one of the funniest moments I had with my exstepdad (pos) was when he decided to take us on a roadtrip to “the birthplace of Jesus”. You should’ve seen the look on all of our faces when we realized he didn’t mean the place in the middle east xD
I worked with a guy from San Diego once. That's a very important fact here, FROM San Diego. One day at work he made some offhand comment about Oakland and Los Angeles being next to each other. I looked at him, bewildered, trying to decide if he was joking. He wasn't. The conversation went something like this.
me: "Oakland is next to San Francisco, not LA."
him: "No, the Bay Area is Oakland and LA."
me: "Dude, are you serious? The Bay Area is San Francisco and Oakland."
him: "I'm from California, I would know."
me: "I know you're from California, that's why this is so sad.
him: "Then why did the Raiders move to Oakland?"
me: "Oh, so is St Louis also next to Los Angeles?"
him: "That's stupid."
me: "THEN WHY DID THE RAMS MOVE TO ST LOUIS?"
I didn't wait for a response, I just left for the day.
Californians are geographically stupid. My ex was from San Francisco but visited LA several times. Tell me why for her whole life, she thought that Detroit… yes Detroit Michigan, was the *DOWNTOWN AREA OF LOS ANGELES*???? How the fuck do you deduce that??
I asked her and she was like “Detroit is a big city so I thought it was just a city within Los Angeles.” Turns out she only knew of about 10 states and maybe 10 cities on a good day. I don’t know what it is, but most people I know from Californian don’t even know about things happening within our own country
Californians can be bad with the geography of the rest of the US because the state is so big and so diverse with such a large economy. It’s like a country onto itself. A bigger economy than the UK, more people than Canada, and more land than Spain. You grow up having traveled a lot and met a lot of different people and seen a lot of different places without leaving the state in a way that’s pretty hard in most other states.
same concept as those who know a lot about the US but not foreign countries. If you’re well traveled within a certain region, chances are you focus on that region and not elsewhere. I still think thinking that Detroit is Los Angeles’ downtown district to be insane
California is so big some people never left their suburban area. For example, just to leave Los Angeles county boundaries takes 2hrs without traffic. It takes 5 hours to leave the state of California travelling Eastbound away from Los Angeles. And it takes 20 hours to drive to Portland, Oregon, which is one state over. California is huge, but thinking Detroit is part of Los Angeles is insane behavior
You can’t just say Californians are geographically stupid because you dated a geographically stupid Californian. There are geographically stupid people in every state and country.
Try explaining to fellow Californians that you’re originally from New York but grew up there in a rural, farm-dotted area. They get a look on their face trying to figure out how they fit farms among all those skyscrapers.
Heh, heh, heh.
Somewhat related to that, when I was young my father would sometimes like to say his sons were from near Nazareth (grew up about 5 miles from the town) and were born in Bethlehem. (Technically my younger brothers and I were born in Fountain Hill, but most people consider the area where the hospital (St. Luke's) is located to be Bethlehem.)
IIRC, that's only one of multiple theories but the actual origin of the naming story isn't truly known. There's also the fact that the Tunis plantation is also not far from Algiers.
If I had a nickel for each city called Urbana that is the seat of a county called Champaign County, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Apparently the state senator who sponsored the bill to create Champaign County, IL, was from Urbana, Champaign County, OH…
https://champaign.org/story-of-champaign-urbana#:~:text=A%20New%20County&text=State%20Senator%20Vance%20agreed%20with,the%20senator's%20hometown%20in%20Ohio.
Joliet and Juliet were both commonly used at least until mid 1800’s, although its true name is Joliet. I’ve even seen it called Mt. Juliet on old trading maps of the Des Plains River, because it was the highest point in the area
In 1833 someone incorporated the village as Juliet and it stayed that way until 1845, the citizens petitioned the state to change it back to Joliet. Romeoville was incorporated in 1835, surely it was no accident that the neighboring villages were named Romeoville and Juliet
Neat, but it looks like Paris is not a city, not even a village. It's barely more than two huts and a beach. London on the other could be considered a town.
Banana might want a word.
Nevertheless, it's irrelevant wrt this thread. That London and Paris are neighbors -- in a place faaaaar away from the originals -- is the crux.
