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OʻAHU (Island) HawaiianMeaning unknown. Legend says that a Polynesian navigator who discovered the Hawaiian islands named it after his daughter. This is the third largest and most populated island in
HAWAII...
[more] OAKLAND (Settlement) EnglishThis is name of places in the United States and Canada (including the one in California)....
[more] OBAN (Settlement) ScottishAn t-Òban in Scottish Gaelic meaning ''The Little Bay''.
OCCITANIA (Region) EnglishThe name of a historical region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken. Not to be confused with
OCCITANIE.
OCCITANIE (Region) French, EnglishThe name of a southernmost administrative region in France. Not to be confused with
OCCITANIA, the historical region which it is named after.
ODENSE (Settlement) DanishFrom Old Norse
ÓÐINN's vé meaning "Odin's sanctuary". This is the 3rd largest city in Denmark and the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), the author of fairy tales such as 'The Little Mermaid' (1837), and 'The Snow Queen' (1844).
OENOTRIA (Region) HistoryLatinized form of Greek Οἰνωτρία
(Oinotria), the name applied to southern Italy by Greek colonists when they arrived to the region in around the 8th century BC. It is possibly a derivative of Greek οἶνος
(oinos) meaning "wine" (perhaps via the related word οἴνωτρον
(oinotron), which referred to a kind of vine stake) and may mean "wine land" or "land of vineyards"...
[more] OFFALY (Political Subdivision) IrishCounty in
IRELAND. Named after the Gaelic kingdom of Uí Failghe, which existed from the 6th century until 1556.
OFO (Settlement) BashkirBashkir form of
UFA, referring only to the city.
OHIO (Political Subdivision) English (American)Name of a state in the United States, originally used of the river, from Seneca
ohi:yo "good river".
OKANAGAN (Region & Body of Water) SalishanRegion and lake in
CANADA, named after the Okanagan people. Means "the people living where you can see the top", due to the many mountains in the area.
OKHOTSK (Political Subdivision) Russianfrom an
Even word окат (okat) meaning "river"
OKLAHOMA (Political Subdivision) English (American)Name of a state in the United States, from Choctaw
okla "people" "tribe" "nation" +
homma "red".
OKOBOJI (Body of Water) Santee Dakota SiouxLegend tells the lake was named for Chief Okoboji; meaning either ‘place of rest’ or ‘reeds or rushes,’-preferred....
[more] OLAHA SHINEHAH (Region) MormonThe name of a plain mentioned in the Doctrine and Covenants, a work of Mormon scripture. In the 1800's, the same section in which it was mentioned was copied into a few journals, though the spellings differed...
[more] OLENYOK (Political Subdivision) Russian"Agents" (or agent-noun, i.e. "Workers" LoL) of "Oil"
OLIBLISH (Other) MormonIn the Book of Abraham, a figure in one of the facsimiles is said to represent Oliblish, one of the grand governing stars next to
KOLOB. It is listed among one of the three governing powers, called the Grand Key, along with
ENISH-GO-ON-DOSH and
KAE-E-VANRASH, which govern all other creations, but are subject to Kolob.
OMAHA (Settlement) Sioux:Siouan people of northeastern Nebraska, 1804, Maha, perhaps from Omaha umaha, perhaps literally "upstream (people), against the flow." The Nebraska city was founded in 1854.
OMAN (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkmen, Ukrainian, UyghurFrom Arabic عمان
(ʿUmān), which is of disputed etymology. It may be from Arabic عُمَانَة
(ʿumāna), a byname for the historical city of Sohar (presently located in Al Batinah North Governorate, Oman), which is probably derived from the root ع م ن
(ʿ-m-n) meaning "to settle, to remain, to dwell"...
[more] ØPPLAND (Political Subdivision) NorwegianFrom the Old Norse
upp meaning "up, upper" and
lǫnd meaning "lands." The inner regions of Norway were called
Upplǫnd in Norse times....
[more] ORAN (Settlement) Afrikaans, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, UzbekFrom Arabic وَهران
(Wahrān) which is ultimately from the Berber root
hr meaning "lion". This is the name of a city in Algeria.
ORCADIA (Island) Medieval, Ancient Celtic (Latinized)A medieval name for the Orkney Islands, the famous archipelago of the northwest coast of Scotland. It comes from the Roman name
Orcades which was probably derived from Celtic *
forko- "young pig"...
[more] ÖREBRO (Settlement) SwedishCombination of Swedish
ör, an archaic word meaning "gravel", and
BRO "bridge. ...
[more] OREGON (Political Subdivision) English (American)Name of a state in the United States, from the name of a large river in the west of North America, possibly from Algonquin
wauregan "beautiful".
ORIVAL (Settlement) FrenchDerived from Latin
aurea vallis meaning "golden vale/valley," the name belonging to three communes (one since defunct), located in the Seine-Maritime & Somme départements of northern France and Charente département of western France.
ORLANDO (Political Subdivision) EnglishName of a city in
FLORIDA, named in honor of Orlando Reeves who died in 1835 during a supposed attack by Seminoles in the Second Seminole War.
ORSAY (Settlement) FrenchA town near Paris. Originates from the Latin given name
ORCIUS ORTAC (Island) NormanA small Channel Island in
ENGLAND. Likely means "large rock at the edge" from the Norman 'or', meaning "edge", and 'etac', meaning "stack", referring to the geological landform.
OSETIYA (Region) Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Azerbaijani, KoreanBulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Azerbaijani, and Korean form of
OSSETIA.
OSLO (Settlement) NorwegianMeaning uncertain. It was originally the name of a farm in Bjørvika, a neighborhood in present-day Oslo.
ØSTFOLD (Political Subdivision) NorwegianFrom the old name of the Olsofjord
fold and the Norwegian word
øst. The name means, "the region east of the fold."...
[more] OULU (Settlement) FinnishFrom the name of the Oulu River (Finnish: Oulujoki). Oulu is probably taken directly from the Finnish dialectal word
oulu meaning "flood water". Oulu is a city in Northern Finland.
OYMYAKON (Political Subdivision) Russiannamed after the
Oymyakon River, whose name reportedly comes from the
Even word kheium, meaning "unfrozen patch of water; place where fish spend the winter" ... or the
Even word heyum (hэjум) (kheium being a possible misspelling) means "frozen lake"
OZ (Country) LiteratureThis is a fictional location that appears in the book The Wizard of Oz.