Rare city names. Geographical names are funny and strange. Last free city

  - Ksenia Gusakova

Believe that you live in an unusual city? After looking at our selection, you are likely to dramatically change your point of view.

Setenil de las Bodegas, Cadiz, Spain

Our list starts with the most ordinary of the unusual cities, Setenil de las Bodegas, which, according to historians, developed from the Moorish city around rivers  Rio Treio This cute patriarchal town is unique in that it is half cut into the slope of the cliff and half located on its top. Despite its small size, it attracts a fairly large number of tourists, and also specializes in growing various Mediterranean crops.

Roswell, New Mexico, USA

A small town in the state of New Mexico is sometimes also called the "UFO City." Locals claim that unidentified flying objects have been landing here since the forties, moreover, the city itself seems to be built around this phenomenon.

SITE. Innovative Ghost Town, New Mexico, USA

This town was created as an experimental training ground for the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation. There are no residents at all, the city’s infrastructure is used only to test security systems, innovations in the field of water supply and other innovative urban planning ideas.

Rennes-Chateau, France

This small French village, located on a hilltop, is known for its mysterious history: hidden treasures, mystical murders, rituals and mysteries hidden in the depths of the history of Christianity. This was the source of inspiration for Dan Brown, who wrote the highly controversial book, The Da Vinci Code

Centralia (Centralia), Pennsylvania, USA

This mining town in Pennsylvania has gained worldwide fame for being perhaps the most dangerous place to live. In addition to the fact that for decades a fire has raged here, which the firefighter could not cope with, there is an even more serious danger - karst funnels. Residents were asked to leave the city when, in the eighties, a little boy fell into one of these craters in the courtyard of his own house. However, despite all these “charms”, about a dozen old-timers still remain faithful to their small homeland.

Damanhur Federation, Italy

In northern Italy, there is a kind of underground city built as an embodiment of the dream of radical humanists many years ago. They say Damanhur is a collective dream transformed into reality. Currently, the town is thriving, enjoying its well-deserved fame, thanks to the magnificent underground temples, extraordinary ideas and ecologically impeccable houses.

Monovy, Nebraska, USA

In American Nebraska huddles a small town in which ... one person constantly resides And without that, a small population gradually died out or parted, but one woman remains in Monovi until now. She holds a bar and a public library for tourists, managing her business without helpers.

Lily Dale, New York, USA

There is a special place in the world for those who feel their connection with spirits and other otherworldly substances, and this place is called Lily Dale, New York. The town is inhabited by mediums of all sorts. Crowds wishing to communicate with representatives of the other world come here on all kinds of means of transport. For them, enterprising mediums even keep low-cost housing and provide the necessary services.

Retirement Camp The Villages, Florida, USA

Forty kilometers from Orlando, Florida, a special town has been built where, according to the rules, each house must have at least one permanent resident over 55 years old and must not be anyone younger than nineteen. Living in the town is safe and healthy: there are golf courses, hiking and cycling paths, fitness centers, as well as restaurants and shops. The purpose of such a retirement paradise proclaims the creation of the most peaceful place to relax people at sunset life.

Thames Town, China

In the Chinese province of Songyang, a British-style town was built. In this wittyly named Thames Town, everything is emphasized in English: architecture, cuisine, and even these classic telephone booths that make London so easy to recognize. In a word - a corner of true Britain in the very center of Asia.

Coober Pedy, Australia

This town in a small town in the central part of the Australian state of South Australia is completely located below the surface of the earth, as it was built on the site of abandoned mines. It is known as a very favorable place to live, because in these parts daytime life hides from an overly generous, sometimes merciless sun. In addition, the place is very attractive because of the wonderful opals mined here in considerable quantities.

Supilinne, Estonia

A tiny and very quiet town in Estonia lives, as they say, with its simple life. Take a look at small houses, devoid of any signs of modern architecture, at the streets named after vegetables. Anyone who comes here will immediately understand why this place was given the name, which translates as "soup town".

Elista, Russia

For most travelers, this city is known as “Chess City,” a chess city. The architect was clearly obsessed with the great game and embodied the chess theme in the guise of the whole city. A giant chessboard was even built in the central square.

Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA

After reading the name, many will assume that this town is located somewhere in South Asia, while its location is the center of the farming state of Iowa. This quiet place got its name in honor of the founder of the Indian teaching on transcendental meditation.

Battleship, Battleship Island, Japan

This island, owned by Japan, with all its appearance resembles a warship. For many years it remained unpopulated, but always aroused curiosity among people who like to gaze at the horizon. Now this eerie islet has fallen into disrepair, but it is open to lovers of extreme tourism.

Hell City, Michigan, USA

This small town in Michigan is struggling to live up to its name (in a good way, if I may say so). There are numerous restaurants and attractions filled with "horrors" and all kinds of devilry. It’s easy to guess that Halloween is the favorite holiday in this Hell-town.

Gibsontown, Florida, USA

Once just a popular place for entertainment and well-deserved rest for retired circus performers, Gibsontown gradually turned into a place of permanent residence for many people who once worked in the circus industry. The pride of this town has become a few unique exhibits and museums in the carnival and circus styles.

Manshiyat - City of garbage men, Egypt

Looking at this Egyptian town, or rather, even the area on the outskirts of Cairo, you can immediately think about the consequences of a natural disaster. Mountains of garbage are scattered across the streets, but this is considered absolutely normal here. Inhabitants of the surrounding slums earn their living by sorting and recycling garbage that is collected from all over Egypt. I must add that they surprisingly successfully cope with their difficult task.

Gnome Village, China

In this "puppet" Chinese village there are only midgets and dwarfs. It may seem very cute and attractive, a sort of the only shelter where the "little people" are among their own and do not feel like "second grade". However, with a closer look, it is easy to make sure that it is rather a tourist attraction, something like an unusual attraction.

Miyake Jima, Japan

The island town of Miyake-Jima in Japan is unique in that the government pays its residents for not leaving the islands. Since the city is located at the base of an active volcano, the population is constantly experiencing the effect of increased levels of sulfur in the air, and sometimes even is threatened with poisoning! Citizens are forced to constantly wear protective masks due to the high toxicity of the air. Perhaps the Japanese authorities are conducting an experiment, figuring out the impact of extreme living conditions on human health.

In many countries, the name of the city is often not a simple word. Most often, the name of the city means something connected with it - a river or the sea, on the banks of which it is located or some symbol of the city. But sometimes the names of cities are whole phrases bearing mysterious and mysterious meaning. It doesn’t matter how famous the city is and what exactly it has become famous for most - it is not in vain that in many religions a special meaning is put in the name. Having learned the meaning of city names, one can discover something more than what is seen in the streets. An article about cities with the most beautiful and interesting names is an excellent educational material that can diversify the horizons of many experienced travelers. If a person managed to visit these cities, one can compare personal impressions with the meaning of the names, if not, then it is time to check whether the city corresponds to the meaning of its name.

Pattaya - “the wind coming before the rainy season”

Pattaya is one of the largest and most famous cities in Thailand, occupying the top lines in many lists of Thai resorts. Often a visit to Pattaya seems even more interesting and desirable than a visit to Bangkok - the main city of Thailand and the capital of the country. This attractiveness of Pattaya is due to the fact that the Thai authorities have done everything to turn the city into a real paradise for tourists. Travel agencies around the world never have to puzzle over the preparation of Pattaya's tourist program for customers - there is simply a huge amount of entertainment and all kinds of interesting leisure activities. Crocodile farms, elephant pastures, a huge oceanarium with a bunch of different views for tourists, a huge botanical garden with a magnificent park of tropical orchids ...

Noteworthy is the huge number of restaurants and cafes that feature cuisines of all the nations of the world, a replica park of famous attractions. The vaults of the Temple of Doom proudly rise above the heads of people walking along South Street, and the cozy sandy shore of the Gulf of Thailand should soon adorn the image of the majestic Temple of Truth. In Pattaya, the wind that arrives before the rainy season begins is probably the wind of the masses of tourists, a single rush of their breath and the noise of noisy streets, subsiding only during the most intense tropical rains.

