best | Is arguably the best place in the Netherlands, but maybe here as well? |
| Bestwig | A municipality in Germany that maybe has the best wigs. |
| Bèze | A commune 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". |
| Białykał | A village in Poland that means "white feces". |
| Bierbaum | A former municipality in Austria. Means "beer tree" in German. |
| Bierbeek | A municipality in Belgium. Means "stream of beer" in Dutch. |
| Big Arm | A place in Montana. |
| 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. |
| Big Flats | A CDP in Chemung County, New York, where everything may or may not be big and flat. |
| Big Lick | Now known as Roanoke, Virginia, but still salty. |
| Bigfoot | If you're looking for Sasquatch here, you're out of luck - since "this place" is closer to skunk ape country! |
| Biggar | Everything's "biggar" in Saskatchewan! |
| Biggekerke | A town in the Netherlands that means "pig's church" in Dutch. Who knew that pigs went to church? |
| Bimbo | The second largest city in the Central African Republic. Clearly they ran out of ideas, especially Talkartoons. |
| Binuangan | A town in the Philippines that means "to fool [a person]" in the Cebuano language. |
| 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. |
| Birr | A very cold place in Ireland. |
| Bishop's Itchington | A village in England. I think the bishop has a rash. |
| 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. |
| Bitchū Province | A former province of Japan. |
| Bitsch | A municipality in Switzerland. |
| Bitter End | A town in Tennessee, USA. |
| Bizou | A very romantic place in France that means "kiss". |
| Black Duck | Newfoundland sure loves Black Ducks, including here, here, here, here, and here. |
| Blackberry | Apparently if Sprint is still in business, maybe BlackBerries can still be a juggernaut in after all these years. |
| Black Earth, Wisconsin | Global warming? It says "The only Black Earth in the world" on its official website. |
| Black Jack | Well I can clearly see what these people do for fun here. |
| Blackpool | A place in England. I'll leave this one up to you, the reader. |
| Bland Shire | A very bland place in Australia. |
| Blank | "Dumb Donald was so dumb that his hometown in Frederick County, Maryland, was called Blank". |
| Blanket | A very sleepy town in Texas. |
| 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. |
| Blessing | How many churches are there in the first place? |
| Blind Bay, British Columbia | A small town near Salmon Arm. |
| Blödesheim | The former name of the German municipality of Hochborn. "Blödes" in German means something like "stupid" or "dimwitted". |
| Blowhard | The people here are really pompous. |
| 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!. |
| Blueberry | A town in Douglas County, Wisconsin. |
| 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. |
| Blue Island | A city in Illinois that is neither blue nor an island. |
| Bluff | Poker players beware - on The Last Frontier!. |
| Boar Tush | A place in The Yellowhammer State that apparently really likes pig's butts. ["Tush" is an archaic word for "tusk".] |
| Bogan Shire | A local government area in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. Bogan is a slang term for unsophisticated or unkempt persons. |
| Bogogobo | Bo has got to "go go" I can see. |
| Bohners Lake | A census-designated place in Wisconsin. "Bohners" is pronounced like... dogs eat these but i'm not cussing today. |
| Bokspits | A village in Botswana that can be look at two ways. "Bok" means "goat" in Afrikaans and "spits" means "peak". Also "Boks" means "box" and "pits" means, well, "pit". |
| 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. |
| Boning Island | It's part of the West |
| Boo | A place in Sweden. |
| Booby Island | There are 3 total islands bearing this name! One of them even has a lighthouse! |
| Boody | This place and Butts need to have a picnic together or something like that. |
| Booger Hole | A place in West Virginia is where your nose is. |
| Boogertown, North Carolina | An unincorporated community in Gaston County, North Carolina, in the United States.[2] |
| Book | There is no library in this place in Louisiana. |
| Boom | "Boom" also means "tree" in Dutch. |
| Bone | A place in Idaho. Let the dogs chew over that one ... |
| Boquete | A town in Panama. "Boquete" is a Portuguese term that means "blowjob". |
| Boston, Kyrgyzstan | A city named Boston, on almost the exact other side of the world from the other Boston. |
| Booti Booti | Australian National park founded in 1992. |
| 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 April 2024, the length of its Wikipedia entry is 1,647 characters (compared to 291,876 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". |
| Bourré | A very drunk former commune in France. Bourré means "drunk" in French. |
| Boș | A village in Romania. Means "balls" or "testicles" in Romanian - and when pronounced properly, it sounds just like "the single-word name" of an important and famous mid-19th century-origin, German high-tech firm!. |
| Bosc-Bordel | A commune in France. "Bordel" means "brothel" in French. |
| Bounty Islands | A group of islands that have a lot of bounty |
| 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. |
| Boyland | Strangely there's more girls (52.4%) than boys (47.6%) in this Australian town. |
| Boysack | A village in Scotland. |
| Bra | A place in Italy. |
| Braga | A city of Portugal, in Spain "braga" means women's underwear (panti). |
| Braggadocio | A community in the Bootheel of Missouri, in the state's southeastern corner, Braggadocio is about 40 miles (64 km) 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 (until 1792, home of John Adams) - with its very own "highway split" - and one in Vermont) with a "new" one in one of those states. |
| Brake | You can see that Germans like to name their towns after car parts. |
| Brakpan | A town in South Africa near Johannesburg. In Afrikaans it means "brackish pan" (contrast with Konkapot River, below)... |
| Brawl | I hear wrestling is quite popular here. |
| Bread Loaf | A place in Vermont. |
| 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. |
| Briģi | A village in Latvia that means "brides". Must be a popular wedding location. |
| Bridgerule | Someone rules the bridge there - and it's not in Norway. |
| Brilliant | A town in Marion County, Alabama. |
| Brits | A city...in South Africa. |
| Bro | Bruh! |
| Brohard | A place in West Virginia. |
| Broke | A small (population just under 300) town on the east coast of Australia...apparently no wealthy people from a certain central Northern Ireland town ever "spent" any time going there, and many of the homes in a nearby town are numbered, based on their distance from "there"! |
| Broken Bow, Oklahoma | There is also a town called Broken Arrow which is in the same state. |
| Brokenwind | I always blame it on the dog. |
| Broni | A town in Italy filled with Bronies! |
| Brony | A small village in Gmina Krzyżanów, Poland. Has nothing to do with My Little Pony or its fans. |
| Brown Willy | A hill in Cornwall that gave its name to the Brown Willy effect. |
| Büchsenschinken, Reinbek | A district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the name translates to "canned ham". |
| Bucketty | An Australian locality, presumably with lots and lots of buckets. And then probably some more buckets, perhaps due to the reality that some of them were damaged? |
| 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. |
| Bud | Just another Norwegian fishing village with a name related to weed. How funny. |
| 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. |
| Bugtussle | A small town on a lake in Oklahoma. Named after a schoolhouse with lots of bugs. |
| 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." |
| Bullet | A place in Switzerland. Thankfully there's not much firearm-related violence there. |
| Bulls | Small New Zealand town near Palmerston North. It has a sister-city relationship with Cowes, England. |
| Bumble Bee | A ghost town in Arizona without a wasp in sight. |
| 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. |
| Bumpass Hell | A geothermal area located within Lassen Volcanic National Park in California. |
| Bunyan's Cove | I guess Paul Bunyan actually lives in Newfoundland. |
| Buot-Taop | A village in Cebu City, Philippines wherein the word has double-meaning, one if it is vulgar, the reason they petitioned for name change.[3] |
| Burning Well | QUICK!!! SOMEONE CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT!!! |
| Burnt Corn | A small community on the border of Conecuh and Monroe counties in Alabama. Don't eat the corn there. |
| Burnt Factory | An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia named after something that didn't happen. The only other place named Burnt Factory is 33 miles away in West Virginia |
| Burntout | A small community in Franklin County, Alabama. It's also been spelled as 'Burnout'. |
| Busy | A town in Kentucky. Borders other weird named towns like Butterfly, Typo, and Hazard |
| Butternuts | A township in Otsego County, New York. |
| Butt Lane | Surprisingly not a street, but a place in England. No doubt the tourists get a bit of a kick out of this place. |
| 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. |
| Butt of Lewis | The most northerly point of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. |
| Butts | Sir Mix-a-Lot's favorite place on the planet. Also the name of a county in the same state. |
| Buttzville | An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey. |
| 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. |
| California | Home to the California University of Pennsylvania (is it in California or Pennsylvania?). Shares its name with numerous other places in America, Britain, and beyond. The name "California" comes from a fictional location in a Spanish adventure novel, which was inhabited only by black women and ruled by Queen Calafia. |
| Campione d'Italia | A small town in Italy, completely surrounded by Switzerland. The name means "Champion of Italy". |
| Canada | A Dutch hamlet. |
| 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. |
| Canard River | A river in Nova Scotia. "Canard" means "duck" in French. |
| Candy Kitchen | A very sweet and tasty place in New Mexico, about 47 miles (76 km) north-northwest of Pie Town (see below)! |
| Cape Disappointment | A headland located at the extreme southwestern corner of Washington State. |
| Cape Foulwind | Wow, blaming the wind for your own short comings. What assholes. |
| Capracotta | A comune in Italy that means "cooked goat" in Italian. No wonder goats are nowhere to be found here. |
| Carefree | A town in Arizona. A good place to be an idiot. |
| Carne Assada | A village in Portugal meaning "roast meat". |
| Cărpeniș River | A tributary of the Ialomicioara River in Romania. |
| Carpinteria | It's not clear whether they also have carpenters from Nazareth. |
| Casey, Illinois | "The countdown can be heard this Saturday morning and every Saturday morning at 2... TWO?!". Additional cases of Casey are in Antarctica (Casey Station & Casey Range), the Australian Capital Territory, the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Ontario, Quebec, Iowa, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. |
| Cash | We absolutely had no money in this small Hunt County, Texas area. |
| Casino | This place is not famous for gambling. |
| Casper, Wyoming | Don't worry, there are no friendly ghosts in this city. |
| Cassino | A comune in Italy is also 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 Mota de Judíos (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. |
| Catchfrench | A hamlet in Cornwall, England. Seems unusually friendly with Brittany, France. |
| Catfish Paradise | Part of the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona. |
| Cat's Ash | Not the best place to be cat it seems. |
| 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. |
| Cauaiauaia | A place in Angola that has the most consecutive vowels in a row of any other place name |
| Cave-In-Rock | Even though people find rocks in caves, this town in southern Illinois says otherwise. It's named from the state park of the same name, which features a cave. |
| Celebration | A community developed by Disney near Walt Disney World. Hopefully they like the classic Kool & the Gang song. |
| Center of the World | A place in Ohio that is actually about 41 degrees north and 81 degrees west of the center of the world. These people need to look at a map. |
| Chad | This country is populated and ruled by alpha males. |
| Charm | A charming Amish community in Ohio where an influx of visitors is an unfortunate intrusion. |
| Chateaugay | A town in New York. "Chateau" means "castle" in French so it basically means "gay castle" in French. |
| Cheat Mountain | A mountain in Virginia that refuses to play by the rules. |
| Cheddar | A very cheesy name for an English village. |
| Cheesequake, New Jersey | An unincorporated community in New Jersey. |
| Černochov | A village in Slovakia that translates as "village of black people". |
| 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". |
| Chickahominy River | A river in eastern Virginia which has no direct association with dried corn although its English name of "hominy" is derived from this term. It actually originated in Mexico and Central America. The river is named after the Chickahominy Indian tribe who lived in the area near Richmond, including the famous Chief Powhatan and Pocahontas. "Hominy-hominy-hominy!" |
| Chicken | A census-designated place (CDP) in Alaska. |
| Chicoutimi | Today the central borough of Saguenay, Quebec, 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, Kagoshima | A town in Japan that is, obviously, not in China. |
| China, Pakistan | A town in Pakistan that is, obviously, not in China. |
| Chittagong | A city in Bangladesh. |
| 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". |
| Chokio | A city in Minnesota that is a huge choking hazard. Beware when bringing little children. |
| Chimacum | A place in Washington. |
| 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. |
| Christmas Valley | If you can't handle the holidays, it's time to knock over the tree down. |
| Chinatown | Small town in Wisconsin that is not a Chinatown. |
| Choconut | A township in Pennsylvania. |
| Chuckey | For kids to see animatronic shows, there are no Chuck E. Cheese's locations in Chuckey. |
| Chugwater | A town in Wyoming that should beware of water intoxication. |
| 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. |
| Clam Beach | A locality in California. |
| Clam Gulch | A census-designated place in Alaska. May the subject of clams never be spoken of again. |
| 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. |
| Clit, Arad | A village in Romania. |
| Clitheroe | A town in Lancashire, England. |
| Clogher Valley | A region in Northern Ireland with a name that could certainly be interpreted as a request. |
| Clonakilty | How do you clone a kilt? And aren't those Scottish? |
| Clones | Everything in this Irish town looks identical – but the name is actually pronounced "KLOH-nis". |
| Clo-oose | It's actually farther than you think (unless you live in British Columbia). |
| Cloudy | A very cloudy and (stormy) area in Oklahoma. |
| Clowne | A village in England. No, clowning is not the most popular profession here. |
| Cocagne | A place in New Brunswick. In French it's pronounced like "cocaine". |
| Cock Beck | A stream in England. |
| Cock Bridge | A place in Scotland. A place without a bridge, but with many cocks. |
| Cock Lane | A street in Smithfield, London which, in the medieval period, was home to legal brothels! That would explain the name. |
| Cockayne | An isolated hamlet in England with a bit of a cocaine addiction. And an abundance of cocks! |
| 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 Island | An island in Ontario. |
| Cockburn Town | A town in The Bahamas. |
| Cockburn Town | The capital city of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British territory. |
| Cockburnspath | A village in Scotland. |
| Cockedhat Mountain | Named so because its outline looks like... well, a cocked hat. |
| 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. |
| Cocklakes | A hamlet in England. England sure seems to love its cock-a-doodle-doos. |
| Cocks | A village in Cornwall. |
| Cocks Glacier | A glacier in Antarctica. |
| Cockshutt | A village in England. The name of the parish it's in is called "Cockshutt-cum-Petton". |
| Cockwood | A village in Devon. |
| Cocoa | "Hey Florida! Wanna go to Starbucks?" |
| Coffee, Georgia | An unincorporated, though caffeinated, community in Bacon County, Georgia, USA, west of Coffee County. |
| Coffin Top | A mountain on South Georgia. |
| Coín | A very rich town in Spain home to where Mario's skinny Italian brother Luigi previously lived for a couple of years. |
| Coke County | A Texas county. |
| Colon | I think we're talking about more than just that kind of colon. Yeah, that one. |
| Colony | Look away Dixieland! Can the 7 states join the dixies? |
| Columbus | "Can Christopher Columbus turn his ship back to Spain?" Well, there are a total of 23 Columbuses across 23 states, just naming them a few. |
| 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. |
| Committee's Punch Bowl | A small lake on continental divide on the Alberta/British Columbia border which drains to two oceans. On its east side it drains into the Atlantic Ocean, and on its west side into the Pacific Ocean. |
| Concepción | Don't come to this city if you do not want children. |
| Conception Junction | Apparently a self-described baby junction. The dirty deed's gotta be done somewhere. |
| 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. |
| Conne-de-Labarde | A commune in France. Conne means "bitch" in French. |
| Conquest | A village in Saskatchewan, Canada. There is also a township and hamlet called Conquest in Cayuga County, New York. |
| Cookietown | An almost ghost town in Oklahoma. That can only mean free cookies! (contrast with Pie Town below). |
| Cool | Residents of this California town are too cool for school — they only have one in their town, one in Texas fits as well. |
| Coon Hunter | A Pennsylvania town where being a raccoon is dangerous business. |
| Cooter | A city in Missouri. "Cooter" is a slang term for vagina. |
| Cork | The clearly "always-drunk" Irish city with a fitting name - founded as a trading port in 915 AD by the Vikings. Also check out a couple other Corks stateside! |
| Cornville | A town in Maine. You can clearly see what these guys like to eat. |
| Cornwall | Not actually a giant wall of corn. Sorry! |
