300 Santa Rosas, 8 Cazaderos, Only 1 Camp Meeker…
Also only 2 Monte Rios and 1 Guerneville. 2 Forts Ross, 11 Annapoli - Annapolis?
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Paris-l’Hôpital in Saône-et-Loire? Le Touquet-Paris-Plage in Pas-de-Calais?
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Not so extreme for other languages - 4 Bier to 3 Wein, 5 Biere to 3 Vin, 2 Birra to 2 Vino, 1 Piwo to 3 Wino, 2 Cerveja to 5 Vinho.
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Obviously Mr. Lud set up his duns all over the place.
(Just complaining passive aggressively about the way people didn’t realise that place names had a meaning when they re-used them. In a reversal of this, there is a Mynydd Pen Bre in Wales. Hill hill hill.)
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What about San Fransokyo?
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I was born and raised in Wichita Falls. And apparently there is only one in the world. I now live in Lee’s Summit, which the site claims there are zero of in the world. It does say there is a Lees Summit, but there really isn’t. It continues to amaze me how many website forms and databases seem to believe that a town name couldn’t possibly contain an apostrophe.
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It’s okay, it’s just spelled incorrectly in the database. Someone somewhere can’t deal with capitalization and hyphens at the same time, it seems…
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We are practically neighbors then. I used to live in Lee’s Summit, only pretty much all of the postal code stuff and even many maps remove the apostrophe to make it Lees Summit.
Though given who Lee was, I was cool with it being less possessive.
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My home village Panelia only one of those. Now days I live in Helsinki there are two of those or one depending on the language.
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In how many places is it grim up north?
Bolton (25), Barnsley (7), Nelson (37), Colne (4),
Burnley (4), Bradford (29), Buxton (19), Crewe (4),
Warrington (11), Widnes (1), Wigan (3), Leeds (18),
Northwich (2*) Nantwich (2*), Knutsford (3), Hull (14),
Sale (29), Salford (5), Southport (14), Leigh (21),
Derby (26), Kearsley (1), Keighley (3), Maghull (2*),
Harrogate (3), Huddersfield (3), Oldham (8), Lancs,
Grimsby (4), Glossop (1), Hebden Bridge (1),
It’s Grim Up North,
It’s Grim Up North.
Brighouse (1), Bootle (3), Featherstone (6), Speke (3),
Runcorn (1), Rotherham (4), Rochdale (5), Barrow (16),
Morecambe (2*), Macclesfield (4), Lytham St. Annes (0***)
Clitheroe (2*), Cleethorpes (1), The M62,
It’s Grim Up North,
It’s Grim Up North.
Pendlebury (1), Prestwich (2*), Preston (51), York (37),
Skipton (5), Scunthorpe (1), Scarborough-on-Sea (13****),
Chester (38), Chorley (3), Cheadle Hulme (1*****),
Ormskirk (1), Accrington (1), Stanley (38******), and Leigh (21),
Ossett (1), Otley (7), Ilkley Moor (0*******),
Sheffield (20), Manchester (34), Castleford (2), Skem (0********),
Doncaster (5), Dewsbury (2), Halifax (14),
Bingley (3), Bramhall (1), Are all in the North.
* both are the same place
** or 0 if you are going to be pedantic and insist on including the Lancs (it has part of Greater Manchester since 1974)
*** I used to know someone from Lytham St. Annes, so I know this is wrong
**** I don’t think anyone calls Scarborough this, an exact search only brings up the song
***** Alternatively Cheadle (5), Hulme (1),
****** Not Accrington Stanley, who are they?
******* the moorland between Ilkley (3) and Keighley
******** Skelmersdale (1)
Yes, I was deliberately distracting myself, why do you ask?
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As a former resident, 1 Derby is 1 too many. 26???
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If you search Nouakchott, the site will tell you there are two Nouakchotts, both in the same province of Mauritania. (It’s the capital.)
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As a native and lifelong resident of the Big Apple, I consider 15 localities named New York to be 14 too many.
There is one extinct or conjectural locality whose New Yorkness I don’t grudge:
After Duke William II of Normandy conquered England, some of the displaced English elite emigrated to the Black Sea region, where they may have established a colony called New England or England, with settlements called New London or London and New York or York.
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Lake Malawi used to be called Lake Nyassa when Malawi was called Nyasaland. Trouble is, Nyasa in the local language is simply the word for lake, so the big body of water east of the future Malawi was Lake Lake.
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I wonder how all the people living in the various US Carlisles will feel if they knew the original Carlisle was named after a pagan god (Caerliwelydd = Fort Luguwalos, Luguwalos = Strength of Lugus).
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Except it wasn’t named after who many people assumed it was named after. It was named after Dr. Pleasant Lea, an earlier settler in the area, and not after General Lee. It was originally Lea’s Summit. The name was misspelled on the original train station, and they later changed the name to match the misspelling.
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“(I think you didn’t read my post close enough, I do allude to that.)”
Sorry, Generic.
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When I researched the name like 12+ years ago, I read that it may have been named after the Dr. But the evidence for that was rather lacking, and the consensus was it was after Gen. Lee.
Has there been new evidence unearthed to make it clear one way or another?
If you like history, check out near by Missouri Town 1855. Though going into it, I didn’t realize it was pre-civil war. Stop by the lawyer’s place of business to see what the current political debates of the day. You might find people bragging about voting in Kansas more than once 
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Where, according to an extremely reliable local source, as a result of courting Mary Jane you will catch your death of pox* and you will be have to buried so that the worms can come and eat you up, followed by ducks eating the worms and the local residents eating the ducks. As you report, it’s grim up north.
*I was once assured by a former resident that this is the original version, it was euphemised to “cold” when the Council started to sing it at council meetings.
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Kind of. It’s actually the Russian for a small town, NOT a city (gorod is a town, -ka is a diminutive, gorodka gets changed to gorodok by a mutation rule.)
It’s also the noun in the phrases for a military base or a university campus, so Akademgorodok (near Novosibirsk) is exactly what it sounds like.
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