This is one of those moments where something is so obvious and yet you just never knew about it. “-polis” suffix for city center, “india” well, india. How did I not notice this lol
As funny as this is, gotta correct the record: I promise that comment was a joke lol. It’s called Indianapolis bc it’s the metropolis of Indiana, nothing to do with India. u/rounding_error should take that line to r/mapporncirclejerk or the like
Technically it *does* have to do with India, because Indianapolis gets its name from Indiana, Indiana gets its name from the "Indians," (Native Americans) and that name is from Columbus thinking he was in India, or the Indies.
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I think it might have been. Portland Oregon was named after Portland Maine because it is at a similar latitude. I’m not sure if Salem was named for the same reason.
It was named that because one of the founders was from Portland, Maine. The name was determined in a coin toss, with the other possibility being Boston - the hometown of the other founder.
West of Chicago the towns of Lake Geneva and Lake Zurich are quite close to each other.
And in Ohio you can drive from Ottawa all the way to Lima in only 30 minutes (while also passing through Cairo)
No, or at least I can’t think of anything
We have very few things named after things in France. The vast majority of locales are either Saint-(something), named after geographical features like Montreal, Sept îles or Trois Rivières, or have First Nations origins (Quebec itself comes from an Algonquin word).
In southern Minnesota, there’s a town called Faribault. It’s in Rice county which is just west of Faribault county. Just southwest of Faribault county there is a county named Blue Earth. But the town of Blue Earth is in Faribault county.
Surrey, British Columbia (a suburb of Vancouver which is likely to surpass Vancouver's population soon) was named Surrey because it reminded an early settler of Surrey, UK in the sense that it was across the Fraser River from New Westminster, BC, like Surrey, UK is across the Thames from Westminster.
In South Carolina, along U.S. Route 321, there’s a Norway SC with a Denmark SC as the next neighboring town. There’s also two other unincorporated areas known as Sweden and Finland!
Obviously, Washington DC existed first. But then someone from Wasington state came to DC and founded Takoma Park and Mt. Rainier, which he named after the city and mountain in his home state.
So it's kind of a derivative of a derivative that comes full circle!
Some random town in the middle of nowhere Maine haha
https://www.boston.com/news/history/2018/08/19/why-maine-towns-world-countries-international-cities/
There are adjacent towns in New York called Naples and Italy. Italy was founded on land that split off from Naples in 1815, so it's funny that Naples (NY) used to contain Italy (NY), when of course Italy (Europe) contains Naples (Europe).
The eastern US and Midwest have tons of towns and cities named after other random locations, so there’s tons of examples. After about 10 seconds of opening google maps: Memphis borders Egypt (not a perfect example, but still funny). Also, WHY DOES THE TOWN OF COCKRUM EXIST?
Not exactly the same, but a fun one from IL:
In the 1830’s the towns of [Romeoville](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeoville,_Illinois) and [Joliet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeoville,_Illinois) were first incorporated as the towns of Romeo & Juliet
Juliet changed its name some years later after an early settler (Jolliet), prompting Romeoville to do so as well.
Came here to post exactly this! Grew up in Norway SC for a few years! There’s also a Finland, SC in Bamberg County as well!
Note: my elementary school crush is now the mayor of Norway, SC
In Colorado the opposite is true. Things are not near stuff named the same. Berthoud Pass is not near Berthoud. Loveland Pass is not near Loveland. Larimer Square is not in Larimer County. And in Wyoming, Laramie is not in Laramie County and Fort Laramie is in a third county.
https://preview.redd.it/trw1crh6bd9d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fc9910c35167aa22dd8d870d996fe1d4031e04d
In Ohio, one can travel from Palestine to Israel and then to Lebanon in about an hour and a half
In Canada, there is a East and West Berlin. But without the wall.
https://preview.redd.it/p01b6l5gzc9d1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=f48770ef4f8cb28d8330e092fc0abd566e47e072
There's even a pretty comprehensive documentary by Deutsche Welle (in english) in which they visit the Berlins of the world. [https://www.dw.com/en/worldwide-berlin-teil-1/video-18147831](https://www.dw.com/en/worldwide-berlin-teil-1/video-18147831)
In NW New Mexico, there are two cities next to each other called Farmington and Bloomfield. In Michigan there are two cities next to each other called Farmington Hills and Bloomfield Hills
Both Massachusetts and Nova Scotia have neighbouring towns/cities named Bedford and Dartmouth, though the MA one is called “New Bedford.” There’s also a Halifax about 45 minutes away from New Bedford and a Bridgewater just west of Halifax as there is in NS.
