Places In The World That Have The Same Names (& Why?)

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[@General.Knowledge]

Install Mech Arena for Free 🤖 IOS/ANDROID: clcr.me/GeneralKnowledge_MA and get a special starter pack 💥 Available only for the next 30 days *Do you know of any OTHER places that share their name?*

[@PurPurDot]

I do not

[@FreddyImran32]

Gujarat in Pakistan and Gujarat in India

[@P45K141N3N]

Boston England & Boston Massachusetts

[@PurPurDot]

@@P45K141N3N what about Cambridge which suspiciously both have very good schools

[@dr.kj10]

The editor did a terrible job. Misspelling and discolouring.

[@einavraveh8508]

I can't believe you didn't include tripoli, Greece, tripoli, Lebanon and tripoli, Libya. Those cities share the name tripoli, which means three cities, but do not have the same origin

[@mimimusa757]

Yes as a Libyan i thought that Tripoli would be included 😅

[@prabathhemachandra]

@damman.18 because Indian Punjab and Pakistani Punjab were once the same

[@gamermapper]

@damman.18 Punjab isn't just two places that were named the same. Punjab is one nation divided by politics. That's like asking why West Germany abd East Germany were both called Germany

[@darkhobo]

@??? Superblock 100% same origin. Tri-three Polis-city. Tripoli threecities.

[@leaningright4534]

And London Ontario and London England

[@adrienrenaux6211]

In Wisconsin, at about the same time, two groups of settlers created their own towns. One was from Luxemburg, one from Belgium. They sent a request to the state to officialize their city that they would name after their respective country. But the state mixed them up. So now you have luxembourgish heritage in Belgium WI and Belgian heritage in Luxembourg WI

[@spookyaliens6286]

Wow I live in Madison, did not know this, thanks for your comment!

[@brianarbenz7206]

That is interesting! If Belgium and Luxembourg should someday play for the World Cup title, those two towns won't know who to root for! :)

[@arolemaprarath6615]

Is winconsin located in England?

[@mikedaniel1771]

@@arolemaprarath6615 Wisconsin is a US state. Why would you assume it was England? I believe it was mostly settled by Germans and Americans.

[@arolemaprarath6615]

@@mikedaniel1771 Wisconsin sounds like an English name. My apologies sire.

[@varolussalsanclar1163]

There is also a city named Nicosia in Sicily, which is the same the capital city of Cyprus. Although the real name of the city in Cyprus is Lefkosia, it would still be interesting to know why these two cities share their names in English.

[@MikJR1010]

nicosia is in the capital of cyprus and sicily is in italy

[@Kong20I7]

@@MikJR1010 so

[@aggelos1053]

Both were settled by Greeks. That's why ex calabria massalia marseille monaco monoikos etc

[@General.Knowledge]

Wow! It's weird how sometimes English translates different words onto the same one

[@varolussalsanclar1163]

@@aggelos1053 there were people in Cyprus long before the Greeks.

[@mikedaniel1771]

Here in Virginia we have 17 counties named after English shires. We also have the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Bristol, etc. Not to mention all the locations named for various George's and Elizabeth's... The English settlers were apparently very keen to make this place England as quickly as possible.

[@afifamyouni673]

That is true i have visited them all. As well there is a city in virginia that is called "Lebanon" like the country in the middle east

[@RJM56]

Probably the most significant is the one you didn't mention: the ultimate expression of Englishness being your state's name "Virginia" named for the "Virgin Queen", Elizabeth I. Also Maryland named for Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I; the Carolinas named for Charles I himself, Georgia after King George II and that's just the English monarchs. Louisiana for Louis XIV of France.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

@@RJM56 and New York is named after James II when he was Duke of York, New Jersey was named after the Channel Island and New Hampshire after the English County

[@arolemaprarath6615]

So US is a part of England?

[@pedanticradiator1491]

@@arolemaprarath6615 no the USA is not part of England but some of the Eastern States were English and later British colonies that's why there are many places with the same names as places in the UK

[@Ronocos]

That Georgia one makes me chuckle all the time. I work for a well known payment processor, the amount of US citizens from the State of Georgia that sign up for a Georgian (the country) account is hilarious.

[@jesusdavis2941]

I still remember the Atlanta Olympics, when Georgia's the country 🇬🇪 delegation paraded, I was like, "why they're shouting so loud and joyful?" They had no idea that there was a country sharing the state name

[@General.Knowledge]

Did the people cheering think they were from Georgia the State or did they just cheer out of the name coincidence?

[@jesusdavis2941]

@@General.Knowledge I think they thought it was a delegation from the State, in 96 there wasn't much info or knowledge on Georgia the country unless someone was much into the news, geography or politics and so on. And Internet wasn't spread yet back then.

[@theuselessdrunk]

Classic murrican

[@abel_underwater]

@@theuselessdrunk Keep talking like that and those same “muricans” will look the other way when Russia invades your country, Ukraine. Also re-read @Jesus’s explanation, before pressing send🤡. I’m sure many people at the time would not have been familiar with a small, newly formed country.

[@theuselessdrunk]

@@abel_underwater first, i am not ukrainian. Beautiful country btw, its in europe. Second, the explanation just reinforces the point. You see, the fun part is not that people dont know the country of georgia. Thats perfectly normal. The fun part is people been so dumb to not know that olympic games are only for countries, not states, cities or sport clubs. Third, i was out of line. But the story was just too fcking hilarious and dont tell me it wasnt.

