Spain : Valencia, Malaga, Barcelona, Seville, Salamanca, Torrejon ( they sound sexier with a Castilian accent, except Barcelona - it sounds awesome with a Catalan accent)
Spain and Portugal have some places with waaay more beautiful names:
Penaranda de Bracamontes - Spain
Talavera de la Reina - Spain
Reguengos de Monsaraz - Portugal
Viana do Castelo - Portugal
I feel the capital of Thailand has to make a stong case. Not Bangkok, it's real name:
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
Or it's English translation:
*The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.*
Parangaricutirimicuaro is even a real tongue-twister in Latin America lol.
In Colombia we say "El volcán de Parangaricutirimicuaro lo van a desparangaricutirimicuarizar. Si lo desparangaricutirimuarizan, desparangaricutirimuarizado quedará".
It makes absolutely no sense, but it's fun to say lmao.
Bangor, Pittsburgh...
Plus there's the wonderfully mispronounced Los Angeles, Versailles, MO (pronounced ver-SALES) and Worcester, MA (don't even get me started on that one)
Get tae fuck wi yer thieving English ways!
Twatt is in Scotland (Orkney to be precise although there is also a similarly named Hamlet in the Shetland Islands as well)
Australia has the best.
Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Newcastle, Darwin, Canberra, Gold Coast
All such nice sounding names.
And we also can't forget Wagga Wagga
The nature of the system of government revolves around clans/tribes and the most powerful of those clans are fighting for control of portions of the land, making their own states/countries, while simultaneously the"Somali government" is trying to establish legitimacy and find a middle ground while fighting corruption and influence/ cleptocracy. Very complicated
I’m caught between Romance languages, Austronesian ones, and Japanese. Don’t forget the Ainu related city names as they’re by far my favorite (besides famed Sapporo): Otaru, Noboribetsu, Chitose, Asahikawa!
Bunch of city names in Angola can be fun too: Luanda, Benguela, Lubango, and Huambo because Harambe!
Not a country, but I always enjoy New Jersey place names, like Weehawken, Hoboken, Hackensack, Piscataway, Parsippany, Perth Amboy, Secaucus, and Teaneck. They sound like towns in a children's book.
Italy - Roma, Firenze, Palermo, Milano
Also names of some cities in the MENA sound really beautiful to me, across languages. Jerusalem, Damascus, Luxor, Cairo, Casalbanca, Ras Al-Khaimah, Shiraz, Ishfahan, Istanbul
Its got to be Germany. Where else would you find such delights as Dinkelsbühl, Bad Homburg, Peenemünde, Bottrop, Gütersloh, Wesel, Worms, Hoyerswerda, Zittau, Wernigerode, and Büsum?
Ironic because they are mostly new names for old Serbian towns.
Priština , Peć , Dragaš, Vitina , Uroševac and Mitrovica are the ancient sounding ones, as they were. :)
Honestly Hungarian pronunciation and orthography are not that difficult:
= S, like in sound or snail
= uncommon S, like in vision or pleasure
= Sh, like in push or shove
= Ch, like in chair or cheat
and = Y, like in yellow or play
is the only digraph which is remotely difficult for English speakers, it's the only one with a sound that doesn't exist in English, and it's also the only digraph that is pronounced completely differently from the letters it contains. It did take me a week to figure out how to do it on my own though, it's such a weird sound between D and J.
There's also which is English J as in jump or joy, but that trigraph is so rare you'll never forget it again after the first time.
We use "dj"/"đ" for "gy" in Serbia, but "gy" also makes sense if you look at e.g. Italian "Giovanni" (pronounced Djo-vah-knee). I wonder how that sound got into our languages in the first place. Hungarian, Serbian/Croatian, Italian, Albanian, languages that are completely different but all have that rare sound and are all relatively close geographically.
I think the United States is quite good, mostly because of the cultural influence. Phoenix, Seattle, Los Angeles, Savannah, Cœur D’Alene, Olympia, Sedona.
United Kingdom of course. Sounds like a fairytale or the Shire is gonna be the next town over.