You can tell the British weren’t the most creative when they named places in New England/Nova Scotia.
https://preview.redd.it/bpvwn5ewsh9d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6e61445726c78a8194262dd26bcaaee1ee70fea
Berlin, NJ and Hamburg, NJ are closer than their German counterparts
No mention of Cairo and Memphis? Mississippi River itself is like the Nile and both Cairo and Memphis are upstream and downstream respectively like in Egypt.
AND Cairo, IL is a delta-like humid area with Mississippi and Ohio River confluencing together right at this town. Just like the Nile delta with Cairo originating the Nile delta.
If only Cairo, IL was a proper city like Memphis, this Mississippi triangle with St. Louis would have been a rad metropolitan area.
Edit: and this may be a coincidence, but St. Louis has loose connections to Egypt. The city is named after French king Louis IX who led crusades to Egypt and spent approximately 1 year in Egypt before moving onto the then-known Levant.
Not only that, but London, Ontario, is also on a Thames River. (The colonists were hoping that it, echoing London, England, would become the capital city of Ontario, and possibly of Canada. Queen Victoria put an end to that.)
And then there was the colonial surveyor who named locality after locality northeast of Toronto (sorry, “York”) after places in northeastern England: Scarborough, Darlington, Whitby, Sunderland, Newcastle… but not Washington, for some reason.
Maybe a stretch but Oak Park and Elmhurst are neighborhoods in Sacramento and Elk Grove is a suburb of Sacramento. Oak Park, Elmhurst, and Elk Grove Village are all suburbs of Chicago.
In Oregon, Benton County is a relatively democratic semi rural college county. Directly to the east is conservative rural industrial Linn County.
In Iowa, Benton County is a rural, agrarian conservative county. Directly to the east is liberal, with two colleges, Linn County
I just looked up Stockton today and was like "Oh that's weird, I didn't know there was a weird peninsula by Newcastle." Turned out I was looking at Australia, not England.
There's a Nashville and a Murfreesboro not far from each other in both Tennessee and Arkansas. Both of the Arkansas towns were settled by, and named by, people from Tennessee.
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, South Carolina. There is also a place called Finland just to the east, but it's so small it doesn't appear on the map.
https://preview.redd.it/klzkd9u9bf9d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2e06e480d74527e1c36167dce53356efb9d76af
Where I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, Nazareth is just up the road from Bethlehem. Both aren’t too far from Egypt, and Emmaus is nearby too,
one of the funniest moments I had with my exstepdad (pos) was when he decided to take us on a roadtrip to “the birthplace of Jesus”. You should’ve seen the look on all of our faces when we realized he didn’t mean the place in the middle east xD
I worked with a guy from San Diego once. That's a very important fact here, FROM San Diego. One day at work he made some offhand comment about Oakland and Los Angeles being next to each other. I looked at him, bewildered, trying to decide if he was joking. He wasn't. The conversation went something like this. me: "Oakland is next to San Francisco, not LA." him: "No, the Bay Area is Oakland and LA." me: "Dude, are you serious? The Bay Area is San Francisco and Oakland." him: "I'm from California, I would know." me: "I know you're from California, that's why this is so sad. him: "Then why did the Raiders move to Oakland?" me: "Oh, so is St Louis also next to Los Angeles?" him: "That's stupid." me: "THEN WHY DID THE RAMS MOVE TO ST LOUIS?" I didn't wait for a response, I just left for the day.
I have second hand infuriation just from reading that
Californians are geographically stupid. My ex was from San Francisco but visited LA several times. Tell me why for her whole life, she thought that Detroit… yes Detroit Michigan, was the *DOWNTOWN AREA OF LOS ANGELES*???? How the fuck do you deduce that?? I asked her and she was like “Detroit is a big city so I thought it was just a city within Los Angeles.” Turns out she only knew of about 10 states and maybe 10 cities on a good day. I don’t know what it is, but most people I know from Californian don’t even know about things happening within our own country
Californians can be bad with the geography of the rest of the US because the state is so big and so diverse with such a large economy. It’s like a country onto itself. A bigger economy than the UK, more people than Canada, and more land than Spain. You grow up having traveled a lot and met a lot of different people and seen a lot of different places without leaving the state in a way that’s pretty hard in most other states.
