Charleston, South Carolina, is named after King Charles II.
Leningrad and Stalingrad, now defunct.
If he wanted ones that weren’t around, he would have said “We want defunct, we gotta have defunct!”
The administrative district (oblast) surrounding the city of Saint Petersburg still retains the city’s pre-1991 name, Leningrad.
Albuquerque, New Mexico was named after Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque, who was viceroy of New Spain at the time.
Notice the difference in spelling. Folklore says that an American postmaster dropped the first “R” because he didn’t like the sound, and the rest of the country followed the lead of the Post Office. A more likely explanation is that he assumed that it was named after a Portuguese admiral named Alfonso de Albuquerque, Duke of Goa, who was much more famous than the Spanish duke, and more likely to be mentioned in an English-language reference book.
Quezon City in the Philippines is named after Manuel L. Quezon, the second president of the country.
Denmark, disputed etymology, maybe named after King Dan.
He was for a short while, when it was part of Gran Colombia.
As far as US presidents go, I believe every one from Washington to Taft have had cities or towns named after them. A lot of them are pretty obscure places you never heard of and may no longer exist. Not a president, but Norvelt, Pennsylvania was named after Eleanor Roosevelt.
Hayes didn’t do any actual negotiation for that. What happened was that the two countries (Paraguay and Argentina) agreed to let a foreign leader (Hayes) act as arbiter in their border dispute. Hayes sided with Paraguay, although it’s most likely he didn’t do much besides rubberstamp the recommendations of US diplomats in the area.
Israel has a small town call Kfar Truman (literally, “Trumanville”), named after President Harry S, for being the first world leader to recognize Israel’s independence.
Too late to add to my preceeding post, but there’s a city in Liberia named Buchanan. It was not named after the US president, but rather one of his relatives, Thomas Buchanan, who was a governor of Liberia.
Too late to add to my preceeding post, but there’s a city in Liberia named Buchanan. It was not named after the US president, but rather one of his relatives, Thomas Buchanan, who was a governor of Liberia.
Bolivia was never part of Gran Colombia. Gran Colombia included what are now Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama. Bolivia was part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, which gained independence separately from Gran Colombia, and eventually became independent of Peru.
I believe if you check the etymology, you’ll find the family name originates in an Old English word meaning “a really big load of laundry.”
Panama City has a district named Torrijos-Carter, in commemoration of the Panama Canal Treaties.
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada - named after Queen Victoria (i.e. “Regina” in contrast to “Rex” for king). Prince Albert is another city in Saskatchewan.
There are numerous "Victoria"s around the world.
Also Queensland in Australia, named after the same woman.
Victoria, the state, was named after the then reigning monarch, while its capital Melbourne was named after the UK Prime Minister then in office, Lord Melbourne.
OK, you’re right, Bolivia was not part of Gran Colombia. I read Bolivar’s wikipage too quickly. However, he apparently was the leader in Bolivia for a short time and tried unsuccessfully to get it to merge with Gran Colombia.
There are also many cities and towns named for Bolivar, including a couple in the US.
Yes, but note that not all of them are named for the Queen. For example, there are many Victorias in Spanish speaking countries, but ‘victoria’ means ‘victory’ in Spanish. So they’re usually named for some military victory. There’s also a few places in the US named Victoria, but as far as I can tell, none were named after the Queen, either. But regardless of the source of the name, Victoria is probably the place name found in more countries than any other.
Along those same lines, because the Elector of Hanover (a.k.a. the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg) became the King of Great Britain, there are a number of places in Canada, Australia, and the original 13 colonies of the US named Hanover, Brunswick, and Lunenburg. New Brunswick, both Canadian province and city in NJ, Hanover PA, and Lunenburg VA are examples.
His sometime compatriot Jose de San Martin gets Liberator General San Martin Drive, a lovely bushland drive in outer suburban Sydney, Australia.
Does Queen Maud land, part of Antarctica claimed by Denmark, count? She was the wife of the ruling Danish monarch King Haakon VII.