List Of Interesting Or Unusual Place Names

• Names suggesting matters sexual or scatological or insulting, usually unintentionally. For example Intercourse, Shitlington Crags, or Silly.
• Some sex-related names are marked 1 below
• Names of unorthodox spelling or sound. For example , Norway or Woolloomooloo.
• Candidates for the shortest or longest word in English or other languages are marked 2.
• Names that are also listed on inherently funny word are marked 3.
• Names that describe something that is in no apparent sense a geographical location. For example, Why, Old Harry, Mutters, Pity Me, and Die.
• Some calendar-related names are marked 4
• Some numerical names are marked 5
• Some names that are interrogative pronouns are marked 6
• Some living organisms' names are marked 7
• Some names relating to food or drink are marked 8
• Names that match or resemble the name of another place many orders of magnitude more well-known, giving opportunity for confusion. For example New York, Lincolnshire, England
• Some names of this kind are marked 9.

A

• , Norway²
• , Sweden ²
• l, Buskerud, Norway ²
• Abbess Roding, Essex, England
• Accident, Maryland, USA
• Adios, Navarre, Spain ("Goodbye" in Spanish)
• Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland ²
• Agenda, Kansas, USA
• Agenda, Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA
• Ah Cut, Pitcairn Island
• Alphabet City, New York, USA
• America, Netherlands
• America, Cambridgeshire, England ⁹
• Ameriikka, Pori, Finland (a dump yard)
• Amerika, Germany ⁹
• Ameryka, Hrubieszow County, Poland ⁹
• Ameryka, Opole Voivodship, Poland ⁹
• Amsterdam, New York, USA ⁹
• Anting, China ⁷
• Apples, Vaud, Switzerland ⁸
• Arab, Alabama, USA (Pronounced "ay-RAB," Arab is down the road from a town called Boaz, which is a Biblical Hebrew name)
• Arabia, a district in Helsinki, Finland ⁹
• Arm, Mississippi
• Arsenic Tubs, New Mexico, USA
• Arsoli, Lazio, Italy
• Arsy, Oise, France
• Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
• Assawoman, Virginia, USA ¹
• Assens, Island of Fyn, Denmark
• teritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijnk, a swamp in Lapland, Finland
• Athens, Alabama, USA ⁹
• Athens, Georgia, USA ⁹
• Atlantic City, Wyoming, USA ⁹
• Atomic City, Idaho, USA
• Au, several towns in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland ²
• Avenue Road, a main street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(and in other cities – there are six in London)

B

• Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany
• Bagdad, Tasmania, Australia ⁹
• Bald Knob, Arkansas, USA
• Banana, Australia ^{7 & 8}
• Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia
• Barrow, Alaska (northernmost city in the USA)
• Barrow-in-Furness, England
• Bastardo, Italy
• Bat and Ball, a railway station in Sevenoaks, Kent, England
• Batman river, Turkey
• Beauty, Kentucky, USA
• Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA ^{1 & 7}
• Beaver, Kentucky
• Beer, Devon, England ⁸
• Belcher, Louisiana, USA
• Belcher, Kentucky, USA
• Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA
• Bendery, Moldova
• Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire, Wales ⁹
• Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA ⁹
• Beverley Hills, New South Wales, Australia ⁹
• Bidon 5, Sahara Desert, Africa ⁵
• Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, USA
• Big Ugly Wilderness Area, West Virginia, USA
• Bischofsloch , Germany ("Bishop's Hole")
• Bishop's Itchington, Warwickshire, England
• Bitey Bitey, Pitcairn Island
• Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, USA
• Blubberhouses, Yorkshire, England
• Blow Me Down, Newfoundland, Canada
• Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
• Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, USA ¹
• Blunts, Cornwall, England (a number of miles southeast of Big Willy)
• B, in Telemark and Nordland, Norway ²
• Boaz, Alabama, USA (Boaz, which is a Biblical Hebrew name, is down the road from a town called Arab)
• Boca Chica, Florida, USA ("little mouth" in Spanish)
• Boca Grande, Florida, USA ("big mouth" in Spanish)
• Boca Raton, Florida, USA ("Mouth of the mouse" in Spanish)
• Bombay, New Zealand ⁹
• Bong Bong, New South Wales, Australia
• Bong County, Liberia
• Bong Recreational Area, Wisconsin, USA
• Boom, Belgium
• Boring, Oregon, USA
• Bottom, North Carolina, USA
• Boulevard Street, a dead-end street in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA (I guess they couldn't decide)
• Bra, Italy
• Brasilien, Germany
• Brazil, Indiana, USA ⁹
• Breaky Bottom, East Sussex, England
• Broadstairs, Kent, England
• Broadway, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Somerset, Suffolk, & Worcestershire, United Kingdom ⁹
• Broadway Street, a main road in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA (again, I guess they couldn't decide)
• Broadway, Virginia, Broadway, North Carolina, and several other places in the USA. You'd think Broadway was a street, not a town. ⁹
• Broken Hill, Australia
• Brown Willy, a tor in Cornwall, England
• Bryndwr, Christchurch, New Zealand (which is as flat as a pancake. "Bryndwr" is Welsh for "steep hill")
• Buckatunna, Mississippi, USA
• Bucksnort, Tennessee, USA
• Buddha, Indiana, USA
• Bulls, New Zealand ⁷
• Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England ⁷
• Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, Australia
• Bush, Kentucky, USA
• Butt of Lewis, northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland

