Coolest/most beautiful city names

[PantheraTigris2]

What about Arkhangelsk? Would you name a child Arkhangelsk??

 

[Grille]

You might look at a map of Wales. Really cool city/village names there.
Watching an euro-cup football event, I got to know a team from Wales named Cwmbran Town.

 

[Mega Tsunami]

Chililibombwe (a small town in Zambia)

And I suppose someone has to say it:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

A village in Wales which translates as:

Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of Saint Tysilio of the red cave.

Edit: Llanfair etc etc is one word but when this post is displayed it splits it into two

 

[Yoda Power]

Vishakhapatnam
Chhuikhadan
Gobichettipalayam

 

[Grille]

Originally posted by Mega Tsunami
Chililibombwe (a small town in Zambia)

And I suppose someone has to say it:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

A village in Wales which translates as:

Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of Saint Tysilio of the red cave.

Edit: Llanfair etc etc is one word but when this post is displayed it splits it into two

Sometimes one word says it all...

 

[Pongui]

Originally posted by Yoda Power
Vishakhapatnam
Chhuikhadan
Gobichettipalayam

If these city names are your ideal of beauty, I forbid you to post in the Babe Thread.

 

[Stapel]

I once visited wales and travelled to Anglesey. There we find the town of LLainfairpwylgwyngyllgilianwyrlndropgaliongogogoch. Or at least someting like that.... I learnt it by heart at the time....

I like the name of the city I live in: Officially it is called 's Gravenhage. It means Den Haag van de Graaf (The count's Hague) or mostly just Den Haag. We also call it De Residentie (The Residentia), as our queen lives there and our government is in Den Haag too.

Anothe city name I like: Petropavlovsk Kamtsjatksi

 

[Turner]

My dad was raised in a town called "Kake." I always liked that.

And don't forget "City on the Edge of Forever." Oh. . . sorry. That was a ST:TOS episode. But it would be a cool city name.

I always liked "Brevard, NC" and "Tucumcari, NM."

 

[Heffalump]

I like Mousehole

 

[Ansel]

I always laugh at Wetwang & Thwing. (places in Yorkshire, England)

 

[polymath]

(Although it is a region, not a city) I have always thought Xtremadura is a beautiful name for a place.

 

[gr8ful wes]

Medicine Hat
Addis Ababa
Hell (michigan)
Accident (maryland) the town waiting to happen
and my favorite PA towns: Innercourse, Blue Ball, Paradise, and Bird in Hand. (I am not making this up)

 

[knowltok2]

Originally posted by gr8ful wes
Medicine Hat
Addis Ababa
Hell (michigan)
Accident (maryland) the town waiting to happen
and my favorite PA towns: Innercourse, Blue Ball, Paradise, and Bird in Hand. (I am not making this up)

I've heard about Hell. Apparently they have a marathon to a neighboring city called the, "Run from Hell." Also travel brochures that say, "Go to Hell." I'm not sure if any of this is true as I got it from a Michigan native, and even though he converted and went to OSU, I still am suspicious.

As for one of my favorites, I've always liked Marseilles. Katmandu is pretty cool too.

 

[MrPresident]

Cambridge, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

 

[Grisu]

Originally posted by Yoda Power
Vishakhapatnam
Chhuikhadan
Gobichettipalayam

sounds more like vogon poetry to me

I like novosibirsk for some reason

 

[Peri]

I quite like the town of our lady, the queen of the angels, of the small portion and the royal town of the holy faith of St Francis of Asissi. Their original Spanish names sound much better but alas my Spanish is rather poor.

 

[gr8ful wes]

Eureka California
Bozeman Montana
Baton Rouge Louisiana
Bangor Maine
Tupelo Mississippi
Roanoke Virginia
Teluride Colorado
Laconia New Hampshire
Wilkes Barre PA
Omaha Nebraska

 

[Darkness]

There's a small village in the dutch province of Friesland of which the name combines 2 of the better things in life:
It's called: Sexbierum

Sex & beer in the name of a town, what more can you ask for....

 

[insurgent]

Jerusalem
Paris (French pronounciation)
Buenos Aires
Valencia

 

[Cecasander]

Originally posted by Sean Lindstrom
What was perhaps the very first city: Petra. I would name a child Petra.

I thought the first city was Jericho...

The name I like is the New Zealands native name, Aotearoa, which means 'land of the long white cloud'