By the way, I’ve always felt that the weirdest of the place names built on the basis of “new” is New South Wales. It must go back to James Cook, I suppose. He could have just named it New Wales, but no, he had to specify that it was only the southern part of Wales that he was naming the new colony for, to the exclusion of North Wales.
Same with Carthage, a corruption of “Qart Hadasht” which means “New City”.
You may find this series of sketches amusing:
South Wales and North Wales are reasonably distinct, culturally and historically. It’s more along the lines of New South Dakota than of New Southern California. On old maps, it’s “Deheubarth Newydd” in Welsh (two words, the first of which refers to South Wales), though contemporary Welsh just calques the English with three (De Cymru Newydd).
ETA: I also see Deheubarth Cymru Newydd. “De” is “south” and “Deheubarth” is “the south part,” but also the name of an old political entity.
And in the case of Carthage, there’s also New Carthage, Karthago Nova, in Spain, which is today’s Cartagena. After which, in turn, Cartagena in Colombia was named; so here you have several layers of colonisation stacked on top of each other.
And another cool thing about Carthage is that it is one of the very, very few words which are spelt with a K in classical Latin.