C

• Cabra, Andalusia, Spain (means goat in Spanish) ⁷
• Caesar, Mississippi, USA
• Cairo, Illinois, Cairo, New York, and several other places in the USA ⁹
• California, Birmingham, England ⁹
• California, Buckinghamshire, England ⁹
• California, Falkirk, Scotland ⁹
• California, Maryland, USA ⁹
• California, Norfolk, England ⁹
• California, Pennsylvania, USA ⁹
• Canada, Hampshire, England ⁹
• Cape Catastrophe, South Australia
• Cape Circumcision, Bouvet Island
• Cape Disappointment, Oregon and Washington, USA
• Cape Flattery, Queensland, Australia
• Carne Asada, Portugal (meaning "roasted meat") ⁸
• Carneys Point Township, New Jersey, USA
• Catbrain Hill, Gloucestershire, England
• Cattewater, Devon, England
• Chaldon Herring, Dorset, England
• Chard, Somerset, England
• Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts, USA ²
• Cheesequake, New Jersey, USA ⁸
• Chicken, Alaska, USA ^{7 & 8}
• Chinaman's Knob, Australia
• Christmas Island, Australia ⁴
• Christmaspie, Surrey, England ^{4 & 8}
• Chlebowo, Poland (meaning "bread"; renamed from Niemaschchleba meaning "no one has bread") ⁸
• Chunky, Mississippi, USA
• Climax, Colorado, USA
• Climax, Michigan, USA
• Climax, Minnesota, USA
• Climax, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Clit, Arad, Romania ¹
• Coca Cola, Colón, Panama
• Cockburn, Western Australia (pronounced "Co-burn")
• Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
• Cold Christmas, Hertfordshire, England
• Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Come-by-Chance, New South Wales, Australia
• Condom, Gers, France ¹
• Cool, California, USA
• Coolville, Ohio, USA
• Cow Head, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷
• Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
• Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
• Coxsackie, New York, USA
• Crap, Albania
• Crap Sogn Gion, Graubnden, Switzerland
• Crapolla, Italy
• Crawley, West Sussex, England
• Crowborough, East Sussex, England (Yes, there are a lot of crows there.) ⁷
• Cumming Street, Suva, Fiji ¹
• Cunt, Turkey
• Cunter, Graubnden, Switzerland ¹
• Cuntis, Pontevedra, Spain ¹
• Cut n' Shoot, Texas, USA
• Cut Off, Louisiana, USA

D

• Day, Kentucky, USA
• Decoy, Kentucky, USA
• Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, USA
• Delaware, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Delaware, Ohio, and several other places in the USA ⁹
• Dial Post, Sussex, England
• Dice, Kentucky, USA
• Die, Drme, France
• Dildo Island, South Dildo, and Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada ¹
• Ding Dong, Texas, USA ^{1 8}
• Dismal, Tennessee, USA
• Disappointment Islands
• Dix Hills, New York, USA ¹
• Dondangadale, Victoria, Australia
• Doo Town, Tasmania, Australia (All houses are called something to do with "doo", eg. Doo Little, Doo Drop In, Didgeri-doo, etc.)
• Double Trouble, New Jersey, USA (Also name of a state park)
• Drain, Oregon, USA
• Dresden, Staffordshire, England
• Dry Prong, Louisiana, USA
• Duel, Michigan, USA
• Dummer, New Hampshire, USA
• Dwarf, Kentucky, USA

