Place names considered unusual

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.
  • 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 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.

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 example of this is Fucking, Austria.

0–9

• 1770, Queensland, Australia

==A==

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The village of Å in Norway

• Å in Norway & Sweden²
• Ål, Buskerud, Norway ²
• 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
• Alert, Indiana, USA
• 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, New York, USA
• Amarillo, Texas, USA, Spanish for "yellow"
• Anaconda, Montana, USA
• Anaheim, California, USA, named by German settlers as the home or heim of the Santa Ana River; unusual portmanteau of Spanish and German
• Anse-Qui-Pue (L'), Quebec, Canada ("The Cove that Stinks")
• 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
• 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
• Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
• Assawoman, Virginia, USA ¹
• Assbroken, Oslo, Norway
• Assens, Island of Fyn, Denmark
• Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä, a swamp in Lapland, Finland
• 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 Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany
• Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Bakewell, Derbyshire, England-known for its puddings
• Bald Knob, Arkansas, USA
• Ballsbridge — a suburb of Dublin, Ireland
• Banana, Queensland, Australia ^{7 & 8}
• Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia
• Barking, Greater London, England
• Barrow, Alaska (northernmost city in the USA)
• Barrow-in-Furness, England
• Bastardo, Italy
• Bat and Ball, a railway station in Sevenoaks, Kent, England
• Bath, Somerset, England
• Bath, New York USA
• Batman, Batman Province and Batman River, Turkey
• Beauty, Kentucky, USA
• Beaver (several places in the USA)^{1 & 7}
• Bee, Nebraska, USA
• Beer, Devon, England ⁸
• Belcher in Louisiana & Kentucky
• Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA
• Bendery, Moldova
• Ben Hur, Texas, USA
• Best, Texas, USA
• Between, Georgia, USA
• 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
• 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
• Black Hammer Township, Minnesota, USA
• 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)
• 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 ("Mouth of the mouse" in Spanish)
• Bonesteel, South Dakota, USA
• Bong Bong, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
• Bong County, Liberia
• Bong Recreational Area, Wisconsin, USA
• Booger Mountain, North Carolina, USA
• Boom, Belgium
• Boring, Oregon, USA
• Boron, California, USA
• Bottom, North Carolina, USA
• Boulevard Street, a dead-end street in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
• Boutilimit, Mauritania
• Bra, Italy
• 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 (Dutch for "break a leg")
• Breaky Bottom, East Sussex, England
• Brest, France
• Bright, Indiana, USA
• Broadstairs, Kent, England
• Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
• 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 Flat, New South Wales, Australia
• Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England ⁷
• Burnt Hill, Berkshire, England
• 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
• 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
• Cape Catastrophe, South Australia
• Cape Circumcision, Bouvet Island
• Cape Disappointment, Oregon and Washington, USA
• Cape Flattery, Queensland, Australia
• Cape St. George-Petit Jardin-Grand Jardin-De Grau-Marches Point-Loretto, Newfoundland, Canada
• Caribou-qui-Pisse (Chute du), Quebec, Canada (lit. "Pissing Caribou Falls")
• Carne Asada, Portugal (meaning "roasted meat") ⁸
• Carneys Point Township, New Jersey, USA
• Carpenter, Mississippi, USA
• Carpinteria, California, USA; Spanish for "carpenter shop"
• 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.
• Cattewater, Devon, England
• 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
• Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts, USA ²
• Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
• Cheesequake, New Jersey, USA ⁸
• Chew Magna, England
• Chicken, Alaska, USA ^{7 & 8}
• Chili, New York, USA⁸ (pronounced CHYE-lye, often mispronounced by non-locals)
• Chinaman's Knob, Australia
• Chipping Sodbury, England
• Christmas Island, Australia ⁴
• Christmaspie, Surrey, England ^{4 & 8}
• Chlebowo, Poland (meaning "bread"; renamed from Niemaschchleba meaning "no one has bread") ⁸
• Chulahoma, Mississippi, USA
• Chunky, Mississippi, USA
• Climax, Colorado, Climax, Michigan, Climax, Minnesota, 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")
• Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
• Cocks, Cornwall, England
• Coffeeville, Mississippi, USA
• Cold Christmas, Hertfordshire, England
• 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 Junction, Missouri, USA ¹
• Concepcion, Texas, USA
• Condom, Gers, France ¹
• Cool, California, USA
• Coolville, Ohio, USA
• Corney, Cumbria, England
• 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
• Crap, Albania
• Crap Sogn Gion, Graubünden, Switzerland
• Crapo Street, Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
• Crapolla, Italy
• Crawley, West Sussex, England
• Crooked Usage, street in Hendon, London, England
• Crowborough, East Sussex, England (Yes, there are a lot of crows there.) ⁷
• Cumming, Georgia, USA ¹
• Cumming Street, Suva, Fiji ¹
• Cunt, Turkey ¹
• Cunter, Graubünden, Switzerland ¹
• Cuntis, Pontevedra, Spain ¹
• Curry Mallet, Somerset, England
• Cut n' Shoot, Texas, USA
• Cut Off, Louisiana, USA

