# City Nomenclature

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-nomenclature/61230>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 8, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-nomenclature/61230 "2001-04-08T05:30:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-nomenclature/61230/41 "2001-04-10T16:25:59Z")

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I can get worse overseas. Here are some major city-resident combos from Brazil

Sao Paulo - Paulista (not to bad)  
Rio de Janeiro - Carioca  
Salvador - Soltapolitano

How they came up with some of these I have no idea.

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