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The following international geographical names are either interesting or unusual. This list is provided chiefly for its entertainment value.

Exactly what is "interesting or unusual" is of course open to debate, but most of the names fall into recognisable categories:

Names suggesting matters sexual or scatological or insulting, usually unintentionally. For example Intercourse, Shitlington Crags, or Silly, Belgium.
- Some sex-related names are marked 1 below
Names of unorthodox spelling or sound. For example Å 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 as to 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 much better known place, giving opportunity for confusion (for example New York, Lincolnshire, England, or Boston (also, coincidentally, in Lincolnshire)) can be found in the List of misleading place names.
Names that are insulting or may hurt some groups of people, such as the town of Siem Reap, Cambodia (literally "the defeat of Siam") , or the small settlement of La-Mort-aux-Juifs (literally "the death of the Jews"), in the municipality (commune) of Courtemaux, France.

Many place names that appear odd to English-speakers are from other languages. Often they are either meaningless or innocuous in their own tongue. The arguably best-known examples of this are the town of Condom, France, and the village of Fucking, Austria.

Because of problems associated with an unusual place name, some towns and cities have chosen to rename themselves.

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1770, Queensland, Australia
6, West Virginia, USA – former town

==A==

The village of Å in Norway

Å in Norway & Sweden². Its name is Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish for "small river".
Aars, Denmark
Abbess Roding, Essex, England
Accident, Maryland, USA
Adios, Navarre, Spain ("Goodbye" in Spanish)
Advance, Indiana, USA
Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland ²
Agency, Iowa, USA
Agenda in Kansas, & Wisconsin, USA
Aha, Okinawa Island, Japan
Ah Cut, Pitcairn Island
Ai, Ohio, USA
Ål, Buskerud, Norway ². Its name is Danish, Norwegian and Swedish for "eel".
Alert, Indiana, USA, and Alert, Nunavut, Canada
Almarosa Avenue, Torrance, California, Combination of alma rosa, the Spanish words for "rosy soul". Once named by the Los Angeles Times as one of California's most unusual street names.
Alpha in Michigan, Minnesota, and New Jersey, USA
Alphabet City, a neighborhood of New York City, USA
Amarillo, Texas, USA: Spanish for "yellow", although most Texans pronounce the two "ll"'s as l's like in english, not like a y as in spanish.
Amen, Drenthe, Netherlands
America, Limburg, Netherlands. It has been stated that the name originates with the German Am Erica = "near (the) erica/heather". This, however, is most unlikely as Erica is a feminine word in Neo-Latin as well as in Middle-High German and would therefore not have been Am. The more likely explanation would have been a naming after places in other countries, such as Kalifornien, Amerika (Saxony), Brasilien (Scleswig-Holstein, and England (Bavaria).
Anaconda, Montana, USA
Anaheim, California, USA, named by German settlers as the home or heim of the Santa Ana River; unusual combination of Spanish and German
Anse-Qui-Pue (L'), Quebec, Canada ("The Cove that Stinks")
Antelope, Saskatchewan, Canada
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)
Arm, Mississippi
Arresting, Lower Bavaria, Germany
Arrowbear, California, USA, midway between Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear City
Arsenic Tubs, New Mexico, USA
Arsoli, Lazio, Italy
Arsy, Oise, France
Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey, USA
Artichoke, Minnesota, USA
As, Limburg, Belgium
Aš, Czech Republic
Ås, five places in Sweden (means small mountain ridge)
Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
Assawoman, Virginia, USA ¹
Asse, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Assens, Island of Fyn, Denmark
Athol, Massachusetts, USA
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)
Azusa, California, USA

==B==

Road sign for Boring, Oregon

Bachelor's Bump, East Sussex, England
Bad Axe, Michigan, USA
Bad Gastein, Austria
Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany
Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Badgers Mount, Kent, UK
Bagdad, Arizona, USA
Bagdad, Tasmania, Australia
Baie des Ha! Ha!, Quebec, Canada ("Ha! Ha! Bay")
Bakewell, Derbyshire, England-known for its puddings
Bald Knob, Arkansas, USA
Ball, Arizona and Ball, Louisiana, USA
Ballast, Drenthe, Netherlands
Balzac, Alberta, Canada
Ballsbridge — a suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Bam, Iran
Banana, Queensland, Australia ^{7 & 8}
Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia
Bankass, Mali
Barf (Lake District), hill in the Lake District, England
Barking, Greater London, England
Barrow, Alaska (northernmost city in the USA)
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Bastard Township, Ontario
Bastardo, Italy
Bat and Ball, a railway station in Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Batang Berjuntai, Selangor, Malaysia (In Malay, berjuntai means dangling. While batang could either mean a rod or a stream, in some colloquial usage, it carries a connotation of the male sexual organ.)
Bates Motel, Ontario, Oregon
Bath, Somerset, England
Bath, Zeeland, Netherlands
Bath, New York USA
Bathmen, Overijssel, Netherlands
Batman, Batman Province and Batman River, Turkey
Beauty, Kentucky, USA
Beaver (several places in the USA)^{1 & 7}
Beaver City, Nebraska, USA
Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, USA
Beaver Lick, Kentucky, USA
Beaverton in Ontario, Canada and Oregon, USA
Bee, Nebraska, USA
Beer, Devon, England ⁸
Belcher in Louisiana & Kentucky
Belcher Islands, Nunavut, Canada
Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA
Belper, Derbyshire, England³
Bendery, Moldova
Ben Hur, Texas, USA
Ben Hur, Virginia, USA
Best, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Best, Texas, USA
Between, Georgia, USA
Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada
Bidon 5, Sahara Desert, Africa ⁵
Big Bear City, California, USA ⁷
Big Beaver Road, Troy, Michigan, USA — not just a small street, but a main thoroughfare. Furthermore, from Interstate 75, one must take exit 69 to get to Big Beaver Road.
Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, USA
Big Right Hand, West Virginia, USA
Big Ugly Wilderness Area, West Virginia, USA
Bischofsloch, Germany ("Bishop's Hole")
Bishop's Itchington, Warwickshire, England
Bitey Bitey, Pitcairn Island
Bitche, France
Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, USA
Birdsnest, Virginia, USA
Black Hammer Township, Minnesota, USA
Blackboy Hill, Bristol, England (At the top end of Whiteladies Road)
Blackjack, Texas, USA
Bland, Missouri, USA
Blewett, Texas, USA
Blow Me Down, Newfoundland, Canada
Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
Blubberhouses, Yorkshire, England
Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, USA ¹
Blue Cow, New South Wales, Australia
Blunt, South Dakota, USA
Blunts, Cornwall, England (a number of miles southeast of Big Willy)
Bo, Sierra Leone²
Bø, 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 (lit. "Mouth of the mouse" in Spanish, idiom for "Den of Thieves")
Bonesteel, South Dakota, USA
Bong Bong, New South Wales, Australia
Bong County, Liberia
Bong Recreational Area, Wisconsin, USA
Bongoville, Gabon (Named after President Omar Bongo of Gabon)
Bonkle, Lanarkshire, Scotland.³ and possibly ¹ since bonk is English slang for sexual intercourse.
Bono, Arkansas, USA
Boobey Brook, New Brunswick, Canada
Booger Mountain, North Carolina, USA
Boom, Belgium
Booti Booti National Park, Australia
Boring, Oregon, USA
Boron, California, USA
Bottom, North Carolina, USA
Boulevard Street, a dead-end street in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Boutilimit, Mauritania
Bra, Italy
Braga, Portugal (it means "knickers" (U.K.) or "panties" (U.S.) in Spanish)
Braintree, a place name in the United Kingdom as well as both Massachusetts and Vermont, USA
Bras d'Or Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
Brasilien, Germany
Breakabeen, New York, USA (close to the Dutch translation of "break a leg")
Breaky Bottom, East Sussex, England
Bredon Hill, England (translated: "hill hill hill")
Brest, France
Bright, Indiana, USA
Brighton & Hove England. Only city with an ampersand (&) in its name.
Broadstairs, Kent, England
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Australian mining giant BHP stands for Broken Hill Proprietary Company
Brown Cow Lane, Barlow, England
Brown Willy, a tor in Cornwall, England
Bruno, Minnesota, USA
Bryndwr, Christchurch, New Zealand (which is as flat as a pancake. "Bryndwr" is Welsh for "steep hill")
Buckatunna, Mississippi, USA
Buckhead, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Bucksnort, Tennessee, USA
Buddha, Indiana, USA
Bugyi, Hungary (it means "knickers" (U.K.) or "panties" (U.S.))
Bullhead City, Arizona, USA; named for a nearby rock formation shaped like a bull's head; submerged soon after the completion of nearby Davis Dam
Bulls, New Zealand ⁷
Bullocks Corners, Ontario, Canada
Bullocks Flat, New South Wales, Australia
Bumble Hole, West Midlands, England
Bumpass, Virginia, USA
Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Bungle Bungles, Western Australia, Australia
Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England ⁷
Burnt Hill, Berkshire, England
Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, Australia
Bush, Kentucky, USA
Butt Hole Lane¹, Conisbrough, England
Butt Hole Lane¹, Shepshed, Leicestershire, England
Butt of Lewis, northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Buttahatchee River, Alabama and Mississippi, USA
Butte, Montana, USA
Butts Valley, Christchurch, New Zealand
Buttzville, New Jersey, USA