D

• D'Lo, Mississippi, USA
• Day, Kentucky, USA
• 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
• 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
• Ding Dong, Texas, USA ^{1 8}
• Dirt Road, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA
• Dirty Devil Wash, Nevada, USA
• Disappointment Islands
• Dismal, Tennessee, USA
• Dix Hills, New York, USA ¹
• 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
• Draw, Texas, USA
• Dresden, Staffordshire, England
• Dry Prong, Louisiana, USA
• Duel, Michigan, USA
• Dummer, New Hampshire, USA
• Dwarf, Kentucky, USA

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
• Ecce Homo, Schwyz, Switzerland ¹
• Economy, Indiana, USA
• Economy, Pennsylvania, USA
• Ed, Austria ²
• Ed, Sweden ²
• Ed, Kentucky, USA
• Eek, Alaska, USA
• Eel Pie Island, London, England
• Effort, Pennsylvania, USA
• Egg, Austria ⁸
• Egg, Switzerland ⁸
• Egg Harbor, New Jersey, USA
• Egyptinkorpi, Lieksa, Finland (means Egyptian woodland in Finnish)
• Eighty Eight, Kentucky, USA ⁵
• 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
• Elephant Butte, New Mexico, USA ⁷
• Elephant and Castle, London, England (a well-known road intersection)
• Embarrass, Minnesota, USA
• Empire, Michigan, USA
• Energy, Texas, USA
• Enfant-Qui-Vole (Lac de l'), Quebec, Canada (lit. "Lake of the Child Who Steals")
• 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)
• Evry, France
• Eye, Cambridgeshire, Eye, Herefordshire, Eye, Suffolk, as well as the River Eye, England, and River Eye, Scotland,
• Eyebrow, Saskatchewan, Canada

F

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The village of Fucking, Austria. The sign underneath ironically adds "please, not so fast!"

• Fa, Aude, France ²
• Fagus, Missouri, USA
• Fairdealing, Kentucky, USA
• Fairy, Texas, USA
• Fakaofo, Tokelau ¹
• Fakfak, Indonesian New Guinea¹
• Fancy Farm, Kentucky, USA
• Fanny Street, in Cardiff, South Wales, UK
• Faro, Yukon, Canada, named after the Faro card game
• Fearsville, Kentucky, USA
• Felch, Michigan, USA
• Fertile, Minnesota, USA
• Fine, New York, USA
• Fingerville, South Carolina, USA
• Fingringhoe, Essex, England
• 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
• Five Corners (several), USA ⁵
• Five Forks (several), USA ⁵
• Five Points (several), USA ⁵
• Flat, Missouri, USA
• Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
• Fly Don't Drive, (street name) Traverse City, Michigan, USA
• Flying H, New Mexico, USA
• Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC, USA
• Forks of Salmon, California, 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
• Friendly, Maryland, USA and Friendly, West Virginia, USA
• Friendship, Wisconsin, USA
• Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England
• Frog Level, Virginia, USA
• Fryingpan River, Colorado, USA
• Fucking, Austria ¹
• Fuku, China ¹
• Future City, Illinois, USA

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
• Gayton (several places in England) ¹
• Gay Street, Bath, England and Winter Park, Florida USA
• Gay, Michigan, USA
• Gays, Illinois, USA
• Gays Creek, Kentucky, USA
• George, Washington, USA
• Germfask, Michigan, USA
• Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, England
• Gimli, Manitoba, Canada (a rural municipality)
• Gin Bottle, Arkansas, USA
• Gland, France and 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
• Goree, Texas, USA
• Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, 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 Tête, Louisiana, USA (meaning: "big head" in French)
• Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
• Gunbarrel Highway, Western Australia, Australia
• Gunbarrel, Colorado, USA
• Gy, Switzerland ²