[@ShakeMilkyWay1]

The second largest city in Argentina is also called Córdoba

[@augustobarbosab.773]

FYI: In Portuguese, "Peru" and turkey have the same name, similar to what happens in English with Turkey the country. (GK is Portuguese) That occurs because "Peru" used to refer in Portuguese to basically every land West and North of Brazil in Spanish America, including Mexico (which is the country of origin of turkeys). The animal was then called "bird or chicken of Peru" and later just "peru".

[@bumble.bee22]

lol

[@kaslyan]

Came here for explanation of ”turkey and peru”, thanks!

[@kreyolmari-galant4358]

In French turkey is called "dinde" which comes from "coq d'inde" (cock/chicken of the Indies), Indies being the Americas and not India.

[@DarkDennis1961]

And in Turkey, the turkey is called "hindi"

[@luizfellipe3291]

For some reason every language just decided to name this animal after the place (they thought) it came from Even in Turkish where they're named hindi because they thought it came from India

[@AllanLimosin]

There is a city in Romania called Târgoviște. Crossing the borders with Bulgaria, there is its twin city Търговище (Tărgovište). Not far away in the very South of Serbia, you can find Трговиште (Trgovište). Isn't that incredible? 😁

[@jordi6795]

This reminds me of a city in Romania that has the same name as a small village in Catalonia near Tarragona both called Calafat.

[@a.n.6374]

That's because it's Old Slavic root, trg means a place of trade, nowadays it evolved into meaning a square in ex-yu languages, in czech and slovak it's just spelled differently - trh. In Bulgarian the modern word търг(tărg) means an auction, obviously still related to trading. Think of it as "market" in germanic languages.

[@AllanLimosin]

@@a.n.6374 That's very cool! Thanks for the info. 👍

[@theuselessdrunk]

Completely normal phenomenon

[@antanasruzgas3996]

@@jordi6795 Calafat - caliphate?

[@watzkeen]

There is also a city named Joinville in Brazil that was named in homage to the French city Joinville, because that land was originally owned by the Royal French Family.

[@luizfellipe3291]

Wait! Joinville was owned by the french? How?

[@General.Knowledge]

That's really interesting!

[@tjitse3916]

Reminds me of the Fordlandia story. Maybe not a two-town-tale, but historically still fascinating, litteraly being built by/for Ford. It’s in Brazil. A good Icelandic musician (Johann Johansson) one wrote a soundtrack to the story of the place, bought it on vinyl two years ago. I studied history and just couldn’t help it out of my curiosity.

[@watzkeen]

@@luizfellipe3291 The land was a dowry given to the future husband of Princess Dona Francisca (sister of Emperor Pedro II) that married François d'Orléans (son of King Louis-Philippe).

[@xenotypos]

Wait there's a city in France named Joinville lol ? In French a "joint" often means a rolled cannabis cigarette, I wonder how many times a day the citizens of this city in France have to hear the joke from other people.

[@georgiancrossroads]

As an American living in Tbilisi Georgia and trying to tell others how unusual this country is, I am well aware how hard it is to do research or even to have a channel like mine because of of the name confusion. When people type in the name Georgia, the large American state usually dominates the list. And to find out serious facts you have to add words like Caucasus or Tbilisi to get anywhere. And more people should visit this incredible country. (Shameless plug for my channel.)

[@Iamtheliquor]

Im glad you plugged your channel! Looks interesting. Subbed

[@georgiancrossroads]

@@Iamtheliquor Thanks. Enjoy! Check out the Basic Facts video first.

[@datojobs8396]

Search Republic of georgia

[@fra3296]

i watched some of your videos and i have to say that i really like them. Really really good job! subbed

[@RoScFan]

You could call your channel Caucasian Crossroads. You could also use words like gruzia instead of georgia. or kartvelian crossroads etc.

[@19Szabolcs91]

I love how Austria and Australia mean very similar things (Eastern Kingdom and Southern Land), but it's a total coincidence they ended up sounding almost the same in English. Öst = east in German, australis = southern in Latin.

[@Accentor100]

Great video. Slight correction; Ontario in Canada is not a city but a province. The CA city was named for the two guys who founded it and they were from Ontario Canada so they named it in their home provinces honor.

[@mariosathens1]

Other same names when it comes to cities.. 1) Ancient Thebes in Egypt and the ancient Greek city of Thebes in Central Greece 2) There are cities called Tripoli in Libya, Greece and Lebanon

[@geografisica]

My country Venezuela has several cities with the same name in other countries: Valencia (Spain, USA, Philippines, Venezuela), Merida (Spain, Mexico, Venezuela), Barcelona (Spain, Venezuela), San Diego (USA, Venezuela), San Cristobal (Mexico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela).

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

Merida was in Leyte and Barcelona in Sorsogon in the Philippines named after the cities in Spain

[@ferretyluv]

And Colombia has Cartagena, like Spain.

[@Kylora2112]

There's a sign in Bethel, Maine with directions and distances to the following Maine towns: Norway, Paris, Denmark, Naples, Sweden, Poland, Mexico, Peru, and China. There is also one in Norway, Maine (the one the previous sign is referencing) pointing to Lisbon, Vienna, Belgrade, Rome, Madrid, Athens, Moscow, Belfast, and Stockholm.

