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Name A have at the same time rivers in the Netherlands, Germany, towns on the Lofot Islands in Norway, as well as in France, Denmark and Sweden.
There are also two small towns named AND - one is located in the north of France and the other on the west coast of Finland.
There is a village in France ABOUT, though this is how it reads, although it is written not in one, but in four letters: Nah.
Small towns YU located in France and Sweden.
E - this is the name of a town in Belgium and one of the ports of Burma.
In the Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, you can visit a town called Have... The left tributary of the great Southeast Asian river Mekong, in the Lao Republic and a city in South Korea, have a similar name.
Dad is a city in Hungary.
Tyatya (old Russian "father") - a volcano on the Kuril island of Iturup.
Mum - a city and a river, the left tributary of the Vitim river in the Irkutsk region of Russia. By the way, the sources of this river are called Right Mama and Left Mama.
Daughter - a river in the Bryansk region, a tributary of the Desna, and a river in the Moscow region.
Woman - a cape in the west of the Asia Minor peninsula (Turkey). The mountain range in the Hindu Kush system in Afghanistan has the same name. By the way, "Baba" in translation from Arabic means "Father".
Grandmothers - a village in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.
Great Grandma - also in Ukraine - a tributary of the Seversky Donets and the village of the same name in the Kharkov region. Babka is a river in the Perm region of Russia and a city in the west of the island of New Guinea.
Dedovsk - a village in the Moscow region.
Sister - rivers in the Moscow and Leningrad regions.
Brothers - islands off the southern coast of the Republic of Vietnam.
Vnukovo - a village near Moscow.
Husbands - a village on the Ob River in Siberia and the left tributary of the Teju 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 the Seychelles group 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 Guy flows through the Magadan and Kamchatka regions of the Far East.
Village Maid located in the Voronezh region of Russia.
City Virgo - in Western Romania.
The tributary of the Abakan River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is called She, and the village on the Rioni River in Georgia is called They.
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 the English transcription it is even longer (44 letters). Judge for yourself: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamau... Translated from the local Indian language, this abracadabra means: "I will fish on this side, you will fish on the other side, and in the middle no one is catching anything." Thus, in the name of the lake, an agreement is recorded between the two Indian tribes who once lived on its shores.
The long name is associated with one of the villages of the North Island of New Zealand: Taumatawkakapikimaung burial kupokaiwhenuakitanat ahu (83 letters!). Translated from the local Maori language, it means: "The place where Tamatea, a man with long legs, a famous city-eater who moved mountains, climbed and swallowed them, played the flute for his beloved."
The longest among the names-gullivers is the name of the capital, located in South-East Asia of the Republic of Thailand - Bangkok. In translation, it sounds like this: "The place of the wild plum", the full local name has as many as 147 (!) Letters and means: "The great city of angels, the highest repository of divine treasures, a great land that cannot be conquered, a great and prosperous kingdom, magnificent and a wonderful capital of nine precious stones, a place where the greatest rulers live and a large palace is located, the home of gods who can transform 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.
You can get to Russia from Berlin in Pariswithout leaving the territory of the Chelyabinsk region. There is also Leipzig, Varna and other cities. All these, usually small towns, received their names in honor of the outstanding victories of the Russian army in the Patriotic War of 1812.
There are railway stations in the Odessa region of Ukraine Borodino, Leipzig, Paris other. Village Paris is located in the Krasnokutsk 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 - a railway station Cairo, in Moldova - railway station - Sofia, in Latvia and the Yekaterinburg region of Russia - small towns Nice, in the Novosibirsk region - the village Shanghai, in the Oryol region - the 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.
Gulf america - in the Far East, danube Islands - at the mouth of the great Siberian river Lena, eldorado village - on the middle Yenisei, lake china - in the Odessa region of Ukraine.
On the Perm-Nizhny Tagil railway there is 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, up to Poland - 50, Denmark - 35, Norway - 25 km. All of these settlements are located in this state, and are not countries.
Indiana, Minnesota and North Dakota have villages Russia, Byelorussia and Kiev... They were founded over 100 years ago by the natives of these areas, who migrated to America in search of a happy life.
In the California desert there is siberia station... It must be admitted that the authors of this name were humorists. After all, the hottest place in the entire western hemisphere is located nearby.
In the south of Brazil there is city \u200b\u200bAmerica.
There are cities in the USA like London, Boston, Newcastle, Cambridge, Oxford, Baltimore, Bristol, Greenwich and many others whose "parents" are in Europe.
Geographical names came from France to the American continent Orleans, Nancy, Toulon, Lyon, a Paris occurs over ten times.
Seven times on the US map occurs Moscow and many times numerous towns under the names Petersburg, Rome, Cairo, Athens, Odessa other.