| Corolla | While this seaside town of only 500 residents (and LOTS of wild horses) on the Tarheel State's Outer Banks "shares" its name with the world's most produced car model, this town first got its "same-spelling" name some seven decades before the car first appeared, and it isn't even pronounced quite the same way! |
| Corona | Wonder how well quarantine has served this California city? Hope the whole city doesn't get infected. Also in Alabama, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, and Tennessee. |
| Corps-Nuds | A commune in Brittany meaning "naked body". |
| Correct | Sometimes, you have to show support for small towns, and so we need to congratulate this Ripley County, Indiana town for being correct! |
| Correctionville | A city in Iowa which supposedly has the longest single word place name in the state. Guess the students do the wrong homeowrk a lot. |
| Cotonou | The largest city in Benin. Means "by the river of death" in the Fon language. The country also looks like a dick. |
| Covenant Life | A place in Alaska. |
| 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? |
| Covide | A parish in Northern Portugal, with a very unfortunate name. |
| 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. |
| Cow Hell Swamp | A swamp in the U.S. state of Georgia, named so because cattle from nearby farms ended up there and got stuck in bogs. |
| Coxcomb Mountains | A mountain range in Joshua Tree National Park. |
| Coxen Hole | A city in Honduras with a stadium! Yes, cocks in hole, you can get it out of your system now. |
| Coxsackie | A township and village in Greene County, New York. It's actually pronounced cohk-SAH-kee. |
| Crab Orchard | A place in Kentucky. No, there isn't an orchard here, and it certainly doesn't have crabs, not even the type that lives in ponds!. |
| 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. |
| Crookston | A small settlement in New Zealand. Wonder what the crime rate is there? |
| Crotch Hill | A mountain in Maine. |
| Crottes-en-Pithiverais | A place in France. "Crotte" means something like "animal manure" in French. |
| 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. |
| 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!!! |
| Cuckfield | An English village filled with very unfaithful wives and girlfriends. My advice is do not marry any of the women here. |
| Cuckoo | This small area in Virginia is nuts today! |
| Cuckold's Green | A very unfaithful place in England. |
| Culebra | Nothing snaky about snake island! |
| Cumbria | A county in England. |
| Cumbum | I believe that is supposed to be a British way of saying Creampie. |
| Cumby | A place in Texas. Very tourist friendly because it will ask you to "come a little closer to me", even a same name but change the C to a G for Art Clokey - unless one prefers the Monty Python variety... |
| Cumlosen | A municipality in Germany. |
| Cumming | A city in Georgia, United States. |
| Cummings | One thing this place can assure you is that you will get you back. |
| Cummington | A town is Massachusetts, should you live in the Berkshires, that HE IS GONNA get you! |
| Cunter | A village in Switzerland. |
| Cuntis | A municipality in Spain. |
| Curralinho | Originally a variant of the word "Curralzinho", meaning little corral, its name sounds identical to "cu ralinho" meaning "somewhat shallow asshole". |
| 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, on Texas Route 105, whose name seems to be instructions on building and handling a sawed-off shotgun. |
| Czartowice | A village in Prudnik County, Poland. Means "devil's village" in Polish. |
| Dab | A small town in Pakistan. If you still do that crap pose, I suggest you stop doing it. It's just not a trend anymore. |
| Dad | A village in Hungary with some daddy issues. |
| Damp | A municipality in Germany. It is indeed very damp. The name doesn't lie. |
| Dank | A very memey place in Romania. It's the Hungarian name of a Romanian village Dâncu within the Aghireșu commune. |
| Dashitou | Town in Jilin province, China |
| 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 "intestine town/city" in German. |
| Dead Chest Island | An island in the British Virgin Islands. How did they get this name? |
| Dead Dog Beach | A rather depressing beach in Puerto Rico. |
| Deadman's Bay | The name of both a bay and community in Newfoundland, Canada. |
| Dead Man's Flats | A hamlet in the Canadian Rocky Mountains on the Trans Canada Highway in Alberta. It is believed to be named after a dead body found in the area, although exactly who he was or when he died is unknown. It had 125 people in the 2016 census. |
| 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. |
| Deadman Island | An island in La Connor, Washington. |
| 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. |
| Deaf Smith | A Texas county named after "Deaf" Smith, so nicknamed because...he was deaf. |
| Death Valley | A surprisingly popular tourist attraction! |
| Deception Pass | A strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington |
| De Cocksdorp | A town in the Netherlands. "Dorp" means "village" so it basically means "the Cocks village". |
| De Haan | A Belgian town who's French name will cause many French-speakers to smirk a little. The French name is "Le Coq" which means "the cock". |
| Defeated | Clearly this place has a positive outlook on life. |
| DeForest | Any forest may want to steer well away from this Wisconsin village. |
| 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". |
| Delicias | A very "delicias" city in Mexico. |
| Delta | BREAKING NEWS: A small Delta Airlines flight crashed into Delta County, Texas. |
| Descabezado Grande | It's off to the guillotine with this Chilean volcano! "Descabezado" or "Descabezar" is a Spanish verb that mean "to decapitate" or "to behead". |
| Desire | A town in Pennsylvania, USA. |
| Desire Street | A street in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Namesake of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. |
| Desolation Sound | A deep water sound at the northern end of the Salish Sea and in British Columbia, Canada. |
| Destruction Island | A small and destructible island in Washington State. |
| 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. |
| Devils Kitchen | A geothermal area located within Lassen Volcanic National Park in California. |
| 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". |
| Diaperville | I wonder what the average age in this Wisconsin CDP is, considering they may all still be wearing diapers... |
| Dick Peaks | A group of big white bulges in Antarctica. |
| Dicks Butte | A mountain in California. |
| Dick's Knob | A mountain in Georgia, United States. |
| 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 York, United States. |
| Dickey | A place in North Dakota that's really feeling like being a dick today. Also in Georgia plus a Dickey River and a Dickey Glacier in Antarctica. |
| Die | A rather morbid name for a commune I'd say, but not if spoken like the French would - then, it sounds like the German feminine form of "the". |
| Diepenbeek | A municipality in Belgium. Means "deep ditch" in Dutch. |
| Difficult | If you're looking for the opposite of the Big Easy then this place in Tennessee will suit you perfectly. |
| Dikļi | A parish in Latvia. "Dikļi" means "dictators" in Latvian. Beware. |
| 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). Jimmy Kimmel is Honorary Mayor. |
| Dildo Island | Located next to Dildo Tip. |
| Dime Box | A town in central Texas. |
| 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. |
| Dingus | A place in Kentucky. |
| Dinkletown | A town in Virginia with a very peculiar sounding name. "Dinkle" is a slang term for a penis. |
| Dinosaur | A statutory town located in Moffat County, Colorado, United States. |
| Disappointment Island | An island that was disappointing to the discoverers of the island. |
| Disappointment Islands | A small group of Pacific islands in French Polynesia. A recent BBC website report[4] 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... |
| Disney | This Oklahoma town has nothing to do with Disney itself. No, Walt Disney wasn't born there. |
| 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. |
| Dodge | How many people owned a Dodge Ram in this town? The answer is 1 out of the 184 people who lived there. |
| Dogdyke | A hamlet in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Formerly "Dokedyke", home to the Chapel of Saint Nicholas. Presently a tourist destination for trans lesbian dog girls. |
| Dogtown | Name of a bunch of places in California. You may not have noticed it, but California seems to really like dogs. |
| Dog Village | A hamlet in Devon, United Kingdom near Broadclyst. Twinned with Caterham. |
| Dog Walk | An unincorporated community in Kentucky. |
| Döge | A Hungarian village with a taste for old 2013 internet memes. |
| 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, like the one based about 5,030 km away, that is being restored to flight!.[5] |
| Doodstil | A hamlet in Groningen, Netherlands, that translates to "dead silent". |
| Donald Duck Island | I don't think the duck himself originally lives near Kenora, Ontario. |
| 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. |
| Dongola | A place in Sudan. There's another Dongola in Illinois. |
| Donna | Who's holding this Texas town now? |
| Dookie | It must be very stinky in this Victorian farming town. Also has its own Australian rules football club, ostensibly named Dookie United. |
| Dos Palos Y | Even the creators of this town had to ask why they named it this... but no, it was named for a Y intersection, and is part of a trilogy also including Dos Palos and South Dos Palos. |
| Dora | There are no Spaniards or talking monkeys, foxes, insects, chickens, maps or bulls in this Alabamian town. |
| Dorado | A lot of wealthy people do live here, but is there really any gold in Dorado? |
| Dorking | A town in England. |
| Dortmund | A German city that translates as "there mouth". |
| Double Trouble | A state park in New Jersey. |
| Downhill | It's going downhill with that town. |
| Dr. Phillips | Not too far from both Orlando and Disney World. |
| 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. |
| Dripping Springs | One with a very dirty mind can come to get a bit of a kick out of this place. |
| Drogeham | A place in the Netherlands. Means "dry ham" in Dutch. |
| Drogen | A village in Germany. Means "drugs" in German. |
| Drogenbos | A municipality in Belgium. Means "drying forest" in Dutch. |
| Drums | This unincorporated community in Butler Township, Pennsylvania LOVES to play this instrument. |
| Drumahoe | Funnily enough, it comes from Irish Droim na hUamha which means "ridge of the cave". |
| Dry Prong | A very lewd person will get a bit of a chuckle out of this place. |
| Dubai | One theory says that the city's name originates from an Arabic proverb Daba Dubai which means "they came with a lot of money". If so, then the settlers of this place clearly knew what it would become! |
| 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.) It's also the name for towns in New Hampshire (which has a LOT to do with almanacs and a periodical that is NOT about New York's pinstriped pro baseball team), and in Ohio. |
| 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 | With no point of reference, it can be hard to find this "central-western" Palmetto State community. |
| Duiven | A town in the Netherlands that can be translated as either "doves" or "pigeons". |
| 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". |
| Dumb Hundred | Imagine telling people you're from "Dumb Hundred". I have no idea how dumb they really are, but there's only eighty-four, so not even a hundred. |
| Dumbo | A neighborhood in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, there are no flying elephants to be found here. |
| 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 | There's Dum, and then... |
| Dunedoo | A town in New South Wales, Australia. Pronounced Dunny-doo, "dunny" being an Australian slang for toilet. |
| Duranus | A commune in France. Also means "hard anus" in French. |
| Dwarf | Named after Short Jerry, not the other Jerry. |
| Early | A city in Iowa where being on time is never enough! |
| Earth | A town in Texas that disappointingly doesn't even have an Earth replica... |
| Earth City | and neither does this Missouri commercial area that's notably home to Save-A-Lot's HQ. |
| East Pen Island | A very lewd uninhabited island in Canada. There's probably a reason for that. |
| Ebola River | A river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that was actually named before the deadly virus. |
| Edelschrott | A municipality in Austria that is more or less an oxymoron. Means "premium junk". |
| Ee | A town in Friesland in the Netherlands. |
| 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 from the Bering Sea. |
| Effingham, Illinois | The people here must be "effed" up over its name. |
| Egg | A municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. |
| Egg, Austria | No, they do not make eggs in this Austrian town. |
| Eggnog | This place and Santa Claus need to team up and throw a Christmas party. |
| Eggs and Bacon Bay | The world's most delicious sounding suburb is about an hour south of Tasmania state capital Hobart. It was named for the abundant Eggs and Bacon wildflowers with yellow & streaky red petals from the pea family of Fabaceae. In 2016 an animal rights group lobbied the local council to have the name changed to vegan friendly "Apples & Cherries Bay".[6] This suggestion was laughed down by the community who started questioning whether the popular tourist destination of Wineglass Bay should be changed to satisfy Alcoholics Anonymous! |
| Eggstedt | A municipality in Germany. Translates as "egg city". |
| Egypt | No pyramids or Sphinxes in this Arkansan town. Also the name of two places in Ohio, one in Indiana, and four in Texas. |
| Eiersberg | A mountain in Germany. Literally means "eggs mountain" however "Eier" can also mean "testicles". |
| Eighty Four | A town in southwestern Pennsylvania; see also Hatvan, Hungarian for sixty; and Forty Hill, a suburb of London. |
| Einöd | A town in Germany. Means "wasteland" in German. |
| Ekel | A part of the German town of Norden. "Ekel" means "disgust" in German. |
| Ekwok | A small city in Alaska populated by little walking and talking teddy bears! |
| Einhaus | A municipality in Germany. Translates to "a house". Yes, obviously. |
| El Cubano | A town in, you guessed it, Cuba. |
| El Goloso | A ward of Madrid meaning "The Greedy", so that explains why all of its residents are greedy. |
| Elend | A small town in Germany that means "misery". |
| Elephant Butte | A New Mexico city in the middle of nowhere, seemingly named after the rear end of the largest land mammal! Originated from the actual landmass of that name, located inside a reservoir with that name, which in turn is inside of a state park with nearly the same name. |
| Elephant Head | A place in Arizona. |
| Elmo | An unincorporated place in Kaufman County, Texas. I guess that red monster has a few city names, mainly 12 states. |
| Elon | A town in North Carolina, United States, home to Elon University. Both the town and the university are named after the Hebrew word for "oak", and are several decades older than Elon Musk. |
| Elsa | A town in Canada's frozen Yukon Territory. |
| 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. See also Peinlich, Skye, German for embarrassing. |
| Emo | A village in County Laois, Ireland. Also Emo in Ontario, Canada. |
| Empalme | A city in Mexico. Means "joint" in Spanish but can also mean "hard-on" or "boner". |
| Empire | A place in Colorado. |
| England | City in Arkansas. If you live there, then you could say that England is your city. |
| Entrepelado | With a name meaning "come in naked" in Brazilian Portuguese, the folks of this district in the city of Taquara in Brazil must be very comfortable with public nudity. |
| Equality | A small community primarily in Coosa County, Alabama, also bordering Elmore and Tallapoosa counties. |
| Erba | A place in Italy. "Erba" is a slang term for "weed" in Italian. |
| 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 | The literature in this small Queensland town must be very saucy. The name may come from an Aboriginal word that means "hot gale plain" or "windy plain", though the language and dialect is unknown.[7][8] |
| Eselsburg Castle | A castle in Germany. "Esel" means either "donkey" or "ass" so translated "Eselsburg" can mean something like "(jack)ass castle" or "donkey castle". |
| 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. |
| Experiment | A place in Georgia, United States. |
| Eye | "This is the CBS Television... Oh, god dammit.." Why not CBS, or NBC of course? Because it is a town in Suffolk, England. Not only that, there are also places with this name in Herefordshire and Cambridgeshire. All you can catch is the BBC! |
| Făget | A town in Romania. |
| Fail | A village in Portugal. See also Failsworth, Greater Manchester, England. Too bad they are not in a mountain range, or there might be Fail Pass! |
| Fair Play / 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. Hopefully the residents don't know English profanities... |
| False Pass | A city in Alaska. |
| Fancy Farm | A place in Kentucky that actually doesn't have a fancy farm, but does have very political church picnics... |
| Fanny | A township in Minnesota. "Fanny" is a slang term for the vulva. Also a Fanny in West Virginia. |
| Farmers Branch | Old McDonald never had a barn, E.I.E.I.O! Because this Texas city keeps growing so hard, E.I.E.I.O! |
| 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. |
| Faulebutter | "Rancid Butter" in German. |
| Fauquier | A place in British Columbia. It's pronounced a bit like "fuck here". It is also the name of a county in Virginia. |
| Fate, Texas | A place for psychics. |
| 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. |
| Fertility | Unincorporated and thus possibly aspirationally named. |
| Feucht | A municipality in Germany that means "moist" in German. |
| Feuchtwangen | A city in Germany. Means "wet-cheeks" in German. |
| Fickmühlen | Means "fucking mill" in German. |
| Fingerville | A place in South Carolina. |
| Fingringhoe | A village in Essex, England. |
| Fifty-Six | A city in northern Arkansas. |
| Fish | A small area near Rockmart, Georgia with only a single creek next to a pile of railroad tracks. |
| Fishkill | A town along the Hudson River. "Kill" translates to "stream" from Dutch. |