[@dsnpl]

Fun fact: Polish name "Włochy" (means: Italy) comes from the same word as Welsh, Wallonia and Walachia. The only difference is that the two letters have been replaced. Word "walnut" also has the same origin.

[@kristianharveylumba7461]

In the Philippines, there is a place in Batangas province called Calumpit, and a place in Bulacan province also named Calumpit. Calumpit in Batangas was named after a tree; while Calumpit, Bulacan was named after "kalong puwit" meaning dog sex. In addition to that, the province Bulacan and the town Bulakan are both from the Kapampangan word burak meaning "mud," or burákan meaning "place abundant in mud."

[@Lucasm1011]

in the usa have brooklyn and in brazil have the neighborhood named brooklyn that unhappily the happen a very sad crime named case von richtofen

[@henrynosegbe354]

Lagos, the former capital and largest city in Nigeria also shares a name with Lagos, Portugal (meaning "lakes", I believe.)

[@FreddyImran32]

In Pakistan we have a city Gujarat and in India they have a state/province called Gujarat In Pakistan we have Hyderabad while In India there's ALSO Hyderabad

[@muhammadisaac07]

Yeah! 👍👍

[@dobryden.6241]

And now tell me, who is copy thief? Pakistan or India?

[@mansijsukharamwala6320]

No one is copying anything. India and Pakistan are just really similar countries in many ways!

[@General.Knowledge]

Cool! Is there a connection or is it just a coincidence?

[@rahuln8605]

Dont forget punjab

[@rogerroberts5167]

Near to where I live in the UK is a hamlet called "Botany Bay" which, I believe, is the only example of an old world place being given a name that references a new world location (i,e in Australia).

[@MoviesNGames007uk]

There's a New York in Lincolnshire

[@chrisVNZ]

@@MoviesNGames007uk when was it founded? Could still be named after the original...

[@drsnova7313]

Nah, not at all. There's plenty of those. For example, "Kalifornien" and "Brasilien" (the German word for California and Brazil) near the city of Kiel. The state of Thuringia has a town called "Kanada", named in 1930 because "the forests look just like in Canada". There's a "New Philadelphia" and a "New Boston" in Brandenburg, two towns that demanded to be renamed, and King Friedrich II, a supporter of the US war of independence, named them like this. There's also two "Amerika"s. And of course the post-war US occupation of Germany escpecially by Americans - and subsequent departure - left Germany with quite a few former army bases that are now proper city quarters featuring all-american names.

[@RJM56]

Melbourne, Florida is named after Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Not the same but considering European settlement of Florida predates European settlement of Victoria by 270 years ... (Of course Melbourne , Victoria was named after the British PM and the Queen he served. Was it ever thus.)

[@landonpotts6815]

There are the towns of; Carthage, Vienna, Troy, Turkey, Sparta, Oxford, Middlesex, Halifax, Cerro Gordo, Bolivia, Bethel, and a few others that I've missed here in my home state of North Carolina, USA.

[@shasaun15]

Slight correction Wales and and the wall part of the county of Cornwall are both of shared origin neither of which refers to romanization of the local people. They both come from the language of the incoming germanic tribes of the post roman period who would go on to become the English who referred to their neighbours as Wallish meaning alien (foreign) people. So Wales is the land of the alien people and Cornwall is similar but with the prefix to differentiate them from those on the other side of the Bristol Channel.

[@caeruleusvm7621]

From what I've read, I agree with you. I think Wallonia in Belgium has the same original root and meaning. I've also heard that the "corn" in Cornwall is from the Latin "cornu" (horn) due to the shape of the peninsula.

[@nemo6686]

Also Wallasey on the Wirral - the 'foreigners' island'.

[@Clinton221087]

I stay in a small town in South Africa called Virginia, which was named because of railroad workers who missed their home in the US. It was originally supposed to be called Linabo, but Virginia stuck.

[@davidchambers7508]

There is a town in County Cavan, Ireland also called Virginia. The railway station which serve it was called Virginia Road as it was several kilometres from the town. This town is a plantation town named after Queen Elizabeth I.

[@rochewalkerpetersen4427]

Hello from Cape Town!

[@libordrabek5926]

There is also a village in Slovakia called “Havaj” but it has nothing to do with Hawaii in USA.

[@noxious4]

Founded by Jozef Havaj.

[@General.Knowledge]

This would be interesting too, places that share the same name phonetically in native languages even though they are not the same in writing

[@crise_estetica_brasileira]

@@General.Knowledge Bratislava (Slovakia), Wroclaw (Poland) and Breclav (Czechia) are all the same name! Maybe even Prenzlau (Germany), Braslav (Belarus) and Bratslav (Ukraine) are also!

[@crise_estetica_brasileira]

@@General.Knowledge Also Belgrade (Serbia) and Belgorod (Russia)

[@wernerhartmann3195]

You can walk from California to Brazil in a few minutes, because there are to small neighbourhood villages in Germany with this names.

[@mansijsukharamwala6320]

Here in Germany, we have two cities named Frankfurt. The one most people know is Frankfurt am Main (which means Frankfurt on the river Main) and the other one is just called Frankfurt or Frankfurt (oder) which means that other Frankfurt!