==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)
• Half.com, Oregon, USA (yes, it is sponsored by eBay)
• Halfway Bush, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Halfway, Kentucky, USA and Halfway, Missouri, USA
• Halfway House, Newfoundland, Canada
• 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
• Hazard, Kentucky USA
• Hazardville, Connecticut, USA
• Head of Grassy, Kentucky, USA
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a historic site in Alberta, Canada
• Heart's Content, Newfoundland, Canada
• Hel, Poland
• Hell Corner, Berkshire, England
• 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 Gate, Georgia, USA
• Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
• Hell, Michigan, USA, Hell, Norway, & Hell, Grand Cayman, British West Indies
• 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 Roadhouse, 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 Point, a mountain in Sussex, New Jersey, USA — the highest point in the state!
• Hi Hat, Kentucky, USA
• Himmelspforte, Germany (meaning: "heaven's gate")
• Ho, Ghana
• Hoard, Clark County, Wisconsin, USA
• Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA
• Hokah, Minnesota, USA
• Hole in the Ground, Oregon, USA
• Hole in the Wall, Bahamas
• Hollywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Homochitto, Mississippi, USA
• Homosassa, Florida, USA
• Honor, Michigan, 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")
• Hot Coffee, Mississippi, USA ⁸
• Houston Street, a main road in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York (pronounced "HOW-stin")
• How, Wisconsin, USA ⁶
• Howlong, New South Wales, Australia
• Humptulips, Washington, USA
• Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, Australia
• Hungry Law, a peak on the England–Scotland border
• Hungry Mother State Park, Virginia, USA
• Hurricane, Utah, USA
• Hurt, Virginia, USA
• Hustler, Wisconsin, USA

I

• Ice Water, Mississippi, USA
• Idyllwild, California, USA
• Ii, Finland ²
• IJ, river in the Netherlands
• Indented Head, Victoria, Australia
• Index, Washington, USA
• 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
• Island, Kentucky, USA
• Isles of Scilly, England (pronounced "silly")

J

• Jackpot, Nevada, USA
• Jamboree, Kentucky, USA
• Jedi Way, East Freetown, Massachusetts (street)
• Jerry City, Ohio, USA
• 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
• John Catch a Cow, Pitcairn Island
• John o' Groats, Scotland
• Jot Em Down, Texas, USA
• Justiceberg, Texas, USA

K

• Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
• Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
• Kärpänen, Lahti, Finland ("fly" (insect) in Finnish)
• 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.
• Kill, County Kildare, Ireland
• Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA
• Kill Van Kull, New York and New Jersey, USA
• King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
• 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.
• Kilmacow, Co. Waterford, Ireland
• Kiritimati Island, Kiribati (pronounced "Christmas" and is in fact an alternate name for the island; "ti" in Gilbertese is the "s" sound in English)
• Kissing, Germany
• Klang Valley, Malaysia
• Knickerbocker, Texas, USA
• Knob Lick, Missouri, USA
• Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England
• 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

L

• La Hoz de la Vieja, Teruell, Spain ("The Old Woman's Sickle")
• Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, Australia
• Lake Tahoe, USA
• Lake Titicaca, in Peru and Bolivia
• Lalala, Gabon
• Largo Labia, Rome, Italy
• Lamb, Michigan, USA ⁸
• Lame Deer, Montana
• Latex, Texas
• Learned, Mississippi, USA
• Le Net, Brittany, France
• Le Tampon, Réunion
• 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
• Livermore, California, USA
• Liverpool, Great Britain
• Lizard Lick, North Carolina, USA
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales ²
• Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole (normally Llanfynydd), Wales ²
• Load, Kentucky, USA
• Loggerheads, Wales, UK
• Loogootee, Indiana, USA
• Loop, Texas, USA
• 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
• Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
• Loyal, Oklahoma, USA
• Loyal, Wisconsin, USA
• Luck, Wisconsin, USA
• Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Lü, Switzerland ²

