The Very Literal & Surprisingly Common Place Names
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What other places with central/middle in their name did I forget to mention?
Centralia, Illinois Centralia, Pennsylvania
Midleton near Cork, Ireland.
@@pinguing6425 Yeah, especially Centrailia Pennsylvania the inspiration for Silent Hill
In California there is also Middletown, Ca:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown,_California
Northumbria, England
I live in a village in Czechia that is named Prostřední Suchá which directly translates to Middle Dry.
N.Macedonia here, the only part that I don't get is why is it Prostřední instead of just Střední?
Is it in the middle of a dry area?
Yeah dude that's kind of pathetic
@Laquelectro there is a place that is arid and this is in the middle of it.
I live in the US midwest. I went to Central Junior High in the middle of Ames, IA. I have relatives in State Center, in the middle of Iowa. We live south of both Central City and Center Point. We live north of the Amana Colonies, with Middle Amana sitting between East, South, West, and High Amanas.
"North Central" and "South Central" both sound like the names of subway stations 😂
I could understand why! I have heard of many subway stations (and railroad stations, in general) which have names like that. Considering the name of one of my other channels is SleepTrain456, that is saying something!
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions nobody cares
@@bruhz_089 Sorry for the accidental self-promotion there.
I was literally just waiting this whole video for Patrick to mention my hometown. Although I thought we were called Middlesbrough because we are (roughly) halfway between the big cities of Newcastle & Leeds, not the religious sites of Durham & Whitby as he said.
You mentioned Mesopotamia in the Middle East section but didn’t even talk about its etymology, which surprised me.
In English “Middle America“ refers to the Midwest or the fly-over states between the two coasts of the US.
One glaring omission is the Midwest. You mentioned the Middle East, so what about the Middle West?
I would argue that it would be a bit more noticeable if he omitted the Middle East over the US Midwest. This isn't a comprehensive list.
He mentioned “Middle America” which in English is the same as the Midwest, although that wasn’t the context in which he used it.
@@SWLinPHXThat was Mesoamerica. Totally differnet.
I agree with Sexymonkey that it's very "US-centric" of us to think of midwest before Middle East, but I wanted to see that featured too- have always thought it an odd description. Middle, maybe (from side to side), but what the heck is west about it????
Brian DesJardin When the USA first gained independence, its western boundary was the Mississippi River, and the land west of the eventual border of Pennsylvania, north of the Ohio, east of the Mississippi, and all the Great Lakes except Lake Michigan, was called the Northwest Territory. That accounts for the name of Northwestern and Case Western Universities.
Surprisingly commonplace names......
Get it? Common place and commonplace ?
No? Ok
My brain keeps pinning the music to UsefulCharts
Me too
I live in a region of California called the Central Coast. Like Middle Mountain, it's not actually in the center! Instead, it's the coastal area midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
I'd love to know why we have the village of Eastchester in the county of Westchester here in New York State.
I'm surprised that the Midwest (North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois and Missouri) wasn't/weren't mentioned
Or North and South Holland and North Brabant
(Noord en Zuid Holland Noord Brabant)
You forgot Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
You forgot Ohio, Michigan and Indiana but included both Dakotas?
The Central valley of California also goes by the Spanish name, San Joaquin Valley. It's the most fertile part of the state Over 70% of the food grown is responsible for the food shipped around the country and the world.
I like that there's usually a distinction between "middle" and "central". The first is usually for "between two points", the last is for "between all points".
You should do a video on places that have the word castle, or some basis thereupon, in their names
It's The Mediterranean Sea, as in "The Sea in the middle of the terrain". You need to include the "sea" in the name. The Romans called Mare Nostrum.
That's how I've always interpreted it, analogous to Mesopotamia "Between Rivers."
Right. The sea in the midst of the lands.
Patrick! I can't believe you mentioned Mesopotamia without noting that the name means 'between the Rivers' or 'in the middle of the Rivers'.
There's a Midleton near Cork, Ireland. Centra is the name of a popular chain of convenience store across Ireland.
There are a bucket load (I counted 7) of cities in America with the name Centralia. I’m not sure if they are in the center of something or not (that’s YOUR JOB) 😉
The three Grand Divisions of Tennessee: East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee. They also lend/lent their names to three universities: East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, and (formerly) the University of Memphis (as West Tennessee State Teachers College). The Grand Divisions still effect the makeup of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
A really famous use of Midgard (in the form of Midgar) is Final Fantasy VII.
I forgot if the other areas in this compilation follow the same naming convention as Midgar.
Fun fact: One region in Indonesia has been named "Timor Tengah Utara" literally mean "North Middle East" or "North Central East". And this region is very far to South East from Middle East Region.
for more information check wikipedia links en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Central_Timor_Regency
Sofia's old name (The capital of Bulgaria) used to be Sredec (Срѣдецъ) which comes from the Bulgarian word for middle (Sreda) and if you look at the map, Sofia is kinda located in the centre of the Balkans.