| Fjuckby | A Swedish village just north of Uppsala. A few residents petitioned to have the name changed, but they met with resistance from most of their neighbours and the petition was dropped. |
| Flée | Fleeing does seem to be something the French are quite infamous for. |
| 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. |
| Flintstone | "WILMA! WE GOT TWO TOWNS IN TWO STATES NAMED AFTER OUR FAMILY NAME!" |
| Flippin | There is no McDonalds here so flipping burgers is off the table. |
| Florence, South Carolina | A town in the path of Hurricane Florence. |
| Florida, Missouri | Ghost town in Missouri, known for being the birthplace of Mark Twain. |
| Florida, New York | It snows a lot in Florida, New York. |
| Flushing | The name of this neighborhood in Queens, New York City historically came from a town in the southwestern Netherlands. Also a village in Cornwall, a town in Ohio, a town in Pennsylvania, and a town in Michigan. |
| Fly | Unfortunately, this Ohioan town has no wings. |
| Föckinghausen | A little village in Germany. Yes, "Föcking" is pronounced like "fucking". |
| Fond du Sac | A very lewd village in Mauritius. I'll give you 3 guesses as to what these people like to do. |
| Foot of Ten, Pennsylvania | A census-designated place 5 miles from Puzzletown, Pennsylvania. |
| Football Mountain | A mountain in Antarctica. |
| Forget, Saskatchewan | Actually the 55 people who live there are trying to remember that it was named after Amédée E. Forget, the first Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, with the Francophone-style pronunciation of "for-ZHAY". |
| Foria | A small hamlet in Italy. Means "diarrhea" in Latin. |
| Fort Cockhill | An 18th century military fort. |
| Fort Dick | A place in California. Not a very appropriate name |
| Fort Gay, West Virginia | Notable for an incident in which an Xbox Live player's account was suspended because he lived here. |
| Fort Misery | The name of a ghost town and the oldest log cabin in Arizona, along with a trading post in Colorado. Nothing in all three locations seems to correllate to their name, however. |
| Fortification | A locality in New Zealand which despite the name, has no forts. Just lots and lots of trees. |
| 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. |
| Free Soil | A Michigan town where you can scoop up some land and leave. |
| Frenchbeer | A small hamlet in Devon, England. |
| French Lick | A town in Indiana that was never colonised by France. |
| Friday | A town in Texas with only 1 day of every week. |
| Friendship | A town in Knox County, Maine. Also, F is for FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Fries | McDonalds should probably think about relocating their headquarters to this place. |
| Frisco | Mainly this booming Collin County, Texas city has nothing to do with Frisco locomotives. The best time you can go back to this city in Texas is in the 1940s with a population between a thousand before everything exploded. (There are also 13 more Friscos in total in 13 states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia). |
| Frog Eye | A small community in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. |
| Frostproof | First settled permanently in the 1880s, this 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. |
| Fuchs | A place in California. Yes, it's pronounced like "fucks", and (with a different pronunciation) it is also the German word for "fox". |
| Fuckersberg | A populated place in the municipality of Zell an der Pram, Schärding District in Upper Austria, Austria. As of 1 January 2019, the population was 21. |
| Fucking Grove | A medieval field name in Bristol in England, euphemised in the seventeenth-century to 'Pucking Grove'. |
| Fugging | The name of two different villages in Austria, both of which had to be renamed from Fucking: one in Lower Austria, which was renamed in 1836, and one in Upper Austria, renamed in 2021 after its signs kept disappearing. The latter even had a pilsner beer partly inspired by its name. For both towns and spellings, the name is pronounced to rhyme with "looking". |
| 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. |
| Fukuoka | A city in Japan. |
| Fukushima | A city in Japan. I guess they aren't too fond of someone named "Shima" there - and definitely not fond of what a 2011 earthquake and tsunami did to the nuclear power plant there!. |
| 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. |
| Fuqaha | A town in Libya. |
| 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. |
| Furry | I think I may have found where all of those furries come from. |
| Furry Creek | A small community in British Columbia. |
| Fussy | There must be some selective eaters in this French commune. |
| Future City, Illinois | An unincorporated community in Illinois. |
| Future City, Kentucky | "FUTURE!" |
| 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. |
| Galgbacken | A small town in Sweden that means "gallow's slope". Sounds like a lovely place! |
| Gaming | The people here must love playing video games. |
| Ganja | A city in Azerbaijan. No, they don't supply marijuana, so don't even think about it. |
| Gap | When there is a gap... |
| Gas | You just passed Gas, but "they" (the five hundred that live there as of 2019) don't want you to!![9] |
| Gas City | A city in Indiana. |
| Gash | 3 little villages in Iran bear this name. "Gash" is a colloquial term for vulva – but not in Iranian. |
| Gasport | A small community located in Niagara County, New York which was named after flammable coal gas found rising from a spring. The place is also located along the Erie Canal. |
| Gassaway, West Virginia | A small town in Braxton County in central West Virginia. |
| Gassin | Fortunately nobody has been gassed here. |
| Gassville | A city in Arkansas that knows a thing or two about cutting the cheese. |
| Gau Tau, Hong Kong | "Penis head" in Cantonese, now known as Shek Ngau Chau. |
| Gay, Georgia | This little town in Georgia, United States, 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, United States, located in the Upper Peninsula. The town has a tavern called The Gay Bar. |
| Gay, West Virginia | A town in West Virginia. It seems like there are a lot of towns in the United States with this name such as Idaho, Oklahoma, and North Carolina. |
| Gay, Russia | A town in Russia, pronounced like "guy". |
| Gaydon | A parish and village in Warwickshire, England. It's where Jaguar and Land Rover cars are made. |
| Gay Head | The former name of a town in Massachusetts, with the earlier name used for the clay cliffs overlooking its beach - which must be left alone. |
| Gaylord | A city in Smith County, Kansas. |
| Gaylord | A city in Otsego County, Michigan. |
| Gaylord | A city in Sibley County, Minnesota. |
| Gaylordsville | A village in Connecticut. |
| Gayville | If you live either in that type of Gayville in Oswego County, New York, that type of Gayville in Putnam County, New York, or that Gayville in Yankton County, South Dakota, You are in happy-land! |
| Gays | Better up your game San Francisco! Illinois is coming to get you! |
| Gaz | The country that is 3rd in natural gas production has 9 settlements bearing this name! Is also a Hungarian word for "weed". No, not that kind of weed! |
| Gebeler | Means "The pregnants" in Turkish. |
| Gecko | A small town in Louisiana in which could save you 15% or more on car insurance in 15 minutes. |
| 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 | "I AIN'T NO BUNNY RABBIT!" |
| George, Washington | A town in central Washington. The streets are named after varieties of cherries. I have to admit but did they name it after the first President? |
| Geneva-on-the-Lake | A village in Ohio. |
| Germ | A very infectious French commune. |
| German Village | A mock German village (and Japanese village) built in Utah in 1943, to help improve techniques for maximising damage when firebombing German (and Japanese) residential areas in WWII. |
| Giggleswick | Something is always funny to these guys. A village in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, GB |
| Ginkūnai Manor | A manor within the appropriately named Lithuanian village of Ginkūnai. "Ginkūnai" means "weapons" in Lithuanian, so visitors beware. |
| Gipsy | An unincorporated community in Missouri. |
| Gland, Switzerland | A municipality in Switzerland that in French means "glans" as in the head of a penis. |
| Glasscock County | A county in Texas, which has no connection with one of the characters created by a certain retired Boston FM radio host... |
| Gnojnice | A village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Basically means "manureville" in Croatian. |
| Goat Buttes | Whoever named these sandstone outcroppings must've had quite an affinity for goats. |
| Goat Fell | A mountain in Scotland. Hopefully no goats fell down it, that would be very baaaad! |
| Goobertown, Arkansas | I'm a goofy goober! |
| Göd | This Hungarian town must think quite highly of itself. Szek anyone? |
| Gofukumachi Station | Hey, why don't you go fuck your machi. |
| Gogogogo | Get out the car, get out the car, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll... |
| Golden | A particularly shiny village in Ireland. |
| Goochland | A place in Virginia. "Gooch" is a slang term for the perineum. |
| 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, United States. |
| Goodenough Island | The most mediocre island in the world. |
| Goodnews Bay | A little city in Alaska. |
| Goodnight | I guess you will have to travel on US-287 for 11.6 miles to reach your hotel destination. |
| Goodnight–Loving Trail | A trail used in cattle drives, named after two cattlemen with unlikely last names. |
| Goofy Ridge | A census-designated place in Illinois. It's known for its sense of humor. |
| Goole | That's goole. This town also has a restaurant called "Frying Nemo". |
| Goosefeld | A municipality in Germany. Basically translates to "goose field". |
| Goose Pimple Junction | An unincorporated community in Virginia. |
| Gore | No, they don't play murder mysteries or practice the running of the bulls in this New Zealand town. It is also the name of a small community in Virginia which has no association with politician Al Gore. |
| 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, whose name means "grandmother". |
| Grand-Popo | A town in Benin. |
| Grandson | A place in Switzerland. |
| Grand Teton | One of the most prestigious national parks in the United States whose name just so happens to be French for large teat or breast. |
| Granma Province | A province in Cuba that respects its elders. |
| Grapevine | Everybody has heard it, through it. |
| Grästorp | A municipality in Sweden that's a bit on the high side, and I'm not talking about the elevation. Means "weed croft" in Swedish. |
| 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. |
| Great Cockup | A fell in northern England. Also a Little Cockup. |
| Great Kills | A New York City neighborhood. Kill is another word for creek. |
| 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. |
| Groom | People will never get married there in Texas. Change that R to a L for being so lonely. |
| 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". |
| 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. |
| Gumlog | One with a very dirty mind will get a laugh out of this place. |
| Gum Tree | A place in Kentucky. Also quite close to the similarly weird named places of Mud Lick and Flippin. |
| Gun Barrel City, Texas | (Cowboy voice) This here's a city in Henderson County, Texas. Only in Texas, pard'ner. |
| Gunn Point, Northern Territory | Thanks to the firearm laws, you will not be shot here. |
| Gunskirchen | You don't want to piss off the churches in this Austrian town, the churches are armed! |
| Guys | Sometimes, you just gotta hang out with the guys, and you can do it right in this town in Tennessee. |
| Ha! Ha! River | Also a fleuve drôle, as it's a "funny river" in Quebec. |
| Haarby | A town in Denmark. Translates as "hair town". |
| Hackås | A locality situated in Berg Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden that reminds me of hackers. |
| Hackballscross | A small village in County Louth, Ireland. |
| Hackensack | Watch out for lovers who do this. New Yorkers still do not get this joke. |
| Ha'il | Contrary to its name, this Saudi Arabian city probably hasn't seen a drop of hail in its entire life. |
| 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. |
| Half Hell | So named for either being semi-hellish or "halfway to hell." |
| Halfmoon | A township and small community in Saratoga County, New York. |
| Halfway | Actually in Virginia, it's close to the Maryland border. So it's not even close. |
| Hạ Long | Is that a question? |
| Ham | The pigs might find this place offensive. |
| Ham Lake | The pigs sure aren't going to come swimming here any time soon. |
| Ham Lun Kok, Hong Kong | 含倫角 - lit. "oral sex corner" which the character 倫 is a substitute of the profanity word 𡳞 meaning dick. Now known as Yau Lung Kok (游龍角).[10] |
| Hamam | The name of 2 Turkish villages. In Arabic "ḥamām" means "douche". |
| Hamm | Those pigs sure aren't happy about this place. |
| Hammerfest | A town in Norway. Hosting a hip hop festival here would make MC Hammer proud. |
| Hampton Gay | A very gay village in England. |
| Handsome Eddy | A hamlet in New York. |
| Hang Chat | A district in Lampang province, northern Thailand. |
| Hang Dong | A district in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. You would probably not found any of those hanging around, though. |
| Hard | *Insert cafe joke here* |
| Hard Rock | Unfortunately no, this is not where Hard Rock comes from or Hard Rock Cafe. |
| Härnösand | A town in Sweden. Can be translated as "here sneezed duck". |
| Happy | Don't be fooled by the name, this Texas town is where you can turn your smile upside-down. There is also a Happy, Arkansas and a Happy, Kentucky. |
| Happy Adventure | A village in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. |
| Happyland | A place in Connecticut. Unfortunately doesn't quite live up to its name. |
| Happy Valley-Goose Bay | A merger of two cities in Labrador, Canada led to this combined municipality. |
| Haseley Knob | Something to do with Nutella. |
| Hashish | A village in Iran filled with chain smokers and crack heads. |
| Haut Sex | A mountain in the Alps. Literally translated from German to English it mans "Skin Sex" |
| Haw River | A river in North Carolina that is full of laughs. It is also the name of a town in Alamance County, North Carolina. |
| Haßloch | A municipality in Germany that means "hate-hole". |
| 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 Alberta 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.[11] |
| Heckmondwike | Small town in West Yorkshire. This name is funny in this area of England as Heck is a synonym for Hell. |
| Heil | A very small census town in Grant County, North Dakota, but was not named after Germany. |
| Heist | QUICK, GET THE COPS! THEY ARE ROBBING EVERYTHING, EVEN THE HOUSEHOLD WASTE! |
| Hell, Michigan | Only 294 miles (473 km) from Paradise, and quite recently, purchased by 25-year old Internet star Elijah Daniel who renamed it Gay Hell to protest "The Donald"'s attitudes towards display of the LGBT pride flag at U.S. embassies during Pride Month.[12] |
| Hell, Norway | A village in Norway that hosts the annual "Blues in Hell". music festival. |
| Hell, Grand Cayman | A tiny island named after Limestone formations located in the area. |
| Hell for Certain | An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States. |
| Hell Gate | Area of water near Wards Island and Queens, New York City, that's got a "spouting Devil" for a neighbor nearly 6.4 miles (10.4 kilometers) due north of it. |
| Hella | A very friendly town in Iceland. |
| 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. Screw you FOX. |
| 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. |
| Hempstead | Someone should check to see if they're producing weed in this New York town. |
| Hercules | A city in California. No, Hercules does not live here, so don't even think about it. |
| Heréd | A tiny town near Hatvan („Sixty”) in Hungary, translated in local as "your testicles" - and not the only one, seek the other below at the 'M' letter! |
| Herm | This French commune needs a herm statue. |
| Hermanus | Yeah, I hur' m'anus too. Turns out you don't put things in there... |
| Hevonkakki | An island in Finland that means "horse shit." |
| Hicksville | A hickish place in New York with none of that newfangled indoor plumbing like they got in Flushing. |
| Hilter | A city in Germany that almost sounded like someone's surname. This city is bordering Bad Laer too. |
| High Point | A city primarily in Guilford County, North Carolina. The small community of Horneytown is right next door. Also two other High Point's in Florida (they also aren't the highest place in Florida with one being a mere 70 feet above sea level). |
| Hill o' Many Stanes | A place in Scotland. What those "stanes" might be are for you to decide. |
| Hilton Head Island | Why yes, but..whose head is it? Paris's or Nikki's? |
| Himmelreich | "Kingdom of Heaven" in German, at the edge of Hell's Valley |
| Hindu | Most of the inhabitants of this town are Christian or irreligious. |
| Hippo | Unfortunately, no hippos live here. |
| Hir | A very friendly Iranian city. Means "hey" in Persian. |
| Hit | A small city in Iraq called hit. Not many people get hit here, though. |
| Hitler Pond | Nobody ever sees the Nazis in Ohio, especially a pond in Pickaway Township, Ohio. There are also 2 street names as well in Circleville. |
| Ho | A town in Ghana. |
| Hodenhagen | A municipality in Germany. "Hoden" means "testicles" in German. |
| Hohhot | A chill Mongolian town. The Chinese find it entirely baffling, stuttering through Huhehaote. |
| Ho-Ho-Kus | What is this, Santa Claus getting something stuck in his throat? He might have been eating too many Cookies for the past 36 hours. |
| Hog's Back Bridge | A small bridge in Ottawa, Canada. |
| Hole | A municipality in Norway. |
| Hole of Horcum | A big hole in North Yorkshire, England. |
| Hollywood | The name of many places in the United States, the biggest of which is in Florida. Also in Ireland and England. |
| Holysloot | A village in the Netherlands. "Sloot" is the Dutch word for "ditch" so it basically means "holy ditch". |
| Holywood | A Northern Irish town. Where boners are holy. |
| Home | There's no place like it! |
| Homsar | "AaAaAaAaAah'm an Iranian village." |
| Hongerige Wolf | A village in Groningen, Netherlands that translates to "hungry wolf." |
| Hooker | A town in Oklahoma, United States, 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. |
| Hooker Corner | Well, the name kinda speaks for itself... |
