Browse Submitted Place Names

This is a list of submitted place names in which the usage is English or American.
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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.
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.
Zealand (Island) English
English form of Danish Sjælland. Zealand is the largest island in Denmark (excluding Greenland).
Zephyrhills (Settlement) English
A city in Florida. From the English word "zephyr" or the Ancient Greek deity Zephyr and the English word "hill".
Zion (Region) English
From Hebrew צִיּוֹן Ṣiyyôn, of uncertain etymology.
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]