Providence(Settlement)English Name chosen by Puritan minister Roger Williams, in honor of "God's merciful Providence". This is the name of several settlements in the United States, including the capital city of the state of Rhode Island.
Provo River(River)English (American) River in Utah, named after the French-Canadian trapper Etienne Provost. The river inspired the name of the city to which it belonged, Provo.
Puducherry(Political Subdivision & Settlement)English From the Tamil name புதுச்சேரி (Putucheri) meaning "new town", derived from புது (putu) meaning "new" and சேரி (cheri) meaning "slum, town". This is the name of a union territory and city in India... [more]
Puncak Jaya(Mountain)Indonesian Means "summit of victory" from Indonesian puncak meaning "top, summit, peak" and jaya meaning "victory". This is the name of a mountain located on the island of New Guinea, sometimes referred to as the Carstensz Pyramid.
Purwakarta(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Indonesian, Sundanese Derived from Sanskrit पूर्व (purva) meaning "beginning, ancient, old" and Sanskrit कृत (krta) meaning "done, accomplished". This is the name of a regency and town in Indonesia.
Qalmaqstan(Political Subdivision)Kazakh From қалмақ (qalmaq), the Kazakh name for the Kalmyk people, combined with the Persian suffix -ستان (-stan) meaning "land of". This is the Kazakh name for Kalmykia.
Rabka-Zdrój(Settlement)Polish Named after the river Raba with the diminutive suffix -ka, and zdrój meaning "spring, source". It is the name of a town in southern Poland.
Rangihaute(Island)Moriori This is the name the Moriori gave Pitt Island in the Chatham Archipelago. On this island Moriori slaves hid from Maori masters during the Moriori enslavement. One of these slaves include a man named Koche, a popular (among the Moriori) son of a Moriori chief, who escape from his Maori master.
Ratanakiri(Political Subdivision)Khmer Means "mountain of gems" from Khmer រតន (rotan) meaning "gem, jewel, crystal" and គិរី (kiri) meaning "mountain". This is the name of a province of Cambodia.
Ratchaburi(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Thai Means "royal city" from Thai ราช (rat) meaning "royal" and บุรี (buri) meaning "city, town". This is the name of a province of, as well as a district and town in, Thailand.
Rawalpindi(Settlement)English From Punjabi راولپنڈی (Ravalpindi) meaning "village of rawals", derived from راول (raval), a variant of Sanskrit title राज (raja) meaning "king", and پنڈ (pind) meaning "village"... [more]
Rwenzururu(Region & Settlement)Konjo, Eastern African Rwenzururu means ‘The Mountains of Rain’ in the Konjo Language of West Uganda. Rwenzori is a diminutive of it.
Saariselkä(Settlement)Finnish From Northern Sami suoločielgi meaning literally "islandback". Saariselkä is a village in Northern Finland.
Sacramento(Settlement)English Name of a city in California, from Spanish sacramento, in honor of the Holy Sacrament.
Sagamihara(Settlement)Japanese Means "Sagami meadow" in Japanese; "Sagami", perhaps referring to Sagami Bay, is of uncertain meaning. This is the name of a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Sagarmatha(Mountain)Nepali From Nepali सागर (sagar) meaning "ocean" and माथा (matha) meaning "head, top". This is the Nepali name for Mount Everest, coined by the Nepali government in the 1960s.
San Andreas(Political Subdivision)Popular Culture Possibly meaning "Saint Andrew" in Spanish, named in honor for the patron saint of fisherfolk, but it may be incorrent since the Spanish form of Andrew is Andrés... [more]
San Antonio(Settlement & River)English Means "Saint Anthony" from Spanish san "Saint" + Antonio, a Spanish form of the given name Anthony. The river was named after San Antonio de Padua by the first governor of Spanish Texas, Domingo Terán de los Ríos in 1691... [more]
San Gabriel(Settlement)Spanish, English The name of several places in the Spanish-speaking world, in honour of Saint Gabriel, including one city in the US state of California.
San Lorenzo(Settlement)Spanish This was one of the principal sites of the Olmec peoples when they were making a life for themselves near the Gulf of Mexico.
Satporopet(Political Subdivision, Region, Settlement & River)Ainu The source of Sapporo, meaning “Dry, Great River” in reference to the Toyohira river.
Scunthorpe(Settlement)English Scunthorpe is a large industrial town in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England of which it is the main administrative center.... [more]
Seychelles(Country)French, English, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Maltese, Romanian, Spanish, Tagalog From the name of Jean Moreau de Séchelles (1690-1761), a French politician who served as Minister of Finance during the reign of King Louis XV. This is the name of an East African island country in the Indian Ocean.
Skellefteå(Settlement)Swedish Combination of an unexplained first element, though it's believed to be of Sami origin, and the place name suffix -eå "river".
