# Rename a city!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-a-city/220724>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 23, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-a-city/220724 "2003-12-23T21:17:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rename-a-city/220724/1 "2003-12-23T21:17:25Z")

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For those who don’t know, [**Kurt Busiek’s Astro City**](http://kbac.orcon.net.nz/) is a delightful comic book series that explores the human side of comic-book superheroes – like, how would _you_ react if your car was smashed in a pitched battle with alien invaders?

The centerpiece of this series is Astro City, a major metropolitan city where many of the heroes reside. The city got its name sometime after WWII; the civic leaders simply decided to rename their city “Astro City,” in a forward-thinking Buck Rogers-kinda way. So You end up riding with the Astro City Transit Authority, reading the Astro Rocket newspaper, buying slushies at the Astro-Mart, and listening to radio stations KBAC and KACT.

So that got me to thinking: what would _you_ rename your city/state/country to, if given the opportunity? What unique, silly, or original names would you apply to our existing landmarks?