List of interesting or unusual place names

A

�, Norway 2

�, Sweden 2

Adi�s, Navarre, Spain

Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland 2

Ah Cut, Pitcairn Island

�l, Buskerud, Norway 2

Alphabet City, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

Amerika, Germany

Anting, China 7

Arsoli, Lazio, Italy

Asbestos, Quebec, Canada

Au, several towns in Austria, Germany and Switzerland 2

B

Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany

Bald Knob, Arkansas, USA

Banana, Queensland, Australia 7

Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia

Bastardo, Italy

Beaver, Pennsylvania 1 & 7

Bidon 5, Sahara Desert, Africa 5

Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, USA

Bitey Bitey, Pitcairn Island

Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, USA

Blubberhouses, Yorkshire, England

Blow Me Down, Provincial Park in Newfoundland, Canada

Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA

Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, USA (Nearby towns are Intercourse and Bird-in-Hand, both of which are on the way to Paradise1.)

B�, in Telemark and Nordland, Norway 2

Bob, Canada (After Nunavut separated from the Northwest Territories, a poll was conducted as to what the remainder of the territory should be named. Retaining the name Northwest Territories won by a substantial margin, but a distant runner-up choice was Bob. [1])

Boca Grande, Florida, USA ("big mouth" in Spanish)

Boca Raton, Florida, USA ("Mouth of the mouse" in Spanish)

Boom, Belgium

Boring, Oregon, USA

Bottom, North Carolina, USA

Bra, Cuneo, Italy

Brown Willy, a tor in Cornwall, England

Bucksnort, Tennessee, USA

Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, Australia

C

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts 2

Chinaman's Knob, Australia

Christmas Island, Australia 4

Christmaspie, Surrey, England

Chunky, Mississippi, USA

Climax, Colorado, USA

Climax, Michigan, USA

Clit, Arad, Romania1

Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland, Canada

Condom, Gers, France 1

Coolville, Ohio, USA

Coxsackie, New York, USA

Cunter, Graub�nden, Switzerland 1

Cuntis, Pontevedra, Spain 1

D

Die, Dr�me, France

Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada

Dondangadale, Victoria, Australia

Drain, Oregon, USA

E

Easter Island, Chile 4

Ecce Homo, Schwyz, Switzerland

Ed, Upper Austria, Austria 2

Ed, Sweden 2

Egg, Austria

Egg, Z�rich, Switzerland

Eighty Eight, Kentucky, USA

Elephant Butte, New Mexico, USA 7

F

Fa, Aude, France

Five Corners (several), USA

Five Forks (several), USA

Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada

Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC, USA

Foul Mile, England

French Lick, Indiana, USA

Fresh Kills, Staten Island, New York, New York, USA

Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England

Fucking, Upper Austria, Austria 1

Fuku, China 1

G

George, Washington, USA

Gland, Aisne, France

Gland, Vaud, Switzerland

Gnaw Bone, Indiana, USA

Goodyear, Arizona, USA 4

Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddoll�npenrhynareurdraethceredigion, a train station in Gwynedd, Wales2

Grand Tetons, a mountain range in Wyoming, USA (meaning: "big tits" in French)

Grong Grong, New South Wales, Australia

Grosse Water Beach, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA

Gunbarrel Highway, Western Australia, Australia

Gunbarrel, Colorado, USA

Gy, Geneva, Switzerland 2

H

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a historic site in Alberta, Canada

Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

Hell Gate, a portion of the East River in New York, New York, USA

Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia

Hell, Michigan, USA

Hell, Norway

Hell, Grand Cayman, British West Indies

Hells Gate Roadhouse, Australia

H�risson, Allier, France (meaning: "hedgehog")

Himmelspforte, Germany (meaning: "heaven's gate")

Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA

Homosassa, Florida, USA

How, Wisconsin, USA 6

Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, Australia

Hungry Mother State Park, Virginia, USA

I

Ii, Finland (two identical vowels) 2

Indian Queens, Cornwall, England

Innaloo (suburb of Perth, Australia)

Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA 1

Isles of Scilly, England (pronounced "silly")

J

Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, USA (You'd think that would be in New Jersey.)

John Catch a Cow, Pitcairn Island

K

Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

Kissimmee, Florida, USA (properly pronounced kis-SIMM-ee [SAMPA /k@"sImI/], but usually mispronounced KISS-a-me [SAMPA /"kIs@%mi/] by non-locals)

Knob Lick, Missouri, USA

Kokomo, Indiana, USA

"Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit", the poetic name of Bangkok, Thailand 2

L

La Hoz de la Vieja ("The Old Woman's Sickle"), Teruel, Spain

Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, South Australia, Australia

Lake Titicaca, in Peru and Bolivia

Lickey End, Worcestershire, England

Little George Coc'nuts, Pitcairn Island

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales 2

Lord Hereford's Knob, hill on the Welsh border

Los R�banos ("the radishes"), Soria, Spain

Lost, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Lough Neagh (pronounced 'Lock Nay!'), Northern Ireland

