# A-Z World Cities **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 3, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027 "2016-01-03T00:23:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 143
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2841 "2016-10-29T11:37:27Z")
Cymru am byth ! (Wales for ever), as they say in the local tongue. Porthmadog, Wales, UK (this, and the preceding four, are all within a 40-mile-diameter circle vis-a-vis each other). ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2842 "2016-10-29T12:06:49Z")
At the risk of being a “know-it-all Limey” – keeping us in Wales – Queensferry, Wales, UK (English name, but in Wales [just] – near the Principality’s north-eastern extremity). ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2843 "2016-10-29T14:54:05Z")
Can a Filipino-Russian continue this? (trying to be apologetic for not being a Limey) 😃 Rhoscefnhir Wales GBR Interesting place names, there in Wales! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2844 "2016-10-29T16:52:49Z")
Senghenydd, Wales, UK ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2845 "2016-10-29T16:55:25Z")
Teterboro, NJ, USA ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2846 "2016-10-29T17:14:52Z")
Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2847 "2016-10-29T19:32:36Z")
Welsh “run” got up to eight entries; but **Annie-Xmas** shot the Cymric upstarts down in flames. Valdepeñas, Spain ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2848 "2016-10-29T21:46:01Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > Welsh “run” got up to eight entries; but **Annie-Xmas** shot the Cymric upstarts down in flames. Yeah, well, I don’t think it would’ve gotten past X. And I checked the Wales map, too. Xaxaba BWA ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2849 "2016-10-29T22:23:47Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Yeah, well, I don’t think it would’ve gotten past X. And I checked the Wales map, too. Truly – per my (quite detailed) road atlas, there are no places beginning with X, anywhere in Great Britain. > [@](#): > > Xaxaba BWA Looks like you’ve skipped over W. How about – Walkaway, Western Australia, Australia ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2850 "2016-10-30T01:32:10Z")
Yucca Valley, California, USA ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2851 "2016-10-30T04:44:27Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > Looks like you’ve skipped over W. How about – > > Walkaway, Western Australia, Australia DAMN. That’s twice!!! Zamboanga, Philippines ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2852 "2016-10-30T08:33:05Z")
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2853 "2016-10-30T09:34:02Z")
Bitchfield, Lincolnshire, GBR ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2854 "2016-10-30T10:05:34Z")
Cerro de Pasco, Peru ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2855 "2016-10-30T11:20:57Z")
Dike, Grundy County, IA, USA ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2856 "2016-10-30T12:35:59Z")
El Khroub, Algeria ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2857 "2016-10-30T15:07:51Z")
Fucking Austria ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2858 "2016-10-30T15:51:46Z")
Gun Barrel City, Texas, USA ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2859 "2016-10-30T16:43:07Z")
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-z-world-cities/742027/2860 "2016-10-30T17:20:30Z")
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