[@nr1229]

That's not true, friend. Both Frankfurt (Main) and Frankfurt (Oder) get their names from rivers. The Oder is a river, too and the eastern border of Germany. Oder has also the meaning 'or' - "Kaffee oder Tee?" 》 'Coffee or tea?' - not 'other'.

[@Quark0611]

Essen (NDS) via Essen (NRW) to Essen (BE)

[@xenotypos]

I actually only learned that a historical region in my country (France) used to be called Maine, because there's a US state with the same name. Some of those names were kind of lost in Europe (at least officially, it's still used by some people). Regarding all those cities named after other cities in the US (and Canada), now I can guess why there's this very weird habit of adding the name of the state after mentioning a city ("Phoenix, Arizona", "Memphis, Tennessee", "London, Ontario"...). Which is something us Europeans find surprising when we're in North America, especially since it's always after the ponctuation mark "," as a "rule", and yet it feels totally natural for Americans. I heard there are even several cities with the same name inside the US itself, so I guess there's no real choice but doing that.

[@Compucles]

Yep, city names repeat across multiple states all the time, the most common being "Springfield," which is a city in something like 30 different states, including the capital of Illinois. This is why it was picked to be the hometown of "The Simpsons" with the running gag that the state is never mentioned. Part of it is also that the U.S. uses a federal system of "states" rather than provinces or such in most European countries. (It's the very name of the country, after all.) As such, we feel a stronger connection to our states than people in other countries without a federal system do to their individual regions.

[@TheWeedlover2]

Yeah we have so many cities in the US that share names that we have to do this to know which one we're talking about. I'm not surprised Europe doesn't do this, since if say 2 French people are talking about Paris, it's safe they assume they mean their capital where as in in the US we have 8 cities named Paris across 8 different states.

[@kailahmann1823]

For London, Ontario I've also heard the term Fake London 😂 If European cities share a name, often something like a river is used a the full name, as borders have changed to often in history.

[@Ometecuhtli]

@@kailahmann1823 Frankfurt am Oder, am Main, although I guess if you just say Frankfurt nowadays almost everyone'll know you're referring to the city by the Main. In Mexico cities usually have a longer name to differentiate them, like Puebla de los Ángeles, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Coahuila de Zaragoza & Michoacán de Ocampo (states), Naucalpan de Juárez, Toluca de Comonfort, Querétaro de Arteaga, and so on.

[@ferretyluv]

Oh yes. Almost every state has a place named Springfield.

[@afifamyouni673]

There is also a town in Lebanon called "Cordoba" or in local language is "Qartaba" which is a phoenician name. Also there is in USA more than 20 cities called "Lebanon" and when i was searching why do they have this name i found that most of them have Cedar trees so they named them after the "cedars of Lebanon" mentionned in the Bible. Just wanted to share this information

[@seamussc]

Many churches in the US have Lebanon in their name for that reason, particularly Baptist churches. I have seen many a "Lebanon Bapist Church' in my time and a google shows many many more. There are dozens, maybe hundreds.

[@user-ih9ne6bt6j]

There is also Tripoli in Lebanon, Libya and Greece

[@Selmarya]

Fun fact: there actually was a town in Alabama called Georgia but they changed their name to Georgiana to not be confused with the state of Georgia

[@Accentor100]

To keep it within the US for this reply, I drove through Alabama and saw a sign for a town called "Chula Vista" which is the second largest city in the San Diego metro area.

[@wierdo-jc7xv]

In Georgia we did not call ourselves Iberians. The ancient kingdom from its foundation was always reffered to in Georgian as "Kartli" I think Greeks or Romans started calling us Iberians.

[@androtchitchinadze3450]

,,ბედნიერ იბერიელებს,, გვეძახდნენ რომაელები, რადგან დიდი მოკავშირეები ვიყავით და უფრო ტოლერანტულები ვიყავით მათ მიმართ, ვიდრე იბერიელები ვინც ცხოვრობდნენ ესპანეთში და პორტუგალიაში (ნაღდი იბერიელები), ჩვენ გვქვია ქართლი!

[@vgjl1824]

@@androtchitchinadze3450 Im spanish

[@vgjl1824]

@@androtchitchinadze3450 And basque

[@androtchitchinadze3450]

@@vgjl1824 Nice!

[@vgjl1824]

@@androtchitchinadze3450 A lot of linguists, say that we are related

[@qbel4255]

About Wales/Wallachia/Wallonia, it is also the origin of the name we use in Polish for Italy - Włochy. A fact I've only learned about recently. BTW it is very unique to use for such a name

[@seamussc]

The state of South Carolina has several towns named after entire countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. Switzerland simply because the settlers came from Switzerland. Denmark gets its name from a prominent railroad company official named B.A. Denmark. Deciding to keep the Nordic theme, three nearby train depot towns were named Norway, Finland and Sweden.

[@Lightmations2024]

What about Dannebrog, Nebraska?

[@rastalique8114]

There's a theme park on the North Carolina/South Carolina border called "South of the Border, with a Mexican Theme. Very far from Mexico.

[@kaloarepo288]

There is also a Denmark in western Australia

[@Tweeteketje]

Great video. I like the names of some neighbourhoods in New York, referring to Dutch cities: Harlem - Haarlem, Brooklyn - Breukelen, Flushing - Vlissingen.