Sønderborg(Settlement)Danish (Modern) Town in Denmark located in North Slesvig specifically on the southern part of the island of Als and partly on the peninsula Jutland. Sønder meaning "southern" and borg meaning "castle"... [more]
South Korea(Country)English South Korea (Korean: 한국/韓國, RR: Hanguk; literally 남한/南韓, RR: Namhan, or 남조선, MR: Namchosŏn in North Korean usage), officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: 대한민국/大韓民國, RR: Daehan Minguk), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea... [more]
Stalingrad(Settlement)Russian From the surname Stalin and Russian grad meaning "town, city". The former name of the city Volgograd, after Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the then-General Secretary of the USSR's Communist Party.
Starkville(Political Subdivision)English Starkville is the most populous city in Mississippi.
Stoneleigh(Settlement)English Stoneleigh is a small village in Warwickshire, England.
Strathcona(Political Subdivision & Region)English, Scottish Gaelic The name Strathcona originates from the Scottish Gaelic term strath, meaning "broad valley," combined with the name Cona, potentially referring to a river or a region in Scotland. The name was adopted in honor of Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, a prominent Canadian businessman and politician of Scottish descent.... [more]
Stung Treng(Political Subdivision)Khmer Means “river of reeds” in Khmer.
Stung Treng(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Khmer Means "river of reeds" from Khmer ស្ទឹង (stung) meaning "stream, small river" and ត្រែង (traeng) meaning "reed". This is the name of a province of, as well as a city in, Cambodia.
Sunderland(Settlement)English A port city in North-East England. Derives from Old English sundor, 'separate' (c.f German sondern, 'but, instead') and land, 'land'.
Tallentire(Settlement)English A village in Cumbria, England. From Cumbric tal-y-tir, probably meaning 'end of the land'.
Tamaulipas(Political Subdivision)Spanish Uncertain, possibly derived from Huastec Tamaholipa perhaps meaning "place of high hills". Alternately it may come from the phrase ta ma ho'lipam meaning "place where the Lipan Apache prey"... [more]
Tammerfors(Settlement)Finland Swedish Combination of an unknown first element and Swedish fors "rapid, waterfall". This is the Swedish name of Tampere.
Tatársztán(Political Subdivision)Hungarian Hungarian form of Tatarstan. This is an alternative name for the republic; the standard name in Hungary is Tatárföld.
Tavastland(Political Subdivision)Swedish, Danish, Dutch Swedish form of Tavastia, which some countries have adopted as their name for the historical Swedish province that is now part of Finland.
Te Ika A Māui(Island)Maori This is the Maori name for North Island in New Zealand. The name in English is "the fish of Māui." Navigator Kupe according to a Polynesian tradition shaped the islands of New Zealand.
Teluk Intan(Settlement)Malay, English Means "diamond bay" in Malay, from teluk meaning "bay, bend, gulf" and intan meaning "diamond". This is the name of a town in Malaysia.
Tenasserim(Mountain & Political Subdivision)English Older variant of Tanintharyi, also used for a chain of mountains that runs through Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia.
Terabithia(Political Subdivision)Literature The magical kingdom from the children's novel 'Bridge to Terabithia' (1977) by Katherine Paterson. Terabithia means "land of the turpentine-trees", it is in relation to the island Terebinthia in 'The Chronicles of Narnia' by C. S. Lewis.
Terengganu(Political Subdivision)Malay, English Possibly from Malay terang ganu meaning "bright rainbow" or taring anu meaning "fang of something", a phrase supposedly uttered by a hunter when he discovered the tooth of an unknown animal... [more]
Thái Nguyên(Political Subdivision)Vietnamese From Sino-Vietnamese 太 (thái) meaning "extreme" and 原 (nguyên) meaning "meadow".
Thái Nguyên(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Vietnamese From Sino-Vietnamese 太 (thái) meaning "very, extreme" and 原 (nguyên) meaning "meadow, field, plain". This is the name of a province of, as well as a city in, Vietnam.
Tikeshromi(Settlement)Coptic Possibly means "breaker of men" in Coptic, from the feminine definite article ϯ (ti) combined with ⲕⲱϣ (kosh) meaning "break" and ⲣⲱⲙⲓ (romi) meaning "man" — taken from a calque of the city's Arabic name القاهرة (al-Qahirah) meaning "the victorious"... [more]
Timberwolf(Mountain)English A mountain in Washington State in the United States of America.... [more]
Tourkmenia(Country & Political Subdivision)Greek (Rare) Hellenization of Turkmeniya, the Russian name for the country of Turkmenistan. In Greece, this name was primarily used during the Soviet era... [more]
Trelleborg(Settlement)Swedish Derived from the word trelleborg meaning "ring fort" or "Viking ring fortress", referring to a type of circular forts built during the Viking Age. The word trelleborg itself might be a combination of Old Norse þræll "slave" or trel "wooden staves" and borg "fortress, castle".
