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Great pleasure is experienced by people who travel on own car. They get vivid impressions not only from contemplating the beauty of the surrounding area, but also from the names of settlements, rivers, lakes.

If you plan to travel a considerable distance in your car, then take a pen and notebook with you to write down the names of cities, towns, villages and rivers that you meet on your way. In the future, you will not only be guaranteed victory in the Cities game, but you will also be able to amuse your friends and family with funny and unusual toponyms.

For starters, I want to bring to your attention the following interesting names of real geographical objects:

Cocaine mountains - a river in the Perm region;
Lysaya Balda - a river in the Ukrainian village of Zaryanoye;
Dno is the name of a city near Pskov;
Bunny bubble - a river in the Kemerovo region;
In the Ulyanovsk region - the village of Musorka;
Red Grave - a village in the Donetsk region;
Chuvaki - a village in the Perm region;
Tukhlyanka - a river on Sakhalin;
Bolshie Pupsy - a village in the Tver region;
Machekhin End - a village in the Tver region;
Krutye Khutora - a village in the Lipetsk region;
Tsatsa - a village in the Volgograd region;
The village of Kurilovka in the Saratov region;
Yes, yes - a village in the Khabarovsk Territory;
This is a village on Sakhalin Island;
Kuyoklo is a village in the Tver region.

If you are going to Omsk, then you will meet on your way:

the rivers Bernyazhka, Nyukhalovka, Byzovka, Ingaly, Avlukha;

the villages of Pochekuevo, Shchuevoz, Takmyk, Kurnosovo, Bolshie Murly, Chebakly, Uvalnaya Bitiya and others.

These are so interesting geographical names meet! Each such name, of course, has its own history of origin. What now seems funny to us in ancient times had a completely different meaning. You can ask around local residents where did the name of their village or village or river come from. Old people will tell a lot of interesting things, however, there are fewer and fewer of them every day.

It is a pity that our history flows like a river into oblivion.

It is a pity that we are ready to laugh at an unusual name without asking about the history of its origin.

Fortunately, there are enthusiasts who collect bit by bit and save such information. After all, a nation that does not know its history, its roots, is weak and vulnerable. Esotericists, clairvoyants and healers say that living people are given strength by their ancestors, the so-called family tree or family egregore.

Don't forget to bring a notepad and pen with you!

There are settlements on the planet with such amazing names that it is difficult to believe in the fact of their existence. And to live in the city of Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan can, perhaps, only love with a good sense of humor. And it should be noted that these are not the most strange names from existing ones.

1. Swastika

The city of Swastika in Ontario, Canada is a rather strange place. In fact, this is not a Nazi haunt at all - the city was founded almost 30 years before Adolf Hitler began to use the swastika. The name of the city was chosen in honor of the ancient Indian sign of well-being and fertility.

2. Kingdom of Satan

In a funny and strange way, there are cities and geographic places on Earth named after hell. For example, two cities in the USA (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.

3. Peniston

The name of the town of Peniston in Yorkshire, England, probably comes from older forms of Welsh and English. Originally, the name meant "Hilltop Village". Today, everyone who is not lazy is giggling over him.

4. Nothing

The formerly inhabited (although very few people lived in it) village of Nothing in Arizona was completely abandoned in 2005. A sign at the entrance to the city says: "The devoted citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the need for work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoped for Nothing and worked for Nothing."

5. North Pole

There are cities with the name of the North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.

6. Nameless

Nameless - a small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be laid in this place with a turn to the still non-existent city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. In the end, the name stuck.

7. Moon

To the northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend in the river.

8. Mars

Tourists have recently been frequenting the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is a non-working former spaceship installed in the city, but you can also say that you visited the Martians (that's what the locals are called).

9. George Washington

George Washington is the only city in the United States that bears the full name of its founding father.

10. Ganja

The city with the most Rastaman name can be found in Azerbaijan. Moreover, this is not even a village that was named as a joke, but the second largest city in the country.

11. Chinatown

Chinatowns or Chinatowns exist in major cities around the world, but Wisconsin has whole city which has a similar name.

