Coolest/most beautiful city names

[Cecasander]

Originally posted by 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....

Even better, there is 'rum' in it too

 

[D' Artagnan]

I also like Lyon, Le Caire [Cairo], La Nouvelle-Orléans [New Orleans], Florence, Monaco...

 

[Flak]

Vilnius
Pensacola
Azur Baijan
Stranrear

 

[metalhead]

Ouagadougu, capital of Burkina Faso (now Upper Volta)
Intercourse, PA
Jim Thorpe, PA
King of Prussia, PA
Constantinople
Reykjavik
Helsinki
Stockholm
Vladivostok
Petrograd

to name a few

 

[CurtSibling]

These are all 100% real towns in the USA!
What wood varnish were these people drinking? I want some!

Eek and Unalaska, Alaska
Nothing, Arizona
Toad Suck, Arkansas
Secret Town and You Bet, California
Hygiene, Colorado
Frostproof, Florida
Hopeulikit, Georgia
Beer Bottle Crossing, Idaho
Grand Detour, Illinois
Santa Claus, Indiana
What Cheer, Iowa
and Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky
Bald Head, Maine
Boring, Maryland
Hell, Michigan
Tightwad and Licking, Missouri
Square Butt, Montana
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Cat Elbow Corner, New York
Home and Knockemstiff, Ohio
Half.com, Oregon
King of Prussia and Panic and Scalp Level, Pennsylvania
Red Shirt, South Dakota
Nameless and Sweet Lips, Tennessee
Canadian and Telephone and Cut n Shoot, Texas
Humptulips, Washington
HooHoo and Big Ugly, West Virgina
Imalone, Wisconsin

And the best one ever!

Satans Kingdom, Vermont

I tip my hat to the good people of the USA, for having such a whacky humour!

 

[funxus]

I like some of the scandinavian names, Oslo, Lund, Uppsala, Miklagård (now Istanbul), Visby, Ume(å)...
London, Limeuil (French and don't know spelling), Orleans, Genoa are nice too

 

[Turner]

Originally posted by gr8ful wes
Eureka California

Which reminds me. . . also in Northern California. . . Yreka, (a derivitive of Eureka? I dunno) and for you stoners: Weed, Ca. Both are on I-5 in Northern CA, near the Oregon border.

 

[gr8ful wes]

New mexico's Truth or Consequenses, Tucumcarie(sounds like a good date) Tonopah

and those lyrical ones on Route 66, from the song

"You Go through St Louis, Branson(i think) Missouri, Oklahoma City Looks mighty Pretty,
You'll See Amarillo , Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff Arizona, and dont forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino...."

Oh yeah How about Needles, wierd huh

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
I tip my hat to the good people of the USA, for having such a whacky humour!

Many of those towns were probably founded by Brits!

 

[Vrylakas]

D'Artagnan wrote:

vladivostok

This means "Conquerer of the East" in Russian. "Vladimir" means "Conquerer of the World".

An American friend made a point of visiting Hell, Sweden so he could say he had been to Hell and back. And he had.

 

[Grille]

What about Nice?
It's just... nice!

 

[Perfection]

York, simple, quick, gets the job done. Who reallty needs city names that ramble on forever?

 

[Toasty]

Originally posted by Vrylakas
D'Artagnan wrote:

vladivostok

This means "Conquerer of the East" in Russian. "Vladimir" means "Conquerer of the World".

An American friend made a point of visiting Hell, Sweden so he could say he had been to Hell and back. And he had.

Why go all the way to Sweden? We have one right here in Michigan!

 

[Grille]

I guess there's no Heaven...

edit: d'oh - Sexbierum

 

[jack merchant]

There's a Boring in Oregon too, not too far from the town of Rhodondendron ( which, I am told, is a substitute word for a well-known profanity ).

I like the French names the most: Tours, Angers, Les Andelys, Valence, yummm !

 

[insurgent]

BTW, Liverpool is a good name too...

And so are Lyons, Lille, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Nice... I'm gonna have to go with the French names too...

 

[History_Buff]

Most Russian names are nice, and that poetic spelling of Bankok?

Kuala Lumpur IIRC

 

[Sayounara]

Wenatchee
Sendai, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Okinawa, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Satsuma, Sapporo
San Francisco
Vancouver
Reading
Palo Alto
Singapore
Hong Kong
Sydney

 

[Drewcifer]

Originally posted by Grille
I guess there's no Heaven...

No but there is a Valhalla in New York State. And Gimli (Odin's House) is in Manitoba.

 

[WillJ]

Those were great, Curt!

Originally posted by CurtSibling
Hell, Michigan

Ah yes, I remember seeing a picture on the Internet of a sign saying, "Now entering Hell," that was frozen over!