Antananarivo - “the city of a thousand warriors”

The capital of hot and sunny Madagascar can be called the main center of life on the island. Antananarivo is located on the hillsides, densely dotted with strings of descending terraces, and on the peaks are palaces with shining gold roofs. Life is boiling in the lower reaches of the hills covered with fog - it seems that the ever-moving stream of tourists does not allow Antananarivo to stand still for a moment. The sight of visitors is delighted by the splendidly preserved buildings of past centuries; the noise of human voices never subsides on noisy streets. A real demonstration of local culture is the unforgettable performance of the best artists of Hira-Gashi - the famous local theater. Antinanarivo is called the city of thousands of warriors, but little reminds of past battles here.

Tegucigalpa - Silver Hills

On the gentle slopes of the valley of the Choltek River, Tegucigalpa is located - the main city of the sultry tropical Honduras, the main economic and cultural center of the country with a difficult history. Life is in full swing on the sunny streets of Tegucigalpa - among all the expanses of Central America, there are only two cities larger than the capital of Honduras. One of the main features of the city is its division into the plain and more mountainous parts. The average height of the capital of Honduras is about 1000 meters above sea level - that is why in a city filled with people it is surprisingly fresh air and a rather mild climate, sometimes interrupted by periods of terrible heat, in which only blows of mountain winds and the remains of the once huge coniferous forests save.

Clermont Ferrand - City of Extinct Volcanoes

Thousands of years ago a huge volcano rose in the south of France, proudly crowning the Wolverhampton mountain range. But since the eruption of the lava giant, hundreds of years have passed and the slopes of the giant have been covered with forests, among which Clermont-Ferrand lurks - a truly special city with a population of almost 140 thousand inhabitants. The ancient architectural heritage of this city is represented by a huge number of residential buildings, church buildings, sustained in the incompleteness of the exquisite style of early Gothic. There is something invisible and special in the appearance of the city - it is thanks to it that all these objects look surprisingly harmonious even today, reviving quite standard urban landscapes. Clermont-Ferrand can be called a student city - there are several large universities, which attract many students from all over the district and hundreds of foreigners to study. Every year, the center of the cultural life of the city becomes the International Short Film Festival, from which many successful French directors have started.

Aguascalientes - Hot Water

The center of the state of the same name in Mexico received its name due to the huge number of hot springs nearby. In general, Aguascalientes embodies all the main Mexican traditions - after the sultry, whipping emotions of the local bullfighting, people go out to calm streets here, as if covered with a foggy provincial veil. In addition, the state capital is a major center of trade and industry. This is due to the fact that a large number of high-tech industries are located in the state, which are actively gaining momentum in the dynamically developing Mexico. But tourists are most attracted to the contract of a truly modern life with the provincial coziness of narrow streets and quiet suburbs, where small farms thrive. Having become truly modern, Aguascalientes managed to preserve the charming simplicity of the past.

Reykjavik - “smoking bay”

The capital of a small and peaceful Iceland has been living a calm and serene life for many years. Hot water of volcanic origin circulates through the city's communications, heating all ordinary buildings and even farm greenhouses. Reykjavik looks like a city that was built not by people, but by nature itself - the image of the urban landscapes of the Icelandic capital is so harmonious, calm and natural. Nature itself warms Reykjavik, and its streets are filled with an atmosphere of peace and tranquility.

Southampton is a beautiful port on the south coast of Great Britain

On the gentle shores of the Solent Strait, the picturesque buildings of Southampton rise. Only 55 thousand people live here, but from time to time this number can double - the local nature and the unique atmosphere of ancient narrow streets that have absorbed English traditions are so attractive. The center of the city is a long canal through which all ships from the Atlantic Ocean pass into the bay. The city’s ports are equipped with the largest shipbuilding docks, from which many magnificent ships descended, including the legendary Titanic.

Personally, I always dreamed of traveling to different countries and exploring more and more places. But how to choose where to go, because the world is so huge? Maybe the names of cities will tell your heart? I decided to make a short review and picked up the most beautiful of them!

