Cool or boring names of cities or regions

[sophie]

There are many cities in California. Most of them have names. Here are some city names

Santa Cruz
Scott's Valley
Boulder Creek
Ben Lomond
Soquel
Aptos
Watsonville
Castroville
Prunedale
Marina
Monterey
Salinas
Seaside
Carmel-By-The-Sea
Hollister
Gilroy
Morgan Hill
San Jose
Santa Clara
Campbell
Los Gatos
Saratoga
Almaden
Milpitas
Mountain View
Palo Alto
San Carlos
Foster City
Daly City
Redwood City
San Mateo
Millbrae
Los Altos
Pacifica
Half Moon Bay
La Honda
Sausalito
Mill Valley
San Rafael
Novato
Petaluma
Santa Rosa
Sonoma
Napa
Vallejo
Oakland
Berkeley
Richmond
El Cerrito
Emeryville
Orinda
Walnut Creek
Benicia
Concord
Pleasant Hill
Alamo
Alameda
San Leandro
Hayward
Union City
Fremont
Livermore
Antioch
Tracy
Stockton
Vacaville
Manteca
Modesto
Turlock
Los Banos
Merced
Elk Grove
Sacramento

As you can see there are lots of city names, both boring and interesting.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Apparently a large chunk of the Spanish-sounding city names in SoCal are completely made up, dunno if that's the case with NorCal.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I see some suspicious ones in that list: La Honda, Novato, Manteca...

 

[AdamCrock]

My city name : "Rzeszów" - try to say it in english happy tongue breaking

 

[Domen]

Try to say "Świętochłowice" (not my city, though).

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Edit:

But Świętochłowice is too easy, German version can help you:

Schwientochlowitze

 

[MilesGregarius]

In the same county in Pennsylvania, they have both Intercourse and Blue Ball.

 

[timtofly]

No one has mentioned this one yet: Hell, MI A cool name that would get boring after a while?

 

[Domen]

Cool city name - Chrząszczyżewoszyce:


Link to video.

But unfortunately this name is fictional.

 

[gay_Aleks]

What does "Chrząszczyżewoszyce" even means? Is it something along the lines of 'There is God, and he abandoned you 13 billion years ago'?

 

[Domen]

What does "Chrząszczyżewoszyce" even means?

It means something like "place where beetles live".

Since "chrząszcz" is "beetle" in Polish.

And there even exists a village with a very similar name - Chrząszczyce (German name: Chrzumczütz):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrząszczyce

But we might consult professor Jan Miodek to confirm if this is what it really means:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Miodek

Real prof. Miodek:


Link to video.

Parody of prof. Miodek:


Link to video.

 

[Bamspeedy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names

Å would be so cool if you are kind of lazy and hate writing long addresses (if it weren't for all the other places by the same name). 1770 is different. Couple of sellout towns to big business (DISH and Half.com) There is actually three Borings, though getting information on the one in TN is difficult. A dozen or so places I wouldn't want my kids to ever hear.

 

[cramstpuee757]

Krusty, Bad Axe and Bliss. Lol. Apparently, these cities are a bit of a famous tourist destination because of its unique names

 

[MilesGregarius]

A dozen or so places I wouldn't want my kids to ever
hear.

Well, there is an Austrian town that's synonymous with the act of copulation. Forum rules obviously won't let me actually name it.

 

[KMRblue1027]

Anyone mention Butte, Montana yet? Always an amusing one.

 

[Josu]

In Spain there is Villanueva del Pardillo: Linnet's newvillage, the funny thing is that pardillo is as well slang for an oaf, an idiot, so another traduction could be oaf's newvillage.
You can find as well Guarroman. Guarro= Piggy so it is the Piggy superhero

I consider Boring names those which are similar to Newtown, newhouse and so on. In the basque country we have Etxebarri (New House) Uribarri (New urban area), Lekumberri (new place), erriberri (newtown) and so on


EDIT: Before I forget, if we have any Italian here... we have a small town called Fica, you know what i mean

 

[Kyriakos]

Ctesiphon just sounds cool

Don't know its etymology though, but at least it is tied to Seleucos Nicator (and probably also Alexander the Great). Also it was the old capital of the Sassanid empire, and the place where Julian got himself wounded and soon died, causing as well the empire to lose most of Mesopotamia.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It's pronounced "b-you-t."

I find towns named after English towns, which are not in England, to be boring. Exceptions generally granted if the name begins with "New."

Also, how many regions are called Galicia? Too many. Points deducted for lack of originality.

What I really love are the Central Asian names. Bishkek, Osh, Andijan, Samarkand, Karakalpak, Dushanbe, Ferghana, Kyrgyz. Also, Chinese names: Tien Shan, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Shanxi.

 

[Phrossack]

It's pronounced "b-you-t."

I find towns named after English towns, which are not in England, to be boring. Exceptions generally granted if the name begins with "New."

Also, how many regions are called Galicia? Too many. Points deducted for lack of originality.

What I really love are the Central Asian names. Bishkek, Osh, Andijan, Samarkand, Karakalpak, Dushanbe, Ferghana, Kyrgyz. Also, Chinese names: Tien Shan, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Shanxi.

There are at least two Galicias and one Galatia, but yeah, too many.

And I totally agree that Central Asia is a treasure trove of cool names.

 

[Takhisis]

Galicia is in Spain.
Галици(&#1112а is in Eastern Europe.

 

[Camikaze]

Australia seems to have its fair share of interesting place names. Two 'local government areas' in Sydney are Blacktown and Manly. The former got is name because an Aboriginal school was established there, and the latter because apparently the Aboriginal men were quite manly.

Lots of places have Aboriginal names, from suburbs such as Woolloomooloo, to towns/cities such as Dubbo. My personal favourite is Dunedoo (which isn't too far from Nyngan).