12. Batman

Everyone knows the famous comic book hero, but few people know that in Turkey, in the province of Batman, on the banks of the Batman River (a tributary of the Tigris River), there is a city of Batman. The main local attractions are oil refineries and a large military air base.

13. Bastardtown

Bastardtown in County Wexford, despite its name, is a picturesque seaside Irish village.

14. Å

The settlement with such a laconic name is a beautiful seaside village in the very north of Norway. Also, six other Norwegian towns, Swedish and Danish cities have a similar name.

15. Accident

Interestingly, the town of Accident was built in the 1770s in Western Maryland by accident. Two surveyors were marking the ground by randomly choosing the same oak tree as a reference point. It was on that spot that the city was founded.

Sometimes geographic features are too long or too short, extremely funny or difficult to pronounce names. Sometimes they are so ridiculous that you have to wonder - how could someone come up with such a thing? So, see for yourself.

The longest place names in the world

An example would be a small lake in US state Massachusetts. The name of this reservoir consists of more than 40 letters and it is almost impossible to pronounce it non-stop and the first time. The name of this lake is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. This abracadabra, translated from the Indian language of the locality, means: "I will fish on this side, you will fish on the other side, and no one catches anything in the middle." It was in this way that two Indian tribes, who once lived on opposite sides, concluded an agreement. Thus, the lake got such a long name.

An even longer name is given to a small station near Wales in the UK. Train tickets starting or ending point, which this station is, are listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest Railway tickets. Their length is 15 cm long. The name of the station consists of 54 letters and sounds like: Llanfirepulguiguillgogericutridrobullaantisiliogogogok, for ease of pronunciation and spelling of the name, it was shortened to Llanfire. The name of the station, translated from the Welsh dialect, means: "a church in the lowland, which is overgrown with white hazel, located near a river with a whirlpool near the cave". The translation of the name reliably accurately describes the geographical area in which it is located. old station. Old-timers say that such a name of the once old and unknown station was invented by a local joker who wished to remain in the shadows. He did this in order to glorify his unremarkable little-known village. Since then, tourists began to flock to the small town, who were attracted here unusual name. There is a known case of theft of a sign from the station building with full title city, apparently it was stolen by some collector.

"The place where Tamatea, a man with very long legs, a famous person the one who devoured mountains, who moved them, climbed mountains to play the flute for his beloved.” This is how the even longer name of the village located in the northern part of the island is translated New Zealand. The name itself consists of 83 letters and is pronounced as:

The well-known capital of Thailand, the city of Bangkok has the longest name in the world written in Thai. It is officially listed in the Guinness Book of Records. It consists of 147 characters, and it is very difficult to read it. The translation of the name describes the location of the city in the style of the Eastern sages and means: “The great city, the city of angels, which contains the treasures of the gods, the great land that no one can conquer, the kingdom that will always prosper, this is the place where the palace of the gods is located, in which live gods capable of reincarnating as spirits, a wonderful land bestowed by the gods.

The shortest place names in the world

For example, the names that are presented on the maps in the form of the letter A are found in many parts of the world. For example, a river in Germany or a place on the Lofot Islands, as well as small villages in France and Sweden.

The letter I as the name has two small towns located in the north and west of France and the coast of Finland, respectively.

The unique French town, located in the south, is called Nauh, which is read as O.

On the territories of Sweden and France there are cities with the name Yu. The river in the north of Russia has the same name.

The letter E stands for the name of a small town in Belgium, and the port with an analogous name is located near Burma.

Y is the geographical name given to cities in South Korea and the Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The same name belongs to the left tributary of the Mekong River, located in Asia.

The funniest place names in the world

Tarakan is the name of a small island and the city of the same name. eastern shores Indonesian island of Kalimantan.

Penek is a village in Novosibirsk region.

Kalach is a city in Volgograd Oblast

Sapozhok is a city in Ryazan Oblast

Dno is a village in the Pskov region

Zheludok is a village in the Grodno region of Belarus

The strangest place names in the world

The village of Nothing in Arizona, USA.