The most beautiful names of cities in the world

• Pattaya - “wind coming before the rainy season”, southeast of Thailand;
• Antananarivo - “the city of a thousand warriors”, the capital of Madagascar;
• Gargagliani is a city in Greece;
• Tegucigalpa - the extraordinary beauty of the "silver hills", the capital of Honduras;
• Clermont-Ferrand - City of Extinct Volcanoes ”in the south of France;
• Koenigsberg - “royal coast” or “coast of kings”, the former name of Kaliningrad;
• Wolverhampton - a city in the south of West Midlands;
• Aguascalientes - the fiery name of the city in Mexico is "hot water";
• Reykjavik - “smoking bay”, the capital of Iceland;
• Southampton - the south coast of beautiful Britain;
• Knokke-Heist is a city in the far north of Belgium.

The most beautiful names of cities in Russia

• Pereslavl-Zalessky is a very sonorous name;
• Veliky Novgorod - has never been to this great city;
• Zvenigorod - it’s worth a trip at least in order to understand what exactly rings there;
• Peterhof - this place simply cannot be ordinary;
• Bodaibo - it’s even hard to believe that this is in Russia;
• Insar - there is something oriental in this;
• Shlisselburg - there is something German in this;
• Kargopol - unusual at least;
• Svetlogorsk - a bright name for the city;
• Kolomna - it is very beautiful there;
• Oranienbaum - although this is not quite a city, but it sounds beautiful.

And what beautiful names of cities of Russia and the world do you know?

Opinions of people

Just recently I visited a country where I liked the name of the city of Gura-Gumoruluy. In this city, I visited a monastery that was built in the 15th century, and then a hydropark with pools. I remembered the name for 3 days, it’s even hard to pronounce. And not far from this city there is a town where I have friends, which also has the beautiful name Vatra Dornei.

I like the names of foreign cities: Valletta - the capital of the Mediterranean state of Malta, the name of the Italian city of Verona, but in this case also because the events of the Shakespearean tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” took place in it.

Anthracites, what is it all about ??? But the name of the city is ridiculous.

I’m dreaming of visiting the city of Sortavala, there was even an opportunity, but it fell through. It already seems to me by name that there deer walk on foot and everything around is just a glade of berries!

Marseilles
  Los Angeles
  Bender Sarah Bejevan
  Paris
  Lankaran
  Zimbabwe
  Saint Petersburg
  Arkhangelsk

I dream to visit Paris. Oh my god this is an amazing city!

I know only one city, which, in my opinion, is the best and the most, the most, and it has a very beautiful name, it is of course the city of Odessa, but do you know what middle name this pearl has by the sea? “South Palmyra” doesn’t it sound ?.)

Montreal ("Royal Mountain") - in my opinion, the most beautiful name
  Ravello
  Lucerne
  Milan
  Genoa
  Monte Carlo
  Dusseldorf
  Belgrade
  can list and list

But the funniest names Fleas - Pskov region. Bezhanitsky district
  Blyava - Orenburg Region Kuwandyk district
  Bukhalovo - Tver region Bologovsky district
  Durakovo - Kaluga region Zhukovsky district
  Kozly - Tver region Udomelsky district
  Vagina - Tyumen region Aromashevsky district
  Tumors - Pskov region Nevelsky district
  Swimming trunks - Novgorod region Pestovsky district
  Butt - Volgograd region Kotovsky district
  Horseradish - Voronezh region. Novousmansky district
  Kaka - rep. Dagestan, Akhtyn district
  Pysy - Pskov region Usvyatsky borough
  Sovloh - Khanty-Mansiysk Aut. okr. Berezovsky district
  Burdock - Ryazan region Ryazan district
  Mochila - Moscow region Serebryanoprudsky district
  Scrotum - Kaluga region Meshchovsky district
  Sinyaki - Smolensk region Krasninsky district
  Siskovsky - Volgograd region Podtelkovo district
  Soskovo - Moscow region Taldomsky district
  Waste - Tambov region. Rzhaksinsky district