| Hooker Valley Track | A short walking track in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand. You'll find more than just nature there. |
| 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, United States. |
| Hopeulikit | We sure do. |
| Horn | A town in Austria. |
| Horneytown | An unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States. 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. Close to the also unusually-named Baka. |
| Horonkylä | A town in Finland that means "town of the bitch" in Finnish. |
| Horsefly | A place in British Columbia. |
| Horseheads | A township and village located in Chemung County, New York. |
| Hospital | A village without a hospital in County Limerick, Ireland. |
| Hot | A district in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand with the name saying a lot about the weather of this tropical country. |
| Hotazel | A town in South Africa that got its name from play on "hot as hell". At least it's right on the postcard. |
| 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. |
| How | A place in Cumbria, UK which already has an interesting name. |
| 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. |
| Hump Creek | The name of two different streams in South Dakota, one in Corson County and the other in Haakon County. |
| Humpback Covered Bridge | Many sexual jokes have been made at this bridge's expense. |
| 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. |
| Hundeluft | A village in Germany. Means "dog's air" in German. |
| Hundred | Deep in this West Virginia town, where Christopher Robin plays. Actually, it is a 300 populated town. |
| Hungry Horse | Only 16 miles from Whitefish. Do horses even eat fish, though? |
| 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. There is also a Hurricane, West Virginia (pronounced "HER-ick-in"). |
| Hurt | A town in Virginia that's very injured. Too bad the hospital is in Ireland. |
| Huy | A municipality in Belgium. If translated from Russian, it means "cock". |
| Hydra | No hydras exist on this small Greek island. |
| Hygiene | An unincorporated community in Colorado. Maybe this place is clean. |
| Idiotville | A ghost town in Oregon. |
| Ica | Unremarkable, until you include the administrative subdivisions: Ica, Ica, Ica, Ica, Peru. The little city that Icould. |
| Ii | A municipality in Finland. |
| IJ, the | The 'IJ', an inland water body against which Amsterdam Central railway station is situated, is pronounced exactly the same as an 'ei' — the Dutch word for an egg. The capitalization of the J is a result of the ij digraph's history as a ligature (writing), a Dutch alternative to the letter 'Y'. In fact, on old maps, the IJ was sometimes marked as the Y. |
| Imalone | A very lonely place in Wisconsin. |
| Inaccessible Island | Can be reached by sea. |
| Incesti, Romania | Must have some interesting family trees |
| Inchmore | Yes please. |
| Indore | An Indian city that should probably go outside more often. |
| Indra | Contrary to the name, there probably are no Hindus in this Estonian village. |
| Inexpressible Island | An island off the southern tip (?!?) of Antarctica that simply cannot be described by words. |
| Innaloo | A suburb in Perth, Western Australia. |
| Insein | A township (pronounced like "insane") across the Hlaing River from Yangon. If you are taken there, you probably won't be crazy, but you could be in trouble, as the Insein Prison has been notorious for the detention of political prisoners under harsh conditions. |
| Intercourse | An Amish town in Pennsylvania, United States. There is also a small community called Intercourse in Alabama. |
| Iowa Colony, Texas | One out of three colonies in Texas, the other being 288.9 miles to the northwest. |
| Iran | What did you run? The marathon? |
| 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. |
| Isla Mujeres | An island in southern Mexico, this literally means women's island in Spanish. |
| Italy, New York | A township and hamlet in Yates County, New York. |
| Itta Bena | Despite the name, this is a town in Mississippi, not a bean. |
| Itzehoe | It's a hoe? |
| IXL | Remember that one terrifying website from school? Well, now you can visit it. In fact, Oklahoma itself has TWO of these cities, but only one is incorporated. |
| JAARS | Census-designated place in Union County, North Carolina. Named after a Bible translation organization located there. |
| 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 or the smallest city. But don't fret, there are a handful of casinos here to suit your gambling needs. If you cross the border, you might find one in Twin Falls, Idaho. |
| Jafarabad | An Iranian city that Aladdin may take a liking to. Jafar is very bad. |
| Jakes Corner | A census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona, but who is Jake? |
| 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 and there is also a town in the disputed region of South Ossetia called Java 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. |
| Jekyll Island | A resort town in Georgia. |
| Jerrys Nose | Not too far from Joe Batt's Arm. Well what can you expect, it's Newfoundland? |
| Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania | Unsurprisingly, this inland borough is over 150 miles away from the actual Jersey Shore. |
| Jesús | Jesus surely has smiled upon these 3 very God-like towns in Peru, Paraguay, and Spain. |
| 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. |
| Jinja | This place has no relation to Jinjer. |
| Jizzakh | What is this? Do you want to ejaculate? |
| 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. |
| Jolly | I don't think Texas is THAT happy... |
| Jot 'Em Down | Blam blam blam! |
| Joy | A very happy village in Illinois. |
| Jupiter | A town in Florida, United States with some film and television history. |
| Kaczki | A village in Poland that translates to "ducks". Anaheim's hockey team - or that Outer Banks-launched donut shop chain - might take a liking to this place. |
| Kaffeklubben Island | In German, this literally means "coffee club". Unfortunately, you can't go there with your friends as it is the northernmost island in the world and also uninhabitable. |
| Kake | The "kake" is a lie. |
| Kalamazoo | Believe it or not, there is not even a single zoo in this Michigan city. |
| Kanada Station | A railway station and also a name of a former town in Fukuoka prefecture in Japan which shares the same Japanese spelling with the second largest nation in area on Earth |
| Kanakanak | A palindromic 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. |
| Kandi | The name of a few different places, the biggest one being in Benin. |
| Kandos | An Australian town that may give a few Estonians a bit of a laugh. "Kandos" looks like the Estonian word "kandoss" which is a slang term for a condom. |
| Kandy | A very tasty city in Sri Lanka. |
| Kang | A village in Botswana. |
| Kannus | A town in Finland. |
| Kansas, Alabama | They're multiplying... |
| 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. |
| Kaput | A village in Iran that quite hilariously, bears the name of a Persian slang term for "condom". |
| Karcag | A city in Hungary with a serious rash. Translates as "scratchy" in Hungarian. |
| Karen State | If you happen to be a manager living here, may God have mercy on you. |
| Kars | Is this a JoJo reference? |
| Kau Shi Wai, Hong Kong | "Dog shit village" in Cantonese, now known as Fung Mei Wai for unknown reasons. |
| 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. |
| Kék | A very dank Hungarian village. |
| Kellogg | There are no tigers in this Idaho town. |
| Kermit | Unfortunately no frogs live in this hot and sweaty Texas town. There is also a Kermit, West Virginia. |
| Ketchuptown | A place in South Carolina. |
| Key West, Virginia | See below. |
| Key, West Virginia | See above. |
| Kfar Pines | A town in Northern Israel. The second word is pronounced similar to "penis." |
| Kickapoo | You'll be surprised how many places and things have this name in the US. There's even a native american tribe bearing the name. |
| 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 Pass | A pass in the Canadian Rockies on the Trans-Canada Highway marking the Alberta/British Columbia border. The explorer who found it was kicked by his horse which nearly killed him. |
| Kicking Horse River | A river in British Columbia which flows down from Kicking Horse Pass. |
| Kief | A North Dakota town named after the capital of Ukraine, cannabis crystals, and a drug-cured Briton. |
| Kiek in de Kök | Tower in the Tallinn Old Town meaning "Look in the kitchen". |
| 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. |
| K.I. Sawyer | This town's name sounds like he'd be the brother to Tom Sawyer from Mark Twain's readings or the Rush song also called Tom Sawyer. Regardless, this is a closed air force base in Michigan. |
| Kilbirnie | A suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. The city council actually ran an advertising campaign in the mid 1990's exploiting the pun: "I'm going to Kilbirnie."/"Why are you going to kill Bernie, you don't like him?" |
| Kilbride | A neighbourhood of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada where marriages "end horribly." |
| Kildeer | A village in Illinois named for the bird that is endemic to the Americas. |
| 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 Dick's Hole | A deep section at the confluence of the Rivers Sence and Anker, in north Warwickshire, UK. Local tradition says it is where King Richard bathed before battle.[13] |
| King of Prussia | The location of the King of Prussia mall. |
| Kinki Region | Another name for the Kansai region in Japan. I don't think much more needs to be said about this. |
| Kippekofen | A sub-community within the town of Burscheid. "Kippe" means "fag" in German. |
| Kirby, Texas | "I'll kick dat Kirby to the curb!" |
| Kiska | An island in Alaska that is a popular Russian vacation spot! Means "pussy" in Russian. |
| Kiskunhalas | The people here must love someone called kunhalas. |
| Kisumu | A city in Kenya which shares a pronunciation with a well-known Arabic insult (كس امه) |
| Kissamos | Which guy named "Amos" do you kiss in this Greek town? |
| Kissidougou | A city in Guinea that kisses their dogs! |
| Kissimmee | A very affectionate city in Florida. |
| Kissing | A municipality in Bavaria. |
| Kißlegg | A town in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany that has got a strange affinity towards kissing legs. |
| Kirby | I'll breathe in your pathetic bombs and send them right back at you! |
| Kivesjärvi | A village in Finland named after a lake. Translates to "testicle lake". |
| Kleena Kleene | An 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". |
| Klütz | A very clumsy German town. Expect a lot of accidents here. |
| Knee Weakener | A summit in Utah, United States. I'm assuming named so because its elevation of 6,860 feet (2,091 m) would weaken the knees of any potential hikers. |
| Knobhead | A mountain in Antarctica. |
| Knob Lick | A small town in Missouri, United States. |
| Knob Noster | A town in Johnson County, Missouri. Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. |
| Knock | A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) |
| Knockemstiff | Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor may like it here - in the Buckeye State. |
| Kock | A town in Poland. |
| Kokhanok | A place in Alaska. A place with plenty of cocks and knocking! |
| Kokkola | Coca-Cola might want to remind this Finnish town how to spell. |
| Koknese | A village in Latvia. |
| Kokomo | The actual city and state name were named after a 1947 single by Vaughn Monroe, not after a much better-known song released 41 years later! |
| Kokpek | A village in Kazakhstan. |
| Koksijde | A town in Belgium. |
| Kokstad | A city in South Africa. Since "stad" means city in Dutch you can look at it like "cock city". |
| 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 Miꞌkmaq indigenous people. |
| Krabozavodskoye | A village in Russia. Roughly translates as "crab factory". |
| Krak Glacier | A glacier off the coast of Antarctica. |
| Krak des Chevaliers | If the name is anything to go by, then the chevaliers must've been hiding something in here. |
| Kraków | 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! |
| Krapkowice | A town in Poland. |
| Krapina | A town in Croatia that doesn't know where to crap. Crap in a...what? |
| Krimpen | A town in the Netherlands. "Krimpen" is a Dutch verb that means "to shrink". |
| Kruishaar | A small hamlet in the Netherlands. Means "crotch-hair" in Dutch. |
| Krypton | Superman's favorite place on earth - if he's not at his lonely Arctic battlement... |
| Kuching | One of the biggest cities in Malaysia. Kuching sounds like "Kucing", which means "cat" in Malay and Indonesian. |
| Kuk | A village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Norwegians and Swedes might find this place amusing as it translates to "cock" in Norwegian and Swedish. |
| Kullimaa | The name of two villages in Estonia. Means "land of penis" in Finnish. |
| Kumi | A town in Uganda that the Finns might find amusing. "Kumi" means either "rubber" or "eraser" but is also a slang term for a condom. |
| Kumler | A ghost town in Illinois. |
| Kurri Kurri | A very tasty town in Australia. |
| Kut | Situated in Iraq, the town's name may have sounded suggestive to Dutch armed forces flying missions against ISIS, for it can mean either 'cunt' / 'pussy', or 'shit' in Dutch. |
| Kutas | A Hungarian village that might leave a few Poles giggling a bit. "Kutas" in Polish translates as something like "cock" or "dick". It can also mean something like "arsehole" or "douchebag". |
| Kuttekoven | A sub-municipality part of the municipality Borgloon in Belgium. "Kuttekoven" means "cunted coffins" in Dutch. |
| Kyyy | A small town in Siberia that got a little crazy with the letter Y. |
| Kyyyy | Unbelievably, this variant of Kyyy has four of a single letter in a row. |
| Labason | A municipality in the Philippines. Labason looks like the Tagalog verb "Labasán" which means "to cum" or "to ejaculate". |
| Labis | A southern Malaysian town that the French might find somewhat interesting. "Labis" resembles the French "la bise" or "faire la bise" which basically means "cheek kissing". |
| Laboratory | "SCIENCE!" |
| LaCenter | A place in Kentucky that is nowhere near the center of Kentucky. |
| Lacock | A village in England. |
| Ladies View | A scenic viewpoint on the Ring of Kerry tourist route about 19 kilometres (12 miles) from Killarney. |
| La Force | A small commune in France inhabited by Jedi. |
| Lagonisi | A seaside residential area in Greece that means "rabbit island". Spoiler alert: there are no rabbits there. It also isn't an island. |
| La Hija de Dios | A municipality in Spain. Translates as "The Daughter of God". |
| 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 Man | An area of wetlands in Okinawa. In Japanese it's called Manko which is word for "vagina" in Japanese around the Kanto Region. |
| Lake Success | Praying on false hopes since 1926! |
| 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. |
| Lala | A town in Nigeria that likes teletubbies. |
| La Macarena | When I dance they call me Macarena... |
| 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. |
| Last Chance | A remote unincorporated community in Colorado. |
| Ļaudona | A village in Latvia that is the personal residence of Dr. Evil. "Ļaudona" means "evil" in Latvian. Population isn't one trillion. |
| Lauf | Most like the hometown of Forrest Gump. "Lauf" means "run" in German. Not paired with Kick em' Jenny . |
| Lay | You can't possibly walk out of here without getting laid. Better yet, two more exist. One in Iran, the other in Kansas. |
| Lay Bid | Who here wants to get laid? Starting bids come at 100,000 rial! |
| Lazy Y U | A community in Mohave County, the same county as Nothing, Arizona. |
| Leading Tickles | Possibly the most uncomfortable place name in Newfoundland. |
| Leakesville | Don't go getting any ideas! |
| Leakey | Now you've done it! |
| Lederhose | Unfortunately, lederhosen do not come from here. |
| Left Hand | An unincorporated community in West Virginia full of southpaws! |
| Legal, Alberta | The most law abiding town in Alberta with 1,345 legal residents. Actually it was settled by homesteaders from Quebec and named after Émile-Joseph Legal, a Catholic priest, so the pronunciation is French "lay-gal". |
| 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. |
| Lem, Denmark | A municipality in Denmark that translates as "member"...as in "penis" member. |
| 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. |
| Le Saix | A commune in France that means "the sex". A place where you are guaranteed to get laid. |
| Les Enfers | A town in Switzerland. Enfer means "hell" in French. |
| Libby | "Funding for Arthur is provided by..." A juice company? |
| Liberal | You won't find many liberals in this Kansas town, which voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Also, Hooker, Oklahoma is a few miles away. |
| Liberty | Only pay for what you need, but only in 25 out of the 50 states in total. Plus you need a certificate fee on 6 extra states for the word "ville" to be added, and an extra bill on 13 other states to also add its name as a "township" in more than 100 to 200 rural areas. |
| Liberty City | You'd be hard pressed to find Niko Bellic in Florida - but you might find a Tommy nearby! |
| Libres | A village in Puebla, Mexico that means freedom. The inhabitants of this place needed a name that would remind them are in freedom. |
| Lick Fork | Gives me an appetite. A town in West Virginia. |
| Lickey End | A village in England, famously near a Long Riser |
| Licking | Lollipop and ice cream sales here are through the roof! Also a name for a county in Ohio. |
| Lickskillet | It would be wise to make sure it's cool first. |
| Life | Well I don't think there are any dead here. |
| Limpopo | A province in South Africa. Aside from the funky sounding name, in the Sepedi language "Limpopo" means "strong gushing waterfalls", with the river they're involved with (along with lots of LOTS of Vachellia trees!) being a favorite of Rudyard Kipling[14]... |
| 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. |
| Lititz | Small but fun. |
| Litsmetsa | Means "whore forest" in Estonian. |
| Little America | With only 68 inhabitants, this Wyoming town really is little. |
| Little Canada | You think this is a Canadian town? Wrong. |
| Little Heaven | An unincorporated community in Delaware. |
| Little Rock | Capital and largest city in Arkansas. |
| Little Snoring | A village in Norfolk. Also see Great Snoring. |