E

• Eagle, Lincolnshire, England
• Earth, Texas, USA ⁹
• Eastabuchie, Mississippi, USA
• East Fishkill, New York, USA
• East Northport, New York, USA
• Easter Island, Chile ⁴
• Ecce Homo, Schwyz, Switzerland ¹
• Economy, Indiana, USA
• Economy, Pennsylvania, USA
• Ed, Austria ²
• Ed, Sweden ²
• Eel Pie Island, London, England
• Effort, Pennsylvania, USA
• Egg, Austria ⁸
• Egg, Switzerland ⁸
• Egypt, Buckinghamshire, England ⁹
• Egypt, Kentucky, USA
• Eighty Eight, Kentucky, USA ⁵
• Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, USA ⁵
• Elephant Butte, New Mexico, USA ⁷
• Embarrass, Minnesota, USA
• Erode, India
• E. S. Nigger Brown Stand, a section of a rugby stadium in Toowoomba, Australia ⁷
• Esquilant Bivouac, New Zealand
• EU, France ^{2 & 9} (formerly Eu)
• Eye, Cambridgeshire, Eye, Herefordshire, Eye, Suffolk, and the River Eye, England
• Eyebrow, Saskatchewan, Canada

F

• Fa, Aude, France ²
• Fairdealing, Kentucky, USA
• Fakaofo, Tokelau ¹
• Fakfak, Indonesian New Guinea¹
• Fancy Farm, Kentucky, USA
• Fearsville, Kentucky, USA
• Felch, Michigan, USA
• Fertile, Minnesota, USA
• Fishwick, Lancashire, England ⁷
• Five Corners (several), USA ⁵
• Five Forks (several), USA ⁵
• Five Points (several), USA ⁵
• Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
• Florence, Kentucky, Florence, New York, Florence, South Carolina, and several other places in the USA ⁹
• Florida, New York, USA ⁹
• Florida, Massachusetts, USA)
• Flying H, New Mexico, USA
• Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC, USA
• Forks of Salmon, California, USA
• Foul Mile, Sussex, England
• Foulness, Essex, England
• French Lick, Indiana, USA
• Frenchman's Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Fresh Kills, Staten Island, New York, USA
• Friendly, Maryland, USA
• Friendly, West Virginia, USA
• Friendship, Wisconsin, USA
• Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England
• Frog Level, Virginia, USA
• Fucking, Austria ¹
• Fuku, China ¹

G

• Gander, Newfoundland, Canada ⁷
• Gap, Pennsylvania, USA
• Garden, Michigan, USA
• Gas, Kansas, USA
• Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA (recently renamed Aquinnah)
• Gaylord, Michigan, USA
• Gay Street, Bath, England
• Gays Creek, Kentucky, USA
• Geneva, Kentucky, USA
• George, Washington, USA
• Gibraltar, Buckinghamshire, England ⁹
• Gimli, Manitoba, Canada (a rural municipality)
• Gin Bottle, Arkansas, USA
• Gland, France
• Gland, Switzerland
• Gnaw Bone, Indiana, USA
• Goobies, Newfoundland, Canada
• Goodyear, Arizona, USA ⁴
• Goonoo Goonoo, New South Wales, Australia (pronounced "gunna g'noo")
• Goose Green, Vermont, USA; also in the Falkland Islands
• Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollnpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, a train station in Gwynedd, Wales ²
• Grand Tetons, a mountain range in Wyoming, USA (meaning: "big tits" in French) ¹
• Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, USA
• Grandmother Gap, North Carolina, USA
• Great Neck, New York, USA
• Grong Grong, New South Wales, Australia
• Gross, Nebraska, USA
• Grosse Water Beach, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Grosse Tte, Louisiana, USA (meaning: "big head" in French)
• Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
• Gunbarrel Highway, Western Australia, Australia
• Gunbarrel, Colorado, USA
• Gy, Switzerland ²