==C==

Cumming Street and Seaman Avenue in Manhattan New York City

Cabra, Andalusia, Spain (means goat in Spanish) ⁷
Caesar, Mississippi, USA
Calabasas, California, USA; Spanish for "pumpkins"
Calexico, California, USA (portmanteau of "California" and "Mexico"; it lies by the border between the two [see also: Mexicali])
Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada, USA; portmanteau of California, Nevada and Arizona
Camel Hump, Wyoming, USA
Canal Street, Manchester, UK; a street with many popular gay bars and clubs. The first letter of each word is often scratched out for ironic purposes.
Cape Catastrophe, South Australia
Cape Circumcision, Bouvet Island
Cape Disappointment, Oregon and Washington, USA
Cape Flattery, Queensland, Australia
Cape Foulwind, South Island, New Zealand
Cape St. George-Petit Jardin-Grand Jardin-De Grau-Marches Point-Loretto, Newfoundland, Canada
Caress, West Virginia, USA
Caribou-qui-Pisse (Chute du), Quebec, Canada (lit. "Pissing Caribou Falls")
Carne Assada, Portugal (meaning "roasted meat") ⁸
Carneys Point Township, New Jersey, USA
Carpenter, Mississippi, USA
Carpinteria, California, USA; Spanish for "carpenter shop"
Carsick, Sheffield, England
Catbrain Hill, Gloucestershire, England
Cathedral City, California USA; named not for the house of worship but for a rock formation. There are no cathedrals in Cathedral City.
Cathole, Devon, England
Cattewater, Devon, England
Center of the World, Ohio, USA
Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA, built on property that was once the backlot of Twentieth Century Fox
Cereal, Alberta, Canada ⁸
Chaldon Herring, Dorset, England
Chalk, Texas, USA
Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
Chalybeate, Mississippi, USA
Chard, Somerset, England
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts, USA ²
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Cheesequake, New Jersey, USA ⁸
Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
Chew Magna, England
Chicken, Alaska, USA ^{7 & 8}
Chili, New York, USA⁸ (pronounced CHYE-lye, often mispronounced by non-locals)
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
Chinaman's Knob, Australia
Chino, California, USA ("Chino" is the Spanish word for "Chinese man".)
Chipping Sodbury, England
Christmas Island, Australia ⁴
Christmas, Michigan, USA ⁴
Christmas Pie, Surrey, England ^{4 & 8}
Chlebowo, Poland (meaning "bread"; renamed from Niemaschchleba meaning "no one has bread") ⁸
Chuckanut Mountain, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Chugwater, Wyoming, USA
Chulahoma, Mississippi, USA
Chunky, Mississippi, and the nearby Chunky River, USA
Climax, Colorado, Climax, Michigan, Climax, Minnesota, Climax, Georgia USA and Climax, Saskatchewan, Canada ¹
Climax Springs, Missouri, USA ¹
Clit, Arad, Romania ¹
Clitherall, Minnesota, USA ¹
Clowne, Derbyshire, England
Coachella, California and the corresponding Coachella Valley, USA; etymology uncertain, but generally attributed to a misspelling of the Spanish word conchella, or seashell.
Coalinga, California, USA; attributed to a Standard Oil installation in the area called "Coaling Station A," used as a fueling point for steam locomotives.
Coca Cola, Colón, Panama
Cockburn, Western Australia (pronounced "Co-burn") ^{1 & 7}
Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
Cockfosters, London; Name of a station on the tube.
Cocks, Cornwall, England
Coffeeville, Mississippi, USA
Cold Christmas, Hertfordshire, England
Colon, Michigan, USA
Combined Locks, Wisconsin, USA
Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Come-by-Chance, New South Wales, Australia
Commerce, California, USA
Competition, Missouri, USA
Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Conception Junction, Missouri, USA ¹
Concepcion, Texas, USA
Condom, Gers, France ¹
Cool, California, USA
Coolville, Ohio, USA
Corney, Cumbria, England
Cornville, Maine, USA ⁸
Cosmos, Minnesota, USA
Cow Head, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
Cowlick, Indiana, USA
Coxsackie, New York, USA
Crackertown, Florida, USA
Crackpot, Yorkshire, England
Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, Canada
Crap, Albania
Crap Sogn Gion, Graubünden, Switzerland
Crapo, Maryland
Crapo Street, Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
Crapolla, Italy
Crawley, West Sussex, England
Crook of Devon, Scotland. Jokingly twinned with the Thief of Baghdad³
Crooked Usage, street in Hendon, London, England
Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
Cross-in-Hand, East Sussex, England
Crowborough, East Sussex, England (Yes, there are a lot of crows there.) ⁷
Cumbum, Theni District, India
Cumming, Georgia, USA ¹
Cumming Street, Suva, Fiji ¹
Cumming Street, Inwood Section of Manhattan in New York (which intersects with Seaman Avenue...no kidding)
Cunt, Turkey ¹
Cunter, Graubünden, Switzerland ¹
Cuntis, Pontevedra, Spain ¹
Curry Mallet, Somerset, England
Cut n' Shoot, Texas, USA
Cut Off, Louisiana, USA
Czar, West Virginia, USA