[@ghost_curse]

There's a bunch in Canada that share or shared names with European/other cities. London, Ontario and London, England Vancouver, British Columbia and Vancouver, Washington (named after the same explorer) Paris, Ontario and Paris, France Toronto used to be named York Kitchener used to be named Berlin

[@denisashby5589]

Fun fact I used to live in London Ontario and the story behind the name is that the area wanted to be the capital of the newly unified Canada and so it choose the same name as the English capital because it thought it would apeal to the English settlers to choose it as their capital and it had massive appeal to the English however the Scottish Irish and French were more then a little pissed off naturally so London Ontario was rejected as the capital of Canada

[@mysteriousDSF]

you are amazing, I can see your work is your heart and soul, keep them coming. nobody shares videos of such high quality with such high frequency. and there's no overly articulated slow speech to stretch running time. Kudos!!!!!!!!

[@kailahmann1823]

In Northern Germany is a small village named Berlin, often just called "Dorf Berlin" (village Berlin). They even repeat street names from the German capital 😀

[@Trappista]

In Hungary, we have a lake, named Balaton. Within the same country, there's also a town with the name Balaton (Heves county). And there's also a town named Balaton is Minnesota, USA.

[@dpr9921]

There are a couple cases of places in Indonesia that share similar names with other places in the world 1. Ternate, North Maluku with Ternate, Italy (completely coincidental) 2. Kota Batu, East Java with Cotabato, Philippines (etymologically related) 3. Untung Jawa Islands, Jakarta with Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands (the latter is named after the former)

[@anorexorcist4472]

There is also a place called Ternate here in the Philippines

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

Don't forget Ternate, Cavite too because of historical origins in 1663 and Palimbang in Sultan Kudarat in Mindanao named after Palembang City in South Sumatra

[@paulspunkt959]

The name of my village is used for two villages in northern Germany. One time a friend of mine wanted to visit me with his motorcycle - he drove 150 kilometers to the village witch the same name as mine. But then he noticed that he is not nead Hamburg, but near Schwerin (~100km apart) For avoiding confisions like this we use the postal codes. For example: 29439 Lüchow / 23898 Lüchow Same name, but with the postal code you can differenciate the two villages

[@scottw.3258]

Perth, Australia named after Perth in Scotland. Aberdeen, Scotland has had many towns and cities around the world named after it, Glasgow, Scotland has also had many towns around the world named after it. We have a town in Scotland (East Ayrshire) called Moscow, not named after Moscow, Russia, but thought to be a corruption of 'moss haw' (moss hall). We have a Houston in Scotland too, Many other Scottish towns and cities have places named after them all around the world. Included in this would be - Hamilton, Ayr, Edinburgh, Livingston, Stirling, Dumfries, Bo'ness, Banff. Among many more.

[@AdamBurianek92]

Great Britain (UK) vs Brittany (Bretagne, France) should be in the list, too.

[@General.Knowledge]

Yes! I forgot about this one

[@agimternova5150]

Briti was dardan King (Dardania Kingdom was part of Ilirian Empire) coming from dardan City of Troja (Truall in albanian or Land in English). He was a founder of GB. Even Londer is Albanian word & mean lunder or small ship in English. Ps: so, when King Briti come from Troja with Lunder & he stop there with his army. Back in time King Briti found a "Lum te tham" or dry creek (Thames).

[@vladp7405]

Don't forget Prince Edward Island: one being a province in Canada and the other being an island in South Indian ocean.

[@zkavurska]

In Brazil there's also a city named "Toledo". Other Brazilian examples are the cities Costa Rica/MS, Colombia/SP, Macedonia/SP, Tailandia/PA, (Thailand), Equador/RN, California/PR, Florida/PR, Filadélfia/BA (Philadelphia), Buenos Aires/PE, Nova Iorque/MA (New York) and Barcelona/RN.

[@SakethCVES]

Love the editing man keep it up. Noticed the Spain in the Cordoba part not completly filled

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Congrats, great video as always

[@beqa_gablaia]

@General Knowledge man i can't believe what you said about my country. First Russian kingdoms created at 15th century and first Georgian kingdom created around 300 B.C and you say Russians gave us that name? Greece gave us the name Georgia. From Greece Georgia means the land where people work on land, or like land of cultivators. Old neighbors like Iran and Turkey call us "Gurj" Gurjistan or something like that, Slavic people call us Gruzia except Lietva (Lithuania), Europe and almost all other countries call us Georgia because as i already told you Greece gave us that name. We Georgians call us "Kartveli" and the country "Sakartvelo" (the land of Kartvelians).

[@kaiya5142]

first georgian kingdom was created in the ~15th century bc. cholchis

[@7_bwoah]

In Austria there are several municipalities calles St. Johann. There is or was an annual festival, organised in a different St. Johann each year, where they celebrated together and the traditional bands of each St. Johann played their regional music.

[@diegozometapaniagua3005]

There are two cities in Texas and Kansas named Abilene. The Abilene of Texas was named after the Abilene of Kansas. The reason being that both cities were part of the route of the cattle drive of the Wild West. In addition, Abilene in Kansas is named after the region of Abilene mentioned in the Gospel of St. Luke!

