Åbo(Settlement)Finland Swedish Possibly from Swedish å "river" and bo "home, dwelling" or "dweller, inhabitant". Other meanings are possible, like it being derived from the given name Aabo... [more]
Åre(Settlement)Swedish Meaning uncertain, but probably derived from Old West Norse *ár "peak, crest". Åre is a village and a popular ski resort in Jämtland, Sweden.
Ba Bể(Body of Water, Political Subdivision & Other)Vietnamese From Vietnamese ba meaning "three," and bể meaning "lake" or "sea"; literally "three lakes/seas." It is the name of a lake, a county, and a national park in northeast Vietnam.
Ban(Settlement & Political Subdivision)Burmese Burmese form of Bern.
Bod(Region, Political Subdivision & Country)Tibetan, Bhutanese Possibly from a name that originally referred to the inhabitants of modern-day Nyêmo County in China. The name itself may be related to the Tibetan word བོན (bon) meaning "express, give, offer"... [more]
Bro(Settlement)Swedish Means "bridge" in Swedish. This is the name of many localities and parishes in Sweden. It's also a common place name element (see Örebro).
Đức(Country)Vietnamese From Sino-Vietnamese 德 (Đức), itself from Chinese 德國 (Déguó), ultimately from German deutsch. This is the Vietnamese name for Germany.
Goa(Political Subdivision)English, Portuguese From Konkani गोंय (Gõy), ultimately derived from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta) possibly referring to an ancient kingdom or tribe. This is the name of a state in southwestern India.
Gõy(Political Subdivision)Konkani Konkani form of Goa.
Hoy(Island)Scottish The name is from the Isle of Hoy in Scotland.
Hue(Settlement)English English unaccented form of Huế.
Huế(Settlement)Vietnamese Likely a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 化 (huà), which referred to the historical territory of Thuận Hoá (順化) in central Vietnam. This is the name of a city in Vietnam.
Kek(Country)Lao Lao form of Greece via the French form Grèce.
Kep(Political Subdivision)Khmer Means “saddle” in Khmer.
Kim(Body of Water & River)Khakas The Khakas variant of Ulug Hem, the Tuvan name of Yenisey.
Krk(Island)Croatian Krk is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.
Lea(River)English (British) Lea is a river in the UK. It's found in southeast England and flows from the Chiltern Hills and flows to the river Thames at Bow Creek.... [more]
Leh(Settlement)English, Hindi, Urdu Possibly derived from Tibetan གླེ (gle) meaning "grove, small uncultivated island". This is the name of a city in India.
Lyd(River)English The name of a river in Devon, England, perhaps derived from a Celtic source such as Lludd, though the usual derivation is Old English hlȳde "noisy stream" - which the Saxons may have assumed was the river's name.
Mer(Island)Meriam Mer This is the name of Mer Island which is in the Torres Strait Islands. The area is the home of the Meriam Mer people. This is the birth place of the Eddie Koiki Mabo (1936-1992), one of the plaintiffs in "The Mabo Case" for ownership concerning Mer Island.
Mie(Political Subdivision)Japanese Means "triple, three layers" in Japanese.
Mie(Political Subdivision)Japanese Means "threefold, three layers" from Japanese 三 (mi) meaning "three" and 重 (e) meaning "multilayered"... [more]
Mon(Political Subdivision)Mon, English, Thai From the Mon ethnic name မန် (mon) derived from the older name ရမာန် (raman), ultimately from Pali Rāmañña referring to the Mon homeland along the Burmese coast... [more]
Mun(Political Subdivision)Burmese Burmese form of Mon.
Nga(Country)Vietnamese From Sino-Vietnamese 俄 (nga), itself from Chinese 俄羅斯 (Éluósī, Èluósī), ultimately from Manchu ᠣᡵᠣᠰ (oros). This is the Vietnamese name for Russia.
Suō(Political Subdivision)Japanese Shifted from earlier Suhau(Sufau) or Suha(Sufa) (first written as 周芳), belonging to an old province which corresponds to the eastern part of modern Yamaguchi Prefecture.... [more]
Tsu(Settlement)Japanese Means "port" in Japanese; tsu is the Japanese kun reading of jīn. This is the name of the capital city of Mie Prefecture, Japan.
Ufa(Settlement & River)Russian From Bashkir Өфө (Ofo), which is of uncertain origin and meaning, possibly derived from the Iranian root ap meaning "water". This is the name of the capital city of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan as well a river that runs through the Ural Mountains.
Ufi(Settlement)Kazakh Kazakh form of Ufi, referring only to the city.
Weh(Island)Indonesian The name of an island in Indonesia, derived from Acehnese wèh meaning "move, go away, leave". The name probably refers to either the splitting of the original island into separate, smaller islands or the island's break off from Sumatra.
Why(Settlement)English (American) Small community in Arizona State, US. Arizona law stated that a settlement's name must have at least 3 letters, so the towns founders named the town, which was situated on a Y-section, "Why" instead of "Y"... [more]