M

• Mace, Indiana, USA
• Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland
• Magnet, Nebraska, USA
• Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA
• Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
• Mailmanloppu, Finland ("the End of the World")
• Manteca, California, USA, Spanish word for lard.
• Manunka Chunk, New Jersey, USA
• March, Cambridgeshire, England ⁴
• Martin's Heron, Berkshire, England
• Mary Alice, Kentucky, USA
• Maryland, Gwent, Wales
• Masai, 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
• 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, England
• Minorsville, Kentucky, USA
• Mockbeggar, England
• Mold, Wales
• Money, Mississippi, USA
• Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, USA
• Monks Risborough, England
• Monroe, Maryland, USA
• Monster, Netherlands
• Montezuma, Indiana, USA
• Moonlight, New Zealand
• 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 Gay, West Virginia, USA
• Mount Hopeless, Australia
• Muck, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
• Mucking, Essex, UK
• Muckanaghederdauhaulia, Ireland
• Muff, County Donegal, Ireland
• The Mullet, an island off the coast of 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
• Needles, California, USA
• Nempnett Thrubwell, Somerset, England
• Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England
• Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England
• New Invention, Shropshire, England
• New Invention, England
• Newtwopothouse and neighbouring Twopothouse in Ireland (among the few properly translated placenames in Ireland)
• Niemyje-Ząbki, Poland ("He is not cleaning his teeth")
• 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 ('No Name' misread by a map maker as '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
• Northwest South River Drive, Miami, Florida, USA
• Nothing, Arizona, USA
• Notrees, Texas, USA
• Novice, Texas, USA
• Nowhere, Arizona, USA
• Nuckols, Kentucky, USA
• Nunhead, London, England
• Nyah and Nyah West, Victoria, Australia

O

• Oatman, Arizona, USA
• Öd, Austria ² (also meaning "deserted" in German)
• Odder, Denmark
• Oddville, Kentucky, USA
• Ogle, Kentucky, USA
• Ogre, Latvia
• Old, Northamptonshire, England
• 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
• Oliver Paipoonge, Ontario, Canada
• Oma, Wisconsin, USA, the German shortened version for grandmother
• One Tree Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Opdyke, Texas, USA
• Opelousas, Louisiana, USA
• Orange, California, USA, county seat of Orange County, and Orange, New Jersey, USA⁸
• Oroville, California and Oroville, Oregon, USA ("Oro" is Spanish for "gold")
• Os, Hedmark, Norway ²
• Os, Hordaland, Norway ²
• Otterup, Denmark
• Owanka, South Dakota, USA ¹
• Oxnard, California, USA
• Oy, Germany
• Oz, Kentucky, USA

P

• Paint, Pennsylvania, USA
• Paint Lick, Kentucky, USA
• 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, Pennsylvania, USA
• Paradiso, Switzerland
• 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
• Peinlich, a village on the Isle of Skye, Scotland (means embarrassing in German)
• Penis, Uruguay
• 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)
• 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
• 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, Saarijärvi, Finland (means fart in Finnish)
• Pie Town, New Mexico, USA ⁸
• Pis Pis River, Nicaragua
• 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 Happy, a geologic feature in La Quinta, California, USA
• Polar, Texas, USA
• Police, Poland
• Poowong, Victoria, Australia
• Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, USA
• Possum Trot, Kentucky, USA
• Pratt's Bottom, London, England ¹
• Prickwillow, England ¹
• Pride, Kentucky, USA
• Princes End, Tipton, England
• Pringle, Texas, USA ⁸
• Prussia Cove, Cornwall, England
• Pukë, Albania
• Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, Canada
• Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, USA
• Pussy, France ¹
• Puzzletown, Pennsylvania, USA

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?"

R

• Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado, USA
• Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, USA
• Ramrod Key, Florida, USA
• 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
• Roach, Missouri, 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, Australia ⁸
• Rust, Austria
• Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England
• Ry, Denmark ²
• Rye, New York, USA
• Ryme Intrinseca, Somerset, England

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")
• Scrapfaggot Green, Essex, England
• Scunthorpe, England (causes problems with some child-protection filters)
• Searchlight, Nevada, USA
• Secretary, Maryland, USA
• Seething, Norfolk, England
• 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)
• 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, USA¹
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Siren, Wisconsin, USA
• Sissy, France (commune)
• 6, West Virginia, USA (the town has been renamed) ⁵
• Skaneateles, New York, USA (pronounced like skinny Atlas)
• Skookumchuck River, Washington State, USA
• Skyline, Minnesota, USA
• 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")
• Smackover, Arkansas, USA
• Snafu Lake, Yukon, Canada
• Snapfinger, Georgia, USA
• Snodland, Kent, England
• Solitude, Indiana, USA
• 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
• Spread Eagle, Wisconsin, USA ¹
• Spunk Creek, Minnesota, USA and related bodies of water such as Middle Spunk Lake ¹
• Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada
• Stamping Ground, Kentucky, USA
• Stateline, Nevada, USA
• Stiffkey, Norfolk, England
• Stora Stjärtvecket, Sweden
• Strata Florida Abbey, Dyfed, Wales
• Sugar Land, Texas, USA
• Sugar Tit, South Carolina, USA ¹
• Sumerduck, Virginia, USA
• 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
• Swords, County Dublin, Ireland
• Sylt, island in Germany; pronounced "zoolt"