From Spain to Latin America such geographical names as Barcelona, Valencia, Venice, Granada, Cordova, Seville other.
In Ukraine in the Chernivtsi region there is the village of Mamalyga, and in Poltava - Pie.
Cockroach - the name of a small island and 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 Sulawes, 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, New Guinea rises mountain house.
Sombrero - this is the name of the strait in the Nicobar Islands of the Indian Ocean.
Rivers Sleep and Barrack flow in India.
Furnace City located in Hungary, Curbstone - in Sweden, and cities with no less strange, in our opinion, name Fat located in Finland and Northern Italy.
There are towns in Italy Bank, Fortune and Mirage.
Madonna is a city in Latvia.
City of Duma located in Syria.
Village Game - in Udmurtia.
Give - in Romania.
My river takes place in Ireland, and islet poppy is located in the Hebrides group off the coast of Great Britain.
Kucha city located in Western China, Tank - in Pakistan, Tea and Chan - in Turkey, city \u200b\u200bof Lemon - in Guatemala.
Theme - a seaport in the African Republic of Ghana.
Nautical name Squid assigned to a French land town in Alsace.
On the geographic map of the Russian Federation, you will see adjacent Summer and Winter coast as well as city Winter in Eastern Siberia.
Stump - a village in the Novosibirsk region, Divo - in Smolenskaya, Backlash and Turks - in Saratov, Kalach - in Volgograd, Boot - in Ryazan, Wand - in Tomsk, Bottom - in Pskov, Mud - in Lipetsk, Cap - in Leningradskaya, Wasp - in the Perm regions, Profit - a river in the Ulyanovsk region.
In Ukraine - Paradise in the Ternopil region, Bar - in Vinnitsa, Platypus, Partying, Benefit - in Odessa, Wise heads - in Khmelnytsky, good day - in Chernihiv, Buyan, Bucha and Kozhanka - in Kievskaya, Money - in Cherkasskaya, Happiness - in the Luhansk regions.
Stomach can be found in the Grodno region of Belarus.
Note flows in Murmansk, Darkness in Tverskaya, Couple 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 Capricorns... Villages with a name Mars we find in the Sharansky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia and the Novoaydarsky district of the Luhansk region of Ukraine.
Cape The end of the world located on the easternmost island of the Kuril ridge, Shikotan.
Half - this is the name of a village in the Irkutsk region of Russia, halfway between Moscow and Vladivostok.
In the Far East, on the Moscow-Vladivostok railway, one of the cities is called by name and patronymic - Erofei Pavlovich.
Some place names reflect, as it were, the shape of objects. So, for example, in Siberia, in the Eastern Sayan there is mount Pyramid, in the Arctic Ocean - straits Yugorsky and Matochkin Shary, in the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk - cone Island, and in the east, on the Lysyansky peninsula, there is cape Duga Western. River Curve flows in the Republic of Macedonia and Serbia.
There are also names on the map that consist of only vowels. it Wye - a river in England, cities Aue (Germany), Aya ("Holy" in Greece), island Eui in the Tonga archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, a village Ai - in Australia, an island Eiao in the group of the Marquesas Islands.
But there are also names consisting of only consonants, for example Croatian island Krk in the adriatic sea and mountain Smrk (1204 m) in the Czech Republic.
There are place names starting with the letter "Y", for example, rivers Yhne in Estonia, Yrgites in Kyrgyzstan, Yngata in Yakutia (Right tributary of the Vilyuy), as well as villages Ynding in the Komi Republic, Uijou in North and Eunseong in South Korea.
Purely Russian geographical names can be found on the world map. Villages God, Vershok, Morning - in France, Sleep - 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 discovered this in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
and could not drive by.
Incredible facts
Planet Earth is full of amazing geographic and geological mysteries and paradoxes. In fact, there are so many of them that we are unlikely to be able to reveal all the secrets that nature hides. Here are some of the most unusual and sometimes bizarre facts related to geography, geology, and the earth.
1.Shortest place name
The shortest place name is " Å "is the name of a small village located in both Sweden and Norway. In Scandinavian" Å "means" river ".
2. The largest city in the world
The largest city in the world, based on surface area, is a city Hulun Buir in the region of Inner Mongolia in China, which covers an area of \u200b\u200b263,953 sq. km.
3. Countries completely surrounded by one country
Lesotho, Vatican City and San Marino are the only countries completely surrounded by one country. Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, and the Vatican and San Marino are completely surrounded by Italy.
4. Second longest place name
The second longest place name in the world has been recognized as " Taumatawhakatangihangak oauauotamateaturipukaka pikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nua kitanatahu", consisting of 84 letters, which belongs to a hill in New Zealand and in the Maori language means" the place where Tamatea, a man with big knees who slipped, climbed and swallowed mountains, being known as a mountain eater, played his flute for his beloved".