[@gieeeno]

There is a place named Cubao in the Philippines, Im assuming it was called that during the time Philippines was under spain, and bcoz the land is fertile during that time. Now it's a business district of Quezon City, a city inside Metro Manila.

[@luvhart]

There is also Munster (a large province in Ireland where Cork is the largest city), and Münster (a German city in the North Rhine-Westphalia region). More confusing is the island of Ireland than contains two further Irelands within….Republic of Ireland (known officially as just Ireland) and Northern Ireland (a constituent region/province/country within The United Kingdom).

[@user-ih9ne6bt6j]

There is also Munster in Germany and is an small town in Lower Saxony

[@highway2heaven91]

Don’t forget Munster, Indiana

[@luvhart]

@@highway2heaven91 Indeed 👍🏻 And Munster Indiana is not named after Munster Ireland or Münster Germany, but is named after Jacob Munster, a dutch immigrant who founded a general store and post office of which the town subsequently was built around. Good spotting

[@clabood]

I would like to see that video. You could also do a full video on Australia. Newcastle, Cardiff, Wellington all are in Australia and the UK or NZ.

[@dobryden.6241]

In Czech is US Georgia - Georgia, and Georgia (near the Russia) is Gruzie.

[@fabulouscat3911]

That's the same for all slavic countries

[@paulr7664]

Halychyna is pronounced with "ch" as in the word "Rich". It was named after the Ukrainian city Halych, which was the capital of the Duchy of Galychna and Volyn. But I'm not sure about the origins of this name, so you may be right

[@alexbachynskyi4429]

Thanks for correct explanation. So many 'experts' who are misleading millions of people with their wrong opinion based on information from internet, most of the time are wrong.

[@Jfk2Mr]

Yeah, it was caused by Austrians who decided that easier to say for them were "Galicia und Lodomerien" instead of "Halicz i Włodzimierz"

[@JuniorJuni070]

Dutchie* with the ie

[@mikaelsza]

1:47 Today's Sponsor: Macarena!! Eh, Macarena!!

[@fantasticmio]

One of my favourite indirect connections is Paris, Ontario, Canada. It is not named after Paris, France like a lot of other cities in Ontario. It is named after the nearby gypsum deposits that used to make Plaster of Paris. Plaster of Paris was named so because of gypsum deposits near Paris, France.

[@arsenslavov4903]

There is also: Montana🇺🇸 and Montana/Монтана🇧🇬 Yes, we have a city in Bulgaria called Montana. It is exactly the same with the name of the US state of Montana. This has always seemed interesting and weird to me.

[@ferretyluv]

That is incredibly weird. I assume it also means “mountain?”

[@wierdo-jc7xv]

Country name for Georgia does not come from saint George. First usage of Georgia was from Persia in 9th century where they called us "Gurjistan" wich derives from ancient persian word for wolf "Gurj", beacouse in 9th century we had a very fierce king in Georgia named "Vakhtang Gorgasali" Gorgasali meaning wolfhead, beacouse he used to wear a helmwt with a wolf carved on it. King Vakhtang was really tall and strong he was 2,20 to 2,40 tall and when the Persian would see him on the battlefield they would yell "Gorgasali"/"The wolfhead" is here so the name stuck around.

[@noworldfortheweak]

You doesn't know anything.

[@Sander_van_de_Reep]

There is also a province of Belgium called Luxembourg. Belgian Luxembourg is bigger then the country of Luxembourg. The reason why it exist is because the province of Luxembourg used to be a part of Luxembourg but after the treaty of London it wasn’t anymore.

[@l7dco]

There's a town in Free State, South Africa called Parys, which is similar to Paris, but is pronounced differently

[@gmsteele44]

Love to see a video on similar names.

[@KarlDeux]

'could also be interesting to check whether the names are also the same in other languages than English. For instance Galicia and Galicia have different names in French: Galice in Spain and Galicie in Poland.

[@Karthagast]

Yeah, in fact, I prefer to name the Polish one as "Galitza" (more Polish) to avoid confusion with the region of "Galicia" in Spain.

[@franl155]

informative and entertaining, thank you.

[@General.Knowledge]

Thank you for watching!

[@clintstewart5545]

Nice job once again !!!

[@johndododoe1411]

England (not rest of Britain) apparently has many places with New in front, or even without, named after nearby places. Jutland has small hamlets with names like Paris and Rom(e). Many places are named New "thing", named for what they are/were: Newtown, Newcastle, Newfoundland.

[@stevejohnson3357]

They are everywhere. In my general area there is Vancouver, Victoria, Richmond, Sydney and Hope. In the north there is Prince George which 1 MP once confused with Prince George County, Maryland.

[@paintingdreams290]

huh and in Australia we a Victoria, Richmond and Sydney too.

[@MXForce16]

4:42 oh no, not that fight again.

[@didiramsaran]

In Venezuela, the capital of the Anzoátegui state is called Barcelona, as the capital of Catalunya. I've been told that a Catalan during the colonization named it in reference to Barcelona, Spain!

[@rastalique8114]

Once, at the end of a story about the Republic of Georgia, I saw in the category of "related stories " one about the Augusta Nation Golf Tournament in Georgia, USA.