[edit] D

Sign pointing to Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador

D'Lo, Mississippi, USA
Day, Kentucky, USA
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany ("Intestine City")
Deaf Smith County, Texas, USA
Death Valley, California, USA
Decoy, Kentucky, USA
Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, USA
Defiance, Ohio, USA
Del Mar, California & Del Mar, Texas, USA (grammatically-incorrect Spanish; simply translates to "of the sea")
Delta in many places
Desert Center, California, USA
Destruction Bay, Yukon, Canada
Devils Elbow, Missouri, USA
Devil's Beef Tub, Scotland (A large depression where border rievers hid stolen cattle)
Devil's Playground, in Mojave, California, USA
Devil's Point, Plymouth, England
Dial Post, Sussex, England
Dice, Kentucky, USA
Die, Drôme, France
Difficult, Tennessee, USA
Dike Road, Winter Park, Florida
Dildo Island, South Dildo, and Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada ¹
Dime Box, Texas, USA
Ding Dong, Texas, USA ¹ ⁸
Dirt Road, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA
Dirty Devil Wash, Nevada, USA
Disappointment Islands
DISH, Texas, named so to obtain free Dish Network for 10 years
Dismal, Tennessee, USA
Dix Hills, New York, USA ¹
Doodstil, Netherlands (translates as "dead silent")
Doo Town, Tasmania, Australia (all houses are called something to do with "doo", eg. Doo Little, Doo Drop In, Didgeri-doo, etc.)
Donner and Blitzen River, Frenchglen, Oregon
Double Trouble, New Jersey, USA (also name of a state park)
Drain, Oregon, USA
Drama Near Thessaloniki, Northern Greece
Draw, Texas, USA
Dresden, Staffordshire, England
Driehuizen, Netherlands (translates as "three houses")
Drogen, Germany (translates as "drugs")
Dry Prong, Louisiana, USA
Duel, Michigan, USA
Dummer, New Hampshire, USA
Dwarf, Kentucky, USA

[edit] E

E Plantation, Maine, USA
Eagle, Lincolnshire, England
Eagle Butte, South Dakota USA
Earth, Texas, USA
Eastabuchie, Mississippi, USA
East Fishkill, New York, USA
East Northport, New York, USA
East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada
Easter Island, Chile ⁴
Eaton, Ohio
Ecce Homo, Schwyz, Switzerland ¹
Eclectic, Alabama, USA
Economy in Indiana, and Pennsylvania, USA and Nova Scotia, Canada
Ecum Secum, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ed, Austria ²
Ed, Sweden ²
Ed, Kentucky, USA
Ee, The Netherlands
Eek, Alaska, USA
Eel Pie Island, London, England
Effort, Pennsylvania, USA
Egg, Austria ⁸
Egg (an der Günz), Germany
Egg, Switzerland ⁸
Egg Harbor, New Jersey, USA
Eighty Eight, Kentucky, USA ⁵
Equality, Alabama, USA
Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, USA ⁵
El Cajon, California, USA (Spanish for "the box" or "the coffin")
El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula, USA (Full name of "Los Angeles")
Elbow, Saskatchewan, Canada
Electra, Groningen, Netherlands
Elend, Germany (german word for misery)
Elephant Butte, New Mexico, USA ⁷
Elephant and Castle, London, England (a well-known road intersection)
Embarrass, Minnesota, USA
Embarrass, Wisconsin, USA
Empire, Michigan, USA
Energy, Texas, USA
Enfant-Qui-Vole (Lac de l'), Quebec, Canada (lit. "Lake of the Child Who Steals")
Enter, Twente, Netherlands
Entrance, Alberta, Canada
Erode, India
Eromanga, Australia (Japanese for hentai manga)
E. S. Nigger Brown Stand, a section of a rugby stadium in Toowoomba, Australia ⁷
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ("Food") ⁸
Esquilant Bivouac, New Zealand
EU, France ^{2 & 9} (formerly Eu)
Eustace, Texas, USA
Evry, France
Eye, Cambridgeshire, Eye, Herefordshire, Eye, Suffolk, as well as the River Eye, England, and River Eye, Scotland,
Eyebrow, Saskatchewan, Canada

[edit] F

The village of Fucking, Austria.

Fa, Aude, France ²
Fagus, Missouri, USA
Fair Play, South Carolina, USA
Fairdealing, Kentucky, USA
Fairy, Texas, USA
Fakaofo, Tokelau ¹
Fakfak, Indonesian New Guinea¹
Fancy Farm, Kentucky, USA
Fanny, West Virginia, USA
Fanny on the Hill, public house in Welling, south east London, England
Fannystelle, Manitoba, Canada
Fanny Street, in Cardiff, Wales
Faro, Yukon, Canada, named after the Faro card game
Fatherless Barn, West Midlands, England
Fearsville, Kentucky, USA
Fegefeuer, Germany (German for "purgatory")
Felch, Michigan, USA
Fertile, Minnesota, USA
Fine, New York, USA
Fighting Cox, Co. Carlow, Ireland
Fingerville, South Carolina, USA
Fingringhoe, Essex, England
Fish Camp, California, USA
Fishkill, New York, USA ("kill" is an old Dutch word for a small stream)
Fishs Eddy, New York, USA (the missing apostrophe in "Fishs" is deliberate)
Fishwick, Lancashire, England ⁷
Fister, Norway (yes, really...)
Five Corners (several), USA ⁵
Five Forks (several), USA ⁵
Five Points (several), USA ⁵
Flat, Missouri, USA
Fleahop, Alabama, USA
Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
Flintstone, Maryland USA
Fly Don't Drive, (street name) Traverse City, Michigan, USA
Flippin, Arkansas, USA
Flying H, New Mexico, USA
Foch, West Virginia, USA
Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC, USA
Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England (the "l" is silent)
Fonzo, West Virginia, USA
Forks of Salmon, California, USA
Fort Bliss US Army Post, Texas, USA
Foul Mile, Sussex, England
Foulness, Essex, England
French Camp, California, USA
French Lick, Indiana, USA
Frenchman's Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada
Fresh Kills, Staten Island, New York, USA
Friend, Kansas, USA
Friendly, Maryland, USA and Friendly, West Virginia, USA
Friendship, Wisconsin, USA
Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England
Frog Level, Virginia, USA
Frognot, Texas, USA
Fryingpan River, Colorado, USA
Fryup, Yorkshire, England ⁸
Fucking, Austria ¹
Fuk Man Road, Hong Kong
Fuku, China ¹
Fukyu, Japan ¹
Future City, Illinois, USA
Fyshwick, A.C.T., Australia

