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What misleadingly named places did I miss out on? And are you perhaps watching from a misleadingly placed name?
Idk haven’t finished watching yet
Love u name explain
They often call Florida the sunshine state but in reality we get alot of rain and of course severe storms... much like England does, except it's like an oven when it isn't raining.
The city of St. Petersburg, Florida was named over a coin bet and has NOTHING to do with the russian city at all. There was even a commerical for a travel agency(?) from the 1990s-2000s that had a family use a teleporter to go to the florida city BUT of course it teleported them to russia instead. XD
Detroit! Its named for a river thats actually a strait! by the way, my hometown, chicago is named for something stinky.
And the Isle of Man is not full of....men! Women live there too 😊🇮🇲
In Argentina, we have a town named "Salsipuedes" which means "Get out if you can"
It might be a warning
Oh this is a great fact
In the region I live in Mexico, that was the nickname for a store where the owner wouldn't let you leave without buying anything
Same in Costa Rica.
Novgorod-New City in Russian-is one of the oldest major cities in Russia.
Well, makes sense if i means the NEWEST CITY in that time
@@gui18bif Actually, the "new town" was neighborhoods that formed outside the pre-existing fortress.
There's also the confusingly named Nevez, in Brittany, France. Created in 1793, and named "New" in the old Breton tongue. So it's now a fairly old town, called New in an old language.
That's just because it was new at the time
Carthage means New Town and Naples means New City.
As a lifelong resident of the Pittsburgh area, Pittsburgh has plenty of pits. They just happen to be in the roads and go by the name "potholes."
And here I thought you were going to mention Mars, PA.
Wiki: "Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham."
living there is the pits lol
It’s like driving on the moon!
@@zvimur the Prime Minister?
I live in a town called "Winter Springs" in Florida, where it is never Winter, nor are there Springs in the area.
Florida has Winter Park, Winter Haven, Frostproof, and other towns named to emphasize the subtropical warmth.
Also a small town called Nalcrest, which has nothing to do with the crest of a Nal, whatever that is; it was founded as a place for retired postal workers, who belonged to the National Association of Letter Carriers, so it means “NALC Rest.”
And Oldsmar, between Palm Harbor in Pinellas County and the northern part of Tampa in Hillsborough County, was founded by Ransom Olds, the original owner of the Oldsmobile auto manufacturing company (later a part of General Motors).
Place name in Florida have "Winter" attached to them (Winter Springs, Winter Haven, Winter Park, Winter Garden) because people would visit them during the winter. Winter Haven is the most obvious of these.
And there are indeed springs nearby Winter Springs, though they are small and not the most noteworthy. About 7 miles west of Winter Springs however are the large Wekiva Springs.
Algeria means Islands in Arabic, It's obviously not an Island
Yes it is
But in Arabic Algeria is not called "Algeria"
Actually, since Sahara means ocean, "island" makes more sense
david constantin it is, It's not fully the same, As it was a little changed when it came into English, but the meaning is still the same
@@rubabaazfar oh
- Zevenbergen, The Netherlands, meaning "Seven mountains", even though there are no mountains in The Netherlands at all (except maybe the Vaalserberg at the Three Land Point which is sometimes considered the only mountain in The Netherlands, but 1 it's on the border of three nations, so not IN The Netherlands; 2 it's still just a hill; 3 even then, it'd still be 1 mountain and 4 it's nowhere near the Vaalserberg.
- Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands, meaning "Five houses", has more than 5 houses.
- Nergenshuizen, The Netherlands, meaning "Nowhere houses" or "No houses anywhere", has houses.
i love how Dutch is so close to English
Also the village Zevenhuizen near where I grew up, which does in fact have more than 7 houses in it.
@@renskedunnewold1995, oh yeah. I thought of that one, but didn't write it down.
There are more places with numbers in their names, still want to do a road trip visiting them in ascending order...
Middenmeer, as midden means middle and meer means lake. And the village isn't located on a lake at all.
8:08 In my hometown there is also a place called "airport river", but the airport was demolished in 2007 and the river is now an underground channel.
Woah
my favorite remains Cartagena, which used to be new Carthage in Latin, which is funny because Carthage already derives from the Phoenician name for "New City" so it's essentially "New new City".
