List of interesting or unusual place names

See also: list of unusual English words, list of placenames over 20 letters long, toponymy, and for a list of names derived from place names, list of toponyms.

A

• Å, Norway ²
• Adiós, Navarre, Spain
• Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland ²
• Ah Cut, Pitcairn Island
• Ål, Buskerud, Norway ²
• Alphabet City, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
• Amerika, Germany
• Anting, China ⁷
• Arsoli, Lazio, Italy
• Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
• Au, several towns in Austria, Germany and Switzerland ²

B

• Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany
• Bald Knob, Arkansas, USA
• Banana, Queensland, Australia ⁷
• Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia
• Beaver, Pennsylvania ^{1 & 7}
• Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, USA
• Bitey Bitey, Pitcairn Island
• Blubberhouses, Yorkshire, England
• Blow Me Down, Provincial Park in Newfoundland, Canada
• Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
• Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, USA
• Bø, in Telemark and Nordland, Norway ²
• Bob, Canada ⁹
• Boca Grande, Florida, USA ("big mouth" in Spanish)
• Boca Raton, Florida, USA ("Mouth of the mouse" in Spanish)
• Boom, Belgium
• Boring, Oregon, USA
• Bottom, North Carolina, USA
• Bra, Cuneo, Italy
• Brown Willy, a tor in Cornwall, England
• Bucksnort, Tennessee, USA
• Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, Australia

C

• Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts ²
• Chinaman's Knob, Australia
• Christmas Island, Australia ⁴
• Christmaspie, Surrey, England
• Chunky, Mississippi, USA
• Climax, Colorado, USA
• Climax, Michigan, USA
• Clit, Arad, Romania¹
• Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland, Canada
• Condom, Gers, France ¹
• Cunter, Graubünden, Switzerland ¹
• Cuntis, Pontevedra, Spain ¹

D

• Die, Drôme, France
• Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada
• Dondangadale, Victoria, Australia
• Drain, Oregon, USA

E

• Easter Island, Chile ⁴
• Ed, Upper Austria, Austria ²
• Ed, Sweden ²
• Egg, Austria
• Egg, Zürich, Switzerland
• Eighty Eight, Kentucky, USA
• Elephant Butte, New Mexico, USA ⁷

F

• Fa, Aude, France
• Five Corners (several), USA
• Five Forks (several), USA
• Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
• Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC, USA
• Foul Mile, England
• French Lick, Indiana, USA
• Fresh Kills, Staten Island, New York, New York, USA
• Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England
• Fucking, Upper Austria, Austria ¹
• Fuku, China ¹

G

• George, Washington, USA
• Gland, Aisne, France
• Gland, Vaud, Switzerland
• Gnaw Bone, Indiana, USA
• Goodyear, Arizona, USA ⁴
• Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, a train station in Gwynedd, Wales²
• Grand Tetons, a mountain range in Wyoming, USA (meaning: "big tits" in French)
• Grong Grong, New South Wales, Australia
• Grosse Water Beach, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA
• Gunbarrel Highway, Western Australia, Australia
• Gunbarrel, Colorado, USA
• Gy, Geneva, Switzerland ²

H

• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a historic site in Alberta, Canada
• Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
• Hell Gate, a portion of the East River in New York, New York, USA
• Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
• Hell, Michigan, USA
• Hell, Norway
• Hells Gate Roadhouse, Australia
• Hérisson, Allier, France (meaning: "hedgehog")
• Himmelspforte, Germany (meaning: "heaven's gate")
• Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA
• Homosassa, Florida, USA
• How, Wisconsin, USA ⁶
• Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, Australia
• Hungry Mother State Park, Virginia, USA

I

• Ii, Finland (two identical vowels) ²
• Indian Queens, Cornwall, England
• Innaloo (suburb of Perth, Australia)
• Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA
• Isles of Scilly, England (pronounced "silly")

J

• John Catch a Cow, Pitcairn Island

K

• Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
• Kissimmee, Florida, USA (properly pronounced kis-SIMM-ee [SAMPA /k@"sImI/], but usually mispronounced KISS-a-me [SAMPA /"kIs@%mi/] by non-locals)
• Knob Lick, Missouri, USA
• Kokomo, Indiana, USA
• "Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit", the poetic name of Bangkok, Thailand ²

L

• La Hoz de la Vieja ("The Old Woman's Sickle"), Teruel, Spain
• Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, South Australia, Australia
• Lake Titicaca, in Peru and Bolivia
• Lickey End, Worcestershire, England
• Little George Coc'nuts, Pitcairn Island
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales ²
• Lord Hereford's Knob, hill on the Welsh border
• Los Rábanos ("the radishes"), Soria, Spain
• Lough Neagh (pronounced 'Lock Nay!'), Northern Ireland
• Loveland, Ohio, USA
• Loveland, Colorado, USA
• Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England
• Lü, Graubünden, Switzerland ²