One of Pennsylvania's 67 counties is Centre, which is indeed nearly central to the Commonwealth. In neighboring Maryland, the Patuxent River (on which western bank I lived for 14 years, in the town of Laurel) has two smaller branches named the Middle Patuxent and Little Patuxent.
There's a town near me called Middleborough, Massachusetts. It's actually from Middelburg in the Netherlands, which is way in the southwestern corner. I always assumed it came from Middlesbrough. Also, it's sometimes spelt Middleboro, and lots of towns in MA have multiple spellings because of -boro(ugh). Weird ones are a city called Attleboro, but the town next to it is called North Attleborough.
We also have Middlefield and Middleton. I can't find why Middlefield is called that, but Middleton is named for its location between Salem and Andover.
We also have Middlesex County which is in the northeast, and Essex County east of that. Though Middlesex does contain our center of population. But both were just named after the English counties.
Similar is our counties called Norfolk and Suffolk. The weird thing is that Norfolk is south of Suffolk.
I also spend most of my time in Rhode Island, where there's a very small but densely-populated city called Central Falls, named after a nearby waterfall. However I can't find out why it's called CENTRAL Falls. It was also temporarily named Chocolateville before that, which is such an amazing name.
Mediterranean Sea means sea in the middle of the earth, as the sea was directly in the middle of the known world.
Im playing ck2 right now and i finally know why sex is in the county names of england
Ck2 > Ck3
@@mingchina4499 Not for long :P
Zharko Cekovski ck2 is better game to get carpel tunnel
I wouldn't say "direction" but "orientation", so "north/south/east/west/middle-central" for static places is an orientation. :)
I'd translate "mar mediterraneo" differently - it'd be more like "Sea in the middle of the Earth", which makes more sense in my opinion, specially considering early Greek/Roman Maps
It's a sea in the middle of the lands of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Not odd at all.
It's mostly just relative to whoever name them or use that name as a reference point. I grew up in a suburb called Clementi, and names are given relative, so there's a Clementi North and an informal Clementi Central. However, there is a Clementi West, but is actually southeast of Clementi Central. The only reason its called Clementi West is because it is situated next to the suburb of West Coast, so the name is an amalgamation.
Thank you for mentioning the destruction of Seneca Village to make Central Park.
I'm pretty sure Mediterranean doesn't mean so much "far from the shore". More like "between/in the middle of the lands", which the Mediterranean sea definetly is.
Maybe the name "Mediterranean" includes "terra" because the intended meaning was something along the lines of "sea in the middle of the land"? After all, it's not far off being so. Close that narrow bit to the south of Spain, and you'd have it cut off from the rest of the ocean (ignoring the Suez Canal, of course).
Here in Massachusetts, we have Middlesex County, as well as towns called Middleboro, Medford, and Medway.
Regarding Mediterranean, the Romans thought of the Mediterranean as being at the center of the landed portions of the Earth with another outer sea ringing the roughly equally sized Europe, Asia, and Africa. To me, it seems more likely that this name relates to its place as the sea in the middle of the lands of the Earth as opposed to the outer sea instead of a more abstract name meaning surrounded by land
I have an idea for a video, maybe a video about places with human names in them, such as a city in my country, that being cal-gary, I would love to see that in video form
The name Gary is actually a city name first.
would love a name explain video about scales in music in western and other music theoires.
In Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪, the regions where the counties are found, are named after cardinal points like: Western, Eastern and North-Eastern which were older provinces of Kenya
The Mediterranean Sea is named that not because it's far from the coast, but because it is in the middle of the land, i.e. it has land surrounding it on all sides, except for a few small straits. You could also interpret it as "middle of the world," since it was at the center of several major ancient civilizations.
0:16 *“Tee-mohr”
Other locative variants in place names are Upper/Lower, usually referring to relative position on a river (upstream or downstream). On/Upon, again indicating the place is on or near a river, Heights and Bottoms usually in mountainous areas with Heights on a ridge and Bottoms indicating location at the bottom of a valley
* mountains
Aksana_Belarus also corrected place names
Even though central/middle isn't really a direction, it designates a portion of a whole, which is perfectly reasonable for naming that portion. The cardinal directions have more of a claim to being weird -- they are directions, but when naming regions, they are often being used to name portions of a whole -- the portion which, compared to other portions, is further in that cardinal direction.
So you're telling me John Doe #30 and John Smith are not just common, but very common?
Justin?
