City names.

sooooo · Apr 1, 2007

List of city names for each civ, posted as a reference. I don't know why this interests me, but it does. I like to play each civ once to get a feel to their city names. No idea why.

Spoiler America :

Spoiler Arab :

Spoiler Aztec :

Spoiler Carthage :

Spoiler Celt :

Spoiler China :

Spoiler Egypt :

Spoiler England :

Spoiler France :

Spoiler Germany :

Spoiler Greece :

Spoiler Inca :

Spoiler India :

Spoiler Japan :

Spoiler Korea :

Spoiler Mali :

Spoiler Mongolia :

Spoiler Ottoman :

Spoiler Persia :

Spoiler Roman :

Spoiler Russia :

Spoiler Spain :

Spoiler Viking :

Spoiler Zulu :

Spoiler Barbarian :

A few comments: Not sure why there are so few french city names. The order of cities for the English civ confuses me. Some cities are listed more than once. Zulu names are funny. There is a viking city named Thunderfall :dubious:

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Galileo44 · Apr 1, 2007

This is interesting, thanks. And if I remember correctly CivIII had Thunderfall as a Viking city too as an easter egg for CFCers. I would have been rather confused to find that if I were a random (read: normal) person playing the game.

And yeah, the Aztec and Zulu city names make me laugh and cringe at the same time thinking of trying to remember them never mind tell them apart.

Antilogic · Apr 1, 2007

Personally, I wish I saw more of the lower city names in the game. It'd be great if they just took the first city as your capital, and then selected the rest randomly. Since I play on smaller and usually more crowded maps, I rarely see anything but the first 6, sometimes only the first 4.

I have a habit of renaming captured barbarian cities using names further down in the list.

Monado · Apr 1, 2007

Antilogic said:
Personally, I wish I saw more of the lower city names in the game. It'd be great if they just took the first city as your capital, and then selected the rest randomly. Since I play on smaller and usually more crowded maps, I rarely see anything but the first 6, sometimes only the first 4.

I have a habit of renaming captured barbarian cities using names further down in the list.

Antilogic, I feel the same way as you. I wonder if there is a way to make the city names (besides the capital) be randomly selected.

Also I noticed a barbarian city name is Hittites. Do you think this could be a sign the Hittites won't return to civ4 in the next expansion? I guess it wouldn't be hard at all to just remove the barbarian city name to be able to include them.

Tee Kay · Apr 1, 2007

Some of the names aren't even cities. Shandong, for example.

Oh and there's a Greek city named after Apolyton.

flamingzaroc121 · Apr 3, 2007

PALO_ALTO
CENTRALIA
SPOKANE
JACKSONVILLE
SAVANNAH
CHARLESTON
SAN_ANTONIO
OMAHA
BIRMINGHAM
HONOLULU
ANCHORAGE
SACRAMENTO

why is Sacremento the CAPITAL of California lower than Palo Alto, which is just a city with a college in it

Ray Patterson · Apr 4, 2007

some lists are really insanely long. it would be a nice challenge to try and found all persian cities!

I remember back in civ II, when the AI would hardly expand, I would sometimes cycle through my list of names twice. In IV, I don't even know what happens when you run out of names. Do you get New Rome etc like in III?

csar508 · Apr 4, 2007

Monado said:
Antilogic, I feel the same way as you. I wonder if there is a way to make the city names (besides the capital) be randomly selected.

Also I noticed a barbarian city name is Hittites. Do you think this could be a sign the Hittites won't return to civ4 in the next expansion? I guess it wouldn't be hard at all to just remove the barbarian city name to be able to include them.

I had a barb city named Illinois. Thanks for the post sooooo, it is interesting

Onagan · Apr 4, 2007

nope, it takes the names of cities from unused civs

csar508 · Apr 4, 2007

sooooo said:
Not sure why there are so few french city names.

