Misplaced Pages

This is a list of populated places named after other populated places.

Africa

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2024)

Namibia

• Gross Barmen – Barmen

South Africa

• Aberdeen – Aberdeen
• Alkmaar, Mpumalanga – Alkmaar
• Amersfoort, Mpumalanga – Amersfoort
• Belfast, Mpumalanga – Belfast
• Berlin – Berlin
• Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal – Donnybrook, Dublin
• Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal – Dundee
• Ermelo – Ermelo, Netherlands
• Germiston – Germiston, Glasgow
• Grabouw – Grabow
• Hamburg – Hamburg
• Hanover – Hanover
• Heidelberg, Western Cape – Heidelberg
• Heidelberg, Gauteng – Heidelberg
• Hermannsburg, KwaZulu-Natal – Hermannsburg
• Llandudno, Western Cape – Llandudno
• Lüneburg, KwaZulu-Natal – Lüneburg
• Margate – Margate
• Marseilles, Free State – Marseille
• New Hanover, KwaZulu-Natal – Hanover
• Utrecht – Utrecht

Americas

Argentina

• Córdoba – Córdoba, Spain

Brazil

• Nova Friburgo – Fribourg
• Novo Hamburgo – Hamburg

Canada

• Airdrie, Alberta – Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
• Aldborough Township, Ontario – Aldborough (Aldeburgh)
• Alnwick/Haldimand – Alnwick
• Athens, Ontario – Athens
• Bardo, Alberta – Bardu
• Béthanie, Quebec – Bethany
• Brampton – Brampton, Carlisle
• Calgary – Calgary, Mull
• Calmar, Alberta – Kalmar
• Camrose, Alberta – Camrose, Pembrokeshire
• Cardiff, Alberta – Cardiff
• Connemara, Alberta – Connemara
• Dinant, Alberta – Dinant
• Dresden, Ontario – Dresden
• Duagh, Alberta – Duagh
• Edmonton – Edmonton, London
• Falun, Alberta – Falun
• Greater Sudbury – Sudbury, Suffolk
• Harlech, Alberta – Harlech
• Hebron, Prince Edward Island – Hebron
• Kimberley, British Columbia – Kimberley, Northern Cape
• Krakow, Alberta – Kraków
• Lisburn, Alberta – Lisburn
• London, Ontario – London
• Morningside, Alberta – Morningside, Edinburgh
• Mosside, Alberta – Moss-side, County Antrim
• New Westminster – Westminster
• Odessa, Ontario – Odesa
• Palermo, Ontario – Palermo
• Roros, Alberta – Røros
• Scarborough, Ontario – Scarborough, North Yorkshire
• Sebastopol Township, Ontario – Sevastopol
• Sniatyn, Alberta – Sniatyn
• Stratford, Ontario – Stratford-upon-Avon
• Stry, Alberta – Stryi
• Stubno, Alberta – Stubno
• Surrey, British Columbia – Surrey
• Venice, Alberta – Venice
• Vilna, Alberta – Vilnius
• Warwick, Ontario – Warwick
• Waterloo, Ontario – Waterloo, Belgium
• Wilno, Ontario – Wilno (Vilnius)
• Windsor, Ontario – Windsor, Berkshire
• Wrentham, Alberta – Wrentham, Suffolk
• Woodstock, Ontario – Woodstock, Oxfordshire
• Yeoford, Alberta – Yeoford

Colombia

• Pamplona, Norte de Santander – Pamplona

El Salvador

• Berlín, Usulután – Berlin

Guatemala

• Zaragoza, Chimaltenango – Zaragoza

Mexico

• Valladolid, Yucatán – Valladolid
• Zaragoza, Puebla – Zaragoza

Nicaragua

• Granada – Granada

United States

• Memphis, Tennessee – Memphis, Egypt
• Richmond, Virginia – Richmond, London

Venezuela

• Valencia – Valencia de Don Juan

Asia

Philippines

Russia

• Belostok, Tomsk Oblast – Białystok
• Berlin – Berlin
• Bredy – Breda
• Fershampenuaz – Fère-Champenoise
• Izmaylovsky – Izmail
• Kasselsky – Kassel
• Leyptsig – Leipzig
• Ostrolensky – Ostrołęka
• Parizh, Chelyabinsk Oblast – Paris
• Polotskoye, Chelyabinsk Oblast – Polotsk
• Varna – Varna, Bulgaria
• Varshavka, Chelyabinsk Oblast – Warsaw