There's also a Cartagena, Colombia, named after the original Cartagena in Spain. If it was ever named Nueva Cartagena or similar, then it would've been "New New New City'. 🙂
Nearly every beach that has a distance in its name is wrong, Nine mile beach in Australia is 15 miles long.
Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand is about 90 _kilometers_ long.
I think it's called Nine Mile Beach because you can only swim nine miles of it before you get taken by a shark.
@@wwoods66 90 milesx1.6= 9x16
16x9=160-16=144 kilometers.
(90 kilometers/1.6)=(900km/16.)
900/16=
450/8=
225/4=
112.5/2=
56.25 Miles.
90 mile=144km but
The 90 mile is actually 56.25 Miles.
Sometimes, you have to sacrifice to become popular.
@@terrythekittieful lol
5:31 Technically not misleading since "high point" does not mean it's the highest point. If it was called "Highest point" it would be misleading.
This is a valid point. After all, the word 'high' may not necessarily be referring to elevation.
@@WinByTKo In his case it does refer to elevation. As High Point, Florida is at a place of _relative_ height, being around 50 feet higher than the land just 3.5 miles to the west. Not very dramatic topography, but a significant elevation change for a the flat terrain of Florida.
If they are referring to the highest point in Florida, that is in the panhandle close to the Alabama state line, which is nowhere near that indicated in the video.
@@WinByTKo yeah
There is a ghost town in Texas in the US, just outside of Austin called Nameless. Apparently, when it was being established it wanted to get a post office as a town called Sweetwater, but there was already (and is) a Sweetwater, Texas. So they tried again, doing it in Spanish as Aqua Dulce, but there was (and is) already an Aqua Dulce, Texas, so the post office rejected that too. The guy in charge sent an angry letter to the head of the post office complaining, and ended with something along the lines of, "As far as I am concerned, sir, the town can be nameless, and you can be damned." Shortly after, he recieved permission to open a post office in Nameless, Texas.
I'd say there's also a third category of misleading names ones that are chronologically misleading (for a lack of a better term) in that they were named for something that used to be there but isn't anymore and the name of thing/town/whatever wasn't changed.
i live relatively close to Bagdad, Florida!
There’s also a Baghdad in Nevada
Lol same. First time I heard someone say they were going to Bagdad, I was like “??? That’s crazy??? Why so far???”
@@ninjaman815 i know, thats what made me comment this
I live in Rockford, but not in Illinois
I think there a town name Medina in USA (the second holiest muslim city in SA )
Lol I live in Maryland and most of the cities here have misleading names 😂
Another Place, MD
Cambridge, MD
Salisbury, MD
Hollywood, MD
California, MD
Princess Anne, MD
Snow Hill, MD
Newark, MD
Berlin, MD
Queen Anne, MD
Bel Air, MD
Silver Spring, MD
La Plata, MD
Germantown, MD
Dunkirk, MD
Scotland, MD
Prince Fredrick, MD
Ridge, MD
Friendship, MD
Odenton, MD
Manchester, MD
Westminster, MD
New Windsor, MD
Mexico, MD
Brunswick, MD
Mt Vernon, MD
I swear these are all cities located in Maryland 😂
Edit: Just went over the map and heres some more gems:
Mutual, MD
Mutual Consent, MD
Issue, MD
Avenue, MD
Compton, MD
Tall Timbers, MD
Delight, MD
Ashbox, MD
Governor Run, MD
Mechanicsville, MD
Ancient Oaks, MD
Bull Run, MD
The Downs, MD
Arden-On-The-Severn, MD
Gunpowder, MD
Pleasant Hills, MD
Port Deposit, MD
Rising Sun, MD
Morningside, MD
Dublin, MD
Street, MD
Whispering Woods, MD
Lineboro, MD (On the Mason-Dixon Line)
Deep Run, MD
Advocates Choice, MD
New London, MD
Discovery-Spring Garden, MD
Detour, MD
Highfield-Cascade, MD
Cavetown, MD
Halfway, MD
Big Pool, MD
Flintstone, MD
Mt Savage, MD
Oakland, MD
Friendsville, MD
West Friendship, MD
Friendship Village, MD
Sunshine, MD
Sellman, MD
Shady Side, MD
Mayo, MD
Selby-On-The-Bay, MD
Parole, MD
Skidmore, MD
American Corner, MD
Reliance, MD
Quantico, MD
Ironshine, MD
Bishop, MD
Secretary, MD
Bishops Head, MD
Frenchtown-Rumbly, MD
Indian Hammock, MD
Trappe, MD
Rock Hall, MD
Woods Edge, MD
Still Pond, MD
North East, MD
Providence, MD
Academy Hills, MD
Childs, MD
Fork, MD
Phoenix, MD
Sparks, MD
Butler, MD
Granite, MD
Damascus, MD
😂
"Where are you from?"