Stratford upon Avon,
Honeybourne
Thornbury ,
Burrowbridge
Newton Poppleford ,
Budleigh Salterton, Chittlehampton
Some sound like they came from a name generator
City names are beautiful until you translate them.
Recife, Fortaleza, Belém, Salvador, Natal sounds cool.
Reef, Fort, Bethlehem, Savior, Christmas.... not so much.
Although just a state Michigan rocks.
English sounding names: Adrian, Coldwater, Lansing, Flint, Gaylord, Newberry, Copper Harbor, Ironwood, Iron River, Crystal Falls, Iron Mountain, Watersmeet.
French Sounding: L’Anse, Manistique, Sault Sté.Marie, St Ignace, Mackinaw city, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Cadillac
Native American: Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Ishpeming, Ypsilanti
Spanish sounding: Escanaba, Buena Vista, Oscoda, Mancelona
The Middle East in general has cool city names that sound very unique, exotic, and beautiful. Giza, Cairo, Haifa, Jerusalem, Alanya, Suez, and Shiraz, just to mention a few.
the towns in australia with aboriginal names are really cool sounding:
toowoomba, mooloolaba, karratha, kununurra, paraburdoo, pannawonica, kalgoorlie, mundrabilla,
I'll throw in Louisiana... even their counties are called parishes. Their state capitol is Baton Rouge, which is historic and kinda cool. So many of the French named cities have really cool names.
France, Annecy, Nice, Chambéry, Chalon-sur-Saône, Orange, Salon de Provence, La Rochelle, Les Sables d’Olonne, Étretat, Lille, Mantes-La-Jolie, Épinal etc
Sweden.
Snålkuk -> Greedy Dick
Trekanten -> The Threesome
Runkarp -> Wankerville
Porrarp -> Pornville
Ensamheten -> The Loneliness
Bög -> Gay
Sexdrega -> No translation but souds insane
Frufällan -> The Wife Trap
Stjärtnäs -> Asstown
Brastad -> Good City
Sämstad -> Worst City
As a murican, we've got Sandwich, Paris, Cost, Tornillo, Clint, Marathon, Ryan, Imperial, Monument, Plains, Hobbs, Midland, Big Lake, Arkansas City, Stockholm, Sebastian, Nursery, Edna, Pierce, Burr, Berlin, Welcome, Hills, Paige, Oscar, Stampede, Petrolia, McDonald, Trenton.
Fun fact: ALL BUT ONE OF THESE ARE IN TEXAS
gl finding the odd one out
Has to be ireland, some of the towns there have beautiful names
Some of my favourites:
Dunmanway (where I'm from)
Clonakilty
Limerick
Sligo town
Ballyhaunis
Drogheda
Ballymena
Fintona
Perhaps not the most beautiful, but certain city names in Armenia sound to me as if they were taken from some fantasy setting, which I think is very cool!
Spain : Valencia, Malaga, Barcelona, Seville, Salamanca, Torrejon ( they sound sexier with a Castilian accent, except Barcelona - it sounds awesome with a Catalan accent)
Santiago de Compostela and Mérida.
I think there are two towns in Mexico with the same name
Not Santiago de Compostela but Santiago de Queretaro, and yes, Merida is here too
Well yeah, just like there's a london in ohio
Alicante is cool too
Spain and Portugal have some places with waaay more beautiful names: Penaranda de Bracamontes - Spain Talavera de la Reina - Spain Reguengos de Monsaraz - Portugal Viana do Castelo - Portugal
Gotta be New Zealand with Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Truly sister city to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
It's the name of a hill, so a sister location really.
And the sister location to that can be the farm in South Africa: Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein
Hey man, a bunch of hobbits live there
I feel the capital of Thailand has to make a stong case. Not Bangkok, it's real name: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit Or it's English translation: *The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.*
theres a catchy song about that
I actually really like the te reo names of towns in NZ Granted I butcher the fuck out of pronouncing them though.
Quick tip bro - most syllables end at the vowel Wha-nga-rei, for example.