M

• Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland
• Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Mianus, Connecticut, USA
• Milton Keynes, England
• Mockbeggar, England
• Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, USA
• Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
• Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Mount Jerome, Ireland
• Muck, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
• Muff, Northern Ireland
• Mumbles, Wales
• Mutters, Austria

N

• Nar Nar Goon, Victoria, Australia
• Natters, Austria
• Ninety Six, South Carolina, USA ⁵
• Ninety Six Corners, New York, USA ⁵
• Ninetynine Oaks, California, USA
• No Guts Captain, Pitcairn Island
• No Name, Colorado, USA
• Noone, New Hampshire, USA
• Normal, Illinois, USA
• Nyah and Nyah West, Victoria, Australia

O

• Öd, Lower Austria, Austria ² (also meaning "deserted" in German)
• Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, England
• Old Harry, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada
• Os, Hedmark, Norway ²
• Os, Hordaland, Norway ²

P

• Panthersville, Georgia, USA
• Peckerwood Lake, a lake in Arkansas, USA
• Peñíscola, Spain
• Penistone, South Yorkshire, England
• Petting, Bavaria, Germany
• Phuket, Thailand
• Piddle, river in Dorset, England
• Pie Town, New Mexico, USA
• Pis Pis River, Nicaragua
• Pity Me, England
• Pratt's Bottom, England
• Prickwillow, England
• Pussy, Savoie, France
• Puzzletown, Pennsylvania, USA

Q

R

• Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA ³
• Re, Vestfold, Norway ²
• Ronkonkoma, New York, USA (stress goes on the second syllable)
• Rottenegg, Upper Austria, Austria
• Rum, island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
• Rum Jungle, Australia
• Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England
• Ryme Intrinseca, Somerset, England

S

• Saddam Hussein, Sri Lanka
• Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec, Canada
• Saint-Tite (pronounced St. Tit), Quebec, Canada
• Salsipuedes, California, USA (meaning: "leave if you can" in Spanish)
• Sexmoan, Pampanga, Philippines (now renamed to Sasmuan) ¹
• Scunthorpe, England
• Seldom Seen Roadhouse, Victoria, Australia
• Semen, Indonesia
• Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada
• Shafter, California, USA
• Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Shag Island, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Indian Ocean (dependency of Australia)
• Shag Island, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada ¹
• Shitlington Crags, Northumberland, England
• Shittlehope, Durham, England
• Siem Reab, Cambodia (meaning defeat Siam)
• Silly, Belgium
• Simmering, Vienna, Austria
• Smackover, Arkansas, USA
• Snapfinger, Georgia, USA
• Snodland, England
• Sommerloch, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany⁴ (meaning: "summer slump")
• Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada
• Swastika, Ontario, in northeastern Ontario near Kirkland Lake, Ontario
• Swords, outside Dublin in Ireland

T

• Taintsville, Florida, USA
• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu Hill, New Zealand ²
• Thong, Kent, England
• Tittybong, Victoria, Australia
• Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Toadsuck, Collinsville, Texas, USA
• Toadsuck, Perry County, Arkansas, USA
• Tombstone, Arizona
• Town of Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, Australia ⁵
• Treinta y Tres (Thirty-Three), Uruguay
• Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, USA
• Twatt, Orkney Islands, Scotland
• Twenty, Lincolnshire, England ⁵
• Twentynine Palms, California, USA ⁵
• Two Boars Roll, Pitcairn Island

U

• Ugley, Essex, England
• Up In Ti, Pitcairn Island
• Upotipotpon, Victoria, Australia
• Useless Loop, Western Australia, Australia

V

• Venusberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Void, Meuse, France (Now merged with neighbouring place to form Void-Vacon)

W

• Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
• Waikikamukau, New Zealand
• Walla Walla, Washington, USA ³
• Wank, mountain in Bavaria, Germany ¹
• Wankdorf, train station in Bern, Switzerland ¹
• Wankers Corner, Oregon, USA ¹
• Wedding, Germany
• Weed, California, USA
• Westward Ho!, England (The exclamation mark is part of the name. The town takes its name from the title of a book by Charles Kingsley)
• Wetwang, East Riding of Yorkshire, England ¹
• Where Freddy Fall, Pitcairn Island
• Where Minnie Off, Pitcairn Island
• Where Reynolds Cut The Firewood, Pitcairn Island
• Whroo, Victoria, Australia
• Why, Arizona, USA ⁶
• Wigtwizzle, South Yorkshire, England
• Wooloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
• Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (home of the Diet of Worms) ⁷

X

Y

• Y, Alaska, USA ²
• Y, Somme, France ²

Z

Notes

• ¹ sex related topic
• ² listed in/or candidate for shortest or longest word in English or other languages
• ³ listed on inherently funny word
• ⁴ calendar-related name
• ⁵ number
• ⁶ interrogative pronoun
• ⁷ a living organism's names
• ⁹ After Nunavut separated from the Northwest Territories, a poll was conducted as to what the remainder of the territory should be named. Retaining the name Northwest Territories won by a substantial margin, but a distant runner-up choice was Bob. [1]

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