"Another Place"
"I know, but where?"
Mutual Consent as a town name lol
I live near Halfway. Its named that because that area is where the halfway point between Hagerstown and Williamsport is
Oh wow why are American town names so ridiculous?
@Victoria Philips Maybe because there are a lot of lands because it was just discovered, and they ran out of ideas
You forgot the most misleading name: Rhode Island
well, it's formally called Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (though maybe not for long). Rhode Island (island) is now more commonly "Aquidneck Island", and the Providence Plantations ("plantation" likely meaning simply "a place of settlement") are the inland areas surrounding the Rhode Island.
The official state name still is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" Their Constitution starts off as "We, the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations". They just go by Rhode Island cause it's shorter. There is however, a referendum this November to drop "Plantations" from the states official name. Thus making it "Rhode Island and Providence".
Not sure if it'll pass though. Last time they tried in 2010 it was overwhelmingly rejected.
That's true, there's no rhodes there at all! /s
@@PiousMoltar
But there are roads and rhododendrons, so...
Experts are unsure about the origin of Rhode Island's name.
7:47 there is also a Korsika (German for Corsica) in the Odenwald, south of Frankfurt
It either means "little settlement" / "hollow by the rocks" / "resting place of the king" or was mockingly named for Napolenon's soldiers
+ it is right next to the village of Straßburg (Strasbourg)
I figured Moscow, Idaho would have surely made the list 👍
There's a Moscow in Maine, too. And Paris and Oxford and Lisbon and Naples and Vienna and Madrid and Rome and Athens and Belfast and Stockholm...
Or Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
I feel so dumb, I never drew the connection between Netherlands and “low-lands”
When you mentioned Hispania meaning Hyrax Island, I immediately thought of Coney Island, which is in the Brooklyn portion of New York City. It means Rabbit Island, but it hasn't been an island for a long time, and probably has few if any rabbits these days. (Although apparently, there is some disagreement as to whether the name actually referred to rabbits or not.)
Surprised you didn't mention Rio de Janeiro, which means January River, but has no river.
Rio de Janeiro city actually have a lot of rivers, lakes and lagoons.
But the city name is after the Guanabara Bay, which early explorers thought to be a river. The first portuguese ship to ever anchor in Guanabara did so in January of 1506, which is why they called it "of January".
Buffalo may not have actual buffalo but they have delicious Buffalo wings. They are the origin after all
Do you comment everywhere?
Talk about misleading names, buffalo can't fly, so how can you eat their wings?
EDIT: you guys can stop explaining the name now. I was trying to be a smartass and didn't think people would actually take it seriously.
Til that buffalo wings are oddly called buffalo wings since theyre from new york
@@AO968 they are chicken wings whose recipe originates in Buffalo, NY state.
@@SantomPh Oh, did not knew that
Misleading names: Wyoming. It doesn’t exist, so why the name
So that means Bielefeld, Acre, Winnipeg, Molise and Leitrim too?
Geography World
Quit with the fictional names
Why oh Ming?
🙄
Wait, this is the first time I've heard of Winnipeg not existing
In the Philippines, there is a village in the city of Taguig called Signal Village. But when we went there, cellphone signals there were among those of the worst signals in the whole National Capital Region. It turns out, it was actually named like that to serve as a signal for the airplanes that the airport is already near.
Way north of NCR is the city of Valenzuela. Wherein there are three baranggays named Maysan, Karuhatan, and Dalandanan. The suffix -an in Filipino means "the place/land of". So those three means the land of corn/ the land of black palm fruit, and the land of orange (the fruit, there is another word for the color), respectively. I've been to those three, and there are no such crops. But you can find some selling corn on cobs at Maysan.
To the south of NCR there is a city named Las Piñas. Alright, Spanish speakers, you know what's up.
To the East of NCR, there is a lake named Laguna Lake, and yes, the Spanish word for "lake" is "laguna", so you're technically saying Lake Lake in Philippine Spanish. The lake has an alternate name, Laguna de Báý.