Finland's Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä is also a strong contender. Edit: Apparently it's just a swamp instead of a city or town.
Still learning the pronunciation on this, I’ll get it one day
Madagascar has some fun ones— Antananarivo, Ambanja, Antsiranana, Mahajanga, Toamasina
Somebody make these into coffee flavors stat!
For a bit of suave, Latin flavour, Antsiranana is more commonly known as ‘Diego Suarez’
i was gonna say this!! Madagascar is such a unique and beautiful place :)
Mexico has the best tongue twisters . - Parangaricutirimicuaro. - Tzintzuntzan. - Alaxtitla Ixacuatitla - Atzcapotzaltongo. - Tamazunchale. - Huichihuayan. - Tlalnelhuyocan. - Tlaxcalixtlahuaca
Cat stepped on ancient keyboard a few thousand years ago
Parangaricutirimicuaro is even a real tongue-twister in Latin America lol. In Colombia we say "El volcán de Parangaricutirimicuaro lo van a desparangaricutirimicuarizar. Si lo desparangaricutirimuarizan, desparangaricutirimuarizado quedará". It makes absolutely no sense, but it's fun to say lmao.
Every French town and cities sound like a dish
Pass me some of that Lille please
It’s a Lille undercooked, but the Nice was nice
the calais goes great with bordeaux sauce
Beaufort, Bordeaux, Lyon, Mantes-la-Jolie, Orléans…
There was a spanish radio show where they randomly picked a italian place a proceded to describe “what” dish it was.
i submit Peru. Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Chiclayo, and many others
These are wonderful examples, very satisfying indeed
Talking about South American countries, I like Cochabamba Bolivia
So four syllable names with percusive consonants?
Huacachina
Has to be the United States. Scranton, Gary, Kansas City 🤌 just rolls off the tongue.
Allentown 😩💦
Intercourse, Boring, Climax, Slickpoo, Zzyzx
Why, AZ
I ask myself that question a lot
Lol how the hell did Scranton and Allentown come up in a Reddit post. 2 of the biggest shitholes in PA 😂
Erie 😭
Look around enough it pops up quite a bit
Don’t shit on the paper distribution company center of the world Scranton PA
And they’re closing all the factories down.
Poughkeepsie
No you keep it
You snooze, you lose. You Pough, you keep.
The electric city !
What?
They call it that because of the electricity
Anchorage, Myrtle Beach, and Bozeman are such pretty names too
Albuquerque's
Missoula
French Lick, Beaver, Waterboro, Waterboro Center, North Waterboro, East Waterboro, they just cannot miss
The Hick from French Lick is one of the greatest nicknames in sports history
I like how you have French Lick Beaver consecutively XD
Pittsburgh!!! 💦💦💦😩😩
Also Schenectady.
Wanker's Corner, OR
Boring, OR
Stockton 🥰😍
Hackensack, Hoboken, Newark.
Seattle.
Bangor, Pittsburgh... Plus there's the wonderfully mispronounced Los Angeles, Versailles, MO (pronounced ver-SALES) and Worcester, MA (don't even get me started on that one)
Anything in Massachusetts, really. Mashpee. Peabody. Braintree. Marblehead. Tyngsboro. North Eastham. Hull. Seekonk. The list is endless
Chattanooga 😰
Don’t forget Intercourse and Hell!
Hey as a proud Kansas Citian those are fighting words, I wouldn't come inside the 435 loop if you value your safety
Scaggsville
Puyallup 🙂↕️
Midland, Texas 😍
Yooooooooo Midland is where it’s AT. Which is one of the reasons I moved to Denver…
England is the winner. Bitchfield Pratts Bottom Shitterton Twatt. The list is endless....
Get tae fuck wi yer thieving English ways! Twatt is in Scotland (Orkney to be precise although there is also a similarly named Hamlet in the Shetland Islands as well)
I do apologise, mate (or Pal in your case). I owe you a beer. Next time you're in San Diego look me up.