[@lawea957]

La Paz, capital of the 🇲🇽 state of BCS (Baja) and La Paz, federal capital of Bolivia

[@dimtiartachev1573]

there are bunch of targoviste cities all over the balkans where lands where in one time , part of bulgarian empire (it means place for trade and comes from the word targuvam = trade )

[@fer-araoz]

There is a Córdoba in Argentina too, and and another curious case is the province of Formosa in Argentina and the island Formosa where Taiwan is located, now that I learned to speak Portuguese and knowing that the Galician language has the same root, I would risk to say that the island was discovered by a Portuguese sailor and that the province was named by a Spanish expedition in charge of a Galician, since in both languages alludes to something beautiful.

[@andressigalat602]

In Spanish Wales is called "Gales", and the region of Galicia in Spain was historically inhabited by the Celts, as was Wales. I think the conection between those two (and thus to Wallonia and Wallachia) is pretty clear.

[@tukaes6651]

The Galicia in Poland is artificial creation. Before partitions that name was not used in Poland. Also nowadays this name is rarely used. I guess that name Galicia for the name of the region is much more common used abroad than in Poland.

[@vladyslavpidlisnyi]

Halychyna, on the other hand, is used very often

[@oliversissonphone6143]

There's a Galicia in Ukraine too?

[@vladyslavpidlisnyi]

@@oliversissonphone6143yes, it called Halychyna (Галичина) in Ukrainian

[@aravinz_hd]

Fun Fact: Here in Switzerland the name of the country in the dialect is "Schwiitz", but we also have a province/canton with the name "Schwyz". Both are pronounced the exact same name so we always have to call this canton "Kanton Schwyz" to differentiate it from the whole country and we also differentiate pronouns if we talks about it. If we're talking about the country we say "i de schwiitz" (in the swiss) while if we refer to the canton we say "z schwyz" ("by/in/at" Schwyz).

[@-ninguno6607]

There is also a Fribourg in Switzerland and a Fribourg not so far from there in Germany.

[@aravinz_hd]

@@-ninguno6607Now you mention it yes there is. The official German name is even Freiburg but most german speaking swiss call it the french name Fribourg in our dialect.

[@nikobellicph1978]

10:27 There is also a town in the Philippines named Cordova, which is located in Cebu province.

[@Griff10poldi]

Japan originally used "Gurujiya" for Georgia (derived from the Russian word Gruziya) until 2014 when the Georgian government requested them to change it. Now the Japanese calls Georgia as "Jojia", which is derived from the English pronunciation

[@Rpu4]

There is a village called Prague in Slovakia. You know like the capital city of Czech republic.

[@YLCCOfficial]

C z e c h o s l o v a k i a

[@Rpu4]

We should have had stayed together.

[@xxxxxx400]

There are numerous cities in Poland with very similar names to Czech and Slovak ones. Wyszków, Opatów, Koszyce, Świdnik, Zwoleń, Cieplice. And eastern part of Warsaw is called Praga, but the origin ot the name is different. Polish Praga comes from burning down the forrest.

[@DinerLingo]

The map you show when you mention the US states with a city named Franklin isn't showing cities. It's actually showing counties named Franklin (& Washington, Jefferson, etc.). (For those outside the US, a county being an area of administrative local government bigger than a city but smaller than a state, responsible for things like utilities, trash collection, sheriff departments, water, public schools, fire departments, etc. In Louisiana they're called parishes. In NYC, counties are actually smaller than the city; each borough is also a county.)

[@Compucles]

Eh, public schools are delineated by "school districts," which rarely coexist with individual counties. My county includes a few different school districts.

[@DinerLingo]

@@Compucles Eh, I was just throwing out examples.

[@mitgproductions5662]

In Aotearoa New Zealand for a bit of time there was two cities called Palmerston, in the 1870's one got given the suffix of North, to become Palmerston North, my home town.

[@SirMikeSelf]

About Walachia - there is yet another region bearing that name in Czech Republic (Valašsko in Czech) and the word “valach” basically means “shepherd” in neighboring Slovakia.

[@davidwhite1919]

There are a lot of places that share saints’ names. For example Santiago (St James). There’s Santiago, the capital of Chile, Santiago in Cuba, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and many more.

[@Ometecuhtli]

Cities in California have religious names from the Franciscan settlers: Los Angeles, San Francisco/Diego/Ysidro, Sacramento and so on.

[@welio.bezerra]

Você poderia fazer um vídeo sobre cidades latino-americanas nomeadas de acordo com cidades de Portugal e Espanha. Abraços desde Brasil. 🇧🇷❤🇵🇹

[@pedroapinto06]

Santarém é um exemplo

[@yennyyunita3339]

what is 💣💣

[@crise_estetica_brasileira]

@@pedroapinto06 Óbidos também

[@PhotoFredrik]

Ideas for the next video: Tripoli (Greece, Lebanon and Libya) Paris (France and Kiribati) London (UK, Canada and Kiribati) Hamilton (New Zealand and Bermuda) Liberia (Costa Rica) Newcastle (UK, Australia and South Africa) Komani (South Africa and Albania) Hyderabad (Pakistan and India) Panama City (Panama and USA)

[@rochewalkerpetersen4427]

In colonial South Africa the Government tried to avoid double names. So we have a Ladysmith (1850) in Kwa-Zulu Natal, and a Ladismith (1852) in the Eastern Cape, both pronounce the same but with the tiny spelling difference. Lady Grey (1856) in the Eastern Cape and Lady Grey (1861) in the Western Cape , which was renamed in 1905 after Reverend Andrew McGregor. Maraisburg (1873) was renamed 'Hofmeyr' in 1911 to avoid confusion with Maraisburg, Gauteng (1884 - later, but more important as a gold mining centre) My hometown was renamed three times to avoid confusion with railway sidings and stations elsewhere: Joubertsburg > Joubertville > Joubertina in deference to Joubert Siding, both in the same province

[@MarcHarder]

0:33 Ontario is a province, not a city It's like saying there's a city in Colombia called Armenia & one in Asia

[@Iamfree8005]

Maine in the US and Maine as a province in France.