There is a town named Toledo in the province of Cebu.
But for some reason, I'll include a non-misleading one. We have a province literally named "Mountain Province" and yes, it is the only province with an English name, because it is literally on a mountain.
edit (7/3/2020) : In the province of Pampanga, there is a municipality named Mexico
The New River which flows from North Carolina, through Virginia to West Virginia is estimated to be the 3rd oldest river in the world.
8:12 - the "Airport" place name is quite common in E.Europe , since there used to be a lot of makeshift airports that were later removed but the names stuck.
Misleading spelling Austria isn't named for being South of something, but East (Oster).
Coincidence! (German vs. Latin root.)
Its still south of and east of a lot of places
@@danielclasen809 still doesn't have anything to do with the name.
osterreich
Called Österrike in Swedish, "eastern realm"
Let’s not forget there’s a Berlin in Maryland.
there are 50 Berlins the USA
There used to be 2 Berlins in MD.
ruwiki one for every state!
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@@johnbaird4912 Just make sure if you go to Berlin, NH, you say it like Berlin instead of Berlin >.>
Just off the top of my head, within an hour's or so drive from my home in SW Pennsylvania USA, there are towns named California and Indiana (both of which have public universities in the state system, leading to even more confusion), an Edinboro using the locally popular phonetic spelling (also home to a state university), and my favorites, Moon Township, Mars Borough (or Boro), and Venus (a village marked on maps but not legally incorporated). Moon and Mars have eponymous school districts, so sometimes on the local news there will be highlights and scores for Moon vs Mars basketball or football games.
Fun list of names! Thanks for uploading!
I was really expecting Kansas City, Missouri, to make it; that shit tripped me up when I was a kid.
how about singapore, meaning lion city. there arent any lions in singapore
Try sealion...
Maybe they or want to named it Tigerpore 😂
@@zerox8413 The national symbol is a sealion...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlion
WELL THERE IS IN THE ZOO
The man who allegedly said "ah itu Singa" , Sang Nila Utama probably saw a tiger. A lion was a mythical creature at that point, from Hindu legends
A pair of misleading place names I like are in northern Victoria (Australia): the town of Mt Beauty, which is at the bottom of a valley, and the ski village of Falls Creek which is on a nearby mountain top, nowhere near any falls and on a creek which is not called Falls Creek.
4:41 This Cornish is quite similar to Irish with "ard" also meaning high/tall. If a place in Ireland is called Lisard, it would mean a high ring fort. (Lios Ard) Though Cornish is a Brettonic and Irish is a Goidelic Celtic language, it's interesting to see the similarities.
There are definitely connections between the Goidelic and Brythonic languages. Not necessarily because the words have Latin (or other) influence. I had a friend from the Hebrides, I'm Welsh, and we discovered quite a few very similar words. Which wasn't bad because neither of us was fluent in our languages!
The World Islands in UAE are named after countries all over the world.
3:34, I swear I saw a documentary stating that we're now having a "mini Ice Age" that caused the current climate of Greenland, (which was apparently green at time of Viking exploration).
I actually know a bit about this, there was a thing called The Little Ice Age but that ended in around 1850. The Vikings settled Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period, which was before the Little Ice Age. During this time Greenland would have been a bit warmer than it is today.
@@icewink7100 enough to justify the name?
You are quite right my dude. It was still iced over but to a lesser extent. Also there are some forests and tundra grasslands there even today so if you only lived in those areas (and you would) its definitely green
@@zvimur no, even during the warm period, it was almost entirely covered by ice sheets. It really was named Greenland to entice people into moving there. But there were a few more green areas around the southern coastal areas.
Technische we have been in an ice age for a long time,just a warm period,as an ice age is defined by frozen poles
You know it’s funny, personally I think the “exactly what it says names” like Salt Lake City are the boring ones. It’s practical I guess but where’s the fun in a name that probably took seconds to come up with?
There's a metro station in Paris called Stalingrad which is rather misleading as it is no where near the city that used to have that moniker.
Like the Tube station in London called Waterloo, it is a commemorative name
There’s a town called Iowa in Louisiana but it’s pronounced with a long “A.” (More like ioway) There’s also an Alexandria and a village called Dry Creek, which is an oxymoron. There’s a lot of really weird names too. Also people confuse Nacogdoches, Texas, Natchitoches, LA, and Natchez in Mississippi all the time.