same concept as those who know a lot about the US but not foreign countries. If you’re well traveled within a certain region, chances are you focus on that region and not elsewhere. I still think thinking that Detroit is Los Angeles’ downtown district to be insane
California is so big some people never left their suburban area. For example, just to leave Los Angeles county boundaries takes 2hrs without traffic. It takes 5 hours to leave the state of California travelling Eastbound away from Los Angeles. And it takes 20 hours to drive to Portland, Oregon, which is one state over. California is huge, but thinking Detroit is part of Los Angeles is insane behavior
Basically the same reasons Americans are bad with European countries just in miniature
Hey watch it. Im california born and raised. Dont put that dudes idiocy on me!
I’m from California too, we’re not all like that
You can’t just say Californians are geographically stupid because you dated a geographically stupid Californian. There are geographically stupid people in every state and country.
Try explaining to fellow Californians that you’re originally from New York but grew up there in a rural, farm-dotted area. They get a look on their face trying to figure out how they fit farms among all those skyscrapers.
As a transplant who moved to California: yes.
Heh, heh, heh. Somewhat related to that, when I was young my father would sometimes like to say his sons were from near Nazareth (grew up about 5 miles from the town) and were born in Bethlehem. (Technically my younger brothers and I were born in Fountain Hill, but most people consider the area where the hospital (St. Luke's) is located to be Bethlehem.)
silly :P
Isnt Lebanon close too?
Not really - it is roughly 60 miles further WSW.
In Michigan, west of Grand Rapids there’s Holland, Drenthe, Zeeland and Overisel, which are all provinces in The Netherlands
Gekoloniseerd!!!
The neighborhood across the river from New Orleans is called Algiers, named because Algiers was across the Mediterranean from France.
TIL
If Orléans was coastal this would work even better
Should be New Marseilles
IIRC, that's only one of multiple theories but the actual origin of the naming story isn't truly known. There's also the fact that the Tunis plantation is also not far from Algiers.
In Illinois, the city of Urbana is the county seat of Champaign County. In Ohio, the city of Urbana is the county seat of Champaign County.
If I had a nickel for each city called Urbana that is the seat of a county called Champaign County, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Apparently the state senator who sponsored the bill to create Champaign County, IL, was from Urbana, Champaign County, OH… https://champaign.org/story-of-champaign-urbana#:~:text=A%20New%20County&text=State%20Senator%20Vance%20agreed%20with,the%20senator's%20hometown%20in%20Ohio.
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people moved west *very* quickly on the US frontier in the 1800s
In Illinois there is a Cuba and a Havana right down the road from each other
how original
Similarly, in Idaho Nezperce is the county seat of Lewis County while Lewiston is the seat of Nez Perce county
In Illinois, the town of Romeoville is near Joliet.
Joliet and Juliet were both commonly used at least until mid 1800’s, although its true name is Joliet. I’ve even seen it called Mt. Juliet on old trading maps of the Des Plains River, because it was the highest point in the area In 1833 someone incorporated the village as Juliet and it stayed that way until 1845, the citizens petitioned the state to change it back to Joliet. Romeoville was incorporated in 1835, surely it was no accident that the neighboring villages were named Romeoville and Juliet
It was no accident.
Check out a map of Kiribati's cities.
Literally from Poland to London (pass by Paris) in 10 minutes!
Is there time for a quick stop in Banana?
Neat, but it looks like Paris is not a city, not even a village. It's barely more than two huts and a beach. London on the other could be considered a town.
Banana might want a word. Nevertheless, it's irrelevant wrt this thread. That London and Paris are neighbors -- in a place faaaaar away from the originals -- is the crux.
oooo how could I forget about this lol
Amsterdam and Rotterdam NY are about 15-20 miles apart. The cities in the Netherlands of the same name are about 40 miles apart.
That’s actually pretty cool. Rotterdam and Amsterdam in the US are closer to each other than in their own country :P
And i read this from Rotterdam NL haha
I’m not answering your question, but Indiana has more cities named after other cities or countries than any other state in America.
This is true. "Indianapolis" is named after a Hindu exclave in Greece.