[edit] G

Gander, Newfoundland, Canada ⁷
Gap, Pennsylvania, USA
Garden, Michigan, USA
Garden of Eden, Nova Scotia, Canada
Gary, Indiana, USA
Gas, Kansas, USA
Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA (recently renamed Aquinnah)
Gaylord, Michigan, USA and Gaylord, Minnesota.
Gayton (several places in England) ¹
Gay Street, Bath, England, Winter Park, Florida USA, and Columbus, Ohio USA, Greenwich Village, New York City
Gay, Michigan, USA
Gay, West Virginia, USA
Gay State Forest, a state forest in Chesire County, New Hampshire, USA
Gayhill, Texas, USA
Gays, Illinois, USA
Gays Creek, Kentucky, USA
Gays Place, Swindon, UK
Gaysville, Vermont, USA
Gelang Patah (which means broken bangle in Malay), Malaysia
George, Washington, USA
Germfask, Michigan, USA
Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, England
Gimli, Manitoba, Canada (a rural municipality)
Gin Bottle, Arkansas, USA
Gin Hole Landing, Florida, USA
Gip, West Virginia, USA
Gland, France and Gland, Switzerland
Glasscock County, Texas, USA
Gnaw Bone, Indiana, USA
Gods Lake Narrows, Manitoba, Canada
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
Goree, Texas, USA
Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, a train station in Gwynedd, Wales ²
Gothom City, Wisconsin, USA
Grand Tetons, a mountain range in Wyoming, USA (meaning: "big nipples" in French) ¹
Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, USA
Grandmother Gap, North Carolina, USA
Great Neck, New York, USA
Grong Grong, New South Wales, Australia
Gropecunt Lane, England, United Kingdom
Grosse Water Beach, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Grosse Tête, Louisiana, USA (meaning: "big head" in French)
Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
Gunbarrel Highway, Western Australia, Australia
Gunbarrel, Colorado, USA
Gy, Switzerland ²
Gypsy, West Virginia, USA

==H==

Old cargo handling office, Hell railway station, Norway

Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (this name has been referenced on many rock and popular music songs from as early as 1918)
Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri, USA
Half.com, Oregon, USA (it is sponsored by eBay)
Halfway Bush, Dunedin, New Zealand
Halfway, Kentucky, USA and Halfway, Missouri, USA
Halfway House, Newfoundland, Canada
Halo, West Virginia, USA
Ham, Wiltshire and Ham, Kent (the latter is near Sandwich, Kent), both in England ⁸
Hamtramck, Michigan, USA
Happy, Texas, USA
Happy Adventure, Newfoundland, Canada
Happy Union, Texas, USA
Hard, Austria
Haseley Knob, Warwickshire, England
Hawaiian Gardens, California, USA
Hazard, Kentucky USA
Hazardville, Connecticut, USA
Head of Grassy, Kentucky, USA
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a historic site in Alberta, Canada
Headland, Alabama, USA
Health Steele, New Brunswick, Canada. ³
Heart's Content, Newfoundland, Canada
Hell, Gelderland, Netherlands
Hel, Poland
Hell, Norway
Hell Corner, Berkshire, England
Hell For Certain, Kentucky, USA
Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, USA
Hell's Gate, on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada
Hell Gate, a portion of the East River in New York, USA
Hell Gate, Georgia, USA
Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
Hell, Michigan, USA & Hell, Grand Cayman, British West Indies
Hella, Iceland
Hellgate Pond, Georgia, USA
Hellhole Branch, Georgia, USA
Hellhole Mountain, Georgia, USA
Hells Gate, Georgia, USA (not the same as Hell Gate, GA)
Hells Gate, Queensland, Australia
Helper, Utah, USA
Hen Scratch, Florida, USA
Hempstead, New York, USA
Hérisson, France (meaning: "hedgehog") ⁷
Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, USA
Hibb's Hole, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Hicksville, New York, and Hicksville, Ohio, USA
High Level, Alberta, Canada
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")
Hīt, Iraq
Ho, Ghana
Hoard, Clark County, Wisconsin, USA
Hobart, North Dakota, USA
Hockin, Manitoba, Canada
Hoeryong, North Korea (similar to Dutch "hoerenjong", meaning literally "child of a whore")
Hoho, Laukaa, Finland
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA
Hokah, Minnesota, USA
Hole-in-the-Day Lake, Minnesota, USA
Hole in the Ground, Oregon, USA
Hole in the Wall, Bahamas
Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Honker Bay, California, USA
Hometown, Illinois
Hometown, Pennsylvania
Hometown, West Virginia
Homochitto, Mississippi, USA
Homosassa, Florida, USA
Honor, Michigan, USA
Hongerige Wolf, Groningen, Netherlands (translation: "hungry wolf")
Hooker, Oklahoma, USA
Horace, North Dakota, USA
Hornytown, North Carolina, USA ¹
Horloge-Qui-Boîte island (L'), Quebec (lit. "The Limping Clock")
Hotazel, Northern Cape, South Africa (pronounced "hot-as-hell")
Hotchkiss, Alberta, Canada
Hot Coffee, Mississippi, USA ⁸
Houston Street, a main road in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York (pronounced "HOW-stin")
How, Wisconsin, USA ⁶
Howard City, Michigan, USA
Howlong, New South Wales, Australia
Humptulips, Washington, USA
Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, Australia
Hungry Horse, Montana, USA
Hungry Law, a peak on the England–Scotland border
Hungry Mother State Park, Virginia, USA
Hurricane, Utah, USA
Hurricane, West Virginia, USA (pronounced Her-i-kin)
Hurt, Virginia, USA
Hustler, Wisconsin, USA

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Ice Water, Mississippi, USA
Idiotville, Oregon
Idle Hour, New York, USA
Idyllwild, California, USA
Ii, Finland ²
IJ, river in the Netherlands
Indented Head, Victoria, Australia
Index, Washington, USA
Indian Cabins, Alberta, Canada
Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada
Indian Queens, Cornwall, England
Industry, California, USA
Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California (street with the head office of Apple Computer)
Innaloo (suburb of Perth, Western Australia)
Intercourse, Alabama and Intercourse, Pennsylvania, both in USA ¹
Ironia, New Jersey, USA
Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia
Island, Kentucky, USA
Isles of Scilly, England (pronounced "silly")

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Jackman, Maine, USA
Jackpot, Nevada, USA
Jamboree, Kentucky, USA
Jedi Way, East Freetown, Massachusetts (street)
Jerry City, Ohio, USA
Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, USA (about 250 miles from the Jersey Shore)
Jiggalong, Western Australia, Australia
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
Job, Kentucky, USA
Jobsville, New Jersey, USA
Jockey End, Hertfordshire, England
Joe Batt's Arm, an offshore fixture in Canada
Joe, Montana, USA (Joe Montana is a famous NFL Quarterback)
John Catch a Cow, Pitcairn Island
John o' Groats, Scotland
Jot Em Down, Texas USA
Jupiter, Florida USA
Justiceberg, Texas, USA
Juiz de Fora, Brazil (foreign judge in Portuguese)