H

• Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (this name has been referenced on many rock and popular music songs from as early as 1918)
• Half.com, Oregon, USA (yes, it is sponsored by eBay)
• Halfway Bush, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Halfway, Kentucky, USA
• Halfway House, Newfoundland, Canada
• Ham, Kent, England (compounded by its proximity to Sandwich, Kent) ⁸
• Hamtramck, Michigan, USA
• Hard, Austria
• Haseley Knob, Warwickshire, England
• Hazard, Kentucky USA
• Hazardville, Connecticut, USA
• Head of Grassy, Kentucky, USA
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a historic site in Alberta, Canada
• Hel, Poland ⁹
• Hell For Certain, Kentucky, USA
• Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, USA
• Hell Gate, a portion of the East River in New York, USA
• Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
• Hell, Michigan, USA ⁹
• Hell, Norway ⁹
• Hell, Grand Cayman, British West Indies ⁹
• Hells Gate Roadhouse, Australia
• Helper, Utah, USA
• Hempstead, New York, USA
• Hrisson, France (meaning: "hedgehog") ⁷
• Hicksville, New York, and Hicksville, Ohio, USA
• High Point, a mountain in Sussex, New Jersey, USA — the highest point in the state!
• Hi Hat, Kentucky, USA
• Himmelspforte, Germany (meaning: "heaven's gate")
• Hoard, Clark County, Wisconsin, USA
• Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA
• Homochitto, Mississippi, USA
• Homosassa, Florida, USA
• Honor, Michigan, USA
• Hornytown, North Carolina, USA ¹
• Hotazel, Northern Cape, South Africa (pronounced "hot-as-hell")
• Hot Coffee, Mississippi, USA ⁸
• Houston Street, a main road in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York (pronounced "HOW-stin")
• How, Wisconsin, USA ⁶
• Howlong, Victoria, Australia
• Humptulips, Washington, USA
• Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, Australia
• Hungry Law, a peak on the England–Scotland border
• Hungry Mother State Park, Virginia, USA

I

• Ii, Finland ²
• IJ, river in the Netherlands
• Index, Washington, USA
• Indian Queens, Cornwall, England
• Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA ⁹
• Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California (street with the head office of Apple Computer)
• Innaloo (suburb of Perth, Australia)
• Intercourse, Alabama and Intercourse, Pennsylvania, both in USA ¹
• Iowa, Louisiana, USA ⁹
• Ireland, Bedfordshire, England ⁹
• Ironia, New Jersey, USA
• Island, Kentucky, USA
• Isles of Scilly, England (pronounced "silly")
• Italy, Texas, USA ⁹

J

• Jackpot, Nevada, USA
• Jamboree, Kentucky, USA
• Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, USA (you'd think that would be in New Jersey [or have a shore]) ⁹
• Jerusalem, Lincolnshire, England ⁹
• Jerusalem, New Zealand ⁹
• Jerusalemi, Finland ⁹
• Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
• Job, Kentucky, USA
• Jobsville, New Jersey, USA
• Jockey End, Hertfordshire, England
• Joe Batt's Arm, an offshore fixture in Canada
• John Catch a Cow, Pitcairn Island
• John o' Groats, Scotland
• Jot Em Down, Texas, USA
• Jupiter, Florida, USA ⁹
• Jupiter, Romania, and the nearby towns of Saturn, Venus, and Neptun ⁹

K

• Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
• Kalifornien, Germany
• Kau Shi Wai, Hong Kong ("village of dog poo" in Cantonese)
• Kissimmee, Florida, USA (properly pronounced "kis-SIMM-ee" (IPA kǝˈsɪmɪ), but usually mispronounced "KISS-a-me" (ˈkɪsǝmiː) by non-locals)
• Kellys Knob, Kununurra, Australia
• Kissing, Germany
• Klang Valley, Malaysia
• Knob Lick, Missouri, USA
• Kokomo, Indiana, USA
• Koolyanobbing, Western Australia ¹
• Korea, Kentucky, USA
• Korea, Poland ⁹
• 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
• Krypton, Kentucky, USA