  Murmansk
  Vladikavkaz
  Vladivostok
  Rostov the Great
  Velikiy Novgorod
  Arkhangelsk
  Sochi
  Anapa
  Yalta
  Khabarovsk
  Novosibirsk

And from the world
  Memphis
  Cairo
  Alexandria
  Sparta
  Rome
  London
  Rio de Janeiro
  Havana
  Montreal
San Francisco

I like the names of cities in Italy: Palermo, Milan, Florence, Venice, Naples, Vicenza ... a lot can be listed in my opinion very beautiful names. From Russian cities - St. Petersburg, Tolyatti.

redactorolga, the last name, by the way, in fact, is also Italian.
  By the way, yes. So the city was named after the Italian communist leader Togliatti.

Pattaya is a gorgeous city, I will definitely return there more than once.

List of top cities in the world:

Balakovo
  Saratov
  New York
  Boston
  Hong Kong
  St. Petersburg
  On this, I have all this an elite top.

Can you praise your swamp? hahaha

I believe that the coolest name is the city of Saint-Petersburg!

It’s somehow difficult for me to list the names of cities only because of the sound, if I have never been to them.
  And of those where Venice and Paris, Odessa, Luxembourg, Brussels, Sevastopol, and Riga have remained in the memory of my heart.
  Many more, but the most beloved city and beautiful for my soul is St. Petersburg. If a second life is destined to live, then only in it, in this mysterious and beautiful, mystical and poetic city.

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UNUSUAL
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES

COMMUNICATION AND STRUCTURE

Title A  at the same time have rivers in the Netherlands, Germany, towns on the Lofot Islands of Norway, as well as in France, Denmark and Sweden.

There are two small towns with the name AND  - one is located in the north of France, and the other on the west coast of Finland.

There is a village in France ABOUTTrue, it is read this way, although it is written not in one but in four letters: Nah.

Small towns YU  located in France and Sweden.

E  - This is the name of a town in Belgium and one of the ports of Burma.

On the Caroline Islands in the Pacific, you can visit a town called At. A similar name is given to the left tributary of the great Southeast Asian Mekong River in the Lao Republic and the city in South Korea.

Dad  - a city in Hungary.

Chum  (old Russian "father") - a volcano on the Kuril island of Iturup.

Mother  - the city and the river, the left tributary of the Vitim river in the Irkutsk region of Russia. By the way, the sources of this river are called Right Mom and Left Mom.

Daughter  - a river in the Bryansk region, a tributary of the Desna, and a river in the Moscow region.

Woman  - Cape in the west of the Asia Minor Peninsula (Turkey). The mountain range in the Hindu Kush system in Afghanistan bears the same name. By the way, "Baba" in translation from Arabic means "Father".

Grandmothers  - A village in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.

Great Grandma - also in Ukraine - a tributary of the Seversky Donets and the village of the same name in the Kharkov region. Babka is a river in the Perm region of Russia and a city in the west of New Guinea.

Dedovsk  - a village in the Moscow region.

Sister  - rivers in the Moscow and Leningrad regions.

Brothers  - islands off the south coast of the Republic of Vietnam.

Vnukovo  - a village near Moscow.

Men  - A village on the Ob River in Siberia and the left tributary of the Daegu River in Portugal.

Qum  - a river in Turkey. Kuma is a river in the North Caucasus and a city in the Australian state of Victoria.

Cousin  - An island in the group of Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

Matchmaker  - A river in Eastern Slovakia and Pakistan.

Twins  - A village in the Kharkov region of Ukraine.

Stepmother  - a village in the Volgograd region.

Relatives  - A village in the Kaliningrad region of Russia.

Village Neighbor  located in the Penza region.

River Guy  flows through the Magadan and Kamchatka regions of the Far East.

Village Damsel  located in the Voronezh region of Russia.

Town Virgo  - in Western Romania.

The inflow of the Abakan River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is called She, and the village on the Rioni River in Georgia is called They are.