| Liverpool, New York | That could have been the birth of the American type, but not the British Invasion. |
| Lizard | A village in Cornwall. |
| Lizard Lick | An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina, home of Lizard Lick Towing & Recovery. |
| Lizard Point | A place in England. Sadly was not named after lizards but after a Cornish word Lysardh which means "the high court", and no I'm not talking about weed. |
| Loafers Glory | Named for the idle, or loafing, men who were a fixture at the local general store. |
| Lolland | An island in Denmark. |
| Lone Tree | This solitary tree in Colorado needs a whole municipality of just over 10,000 people to keep it company. |
| Longcochon | A commune in France. Means "long pig" in French. |
| Long Dick Creek | A stream in Iowa. |
| Longdong | There are 6 additional places in China named "Longdong". |
| Longpole | If you thought "Longdong" was funny, check this place out. |
| Longwood | Clearly they had boners in mind when they were naming this place. |
| Looney Creek | As a pig, Porky Pig will either live at a creek in Missouri or in Oregon next to "Stupid Creek" because he is dirty and shouldn't be touched by humans. |
| Looneyville | New York, West Virginia, and Texas each have places for people of the more mentally insane persuasion or Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck can insult the name from Warner Brothers. |
| Loop | Excuse me, but there are no loops in this Texas town. |
| Lopik | A town in the Netherlands that means either "dripping dick" or "walking dick". |
| Lord Hereford's Knob | It's rather big, is in Wales, and has been immortalised in song. |
| Los Baños | A city in California. "Los Baños" means "the baths" in Spanish. |
| Losevo | A rural locality in Russia. The Lithuanian name for it is "Kiaušai" which can mean either "eggs" or "balls". |
| Los Santos Province | Sorry, there is no Maze Bank, Vinewood or 3 criminals that get away with anything. |
| Los Veteranos I | This CDP in Webb County, Texas sounds like they have plenty of veterans, but it is actually a ghost town, having 0 inhabitants. |
| Los Veteranos II | Nothing to worry about though, as there is a sequel to the first Los Veteranos, and this one has 11 residents. |
| Lost | Enable to watch the American Broadcast Company's biggest slapstick in a genuine Scottish hamlet, they have it on Channel 4. |
| Love | Going by the 50 inhabitants I'd say there hasn't been a whole lot of it going on. Even a bit more inhabitants than a county in Oklahoma. |
| Lovejoy | 5 states (Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, and Pennsylvania) can enjoy together with happiness and love, but Texas was not a name for a town because Lovejoy is named for a school, and Illinois for a township. |
| Lovelady | Texas town that surely can't compete with Loveladies, New Jersey |
| 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. |
| Loving County | A Texas county named for rancher Oliver Loving, but hopefully it's a friendly place. |
| Lower Dicker | A Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Weald of East Sussex. Also a nearby settlement. |
| Lower Sackville | A place in Nova Scotia. It's maybe a bit too low for my liking. |
| Lubersac | A commune in France that offers plenty of lubricant for a pleasant time in the sack. |
| Luck | A poor and "not-so-lucky" town in Polk County, Wisconsin. |
| Lucknow | This city in India might want to consider buying a lottery ticket. |
| Lucky Boy | A ghost town in Nevada, United States. |
| Lucky Hill | As long as I stay here, Jamaican me rich!! |
| Lude | A stream in Germany. Means "pimp" in German. |
| Lüder | A municipality in Germany. "Luder" (without the umlaut) means "slut" in German. |
| 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. |
| Lupus | A small town in Moniteau County, Missouri. It's named after the Latin for "wolf", which is unfortunately where the autoimmune disease gets its name from as well. |
| Lynch | Relax, they don't lynch people here. |
| Lynchburg | An absurdly common placename in the United States, from Virginia to California, where it honors a prominent local typist. |
| Mad | A village in Slovakia that's has anger issues. |
| Madona | Little did Madonna know that Latvia named a town after her, although the misspelling was necessary to avoid royalties. |
| Madrid, Iowa | Pronounced /ˈmædrɪd/ in American. |
| Mad River | The name of several rivers in Canada and the United States, and a place in California that used to be called "Kuntz". |
| Mafia Island | An island off the coast of Tanzania. Fortunately organized crime is probably not an issue here. |
| Maggotty | Jamaican me sick with this town name! |
| Magician Lake | Small crossroads in Grand Traverse County, Michigan - it isn't known if either Mandrake or Dr. Strange ever considered retiring here. |
| Magic Valley | A region in Idaho. |
| Magnet | A village in Nebraska. |
| Make | This village in Botswana will let you shake it and bake it any way you want it. |
| Malaise (Belgium) | French name of a hamlet of Overijse. |
| Malcocinado | A municipality in Spain. Means "badly cooked" in Spanish. |
| Malenia | "I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella, and I have never known defeat." |
| Mali | It means "hippo" in the local language. |
| Mama | A place in Mother Russia. |
| Man | An exasperated city in Côte d'Ivoire. |
| Mangai | A town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| Mango | No, there aren't any mangoes in this town in Italy. |
| Manley Hot Springs | Just what it says. Very manly hot springs. Now try saying that to the weather there. |
| Mannekensvere | Clearly this village in Belgium is a fan of mannequins. |
| Manus Island | An island in Papua New Guinea. "Manus" is a New Zealand slang term for "idiot". |
| Many Farms | A census-designated place in Arizona. |
| Mäo | The Chinese may find this Estonian village a bit reminiscent. |
| Margarita | Are you thirsty? I thought he is. |
| Mariquita | A town in Colombia. "Mariquita" means "queer" or "faggot" in Spanish. |
| Marker | A town where 3,400 Norwegians have marked their home. |
| Marrowbone Creek | Name of 3 different creeks in the US. |
| 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. |
| Massac | A place in Kentucky with "massac" in McCracken County. That's gotta really hurt! |
| 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 "killer of Moors" in Spanish. |
| Matanzas | Name of a handful of places. The name means "massacre" or "slaughter" in Spanish. |
| Maton Abajo | A barrio in Cayey, Puerto Rico, next to Maton Arriba. Maton means killer in Spanish and arriba and abajo mean up and down, so with two matones (killers) in the area, this must be a very dangerous place! |
| Matelica | These guys must be fans, little did the band never knew they had a city name like them. |
| Maumee | A city in Ohio. Pronounced like "mommy". |
| Mayo | A town in Ireland, whose name does not originate from the polarizing condiment. |
| Mayo | A district in Yala province, southern Thailand, whose name also does not originate from the polarizing condiment. |
| M'diq | A city in Morocco that's pronounced like "my dick". |
| Meat Camp | A place in North Carolina. |
| 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 | A city in Alberta, Canada of 63,000 whose name is an interpretation of the Blackfoot word for the feather headdress worn by medicine men. |
| Medusa, New York | A hamlet with only has 376 (non-petrified) people. |
| Meeteetse | A town in Wyoming. |
| Meisenheim | 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 Italian for "Merlin". |
| Mesick | A village in Michigan. |
| Methlick | A village in Scotland. |
| 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. Fun Fact: "Mexico" is a portmanteau of two Nahuatl words Mētztli and xīctli which together mean "at the navel of the moon". |
| 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. |
| Micanopy | A town in Florida that won't share their canopy. |
| Miccosukee | A place in Florida. |
| Middelfart | In the Danish language, Middelfart means 'average speed', though the original name "Mæthælfar" in Old Danish means 'middle way'. |
| Middlepits | A village in Botswana. |
| 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. |
| Milford | A city in Connecticut with MILF in the name. The name is shared by locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, Michigan, and Delaware. |
| Mikołajki | A town in Poland. Means "little santas" or "St. Nicholas’ Day" in Polish. |
| Millstreet | A place in Ireland that is not a street but a town. Became famous in 1993 for hosting nothing. |
| Minnehaha | PLEASE STOP FLUSHING TOILETS... Minnesota residents finally get the joke since August 4th, 2010, but except it's in South Dakota. |
| 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.[15][16] |
| 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 where you were born. |
| 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 | 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 in central Northern Ireland where you'll earn more money, and about 17,000 km from a place where you won't! Anglicised from the Irish Gaelic "Monaidh Mór" ("Large Bog".) |
| Mong Kok | A "prosperous street corner" in Kowloon, Hong Kong, that the Brits didn't have the heart to explain why they found it so humorously offensive. |
| Monkey Run, Arkansas | An unincorporated community. |
| Monkey's Eyebrow | Unincorporated community in Kentucky. |
| Monkstown | No monks live in Newfoundland unfortunately. |
| Moniteau County | A county in Missouri. It's not the name itself that's weird here, as it's a French butchering of the Algonquian "Manitou", which means "great spirit". The weird thing is that it's pronounced like "Monitaw". |
| 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! |
| Monster | A town in (South) Holland, in the Netherlands. Would Lady Gaga be aware of its existence ? Considering the town got its name from Catholicism – either from its monastery, or from its overly large church (a Monstrum in Latin) – she might appreciate the irony .. |
| 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 | 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. |
| Moonshine | "Kids, don't drink these, because they are alcoholic and they can kill you." |
| Moordhuizen | A hamlet in the Netherlands which translates to Murder Houses.[17][18] |
| 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. |
| Mora | A place in Sweden that means "mother". This place must get all kinds of "your mom" jokes. |
| 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 | Seemingly an oxymoron. |
| Mörön | A town in Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia. |
| Morón | An Argentine city. |
| Moroni | Capital and largest city of the Comoros. |
| Morzeszczyn | A Polish village that means "sea of pee". |
| Moscow | A hamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It is also the name of a city in Latah County, Idaho, home of the University of Idaho. |
| Moskali | A village in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. Moskal is a word used by Ukrainians as an ethnic slur for Russians. |
| 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 Cocks | A mountain in Antarctica. |
| Mount Despair | Amazingly, there are three different mountains with this name, two in the United States and one in Australia. |
| Mount Dick | A mountain in the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. |
| Mount Disappointment | A rather uninspiring hill on the edge of Melbourne. It lived up to its name in March 2022 when it was the scene of a helicopter crash. |
| Mount Energy Historic District | A national historic district located in Granville County, North Carolina. It is 1.5 acres with an elevation of 387 feet. There are no mountains within an hour in any direction. |
| Mount Healthy | A city in Ohio which renamed itself after a cholera epidemic. This place certainly has a dark sense of humor. |
| Mount Indefatigable | Indefatigable means "Extremely persistent and untiring", but it is not that bad a hike. It was named after a British warship that was sunk in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. The nearby but higher Mount Invincible was also named after a warship sunk there. |
| Mount Mee | I promise that you'll never find another one like it. |
| 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 Tarawera | A volcanic island in New Zealand. Tarawera can mean something like "burnt spear" or "burning vagina" in Maori. |
| 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. |
| Mountain | Changed its name from Mole Hill in 1949 as part of a publicity stunt to literally make a mountain out of a molehill. There is no mountain in or even visible from the community. |
| Mousehole | A fishing village in Cornwall, England. |
| Mpanda | The Chinese probably want to take over this place in Tanzania. |
| Muck | This island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland is actually quite clean. |
| Muck City | A place in Alabama. |
| Mudchute | An area of London, England. |
| Mud Lick | A place in Kentucky with some questionable dietary decisions. Hopefully they learn, mainly for pigs. |
| Muenster | I might have to do the same explanation to Münsterhausen, but not in Texas in this case. |
| Muff | A village in County Donegal, Ireland. |
| Mulhouse | A city in France that may be appreciated by visitors from Springfield. |
| Münsterhausen | Not the German vacation home of The Munsters (unlike Muenster, Texas), unfortunately, but is home to a prolific roller coaster manufacturer. |
| 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). |
| Musk | A place in Iran with no relation to Elon Musk. It does however bear a resemblance to the Sanskrit word मुस्कस् muska which means "testicle". There's another one in Australia. |
| Mymensingh | Capital of the Mymensingh Division of Bangladesh. |
| Mỹ Sơn | I am disappoint! |
| Mystery Bay | A town in New South Wales. What's so mysterious and where's the bay? |
| 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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| Nags Head | A beach town in North Carolina. |
| Nagybajom | A village in Hungary with a huge problem. Means "my big problem" in Hungarian. |
| Nagykutas | A village in Hungary that will cause some Polish people to laugh. Means either "bald dick" or "naked dick" in Polish. |
| Naháč | A village in Slovakia. Means "naked guy" in Slovak. |
| Nameless | Yeah, that's a name, so you're wrong. |
| Nampula | A city in Mozambique. "Nampula" means "i don't have a dick" in Romanian. |
| Nani | Omae wa mou shindeiru. |
| Nanny Town | Who's hiring? |
| Não-Me-Toque | Portuguese for "Don't touch me". |
| 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. |
| Nazi | No Nazi's live in this Iranian place. |
| Needles | A city in San Bernardino County, California. Don't worry...you won't get pricked. |
| Negros Island | An island in the Philippines. Yeah...something tells me the Spanish had skin color in mind when they named the island. |
| Nemenčinė | A city in Lithuania that means "not foolish" in Lithuanian. |
| Neprošteno | A village in Macedonia. Means "unforgiven". |
| Nesoddtangen | A village in Norway. It translates to something like "the cape cape cape". |
| Nether Wallop | That's gotta hurt. |
| Neutral | This Kansas place gives nobody a darn about your world conflicts. |
| Nevada City, California | Sorry! No legal brothels in this Nevada City! |
| Nevada, Iowa | Pronounced "nuh-VEY-duh". There is one in Missouri as well. |
| 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. |
| Newbuildings | There are always new buildings. |
| Newfoundland | An island in Eastern Canada. No, they don't find new land here. |
| New Invention | The name of two little places in the West Midlands of England. Nothing's been invented there since the early 1700s. |
| Newport News, Virginia | What is the news Newport brought here? |
| 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. |
| Ngawi, New Zealand | Small town that is named similar to Ngawi, East Java |
| Niceville | It's not bad. |
| Niepiekła | A village in Poland that means "not hell" in Polish. |
| Nieuwegein | A city in the Netherlands that means "new joke". Joke's on you now. |
| Niga | I prefer not to speak, If I speak I am in big trouble. |
| Nigadoo | A town in New Brunswick, Canada. It also Borders the Nigadoo river. |
| Niger | Pronouced "Nizhair", so this country's name gets a pass. |
| 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. |
| Nitro | City in West Virginia named for an ingredient in gunpowder. |
| No | A village in Denmark. |
| No Man's Land | A small hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom. |
| No Name | A town in Colorado, United States. |
| No Name Key | A small island in Florida that has no name. |
| No Place | I guess the residents were too dumb to realize it's a place in Durham, United Kingdom. |
| Nobber | A village in County Meath, Ireland. |
| Nob End | A place near Kearsley, Bolton. |
| Nob Hill | A neighborhood in San Francisco. |
| Noisy-le-Grand | A very loud and obnoxious place in France. |
| Nokia | A town and municipality in Finland. Ironically, Nokia was also invented in Finland. |
| Nork | A place in Surrey, England, just outside London. |
| Nooseneck | A small town in Rhode Island. |
| 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 East Island, New Zealand | Located southwest of the South Island. |
| 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 town in Japan. |
| Nosy Be | An island off the coast of Madagascar. |
| Nothing | A small abandoned town in Arizona, United States, so its population fits the name. |
| Novi Sad | Apperently, novi is sad. |
| Nowe Rumunki | A village in Poland that means "New Romanian Women" in Polish. |
| Nowhere | An unincorporated community in the middle of Oklahoma, United States. |
| Nowhere Else | In Tasmania, Australia. Contrary to the name, there are in fact other places, including Paradise and Promised Land, both nearby. |
| Nowthen, Minnesota | This suburb of Minneapolis-Saint Paul was a township until 2007, and is named “Nowthen” because the first postmaster had a habit of saying “Now, then” in conversation. |
| Nunavut | A territory in Canada that up until 1999 was part of the Northwest Territories. I guess they decided they were having Nunavut! |
| Nuuk | The capital of Greenland. No, there are no nukes here! Sorry Kim Jong Un! |
| Oatmeal, Texas | A place in Texas that has nothing to do with oatmeal itself. |
| 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 Mount Kamuriki (obasuteyama) that basically means something like "throw-grandma-away mountain". |
| Odd | The polar opposite of Normal. |
