The following international
geographical names are either interesting or unusual (
place names are often either meaningless or innocuous in the source language). This list is provided chiefly for its entertainment value.
See also: toponymy, list of toponyms, inherently funny word, humor, sex related topics, longest word in English.
- Å, Norway
- Amerika, Germany[?]
- Anting, China
- Arsoli[?], Lazio, Italy
- Bad Kissingen[?], Germany
- Banana, Australia[?]
- Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia
- Big Bone Lick[?], Kentucky
- Blubberhouses[?], Yorkshire, England
- Blue Ball, Pennsylvania[?]
- Bob 1
- Boom, Belgium
- Boring, Oregon[?], USA
- Bottom, North Carolina[?]
- Bra, Italy[?]
- Brown Willy[?], a tor in Cornwall, UK
- Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts
- Chinaman's Knob[?], Australia
- Climax, Colorado[?]
- Condom, France
- Cunter, Switzerland
- Die, France[?]
- Dikshit[?], India
- Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Ed, Sweden[?]
- Elephant Butte, New Mexico
- Eighty-Eight, Kentucky[?]
- Foul Mile, England
- French Lick, Indiana
- Frisby on the Wreake[?], Leicestershire, England
- Fucking, Austria
- Fuku[?], China
- Goodyear, Arizona
- Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, a train station in Gwynedd, Wales
- Grand Tetons, Wyoming, USA (meaning: "big tits" in French)
- Gunbarrel, Colorado
- Gunbarrel Highway[?], Australia
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta, Canada
- Hell, Michigan[?]
- Hell, Norway
- Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
- Hells Gate Roadhouse[?], Australia
- Hérrison, France[?] (meaning: "hedgehog")
- Himmelspforte, Germany[?] (meaning: "heaven's gate")
- How, Wisconsin
- Humpty Doo, Australia
- Intercourse, Pennsylvania
- Isles of Scilly (pronounced "silly"), England
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Kokomo, Indiana
- 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
- Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, Australia
- Lake Titicaca
- Lickey End[?], Worcestershire, England
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales
- Lower Slaughter[?], Gloucestershire, England
- Lord Hereford's Knob[?], hill on the Welsh border
- Lough Neagh[?] (pronounced 'Lock Nay!'), Northern Ireland
- Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland
- Mianus, Connecticut[?]
- Mockbeggar, England
- Moose Factory[?], Canada
- Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky[?]
- Mount Jerome[?], Ireland
- Muck[?], island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Muff, Northern Ireland[?]
- Mumbles, Wales
- Mutters[?], Austria
- Natters[?], Austria
- Ninety Six, South Carolina
- No Name, Colorado[?]
- Normal, Illinois
- Petting, Germany
- Piddle[?], river in Dorset, England
- Pis Pis River[?] Nicaragua
- Pity Me[?], England
- Pratt's Bottom, England
- Prickwillow[?], England
- Rancho Cucamonga, California
- Rann of Kachchh[?], India
- Rum[?], island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Rum Jungle[?], Australia
- Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha![?], Quebec, Canada
- Saint-Tite[?] (pronounced St. Tit), Quebec, Canada
- Salsipuedes[?], California (meaning: "leave if you can")
- Seldom Seen Roadhouse, Australia
- Semen, Indonesia[?]
- Sexmoan[?], Pampanga, Philippines (now renamed to Sasmuan)
- Sexsmith, Alberta[?]
- Shafter[?], California
- Shag Island[?]
- Shag Harbour[?], Nova Scotia, Canada
- Shittlehope[?], Durham, England
- Shitlington Crags[?], Northumberland, England
- Silly, Belgium
- Simmering, Vienna, Austria
- Snodland, England
- Sommerloch, Germany[?] (meaning: "summer slump")
- Spuzzum[?], British Columbia, Canada
- Swords, outside Dublin in Ireland
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu Hill, New Zealand
- Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Tiruchchirappalli[?], India
- Titz[?], Germany
- Town of Seventeen Seventy[?], Australia
- Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
- Twatt[?], Orkney Islands, Scotland
- Twenty, Lincolnshire, England
- Ugley[?], Essex, England
- Void, France[?] (Now merged with neighbouring place to form Void-Vacon)
- Wagga Wagga[?], Australia
- Waikikamukau, New Zealand
- Walla Walla, Washington, USA
- Wank[?], mountain in Bavaria, Germany
- Wankers Corner, Oregon[?], USA
- 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)
- Why, Arizona[?]
- Woolloomooloo, Sydney[?], Australia
- Worms, Germany (home of the Diet of Worms!)
- Y, Alaska
Notes:
1After 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] (http://www.caldercup.com/CNEWSNunavut/feature11.html)