# Rarest last letters of place names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517 "2020-09-01T12:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/21 "2020-09-02T20:01:43Z")
It doesn’t match your size threshold but it’s always good for weird city names: [Zzyzx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/22 "2020-09-03T02:22:02Z")
Another X: Ajax, Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/23 "2020-09-03T07:20:39Z")
I’ve been to Ptuj in Slovenia. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/24 "2020-09-03T07:22:43Z")
And Roscoff in France. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/25 "2020-09-03T07:38:29Z")
Lochindorb, Canisp (a mountain), Banff & Turriff in Scotland. Ruislip in England. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/26 "2020-09-03T13:39:30Z")
Kuujjuaq, Quebec (Canada). As well as ending with “q”, it has a double “u” and a double “j”. (population: 2,754. No roads to the outside world.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/27 "2020-09-03T14:10:13Z")
When I was much younger, I used to play a game with my friends where you gave the name of a place or geographic feature, and the other guy had to reply with another such name that began with the last letter of the name you gave. There are plenty of names that end in “a” and “e” (an awful lot that both begin and end with “A”, in fact). But, of course, you kept trying to feed your opponent names that ended with weird letters like “X” – Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, Apomattox – because there were only so many place names beginning with “X” that we knew – Xingu, Xochimilco. “Q” was never as much as a problem because a.) we didn’t know many places that ended with “Q”. You said “Iraq” and you were pretty much done – who knew of all those others? , but b.) There were lots of places that BEGAN with Q – Queensland, Quebec – so there was no driving force behind finding more Qs. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517/28 "2020-09-04T15:53:11Z")
Rovinj is a modest sized town in Croatia. Looks like a lovely place. According to Wiki it’s pronounced [[rǒʋiːɲ]] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rarest-last-letters-of-place-names/919517.md?page=1)