Towns in your state named after foreign places

[Captain_Lance_Murdoch]

What cities, towns, hamlets or whatever in your state share their names with foreign places? I got to thinking about this and the number in my state is just huge.

In Minnesota (with apologies to all the ones I’m surely forgetting) we have…

Monticello
Montevideo
Avon
Hastings
Oslo
Bergen
Stockholm
Norway
New Germany
New Sweden
Lund
Cologne
Hamburg
Hanover
Ely
Santiago
Plymouth
New Brighton
New London
New Prague
Scandia
Finland
St. Cloud
Little Canada
New Ulm
Brooklyn Park
Brooklyn Center
Alexandria
Lyon
Manchester
Kiel
New Munich
Buhl

Minnesota is filled with Germans and Scandinavians so many of these names are no surprise. There also lots of Irish folks here, yet I can’t think of any Irish-named towns. There are a surprising number of English-inspired names though we don’t have a big English population here.

And your state?

[YaWanna]

Oregon has Florence and Dundee. That’s all I can think of that are from foreign places (unless you count Dallas ).

[jjimm]

For the hamsters’ sakes, you need to exclude New Englanders from this thread.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

California has Dublin, Trinidad, and Ontario.

[yellowval]

@YaWanna

Oregon has Florence and Dundee. That’s all I can think of that are from foreign places (unless you count Dallas ).

Yep, we have a Florence and a Dundee in Minnesota too. There’s also a Milan (pron. MY-lan). You’ve probably never heard of them, Captain Lance. They barely exist. I’m trying to think of others …

[dbygawdcapn]

In Maryland
Aberdeen
Adelphi
Berlin
Bethlehem
Damascus
Dunkirk
Essex
Lisbon
Preston
Salisbury
Scotland
Solomons
Vienna

[RealityChuck]

New York has Rome, Syracuse, Berlin, Athens, Andes, Avon, Babylon, Belfast, Bethlehem, Bombay, Copenhagen, Cuba, Denmark, Dover, Galway, Geneva, Ghent, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Hempstead, Italy, Ithaca, Madrid, Manchester, Naples, Norway, Poland, Sardinia, Smyrna, Stockholm, Troy, Vienna, Wales, Warsaw, and Yorkshire. There are probably others.

[YaWanna]

@YaWanna

Oregon has Florence and Dundee. That’s all I can think of that are from foreign places (unless you count Dallas ).

I forgot Damascus, Lebanon, and Madras.

[h.sapiens]

In Illinois:

Lima, Cairo, Thebes, Panama, Versailles, Brussels, Hamburg, Palestine, Genoa, Geneva, Malta, Batavia, Hanover, Paris, Macedonia, Cuba, Liverpool, Verona, Carthage, Warsaw, Vienna, Essex, Lisbon, Rio (?), Lincolnshire, Marseilles, Ottawa, Peru, Rutland, Alhambra, Troy, Venice, Havana, Athens, Waterloo, Panama, Rome, Florence, Sparta, Andalusia, Milan, Berlin, Glasgow, Manchester, Naples, Lebanon, Belgium and Crete.

[Terminus_Est]

Afton
Alabama
Albany
Albion, Orleans County
Albion, Oswego County
Alexandria
Amsterdam
Andes
Antwerp
Arcadia
Argyle
Ashford
Athens
Attica
Austerlitz
Avon

Babylon
Bangor
Batavia
Bath
Bedford
Belfast
Bellmont
Berkshire
Berlin
Berne
Bethany
Bethel
Bethlehem
Bombay
Bristol
Brunswick

Cairo
Caledonia
Cambria
Cambridge
Camden
Canaan
Canton
Carmel
Castile
Chester, Orange County
Chester, Warren County
Chesterfield
Corinth
Cornwall
Coventry
Cuba

Danube
Davenport
Delhi
Denmark
Dover
Dresden
Dunkirk
Durham

Eaton
Eden
Edinburg
Elba
Enfield
Ephratah
Erin
Essex
Exeter

Frankfort

Geddes
Geneva
Genoa
Ghent
Greece
Groton
Guilford

Hague
Hamburg
Hamlin
Hampton
Hanover
Hastings
Hebron
Holland

Italy
Ithaca

Java
Jerusalem

Kingston

Lake Luzerne
Lancaster
Lebanon
Leicester
Lima
Lisbon
Livonia
Lyons

Macedon
Madrid
Malta
Manchester
Manheim
Masfield
Marathon
Marlborough
Mexico
Middlesex
Milan