L

• La Hoz de la Vieja, Teruell, Spain ("The Old Woman's Sickle")
• Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, Australia
• Lake Titicaca, in Peru and Bolivia
• Largo Labia, Rome, Italy
• Learned, Mississippi, USA
• Le Net, Brittany, France
• Liberal, Kansas, USA
• Lickey End, Worcestershire, England
• Licking County, Ohio, USA
• Lignumvitae Key, Florida, USA
• Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA¹
• Little Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ⁵
• Little George Coc'nuts, Pitcairn Island
• Little Rock, Kentucky, USA
• Lizard Lick, North Carolina, USA
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales ²
• Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole (normally Llanfynydd), Wales ²
• Load, Kentucky, USA
• Long Island, Massachusetts, USA ⁹
• Lord Hereford's Knob — hill on the Welsh–English border
• Los Rbanos, Soria, Spain ("the radishes")
• Lost, Scotland (renamed Lost Farm in 2004)
• Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland (pronounced "Lock Nay")
• Love,Illinois, USA
• Loveland, Ohio, USA
• Loveland, Colorado, USA
• Loveladies, New Jersey, USA
• Lovely, Kentucky, USA
• Lover, Wiltshire, England
• Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
• Loyal, Oklahoma, USA
• Loyal, Wisconsin, USA
• Luck, Wisconsin, USA
• L, Switzerland ²

M

• Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland
• Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
• Mailmanloppu, Finland ("the End of the World")
• Malta, Austria ⁹
• Manunka Chunk, New Jersey, USA
• March, Cambridgeshire, England ⁴
• Mars, Pennsylvania, USA ⁹
• Mary Alice, Kentucky, USA
• Maryland, Gwent, Wales
• Masai, Malaysia
• Mashpee, Massachusetts, USA
• Matching Tye, Essex, England
• Mavis Enderby, Lincolnshire, England
• Mayo, Kentucky, USA
• Meat Camp, North Carolina, USA
• Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Memphis, Tennessee, USA ⁹
• Metropolis, Illinois, USA
• Mexico, Kentucky, USA
• Mexico, New York, USA ⁹
• Miami, Manitoba, Canada ⁹
• Mianus, Connecticut, USA
• Middelfart, Funen, Denmark
• Milton Keynes, England
• Minorsville, Kentucky, USA
• Mockbeggar, England
• Money, Mississippi, USA
• Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, USA
• Monroe, Maryland, USA
• Monster, Netherlands
• Moonlight, New Zealand
• Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
• Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Moretonhampstead, Devon (longest one-word place name in England)
• Moron, USA (the original name of Taft, California)
• Moron, Mongolia
• Morn, Spain (Morn Air Base is the home of the 496th USAF Air Base Squadron)
• Moron, Switzerland
• Moscow, Idaho (Home of the University of Idaho)
• Moscow, Scotland
• Moscow, Kentucky, USA
• Moscow, Tennessee, USA ⁹
• (see also Moscow (disambiguation)
• Mough, Ireland (pronounced Muff) ¹
• Mount Jerome, Ireland
• Mount Gay, West Virginia, USA
• Mount Hopeless, Australia
• Muck, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
• Muff, Northern Ireland
• Muleshoe, Texas, USA
• Mumbles, Wales
• Mutters, Austria

N

• Nar Nar Goon, Victoria, Australia
• Nasty, Hertfordshire, England
• Natters, Austria
• Nauraushaun, New York, USA
• Neck City, Missouri, USA
• New Invention, Shropshire, England
• New Invention, England
• Newtwopothouse and neighbouring Twopothouse in Ireland (among the few properly translated placenames in Ireland)
• Newyork, Argyll and Bute, Scotland ⁹
• New York, Lincolnshire, England ⁹
• New York, North Yorkshire, England ⁹
• New York, Tyne and Wear, England ⁹
• New York Mills, Minnesota, USA ⁹
• New Zealand, Buckinghamshire, England ⁹
• Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand
• Ninety Six, South Carolina, USA ⁵
• Ninety Six Corners, New York, USA ⁵
• Ninetynine Oaks, California, USA ^{5 & 7}
• Nobber, County Meath, Ireland
• Nobottle, Northamptonshire, England
• Nogo, Arkansas, USA
• No Guts Captain, Pitcairn Island
• Nomansland, Wiltshire, and Nomansland, Devon, England
• Nome, Alaska, USA ('No Name' misread by a map maker as 'Nome')
• No Name, Colorado, USA
• No Name Key, Florida, USA
• No Place, County Durham, England
• Noone, New Hampshire, USA
• Normal, Illinois, USA
• Normandy, Surrey, England
• North, South Carolina, USA
• Nothing, Arizona, USA
• Nuckols, Kentucky, USA
• Nunhead, London, England
• Nyah and Nyah West, Victoria, Australia