It was the longest geographical name for some time (and remains in the Guinness Book of Records) until it was supplanted by the name " Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetmahasathan amornpiman avatarnsathit sakkathattiya visnukarmprasit", consisting of 163 letters and signifying the poetic name of Bangkok in Thailand.
5. Coldest and warmest sea
The water temperature in the White Sea in Russia is the lowest at only -2 ° C. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In summer, the water temperature here reaches 35.6 ° C.
6. The world's oldest constitutional republic
San Marino is considered to be the oldest constitutional republic in the world. It was founded in 301 by a Christian bricklayer who was fleeing the persecution of the emperor Diocletian. The San Marino Constitution, which was adopted in 1600, is considered the oldest written constitution in the world.
The deepest hole drilled by man is Kola superdeep well in Russia. It reached 12,262 m and was drilled for scientific research, during which a number of unexpected discoveries were made, such as a huge hydrogen field, which was so massive that the mud coming out of the well literally boiled.
Due to the bulge of the Earth at the equator, the summit of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador, whose height is 6310 m, is the most distant point from the center of the Earth, claiming to be the "highest point on Earth", despite the fact that Everest is the highest peak above sea level. Chimborazo is an extinct volcano located 1 degree south of the equator.
Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans with the lowest elevation of the earth's crust. Today it is believed to be 10,971 m deep. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean east of the Mariana Islands.
Mid-atlantic ridge is the longest mountain range on Earth, amounting to 40 thousand km. It is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Iceland is the only part of this mountain range that is above sea level.
The Andes form the longest surface mountain range at 7000 km.
10. The name of the area, consisting of only vowels
Mountain Circeo on the west coast of Italy was once called Aeaea (5 vowels in a row and not a single consonant). According to mythology, the witch Circe lived here. Two other geographic locations that only contain vowels in their names are Aiea (Aiea) in Hawaii and Eiao (Eiao), one of the Marquesas Islands.
11. The northernmost, eastern and westernmost state in America
Alaska is the northernmost, eastern and westernmost state in America. It is the only state that is part of the eastern hemisphere, making it the easternmost and westernmost state.
12. Sea without a coast
The Sargasso Sea is an area in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean surrounded by ocean currents and is the only sea without a coast. In the west it is bounded by the Gulf Stream, in the north by the North Atlantic Current, in the east by the Canary Current, and in the south by the North Equatorial Current. This system of currents forms the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre.
13. Lake in an ancient impact crater, formed as a result of a meteorite fall
Lake BosumtwiLocated in an ancient meteorite impact crater that is 8 km in diameter, it is the only natural lake in Ghana. It is located 30 km southwest of Kumasi town and is a popular recreation area. Near the lake there are about 30 villages with a total population of 70,000 people.
14. Unusual river flow
There is only one river in the world, which originates in the equator and from there flows into the temperate zone and that is the Nile River. For some unknown reason, most rivers flow in the opposite direction.
15. Lack of land at the North Pole
There is no land at the North Pole - only ice above the water surface. The Arctic Ocean, with an area of \u200b\u200b12 million square kilometers of floating ice, has the lowest winter temperature, -34 ° C.
People who travel by their own car experience great pleasure. 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 bring a pen and a notebook with you to write down the names of cities, settlements, villages and rivers you meet on your way. In the future, you will not only be guaranteed a victory in the game "Cities", 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 geographic objects:
- Cocaine Mountains - a river in the Perm region;
- Lysaya Balda - a river in the Ukrainian village of Zaryanoe;
- Bottom - the name of the city near Pskov;
- Hare bubble - a river in the Kemerovo region;
- In the Ulyanovsk region - the village of Musorka;
- Krasnaya Mogila - 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 Konets - a village in the Tver region;
- Abrupt 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;
- Such is a village on Sakhalin Island;
- Kuyoknulo - a village in the Tver region.
If you are going to Omsk, then you will meet on your way:
rivers Bernyazhka, Nyukhalovka, Byzovka, Ingaly, Avlukha;
the villages of Pochekuevo, Shchuevoz, Takmyk, Kurnosovo, Bolshie Murly, Chebakly, Uvalnaya Bitiya and others.
Here are some interesting geographical names! Each such name, of course, has its own origin story. What now seems funny to us in ancient times had a completely different meaning. You can ask local residents where the name of their village or village or river came from. Old people will tell a lot of interesting things, however, they are getting smaller and smaller 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 the unusual name without asking the story of its origin.
Fortunately, there are enthusiasts who collect bit by bit and preserve such information. After all, the people who do not know their history, their roots, are weak and vulnerable. Esotericists, clairvoyants and healers say that the strength of living people is given by their ancestors, the so-called family tree or ancestral egregor.