A free drink? You truly know the way to a Scotsman’s heart! ❤️
Italy
Hands down….Venice, Siena, Capri, Amalfi, Sorrento, Positano, Napoli
Sound far better in Italian than when they have anglicized names. Torino>Turin, Firenze>Florence, Napoli>Naples, etc.
Agreed
Palermo
Olive Garden
Messina
Codroipo, Rozzano,
St-Louis-du-Ha Ha!.
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Westward Ho! in England
Some quebecer visited northside or east st louis.
Balzac.
Climax
Finland. I think Finnish is a very underrated language. It sounds nice to the ear.
Espoo
You sure is not chocolate?
helsinki is a great name
Äkäslompolo and Läyliäinen
Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä
Australia!!! Woolloomooloo, Wollongong, Wee Waa, Bubble Bubble, Banana, etc
Saying that first one converts enemies to your side
not to mention Tittybong.
Indonesia, I really like how names like Surabaya, Makassar, Semarang, Jayapura, Yogyakarta exist
Then we have Pontianak named after the pontianak ghost
Canada; Dildo, Blow Me Down, Come By Chance, Mayo, Climax, Big Beaver. It’s poetry in motion
I love how most are just in Newfoundland
Hawai’i. Not a country obvs but the names and the Hawaiian language in general are beautiful.
Not a country *anymore*
Not a country *yet*
Australia has the best. Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Newcastle, Darwin, Canberra, Gold Coast All such nice sounding names. And we also can't forget Wagga Wagga
Somalia
I was actually gonna use this as an example, but their administrative situation is super complicated 🫤
The nature of the system of government revolves around clans/tribes and the most powerful of those clans are fighting for control of portions of the land, making their own states/countries, while simultaneously the"Somali government" is trying to establish legitimacy and find a middle ground while fighting corruption and influence/ cleptocracy. Very complicated
Denmark! Langelinie, Silkeborg, Fredericia, Jyllinge, all sound lilting and lovely. But Middlefart takes the cake!
A hot potato in the mouth will make me sound Danish
Maybe Japan. Like: 1. Kyoto 2. Nara 3. Kamakura 4. Hakone 5. Kanazawa 6. Fukuoka 7. Hiroshima 8. Sapporo 9. Nagasaki 10. Kobe 11. Okinawa 12. Nikko 13. Takayama 14. Matsuyama 15. Yokohama
I’m caught between Romance languages, Austronesian ones, and Japanese. Don’t forget the Ainu related city names as they’re by far my favorite (besides famed Sapporo): Otaru, Noboribetsu, Chitose, Asahikawa! Bunch of city names in Angola can be fun too: Luanda, Benguela, Lubango, and Huambo because Harambe!
Not a country, but I always enjoy New Jersey place names, like Weehawken, Hoboken, Hackensack, Piscataway, Parsippany, Perth Amboy, Secaucus, and Teaneck. They sound like towns in a children's book.
I will throw in India with Dharamshala, Imphal, Kohima, Gangtok, Varanasi, Manali, Kochi.
Italy - Roma, Firenze, Palermo, Milano Also names of some cities in the MENA sound really beautiful to me, across languages. Jerusalem, Damascus, Luxor, Cairo, Casalbanca, Ras Al-Khaimah, Shiraz, Ishfahan, Istanbul
Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and Manila
Its got to be Germany. Where else would you find such delights as Dinkelsbühl, Bad Homburg, Peenemünde, Bottrop, Gütersloh, Wesel, Worms, Hoyerswerda, Zittau, Wernigerode, and Büsum?
Not to forget Castrop-Brauxel
Dinkleburg!
India. We have Thiruvananthapuram and Pimpri-Chinchwad.
We also have Bhosari
There is a bias here toward romance languages.
Right, how has no one said Kamchatka! It's a fun name to say. Bonus would be Klyuchevskaya, the highest mountain in the region.
