Cool or boring names of cities or regions

[Kyriakos]

Although it would be an anachronism to regard it as a particularly meaningful suggestion, before a few years ago, maybe the region of 'Wester Ross', in Scotland.

 

[ZeletDude]

I've always thought "Pennsylvania" sounds cool.

 

[Phrossack]

I forgot Georgia, somehow. Its native name, Sakartvelo, is pretty nice, along with regions like Svaneti, Khevsureti, and best of all, Mtskheta. Mtskheta is very fun to say.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The Arabic name for Jerusalem is really subpar. Dar es Salaam makes up for this though.

 

[AdamCrock]

I have always thought that Babylon is a very cool name. What about fantasy city names ? Mournhold form Elder Scrolls is my favourite name by far Come to think about Elder Scrolls : Tel Aviv must be under Telvanni House cotrol than hehe

 

[W|M]

The Arabic name for Jerusalem is really subpar. Dar es Salaam makes up for this though.

The Hebrew name for Jerusalem is good, though

 

[Kyriakos]

I have always thought that Babylon is a very cool name. What about fantasy city names ? Mournhold form Elder Scrolls is my favourite name by far Come to think about Elder Scrolls : Tel Aviv must be under Telvanni House cotrol than hehe

Iirc the Greek (ancient) exonym for Babylon was Βαβήλ. Babel comes directly from that, although in the greek term the "e" is a heta, and thus sounds differently. In english it would be pronounced as Vaveel, i suppose.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

The Arabic name for Jerusalem is really subpar. Dar es Salaam makes up for this though.

Zanzibar is serious stuff as well. Too many cool names concentrated at the same place!

 

[cybrxkhan]

Zanzibar is serious stuff as well. Too many cool names concentrated at the same place!

The Swahili Coast does indeed have some very nice city names. Mogadishu, Mombasa...

 

[Takhisis]

Iirc the Greek (ancient) exonym for Babylon was Βαβήλ. Babel comes directly from that, although in the greek term the "e" is a heta, and thus sounds differently. In english it would be pronounced as Vaveel, i suppose.

Bear in mind that, back then, η was much closer to present-day ε than to ι, and Β was pronounced the same way as ΜΠ is now.

 

[plarq]

You know what towns in the US have a boring name? Boring, Maryland. Oh, and Boring, Oregon, just because we needed two.

Dull, Ohio

 

[Domen]

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

I feel discriminated now. Almost half of historical Galicja is still in Poland today and we don't use cyrillic script in Poland.

BTW - Lodomeria is still a cooler name than Galicja:

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


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BTW - recently I've learned that there was a region called Moravia in Scotland.

That was already 2nd Moravia, 1st was the one located between Czechia and Slovakia.

 

[DroopyTofu]

Unalaska, Alaska, the 26th largest city in Alaska.

 

[Takhisis]

I feel discriminated now. Almost half of historical Galicja is still in Poland today and we don't use cyrillic script in Poland.

You're not behaving like true Slavs. Oppressed Russian minorities in Polonija should now ask Vladimir, Father of the Nation, to help them get the government to allow them to write in Cyrillic on legal documents.

 

[gay_Aleks]

The Polish language just met more Germans than Father Putin would agree to.

That's harmful, y'know.