| Odd Down | A suburb of the English city of Bath, Somerset. |
| Office Hall | A place in Virginia. |
| 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, Illinois | "Clevelanders" temporarily hate their lives after the last 77 MPH fastball. |
| 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 | A Sunshine State town. |
| Ok | Used to be the nearest glacier to Reykjavík, but OK, it disappeared. |
| Okay | It's alright, I guess. |
| Olaf | Just look away, look away. |
| Old Cummer GO Station | A train and bus station in Toronto, Canada. Named after an 18th century Canadian businessman, Jacob Cummer. |
| Old Fig Garden | A place in California. "Fig" is a slang term for "vulva". |
| Öland | Oh, Land! |
| Old Rag Mountain | A mountain located in Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia. You won't find any dirty old rags at the summit, though...only rocks. |
| Olmito and Olmito | In this south Texas town, you get Olmito... and more Olmito! In fact, Google Maps goes so far as to call it Olmito and Olmito Number 2 Colonia. What is #1? |
| Onancock | A town in Virginia, United States. |
| On Top of the World | A CDP in Florida, with a whopping 71 feet (22 meters) above sea level. |
| Once Brewed and Twice Brewed | Villages in Tyne and Wear, near Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| Orange | A French city whose name has nothing to do with the color orange. |
| Orál | Capital of West Kazakhstan. |
| Organ Cave | This place missed by 125 miles away, east-northeast, being the actual place where a real "cave organ" still plays today! |
| Oroszlány | A town in Hungary. Name means "Russian girl" in Hungarian. |
| Oshkosh | Sometimes invoking the mild expletive "B'gosh!", once a year its airport becomes the world's busiest airfield! |
| Ossipee | A town in New Hampshire. |
| Oświęcim | A fairly innocent sounding little Polish village. It's German name however is a little bit peculiar because it happens to be Auschwitz. Fortunately, no Nazis live here as that other Auschwitz is in a completely different part of Poland. |
| Ovens | The hottest village in all of Ireland. |
| Owo | OwO what's this? |
| Oy | A rural locality in the "deepest part of Siberia", within Russia. |
| Paese | A town in Italy that means "town". |
| Pagiriai | A small town in Lithuania that means "hangover". |
| Pain Court | A small, primarily French-speaking community in southwestern Ontario. Means "short bread" in French. |
| 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. |
| Pajaro | A place in California. Means "bird" in Spanish but in some Spanish speaking countries, it's a colloquial term for "penis". In the Dominican Republic, it's also a slang term for a homosexual. |
| Pal | A tiny and very friendly Andorran village. |
| Palli | 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. |
| Panacea | A Florida community that will solve all of your problems. |
| Panauti | If you're not feeling lucky, spare a thought for this town. |
| Pandamatenga | A village in Botswana. |
| 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. |
| Paps of Anu | A pair of breast shaped mountains near Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. |
| Parachute | A town in Colorado. |
| Paradise | A census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The town of Intercourse is five minutes north, so depending on which route you take, it could be said that you must go through Intercourse to get to Paradise. |
| Paraguay, Cuba | A small settlement named Paraguay in Cuba, also very close to Guantánamo Bay. |
| Paraíba | A state in Brazil. In the Tupi language, it means "bad for navigation". |
| Pardeeville | An Amish town in Wisconsin. |
| Passa e Fica | Small Brazilian town whose name means "pass and stay" or alternatively "rub and stay". |
| Paudalho | Intended to mean garlic wood or stick, instead can come across in Portuguese as "garlic dick". |
| Pau Gordo | A place in Lisbon, Portugal, meaning fat stick or dick. |
| Pau Grande | Two towns in Brazil whose names translate to "big stick" and "big wood" or in slang, "big cock" or "big dick". |
| Pauper's Drain | A small tributary of the River Trent in England. "Pauper" means "poverty" in Latin. |
| Pauvres | A commune in France that means "poor people". Guess they axed their tourism potential. |
| Paw Paw | Cities in Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. |
| Payne Gap | A place in Kentucky probably filled with masochists. |
| Peacock | "The peacock's dead so thank you Fred, YEAH THANKS A WHOLE LOT!" |
| 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". |
| Pedra da Mina | A mountain in Brazil. "Pedra" is a slang term for "crack cocaine" in Portuguese while "Mina" is a slang shortening of "Menina", meaning girl. The full name comes out to meaning "the girl's crack cocaine" |
| 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). |
| Pee Pee | A township in Ohio. |
| Pee Pee Island | An Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Reportedly smells "of nuts". |
| 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. |
| Penile, Louisville | No, that's not how it's pronounced. That's juvenile. |
| Peninnis Head | Located in the Isles of Scilly. From "Penn Enys", meaning "Island Head" in Cornish. |
| Penisarwaun | A place in Wales. |
| Peniscola | A midsize coastal town within Spain's Valencian Community. |
| Penistone | It has caused generations of Yorkshiremen to smirk. |
| Pennycomequick | An area of Plymouth, England. |
| Peor es Nada | A rural area in Chile. Means "worse is nothing" in Spanish. |
| Pett Bottom | Home of the young James Bond. |
| Petting | Absolutely no sexual connotations, Seriously! |
| Pewee Valley | A place in Kentucky with about 1,500 residents. |
| Pfafftown | Community near Winston-Salem, North Carolina that is somehow pronounced "Poff-town". |
| Phuket | A city in Thailand. |
| Phi Phi Islands | Islands in Thailand pronounced "pee pee" islands. |
| Pičín | A village in the Czech Republic that's pronounced like "pitch in". |
| Pickaway | A city in West Virginia, a county in Ohio, and a township in Ohio in the same county. |
| Pickle Gap | A mountain pass in Arkansas. |
| Pie Corner | A place in Barbados. No, we don't make pies here. |
| Pie Town | New Mexico's attempt, located about 47 miles from another sweet place in the Land of Enchantment, 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". "Oink-Oink". |
| Piggs Peak | A town in Swazi...Eswatini. |
| Pijnacker | A town in the Netherlands. Means "pain acre" in Dutch. |
| Pikveld | A small town in the Netherlands. Means "dick field" in Dutch. |
| Pill | A village in North Somerset, England. |
| Pillow | A very sleepy town in Pennsylvania. |
| Pilot Butte | Pilot Butte is an extinct volcano located in Bend, Oregon, and a large town in Saskatchewan, Canada. |
| Pinkstaff | Do we even need to say anything? |
| Pintópolis | While "pinto" can mean a chick in Portuguese, it often refers to a penis, particularly a small one. |
| Pipe | A place in Wisconsin. Quite hilariously also happens to mean "blowjob" in French. |
| Piscataway | Not exactly the best thing to do to your cat. |
| Piss Pot | An island in Romney, West Virginia. |
| Pissy | A village in Burkina Faso. |
| Pity Me | A village on the outskirts of Durham, Co Durham, GB. You should probably pity it. |
| Plain | A town in Washington likely named after the geographical feature. |
| Plastic | A place in Colorado. Not recyclable, but at least there's free radiation. |
| Pleasureville | A place in Kentucky. |
| Plöd | blöd means "stupid" in German, renamed in 2009[19] |
| Plumaudan | A place in France that means "feathered teeth". |
| Poggersdorf | They're's no poggers in this Austrian place, seriously! |
| 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. The village in Herkimer Co. is actually named after the most famous Poland, while the one in Chautauqua Co. Is named after the Brit who discovered the existence of Poland syndrome. |
| 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. |
| Polo | Marco!...but just where did the llama that's with him come from, amyway? |
| 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? |
| Pompano Beach | A city in Florida that may leave a few Italians laughing. "Pompano" looks like the Italian word "Pompino" which means "blowjob". |
| Pont Neuf | A bridge that crosses the Seine River. Means "new bridge" which is funny considering it's actually the oldest bridge that crosses the river so it hasn't aged too well to say the least. |
| Ponta Grossa | Meaning "thick tip" in Portuguese, nothing more to say. |
| Pontiac | Don't get too confused with cars. Cities in Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, Michigan, and Quebec. |
| Ponyo | Sorry, no human-looking fish here. |
| Poo | A town in Himachal Pradesh, India. |
| Poo Poo Point | A mountain peak in Issaquah, Washington |
| Poop Creek | Not sure if some people used the bathroom here in Oregon. |
| Poopó | Just what you need in South America. |
| Poopoo | A small crummy and crappy island in Hawaii where many islanders took craps everyday. There is also a “Poopoo Creek” in Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada. |
| Poortugaal | A Dutch village. |
| Poowong | A small town in Australia. |
| Popcorn | A place in the Hoosier State. |
| Pope | How many churches are there in total? |
| Popeye Village | A place in Malta. |
| Pörnbach | A municipality in Bavaria, Germany. |
| Pornic | A village in France. |
| Pornichet | What is that? A small town in France? |
| Porno | A village in Nigeria. |
| Pornóapáti | A village in Hungary. The name roughly translates to "porn abbot". |
| Poverty | An unincorporated community in Kentucky, some 14,760 km from an Australian locale whose name doesn't inspire wealth, either!. |
| Poverty Bar | A former settlement in California. I think the name explains quite well why this place is abandoned. |
| Poverty Bay | A small bay in New Zealand. |
| Poundsgate | A village in Devon, England. |
| Powersville | An unincorporated community in Kentucky. |
| 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. Literally translated, it means "prudent president". |
| Prettyboy Reservoir | A reservoir in Maryland. |
| Prickwillow | A village in England. |
| Pringle | A borough in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately has nothing to do with delicious potato chips. |
| Proletarsk | As if Kommunizm weren't enough... |
| Prosperous | A town in Ireland. |
| Protection | A place in Kansas. I suppose it was named after the word "protection" itself. |
| 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. |
| Puerto Rico | A city in Colombia. As far as it's known, every Puerto Rican living here is actually a Colombian. |
| Pukë | A town in Albania. |
| Pūkio Stream | A stream in New Zealand. Until 2016 it was called...um..."Nigger Stream". "Pūkio" doesn't sound much better. |
| Pula | A town on the coast of Croatia. "Pula" means "dick" in Romanian. |
| Pula | An Italian village on the island of Sardegna "Pula means "dick" in Romanian. |
| Pulla | An Indian village that the Swedes might find amusing. "Pulla" is a term that means "to masturbate" in Swedish. |
| Pumpback | The very lewd people will like this place a lot. |
| 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. "Püssi" translates to "the gun" in Estonian. |
| Pussy | A village in the Rhone Alps. |
| Pussy Creek | A creek in Hurunui District, New Zealand. |
| Puta | A place in Azerbaijan filled with Spanish whores! |
| Putsonderwater | Means "well without water" in Afrikaans. Now I know why it's abandoned. |
| Puyallup | "Hey, how about I pull you up instead?" |
| Pychgynmygytgyn, Siberia | Lake in Eastern Siberia, not to be confused with Elgygytgyn or Yanranaygytgyn. Longest place name without A, E, I, O, or U, barely beating out Mynyddyslwyn in Wales. I wonder how this happened? |
| Quail | Hey little tweet-tweet, I think you are calling the cops. |
| Queensland | Don't we have to rename this to Kingsland now the Queen is dead? Incidentally, this Australian state voted most strongly against the 1999 Australian republic referendum to establish a republic. |
| Queer Mountain | A mountain in Antarctica. |
| Quibbletown | Arguably not notable enough to include on this list. |
| Quick | "Gotta go FAST!" |
| 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? |
| Raisin City | A place in California. |
| Rambo Department | A department in Burkina Faso. John Rambo does not live here. |
| Ramtown | A suburb of Howell, New Jersey. |
| Random Island | Well, this island is pretty random. |
| Rankin | Don't you dare make another holiday special, Arthur. |
| Ranni | A town located at Kerala, India, or, a demigod witch from the Lands Between. |
| 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. |
| Rapture | Would you kindly visit us? |
| Ratten | A municipality in Austria that means "rats". There's also a Rattenberg in Austria "rats mountain". |
| Reading | Also found in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (and, of course, England). |
| Rectum (nl) | A hamlet in the municipality of Wierden, Netherlands. |
| Red Bug, North Carolina | Guess they don't mean ladybugs. |
| Red Deer | A city in Alberta, Canada with a population of 100,000. It is called that because early settlers mistook the North American elk (more accurately called wapiti) for Scottish red deer. |
| 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 | A town in Florida. |
| Redditt | An unincorporated community in Ontario where circlejerking is doubtless a common pastime. |
| Red Lion | Name of 5 different places in the US, an airport, a creek, a bunch of pubs in England, and in Australia. |
| Red Shirt | No doubt a Star Trek reference. |
| Reet | A town in Belgium within the municipality of Rumst. "Reet" means "arse" in Dutch. |
| Reek | A town in the Netherlands, near Grave. It must smell awful around here. |
| Regenmantel | ("Raincoat" in German) |
| Reliance | A very dependable town in South Dakota. |
| Ressaquinha | This Brazilian town's name means "little hangover" in Portuguese. |
| Retie | A smaller Reet. |
| Rheine | A German city that is actually located on the Emse river and not the Rhine. Nice try though. |
| Rijeka | The people here love to reject other people. |
| Rhode Island | Don't let its name fool you. The US state is actually in mainland United States. We have some islands here though. |
| Riešketai | A small village in Lithuania that means "nuts". |
| Rifle | A city in Colorado. Appropriately, Rifle is home to Shooters Grill, a firearm-themed restaurant owned by U.S. representative Lauren Boebert. |
| Riga | Capital of Latvia. If you go there, don't replace the R with a N. |
| Rimsting | A municipality in Germany. |
| Rimswell | A village in Yorkshire, whose inhabitants may have prehensile tongues. |
| River Piddle | A river in England. "Piddle" is a slang term for urine. |
| 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. |
| Rockett | A place in Texas that is sure to leave the Houston Rockets considering a relocation into the Dallas-Fort Worth area. |
| Rocketts Landing | A neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. Unfortunately, rockets can't land here without causing complete destruction. |
| Rogacz | A village in Poland. Means "cuckold" in Polish. |
| Rolândia | A city in Paraná, Brazil, Rola means cock in Brazil, so translated to English it means Cockland or Dickland. |
| Rollin | A township in Michigan fully endorsed by Limp Bizkit. |
| Romance | A very romantic place in Arkansas. |
| Romeo | An unincorporated community in Florida with no Juliet to be found. Poor Romeo. |
| Romney | A city located in Hampshire County, West Virginia which is one of the oldest places in the state, incorporated in 1762. Other than the name, it has no association with politician Mitt Romney. Although...the city is located not far from Gore, Virginia. |
| Rooty Hill | It was actually named after a similar hill full of tree roots in Norfolk Island. But whatever ... |
| Roses | Sounds like a lovely place. |
| Rosu | A village in Romania that literally means “red”. |
| Rottenegg | A small town in Austria. |
| Rough and Ready | A very bumpy and rough town in California, not even too old for Hanna-Barbera. |
| Ruoholahti | A part of Helsinki. Means "grass bay" but "ruoho" is a slang term for "weed" in Finland, so it also means "weed bay". The Swedish name Gräsviken, also means "weed bay". |
| Round Rock | A non-rock city in Texas... |
| Roy Jones Mountain, Alaska | No boxing fights have ever been held here |
| Rrapë | A village in Albania. |
| Rubik | People in this little Albanian town don't even know what a Rubik's Cube is. |
| Rum | An Austrian town. |
| Rümpel | A municipality in Germany populated by little imps that spin straw into gold! |
| Rush | A small coastal town in Ireland. Fully endorsed by Geddy Lee! It is also the name of townships in New York and Pennsylvania. |
| Russia, New York | A township and small community located in Herkimer County, New York. There is also a Russia, Ohio, and a Russia, New Jersey. |
| Russiaville | Putin's favorite town in Indiana. |
| Rust | A town in Michigan. Also in Germany and Austria. |
| Rustenburg | A city in South Africa. |
| Ruyton-XI-Towns | XI pronounced "eleven" (Roman numerals). |
| Saaranpaskantamasaari | A small island in Finland. It means "an island shat by Saara". |
| Saaremaa | An island in Estonia. Saaremaa means "island land". Funnily enough, it's called "Saaremaa Island" in English, basically meaning that it translates to "island land island". |
| Sac City | A city in Iowa. |
| Sack | A village within the Swiss canton of Zurich. |
| Sacsayhuamán | An Inca citadel in Peru just outside of Cusco. It's pronounced like "sexy woman". |
| Sad | A village in Oman. At least it has a friend in Poland. |
| 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. |
| Saint-Pie | A city in Quebec that seems to like pie. In French "Pie" is also pronounced like "pee". |
| Saint-Tite | A town in Quebec, whose name in French is pronounced like "tit". |
| Sainte-Verge | A commune in France. "Verge" means "penis" in French so it essentially means "Saint Penis". |
| Saiyan | A village in India that has been watching too much Dragonball Z clearly. |
| Sakashita | Going by the name of this Japanese town, if one did NOT use 'their way of using the Latin alphabet, it's a real sack of shit...if one DID use it, it comes out as sah-KAASH-tuh! |
| Salmon Arm | A small city near Kamloops, British Columbia. |
| Salt | A municipality in Spain. |
| Salt Lick | A Kentucky town. |
| Salta | A city in Argentina. Salta means "jump!" in Spanish, so, if someone asks you to jump, would you?? |
| Salto | A city in Uruguay. Very similar to the above-mentioned Salta but the "o" in it means the name means I jump instead. |