Loveland, Ohio, USA

Loveland, Colorado, USA

Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England

L�, Graub�nden, Switzerland 2

M

Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland

Mars, Pennsylvania, USA

Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Mianus, Connecticut, USA

Milton Keynes, England

Mockbeggar, England

Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, USA

Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Mount Jerome, Ireland

Muck, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Muff, Northern Ireland

Mumbles, Wales

Mutters, Austria

N

Nar Nar Goon, Victoria, Australia

Natters, Austria

Ninety Six, South Carolina, USA 5

Ninety Six Corners, New York, USA 5

Ninetynine Oaks, California, USA

No Guts Captain, Pitcairn Island

No Name, Colorado, USA

Noone, New Hampshire, USA

Normal, Illinois, USA

Nyah and Nyah West, Victoria, Australia

O

�d, Lower Austria, Austria 2 (also meaning "deserted" in German)

Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, England

Old Harry, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada

Os, Hedmark, Norway 2

Os, Hordaland, Norway 2

P

Panthersville, Georgia, USA

Paradise, Pennsylvania, USA

Peckerwood Lake, a lake in Arkansas, USA

Pe��scola, Spain

Penistone, South Yorkshire, England

Petting, Bavaria, Germany

Phuket, Thailand

Piddle, river in Dorset, England

Pie Town, New Mexico, USA

Pis Pis River, Nicaragua

Pity Me, England

Pratt's Bottom, England

Prickwillow, England

Pussy, Savoie, France

Puzzletown, Pennsylvania, USA

Q

R

Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA 3

Re, Vestfold, Norway 2

Ronkonkoma, New York, USA (stress goes on the second syllable)

Rottenegg, Upper Austria, Austria

Rum, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Rum Jungle, Australia

Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England

Ryme Intrinseca, Somerset, England

S

Saddam Hussein, Sri Lanka

Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec, Canada

Saint-Tite (pronounced St. Tit), Quebec, Canada

Salsipuedes, California, USA (meaning: "leave if you can" in Spanish)

Sexmoan, Pampanga, Philippines (now renamed to Sasmuan) 1

Scunthorpe, England

Seldom Seen Roadhouse, Victoria, Australia

Semen, Indonesia

Sexbierum, the Netherlands

Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada

Shafter, California, USA

Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Shag Island, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Indian Ocean (dependency of Australia)

Shag Island, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada 1

Shitlington Crags, Northumberland, England

Shittlehope, Durham, England

Siem Reab, Cambodia (meaning defeat Siam)

Silly, Belgium

Simmering, Vienna, Austria

Smackover, Arkansas, USA

Snapfinger, Georgia, USA

Snodland, England

Sommerloch, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany4 (meaning: "summer slump")

Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada

Stora Stj�rtvecket, Sweden

Swastika, Ontario, in northeastern Ontario near Kirkland Lake, Ontario

Swords, outside Dublin in Ireland

T

Taintsville, Florida, USA

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu Hill, New Zealand 2

Thong, Kent, England

Tittybong, Victoria, Australia

Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Toadsuck, Collinsville, Texas, USA

Toadsuck, Perry County, Arkansas, USA

Tombstone, Arizona

Town of Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, Australia 5

Treinta y Tres (Thirty-Three), Uruguay

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, USA

Twatt, Orkney Islands, Scotland

Twenty, Lincolnshire, England 5

Twentynine Palms, California, USA 5

Two Boars Roll, Pitcairn Island

U

Ugley, Essex, England

Up In Ti, Pitcairn Island

Upotipotpon, Victoria, Australia

Useless Loop, Western Australia, Australia

V

Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta, a train station on the Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu-Renigunta, Andhra Pradesh, India

Venusberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Void, Meuse, France (Now merged with neighbouring place to form Void-Vacon)

Virgin, Nevada, USA

Virginville, Pennsylvania, USA

W

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Waikikamukau, New Zealand

Walla Walla, Washington, USA 3

Wank, mountain in Bavaria, Germany 1 (see List of British English words not used in American English)

Wankdorf, train station in Bern, Switzerland 1

Wankers Corner, Oregon, USA 1

Wedding, Germany

Weed, California, USA

Westward Ho!, England (The punctuation mark is part of the name. The town takes its name from the title of a book by Charles Kingsley)

Wetwang, East Riding of Yorkshire, England 1

What Cheer, Iowa, USA

Where Freddy Fall, Pitcairn Island

Where Minnie Off, Pitcairn Island

Where Reynolds Cut The Firewood, Pitcairn Island

Whroo, Victoria, Australia

Why, Arizona, USA 6

Wigtwizzle, South Yorkshire, England

Wooloomooloo, Sydney, Australia

Woon Gumpus Common, Cornwall, England

Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (home of the Diet of Worms) 7

X

Y

Y, Alaska, USA 2

Y, Somme, France 2

Z

Zzyzx, California

(reason for living) weed