On Earth, there are cities and geographical places named after hell. For example, two cities in the USA (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.

There are cities with the name of the North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.

Nameless is a small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be laid in this place with a turn to the still non-existent city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. In the end, the name stuck.

To the northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend in the river.

In the 1770s, the town of Casualty was built in Western Maryland. Two surveyors were marking the ground by randomly choosing the same oak tree as a reference point. It was on that spot that the city was founded.

There are geographical names that we use in everyday life in a different meaning. There are many such words that have entered our language from maps and geography textbooks. Let's consider the most interesting of them.

From the name of the city of Basra in Iraq comes the name of alabaster, which is a valuable building material. Translated from Arabic, the word "al-basra" means "soft" and is associated with the characteristics of the local soil. The word "kaolin" is associated with the Kaolian area in China, where white clay was first mined for the purpose of making porcelain. The word "faience" is associated with the name of the city of Faenza in Italy. Rock is intended as a facing material in the construction process and in the construction of monuments. The breed is called labradorite from the name of the peninsula of the same name. North America.

If we turn to the periodic system of chemical elements D.I. Mendeleev, you can see a large number of names that testified to certain parts of the world, for example, americium, europium, and individual countries, gallium (the ancient name of France), ruthenium, translated from Latin meaning Russia, France, polonium, meaning Poland. In honor of Paris, such an element as lutetium is named (from the Latin. "Lutetium"), and in honor of the Greek city of Magnesium, such an element as magnesium is named. Chemical elements like californium and scandium also speak of the geographical name of the same name.

The name of the four chemical elements - ytterbium, yttrium, erbium and terbium came from the small town of Ytterby, which is located on the Swedish island of Ruslagen. In 1787, an unusual heavy mineral containing these rare earth elements was found in the vicinity of this city. The town of Ytterby became famous thanks to this miracle of nature.

An example of a chemical named after a city is veronal (from the Italian city of Verona); cologne, which means "water from Cologne". In 1972, cologne was first made in Cologne. Cologne today is the largest industrial center in Germany, where various types of machine tools, cars, television and radio equipment are produced. However, around the world Cologne is known for its "water from Cologne".

From the island of the same name in the Red Sea comes the name of the valuable topaz stone.

What about fabric names? Not everyone knows that the name of the tulle fabric comes from the French city where it was first made. In the state of northwestern India, the name of a thin woolen fabric - cashmere, was born, from the name of the state of Kashmir. Madepolam fabric is also of Indian origin. It got its name from a small town of the same name.

The city in Scotland is Cheviot, the name of the ridge in the Pennine Mountains of Great Britain duplicates the covercot. Jersey fabric owes its name to the English island of Jersey from the group of the Channel Islands next to France. The city of the same name in the United States is the birthplace of the Boston woolen fabric. The name waltz-boston came from here. Translated from French, the name of crepe de chine silk fabric means "Chinese crepe". Moroccan crepe in translation means "Moroccan crepe". In the 60-60s. in the Italian city of Bologna, raincoats made of synthetic material, which received the same name, first appeared. The name of the breed of indoor dogs have the same origin. In the old spelling, the capital of Turkey sounds like Angora, hence the origin of Angora cats.

From the name of the city of Bruges, in a slightly modified pronunciation, the word trousers came. In this city, a special Bruggisch fabric was produced for sewing trousers. The city of Bruges itself comes from the ancient Norwegian language of the Normans and is translated as a bridge (“brigia”).

The origin of the word jeans also has a connection with geography. The appearance of the first jeans dates back to the 50s. last century, and San Francisco (USA) is their homeland. Jeans in those days were made only for laborers. The material was canvas. The country-supplier of fabric for tailoring was italian city Genoa. The name was somewhat distorted by the Americans, so the end result was the emergence of the word jeans.

From the name of the city of Fes, which is located in Morocco, the name of the men's fez cap was formed, made of red felt in the shape of a truncated cone with a tassel, until recently common in North America and the Middle East. From the Austrian province of Tyrol came the name of a hat with a feather - Tyroleans.