| Salsipuedes | A small town in Argentina. Means 'leave if you can'. |
| Sam Sung | A district in Khon Kaen province, northeastern Thailand. It has nothing to do with that Korean multinational tech company. |
| Sand | A village in Hungary. Also in Norway. |
| Sandy Balls | An area of parkland in Hampshire, England. |
| Sandwich | A town in Barnstable County, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Also tripled with Sandwich, England, and Sandwich, Illinois. What a yummy name — and at least one of the British royals of that name might just agree! |
| Sankt Blasen | A former municipality in Austria. "Blasen" means "blowjob" in German so it basically means "Saint Blowjob". |
| 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. |
| Santa Maria | Named after a famous line in baseball. |
| Sarilhos Pequenos | Village in Portugal, meaning Small Troubles. |
| Sasstown, Liberia | In Grand Kru County. I hear they have quite the attitude. |
| Satan's Kingdom | Thankfully, the devil doesn't reign in Massachusetts, Vermont or Connecticut. |
| Sauce | Don't get lost in it. |
| Say, Niger | The only town that thought it had an N-word pass - but as its nation has French as its official language, the nation's name itself is pronounced nee-ZHAIR. |
| Ščavnica | A river in Slovenia. Translates roughly to "thyroid gland". |
| Science Hill | A city in Kentucky. |
| Scituate | The people of this Plymouth County, Massachusetts town will help get you situated. |
| Scooba | Did Casey Kasem took his snacks at one point here? |
| Scratch Ankle | An unincorporated community in Alabama. |
| 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. |
| Screamer | THESE ALABAMIANS CAN SCREAM SO LOUD IN THIS LITTLE UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITY BY SUPPORT! |
| Sea of Moisture | A lunar mare. |
| Seaman | A "seaman" went to sea sea sea, to see what he could see see see, but all that he could see see see was the bottom of his semen semen semen! |
| Šeduva | A city in Lithuania. Means "slavery" in Lithuanian. |
| Seix | Condom, as well as the area's local cathedral, are only 196 km (122 miles) away!!! |
| Semens | A town in the south of France. |
| Semenanyane | A village in lesotho |
| Sense | A district of Fribourg, Switzerland that senses your body. |
| Seven Devils | A town on the border of Avery and Watauga counties in North Carolina. When you thought one devil was enough...guess again. |
| Seven Persons | A hamlet in Alberta which has 231 residents. It was named after a nearby battle between the Cree and Blackfeet Nations in which seven warriors were killed. |
| 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 was once known as the "Grain Capital of the British Empire". |
| Sextonville | A place in Wisconsin. |
| Shady Grove | Shady Grove used to be a town near Tulsa, OK, but now has no population and is the smallest town in the state. |
| Shafter | A city in California where you can always give her the shaft! Well, the horny school boys may like it here at least. |
| 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. |
| Shagtown | A town in West Virginia. |
| Shakopee | A city in Minnesota. |
| Shallowater | Don't let the name fool you, there's no water here whatsoever. |
| 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. |
| Shercock | The chicken farmers in this Irish village are always willing to share their cocks. |
| Shingay cum Wendy | A parish in Cambridgeshire, England. |
| Shit | There are at least three villages in Iran with this name: one in Kermanshah Province, one in Mazandaran Province (Home to Golden Cum Temple), and one in Zanjan Province. |
| Shitong | I think everyone can agree that "g" is the unlucky letter in this Chinese township. |
| Shitten Creek | A stream in Oregon. |
| Shitterton | A hamlet in Dorset, England. |
| Shoofly | A small community in Granville County, North Carolina, located in Tally Ho township. |
| Shop | A village in Cornwall, England. |
| Short Pump | A census-designated place in Virginia. |
| Shoulderblade | A Bluegrass State town named after the scapula; quite humerus. |
| Show Low | This Arizona locale of nearly 12,000 in population, along the state's Mogollon Rim seems to be legendary among card sharks, as its very name is related to poker... |
| Shtit | A village in Bulgaria. |
| Shush | The county seat of the same-name county in south-westernmost Iran. There is also a six-millennia old Sumerian city located there. |
| Siberia | An unincorporated community in California. |
| Siem Reap Province | A province in Cambodia. When the province was controlled by Siam(Now thailand) 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. |
| Siemens | A place in Michigan. Yes, it's pronounced like "semens". |
| Sieroty | A village in Poland that translates to "orphans". Now why is there no orphanage there? |
| Silisili | A mountain in Samoa. So silly they named it twice! |
| Silly | A town in Belgium, that's barely 27 km from the border with France — pronounced see-yee. |
| 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). |
| Sinning | A town in Germany that probably likes to sin. |
| Sinnington | A town in England that also, probably likes to sin. |
| Sioux Gateway Airport | Seems innocuous until you consider the fact that "SUX" is this airport's location identifier. Even worse (and rather tragically), this was where an airliner crashed in 1989 while attempting an emergency landing, killing 112 of the 296 people aboard. |
| Șiria | Not in the Middle East, but in Romania. |
| Sisevac | A small Serbian village that means "boobs village". |
| 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. |
| Sklave | A village in Sandanski in Bulgaria. "Sklave" translates to "Slave" (male) in German. |
| Skorcz | A town in Poland that means "cramp". |
| 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 refused to accept the change. |
| 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. It is near a lake where the native Cree Indians used to trade the native Slavey Indians as slaves. |
| 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. |
| Slettestrand | Means "slut beach" in Dutch. |
| Slemmestad | A village in Røyken Municipality, Norway. The name means "mean town" in Norwegian. |
| Slicklizzard | A small community in Walker County, Alabama. |
| Slickpoo | A place in Idaho. |
| Slippery Rock | Also known as Slimy Pebble. |
| Slizké | A village in Slovakia that means "slimey". |
| Slobozia | A city in Romania translates as "cum land". |
| Slut | A village in Sweden. |
| Slutsk | A village in Belarus. |
| Smug | A settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Debrzno, within Człuchów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. |
| Smut Eye | A place in Alabama. |
| Snafu Lake | A lake in southern Yukon, Canada, named by the U.S. military while they were building the Alaska highway in WW2. The name is a military acronym for "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up"; and yes it is named after a non-Looney Tunes character but got a contract to Warner Brothers. |
| 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. |
| Snatchwood | A small suburb to the north of Pontypool, Torfaen in Wales. |
| Snow Dome | A snow covered dome shaped mountain on the continental divide in the Canadian Rockies which is the hydrological apex of North America. Water flows off it into three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic. |
| Snowflake | The place for people who feel special. Also one in Manitoba. |
| S.O.B. Hill | I don't know what this hill did, but it must have been awful. |
| Sober | A municipality in Spain. |
| 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. |
| Soddy-Daisy | A city in Tennessee not noted for daisies, although it does have plenty of sod. |
| Sodom | Name of a few different places in the world. |
| Sofia University Mountains | A mountain range in Antarctica. |
| Solitaire, Namibia | A town not famous of gambling. Definitely not like Las Vegas. |
| 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"... |
| Soul City | "And we won't be back until the money's all gone". |
| South Park | Trey Parker and Matt Stone are not residents of this place in Indiana. |
| Stara Nova Vas | A village in Slovenia that is quite an oxymoron. Means "Old New Village". |
| Stoner | A place in Colorado. I think the name speaks for itself. |
| 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. |
| Sparta | Please, don't make fun out of this city in Tennessee. It's not a trend anymore. P.S. THIS IS SPARTA!!! |
| Spermezeu | A commune in Romania. Means "Sperm God" in Romanian. |
| Špičkovina | A village in Croatia that can be translated to mean "female genitalia village". Also means top quality in Czech/Slovak. |
| 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.[20] |
| 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! |
| Spring | A river in Germany. Means "jump" in German. |
| Spuyten Duyvil | Name means "spoutin' devil" in old Dutch. |
| Squaw's Tit | This is a peak in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta. It is a landmark overlooking Canmore, Alberta and is a popular rock scramble. It was named by the native people for its resemblance to a woman's upturned breast. |
| Srpska Crnja | A village in the north of Serbia. "Srpska" means Serbian, and "crnja" is a 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! |
| Stakliškės | A village in Lithuania. "Stakliškės" means "handcuffs" in Lithuanian. |
| Stale | A Polish village. |
| Stand Off, Alberta | Stand Off is a place on the Blood (Kainai Nation) Reserve. It is called that because whisky traders stood off American police trying to enforce American liquor laws by claiming that they had no authority because they were in Canada. |
| Starbuck | See Walla Walla if you want some Coffee. |
| Stare Juchy | A village in Poland that means "old scoundrels". |
| Stepaside | A suburb of Dublin, Ireland. |
| Stolec | The name of 3 different Polish villages. "Stolec" means "excrement" in Polish. |
| Stone-cum-Ebony | A civil parish in England. |
| Stow cum Quy | A parish in England. |
| Strahlungen | A municipality in Germany that means "radiation" in German. |
| Strangolagalli | A commune in Italy. Means "strangle cocks" in Italian. |
| Street, Maryland | A rural unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland. Not a street but a village. |
| Stupid Lake | A lake in Manitoba, Canada, and in Oregon as well near "Looney Creek". |
| Success | A place in Missouri. |
| Suckanesset | An archaic name for Falmouth, Massachusetts. |
| Sucker Lake | A lake in Ontario, Canada. |
| Sugar Land | A city filled with cookies and candy, but too bad Texas doesn't feel too happy. |
| Sugartit | A town in Kentucky. Another one's in South Carolina. |
| Suka Station | A railway station in Japan. "Suka" means "bitch" in Russian. |
| 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. |
| Šukačka | Or they'd rather stay here - an actual place in Czechia. |
| Supply | Residents of nearby beach communities often formerly commuted to Supply for goods and other materials. |
| Supporting Party Mountain | A mountain in Antarctica. |
| Surprise | A city in Maricopa County, Arizona. |
| Sus | There are 2 impostors among us. |
| Švábovce | A village in Slovakia. Means "cockroach town" in Slovak. |
| Šveicarija | A village in Lithuania that is in the wrong country; "Šveicarija" means "Switzerland" in Lithuanian. |
| Swagg | An unincorporated community in Alabama. |
| Swastika | No Nazis live here. A 1908 mining town in northern Ontario, which adamantly insisted "Hitler be damned"; they had the name first. Also see another Swastika in New York. |
| Sweden, New York | A township in Monroe County, New York. |
| Sweet Lips | A place in Tennessee. |
| Swords | Unfortunately Ireland, firearms are kind of the thing now. |
| 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 "the p-word". |
T-Z[edit]
| Taintsville | A place in Florida. |
| Takeshita Street | A very shitty street in Tokyo, but with a "silent vowel" near its end, "cleaning-up" its pronunciation to "ta-KESH-tah". |
| Tako | A town in Japan. Must get a lot of Mexican tourists |
| Tally Ho | A township in Granville County, North Carolina. |
| Tank | The capital city of Tank District, Pakistan, and located near Dera Ismail Khan. Apparently this place loves tanks. |
| Tapa | A town in Estonia. "Tapa" means "kill" in Estonian. |
| 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 the fictional African jungle character Tarzan, a creation by Burroughs. |
| Tataouine | Can be romanized as "Tatooine". Yes, that Tatooine. This is where they (not the Jawas) filmed it. |
| Taylors Mistake | Named after a shipping accident. |
| Tatti, Massa Marittima | Tatti means poop in Hindi (an Indian language) |
| Te One | If you're searching for a place on Google Maps or Google Earth, this is the one! |
| 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. |
| Teerelton | A town in Ireland. What did Elton John do to this town??? |
| Telephone | An unincorporated community area in Fannin County, Texas. |
| Ten Sleep | According to the 2020 census, it's actually 206, but who's counting? |
| Tendernob | Area in San Francisco between Nob Hill and Tenderloin. |
| Termonfeckin | Town in County Louth, Ireland. Where Feckin Luna Lovegood was born |
| Terror Bay | This bay in Nunavut should strike fear into the hearts of Arctic explorers. It was named a few years after the ship HMS Terror (1813) disappeared in 1845 without a trace, along with Sir John Franklin, his other ship, and 128 men in their attempt to find the Northwest Passage. In 2016, 171 years later, the Terror was found on the bottom of Terror Bay. |
| Terrytown | Named after a setting Mighty Mouse once flew by. I guess Paul Terry took him seriously with a both Louisiana and Nebraska name. |
| 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 Bitches | A tidal race and set of rocks in the UK. |
| The Colony | A city in Texas that has nothing to do with building the United States in its history especially before the American Revolutionary War. Does this despite to be Colony, Texas? |
| The Lonesome Bachelor | A mountain in Montana. |
| 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. |
| Three Cocks | A village in Powys, Wales. More commonly known by its Welsh name Aberllynfi. |
| Three Way | A place in Arizona, that doesn't let you wonder why... |
| Tickle Cock Bridge | A pedestrian underpass bridge in Castleford, England. |
| Ticklenaked Pond | Actually a lake in Vermont. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Tillicum Beach | A very lewd hamlet in Alberta. Also the name of a few different places along the Pacific coast. |
| 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, possible future headquarters of Campbell's |
| Tinicum | A township in Pennsylvania. If you're cumming tin, you should probably get that checked out. Basic medical advice. |
| Tiny Town | A modest town in Kentucky. |
| Tiny Township | It's actually 410 square kilometres (160 sq mi) of Ontario and has 12,000 people. It was named in 1822 after Tiny, a small pet dog of the wife of the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. She also named two other townships after her dogs. |
| Tit | A village in Algeria. |
| Titirangi | A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. |
| Titisee | A lake in southern Germany. If it has a nude beach, then it's bound to see lots of titties! |
| Titting | A municipality in Bavaria. |
| Tittmoning | A village in Bavaria. Strategically located near Fucking. |
| Tittybong | A locality in Australia. |
| 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 Hop | An unincorporated community in Western Indiana near the Wabash River in Vigo County. |
| Toad Suck | How rude; what did the toads do to you? |
| 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. |
| Tobago | An island that looks like a tobacco pipe and also spawned the English word "tobacco". |
| Todendorf | Means "dead village" in German. |
| Todesfelde | A municipality in Germany. Means "death's field" in German. |
| Tokat | A Turkish city. "Tokat" means "slap" in Turkish. |
| Tolo | An Indonesian town. Tolo means "stupid" in Makassarese (this town is near Makassar). Tolo is also used in Greece, Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Norway. |
| 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. |
| Toogood Arm | That's great. Too bad you don't have two good arms. A Newfoundland outport, one of many Arms there. |
| Tootsi | A borough in Estonia. |
| Top-of-the-World | A place in Arizona that is 4,528 ft above sea level. Still has a ways to go before beating Khumbu Pasanglhamu. |
| Tornado | A place in West Virginia about fifteen miles downwind of Hurricane. |
| Torpenhow | A village in Cumbria, England, whose name could be interpreted as "HillHillHill". |
| Touhoumen | A Chinese village. There are no cute anime girls here. |
| Tourrettes | A French commune. “MAYDAY EVERYDAY MY DAY…” |
| Townsville | "THE CITY OF TOWNSVILLE......" or maybe it's just another former slapstick gag. The city though has the right to get boiled, attacked, or exploded every once a week; but not here in North Carolina. |
| Townsville City | Suburb of the City of Townsville in Australia. |
| Tõrva | A city in Estonia. Means "tar" in Estonian. |
| Transylvania County | A county located in North Carolina. Neither the historical prince Vlad the Impaler, nor the fictional Dracula based on the prince, have ever resided in the area, but there is a Bat Cave nearby. |
| Trécon | 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. |
| Trollhättan | A city in Västra Götaland County, Sweden where Saab cars were made by trolls. Its name translates to "troll's bonnet". |
| Tron | A district in Uttaradit province, northern Thailand. You might be surprised to find no reference to that sci-fi franchise at all. |
| Trosa | A town in Sweden. Can mean either "panties" or "underwear" in Swedish. |
| Trump | The one reason why Trump won the 2016 Election is because in an unincorporated community in the Plain Township area of Stark County, Ohio; the people in Stark County all voted for TRUMP because its named after the small area in Ohio. |
| Trump Heights | An Israeli settlement named for the former United States president. |
| Trump Islands | Islands in Antarctica. There is another Trump Island in Washington State. |
| Trumpington | The 45th American president 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. |
| Tuba City | Named after Tuuvi, a Hopi man who introduced Mormonism to the American Natives. |
| Tuckahoe | A village in New York, where a popular 1970s "spinoff" of Archie Bunker's sitcom was based. |
