PALAU(Country)English Palau is an archipelago in Oceania. The flag is a yellow circle in the middle of a blue background, and the country is locally known as Belau.
PALESTINE(Region)English, Biblical, French From Hebrew Pelesheth, which probably means "land of the Philistines". This is the name of a historical/geographic region in Western Asia.... [more]
PALESTINE(Country)English From the name of the geographical region Palestine (1), which is ultimately derived from Hebrew Pelesheth. This is the name of a sovereign state in Western Asia (officially the State of Palestine)... [more]
PALESTRINA(Settlement)Italian The name of a town east of Rome in central Italy, apparently derived from Praeneste, its ancient name.
PANTAI GADING(Country)Indonesian From Indonesian pantai meaning "beach, coast" and gading meaning "ivory". This is the Indonesian name for Ivory Coast.
PARAGUAY(Country)Spanish, English Meaning unknown, but probably derived from a river with the same name. This is the name of a landlocked country in South America.
PASADENA(Settlement)English Name of a city in CALIFORNIA, from Ojibwe pa-sa-de-na, meaning "valley of the valley" "crown of the valley" "key of the valley" or "hill of the valley"... [more]
PAVLODAR(Settlement)Kazakh, Russian, English Derived from the name of Pavel Alexandrovich, a former Grand Duke of Russia. The city was originally named Koryakovsky before Pavel's birth. Pavlodar is a northeastern city in Kazakhstan.
PAXSON(Settlement)English This is the name of 3 places, two being in America and one being in Canada.... [more]
PENGE(Settlement)English A suburb of London, England. Originally named Penceat, it appears to derive from Brythonic *penno, 'head, edge' and *ceid, 'forest, wood', so likely meant 'settlement on the forest's edge'.
PENNSYLVANIA(Political Subdivision)English Name of a state in the United States, literally "Penn's woods". Penn comes from Pennaeth, the welsh word for "head" "top" and Latin silvania (from Latin silvia) "wood, forrest"... [more]
PENNSYLVANIË(Political Subdivision)Dutch (Archaic) Archaic Dutch form of PENNSYLVANIA. The modern Dutch form is written exactly the same as the English form.
PENRITH(Settlement)English A town in Northern England. Its name derives from the Cumbric pen, 'hill, top, summit' (Welsh pen) and rith, 'ford, crossing', (Welsh ryd).
PENSHAW(Settlement)English A village in Northern England. The first element seems to be Cumbric pen, which means 'summit, head'. The most obvious explanation for the second is Old English sceaga, meaning 'woods'... [more]
PEN-Y-GHENT(Mountain)English, Ancient Celtic A mountain in Yorkshire, Northern England. In the Cumbric Language, the element pen, exactly as in Welsh, meant 'head, top, summit', and y, also as in Welsh, meant the definite article 'the'... [more]
PERSLEY(Settlement)Scottish A small hamlet in North-East Scotland, now encompassed by the city of Aberdeen. There are several explanations as to the origin of the name of this small settlement:... [more]
PERTH(Settlement)Scottish A city in central Scotland. The name is of Pictish origin and derived from *perth, meaning 'bush, copse' (Welsh perth, 'bush, hedge').
PETERBOROUGH(Settlement)English This is the name of 2 cities, one in Cambridgeshire (UK) and Ontario (Canada), and 3 towns, one in New Hampshire (US), Victoria & South Australia (Australia).... [more]
PHẦN LAN(Country)Vietnamese From a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 芬蘭 (Fēnlán), perhaps altered based on Vietnamese phân meaning "feces" or phần meaning "part, portion". This is the Vietnamese name for Finland.
PHÁP(Country)Vietnamese From Sino-Vietnamese 法 (Pháp), from a contraction of Chinese 法國 (Fǎguó). This is the Vietnamese name for France.
PHILIPPI(Settlement)Biblical Greek renamed after Philip II of Macedon, was originally named Crenides (Greek: Κρηνῖδες, Krenides "Fountains")
PHILISTIA(Region)English, Biblical From Hebrew Pleshet. This was the name of a confederation of cities in Southwest Levant inhabited by the Philistines. See also PALESTINE.
PHOENICE(Settlement)Ancient Greek Phoenice or Phoenike was an ancient Greek city in Epirus and capital of the Chaonians.45 It was also the location of the Treaty of Phoenice which ended the First Macedonian War,6 as well as one of the wealthiest cities in Epirus until the Roman conquest.... [more]
PHOENICIA(Region)History from the Ancient Greek: Φοινίκη, Phoiníkē meaning "purple country", Phoenicia was a thalassocratic ancient Semitic civilization that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the west of the Fertile Crescent.
PHOENIX(Other)English (American) Phoenix is the capital city of Arizona state in the United States of America.
POLYNESIA(Region)English, Finnish, Norwegian, Tagalog From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús) meaning "many" and νῆσος (nêsos) meaning "island". This is the name of a subregion in Oceania comprised of thousands of islands.
POMPEII(Settlement)Ancient Roman Possibly derived from the Oscan pompe "five", becoming the Latin second declension plural, pompeii. This may be because the community formerly consisted of five hamlets, or was perhaps settled by a family group (gens Pompeia).... [more]
PONDICHERRY(Political Subdivision & Settlement)English Derived from Tamil புதுச்சேரி (putuccēri) meaning "new town". Pondicherry (Puducherry) is the capital city of an Indian state of the same name.
PONTEFRACT(Settlement)English From Latin ponte fracto, meaning 'broken bridge'.
PRASINO AKROTIRIO(Country)Greek Greek form of CAPE VERDE. It is literally a direct translation of the country's name, since it consists of the Greek adjective πράσινος (prasinos) meaning "green" combined with the Greek noun ακρωτήριο (akrotirio) meaning "cape".
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND(Region)English (Canadian) Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province. It was named for Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), Queen Victoria's father.
PRUSSIA(Country)History Became a Duchy in 1660 and a kingdom in the following century. At its greatest extent it included the northern two-thirds of Germany and western Poland. Prussia, by World War II a federal unit of Germany, was fully disbanded at the end of World War II.
PUJI(Political Subdivision, Settlement & Island)Chinese Chinese form of PHUKET.
PUKASKWA(Other & River)Ojibwe National park and river in ONTARIO, CANADA. May be from the Ojibwe word 'pukasu', meaning "to cook the marrow in the bones of animals", or "eaters of fish"... [more]
PUKKET(Political Subdivision, Settlement & Island)Korean Korean form of PHUKET.