Geographic sound is also inherent in a large number of food products. In the city of Mayon on the island of Menorca, which is part of the Spanish Balearic Islands, mayonnaise, widely known today, was made for the first time.

From the French city of Plombier, the name of the ice cream variety was formed - ice cream. From the river Torto, flowing on the island of Sicily, the name was formed - cake.

eponymous French city Roquefort cheese owes its name. The names of such cheeses as Dutch, Poshekhonsky, Uglichsky, Kostroma, Swiss have a similar origin. As well as sausages: Hamburg, Odessa, Krakow, Lviv, Moscow, Odessa, Minsk, etc.

From Greece came buckwheat, from Persia - peach. Orange means "Chinese apple".

In the names of brands of refrigerators, mineral waters, motorcycles, televisions, cars, there are also a large number of place names. For example, the landau horse-drawn carriage got its name from the Bavarian city of Landau. It was there that it was first made.

The name landau has survived to this day in the name of the body of a convertible car. The closed body of a high-class passenger car got its name from the historical province of France, Limousin.

Geographically, it will also interesting name US dollar. The name of this currency is not of American origin and is not at all connected with English language. In the small German town of Joachimsthal (now the Czech Republic), they minted a large silver coin called Joachimsthaler. The name was later shortened to the word "thaler", which later became "dollar" in English pronunciation. The village of Dollar is located in Great Britain.

For the most part, geographical names have their corresponding meaning.

But there are a large number of those that appeared on the geographical map by chance and were the result of errors and misunderstandings.

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Funny and strange

Name BUT have simultaneously rivers in the Netherlands, Germany, places on the Lofot Islands of Norway, as well as in France, Denmark and Sweden.

There are also two small towns with the name AND- one is located in the north of France, and the other in west coast Finland.

There is a village in France ABOUT, though this is how it is read, although it is written not with one, but with four letters: Nauh.

Townships YU located in France and Sweden.

E- this is the name of a town in Belgium and one of the ports of Burma.

On the Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, you can visit a town called At. A similar name is given to the left tributary of the great river South-East Asia Mekong, in the Lao Republic and a city in South Korea.

Dad is a city in Hungary.

tyatya(old Russian "father") - a volcano on the Kuril island of Iturup.

Mother- the city and the river, the left tributary of the Vitim River in Irkutsk region Russia. By the way, the sources of this river are called Right Mama and Left Mama.

Daughter- a river in Bryansk region, a tributary of the Desna, and a river in the Moscow region.

Woman- a cape in the west of the peninsula of Asia Minor (Turkey). The same name is also mountain range in the Hindu Kush system in Afghanistan. By the way, "Baba" means "Father" in Arabic.

grandmothers- a village in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.

Great grandmother- also in Ukraine - a tributary of the Seversky Donets and a village of the same name in the Kharkov region. Babka - a river in the Perm region of Russia and a city in the west of the island New Guinea.

Dedovsk- a village in the Moscow region.

Sister- rivers in Moscow and Leningrad regions.

Brothers- islands off the southern coast of the Republic of Vietnam.

Vnukovo- a village near Moscow.

Muzhi- a village on the Ob River in Siberia and the left tributary of the Tejo River in Portugal.

Qom a river in Turkey. Kuma is a river in the North Caucasus and a city in the Australian state of Victoria.

Cousin- an island in a group Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

Matchmaker- a river in Eastern Slovakia and Pakistan.

Twins- a village in the Kharkov region of Ukraine.

Stepmother- a village in the Volgograd region.

Relatives- a village in the Kaliningrad region of Russia.

Village Neighbor located in the Penza region.

river Boy flows through the Magadan and Kamchatka regions of the Far East.

Village damsel is located in Voronezh region Russia.

City Virgo in Western Romania.

A tributary of the Abakan River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is called She, and the village on the Rioni River in Georgia is called They are.