Naples
Napoli
Nassau
New Albion
New Berlin
New Bremen
Newburgh
New Castle
New Hartford
New Lebanon
New Lisbon
New Rochelle
New Scotland
New Windsor
New York
Norfolk
North Elba
North Hempstead
North Norwich
North Salem
Northumberland
Norway
Norwich

Ontario
Orleans
Oxford

Palatine
Palermo
Palmyra
Paris
Parma
Pelham
Pembroke
Persia
Perth
Peru
Pitcairn
Plymouth
Poland
Pompey
Portland
Potsdam
Preston

Reading
Riga
Rochester
Rotterdam
Russia
Rutland

Salamanca
Salem
Salisbury
Sardinia
Scarsdale
Scio
Smyrna
Somerset
Southampton
South Bristol
Sparta
Stafford
Stamford
Sterling
Stockholm
Sweden
Syracuse

Troy
Turin
Tyre
Tyrone

Ulster
Utica

Venice
Verona
Vienna

Wales
Warsaw
Waterloo
Westford
West Sparta
West Turin
Whitehall
Windham
Windsor
Worcester

York
Yorkshire

Gleaned from a quick parse of the list of towns and cities; villages not included. There are probably a few that I missed. There’s also Albany, Essex, New York, Orleans, Suffolk, Ulster counties.

[wolfman]

Colorado really doesn’t have many I can thing of. There is a Florence, but honestly I doubt I would have remebered it except the recent talk about Moussaoui and the SuperMax prison.

There’s also a Westminster.

[Sternvogel]

Indiana (not a complete list, check this page for less exotic names):

Aberdeen
Alexandria
Algiers
Angola
Antioch

Athens
Attica
Ayrshire
Belfast
Bengal

Berne
Bethlehem
Brazil
Bremen
Carthage

China
Crete
Cuzco
Delphi
Dunkirk

Edinburgh
Florence
Geneva
Guernsey
Hamburg

Hanover
Holland
Honduras
Jordan
Lebanon

Liverpool
Lucerne
Macedonia
Mecca
Memphis

Mexico
Milan (another MIGH-lan, home of the basketball team that inspired Hoosiers)
Morocco (not on the list, but I’ve been through the settlement several times)
Moscow
Mount Etna

New Brunswick
New Lisbon
New Palestine
New Paris
Nineveh

Ontario
Orleans
Pekin
Perth
Peru

Poland
Rome
Russiaville
Sardinia
Scotland

Siberia
Tangier
Trafalgar
Troy
Valparaiso

Vienna
Volga
Warsaw

[GorillaMan]

@wolfman

Colorado really doesn’t have many I can thing of. There is a Florence, but honestly I doubt I would have remebered it except the recent talk about Moussaoui and the SuperMax prison.

There’s also a Westminster.

Plus a Windsor, a Brighton and a Lyons. And I’ve never been near Colorado

[UncleRojelio]

Paris is in Texas.

[Push_You_Down]

Washington state has Tokio.

That always cracks me up.

[mrald]

@UncleRojelio

Paris is in Texas.

And in Arkansas

[wolfman]

Plus a Windsor, a Brighton and a Lyons. And I’ve never been near Colorado

Yeah but Brighton is named after Brighton Beach New York, And Lyons was named after it’s founder Lyon. Windsor I’ll give you though.

[Ogre]

Alabama (including some American places most famous outside of Bama):

Florence
Birmingham
Arab (AY-rab - perhaps this doesn’t qualify, but I like it anyway)
Saginaw
Troy
Andalusia
Alexandria
Athens
Corinth
Cordova
Columbia
Concord
Cleveland
Cardiff
Brooklyn
Bremen
Cuba
Damascus
Detroit
Eden (har!)
English Village (har again!)
Erin
Havana
Hartford
Goshen (Land O’…)
Geneva
Frisco City
Hollywood (interesting story here. Maybe I’ll post a thread about it.)
Houston
Idaho
Joppa
Knoxville
Lafayette
Leeds
Lexington
Macedonia
Madrid
Megargel
Montevallo
Montrose
Mount Hebron
Mount Olive
Mount Vernon
Orange Beach
Oxford
Ozark
Rehobeth
Rome
Salem
Sardis
Siluria
Trenton
York

[LiveOnAPlane]

I am sure glad I Googled, I almost goofed here.

We have Bagdad…but it is not Baghdad.

Whew, that was close!

I’m still trying to find Sopchoppy and Two Egg somewhere else in the world. Please stay tuned.

[samclem]

Ohio has most that you would expect to find in a state of our age.

The most interesting thing about the names is that probably 90% of them are pronounced NOTHING close to the name of the city in the original county.