My favorite--and I don't know if the story I heard is actually correct-- is when the town on the rich port on the island named for Saint John was placed upon a map, and the cartographers accidentally swapped the name of the island and the town. Thus, the town became San Juan, and the island became Puerto Rico, when it would make much more sense the other way around.
In the Northern border of São Paulo state, there is a small town called Colombia. Once I traveled to Barretos and I took a nap on the bus. When I woke up, I looked at a roadsing telling the distance to Colombia and I panicked for a few seconds.
If all city names were accurate, my hometown would be named “Blanch”, as there’s a lake just outside of the town. Or, that lake would be named “Grant Lake”
In Bucharest we have Chile St., Brazil St., Washington St., Tokyo St., French District., French St., Paris St., Beijing Boulevard, Beirut St., Amman St., Finland St., Stockholm St., Madrid St., Rome St., Bern St., Oslo St., London St., Mexico St., Argentina St., Tirana St., Athens St., Prague St., Quito Square, Venezuela St., Ankara St., Sofia St and Rabat St.
In the south of South America is the Island of Tierra del Fuego that translates into english as Land of Fire, but it is one of que coldest places in South America. And also nearby it the city of Cabo de Hornos, that translates as Cape of Ovens, but of course is also very could .
Here in Malaysia, a place called Batang(stems) Berjuntai (dangling) [Dangling Stems]
Batang is like a slang for pe***
I see no dangling pe***
1/10 ,wouldn't go there again
Hahahaha! As long as it's not in Manggatal (Malay: itchy, slang meaning: flirty, horny)
Or the unfortunately named Puchong (a word that means penis)
There are literally TONS of misleading names in Florida, most of which are called mountains despite being hundreds of miles from one. Like Cultural:
- Mt. Dora
- Sugarloaf Mountain
- Altamonte (High Mountain in Spanish)
- Banana River
- Port St Lucie (Nothing resembling a port nearby)
- West Palm Beach (a beach on the east coast)
And geographic:
- Melbourne (Australia)
- Miami (Ohio)
- New Smyrna (Greece/Turkey)
- St Petersburg (Russia)
In Turkey, there's a city called Denizli - "seaside" but it is actually 160 km away from the nearest coast.
Here in Florida there is a lot of snow lamenting because we get very little if any of it at all. You can see it in a lot of names in Central Florida. Winter Springs, Snowhill road, Winter Park, and Christmas. Yes we have a town called Christmas here in tropical Florida...
Also I grew up in Geneva Florida, named after Geneva Switzerland.
What about the town of No-Name in Colorado. I think that seems pretty misleading.
NE: Gives many examples about cities and so on
Me: *Laughs, when everyone thinks aestii were in Estonia*
Where is aestii then?
🤨
Aestii people were thought to be in the East Prussia, todays Kalilingrad. Importance for Roman people besided in amber, which was mostly used in accessuaries.
Aestii people were first written mentioned by Tacitus in his book Germania and after that there were some more mentions of it, but they were quite infrequent.
I once had a nice time watching a baseball game in Denmark, Minnesota. Also there's a road near my house called Lexington Avenue (possibly named after Laxton, Nottinghamshire, formerly known as Lexington), and one day I decided to drive up it to see how far it went, and I ended up in Wyoming, MN. International Falls is not a misleading name, because it's got a waterfall and it's on the US/Canada border, but on my way back from there, I stopped in Virginia, MN, to get fuel.
Imagine my disappointment going to Eggs and Bacon Bay in Huon Valley, Tasmania.
the city next to mine is called Beaumont, for beautiful mountain. I live in southeast Texas, which is incredibly flat and the closest mountain is hundreds of miles away
I was born and spent most my life in Portsmouth England
It was nice seeing you bring it up
West, Texas is in Central Texas (and is the most iconic place in the USA for kolaches and klobasniks).
A friend of my family once wanted to visit us in Vienna, only to notice that she actaully booked a hotel in Vienna, Georgia. The US really has a lot of misleading names hah
The Georgia version of Vienna is pronounced “VIE-en-na,” and can be reached by the same exit off I-75 as the town of Pitts!
Netherlands Cassava Well, Georgia USA wasn’t settled by Germans, and most of them weren’t scholars either.