In the state of Massachusetts (USA) there is a small lake, the name of which is not easy to pronounce without stopping, because it consists of 42 letters, and in English transcription it is even longer (44 letters). Judge for yourself: Chargoggagogg. Translated from the local Indian language, this abracadabra means: "I will fish on this side, you will fish on the other side, and no one fishes in the middle." Thus, the name of the lake recorded an agreement between two Indian tribes that once lived on its shores.

The long name is associated with one of the villages north island New Zealand: Thaumatavkakapikimahu(83 letters!). Translated from the local Maori language, it means: "The place where Tamatea, a man with long legs, a famous mountain-eater, who moved mountains, climbed them and swallowed them, played the flute for his beloved."

The longest among Gulliver names is the name of the capital, located in Southeast Asia of the Republic of Thailand - Bangkok. In translation, it sounds like this: “Place of the wild plum”, but the full local name has as many as 147 (!) Letters and means: “The great city of angels, the highest container of divine treasures, the great land that cannot be conquered, the great and prosperous kingdom, magnificent and wonderful capital of the nine gems, the place where the greatest rulers live and is located Grand Palace, the dwelling of the gods, capable of reincarnating into spirits". It is this geographical name that is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest in the world.

River Volga, except for the well-known, flows in the state of Iowa (USA). The right tributary of the Mississippi has the same name. The city of the same name is located on the banks of the American Volga.

River Don flows in Scotland, in the north of the island of Great Britain, and the well-known tributary of the Volga Oka has a "namesake" - a large tributary of the Angara in Eastern Siberia.

City Moscow located in the Vyatka region of Russia.

In Russia, you can get from Berlin in Paris without leaving the territory Chelyabinsk region. There are also Leipzig, Varna and other cities. All these, as a rule, small towns, got their names in honor of the outstanding victories of the Russian army in Patriotic War 1812

IN Odessa region Ukraine has railway stations Borodino, Leipzig, Paris and others. Village Paris located in the Krasnokutsky district of the Kharkov region.

There is a village with a loud name in the Fergana region of Uzbekistan Baghdad, in the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan - railroad station Cairo, in Moldova - a railway station - Sofia, in Latvia and the Yekaterinburg region of Russia - small towns Nice, in the Novosibirsk region - a village Shanghai, in Oryol region- village Panama, in Irkutsk - railway station Malta.

Nile- a settlement in the Amur region of Russia, Chad- railway station in the Perm region, Sahara- a river in Yakutia, Africa- a cape on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Victoria- a village in the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan.

bay america- on the Far East, Danube Islands- at the mouth of the great Siberian river Lena, village of Eldorado- on the middle Yenisei, Lake China- in the Odessa region of Ukraine.

On the railway Perm - Nizhny Tagil Eurasia station(on the border of Europe and Asia).

An interesting road sign is located in the vicinity of the American city of Lynchula (Maine). He points out that from here to Peru- 90, to Poland - 50, Denmark - 35, Norway- 25 km. All these settlements are located in this state and are not countries.

The states of Indiana, Minnesota, and North Dakota have townships Russia, Belarus And Kyiv. They were founded over 100 years ago by the natives of these areas, who moved to America in search of a happy life.

In the California desert substation Siberia. It must be admitted that the authors of this title were humorists. After all, the hottest place in the entire western hemisphere is located nearby.

In the south of Brazil is America city.

In the USA there are cities like London, Boston, Newcastle, Cambridge, Oxford, Baltimore, Bristol, Greenwich and many others whose "parents" are in Europe.

Geographical names came from France to the Americas Orleans, Nancy, Toulon, Lyon, but Paris occurs more than ten times.

Occurs seven times on the US map Moscow and repeatedly numerous towns under the names Petersburg, Rome, Cairo, Athens, Odessa and others.

From Spain to latin america"moved" such geographical names as Barcelona, Valencia, Venice, Granada, Cordova, Seville and others.

In Ukraine, in the Chernivtsi region, there is the village of Mamaliga, and in Poltava - Pie.

Cockroach- the name of a small island and the city of the same name off the eastern coast of the Indonesian island of Kalimantan.