[@IcecreamMcGuy]

Great video high quality as usual

[@SMVvids]

At the turn of the last century, the city I live in (Santa Maria, CA) changed its name from Central City, CA because mail was getting mixed up between us and Central City CO. Gotta love it

[@Donerci_Pikacu_Usta]

11:19 How Turkey and Peru s name are similar ? I would like to see part 2

[@H4J0wastaken]

I think it has to do with the fact that in English the bird is named turkey but in turkey it's named India and in India it's named Peru 🤣

[@Donerci_Pikacu_Usta]

About that İndia s Turkish version is Hindistan and Turkey the animals name is Hindi . I forgot this story thx for reminding

[@watzkeen]

​@@H4J0wastaken In Portuguese, the bird Turkey is also called Peru :)

[@EPCooks]

@@watzkeen That's How They're Related xD

[@augustobarbosab.773]

In Portuguese, "Peru" and turkey have the same same, similar to what happens in English with Turkey the country. That occurs because "Peru" used to refer to all Spanish America in Portuguese, including Mexico (which is the country of origin of turkeys).

[@kkm969]

There are tons of places in USA which are named after various places around the world mainly from Europe & Asia USA be like:Just shoot that dart on map wherever it lands we will name this place😆😆

[@franl155]

You can always tell when it's an American writing; no European feels the need to add "Italy" after "Venice", or "France" after "Paris".

[@AgentPerry8018]

For example there’s a place called Paris in Texas. It’s basically just the Eiffel Tower wearing a cowboy hat

[@hwg5039]

I believe there's a town called China

[@user-lv8dn8gw9z]

I'm 90% sure there's a Dublin in Texas, IK there's a Belfast in Maine tho, pretty sure there's a Bangor somewhere in the US too? But there's also one in Wales tho

[@franl155]

@@hwg5039 - There was a story/rumour/legend that China was going to name one of its towns "USA" so that they could legitimately mark their products "Made in USA"

[@MathieuVuitton37]

10:56 there is a Franklin County, Kentucky that's missing from this map. I imagine there's probably lots others missing as well

[@Farkasvezer]

In England there are 2 Newcastles but one is Upon Tyne the other is Under Lyne. Also a village named New York can be found just near Newcastle upon Tyne.

[@mahatmarandy5977]

Just because I happen to live there, St. Petersburg, Florida, was founded and named by Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev, who named the place after his favorite city back home in Russia. After the cold war ended, and The Russians changed the name of Leningrad back to St. Petersburgh, some of us hipster doofuses took to calling St. Pete, Florida, "Leningrad," as a joke for a while, but it never really caught on

[@brianarbenz7206]

Folks in Moscow, Idaho and Odessa, Texas would understand.

[@dantonio8898]

A huge part of Texas was once called Nuevas Filipinas (New Philippines) same with the country in Asia. Does that count?

[@julesgoldstein634]

Perhaps. Just as Georgia the state was named after King George II of Great Britain but New Georgia the islands was named after a different King George, his grandson George III, The Philippines was named after King Philip II of Spain but New Philippines the region was named after a different King Philip, his great great great grandson Philip V.

[@KonradZielinski]

Towns sharing the same name happens all over Australia. As one example there is a Richmond in every state along Australia's East coast, and on the Island of Tasmania. Quite a few suburbs in Sydney share a name with a suburb of London.

[@davidchambers7508]

There is Gori in Georgia and Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland. There is Douglas in Cork city, Ireland and Douglas the capital town of the Isle of Man. Within the province Leinster, Ireland there is Raheny, a suburb of Dublin city and Raheny, a townland near Rush in North County Dublin. There are places called Dundrum in counties Tipperary, Dublin and Down all which had railway stations.

[@crazychicksheena]

☘️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪🇬🇪

[@cTc10691]

Would've been cool to mention Scotland (Alba) with the Albania examples!

[@cristitoma106]

Also, in Romania there is a county called Alba (in romanian, "alba" means "white").

[@swededude1992]

Sydney, a small rural town in Canada, with an airport. Not a tourist attraction. Sydney, a megacity in Australia, with an or a few airports. A big tourist attraction. If you're planning to visit any of the Sydneys, make sure you're not buying the wrong airlinetickets! 🤣

[@Persac7]

"Megacity"

[@lucianboar3489]

yeah, I remember that :))

[@CameronBoyes]

There's also Vancouver BC and Vancouver in Washington state. Vancouver BC also has the cities of West Vancouver and North Vancouver (as well as the district of North Vancouver) to the north, and there's also Vancouver Island to the west.

[@fritz404]

George Vancouver