# Towns in your state named after foreign places

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**Created:** [May 22, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/towns-in-your-state-named-after-foreign-places/357792 "2006-05-22T19:05:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/towns-in-your-state-named-after-foreign-places/357792/61 "2006-05-24T22:21:25Z")

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[QUOTE=dwc1970]  
Idaho has a Paris. It also has an Atlanta, though that’s not really “foreign”, per se. We also have a Princeton and a Harvard, but they’re not colleges.  
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You forgot Moscow and Aberdeen.

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