Trewellard(Settlement)Cornish Trewellard is a small village on the north coast road between St Just and St Ives in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Trowbridge(Settlement)English It could be derived from the Old English treow-brycg which means “tree bridge”... [more]
Turkmenien(Country & Political Subdivision)German (Rare) Germanization of Turkmeniya, the Russian name for the country of Turkmenistan. In the German-speaking world, this name was primarily used during the Soviet era... [more]
Tuyên Quang(Political Subdivision)Vietnamese From Sino-Vietnamese 宣 (tuyên) meaning "announce" and 光 (quang) meaning "light".
Tuyên Quang(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Vietnamese From Sino-Vietnamese 宣 (tuyên) meaning "declare, announce, proclain" and 光 (quang) meaning "bright, clear". This is the name of a province of, as well as a city in, Vietnam.
Tyrconnell(Political Subdivision)Irish Another name for the Irish county of Donegal. It means "land of Conall", a king from the area. Conall means "strong wolf".
Uthai Thani(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Thai From Thai อุทัย (uthai) meaning "sunrise, dawn, emergence, rise" and ธานี (thani) meaning "city". This is the name of a province of, as well as a district and city in, Thailand.
Utsunomiya(Settlement)Japanese This is the name of a city which is the capital and most populous city of Tochigi Prefecture, located in central Japan. The kanji used are 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, heaven, house, roof", 都 (tsu, to, miyako) meaning "capital, metropolis" and 宮 (kyuu, ku, kuu, guu, miya) meaning "constellations, palace, princess, Shinto shrine."... [more]
Valenzuela(Settlement)Filipino Valenzuela, officially the City of Valenzuela, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 714,918 people... [more]
Villarreal(Settlement)Spanish Means "royal village" in Spanish, from villa "small town, settlement" and real "royal". Villarreal is a city in the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain, named for being founded by King James I of Aragon.
Víðbláinn(Other)Norse Mythology Derived from Old Norse víðr "wide, extensive" and blár "blue, dark, livid" (the colour used to describe corpses and bruises, e.g. hel-blár "black as death"; compare Bláinn)... [more]
Wagoh-ox-oan(Other)Mormon The tenth great star according to Mormon cosmology. The meanings of the first three parts of the name are uncertain, while the fourth part is, according to Joseph Smith, the name for a symbol representing a compound of Zub-zool-oan, whose meaning is given as "the beginning" or "first".
Wauwautosa(Settlement)Algonquian Wauwautosa (an edge city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is named after the Potawatomi Chief Wauwataesie and the Potawatomi word for "firefly".
Wellington(Settlement)English From Old English Weolingtun meaning "wealthy estate". Wellington is the capital of New Zealand. It is also the name of several settlements throughout the English-speaking world.
West Bengal(Political Subdivision)Indian Meaning “The west part of Bengal”. Bengal is a territory divided between India and Bangladesh.
Wetaskiwin(Settlement)English (Canadian), Cree A city in Alberta. From the Cree word wiitaskiiwin ispatinaw, meaning "the hills where peace was made".
Wharekauri(Settlement)Maori This is misnomer of the Chatham Islands and Chatham Island. A Maori man made this mistake before 1835. This came from a settlement on Chatham Island named Wharekauri. The Maori have called Chatham Island that to this day.
Winterberg(Region, Settlement & Mountain)German The name of towns in German and Switzerland, as well as a mountain chain in South Africa and several mountains in Germany. From German Winter meaning "winter" and Berg meaning "mountain, hill".
Yogyakarta(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Indonesian From Javanese ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ (ngayogyakarta), itself derived from Sanskrit अयोध्या (ayodhya) meaning "unconquerable, irresistible" (also referring to the mythical city of Ayodhya mentioned in Hindu texts such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata) and कृत (krta) meaning "done, made, accomplished"... [more]
Yoshkar-Ola(Settlement)Mari, Russian Means "red city" in Mari, from Eastern Mari йошкар (yoshkar) meaning "red" and ола (ola) meaning "city". This is the name of the capital city of the Russian republic of Mari El.
Youngstown(Political Subdivision)English Youngstown is a city in Ohio, USA.
Ytyk-Kyuyol(Settlement)Russian, Yakut A settlement in Yakutia, Russia. It is named for a nearby lake, whose name literally means "Sacred Lake" in the Yakut language.
Yugoslavia(Country)English From Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija meaning "land of the South Slavs", derived from jug meaning "south" and slavija meaning "land of Slavs". This was the name of a European country that existed from 1918 to 1941 (as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), from 1943 to 1945 (as the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia), from 1945 to 1992, and from 1992-2003 (as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
Yunanistan(Country)Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Turkish From Yunan combined with the Persian suffix ستان (stân) meaning "land of". This is the Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, and Turkish name for Greece.
Zheltoycho(Country)Chechen From Chechen желтой (zheltoy) meaning "Greek" and the suffix -чоь (-cho) meaning "place of". This is the Chechen name for Greece.