If France makes it make it this far they start thinking about surrendering :crazyeye:

KMadCandy · Apr 4, 2007

if you want to make your own city list, it's not nearly as easy as it was in Civ2. but i found this from Jan van der Crabben that's quite spiffy. type in your list and it converts it for you into the right computer-lingo-type stuff to paste into the two .xml files

city list generator

LAnkou · Apr 4, 2007

sooooo said:
Not sure why there are so few french city names.

Well, they thought about taking Paris out so that people doesn't get confused with Paris, Texas...The other french City didn't made it.

Antilogic · Apr 4, 2007

On the Hittites: they have a good chance at inclusion, methinks. This list is a detail and can be easily modified.

As for the barbarian city named Illinois...that's because there was a native American tribe of the same name.

@Ray Patterson: I assume so. Have never done it, though.

SilverTab · Apr 9, 2007

It's funny how some of the barb cities are named for civilizations that are, in real life, sorta the precursors to or even part of the same "civilization" as the ones in the game!

*Angles and Saxons - English
*Harrappan --> Mauryan --> Indian (basically the same civs, just different dynasties
*Alemanni - German
*Gaul - French
*Mycenian - Greek
*Parthian - Persian (basically the same peoples)
*Ghuzz - Ottomans
*Hsungnu - Huns (isn't that just another name for the Huns?)

It's always funny, and I suppose historically appropriate, when I wax Saxon using the English.

Bongo-Bongo · Apr 9, 2007

flamingzaroc121 said:
why is Sacremento the CAPITAL of California lower than Palo Alto, which is just a city with a college in it

I'm thinking the same about some of the English cities. Winchester, which was once the capital, gets ignored, as does Southampton, which has always been an important naval city, yet Membles gets included :confused:

Also, I can't understand why Hastings is higher then Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. Hastings was the site of a famous battle. Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham are three of the most important cities in the country though, and have been for a long time. Oh well, I suppose it's harmless, even if it does seem a bit bizzare.

On another note, I wonder if there has been anyone who has gotten through all of those city names. I'd hate to think how much the maintanence would cost :lol:

Onagan · Apr 11, 2007

Mauryan was the Empire ruled by Asoka himself.

SilverTab · Apr 11, 2007

Onagan said:
Mauryan was the Empire ruled by Asoka himself.

Oh yeah, you're right! :goodjob:

Bushface · Apr 12, 2007

The Civ list of English cities :-
- Omits 14 of the 27 largest listed on the World Gazetteer site, most notably the 5th largest, Sheffield.
- Includes two places (Richmond, The Mumbles) not in the W.Gaz. top 1000, which goes down to places with less than 9000 population. And The Mumbles is in Wales.
- Includes 7 other places with populations below 100,000. The smallest of these is Berwick, on the England-Scotland border, a town which boasted of "belonging to neither country, and the envy of both".

All very odd.

kristopherb · Apr 12, 2007

3 of them are the same city!! :eek:

Spoiler :

Swein Forkbeard · Apr 13, 2007

Many cities names in the game have name overlap! Here are some examples:

Smyrna (Greece) = Izmir (Ottomans)
Lutetia (Celtia) = Paris (France)
Ancyra (Celtia) = Ankara (Ottomans)
Lugdunum (Rome) = Lyons (France)

5 comments about civ's city names

Russia - Niznhiy Novgorod, the most populous city on the Volga River, comes later than Astrakhan, which is a small town on the Mouth of the Volga River.

Celtia - Why is Mediolanum in their city names list!? Maybe because Celts lived in that area? :confused:

Persia - Shares cities of Shiraz and Merv with the Arabs, and Peshawar with the Indians. This puzzles me.

Vikings - Why do they have a number of British cities after the actual Scandinavian city names runs out? They even have an Irish city in the list (Limerick)

Mongolia - The actual Mongolian cities appear later than things like Samarqand (Uzbekistan), Tabriz (Iran), Tiflis (Georgia), and Kazan' (RUSSIA).

City names.

Emperor

Great Scientist

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King

Three days sober

Emperor

the dude is not in

cartographer

The Dutch

cartographer

giggling permanoob

Breizh A Tao

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Chieftain

The Master

The Dutch

Chieftain

Deity

Protective/Charismatic

Nintendo Fan

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