O

• d, Austria ² (also meaning "deserted" in German)
• Oddville, Kentucky, USA
• Ogle, Kentucky, USA
• Ogre, Latvia
• Ohio, New York, USA ⁹
• Old Harry, Quebec, Canada
• Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, England
• Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
• Oliver Paipoonge, Ontario, Canada
• Ontario, California, USA ⁹
• Opelousas, Louisiana, USA
• Oroville, California and Oroville, Oregon, USA ("Oro" is Spanish for "gold")
• Os, Hedmark, Norway ²
• Os, Hordaland, Norway ²

P

• Paint Lick, Kentucky, USA
• Panthersville, Georgia, USA
• Parachute, Colorado, USA
• Paradise, New Zealand
• Paradise, California, USA
• Paradise, Michigan, USA
• Paradise, Pennsylvania, USA
• Paradiso (Switzerland)
• Paris, Tennessee, USA ⁹
• Paris, Texas, USA
• Paris, Kentucky, USA
• Pease Pottage, West Sussex, England ⁸
• Peckerwood Lake, a lake in Arkansas, USA ¹
• Peculiar, Missouri, USA
• Peep-o-Day, near Wanganui, New Zealand
• Peinlich, a village on the Isle of Skye, UK (means embarrassing in German)
• Penisarwain, Gwynedd, Wales ¹
• Peñíscola, Spain ¹
• Penistone, South Yorkshire, England ¹
• Pennsylvania, Gloucestershire, England
• Peor es nada, Chile (means worse is nothing in Spanish)
• Perl, Germany (and those who work with the Web may be amused to find Apach, France adjacent)
• Petting, Germany
• Philadelphia, Mississippi, USA
• Phuket, Thailand ¹
• Pickle Street, West Virginia (unincorporated, on US 33)
• Picpus (Paris underground railway station)
• Piddle, river in Dorset, England, which runs from near Puddletown to Poole harbour
• Pidley, Cambridgeshire, England ¹
• Pieru, Saarijrvi, Finland (means fart in Finnish)
• Pie Town, New Mexico, USA ⁸
• Pis Pis River, Nicaragua
• Pittsburg, New Hampshire, USA ⁹
• Pity Me, County Durham, England
• Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹
• Plain Dealing, Louisiana, USA
• Pleasureville, Kentucky, USA
• Police, Poland
• Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ⁹
• Poowong, Victoria, Australia,
• Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, USA
• Pratt's Bottom, London, England ¹
• Prickwillow, England ¹
• Pride, Kentucky, USA
• Prussia Cove, Cornwall, England
• Puk, Albania
• Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, Canada
• Pussy, France ¹
• Puzzletown, Pennsylvania, USA

Q

• Quebec, County Durham, England ⁹
• Queen Camel, Somerset, England
• Quicksand, Kentucky, USA

R

• Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, USA
• Ramrod Key, Florida, USA
• Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA ³
• Re, Vestfold, Norway ²
• Reading, Berkshire, England (pronounced "Redding")
• Reading, Pennsylvania, USA (pronounced "Redding")
• Reading, Massachusetts, USA (pronounced "Redding")
• Rectum, Netherlands
• Rest and be thankful, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
• Rifle, Colorado, USA
• Ringoes, New Jersey, USA
• Robert's Arm, Newfoundland, Canada
• Robert Lee, Texas, USA
• Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
• Ronkonkoma, New York, USA (stress on the second syllable)
• Rosenhayn, New Jersey, USA
• Rottenegg, Austria ⁸
• Root, Lucerne, Switzerland
• Rough and Ready, California, USA
• Rule, Texas, USA
• Rum, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland ⁸
• Rum, Austria ⁸
• Rum Jungle, Australia ⁸
• Rust, Austria
• Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England
• Ry, Denmark ²
• Ryme Intrinseca, Somerset, England

