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Worsley (Settlement) English (British)

Worthington (Settlement) English
Place name meaning either "Wurð's settlement" or "enclosed settlement" in Old English.

Wren (Settlement) English

Wrexham (Settlement) English
Wrexham is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England... [more]

Wryeton (Settlement) English
Middle English Wry(e) may mean "bent", "twisted" combined with the "ton" ending.

Xi'an (Settlement) Chinese, English
Means "western peace" from Chinese 西 (xī) meaning "west" and 安 (ān) meaning "peace, quiet"... [more]

Yalta (Settlement) English, Crimean Tatar, Irish, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean
A city in Crimea. From Byzantine Greek Γιαλίτα (Gialíta).

Yamoussoukro (Political Subdivision & Settlement) English, French, Danish, Portuguese
In honor of Yamousso, a Baoulé queen and great-aunt of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905–1993), with the addition of the suffix kro ("village"). This is the name of the de iure capital city of Côte D'ivoire, as well as the name of the district around it.

Yangon (Settlement) Burmese, English
Means "end of strife" in Burmese, from ရန် (yan) meaning "enemy, danger" or "quarrel" combined with ကုန် (gon) meaning "to run out, end". This is the name of the largest city in Myanmar, which served as the country's capital until 2006... [more]

Yankton (Settlement & Body of Water) English (American)
The city in South Dakota was named for the Yankton tribe of the Western Dakota, who are indigenous to the area; Yankton itself is derived from Dakota Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ, meaning "village at the end".

Yaoundé (Settlement) English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Welsh, Yoruba
From the outpost of Jaundo, founded between 1887 and 1889 by German explorers Lt. Richard Kund and Hans Tappenbeck and named so after the local Ewondo people, also known as Yaunde. The name could also have been a German rendition of the Ewondo expression mia wondo ("peanut farmers")... [more]

Yarmouth (Settlement) English
The name Yarmouth is derived from the town of Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. The name is thought to be a combination of "Yare", the name of a nearby river, and "mouth", which refers to the mouth of the river... [more]

Yellowknife (Settlement) English (Canadian)
Yellowknife is the name of the capital and only city of Northwest Territories in Canada.... [more]

Yeovil (Settlement) English (British)
Derived from the Celtic river name, 'gifl' meaning forked river - which was an earlier name for the River Yeo, which runs through Yeovil.

Yerevan (Settlement) Armenian, English, Russian
Meaning unknown. It may be from Yervand, the name of a 3rd-century BC Armenian king (also known as Orontes IV), or from Էրեբունի (Erebuni), an ancient Urartian fortification and city... [more]

Yonkers (Settlement) English
Name of the 4th most populous city in New York state, a variant of Dutch Jonkers, jonker, "young gentleman", derived from Dutch jong "young".

Yorkton (Settlement) English
Yorkton was named in 1882 by members of the York Farmers' Colonization Company, a group of settlers from Toronto (then called York). The name "York" honors York, England, and follows a common British colonial tradition of naming places after locations in the United Kingdom... [more]

Ypsilanti (Settlement) English (American)
Derived from the Greek surname Ypsilantis. The city in Michigan is named for Demetrios Ypsilantis, a Greek officer known for his role in the Greek War of Independence.

Yucaipa (Settlement) English (American)
A city in California. From Serrano yukaipa't meaning "green valley".

Yuma (Settlement) English (American)
A city in Arizona. Named for the Quechan, or Yuma, people, who are indigenous to the area.

Zaandam (Settlement) Dutch, English
This is a town in the North Holland province in the Netherlands. The name derives from the dam that was constructed on the Zaan River.

Zadar (Settlement) Croatian, English
Zadar is the oldest continuously inhabited Croatian city.... [more]

Zagreb (Settlement) Croatian, English, Armenian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek
Meaning uncertain. It may be derived from the given name Chabrag, a pet form of Cyprian, from Proto-Slavic *grębъ meaning "hill, uplift" or from a Roman place name... [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.

Zephyrhills (Settlement) English
A city in Florida. From the English word "zephyr" or the Ancient Greek deity Zephyr and the English word "hill".

Zionsville (Settlement) English
Various cities in the United States. From Zion and ville, meaning "city".

Zurich (Settlement) English, French
English and French form of Zürich.

Zwingle (Settlement) English (American)
Zwingle is a city in Iowa named for the Swiss religious reformer Ulrich Zwingli.

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]

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