Australia

Australia

• Almaden, Queensland – Almadén
• Alsace, Queensland – Alsace
• Beverly Hills, New South Wales – Beverly Hills, California
• Cracow, Queensland – Kraków
• Hampton, Queensland – Hampton, London
• Hermannsburg, Northern Territory – Hermannsburg
• Ilfracombe, Queensland – Ilfracombe
• Kilcoy, Queensland – Kilcoy, Scotland

New Zealand

• Albany – Albany, Western Australia
• Brighton – Brighton
• Dunedin – Dùn Èideann (Edinburgh)
• Fairlie – Fairlie, North Ayrshire
• Kirwee – Karwi
• New Brighton – New Brighton, Merseyside
• New Plymouth – Plymouth

Europe

Belgium

• Belgrade, Namur – Belgrade

Poland

• Kalisz Pomorski – Kalisz
• Łańcut – Landshut
• Modliborzyce, Lublin Voivodeship – Modliborzyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
• Ostróda – Osterode am Harz
• Parma – Parma, Italy
• Szczecinek – Szczecin

Russia

• Armavir – Armavir, Armenia
• Novocherkassk – Cherkassk

Slovakia

• Praha – Prague

Ukraine

• Bar – Bari
• Kherson – Chersonesus
• Odesa – Odessos

See also

• List of biblical place names in North America

References

1. Raper, Peter (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Lowry. p. 70. ISBN 0-947042-06-7.
2. Raper, p. 51
3. Raper, p. 57
4. Raper, p. 58
5. Raper, p. 73
6. Raper, p. 75
7. Raper, p. 140
8. Raper, p. 145
9. Raper, p. 157
10. Raper, p. 174
11. Raper, p. 186
12. Raper, p. 194
13. Raper, pp. 195–196
14. Raper, p. 201
15. Raper, p. 202
16. Raper, p. 205
17. Raper, pp. 279–280
18. Raper, p. 285
19. Raper, p. 297
20. Raper, p. 298
21. Raper, p. 333
22. Raper, pp. 448–449
23. GNBC 1928, p. 10.
24. Armstrong 1930, pp. 4–5.
25. Armstrong 1930, p. 8.
26. GNBC 1928, p. 15.
27. "Béthanie" (in French). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
28. ^ GNBC 1928, p. 29.
29. GNBC 1928, p. 30.
30. GNBC 1928, p. 37.
31. GNBC 1928, p. 43.
32. Armstrong 1930, p. 85.
33. GNBC 1928, p. 44.
34. GNBC 1928, p. 50.
35. GNBC 1928, p. 62.
36. "Kimberley". BC Geographical Names.
37. GNBC 1928, p. 73.
38. GNBC 1928, p. 77.
39. ^ GNBC 1928, p. 90.
40. Armstrong 1930, p. 211.
41. Armstrong 1930, p. 218.
42. GNBC 1928, p. 110.
43. Armstrong 1930, p. 258.
44. Armstrong 1930, p. 260.
45. GNBC 1928, p. 117.
46. ^ GNBC 1928, p. 121.
47. "Surrey". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
48. ^ GNBC 1928, p. 129.
49. ^ Armstrong 1930, p. 296.
50. ^ GNBC 1928, p. 137.
51. "Woodstock". Britannica.com. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
52. "Acerca de Berlín" (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
53. "Топонимы (буква Б)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
54. "Топонимы (буква И)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
55. "Топонимы (буква Кас)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
56. "Топонимы (буква Л)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
57. "Топонимы (буква О)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
58. ^ "Топонимы (буква П)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
59. ^ "Топонимы (буква В)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
60. ^ "Nomenclature of Queensland.—8". The Courier-Mail. 8 October 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
61. "Nomenclature of Queensland.—100". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane. 24 January 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
62. "Nomenclature of Queensland.—145". The Courier-Mail. 17 March 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
63. "Finke River Mission 135th Anniversary". Lutheran Church of Australia. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
64. "Nomenclature of Queensland.—154". The Courier-Mail. 27 March 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
65. "Nomenclature of Queensland.— 164". The Courier-Mail. 8 April 1936. p. 14. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
66. Perry, P. J. "Brett, De Renzie James - Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
67. "Parma". Oficjalny Portal Gminy Łowicz (in Polish). Retrieved 31 January 2024.

Bibliography

• Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada. 1928.
• Armstrong, George Henry (1930). The origin and meaning of place names in Canada. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited.

• Lists of place name etymologies