Justin!
well yea but is it the real justin
edit: it is and my phone was just dumb
Ladies and gentlemen We Got Em
Busin' justin
Here in Nicaragua we have a little town called La Paz Centro
There is East Africa meaning at the Eastern area of Africa- A region that comprises Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda,Burundi and Tanzania
I originally come from the Western region of Kenya, where my rural home is
In India, there used to be state literally called Central Province now it is renamed to 'Madhya Pradesh' which also means Central Province in Hindi. Also, there used to be 'Central Cafe' in Friends. 🙂🙂
I believe that the Mediterranean Sea is called so because it was the centre/middle of the Earth for the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.
Medi (= middle) + terra (= Earth).
In Greek: Μεσόγειος (Mesógeios)
Μέση (mésē = middle) + γη (gē = Earth).
Indonesians have many centrals in its regional names. Central Java, Central Sulawesi, even we have "Timor Tengah Utara" and "Timor Tengah Selatan", which means "east-central-north" and "east-central-south" respectively.
Well, this is slightly different, but Burkina Faso used to be known as Upper Volta. I wonder how many Lowers and Uppers we have on Earth.
Also the official name of Uruguay is "Eastern Republic of Uruguay". That would be interest to include. Also Central African Republic.
Something'th
PS. I don't think center shouldn't be a direction, think of it as something neutral. Idk bye-bye
It is the point from which all directions come and the point at which they all come together.
@@LunaBari mhm
Fun fact you are a legend
middle america is often used to describe the plain states. or the folks not rich and not poor.
i noticed you didn't include anywhere that the word middle was shorten to mid, as an American i think mostly of the mid-west but there are others
In my county we have the town of Middlewich
Good job 🏆🏆🏆
Mediterranean doesn't mean "inland" or "land that is far from the coast", It means "between lands" and it references the fact that the sea is surrounded by land, and as such, is in the middle of the land. I guess it's a reverse mesopotamia
There is the Maghreb region in Africa , it is the Arabic word meaning West
What about Inner and Lesser?
Yay! Center and Middle names!
Middlesbrough, *not* Middlesborough!
Not far from where I live there's a school called Gosforth Central Middle School. :-)
If you think about it's not that odd the Mediterranean Sea translates as the inland sea. What else would you call a sea surrounded by land? It's literally a sea in the middle of the lands of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Where’s the shark hat >:(
he uploaded it 2 days ago bruh
Hmmmm... reading between the lines here. If the meso part of Mesoamerica is for middle, would the meso part of Mesopotamia for middle also? It really is pretty dang central!
I live in a mountain range called the middle atlas.
What about the midwest here in the US?
How about Centralia?
Centralia, California
Centralia, Illinois
Centralia, Iowa.
Centralia, Kansas.
Centralia, Missouri
Centralia, New York
Centralia, Oklahoma
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia, Texas
Centralia, Washington
Centralia, Virginia
Centralia, West Virginia
and then there are all the Centervilles.
The U.S has lots of middling places.
Mediterranean, it means the sea in the middle of land or inland sea. So it doesn't mean it the sea is far from the coast, just mean it is inside land.
I interpret Mediterrean sea to mean the sea between lands.
Me a plumbella fan: come on let's go Middlesbrough!!
Center/centre and middle are location-based, not direction-based.
Actually, at least in modern Greek, 'kentron' pretty much means centre.
Another alternative name for the Central Valley in California is the San Joaquin Valley, which is probably the second most common name
The Central Valley is not actually a valley, but rather a geosyncline.
I've heard of the middle of nowhere, could anyone tell me where it is?
Wouldn't "Mediterranian" mean center of the world?
Middle and center I would think is a place a body or thing is in.
mediterranean means in the middle of the earth, not inland
And why is Kate‘s last name Middleton?
Centre?
Midway Islands
more a nickname than a name but they tend to call Cusco the bellybutton of the world as it was in the center of the inca empire
*Middlesbrough (not Middlesborough)
Though I have not seen any data on this, it would not surprise me if Middlesbrough is the most commonly misspelled place name in Britain
Midway
Explain the name Vladimir
The Central will rise again!!!
Fuck yeah My name is Earl fucking rocks
You got the Middle East in the video, but forgot the US Midwest? I'm a little disappointed. That's the first place I thought of with this video. (Granted, it's also where I've lived my entire life, so I'm a bit biased.)
West Germany technically still exists now known as simpl6 german6x
I can only imagine archaeologists in the future reading the names of the south of the uk and thinking some weird species with 4 sexes lived there.
There is Western Sahara in Africa
Are there any einsteins left???
"In New York, New York"
Why not "New York City, New York State"?
its not middle central so i suppose you will be doing east/west someday.... i think papua means like east or west, so when they say west papua its like west east....
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5:28 - And it's very hypocritical. The term "orient/oriental" is supposedly "offensive" because it's "Eurocentric", and yet the much more Eurocentric term Middle-east is still used and acceptable. 🙄 Political-correctness is trash. 😒
what about geographical correctness? Morocco is more Western than Germany, and New Zealand is more Eastern than Japan