Nitpick: Norway.
Word choice maybe, but that’s what I meant.
Huh, interesting.
Norwegian queen and claimed by Norway. Haakon was however from Denmark, being the younger brother of the future king of Denmark.
Well-spotted.
OK, but then, Venezuela—formally, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela—should count as being named after its erstwhile leader, no?
Would Jonestown meet the criteria?
I grew up in Kingston, and indeed Canada had a king when it was founded.
Canada’s kinda short on places named after people who led Canada or a province; the only really good example is, of course, the capital of British Columbia; Victoria. Regina, Saskatchewan just means “Queen” so I think that’s as lame as Kingston, though it was in fact named in honor of Victoria.
Halifax was named after an important guy who helped found the city, though he wasn’t a leader the way a Queen is.
Bold choice, but I think it’s Kool.
Yes I know, Flavor Aid.
The state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans.
In Italy there was a city named Mussolinia, the name was changed to Arborea in 1944.
In 1964 a Russian city was renamed Togliatti in honor of Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Yekaterinburg (Russia’s 3rd city, named after Empress Catherine the Great).
Speaking of which, Saint Petersburg (city) is named after Peter The Great. It was changed to Petrograd, then Leningrad, then changed back to the original.
Ireland also has Virginia, County Cavan named for Queen Elizabeth I and in times past we also had King’s County and Queen’s County, now Counties Offaly and Laois.
The principal towns in King’s County and Queen’s County were named Philipstown (now Daingean) and Maryborough (now Port Laoise) after . . . oh, you get the picture.
I really wish they’d stayed with “Pile o’Bones”.
Now that’s cool. 
Montreal is sorta-kinda named after the French monarchs.
It’s a contraction of “Mount Royal” : “Mont Royale”, also pronounced and sometimes spelt “Mont Réal” in 17th century French.
The former name of Tasmania was Van Diemen’s Land, and it was known by that name between 1642 and 1856. Anthony van Diemen was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
Apart from the minor technicality of the Dutch not claiming it or building anything or staying there, AVD was probably the nearest thing to a European ‘owner’.
Kristiansand in Norway seems to have been named for King Christian IV and a number of fortress towns established in Scotland after the 1745 Jacobite rising were named for Hanoverian princes - Fort William, Fort Augustus. Likewise across the British Empire - all those Victorias!
Saltaire in Yorkshire was built as a model industrial town by Titus Salt, and no end of ancient English villages had their Norman feudal overlord’s name tacked on to their existing name, e.g. Worth Matravers.
So - how many of these cities didn’t keep their changed names (if changed) and returned to the original (or another) - e.g. St. Petersburg -> Petrograd -> Leningrad -> St. Petersburg?
The city of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, is named after Israel’s founding father Theodor Herzl.
Two cities near Disneyland were named after California governors: Downey and Pico-Rivera. (Also, the census designated place, Stanford.)
Otherwise, half the cities in California, are named after property developers or Spanish land-grant families.