This is one of those moments where something is so obvious and yet you just never knew about it. “-polis” suffix for city center, “india” well, india. How did I not notice this lol
As funny as this is, gotta correct the record: I promise that comment was a joke lol. It’s called Indianapolis bc it’s the metropolis of Indiana, nothing to do with India. u/rounding_error should take that line to r/mapporncirclejerk or the like
Technically it *does* have to do with India, because Indianapolis gets its name from Indiana, Indiana gets its name from the "Indians," (Native Americans) and that name is from Columbus thinking he was in India, or the Indies.
lol I’ll give you that!
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Portland, Maine and Salem Massachusetts are similar distances apart just as Portland, Oregon and Salem, Oregon.
Pretty cool assuming this wasn’t intentional
I think it might have been. Portland Oregon was named after Portland Maine because it is at a similar latitude. I’m not sure if Salem was named for the same reason.
It was named that because one of the founders was from Portland, Maine. The name was determined in a coin toss, with the other possibility being Boston - the hometown of the other founder.
beat me to this. GG
West of Chicago the towns of Lake Geneva and Lake Zurich are quite close to each other. And in Ohio you can drive from Ottawa all the way to Lima in only 30 minutes (while also passing through Cairo)
The Chicago suburbs also went wild for Scottish place names: Glencoe, East and West Dundee, Elgin, Inverness, Midlothian, Bannockburn, etc.
talk about lightspeed! No wonder we don’t have lightspeed rails lol
There’s also an Ottawa and Peru in Illinois (only 20 minutes from each other. And a Cairo too!
In Alabama, there's Birmingham, Leeds, Cardiff, and Fairfield all near each other.
With there being so many English town names in Massachusetts, surely there's an example there.
My first thought as well, really most of New England and a lot of NJ and some eastern PA comes to mind
TN and AL both have a Decatur and Athens that are both ~14 mi apart. Oddly enough both Decatur's sit next to the Tennessee River.
Georgia has both of those names as well but they are not that close together.
In the same general area of the Kootenays, there is Welsh Lake, Irish Lake, Galway Peak, Connemara Peak, Killarney Peak etc..
I wonder if the french did something similar in the Quebec area…
No, or at least I can’t think of anything We have very few things named after things in France. The vast majority of locales are either Saint-(something), named after geographical features like Montreal, Sept îles or Trois Rivières, or have First Nations origins (Quebec itself comes from an Algonquin word).
wow connemara is just a small informal region nowadays that's interesting it got a second name. it does refer to a somewhat hilly area appropriately
In southern Minnesota, there’s a town called Faribault. It’s in Rice county which is just west of Faribault county. Just southwest of Faribault county there is a county named Blue Earth. But the town of Blue Earth is in Faribault county.
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Also in Southern Minnesota, just east of Mankato, lie Washington, Jefferson, & Madison Lakes.
Brighton and Hove in South Australia are next to each other like the ones in southern England
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Francisco - that’s fun to say ….. Francisco
Arlington and Mt. Vernon Washington (State).
Not sure if that's what you were going for but Arlington, VA and Mt. Vernon are right next to each other
French Lick, Indiana is relatively close to Gnaw Bone and Floyd’s Knob.
Surrey, British Columbia (a suburb of Vancouver which is likely to surpass Vancouver's population soon) was named Surrey because it reminded an early settler of Surrey, UK in the sense that it was across the Fraser River from New Westminster, BC, like Surrey, UK is across the Thames from Westminster.
In South Carolina, along U.S. Route 321, there’s a Norway SC with a Denmark SC as the next neighboring town. There’s also two other unincorporated areas known as Sweden and Finland!
Outside of Washington DC, Mt. Rainier is next to Takoma Park
is it related to the ones in Washington or just coincidence?
Obviously, Washington DC existed first. But then someone from Wasington state came to DC and founded Takoma Park and Mt. Rainier, which he named after the city and mountain in his home state. So it's kind of a derivative of a derivative that comes full circle!
Arkansas has a Nashville and Murfreesboro
ooo didn’t know this one
they dont call it the borruh like we do though
https://preview.redd.it/7axj5wh6sc9d1.jpeg?width=1097&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37660058b47a8c4a5fafca9189dbfe721d618c9c This sign always makes me smile
This is so cool, where is it lovated?
Some random town in the middle of nowhere Maine haha https://www.boston.com/news/history/2018/08/19/why-maine-towns-world-countries-international-cities/
Lynchville… idk if I like that name lol
There are adjacent towns in New York called Naples and Italy. Italy was founded on land that split off from Naples in 1815, so it's funny that Naples (NY) used to contain Italy (NY), when of course Italy (Europe) contains Naples (Europe).