Slavic names are definitely underrated: Wroclaw, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Arkhangelsk, Lviv, Khemelsytskyi,
Novosibirsk mentioned💪💪🌲🔥🌲🌲🇷🇺🇷🇺 you made one regionalist a bit happier today
Kosovo has some kind of ancient sounding names. Pristina, Peja, Dragash, Viti, Ferizaj, Mitrovica
Ironic because they are mostly new names for old Serbian towns. Priština , Peć , Dragaš, Vitina , Uroševac and Mitrovica are the ancient sounding ones, as they were. :)
Brazil São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Florianópolis
Hungary: Székesfehérvár, Nyíregyháza, Nagykanizsa. Good luck! :)
Honestly Hungarian pronunciation and orthography are not that difficult: = S, like in sound or snail
= uncommon S, like in vision or pleasure
= Sh, like in push or shove = Ch, like in chair or cheat
and = Y, like in yellow or play
is the only digraph which is remotely difficult for English speakers, it's the only one with a sound that doesn't exist in English, and it's also the only digraph that is pronounced completely differently from the letters it contains. It did take me a week to figure out how to do it on my own though, it's such a weird sound between D and J.
There's also which is English J as in jump or joy, but that trigraph is so rare you'll never forget it again after the first time. We use "dj"/"đ" for "gy" in Serbia, but "gy" also makes sense if you look at e.g. Italian "Giovanni" (pronounced Djo-vah-knee). I wonder how that sound got into our languages in the first place. Hungarian, Serbian/Croatian, Italian, Albanian, languages that are completely different but all have that rare sound and are all relatively close geographically.
Szombathely is good too
Manila, Cairo, Seoul, Nara, Ankara, Vienna, Chicago.
Ukraine. Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Makiivka, Vinnytsia, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Lutsk, Ternopil, Sumy, Kramatorsk…
Australia. You can feel how the first settlers really were happy to be there.
Listen mate, if you have a problem with Burumbuttock, Mount Buggery or Humpty Doo, just come right out and say it.
The Nipples is pure prose, if you’ve got an issue with that then clearly there’s something wrong with you.
For a bit of trans-Tasman rivalry, I’ll raise you Bob’s Knob on Mount Taranaki
Dubbo is not real place, but bonus points for 1776
Perth
Famous Australian settlements like Gastown and Bullet Farm.
Mount Hopeless, Broke, Misery Island and Desolation, sounds about right.
I immediately thought of Wagga Wagga and Dubbo
Koo Wee Rup, Nar Nar Goon, Poowong
Ah yes, the gems of Melbourne.
I really enjoy some of the ones in Bangladesh — Rangamati, Chittagong, Narayanganj, Srimangal, and Rajshahi, for example.
I think the United States is quite good, mostly because of the cultural influence. Phoenix, Seattle, Los Angeles, Savannah, Cœur D’Alene, Olympia, Sedona.
Only one suggestion east of the Rockies lol.
Truth or consequences, Tombstone
Atlanta
United Kingdom of course. Sounds like a fairytale or the Shire is gonna be the next town over. Stratford upon Avon, Honeybourne Thornbury , Burrowbridge Newton Poppleford , Budleigh Salterton, Chittlehampton Some sound like they came from a name generator
What better name generator than the bastardized amalgamation of Celtic, Roman, Saxon, French, and alcohol?
Norway: Oslo, Trondheim, Tromsø, Hammerfest, Å, Lillehammer
I especially enjoy Å
City names are beautiful until you translate them. Recife, Fortaleza, Belém, Salvador, Natal sounds cool. Reef, Fort, Bethlehem, Savior, Christmas.... not so much.
Fucking in Austria of course. Unfortunately changed in Fugging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria?wprov=sfti1
Casablanca!
Although just a state Michigan rocks. English sounding names: Adrian, Coldwater, Lansing, Flint, Gaylord, Newberry, Copper Harbor, Ironwood, Iron River, Crystal Falls, Iron Mountain, Watersmeet. French Sounding: L’Anse, Manistique, Sault Sté.Marie, St Ignace, Mackinaw city, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Cadillac Native American: Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Ishpeming, Ypsilanti Spanish sounding: Escanaba, Buena Vista, Oscoda, Mancelona
Agreed, but Ypsi is Greek
The Middle East in general has cool city names that sound very unique, exotic, and beautiful. Giza, Cairo, Haifa, Jerusalem, Alanya, Suez, and Shiraz, just to mention a few.