[edit] K

Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Kalifornien, Germany (German for California)
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Karkkila, Finland (Candyland)
Kärpänen, Lahti, Finland ("fly" (insect) in Finnish)
Katzenhirn, Germany - the name literally would translate as "cat's brain".
Kau Shi Wai, Hong Kong ("village of dog poo" in Cantonese)
Kellys Knob, Kununurra, Australia
Keno City, Yukon, Canada, named after the Keno gambling game.
Key Like Mine, Saskatchewan, Canada
Kiester, Minnesota, USA ¹
Kilcock, Co.Kildare, Ireland
Kill, Co.Kildare, Ireland (near Kilcock)
Kilo, Espoo, Finland
Killbride, a provincial electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Kill, County Kildare, Ireland
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA
Kill Van Kull, New York and New Jersey, USA
Killer is a part of the town of Burladingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the Killer Valley (Killertal), which curiously enough was named after the village rather than after the river that flows through it, the Starzel. Before its incorporation into Burladingen, the signpost marking the village's entrance was frequently stolen.
Killingworth, Tyne and Wear, England
Kilmacow, Co. Waterford, Ireland
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
Kiritimati Island, Kiribati (pronounced "Christmas" and is in fact an alternate name for the island; "ti" in Gilbertese is the "s" sound in English)
Kissimmee, Florida, USA (properly pronounced "kis-SIMM-ee" (IPA [kǝˈsɪmɪ]), but usually mispronounced "KISS-a-me" ([ˈkɪsǝmiː]) by non-locals). The Osceola Astros Class A Minor league baseball team changed its name to the Cobras when they moved to Kissimmee.
Kissing, Germany
Klang Valley, Malaysia
Kleuter, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (lit. "toddler")
Kloten, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Kloten is the Dutch word for "testicles," and is frequently used as an expletive.
Knickerbocker, Texas, USA
Knob Lick, Missouri, USA
Knob Noster, Missouri, USA
Knockemstiff, Ohio, USA
Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England
Koffee Anan, Israel
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Koochiching County, Minnesota, USA
Koolyanobbing, Western Australia ¹
Koshkonong, Wisconsin, USA
Krk, Croatia
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
Kumamoto, Japan (amusing/offensive only to speakers of Swahili--it translates as "fire cunt")

[edit] L

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

La Hoz de la Vieja, Teruell, Spain ("The Old Woman's Sickle")
Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada; Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA
Lady's Hole, cave near Beadnell, Northumberland, England
Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, Australia
Lake Minnewanka, Alberts, Canada
Lake Tahoe, USA
Lake Titicaca, in Peru and Bolivia
Lalala, Gabon
La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (literally "The Slaughter")
Lamb, Michigan, USA ⁸
Lame Deer, Montana
Largo Labia, Rome, Italy
Last Chance, Colorado, USA
Latex, Texas
Lauf, Germany ("run" in German)
Learned, Mississippi, USA
Le Net, Brittany, France
Le Tampon, Réunion
Left Hand, West Virginia
Levelland, Texas, USA
Liberal, Kansas, USA
Lick Skillet, Texas, USA
Lickey End, Worcestershire, England
Licking, Missouri, USA
Licking County, Ohio, USA
Lignumvitae Key, Florida, USA
Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA¹
Little Big Horn, Montana, USA
Little Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ⁵
Little George Coc'nuts, Pitcairn Island
Little Heart's Ease, Newfoundland, Canada
Little River, Victoria, Australia
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Little Rock, Kentucky, USA
Little Snoring, Norfolk, England (as opposed to Great Snoring)
Livermore, California, USA
Liverpool, Great Britain
Lizard Lick, North Carolina, USA
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales ²
Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole (normally Llanfynydd), Wales ²
Llanddewi Brefi, Wales, UK (not to be confused with the fictional Llandewi Breffi featured in Little Britain)
Load, Kentucky, USA
Locust Valley, New York, USA
Log Cabin, Texas, USA
Loggerheads, Wales
Loogootee, Indiana, USA
Loon Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
Loop, Texas, USA
Long Bottom, Ohio
Lord Hereford's Knob — hill on the Welsh–English border
Lorne, Victoria, Australia
Los Rábanos, Soria, Spain ("the radishes")
Lost, Scotland
Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland (pronounced "Lock Nay")
Louny, Czech Republic
Love, Illinois, USA
Loveland, Ohio, USA
Loveland, Colorado, USA
Loveladies, New Jersey, USA
Lovely, Kentucky, USA
Lover, Wiltshire, England
Loving, New Mexico, USA
Loving County, Texas, USA
Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
Loyal, Oklahoma, USA
Loyal, Wisconsin, USA
Luck, Wisconsin, USA
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Lü, Switzerland ²

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Maailmanloppu, Finland ("the End of the World")
Mace, Indiana, USA
Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland
Magnet, Nebraska, USA
Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA
Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
Man Fuk Road, Homantin, Hong Kong
Ma-Me-O Beach, Alberta, Canada (beach)
Manteca, California, USA, Spanish word for lard.
Manunka Chunk, New Jersey, USA
March, Cambridgeshire, England ⁴
Marston Bigot, Somerset, England
Martin's Heron, Berkshire, England
Mary Alice, Kentucky, USA
Maryland, Monmouthshire, Wales
Masai, Johor, Malaysia
Mashpee, Massachusetts, USA
Matching Tye, Essex, England
Mavis Enderby, Lincolnshire, England
Maybee, Michigan, USA
Mayo, Kentucky, USA⁸
Mayo, Yukon, Canada⁸ (named after Alfred Mayo)
Meat Camp, North Carolina, USA
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Melbury Bubb, Dorset, England
Meridian, Mississippi, USA
Merrybent, County Durham, England
Messy, France
Metropolis, Illinois, USA
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico (portmanteau of "Mexico" and "California"; it lies by the international border [see also Calexico])
Mexican Hat, Utah, USA
Mexican Water, Arizona, USA
Mianus, Connecticut, USA
Middelfart, Funen, Denmark
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
Mineral, Virginia, USA - pronounced min-rul by locals
Minge, Lithuania, Lithuania ¹
Minorsville, Kentucky, USA
Mockbeggar, England
Moddergat, The Netherlands ("mud hole")
Mold, Wales
Money, Mississippi, USA
Monitor, Alberta
Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, USA
Monks Risborough, England
Monroe, Maryland, USA
Monster, Netherlands
Montezuma, Indiana, USA
Mooney Mooney, NSW, Australia
Moonlight, New Zealand
Moosehead Lake, Maine, USA
Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Morehead, Kentucky, USA
Moretonhampstead, Devon (longest one-word place name in England)
Moron, USA (the original name of Taft, California)
Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Moron, Mongolia
Morón, Spain (Morón Air Base is the home of the 496th USAF Air Base Squadron)
Moron, Switzerland
Mough, Ireland (pronounced Muff) ¹
Mount Jerome, Ireland
Mount Comfort, Indiana, USA
Mount Disappointment, Victoria, Australia
Mount Gay, West Virginia, USA
Mount Hopeless, Australia
Mousehole, UK
Mouse Sweet, West Midlands, England
Muck, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Mucking, Essex, England
Muckanaghederdauhaulia, Ireland
Mudchute, Tower Hamlets, England
Muff, County Donegal, Ireland
The Mullet, an island off the coast of Ireland
Muleshoe, Texas, USA
Mumbles, Wales
Murderkill River, Delaware, USA
Mutters, Austria

