Huh? Lived in Washington (we PNW’erners hate it when people add “state,” but that’s neither here nor there) for about 8 years, never heard of it. Googled it & got nuttin.’ Are you funnin’ us?
It is more of a neighborhood name, it is not attached to any city or town. It is in the Spokane area.
Gloucester
Reading
Salisbury
Waltham
To name but a few…
My first thought was that Britons would have a hard time naming places named for foreign cities.
There are krillions of these in Ontario. Just a few off the top of my head:
Bath (which has the Bath Water Filtration Plant),
London,
Paris,
Windsor,
Pontypool,
Peterborough,
Madoc,
Hanover,
Berlin (now Kitchener),
Waterloo,
Cambridge,
Breslau,
Wilno,
Stratford,
Scarborough,
Whitby…
The weird thing about going to the old country is seeing familiar place names in their original surroundings…
There’s a Toronto in England…
In Jawja we have:
Rome
Athens
Berlin (pronounced Ber-lin
Vienna (pronounced Vi-enn-a
Cairo (pronounced Kay-ro
Bremen
Lyons
Corinth
Damascus
Geneva
Sardis
Bethlehem
Oxford
Ephesus
Dublin
I know there’s more, just can’t think right now.
A few more from California :
Newcastle
Ben Lomond
Saratoga
Sebastopol (oddly enough, actually named after the battle)
Pittsburg (they didn’t like the spelling of the PA one)
Antioch
Cambria
there is a bagdad, arizona.
i had two cousins in the middle east for awhile, so a bunch of us went on up and made our own little “invasion of bagdad” movie. the residents didn’t think much of us, but a least the cousins got a laugh out of it.
florence, arizona is the home of the arizona state prison.
useless bits of information -
not named for places, but ajo means garlic (ajo, arizona). jerome was named after winston churchhill’s grandfather.
In Hawaii, we have zero. The only English names I can think of are Pearl City on Oahu and Captain Cook on the Big Island.
Since each island is technically a town (all of Oahu is Honolulu), there can be some debate if Pearl City should be counted. Or if we should count towns/districts with English names, like Hickam Housing as part of Honolulu, etc.
It can get confusing, but suffice to say there’s no foreign names.
Off the top of my head, there’s:
Verdun (where I’ll be moving at the end of June - actually it’s part of Montreal now)
Lachine(! - also part of Montreal)
Venise-en-Québec
Hull
Buckingham
Montebello
Gee… for being a bunch of colons, we really don’t have a whole lot of them. Quebec nomenclaturists go in more for saints, actually. Oh my, do we have a ton of those.
If I may add in an old province (Auckland) here:
Well, there’s Auckland itself (and a few suburbs within)
Broadwood
Oakleigh
Braigh
Brynderwyn
Dargaville
Warkworth
Wellsford
Woodcocks
Silverdale
Helensville
Drury
Bombay
Mercer
Thames
Huntly
Hamilton
Raglan
Woodleigh
Benneydale
Gisborne
Cambridge
Wiltsdown
That’s about all I can see on the map this time of the night, and that’s only the top half of the North Island. If folk in Wellington or the South Island piped in with this, there’d be lots more. Most of our placenames appear to be Maori, though, which is good to see.
Pennsylvania has Mars.
According to my atlas there are five towns in the USA named after the original Newark in the England. These are located in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey , New York and Ohio. There is also a Newark Lake in Nevada and a Newark Valley in New York.
Indiana has towns named Brazil, Peru, Lebanon, and Versailles (that I know of).
Near Columbus, Ohio, there is a very small village called New California. You can’t get much more foreign than that
There’s also a New Rome that used to be famous as having a police force about the same size as the population of the town. (The main industry of the town was fining drivers on US 40 for exceeding the speed limit – but the state has put an end to that nonsense now).
We have a town called Denmark.
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.
Kansas has:
Dresden
Florence
Frankfort (close enough)
Hanover
Havana
La Cygne (Assuming there is one France)
Lebanon
Moscow
New Cambria
Peru
Toronto
Zurich
Huh, that one’s new to me. And we both forgot Venice.
Michigan has a Pompeii. What is hilarious is that the locals call it “pompy-eye”.