List of places named after peace
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- An Binh, Vietnam
- An-peng, town near Tainan, Taiwan
- Beja, Portugal (from Latin Pax Julia via Arabic Baja)
- Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
- Echota, the old center of the Cherokee nation [1]
- Friedeburg, a city in the Frisian region of Germany
- Friedenburg, town in Perry County, Missouri
- Hoa Binh, Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam
- Jerusalem
- Kyoto (old name 'Heian' = peace)
- International Peace Garden, Manitoba, Canada and North Dakota, USA (the latter nicknamed Peace Garden State)
- La Paz (several places)
- Mir Space Station
- Mirgorod, city in Poltavs’ka oblast’, Ukraine (means Peace City)
- Mirny (means peaceful), several settlements in Russia bear this name
- the Pacific Ocean
- Pacific, Missouri
- Peace river, small river in south-central Florida
- Peace river, major river in British Columbia, Canada
- Peace River, town of 7k on Peace river, Canada
- Peace Dale, village in S. Kingston, Canada
- Port-de-Paix, Haiti
- Salem (several places)
- Sea of Tranquility, on the Moon
- Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park [2], Alberta, Canada and Montana, USA
- Xi'an (literally, western peace)
[edit] List of places indirectly named after peace
- Islamabad, Pakistan
- Pacifica, California
- Pacific Beach, California
- Pacific Beach, Washington
- Pacific City, Oregon
- Pacific Grove, California
- Pacific Heights, California
- Pacific Palisades, California
- Solomon Islands
See also: Peace