I live near the villages of Canada, Palestine and Nomansland. Also on the bent of new not aging well the New Forest is 941 years old and there is Old Sarum with seemingly no New Sarum nearby (because Salisbury IS New Sarum, the 1227 charter has that name on it ).
In croaria there are 2 neighbouring towns on island of Lošinj, Mali Lošinj ( meaning small Lošinj) and Veli Lošinj (meaning big Lošinj) and Mali Lošinj is several times bigger than Veli Lošinj.
They say that these names are switched because Veli Lošinj was historically bigger and Mali Lošinj was smaller but it outgrew Veli Lošinj.
there's a Peru, Nebraska where the actual country made a cool tourism ad
South Africa also has quite a few places named after other places. We have a place called Belfast and several places called Athlone
In Uruguay we have a river called Arroyo Seco (Dry Stream), a prison called Penal de Libertad (Prison of Liberty), a hill called Cerro Chato (Flat Hill) and a town called Salsipuedes (Get out if you can).
I live near Brighton Hill. Brighton Hill is not a hill. It's plains that just happens to be higher than everything else.
5:42 Ok, but are we all gonna ignore fricking _Panama City_
... and Kansas City.
In South Carolina we have Mount Pleasant, which isn’t a mountain at all but an island
Shepard’s pie in French translates to “pâté chinois” aka Chinese pie despite being an English dish
Only in Québec though (I think) 😝
In Tangerang City, Banten. (Lovely city western Jakarta, Indonesia), there are a places called "Pasar Baru" and "Pasar Anyar", means "New Market" in Indonesian and Sundanese respectively.
The two places is located nearby, accros Cisadane River.
Which one is newer than other one? I don't know either. -__-
In The province of Nova Scotia (New Scotland) Canada (village) we have a small village called Little Egypt. Near the community where I live there is a road called Egypt Road.
Theres at least two hamlets in Croatia named Rim, which is how we spell Rome. At least two inland towns named "island" and a few of them having the word brod in their name which means ship and it never made sense to me either
I live in a small town in Michigan named Zeeland, after the province in Netherlands. In this area, we also have cities and towns named Holland, Vriesland, and Drenthe, also named after Dutch provinces.
There's a small town called Finland in the US state of Minnesota. It would be an interesting of episode to list places around the world that settlers or immigrants have named after their country of origin and tell a little bit of the story.
Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It's on the wide coastal plain. There's no rocks, no mounts.
Scotland has a county called Sutherland which mean 'The Southern Land'. It's the Northwestern most part of the mainland.
In Malaysia, there's a city named Kota Tinggi, which means 'High City' / 'Highland City'. The irony is that city often got flooded. Hah.
Frontera in the state of Coahuila in Mexico... Around 5 hours away from the US border (Frontera meaning border) and at least six other cities or towns between it and the border...
Durham is great for stuff like this, along with No Place there's Toronto, Pity Me, North Bitchburn to name a few
oh and Washington, which has an area in it called Columbia.
I found it odd that literally one second after the reference to Arabian nights from Aladdin, there was an ad that started with Will Smith as the genie in the Aladdin remake.
In the US there wasn't a single buffalo before the westerns reached its shores. That creature you showed is called a bison and it's no buffalo.
What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
You can't wash your hands in a buffalo(!)
Germany also has a lot of towns and villages named after non-german places (or are otherwise misleading). There's Philadelphia in Brandenburg and Rom in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
Near the village of Kanada, there's another village named Lederhose, which actually doesn't have anything to do with lederhosen.
Then there's Saxonia, which (despite the name) isn't the home region of the Saxon tribe (that would be Lower Saxony).
And then there's "Düsseldorf" which still has village in the name, but the size of a big city...
You should do a video specifically on place names that sound like they're from pop culture. Some of my favourite examples are:
Vulcan, Alberta (Canada)
Romulus, Michigan
Klingon, Kentucky
Gotham (UK)
Batman (Turkey) (as you mentioned here)
Tataouine (Tunesia)
Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico
Most are probably coincidence, but it would be great to hear the name history anyway. Tataouine of course lent its name to Tatooine, and that town in New Mexico actually changed its name to that of an old game show, for some reason I've forgotten.
I love this channei!
My favourite misleading name for a place is "Łódź". It means boat in Polish but it is close to the geographic centre of Poland being landlocked city (but still there are rivers and you could go on a boat ride but not as cool as being a port city). Can somebody explain to me by is there an important city called boat that is landlocked and closer to the geographic centre of my country?