In the state of Massachusetts (USA) there is a small lake, the name of which is not easy to pronounce non-stop, because it consists of 42 letters, and in the English transcription it is even longer (44 letters). Judge for yourself: Cargoggagogg. Translated from the local Indian language, this abracadabra means: "I will fish on this side, you will fish on that side, and in the middle no one will catch anything." Thus, the name of the lake recorded an agreement between two Indian tribes that once lived on its shores.

The long name is associated with one of the villages of the North Island of New Zealand: Thaumatavhakakapikimakhu  (83 letters!). Translated from the local Maori language, it means: “The place where Tamatea, a man with long legs, a famous mountain eater who moved mountains, climbed them and swallowed them, played the flute for his beloved.”

The longest among the gulliver names is the name of the capital located in Southeast Asia of the Republic of Thailand - Bangkok. In translation it sounds like this: “A place of wild plum”, the full local name has as many as 147 (!) Letters and means: “The great city of angels, the highest reservoir of divine treasures, a great land that cannot be conquered, a great and prosperous kingdom, magnificent and the wonderful capital of nine gems, the place where the greatest rulers live and there is a large palace, the dwelling of the gods who can transform into spirits. " It is this geographical name that is registered in the Guinness Book of Records, as the longest in the world.

River Volga, except for the well-known, flows in Iowa (USA). The right tributary of the Mississippi has the same name. The city of the same name is located on the shores of the American Volga.

River Don  flows in Scotland, in the north of the island of Great Britain, and the well-known tributary of the Volga Oka has a "namesake" - a large tributary of the Angara in Eastern Siberia.

Town Moscow  located in the Vyatka region of Russia.

In Russia you can get from Berlin  in Pariswithout leaving the territory of the Chelyabinsk region. There is also here Leipzig, Varna  and other cities. All these, usually small towns, got their names in honor of the outstanding victories of the Russian army in the Patriotic War of 1812.

In the Odessa region of Ukraine there are railway stations Borodino, Leipzig, Paris  other. Village Paris  located in the Krasnokutsky district of Kharkov region.

In the Ferghana region of Uzbekistan there is a village with a big name Baghdad, in the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan - a railway station Cairo, in Moldova - a railway station - Sofia, in Latvia and the Yekaterinburg region of Russia - towns Nice, in the Novosibirsk region - the village Shanghai, in the Oryol region - the village Panama, in Irkutsk - railway station Malta.

Nile  - settlement in the Amur region of Russia, Chad  - railway station in the Perm region, Sahara  - a river in Yakutia, Africa  - Cape on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Victoria  - A village in the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan.

Gulf america  - in the Far East, danube Islands  - at the mouth of the great Siberian river Lena, eldorado Village  - on the middle Yenisei, lake china  - in the Odessa region of Ukraine.

On the Perm - Nizhny Tagil railway there eurasia station  (on the border of Europe and Asia).

An interesting signpost is located in the vicinity of the American city of Lynchula (Maine). He points out from here to Peru  - 90, to Of Poland - 50, Denmark - 35, Norway  - 25 km. All of these settlements are in this state, and are not countries.

There are villages in Indiana, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Russia, Belarus  and Kiev. They were founded over 100 years ago by natives of these areas who moved to America in search of a happy life.

In the California desert there is stop station Siberia. One cannot but admit that the authors of this title were humorists. After all, the hottest place in the entire western hemisphere is located nearby.

In the south of Brazil is located america city.

In the USA there are cities such as London, Boston, Newcastle, Cambridge, Oxford, Baltimore, Bristol, Greenwich  and many others whose "parents" are in Europe.

Geographic Names From France to the American Continent Orleans, Nancy, Toulon, Lyon, a Paris  occurs over ten times.

Seven times on the map of the USA Moscow  and repeatedly numerous towns under the names Petersburg, Rome, Cairo, Athens, Odessa  other.

Geographic names such as "migrated" from Spain to Latin America Barcelona, Valencia, Venice, Granada, Cordoba, Seville  other.

In Ukraine, in the Chernivtsi region there is mamalyga village, and in Poltava - Pie.

Cockroach  - the name of a small island and the city of the same name off the eastern coast of the Indonesian island of Kalimantan.

Gang  - one of the seas washing the shores of the islands of Sulawesi, New Guinea and Timor.