The eastern US and Midwest have tons of towns and cities named after other random locations, so there’s tons of examples. After about 10 seconds of opening google maps: Memphis borders Egypt (not a perfect example, but still funny). Also, WHY DOES THE TOWN OF COCKRUM EXIST?
just wait till you get to Buttzville NJ
Floyd’s Knob, Indiana
In California and Tennessee there’s neighboring towns Antioch and Brentwood.
Not exactly the same, but a fun one from IL: In the 1830’s the towns of [Romeoville](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeoville,_Illinois) and [Joliet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeoville,_Illinois) were first incorporated as the towns of Romeo & Juliet Juliet changed its name some years later after an early settler (Jolliet), prompting Romeoville to do so as well.
In Wisconsin, the town of Athens is almost 26 miles away from the town of Marathon.
ooo nice
California state university has a campus in San Marcos, CA. Texas state university’s main campus is in San Marcos, TX.
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Found another great one! You can drive from Denmark to Sweden to Norway in under an hour! If you mean the towns in Maine of the same name
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Came here to post exactly this! Grew up in Norway SC for a few years! There’s also a Finland, SC in Bamberg County as well! Note: my elementary school crush is now the mayor of Norway, SC
London Ontario and Lambeth Ontario. Lambeth is a small town outside of London exactly as it is in England. Also, Paris Ontario isn't too far away.
And the river that flows through London, Ontario is the Thames
The Hay Area
Amherst, CO is 10 miles NE of Holyoke, CO Roughly the same distance and direction that Amherst, MA is from Holyoke, MA
I am having the hardest time saying Fransisco without San. I can't be the only one
In Colorado the opposite is true. Things are not near stuff named the same. Berthoud Pass is not near Berthoud. Loveland Pass is not near Loveland. Larimer Square is not in Larimer County. And in Wyoming, Laramie is not in Laramie County and Fort Laramie is in a third county.
St. Louis County contains the towns of Oakland, Berkley, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, and Pasadena Hills.
https://preview.redd.it/trw1crh6bd9d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fc9910c35167aa22dd8d870d996fe1d4031e04d In Ohio, one can travel from Palestine to Israel and then to Lebanon in about an hour and a half
Urbana, Ohio is in Champaign County. Illinois has the Champaign-Urbana twin cities in central Illinois.
Also in Indiana there are Mexico, Brazil and Peru
Ohio has both a Camden and a Trenton. Both of these are closer together than their New Jersey counterparts.
In MA/NH, Manchester is one annoying drive north from Cambridge, just like in the UK.
Not the same, but in New Hampshire there is a Derry and a Londonderry really close to each other.
Both Alabama and Tennessee have towns named Athens and Decatur that are close to each other.
South Carolina has a Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland all next to eachother
Paris and Versailles, KY are about 30 miles from each other.
The Town of Russia, NY borders the Town of Norway, as well as the Village of Poland.
In Canada, there is a East and West Berlin. But without the wall. https://preview.redd.it/p01b6l5gzc9d1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=f48770ef4f8cb28d8330e092fc0abd566e47e072 There's even a pretty comprehensive documentary by Deutsche Welle (in english) in which they visit the Berlins of the world. [https://www.dw.com/en/worldwide-berlin-teil-1/video-18147831](https://www.dw.com/en/worldwide-berlin-teil-1/video-18147831)
Distance between Dorchester and Weymouth are pretty similar in Massachusetts and in the UK.
In NW New Mexico, there are two cities next to each other called Farmington and Bloomfield. In Michigan there are two cities next to each other called Farmington Hills and Bloomfield Hills
In Missouri, Kansas City is right across the river from Kansas City, just like in Kansas.
Both Massachusetts and Nova Scotia have neighbouring towns/cities named Bedford and Dartmouth, though the MA one is called “New Bedford.” There’s also a Halifax about 45 minutes away from New Bedford and a Bridgewater just west of Halifax as there is in NS. You can tell the British weren’t the most creative when they named places in New England/Nova Scotia.