Gang- one of the seas washing the shores of the islands of Sulawesa, New Guinea and Timor.

An island with an attractive name Paradise can be seen off the coast of the Republic of Vietnam.

In the Gulf of Thailand in the west of the island of New Guinea rises mountain house.

Sombrero- this is the name of the strait in the Nicobar Islands indian ocean.

Rivers Dream And barrack flow in India.

City Furnace located in Hungary Cabinet- in Sweden, and cities with no less strange, in our opinion, name Salo located in Finland and Northern Italy.

In Italy there are towns Bank, Fortune And Mirage.

Madonna is a city in Latvia.

City of Duma located in Syria.

Village Game- in Udmurtia.

give- in Romania.

River Moy takes place in Ireland poppy islet is in a group Hebrides off the coast of Great Britain.

Kucha city located in Western China, Tank- in Pakistan, Tea And chan- in Turkey, Limon city- in Guatemala.

Topic - sea port in the African Republic of Ghana.

Maritime name Squid assigned to a land French city in Alsace.

On the geographical map Russian Federation you will see nearby summer And Winter coast and city Winter in Eastern Siberia.

Stump- a village in the Novosibirsk region, marvel- in Smolensk, Baklushi And Turks- in Saratov, Kalach- in Volgograd, Boot- in Ryazan, Wand- in Tomsk, Bottom- in Pskovskaya, Mud- in Lipetsk, Hat- in Leningradskaya, Wasp- in the Perm regions, Baris- a river in the Ulyanovsk region.

In Ukraine - Paradise in Ternopil region, Bar- in Vinnitsa, platypus, Partying, Benefit- in Odessa, Wise heads- in Khmelnitsky, good afternoon- in Chernihiv, Buyan, Bucha And leather jacket- in Kievskaya, Money- in Cherkasy, Happiness- in the Luhansk regions.

Stomach can be found in the Grodno region of Belarus.

Note flows in Murmansk, Darkness in Tverskaya Pair in Ryazan Leather in Arkhangelsk and even Shish- the right tributary of the Irtysh - in the Omsk regions.

Settlements are located in the Gomel region of Belarus Mars, Venus and even Capricorn. Villages with the name Mars we find in the Sharansky district of the Nizhnenovgorod region of Russia and the Novoaydarsky district of the Lugansk region of Ukraine.

cape The end of the world located on the extreme east island Kuril ridge Shikotan.

Half- this is the name of the village in the Irkutsk region of Russia, halfway between Moscow and Vladivostok.

In the Far East, on the railway Moscow - Vladivostok, one of the cities is called by name and patronymic - Erofei Pavlovich.

Some geographical names reflect, as it were, the shape of objects. So, for example, in Siberia, in the Eastern Sayan there are Mount Pyramid, in the Arctic Ocean - Straits of Yugorsky and Matochkin Shary, in the Sea of Okhotsk - cone island, and in the east, on the Lysyansky Peninsula, there are Cape Duga Western. River Curve flows in the Republic of Macedonia and in Serbia.

There are also names on the geographical map that consist of only vowels. This Wye- river in England, cities Aue(Germany), Aya("Holy" in Greece), an island Eui in the Tonga archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, the village ii- in Australia, the island eiao in the Marquesas group.

But there are also names consisting of only consonants, for example, the Croatian island Krk in the Adriatic sea and mountain Smrk(1204 m) in the Czech Republic.

There are geographical names that begin with the letter "Y", for example, rivers Yhne in Estonia, Yrgaity in Kyrgyzstan, Yngata in Yakutia (Right tributary of the Vilyui), as well as settlements Ynding in the Komi Republic uijou in the North and eunseong in South Korea.

Purely Russian geographical names can be found on the world map. settlements God, Vershok, Morning- in France, Dream- in Spain, Moan- in England, favorite- in Germany, Rich- in Hungary, Plan- an island off the coast of the Republic of Tunisia in Africa.

based on the book "Entertaining Geography"

And last summer I found this in Nizhny Novgorod region.
and couldn't get past.