| Tumbledown Dick Head | A headland that bulges out of the rock-hard coast of Maine, U.S. |
| Tumwater | A town in Washington state. Is that what vomit is? |
| Tupenurme | A village in Estonia that means "vaginal field" in Estonian. |
| Turbo | A port city in Colombia. I bet boats must go very fast around here! |
| Turda | A city in Romania. |
| Turkey Scratch | An unincorporated community in Arkansas. |
| Tutaekuri River | A river in New Zealand. Tutaekuri means "dog shit" in Maori. |
| Tuxedo | A well-dressed town in New York. |
| Twatt | A small settlement on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. |
| Twelve O'Clock Knob | A community in Roanoke County, Virginia. |
| Twelve O'Clock Point | A community area next to Quinte West, Ontario. |
| Twentynine Palms | My, my...that's a lot of hands - adjacent to one of the toughest American military training centers. |
| Two Dot | Named after a local rancher's livestock‑branding pattern.[21] |
| 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 two text-lined, "fat-"T"-shaped" signs to reduce the potential to add letters to the name. |
| Udovice | A village in Serbia. Means "widows" in Serbian. |
| Ugley | A village in England. |
| Újpest | With a butchered pronunciation, this town name sounds like "huge pest". |
| Ultramort | A village in Spain that means "ultra death". If you drop the "T" at the end then it means "ultra love". |
| Um Dafuq | A border town in Sudan near Central African Republic. |
| Unalaska | A town in Alaska whose name makes it sound like it's not happy with its situation. |
| Uncertain | A very indecisive city in Texas. |
| Uneedus | No. You can easily live without the small irrelevant place in Louisiana. |
| Unterstinkenbrunn and Oberstinkenbrunn | "Lower Stinking Well" and "Upper Stinking Well" in Austria |
| Upper Dicker | A village in the Weald of East Sussex. |
| Upperthong and Netherthong | Two villages in West Yorkshire, England. |
| Uranus, Missouri | A town famous for its fudge factory. |
| Useless Islands | Apparently, tourists still go here. |
| Useless Loop | A very small town in coastal Western Australia that exports sea salt. |
| Utopia | A ghost town in Ohio built on religious prophecies, it was destroyed by a terrible flood. You can see how well that turned out for them. |
| Uwu | A town in East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. |
| Vader | A little city in Washington. James Earl Jones is unfortunately not a resident. |
| Vagina (village) | A village in Aromashevsky District, Tyumen Oblast, Russia. |
| Vagina (river) | A river in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. |
| Wagina | An island in the Solomon Islands. This island can be called "Vagina". |
| Vaiņode | A village in Latvia that quite literally defines the "Wild West" of Latvia. "Vaiņode" means "cowboy" in Latvian. |
| Valentine | "Will you, Nebraska, be my Valentine?" |
| Varakļāni | A town in Latvia. Means "cowardly" in Latvian. |
| Varkaus | A town in Finland that means "theft". |
| Varvarin | Town in Serbia. Name translates to Barbarian. |
| Venha-Ver | This ominously-named town in Brazil simply translates to "come and see". |
| Venta de Baños | A small town in Spain that has found their trade revenue. "Venta de Baños" means "baths for sale" in Spanish. |
| Venus | Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania. |
| Vergina | A small town in Greece. |
| Virginville, Pennsylvania | Unconfirmed. |
| Vorë | A small municipality in Albania. |
| Viking | Believe it or not, there are no Vikings here. However there is a place here called "Troll Park". |
| Village of Four Seasons | Village in Missouri. |
| Viols-le-Fort | A place in France. It sounds the same as "viol-le fort" which is basically the translation for "rape him hard". |
| Virgin | A community in Utah. |
| Virgin Islands, Virginia, etc. | Apparently, they haven't been having enough fun after hours. |
| Virginópolis | A Brazilian town named after the Virgin Mary. |
| Vold Station | An abandoned railway station in Norway. "Vold" means "violence" in Norwegian. |
| 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. |
| 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 gave in and went with it. The town features a statue of the Starship Enterprise with Klingon writing and an annual convention. |
| Vyzakia | A village in Cyprus whose official romanisation is similar to the Greek for "titties". The village name, pronounced [locally [vizˑaˈt͡ʃa]], roughly 'Vyzadjá', refers to a kind of pebble commonly found in the area.[22] |
| W | This National Park in both Niger and Benin is surely taking the W. |
| Wang Thong | A district in Phitsanulok province, upper central Thailand. "Wang Thong" does mean "a golden palace" in Thai, though. |
| Wop wops | Not technically a place, New Zealanders use this word to describe any remote town. |
| Waipu | A small town in New Zealand. Means red waters in Maori. |
| Wales | Sadly isn't named after whales. Is however known for its dragons. |
| Waldo | A ghost town in British Columbia, Canada. Wonder why that is? |
| Wall | A town in South Dakota known for its drugstore. |
| Wall Township | Located near Brick Township. That was fortunate. |
| Walnut, Illinois | A nut-allergic person's worst nightmare. |
| 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. |
| Wangerland | The town's coat of arms is a topless mermaid. |
| 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. |
| Wagina Island | An island part of the Solomon islands archipelago, covered in a jungle. A river crosses through it. |
| Wankers Corner | A village in Oregon, United States. |
| Wan King Path | A street in Sai Kung Town. |
| Wankum | A town in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. |
| War | A place in West Virginia where everyone deserves to earn a Series E bond. |
| 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 clearly Star Trek fans. |
| Warzen | "Warts" in German |
| Washdyke | A place in New Zealand. |
| Waspik | A Dutch village. Means "washing dick" or "wax dick" in Dutch. |
| 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 in 2008 when a drought destroyed much of the corn crop. |
| Wattenscheid | Sounds like German slang for: "What a shit!". Its own town until 1975, now a city section of Bochum, Germany. |
| Wau | A city in South Sudan in an eternal state of awe. |
| 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, which was renamed from "Poor". |
| Webster Lake | Normally "Webster Lake" for a body of fresh water in the Bay State wouldn't sound "unusual"...however, the forms of its Native American name can have either six or fourteen syllables, with the "longer one" being the longest place name anywhere in the United States! |
| 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 | A town in Australia. |
| Wee Wee Hill | A Hill in Highland Township, Franklin County, Indiana named after Cartoon Network UK's toy product maturity incident in 2001. |
| Weed | A town in Siskiyou County, California where more than the elevation is high! |
| Weener | A town in Germany. |
| Weeping Water | Don't waste your tears, Cass County, Nebraska is not going to hurt you! |
| Weiner, Arkansas | This community is the home of "The Natural State's" annual rice festival. |
| Welcome | Small communities in Davidson County, North Carolina and Martin County, Minnesota. |
| Welcome Home | An unincorporated community in Arkansas. |
| Welkom | A city in South Africa. |
| 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. |
| Whakahoro | A small settlement in New Zealand. Supposed to be pronounced like "fuck a whore". |
| 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. |
| Wheatland | A city in California that does not grow wheat. It is also the name of a township in Monroe County, New York. |
| Whiskey Dick | A locale in Oregon. |
| Whiskeytown | A small community in Shasta County, California. |
| Whitebreast | A township in Iowa. |
| White House, Tennessee | The U.S. president formerly lives here. |
| White House, Jamaica | Breaking News: The U.S. president has decided to relocate out of the country. |
| Who'd Thought It | A ghost town in Texas. Who'd thought it? |
| Why | A small town in Arizona, USA, that just makes you, and me, and someone/someplace else 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 "wank" or "jerk off" in German. |
| Wierden | A Dutch town in Overijssel that is home to Enter, which can best be entered using the A1 highway, as well as Rectum (nl), which isn't as shitty as it may sound. |
| Willey | A Warwickshire village that in the past has had some issues with sign theft. |
| Wilsford cum Lake | A civil parish in England. |
| Winnebago | A county in Wisconsin, United States. Illinois has a county of the same name. |
| Witches Woods | Who's cooking up some brew in this census-designated place in Woodstock, Connecticut? |
| 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. |
| Woodcock | A boner of a township in Pennsylvania. |
| Woody | This place and Erect are a match made in heaven. |
| Woody Point | A town in Newfoundland. |
| Wookey Hole | Chewbacca approves of this place in Western England. |
| 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. |
| Wormegay | I DON'T LIKE THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE DIRT, THAT TURN THE FREAKING WORMS GAY!!! |
| Worms | Famed for its Diet of Worms during Medieval times. |
| Wouw | Another town in eternal awe — this one in the South of the Netherlands |
| Wrynose Bottom[23] | Wry = crooked, as in gone awry or wry smile; nose: used to describe a part of a mountain which sticks out from the rest, like a nose from a face, eg Tegg's Nose, Bowerman's Nose, Neasden; bottom: used in some English dialects for the bottom of the valley beneath the named feature. A pleasant informal picnic area by a stream, with no rhinoceroses in sight. |
| Wyoming | This town wouldn't be so strange if it wasn't in Rhode Island. |
| Y | A small village in France. |
| Y City, Arkansas | A place in Arkansas. |
| Y-O Ranch | Why? Oh ranch, why?-oming |
| Yap | An island in Micronesia that doesn't ever shut up about its stone money. |
| Yass, New South Wales | YASS BETCH - An Australian town south of Canberra |
| Yea, Victoria | Yeaaaaaa - An Australian town northeast of Melbourne |
| 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. |
| Yei | Hooray for this city in South Sudan! |
| Yell | AN ISLAND IN SHETLAND, SCOTLAND! THE MAIN SETTLEMENT IS CALLED MID YELL! |
| Yolo County | A county in California. |
| Yorkeys Knob | A suburb of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. |
| Young America | An unincorporated community in Indiana. |
| Younghusband | The name of a settlement and peninsula in South Australia. |
| Yum Yum | An unincorporated community in Tennessee. |
| Żabi Róg | A Polish village whose name means "frog's horn" or "frog's corner". |
| Zap | A very shocking city in North Dakota. |
| Zero | Place in Montana. The post office there closed, I guess there is literally nothing there! |
| Zijtaart | Means "cake on the side" in Dutch. |
| Zimna Wódka | A village in Poland meaning "cold vodka" in Polish. |
| Žitorađa | A village in Serbia. Means "the crop 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. Close to Noordbroek, the more geographically accurate "northern pants". |
| 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. |
Long place names[edit]
- 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".
- Catedral Basílica Menor de la Inmaculada Concepción de la Arquidiócesis metropolitana de la comunidad de Victoria de Durango
- The complete name of the Cathedral found in Durango, Mexico it means "Minor Basilica Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the metropolitan Archdiocese of the Victoria de Durango's Community".
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
- A small hill with a big name in New Zealand.
- Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein
- A farm about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Pretoria, South Africa. Means "two-buffalos-shot-dead-with-one-bullet-fountain".
- 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.
- Hódmezővásárhely
- Not a very long name, but long enough to take a long time to type.
Rude words contained inside the name[edit]
English[edit]
- Assling
- Ballplay
- Bitch Creek
- Bitche
- Bitchfield
- Cockerham
- Cockermouth
- Cockfield
- Cockfield
- Cockfosters
- Cockney
- Cockshoot Broad
- Cockwood
- Cumbria
- Cum-bum
- Cumming
- Cummington
- Dickleburgh
- Dildo
- Fart Gulch - At Lassen Volcanic National Park, named after the smell from nearby hot springs
- Farthinghoe
- Fingringhoe (Fingering hoe)
- Fucking
- Fuckersberg
- Fuckovci
- Gaylord
- Horní Police
- Intercourse
- Iron Knob
- Jizzakh
- Knob Hill
- Knob Hill
- Knob Hill
- Knob Hill
- Lake Titicaca
- Nedumbassery
- Nipissing
- Nob (Knob) Hill
- Nob (Knob) Hill
- Nob (Knob) Hill
- Nob (Knob) Hill
- Nob (Knob) Hill - an unincorporated community in Virginia
- Oshita - when spelled with romaji, a "silent i" occurs, meaning the actual Japanese pronunciation would sound more like OHSH-tuh.
- Paturda
- Penistone
- Plymouth Hoe
- Pussy
- Prickwillow
- Sandy Balls
- Scunthorpe
- Shag Point
- Shit
- Shit
- Shit
- Shitterton
- Slutsk
- Spunk Creek
- Thong
- Tillicum ('Til I cum) Beach (Bitch)
- Toppenish
- Twatt
- Twatt
- Wank
- Wankers Corner
- Wankhed
- Wankede Stadium
- Wyre Piddle
Bosnian[edit]
Cantonese[edit]
- Kau Shi Wai (狗屎圍; "狗屎" (kau shi) means "dog shit" not "cow shit")
- Kwai Tau Leng (龜頭嶺；literally "penis head mountain")
- Ma Shi Chau Special Area(馬屎洲, horse shit island)
- Ham Lun Kok (含倫角; Oral Sex Corner)
Croatian[edit]
- The islands of Babina Guzica ("grandmother's ass") and Kurba Vela (something to do with prostitution) in the Kornati archipelago, Croatia
- Špičkovina, Croatia
Czech[edit]
- Šukačka (Fucking)
Finnish[edit]
- Hevonperse (Horse Ass)
- Hevonperseenmäki (Horse's Ass Hill)
- Hevonperseenmutka (Horse's Ass Bend)
- Homonlampi (Gay Pond; "gay" isn't really a bad word but still)
- Homosaari (Gay Island)
- Horonkylä (Whore’s village)
- Kusipää (Cunt)
- Mulkkusaari (Dick Island)
- Mulkkuset (Dicks)
- Mulkkuvuori (Dick Mountain)
- Neekerisaari (Nigger Island)
- Pallinsaari (Balls' Island)
- Pallipuro (Ball Brook)
- Pallisilmä (Ball Eye)
- Pallivaha (Ball Wax)
- Paskalampi (Shit Pond)
- Peräpukama (Haemorrhoid)
- Perseenpaistama (Ass Fried)
- Persesilmänlammit (Ass Eye Ponds)
- Persesilmänlampi (Ass Eye Pond)
- Pervonkallio (Pervert's Rock)
- Pervonmaa (Pervert's Land)
- Pervonoja (Pervert's Ditch)
- Pillulampi (Pussy Pond)
- Pimppiniemi (Cape Pussy)
- Pissisaari (Piss Island)
- Pornainen (Name of a municipality, not technically a rude word in itself, but may be interpreted as incomplete finnish ”porno” and ”nainen” (woman). Has created issues with web blockers.)
- Runkausjoki (Wanking River)
- Runkausvaara (Wanking Hill)
- Runkunneva (Wank Neva)
- Terskanlahti (Glan's Stern)
- Terskanperä (Glan's Bay)
- Tissi (Tit)
- Tissikukkulat (Tit Hills)
- Tissinpohja (Tit Base)
- Tussusaari (Cunt Island)
- Tussut (Cunts)
- Vittulampi (Pussy Pond)
French[edit]
- Chatte (Pussy)
- Conne-de-Labarde (Bitch of Labarde)
German[edit]
- Arschlochwinkel (Asshole Corner)
- Blasendorf (Suckthorp) ["Blasen" also means "bubbles", which is likely the original meaning]
- Busenhausen (Bossom Dwelling)
- Eichelhardt (Glans hard) ["Eichel" also means "acorn", which is likely the original meaning]
- Feucht (Wet)
- Fickmühlen (Fuck Mills)
- Geilhausen (Horny Dwelling)
- Hodenhagen (Testicle[s] Forest)
- Loch (Hole)
- Luderbach (Hoebrook)
- Möse (Chute)
- ''Petting'', just that
- Pinkler (Pee-er)
- Pissen (Peeing)
- Scheideweg (Vagina Way)
- Schweinsberg (Swine‘s Hill) and many other place names containing Schwein
- Sexau (Sex Vale)
- Tuntenhausen (Faggott’s Dwelling)
- Tittenkofen (Tits Ridge)
- Wixhausen (Wank Dwelling)
- Wixenstein (Wankingstone)
Italian[edit]
Japanese[edit]
- Manko (Lake Man)
Norwegian[edit]
- Faenshølet (The goddamn hole)
- Kjerringræva (Old hag's arsehole)
- Møkkalasset (The shitheap) There's multiple instances of this being used to denote a small, dark pile of rocks
- Rompeporten (The rump-gate)
- Spermbanken (the sperm bank) Here, bank probably refers to a gathering of water but whatevs
- Svenskehølet (The swede pit)
- Runken (That masturbation)
Polish[edit]
Romanian[edit]
- Boș (Balls)
Swedish[edit]
- Fittja (Pussy; "fitta" means "pussy"/"cunt")
- Mensträsk (Menstruation Lake or Period Swamp)
- Porrarp (Porn Arp)
- Rövhålet (The Asshole)
Only unusual in context[edit]
- Only five municipalities in the United States have the Spanish "ñ" in their names: Cañon City, Colorado; La Cañada Flintridge, California; Española, New Mexico; Peñasco, New Mexico; and Peñitas, Texas.
Streets and bridges[edit]
- Atmospheric Road - A road in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, whose name is derived from the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway, which had a pumphouse here.
- Avenue Road - Is this thoroughfare in Toronto an avenue or is it a road? (There are over 30 streets in the London (England) area with the same name.)
- Butt Hole Road - The former name of a road in Conisbrough, Doncaster, England. It was changed to Archers Way in 2009.
- Curly Dick Road, Meadow Flat, New South Wales
- Dumb Woman's Lane - A road in Udimore in East Sussex, England.
- 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.
- Paska-Avenue - (lit. shit avenue) A road in Karstula, Finland. Named due to outrage of local residents about the construction of a sewage treatment plant.
- Ragged Ass Road - A street in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
- Rednaxela Terrace - A road whose name is believed to have been reversed due to a clerical error.
- Rest and Be Thankful - Another name for the A83 road in Scotland.
- 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.
- This Street, That Street and The Other Street - three unusually named streets in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia that became an internet sensation
See also[edit]
- 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
- Deportivo Wanka, a Peruvian football club.
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YouTuber Elijah Daniel is hoping people go to Hell — a tiny town in Michigan that he recently purchased...he bought the town of Hell, Michigan, and officially renamed it Gay Hell...He said it is an act of protest against the Trump administration recently rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, during the month of June in celebration of LGBT Pride Month.
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Two Dot is named for the two dot brand of rancher H. J. Wilson.
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