S

• Sacramento, Kentucky, USA
• Saddam Hussein, Sri Lanka (the Iraqi dictator donated money to the town after a destructive 1978 cyclone.)
• Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec, Canada
• Saint-Tite, Quebec, Canada (pronounced "St Tit")
• Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
• Samendorf, Austria ('town of semen')
• San Francisco, Costa Rica ⁹
• Sandwich, Kent, England ⁸
• Sandwich, Massachusetts, USA ⁸
• Salsipuedes, California, USA (meaning: "leave if you can" in Spanish)
• Santa Claus, Georgia, USA
• Santa Claus, Indiana, USA
• Santa Claus, Ohio, USA (There is a Christmas-related theme park there)
• Saracen's Head, Lincolnshire, England
• Satan's Kingdom, Vermont, USA
• Satsuma, Alabama, USA
• Schenectady, New York, USA (pronounced "Ske-NECT-i-dee")
• Scotland, Lincolnshire, England ⁹
• Scotland, West Yorkshire, England ⁹
• Scunthorpe, England (causes problems with some child-protection filters)
• Secretary, Maryland, USA
• Seldom Seen Roadhouse, Victoria, Australia
• Semen, Indonesia ¹
• Seven Corners, Virginia, USA
• Also the name of an intersection in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (now rebuilt in a more traffic-friendly arrangement)
• Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, Australia ^{4 & 5}
• Sex Rouge, a mountain in the Swiss Alps ¹
• Sexbierum, the Netherlands
• Sasmuan, Pampanga, Philippines (now renamed Sasmuan) ¹
• Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada ¹
• 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
• Shag Point, New Zealand ¹
• Shag River, New Zealand ¹
• Shit, Iran
• Shitagoo Lake, Quebec, Canada
• Shitlington Crags, Northumberland, England
• Shittlehope, Durham, England
• Shoulderblade, Kentucky, USA
• Sideview, Kentucky, USA
• Siem Reab, Cambodia (meaning defeat Siam)
• Siesta Key, Florida, USA
• Silly, Belgium
• Simmering, Vienna, Austria
• Siren, Wisconsin, USA
• Sissy, France (commune)
• 6, West Virginia, USA (the town has been renamed) ⁵
• Skaneateles, New York, USA (pronounced like skinny Atlas)
• Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan, USA
• Slough, England (rhymes with "cow")
• Smackover, Arkansas, USA
• Snafu Creek, Yukon, Canada
• Snapfinger, Georgia, USA
• Snodland, Kent, England
• Sommerloch, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany ⁴ (meaning: "summer slump")
• Sort, Lleida, Spain (means luck in Catalan)
• Soweto, South Africa (derived from an abbreviation of "South Western Townships")
• Spit Junction, New South Wales, Australia
• Splatt, Devon, England
• Splott, Cardiff, Wales
• Spooner, Wisconsin, USA
• Spunk Creek, Minnesota, USA and related bodies of water such as Middle Spunk Lake ¹
• Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada
• Stamping Ground, Kentucky, USA
• Stockolm, Finland ⁹
• Stora Stjrtvecket, Sweden
• Strata Florida Abbey, Dyfed, Wales
• Suez, Finland ⁹
• Sugar Land, Texas, USA
• Sugar Tit, South Carolina, USA ¹
• Sumerduck, Virginia, USA
• Surprise, Arizona, USA
• Surprise, Nebraska, USA
• Swastika, Ontario, Canada
• Swords, outside Dublin, Ireland
• Syberia, Poland ⁹

T

• Taintsville, Florida, USA
• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu Hill, New Zealand
• Te Puke, New Zealand
• Te Urewera National Park, New Zealand ("Te Urewera" is Maori for "the burnt penis")
• Terry Hie Hie, New South Wales, Australia
• Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu, New Zealand ²
• Texas, Queensland, Australia ⁹
• Thong, Kent, England
• Thousand Oaks, California, USA ^{5 & 7}
• Thousandsticks, Kentucky, USA
• Tiddleywink, Wiltshire, England
• Tightsqueeze, Virginia, USA
• Tightwad, Missouri, USA
• Titisee, Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany
• Titlis, Switzerland
• Tittybong, Victoria, Australia
• Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Toadsuck, Texas, USA
• Toadsuck, Perry County, Arkansas, USA
• Toast, North Carolina, USA ⁸
• Tombstone, Arizona, USA
• Toronto, County Durham, England ⁹
• Touristville, Kentucky, USA
• Towcester, Northamptonshire, England (pronounced "toaster")
• Transylvania, Louisiana, USA
• Treinta y Tres, Uruguay (thirty-three)
• Troia, Calabria, Italy (means "slut")
• True, Wisconsin, USA
• Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, USA
• Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland
• Turda, Cluj, Romania
• Turkey, Kentucky, USA
• Tutaekuri River, New Zealand ("Tutaekuri" is Maori for "dogshit")
• Twatt, Orkney Islands, Scotland
• Twatt, Shetland Islands, Scotland
• Twenty, Lincolnshire, England ⁵
• Twentynine Palms, USA ⁵
• Twinsburg, Ohio, USA ⁷
• Two Boars Roll, Pitcairn Island