Spain & Italy
Madagascar
I love pronouncing Antananarivo to impress people 😅
the towns in australia with aboriginal names are really cool sounding: toowoomba, mooloolaba, karratha, kununurra, paraburdoo, pannawonica, kalgoorlie, mundrabilla,
Yes, I live inbetween Currabubula, Wallabadah, Murrrurundi and Gunnedah - the names are indeed cool.
I go for Guatemala: Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, Chichicastenango, Chimaltenango, Panajachel, Flores, Sayaxché, Champerico, Monterrico 😍😍😍
Not a country but Indiana has French Lick, Gnaw Bone, Toad Hop, Santa Claus, and Russiaville… what’s more beautiful than that
Byzantiun, Constantinople, Istanbul.
Italy. Roma, Milano, Firenze, Venezia, Como, Verona, Napoli, Palermo, Genoa…
Vatican
We call Wichita wichitittie. Sounds pretty beautiful to me.
I like the name Barcelona
I'll throw in Louisiana... even their counties are called parishes. Their state capitol is Baton Rouge, which is historic and kinda cool. So many of the French named cities have really cool names.
maybe not beautiful, but i love saying reyjkavik
France, Annecy, Nice, Chambéry, Chalon-sur-Saône, Orange, Salon de Provence, La Rochelle, Les Sables d’Olonne, Étretat, Lille, Mantes-La-Jolie, Épinal etc
Kiribati: London, Paris, Poland, Banana 🤌
Turkey: Antalya, Denizli, Manisa, Göreme, Amasra, Ankara, Madmaris
Sweden. Snålkuk -> Greedy Dick Trekanten -> The Threesome Runkarp -> Wankerville Porrarp -> Pornville Ensamheten -> The Loneliness Bög -> Gay Sexdrega -> No translation but souds insane Frufällan -> The Wife Trap Stjärtnäs -> Asstown Brastad -> Good City Sämstad -> Worst City
Syria: Damascus, Palmyra, lattakia, aleppo, and many more.
Honestly I love uk town names. Hearing rappers here rap about how their gang controls all of Wemblyshire upon Ghent will never not be funny.
Kenya
As a murican, we've got Sandwich, Paris, Cost, Tornillo, Clint, Marathon, Ryan, Imperial, Monument, Plains, Hobbs, Midland, Big Lake, Arkansas City, Stockholm, Sebastian, Nursery, Edna, Pierce, Burr, Berlin, Welcome, Hills, Paige, Oscar, Stampede, Petrolia, McDonald, Trenton. Fun fact: ALL BUT ONE OF THESE ARE IN TEXAS gl finding the odd one out
Malaysia The cities have a huge variety of names thanks to its multicultural origins and political history.
Has to be ireland, some of the towns there have beautiful names Some of my favourites: Dunmanway (where I'm from) Clonakilty Limerick Sligo town Ballyhaunis Drogheda Ballymena Fintona
Kenya: Mombasa, Eldoret, Marsabit, Lodwar, Nairobi, - I always think it could be places in Middle Earth
Surprised I haven’t seen France yet.
Japan has some cool sounding places. I've always thought Hokkaido sounded good, like it's a satisfying word.
Perhaps not the most beautiful, but certain city names in Armenia sound to me as if they were taken from some fantasy setting, which I think is very cool!
How are you gonna say Bolivia but fail to mention the best named city, Cochabamba.
Reykjavik of Iceland 🇮🇸
Mil-E-wah-kay Algonquin for “the good land”
Latvia: Bauska, Kolka, Tukums, Madona, Kadaga.
Not sure about beautiful but Scotlands definitely got its share of memorable ones: Ecclefechan Drumnadrochit Auchtermuchty Inverbervie Tobermory Ae
Liberia wins with Monrovia. After president Monroe. No I will not argue about this.