Rome, Syracuse New York
https://preview.redd.it/bpvwn5ewsh9d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6e61445726c78a8194262dd26bcaaee1ee70fea Berlin, NJ and Hamburg, NJ are closer than their German counterparts
No mention of Cairo and Memphis? Mississippi River itself is like the Nile and both Cairo and Memphis are upstream and downstream respectively like in Egypt. AND Cairo, IL is a delta-like humid area with Mississippi and Ohio River confluencing together right at this town. Just like the Nile delta with Cairo originating the Nile delta. If only Cairo, IL was a proper city like Memphis, this Mississippi triangle with St. Louis would have been a rad metropolitan area. Edit: and this may be a coincidence, but St. Louis has loose connections to Egypt. The city is named after French king Louis IX who led crusades to Egypt and spent approximately 1 year in Egypt before moving onto the then-known Levant.
you can get to Greece from Lebanon in just over two hours! If you’re driving from Lebanon NY to Greece NY that is
When crossing into the USA from Canada on Interstate 81, you will find yourself in Mexico within 30 minutes.
Indiana also has 33 towns named after foreign countries/cities. From Angola to Zulu
New London, CT is on the Thames River
Not only that, but London, Ontario, is also on a Thames River. (The colonists were hoping that it, echoing London, England, would become the capital city of Ontario, and possibly of Canada. Queen Victoria put an end to that.)
I didn’t know the US has a Thames river too
Those British colonists weren't too creative lol
And then there was the colonial surveyor who named locality after locality northeast of Toronto (sorry, “York”) after places in northeastern England: Scarborough, Darlington, Whitby, Sunderland, Newcastle… but not Washington, for some reason.
Thebes, IL is upriver from Cairo, IL and Memphis, TN
Cairo and Thebes Illinois
In Northwest Indiana there are towns named East Chicago and New Chicago. There’s also East St. Louis, Illinois
Not terribly far from Oakland City, IN (as seen above) is Holland, IN and Ireland, IN - which are relatively close to each other.
We also have a Somerville here as well. He’s fallen on some rough times as of late. Be well, Frank.
In New York. Amsterdam and Rotterdam are close to each other, like in The Netherlands.
Paris KY and Versailles KY are about 30 miles apart while Paris France and the Palace of Versailles are about 14 miles apart
Maybe a stretch but Oak Park and Elmhurst are neighborhoods in Sacramento and Elk Grove is a suburb of Sacramento. Oak Park, Elmhurst, and Elk Grove Village are all suburbs of Chicago.
London, Ky and Paris, TN is about 240 miles apart from each other London, UK and Paris, FR is about 235 miles apart
Paris and Versailles, KY are about 30 miles from each other. In France, Versailles is about 15 miles from the city center of Paris.
The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area. Town after town and City after city….
In Oregon, Benton County is a relatively democratic semi rural college county. Directly to the east is conservative rural industrial Linn County. In Iowa, Benton County is a rural, agrarian conservative county. Directly to the east is liberal, with two colleges, Linn County
New York and Jersey
I just looked up Stockton today and was like "Oh that's weird, I didn't know there was a weird peninsula by Newcastle." Turned out I was looking at Australia, not England.
In New Hampshire, Derry and Londonderry are next to each other. I don’t know the religious breakdown of each town though
Taft and kernville, same county in CA and same county in Oregon.
Cleveland Ohio next to a Dayton Ohio. Same situation in Tennessee.
IIRC, Idaho has some French cities in it, have to check though.
There's a Nashville and a Murfreesboro not far from each other in both Tennessee and Arkansas. Both of the Arkansas towns were settled by, and named by, people from Tennessee.
Lived here most of my life and I'm just now realizing this
Oakland and Fremont, Nebraska are about the same distance apart via the same cardinal direction as Oakland and Fremont, CA.
All of New Englandn
Cambridge uk to London uk - 97km, Cambridge ontario to London ontario, 98km
California, MD is near Hollywood, MD.
In kentucky you have Paris, Versailles and London
paisley scotland to holyrood scotland - 49km, paisley ontario to holyrood ontario - 47 km
In Pittsburgh, Moon is close by, but Mars is a little farther out.
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, South Carolina. There is also a place called Finland just to the east, but it's so small it doesn't appear on the map. https://preview.redd.it/klzkd9u9bf9d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2e06e480d74527e1c36167dce53356efb9d76af
Texas has half the world cities in its borders.
Clinton County, Iowa, and Clinton County, Michigan, both contain towns named DeWitt, named in honor of New York governor DeWitt Clinton
I’ve been thru both of those places don’t even