Funny or Weird names of places

[Stormrage]

First, to us croats Pula doesn`t realy sound funny or strange, and its name meaning a certain thing in other languages.. well, people from over there are officialy our country`s worst lovers

Second, yes, Krk is really strange, I think about that often (my wife`s grandparents live there, and some of my friends have houses there too)

And third, is "St.Peter in the woods" a strange name for a place or no?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Reminds me; Bury St. Edmunds, England, is a really strange placename.

 

[mrtn]

The Swedish village of Fitta (now a Stockholm suburb) changed it's name to Fittja when the original meaning of the name (moist place, basically) got corrupted to a more ...feminine meaning.

 

[mrtn]

I posted that before.

Rio guadix (river guadix) Maybe it doesn't sound funny, but let me explain where its name comes from.

Among the countless 'civilizations' that came to Spain, the semithes were one of them, they found a river and they called it IX, meaning river in their languaje. Then, the arabs came, found the river and they called it Guad-ix (or wad-ix) meaining river ix in arab, (river-river, then) And finally, the spanish call it rio Guadix, meaning river-river-river.

Of course it is a river.

Reminds me of "Torpenhow Hill", allegedly a hill in England whose name was similarly layered from Celtic "tor" 'hill', Celtic "pen" 'hill', older English "how(e)" 'hill' or 'burial mound', and modern English "hill".

My four hills beat your three rivers.

 

[IronMan2055]

Two egg, florida
Ed, Kentucky
Uz, Kentucky
Slovenskanarodnapodpornajednota, Pennsylvania
Onoville (oh-no-ville), New York
Show Low, Arizona
Pig's Eye (former name of St. Paul), Minnesota
Snowflake, Arizona
Odd, West Virginia
Peculiar, Missouri
Ding Dong, Texas
No Place, England

 

[slip79]

Any Maori place name that begins with "whaka-" pronounced with wh=f.
i.e. : whakapapa

 

[Turner]

Yes, there is a town in Austria called F*cking. I didnt make that up.
Its even on Wiki. Type in "****ing, Austria" in the search on Wiki.

Moderator Action: Mattjek - warned again. Public discussion of moderator actions is not allowed. Please read the forum rules.

I never said there was no city with that name. As it trips the autocensor, a picture of the word would not be appropriate here.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Ecum Secum, Nova Scotia
Zzyzx, California
Kejimikujik National Park, Nova Scotia
Seacow Pond, Prince Edward Island
Baie des Ha! Ha!, Quebec
Joe Batt's Arm-Barr'd Islands-Shoal Bay, Newfoundland
Cow Head, Newfoundland
Goobies, Newfoundland

 

[Irish Caesar]

Gay Head, Massachusetts

 

[cgannon64]

Truth or Consequences (in Arizona, I beleive).

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Truth or Consequences (in Arizona, I beleive).

New Mexico

 

[Irish Caesar]

New Mexico.

 

[cgannon64]

Weird, I didn't know that one was well known. Then again, how could it not be?

 

[Irish Caesar]

It's a fairly large city for its size.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Some more:

Mechanic Settlement, New Brunswick
Asbestos, Quebec
Summer Beaver, Ontario
Yahk, British Columbia
Carstairs, Alberta
Kicking Horse Pass, British Columbia
Squamish, British Columbia
Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia
Spuzzum, British Columbia
Destruction Bay, Yukon Territory (Ironically, nowhere near a body of water...)

 

[Drewcifer]

Some towns in Minnesota: Sleepy Eye, Twig, Blackduck, Odin, Artichoke, Carp, Little Swan, Local...

 

[Jawz II]

theres a region in china called tung pung

 

[Xshayathiya]

all the sex themed places in newfoundland. Like Dildo, Newfoundland. and Conception Bay. A newfie could probably list more

 

[Sahkuhnder]

More fun examples from an earlier thread.

 

[Grisu]

Temperatures in Hell can reach -20˚C during winter.

so contrary to popular belief Hell actually does freeze over

In Switzerland there's a village called "Bitsch" (tsch in german being pronounced like tch inc english )

also there's a mountain called "Titlis"