U

• U (Cocl), Panama
• Ugley, Essex, England
• Ultima, Victoria, Australia
• Unalaska, Alaska, USA
• Unnamed Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia
• Up In Ti, Pitcairn Island
• Upotipotpon, Victoria, Australia
• Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
• Upper Swan, Western Australia, Australia
• Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Usa, Oita, Japan ⁹ (Rumors that the town was so named so its exports could bear the label "Made in USA" are apocryphal.)
• Useless Loop, Western Australia, Australia

V

• Vagina, Kurganskaya Oblast, Russia
• Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta, a train station on the Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu–Renigunta, Andhra Pradesh line, India
• Venusberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Void, Meuse, France (now merged with a neighbouring place to form Void-Vacon)
• Vienna, Virginia, USA ⁹
• Virgin, Nevada, USA
• Virgin, Utah, USA
• Virginia Water, Surrey, England
• Virginville, Pennsylvania, USA
• Vulcan, Alberta, Canada

W

• Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
• Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
• Walla Walla, Washington, USA ³
• Wanglik (Hengli), Guangdong, China
• Wangs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
• Wangs, Minnesota, USA
• Wank, mountain in Bavaria, Germany ¹ (see List of British English words not used in American English)
• Wankdorf, suburb of Bern, Switzerland, and motorway interchange A1 / A6 ¹
• Wankers Corner, Oregon, USA ¹
• Wankham, Upper Austria, Austria
• Wankie, former name of Hwange, Zimbabwe ¹
• Ware, Massachusetts, USA
• Ware, Hertfordshire, England ⁶
• Watanobbi, New South Wales, Australia
• Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
• Weare, New Hampshire, USA (pronounced "weer," but often pronounced "where?" or "we are" by non-locals) ⁶
• Wedding, Germany
• Weed, California, USA
• Weir, Mississippi, USA (Pronounced "where") ⁶
• Welcome, South Carolina, USA
• Wendy-cum-Jolly, Hertfordshire, England
• Westward Ho!, Devon, England (the punctuation mark is part of the name. The town takes its name from the title of a book by Charles Kingsley)
• Wetwang, Yorkshire, England ¹
• Whakapapa skifield, New Zealand, and many other similar placenames ("Wh-" is pronounced as "F" in Maori) ¹
• Wham, North Yorkshire, England
• 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
• Whynot, Mississippi, USA
• Wide Open, Tyne and Wear, England
• Wigley, Derbyshire, England
• Wigley, Hampshire, England
• Wigley, Shropshire, England
• Wigtwizzle, South Yorkshire, England
• Winter, Wisconsin, USA ⁴
• Wisdom, Montana, USA
• Wisdom's Bottom, Oxfordshire, England (not a settlement name, but appears on maps as a geographical feature. A bottom is a dry valley or hollow.)
• Woodenbong, New South Wales, Australia
• Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
• Woon Gumpus Common, Cornwall, England
• Wong Way , street in Singapore
• Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (home of the Diet of Worms) ⁷
• Wynot, Nebraska, USA
• Wyoming, New South Wales, Australia ⁹

X

Y

• Y, Alaska, USA ²
• Y, Somme, France ²
• Yaphank, New York, USA
• Ybor City, Florida, USA
• Yreka, California, USA

Z

• Zap, North Dakota, USA
• Zig Zag, New South Wales, Australia
• Zelienople, Pennsylvania, USA
• Zonguldak, Turkey
• Zzyzx, California, USA

See Also

• List of unusual English words
• Street sign theft
• List of toponyms (names derived from place names)
• Toponymy

Further Reading

• Far from Dull: and other places ISBN 095422177X

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