Don't forget to take your notebook and pen with you!
Spring is coming and there is a desire for change. So you want to change your usual environment and go somewhere on a journey. There are many unique, interesting places in the world that are worth seeing with your own eyes. We will give some of them - the most unusual, the most extraordinary.
1. Highest mountain in Canada
In Canada, the highest is Mount Logan at 5959m. it belongs to the Southwest Yukon Territory, the Saint Elias Ridge system. The name of the mountain was given in honor of William Edmond Logan - Canadian geologist
2. The southernmost city in the world
Ushuaia (Argentina) is the southernmost city in the world. The population of this administrative center of the province of Tierra del Fuego is 45 thousand people.
3. The lowest point in Africa
At 155 meters below sea level, Lake Assal in Djibouti is located - the lowest point in Africa.
4. The largest lake on an island in a lake
The system of these lakes resembles a nesting doll - in Canada, on Lake Huron, Manitoulin Island is located, on Manitoulin Island there is Lake Manitouin. Manitou turns out to be the largest lake in the lake with an area of \u200b\u200b104 square kilometers.
5. The richest city in the world
The richest and most beautiful city in the world is Dubai. It is not at all difficult to buy cheap in Dubai, and therefore this city is the most visited city in the world. Interestingly, 80% of its population consists of foreigners.
6. The longest lake in the world
Lake Tanganyika is located on the border of Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the longest in the world. It was discovered in 1858 by English explorers John Speke and Richard Burton. The lake is interesting not only for its length (673 km), but it is the second in the world in terms of depth (1470 m) and water volume.
Tanganyika is also famous for its interesting and varied fauna, bright and unusual fish.
7. Highest waterfall in Africa
On the territory of the Republic of South Africa in the Drakensberg Mountains is the Tugela Falls. Here water falls from a height of 948 meters in five cascades. The largest cascade is 411 meters high.
8. The deepest depression on earth not filled with water
We have heard a lot about deep sea trenches, but there are also deepest faults on the surface of the Earth. The deepest of them was discovered in Antarctica in 1961. The deepest point of the Bentley depression is 2540 meters below sea level and is filled with ice.
9. Highest peak in the Scandinavian mountains
In the Scandinavian mountains, the highest peak is Gallhopiggen. For the first time, Arnesen, Flaatten and Sulheim climbed this 2,469-meter mountain in Norway in 1850.
10. The longest river in Eurasia
The deepest and longest river in Eurasia is the Yangtze. It carries its waters from its sources in Tibet to the East China Sea along the territory of China for 6300 km.
11. The longest braid in the world
The world's longest spit is located in Ukraine. The Arabat Spit, located on the Crimean Peninsula, 112 km long and 270 m to 8 km wide, separates the Sivash Bay from the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov.
12. The smallest city in the world
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 strangest names in existence.
1. Swastika
The city of Swastika in Ontario, Canada is a rather strange place. In fact, this is not a haven for the Nazis at all - the city was founded almost 30 years before Adolf Hitler began using the swastika. The name of the city was chosen in honor of the ancient Indian sign of prosperity and fertility.
2. Kingdom of Satan
Funnily and strangely, there are cities and geographic locations on Earth named after hell. For example, two cities in the United States (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.
3. Peniston
The town of Peniston, in Yorkshire, England, probably derives its name from older forms of Welsh and English. Originally, this name meant "Hilltop Village". Today all and sundry giggle at him.
4. Nothing
The formerly inhabited (although very few people) settlement of Nothing in Arizona was completely abandoned in 2005. The sign at the entrance to the city reads: “Dedicated citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the need for work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoping for Nothing and working for Nothing. "
5. North Pole
There are cities with the name of the North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. The New York North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.
6. Nameless
Nameless is a small town in Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned in this place with a turn to a still defunct city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. As a result, the name stuck.
7. Moon
To the northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town named Luna, which was probably so named due to its 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, it can also be said that he visited the Martians (this is what the locals are called).
9. George Washington
George Washington is the only city in the United States to bear the full name of the 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 jokingly named, but the second largest city in the country.
11. Chinatown
Chinatowns or Chinatowns exist in major cities around the world, but Wisconsin has an entire city that bears a similar name.
12. Batman
Everyone knows the famous comic book hero, but few people know that in Turkey, in the Batman province, on the banks of the Batman River (a tributary of the Tigris River) there is the 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 Irish seaside village.
14. Å
The locality 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 bear a similar name.
15. Accident
Interestingly, the town of Accident was built by accident in the 1770s in Western Maryland. Two surveyors marked out the ground, randomly selecting the same oak as the reference point. It was on that place that the city was founded.