T

• 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
• 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
• The Bungalow, Isle of Man
• The Shoe, Wiltshire, England
• The Wash, eastern England
• Them, Denmark
• Thermal, California, USA
• Thong, Kent, England
• Thousand Oaks, California, USA ^{5 & 7}
• Thousand Palms, California, USA ⁵
• Thousandsticks, Kentucky, USA
• Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
• Ticklerton, Shropshire, England
• Tiddleywink, Wiltshire, England
• 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
• Titlis, Switzerland
• Tittybong, Victoria, Australia
• Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Toadsuck, Texas, USA
• Toadsuck, Perry County, Arkansas, USA
• Toast, North Carolina, USA ⁸
• Tolstoy, South Dakota, USA; see also Tolstoy#Places
• Tombstone, Arizona, USA
• Tongue, Scotland
• Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
• Touristville, Kentucky, USA
• Towcester, Northamptonshire, England (pronounced "toaster")
• Township of East Garafraxa, Ontario, Canada
• Transylvania, Louisiana, USA
• Treinta y Tres, Uruguay (thirty-three)
• 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)
• Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, Canada
• True, Wisconsin, USA
• Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, USA
• Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland
• Turda, Cluj, Romania
• Turkey, Kentucky, USA
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
• Tutaekuri River, New Zealand ("Tutaekuri" is Maori for "dogshit")
• Tuxedo, Texas, USA
• Twatt, Orkney Islands, Scotland
• Twatt, Shetland Islands, Scotland
• Twenty, Lincolnshire, England ⁵
• Twentynine Palms, California, USA ⁵
• Twin Arrows, Arizona, USA
• Twinsburg, Ohio, USA ⁷
• Two Boars Roll, Pitcairn Island⁵
• Two Egg, Florida
• Two Guns, Arizona, USA ⁵

U

• U, Ponape, Caroline Islands
• U (Coclé), Panama
• Ugley, Essex, England
• Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia
• 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
• Upperthong, Yorkshire, England
• Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Useless Loop, Western Australia, Australia
• Uz, Kentucky, USA

V

• Vagina, Kurganskaya Oblast, Russia
• Valerie Jean, California, USA; unincorporated small town in southeast Riverside County
• Varkaus, Finland (means theft in Finnish)
• Vache-Qui-Pisse (Cap de la), Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada (lit. "Cape Pissing Cow")
• 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
• Virgin, Utah, USA
• Virginia Water, Surrey, England
• Virginville, Pennsylvania, USA
• Vulcan, Alberta, Canada

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

W

• Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
• Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
• Walla Walla, Washington, USA ³
• Walnut, California, USA ⁸
• Wanda, Minnesota, USA
• Wangford, Suffolk, England
• 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
• The Wash, Lincolnshire & Norfolk, Eastern England
• Watanobbi, New South Wales, Australia
• Water ma trout (Industrial Edstate), Helston, Cornwall, England
• 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
• Weedpatch, California, USA
• Weequahic, Newark, New Jersey, USA (pronounced "weekwake")
• Weir, Mississippi, USA (Pronounced "ware") ⁶
• Welcome, Minnesota, USA
• 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 some dialects of 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
• Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate (street), York, North Yorkshire, England
• 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
• Windpassing, Austria
• Windpassing, Germany
• 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)
• Wymore, Nebraska, USA
• Wynot, Nebraska, USA
• Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire, England

Y

• Y, Alaska, USA ²
• Y, Somme, France ²
• Yaphank, New York, USA
• Ybor City, Florida, USA
• Yeehaw Junction, Florida, USA
• Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England
• Young America, Minnesota, USA
• Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
• Yreka, California, USA

==Z==

Sign to Zzyzx Road, on Interstate 15, California

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

See also

• List of misleading place names
• 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