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Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Namlos, Austria ("No name")
Nameless, Tennessee, USA
Nar Nar Goon, Victoria, Australia
Nasty, Hertfordshire, England
Natters, Austria
Nauraushaun, New York, USA
Navasota, Texas, USA
Neck City, Missouri, USA
Needles, California, USA
Nempnett Thrubwell, Somerset, England
Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England
New Invention, Shropshire, England
New Invention, Walsall, England
Newtwopothouse and neighbouring Twopothouse in Ireland (among the few properly translated placenames in Ireland)
Niemyje-Ząbki, Poland ("He is not cleaning his teeth")
Niceville, Florida, USA
Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand
Nimrod, Minnesota, USA
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 (after the nearby Cape Nome; '? Name' misread by a map maker as 'C. Nome')
Noodle, Texas, USA ⁸
No Name, Colorado, USA
No Name Key, Florida, USA
No Place, County Durham, England
Noone, New Hampshire, USA
Norco, California, USA; abbreviation of "North Corona"
Normal, Illinois, USA
Normal Heights, a community in San Diego, California, USA (named for the State Normal School in University Heights)
North, South Carolina, USA
North Freedom, Wisconsin, USA
North Pole, Alaska, USA
Northwest South River Drive, Miami, Florida, USA
Nothing, Arizona, USA
Notrees, Texas, USA
Nova Iorque, Brazil (means New York in portuguese)
Novice, Texas, USA
Nowhere, Arizona, USA
Nuckols, Kentucky, USA
Nude, Gelderland, Netherlands
Nunhead, London, England
Nyah and Nyah West, Victoria, Australia

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Oatman, Arizona, USA
Oatmeal, Texas, USA
Öd, Austria ² (also meaning "deserted" in German)
Odd, West Virginia, USA
Odder, Denmark
Oddville, Kentucky, USA
Odododiodoo, Greater Accra, Ghana, constituency in the Ghanaian Capital
Ogle, Kentucky, USA
Ogre, Latvia
Ojos de Agua, El Salvador (Spanish for "Eyes of water")
Okonoko, West Virginia, USA
Old, Northamptonshire, England
Old Crow, Yukon, Canada
Old Dad Mountains, USA, geographical feature in the Mojave Desert
Old Harry, Quebec, Canada
Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, England
Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Old Swan, Liverpool, England
Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England
Old Woman Springs, California, USA
Oliver Paipoonge, Ontario, Canada
Oma, Wisconsin, USA, the German shortened version for grandmother
One Hundred and Two River, Iowa and Missouri, USA
One Tree Hill, South Australia
One Tree Hill, Victoria, Australia
Oombulgurri, Western Australia, Australia
Opa-locka, Florida, USA
Opdyke, Texas, USA
Opelousas, Louisiana, USA
Opp, Alabama, USA
Optic Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Orange, California, USA, city in Orange County, and Orange, New Jersey, USA⁸
Oroszlány, Hungary (a twist on "oroszlán", meaning "lion"; spelled this way, it translates to "Russian girl" in Hungarian)
Oroville, California and Oroville, Oregon, USA ("Oro" is Spanish for "gold")
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
Os, Hedmark, Norway ²
Os, Hordaland, Norway ²
Oskaloosa, Iowa and Oskaloosa, Kansas, USA
Otterup, Denmark
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
Overflowing River, Manitoba, Canada
Owanka, South Dakota, USA ¹
Oxnard, California, USA
Oy, Germany
Oyster, Virginia, USA
Oz, Kentucky, USA

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Pahrump, Nevada, USA
Paint, Pennsylvania, USA
Paint Lick, Kentucky, USA
Pakenham Upper, Victoria, Australia
Palestina, Gelderland, Netherlands
Panthersville, Georgia, USA
Paps of Anu, mountains in Co. Kerry, Ireland
The Paps of Jura, mountains on the Isle of Jura, Scotland
Parachute, Colorado, USA
Paradise, New Zealand
Paradise, California, USA
Paradise, Michigan, USA
Paradise, Nova Scotia, Canada
Paradise, Pennsylvania, USA
Paradiso, Switzerland
Pariis, Estonia
Patriot, Indiana, USA
Pease Pottage, West Sussex, England ⁸
Peck, Michigan, USA ¹
Peckerwood Lake, a lake in Arkansas, USA ¹
Peculiar, Missouri, USA
Pee Pee Township, Pike County, Ohio, USA
Peel, Ontario, Canada
Peep-o-Day, near Wanganui, New Zealand
Peerless, Saskatchewan, Canada
Peewee, West Virginia
Peinlich, a village on the Isle of Skye, Scotland (means embarrassing in German)
Penguin, Tasmania, Australia ⁷
Penis, Uruguay ¹
Penisarwain, Gwynedd, Wales ¹
Peñíscola, Spain (also means (the) penis sticked in French) ¹
Penistone, South Yorkshire, England ¹
Pennsylvania, Gloucestershire, England
Peor es nada, Chile (means worse is nothing in Spanish)
Perisher Blue, New South Wales, Australia
Perl, Germany (and those who work with the Web may be amused to find Apach, France adjacent)
Petting, Germany
Pettit, Texas, USA (pronounced "petite")
Philadelphia, Mississippi, USA
Phuket, Thailand ¹
Pickle Street, West Virginia (unincorporated town, on US 33)
Picpus (Paris underground railway station)
Piddle, river in Dorset, England, which runs from near Puddletown to Poole harbour
Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton, located on this river
Pidley, Cambridgeshire, England ¹
Pieru, Saarijärvi, Finland (means fart in Finnish)
Pie, West Virginia
Pie Town, New Mexico ⁸
Pig's Eye -- original name of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Pis Pis River, Nicaragua
Pispala, Finland (means Don't pee here in phonetic French)
Pissy, France
Pity Me, County Durham, England
Placentia, California, USA
Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹
Plain Dealing, Louisiana, USA
Plaster City, California, USA
Pleasureville, Kentucky, USA
Point Blank, Texas, USA
Point Happy, a geologic feature in La Quinta, California, USA
Polar, Texas, USA
Police, Poland
Poowong, Victoria, Australia
Popcorn, Indiana, USA
Port Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada
Possum Grape, Arkansas, USA
Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, USA
Possum Trot, Kentucky, USA
Possum Trot, Missouri, USA
Pot Holes and Bears Den State Forest, a state forest in Chesire County, New Hampshire, USA
Powwow River State Forest, a state forest in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Pratt's Bottom, London, England ¹
Prattville, Alabama
Prickwillow, England ¹
Primate, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pride, Kentucky, USA
Princes End, Tipton, England
Pringle, Texas, USA ⁸
Prussia Cove, Cornwall, England
Puddletown, Dorset, England
Pukë, Albania
Pump Bottom near Chichester, England.
Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, Canada
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, USA
Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, a state park in Sutton, Massachusetts, USA
Pussy, France ¹
Puzzletown, Pennsylvania, USA

[edit] Q

Quail, Texas, USA
Quaking Houses, County Durham, England
Quamba, Minnesota, USA
Queen Camel, Somerset, England
Quicksand, Kentucky, USA
Quién Sabe Mountains, California, USA; geographical feature in the Mojave Desert; Spanish for "who knows?"

