Welsh Submitted Place Names

Welsh names are used in the country of Wales in Britain. See also about Welsh names.

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Accra (Settlement) English, Afrikaans, Asturian, Breton, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, German, Ewe, Finnish, North Frisian, East Frisian, French, Galician, Hausa, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kikuyu, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Piedmontese, Romanian, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Shona, Sudanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Welsh
Derived from Akan nkran meaning "fire ant". Accra is the capital of Ghana.

Affganistan (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Afghanistan.

Afon Eiddew (River) Welsh

Aifft (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Egypt

Aserbaijan (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Azerbaijan

Beddgelert (Settlement) Welsh
A village in northwest Wales. The name means 'Gelert's grave', from Welsh bedd, 'grave' & Gelert, whose identity is a subject of debate.... [more]

Betws-y-coed (Settlement) Welsh
A village in rural North-West Wales. The element betws, in Welsh means 'prayer house'. The y is the definite article 'the'. The final element coed means 'trees'. This gives a full name meaning 'prayer house in the forest'... [more]

Bhwtan (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Bhutan.

Braint (River) Welsh
The name of a small river on Anglesey, an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It is probably a Welsh form of Brigantia.

Bwrwndi (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Burundi

Caeo (Settlement) Welsh
Variant of Caio.

Camerŵn (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Cameroon

Cardiff (Settlement) Welsh
The capital city of Wales. Cardiff derives from the city's Welsh name Caerdydd, which in turn was derived from the city's Old Welsh name Caerdyf (In Welsh f (v) is often mutated to dd (th)).... [more]

Cirgistan (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Kyrgyzstan.

Coweit (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Kuwait.

Cwm Gwaun (Settlement) Welsh
Cwm Gwaun (English: Gwaun Valley) is a community and valley in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The name itself is derived from Welsh cwm "valley" and gwaun "heath, moor".

Cymru (Country) Welsh
From Proto-Celtic kom- meaning "with, together" and mrogis meaning "region, country, territory". This is the Welsh name for Wales.

De Corea (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of South Korea

Denmarc (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Denmark.

Dortmund (Settlement) English, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh
First mentioned in the 9th century AD as Throtmanni, of uncertain origin and meaning, the form Dortmunde first appeared in the 13th century. This is the name of a city in western Germany.

Dyfi (River) Welsh
River in north Wales.

Elwy (River) Welsh
The name of a river in Wales, possibly meaning "second river" from Welsh ail "a second, another" and the river name suffix wy.

Fietnam (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Vietnam.

Glyn Ceiriog (Region) Welsh
Means "Ceiriog Valley" in Welsh

Gogledd Corea (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of North Korea

Gran Canaria (Island) Spanish, English, Esperanto, Dutch, Welsh, Breton, Asturian, Aragonese, German, Estonian, Faroese, Galician, Croatian, Italian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Icelandic, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Scots, Slovene
From Spanish gran "grande, great" and Canaria referring to the Canary Islands. Gran Canaria is the third largest and second most populous island of the Canary Islands.

Gwalia (Country) Welsh (Archaic)
Gwalia is an archaic Welsh name for "Wales". It derives from the Medieval Latin Wallia, which in turn is a Latinisation of the English 'Wales'. Although never as widely used as Cymru, Gwalia was once popular as a poetic name for the country.... [more]

Hondwras (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Honduras

Irac (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Iraq.

Liverpool (Settlement) English, Welsh
A port city in western England on the mouth of the River Mersey. Uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Cumbric words equivalent to the Welsh leidiau, meaning 'mud' and pwll, meaning 'pool', or else the Old English formation *Liferpōl, 'thick, muddy pool'.

Llanberis (Settlement) Welsh
A village in North Wales. The first element is Welsh llan, 'parish, church of-'. The second is a corruption of Peris, a 6th century Welsh saint.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Settlement) Welsh
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a large village and local government community on the island of Anglesey, Wales, on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor... [more]

Madagasgar (Country & Island) Welsh
Welsh from of Madagascar

Maleisia (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Malaysia.

Moroco (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Morocco

Mosambic (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Mozambique

Pacistan (Country) Welsh

Pennant (River) Welsh
Means "the Head of the Ravine or Brook" Welsh pen, a head + nant, a glen, stream from Middle English Old French penant Latin pœnitentia, penitence].

Port Eynon (Settlement) Welsh

Rhyl (Settlement) Welsh
Seaside resort and community in the Welsh county of Denbighshire. The origin is not fully known. The name seems to be a hybrid of the English word "hill" and the Welsh definite article "y", meaning "the hill"... [more]

Rwsia (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Russia

Siapan (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Japan

Singapôr (Country, Settlement & Island) Welsh
Welsh form of Singapore.

Tajicistan (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Tajikistan.

Tiwnisia (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Tunisia

Tredegar (Settlement) Welsh
A town in South-East Wales. Its name derives from the Old Welsh tref, which means 'town' or traditionally 'farm, estate', and degewr, which meant 'ten acres'.

Tyrcmenistan (Country) Welsh
Welsh form of Turkmenistan.

Yr Almaen (Country) Welsh
Germany in welsh

Yr Eidal (Country) Welsh
Italy In Welsh

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