Zacatecas(Political Subdivision)Spanish Derived from Nahuatl zacatēcah meaning "people of the place of grass" or "where grass is abundant", ultimately from zacatl meaning "grass". This is the name of a state of Mexico.
Zadar(Settlement)Croatian, English Zadar is the oldest continuously inhabited Croatian city.... [more]
Za-ki-oan-hi-ash(Country)Mormon A symbolic name used by Joseph Smith for Chaldea. According to his book, "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language", za is a compound name for a symbol called beth, which is given the meaning of "a fruitful garden"... [more]
Zakynthos(Island)Greek Zakynthos is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is situated in the Ionian Sea and it is a Greek municipality.
Zalipie(Settlement)Polish Zalipie is known for being "Poland's Painted Village". The insides and outsides of the buildings, doghouses, and even bridges in Zalipie are painted in brightly colored folk art that attracts tourists from around the globe... [more]
Zamboanga(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Filipino, Chavacano, Cebuano, Tagalog, English, Spanish Spanish form of Sinama Samboangan meaning "mooring place", derived from samboang meaning "mooring pole" and the place marker suffix -an. This is the name of a peninsula in the Philippines, as well as three provinces and a city located on the peninsula.
Zamora(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Spanish The name of a Spanish city and municipality, possibly derived from Berber ⴰⵣⵎⵎⵓⵔ (azemmur) meaning "wild olive tree".
Zapopan(Settlement)Spanish (Mexican) From Nahuatl Tzapopan, from a combination of tzapotl, referring to a sapote tree, and the locative suffix -pan.... [more]
Zaporizhzhya(Political Subdivision & Other)Ukrainian Means "beyond the rapids", referring to river Dnipro. From Ukrainian за (za) "beyond, behind" and поріг (porih) "rapid (noun)" or пороги (porohy) "rapids" with two-consonant noun suffix found in other words such as “життя (zhyttya)”... [more]
Zaragoza(Settlement)Spanish, English From Çaragoça, the medieval form of the Arabic name سرقسطة (Saraqusṭa), from the Roman name Caesaraugusta, which is the combination of two Roman names Caesar and Augusta.
Zarahemla(Settlement)Mormon The name of a prominent city in ancient America, according to the Book of Mormon, named after a man who was an ancestor of the prophet Ammon and a descendant of Mulek... [more]
Zari(Country)Arabic means flower in Arabic or a thread or a city in Nigeria
Zarzal(Political Subdivision & Settlement)Spanish Name of a city in Colombia.
Zealand(Island)English English form of Danish Sjælland. Zealand is the largest island in Denmark (excluding Greenland).
Zhaiyq(River)Kazakh Probably from Jaiyk, the name of the Turkic god of rivers, which is derived from Turkic yād meaning "wide, spread out". This is the Kazakh name for the Ural River.
Zhangzhou(Settlement)Chinese From Chinese 漳 (zhāng), the name of a river, and 州 (zhōu) meaning "prefecture, province". This is the name of a city in China.
Zheltoycho(Country)Chechen From Chechen желтой (zheltoy) meaning "Greek" and the suffix -чоь (-cho) meaning "place of". This is the Chechen name for Greece.
Zhengzhou(Settlement)Chinese Means "Zheng province" from Chinese 郑 (zhèng) referring to the ancient state of Zheng, which existed from the 9th to 4th centuries BC in what is now Henan province, and 州 (zhōu) meaning "province, prefecture"... [more]
Zhongshan(Settlement)Chinese From Chinese 中 (zhōng) literally meaning "middle" and named in honour of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), who was also known by the Japanese pseudonym 中山樵 (Nakayama Kikori), and 山 (shān) meaning "mountain"... [more]
Zhugteche(Country)Ingush From Ingush жугтий (zhugtiy) referring to the Jewish people and Jewish faith combined with the suffix -че (-che) meaning "place of". This is the Ingush name for Israel.
Zinkgruvan(Settlement)Swedish Means "the zink mine" in Swedish. Zinkgruvan is both a village and a mine. It is the only locality in Sweden starting with Z.
Zolin(Other)Aztec Zolin is a boy's name with Aztec roots that means "quail."
Zona Da Mata(Political Subdivision & Region)Portuguese (Brazilian) The "Zona da Mata" refers to a region of Brazil, both in the Northeast and in Minas Gerais, which received this name due to the presence of the Atlantic Forest, a forest biome... [more]
Zugdidi(Settlement)Georgian, Mingrelian Means "large hill" in Georgian and Mingrelian, from ზუგი (zugi) meaning "hill" and დიდი (didi) meaning "big, large". This is the name of a city in Georgia.
Zzyzx(Settlement)English The name of a place in Southern California, in the Mojave Desert, which was the site of the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa from 1944 to 1974, run by self-proclaimed medical doctor and Methodist minister Curtis Howe Springer (1896-1985)... [more]