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Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado, USA
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, USA
Rain, Bavaria, Germany (there are two towns with that name and both in Bavaria)
Ramrod Key, Florida, USA
Ramsbottom, Lancashire, UK (fr. Old English meaning "valley (botham) of wild garlic (rham)")
- Upper Ramsbottom, a humourously named village about half a mile north of Ramsbottom
Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA ³
Rancho Mirage, California, USA; possibly the only place name in the world combining words from both Spanish and French
Re, Vestfold, Norway ²
Reading in various places (pronounced "Redding")
Readymoney Cove, Cornwall, England
Rectum, Netherlands
Red Shirt, South Dakota, USA
Rest and be thankful, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Rice, California, USA; abandoned small town in the southern Mojave Desert⁸
Rifle, Colorado, USA
Ringoes, New Jersey, USA
Rising Sun, Indiana, USA
River Styx, Ohio, USA
Roach, Missouri, USA
Roast Meat Hill Road, a street in Killingworth, Connecticut, USA
Robert's Arm, Newfoundland, Canada
Robert Lee, Texas, USA
Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
Rocket Pool, England
Rollingstone, Minnesota, USA
Ronkonkoma, New York, USA (stress on the second syllable)
Root, Lucerne, Switzerland
Rosenhayn, New Jersey, USA
Rottenegg, Austria ⁸
Rottingdean, Sussex, England
Rough and Ready, California, USA
Royalty, Texas, USA
Rule, Texas, USA
Rum, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland ⁸
Rum, Austria ⁸
Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia ⁸
Rust, Austria
Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England
Ry, Denmark ²
Rye, New York, USA
Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset, England

[edit] S

Shag Point, New Zealand

Saddam Hussein, Sri Lanka (the Iraqi dictator donated money to the town after a destructive 1978 cyclone.)
Safe, Missouri, USA
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec, Canada
Saint-Tite, Quebec, Canada (pronounced "St Tit")
Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
Samendorf, Austria ('town of semen')
Sandwich, Illinois, USA ⁸
Sandwich, Kent, England ⁸
Sandwich, Massachusetts, USA ⁸
Sandy, Bedfordshire, England – especially its informal postal abbreviation "Sandy Beds"
Salsipuedes, California, USA (meaning: "leave if you can" in Spanish)
Santa Claus, California, USA
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". It's ZIP code is "12345".)
Scrapfaggot Green, Essex, England
Screamer, Alabama, USA.
Scunthorpe, England. The name causes problems with some child-protection filters owing to the presence of the word "cunt".
Searchlight, Nevada, USA
Secretary, Maryland, USA
Seething, Norfolk, England
Seldom Seen Roadhouse, Victoria, Australia
Semen, Indonesia ¹
Stepaside, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Seven Corners, Virginia, USA
- Also the name of an intersection in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (now rebuilt in a more traffic-friendly arrangement)
Seven Hills, Ohio, USA
Sex Rouge, a mountain in the Swiss Alps ¹
Sexbierum, the Netherlands
Sexdrega, Sweden
Sexmoan, Pampanga, Philippines (now renamed Sasmuan) ¹
Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada ¹
Shafter, California, USA¹
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. (A shag is a sort of seabird.)
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
Shahada (a town), Nandurbar district, Maharashtra state, India
Shamrock, Texas, USA ⁷
Shelfanger, Norfolk, England
Shellow Bowells, England
Sheriff Hales, Shropshire, England
Shit, Iran
Shitagoo Lake, Quebec, Canada
Shitlington Crags, Northumberland, England
Shitterton, England (near Bere Regis)
Shittlehope, Durham, England
Shoulderblade, Kentucky, USA
Show Low, Arizona, USA
Comarca de Siberia, Spain
Sideview, Kentucky, USA
Siem Reab, Cambodia (meaning defeat Siam)
Siesta Key, Florida, USA
Silica, Minnesota, USA
Silly, Belgium
Simmering, Vienna, Austria
Simplex Drive, Westminster, Massachusetts, USA (home of SimplexGrinnell)
Siren, Wisconsin, USA
Sissy, France (commune)
Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, England
Skaneateles, New York, USA (pronounced like skinny Atlas)
Skookumchuck River, Washington, USA
Skunk's Misery Road in Locust Valley, New York
Skyline, Minnesota, USA
Slag Lane, Trowbridge, UK
Slapout, Oklahoma, USA
Slaughter Beach, Delaware, USA
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan, USA
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, USA
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, USA
Slough, England (rhymes with "cow")
Slutsk, Belarus
Smackover, Arkansas, USA
Smiley, Saskatchewan, Canada
Smut Eye, Alabama, USA
Snafu Lake, Yukon, Canada
Snapfinger, Georgia, USA
Snodland, Kent, England
Sodom Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
Solitude, Indiana, USA
Sommerloch, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany ⁴ (meaning: "summer slump")
Sort, Lleida, Spain (means luck in Catalan)
Sots Hole fenland hamlet in Metheringham parish, Lincolnshire, England
Soweto, South Africa (derived from an abbreviation of "South Western Townships")
Spit Junction, New South Wales, Australia
Splatt, Devon, England
Split, Dalmatia, Croatia
Splott, Cardiff, Wales
Spooner, Wisconsin, USA
Spread Eagle, Wisconsin, USA ¹
Spunk Creek, Minnesota, USA and related bodies of water such as Middle Spunk Lake ¹
Spurger, Texas, USA
Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada
Stamping Ground, Kentucky, USA
Stateline, Nevada, USA
Stiffkey, Norfolk, England
Stoner Hill, Hampshire England
Stora Stjärtvecket, Sweden
Strata Florida Abbey, Dyfed, Wales
Sugar Land, Texas, USA
Sugarloaf, New York, USA
Sugar Tit, South Carolina, USA ¹
Sugar Tit, Kentucky, USA
Sumerduck, Virginia, USA
Sunk Island, Yorkshire, UK: a polder south of Ottringham
Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
Surprise, Arizona, USA
Surprise, Nebraska, USA
Swallow, Lincolnshire, England
Swampoodle, District of Columbia, USA
Swan Lake, Mississippi, USA
Swastika, Ontario, Canada
Sweat Gum Head, Florida, USA
Swords, County Dublin, Ireland
Sylt, island in Germany; pronounced "zoolt"