The islet with an attractive name Paradise  can be seen off the coast of the Republic of Vietnam.

In the Gulf of Thailand in the west of the island of New Guinea rises mountain house.

Sombrero  - this is the name of the strait in the Nicobar Islands of the Indian Ocean.

Rivers Sleep  and Barack  flow in India.

City Furnace  located in Hungary Stand  - in Sweden, and cities with no less strange, in our opinion, name Fat  located in Finland and Northern Italy.

In Italy, there are towns Bank, Fortune  and Mirage.

Madonna  is a city in Latvia.

City Duma  located in Syria.

Village Game  - in Udmurtia.

Give me  - in Romania.

My river  flows in ireland as well islet of poppy  located in the Hebrides group off the coast of Great Britain.

City Kucha  located in Western China, Tank  - in Pakistan Tea  and Chan  - in Turkey, lemon city  - in Guatemala.

Topic  - Seaport in the African Republic of Ghana.

Marine name Squid  assigned to the land French city in Alsace.

On a geographical map of the Russian Federation you will see nearby Summer  and Winter the coast as well as the city Winter  in Eastern Siberia.

Stump  - a village in the Novosibirsk region, Marvelous  - in Smolenskaya, Bucks  and Turks  - in Saratov, Kalach  - in Volgograd, Boot  - in Ryazan, Wand  - in Tomsk, Bottom  - in Pskov, Mud  - in Lipetsk, Hat  - in Leningrad, Wasp  - in Perm regions, Barysh  - a river in the Ulyanovsk region.

In Ukraine - Paradise  in the Ternopil region, Bar  - in Vinnitsa, Duckbill, Partying, Benefit  - in Odessa, Wise heads  - in Khmelnitsky, good afternoon  - in Chernihiv Buyan, Butch  and Leather jacket  - in Kiev, Money  - in Cherkasy Happiness  - in the Lugansk regions.

Stomach  can be found in the Grodno region of Belarus.

Note  flowing in Murmansk, Dark  in Tverskaya Couple  in Ryazan Leather  in the Arkhangelsk and even Shish  - the right tributary of the Irtysh - in the Omsk regions.

In the Gomel region of Belarus are located villages Mars, Venus  and even Capricorns. Villages with the name Mars  we find in the Sharansky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia and the Novoaydarsky district of the Lugansk region of Ukraine.

Cape The end of the world  located on the easternmost island of the Kuril ridge Shikotan.

Half  - this is the name of the village in the Irkutsk region of Russia, halfway between Moscow and Vladivostok.

In the Far East, on the Moscow-Vladivostok railway, one of the cities is called by name and patronymic - Erofei Pavlovich.

Some geographical names reflect the shape of objects. So, for example, in Siberia, in the East Sayan there pyramid mountainin the Arctic Ocean - yugorsky and Matochkin Shary straitsin the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk - cone island, and in the east, on the Lysyansky peninsula, there is cape Duga Zapadnaya. River Curve  flows in the Republic of Macedonia and in Serbia.

There are names on the map that consist of only vowels. it Wye  - river in England, city Aye  (Germany), Aya  ("Holy" in Greece), island Eui  in the Tonga archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, a village Oi  - in Australia, island Eiao  in the group of the Marquesas islands.

But there are also names consisting of only consonants, for example, the Croatian island Krk  in the adriatic sea and mountain Smrk  (1204 m) in the Czech Republic.

There are geographical names starting with the letter “Y”, for example, a river Yhne  in Estonia, Yrgayty  in Kyrgyzstan Yngata  in Yakutia (the right tributary of Vilyui), as well as villages Yndin  in the Komi Republic, Eijou  in North and Eunson  in South Korea.

Purely Russian geographical names can be found on the world map. Villages Oh god, Top, Morning  - in France, Sleep  - in Spain, Moan  - in England, Favorite  - in Germany, Rich  - in Hungary, Plan  - An island off the coast of the Republic of Tunisia in Africa.

based on the book "entertaining geography"

And last summer I discovered this in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
  and could not pass by.