It probably came from the old Polish surname "Łodzic" or from the old Polish name "Włodzisław", and the similarity to boat/łódź is coincidental. The city's coat of arms featuring a boat was created because of the city's name, not because of actual boats.
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Interesting. After reading your comment I googled "łódź coat of arms" to see the boat on it but I was directed to a Wikipedia page of the "Łodzia Coat of Arms" which was a coat of arms used by many nobles in the Kingdom of Poland & the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth & still used as a variant for the coat of arms of the city Łódź today. This older coat of arms still depicts a literal boat on a shield. From what I can gather boats where symbols for this city as far back as before the Commonwealth with Lithuania was formed.
@@modmaker7617 I guess boats are just a symbol of the city because of the misleading but unique name
9:09 I love about 17 miles away from Quito Tennessee, I also live near the city of Memphis names after the ancient Egyptian city
The reason the bridge in Paris is named Pont Neuf is because it was one of if not the first in a new style of beige built to cross the Seine, one which didn't have houses and shops on either side of the bridge.
My parents used to live in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. There's no mountain anywhere near it.
In Melbourne Australia we have a suburb called Bayswater which isn’t anywhere near a bay or any body of water
it was supposedly named after Bayswater in London but I looked that town up and it’s also nowhere near any body of water
A place with a misleading name in Ireland. "Newbridge House & Farm" Co. Dublin and a town in Co. Kildare, Newbridge. They are c.70km away from each other.
You should look into "Pity Me" in the NE of UK
The town of Northwest, North Carolina is in the extreme southeast corner of the State.
8:23 Leeds Castle is located in Leeds, Kent. There are actually 2 places called Leeds in the UK, the city called Leeds and Leeds, Kent.
Just my home state of Kentucky has so many geographically misleading cities. We have a London, Paris, Versailles (we pronounce it Ver-sales cause were kentuckians), Baghdad, Lebanon, and some others that I can’t remember right now
There's also a Baghdad, Kentucky, just outside of Frankfort (not named for the German city but for a man named Frank)
Bridgend in South Wales has an area called Newcastle, and has an castle called Newcastle.
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and every couple of years you hear a story of some tourist who flies to Sydney, Nova Scotia and is sorely disappointed by the lack of kangaroos
I've been there while on vacation and I made sure to wear my T-shirt from Hard Rock Cafe, Sydney. Yes I knew I was in a different Sydney. :-)
I grew up in Switzerland, Florida and have been to Hell and back. Hell, Cayman Islands.
I'm from Massachusetts and have towns called Florida and Peru. There's also Mount Washington, which is probably confused with the more famous Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
There is also a Turkeye in the Netherlands (in Zeeuws Vlaanderen / Zealandic Flanders).
There's a place in Devon called "Westward Ho!", Do you think you could do a name explain in this village? Or perhaps just names of places that use special characters like the question or exclamation marks in their names?
The winner has to be "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!"
... and Danmark (Denmark) is a village southeast of Uppsala in Sweden.
There is a city in Turkey named Denizli, meaning "has see" or "from see", but doesnt have a coast...
My favorite misleading names are a couple of towns in Massachusetts. Florida, Massachusetts for obvious reasons, and Mount Washington, Massachusetts even though Mount Washington the Mountain is in New Hampshire, several hundred miles away. Mount Washington, Massachusetts does have serval mountain peaks within it, but none of those mountains are also called Mount Washington
There‘s New London and Rome in Upstate New York. 1. Manhattan Beach, California was named after a neighborhood called Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, NY. 2. The kickers are: 2a. Both places are nowhere near Manhattan, NY. 2b. Both places are nowhere near any beaches(when looking at Google Satellite map, at least the pointer doesn't point to the part of the beach area in Manhattan Beach, California: my opinion). 2c. There's no place called Brooklyn Beach or California Beach in Manhattan, NY., and 2d. Best of all, there‘s no beaches in Manhattan, NY. I live in Queens, NY and there's no official female monarch here. I live in the neighborhood called Elmhurst. When the Dutch settled here in the 1600s, there were many elm trees. Not so much nowadays. There‘s a Potsdam in Upstate New York, where the original Potsdam is in Germany.
There's also a small Swedish settlement town on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.