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Ta Da Dump Road, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA
Taintsville, Florida, USA
Tarfu Lake, Yukon, Canada
Tarzan, Texas, USA
Tarzana, California, USA; based on the name of fictional character Tarzan
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu Hill, New Zealand
Tehachapi, California, USA and the corresponding Tehachapi Pass
Telegraph, Texas, USA
Telephone, Texas, USA
Tennis, Kansas, USA
Ten Sleep, Wyoming, USA
Te Puke, New Zealand
Te Urewera National Park, New Zealand ("Te Urewera" is Maori for "the burnt penis")
Terre Haute, Indiana, USA (pronounced "terruh hoat")
Terry Hie Hie, New South Wales, Australia
Texarkana, Texas, USA and Texarkana, Arkansas, USA are twin cities on their states' common border
The Bungalow, Isle of Man
The Shoe, Wiltshire, England
The Wash, eastern England
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Them, Denmark
Thermal, California, USA
Thief Lane, York, England
Thong, Kent, England
Thousand Oaks, California, USA ^{5 & 7}
Thousand Palms, California, USA ⁵
Thousandsticks, Kentucky, USA
Three Cocks, Wales
Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
Ticklerton, Shropshire, England
Tiddleywink, Wiltshire, England
Tiengeboden, Gelderland, Netherlands (translates as "ten commandments")
Tightsqueeze, Virginia, USA
Tightwad, Missouri, USA
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; commonly credited to the Spanish phrase "Tia Juana", or "Aunt Jane". The name is actually from the Yuman tiwan, or "near the sea".
Tis Grias To Pidima, Andros, Greece ("The Old Woman's Leap")
Titisee, Baden-Württemberg, Germany ¹
Titlis, Switzerland ¹
Tittybong, Victoria, Australia ¹
Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ¹
Toadsuck, Texas, USA
Toadsuck, Perry County, Arkansas, USA
Toast, North Carolina, USA ⁸
Tolstoy, South Dakota, USA; see also Tolstoy#Places
Tomato, Arkansas, USA
Tombstone, Arizona, USA
Tongue, Scotland
Tool, Texas, USA
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Touristville, Kentucky, USA
Towcester, Northamptonshire, England (pronounced "toaster")
Township of East Garafraxa, Ontario, Canada
Train, Bavaria, Germany
Transylvania, Louisiana, USA
Treinta y Tres, Uruguay (thirty-three)⁵
Trepalle, Italy (meaning "three balls")
Tria Pente Pigadia, Greece (popular skiing location near the town of Naousa, North Greece. Translates as "Three Five Wells")
Troia, Calabria, Italy (means "sow" or "slut" in slang) ¹
Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, Canada
True, Wisconsin, USA
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, USA; originally Hot Springs, but changed its name on a promise that a game show would tape an episode there.
Tuba City, Arizona, USA
Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland
Tuntenhausen, Germany ("Fag-ville")
Turda, Cluj, Romania
Turkey, Kentucky, USA
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Tutaekuri River, New Zealand ("Tutaekuri" is Maori for "dogshit")
Tuxedo, New York, USA
Tuxedo, Texas, USA
Twatt, Orkney Islands, Scotland ¹
Twatt, Shetland Islands, Scotland ¹
Twenty, Lincolnshire, England ⁵
Twentynine Palms, California, USA ⁵
Twin Arrows, Arizona, USA
Twinsburg, Ohio, USA ⁷
Twist, Arkansas, USA
Two Boars Roll, Pitcairn Island⁵
Two Dot, Montana, USA
Two Egg, Florida
Two Guns, Arizona, USA ⁵

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U, Ponape, Caroline Islands
U (Coclé), Panama
Ubehebe Crater and Little Hebe, geologic formations in Death Valley National Park, USA
Ugley, Essex, England
Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia
Ultima, Victoria, Australia
Unalaska, Alaska, USA
Uncertain, Texas, USA
Unnamed Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia
Up In Ti, Pitcairn Island
Upend, Cambridgeshire, England
Upotipotpon, Victoria, Australia
Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
Upper Swan, Western Australia, Australia
Upperthong, Yorkshire, England
Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada
Usa, Oita, Japan
Useless Loop, Western Australia, Australia
Utopia, Texas, USA
Uz, Kentucky, USA

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Vader, Small city in Southwest Washington
Vagino, Kurganskaya Oblast, Russia ¹
Valerie Jean, California, USA; unincorporated small town in southeast Riverside County
Valtimo, Finland ⁷(means artery in Finnish)
Varkaus, Finland (means theft in Finnish)
Vache-Qui-Pisse (Cap de la), Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada (lit. "Cape Pissing Cow")
Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, Argentina (lit. "One-Eyed Deer")
Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta, a train station on the Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu–Renigunta, Andhra Pradesh line, India
Venusberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Veribest, Texas, USA
Void, Meuse, France (now merged with a neighbouring place to form Void-Vacon)
Virgin, Nevada, USA ¹
Virgin, Utah, USA ¹
Virginia Water, Surrey, England
Virginville, Pennsylvania, USA ¹
Vulcan, Alberta, Canada

Road sign with Wedding inscribed on it (Berlin, Germany)

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Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
Walla Walla, Washington, USA ³
Walnut, California, USA ⁸
Wanda, Minnesota, USA
Wangford, Suffolk, England ¹
Wanglik (Hengli), Guangdong, China ¹
Wangs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland ¹
Wangs, Minnesota, USA ¹
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 ¹
Wankie, former name of Hwange, Zimbabwe ¹
War, Friesland, Netherlands
War, West Virginia, USA
Ware, Massachusetts, USA
Ware, Hertfordshire, England ⁶
Warman, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Wash, Lincolnshire & Norfolk, Eastern England
Washdyke, Timaru, New Zealand
Washington Court House, Ohio,USA
Watanobbi, New South Wales, Australia
Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
Waxahachie, Texas, USA
Weare, New Hampshire, USA (pronounced "ware") ⁶
Wedding, Germany
Weed, California, USA
Weedpatch, California, USA
Weequahic, Newark, New Jersey, USA (pronounced "weekwake")
Weir, Mississippi, USA (Pronounced "ware") ⁶
Welcome, Minnesota, USA
Welcome, South Carolina, USA
Wendens Ambo, Essex, England. The name means "both Wendens" (originally two small settlements, but conflated by mediaeval cartographers).
Wendy-cum-Jolly, Hertfordshire, England ¹
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 some dialects of Maori) ¹
Wham, West Yorkshire, England
What Cheer, Iowa, USA
Where Freddy Fall, Pitcairn Island
Where Minnie Off, Pitcairn Island
Where Reynolds Cut The Firewood, Pitcairn Island
Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate (street), York, North Yorkshire, England
Whiteladies Road, Bristol, England (Down the road from Blackboy Hill)
Whorehouse Meadow, Frenchglen, Oregon
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
Window Rock, Arizona, USA
Windpassing, Austria
Windpassing, Germany
Wingletang Down, Cornwall, England
Wink, Texas – in Winkler County
Winkler, Manitoba, Canada
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.)
Wombwell, South Yorkshire, England
Woodenbong, New South Wales, Australia
Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
Woon Gumpus Common, Cornwall, England
Wong Way , street in Singapore
Wonowon, British Columbia at milepost 101 on the Alaska Highway
World's End, Berkshire, England
Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (home of the Diet of Worms) ⁷
Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia
Wuxi, Jiangsu, China (means "no tin" in Chinese)
Wyalkatchem, a town in Western Australia about 150 km NE of Perth
Wymore, Nebraska, USA
Wynot, Nebraska, USA
Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire, England