List of interesting or unusual place names

The following international geographical names are either interesting or unusual (place names are often either meaningless or innocuous in the source language). This list is provided chiefly for its entertainment value.

See also: toponymy, list of toponyms, inherently funny word, humor, sex related topics, longest word in English.

• Å, Norway
• Amerika, Germany[?]
• Anting, China
• Arsoli[?], Lazio, Italy
• Bad Kissingen[?], Germany
• Banana, Australia[?]
• Bang Bang Jump Up, a rock formation in Australia
• Big Bone Lick[?], Kentucky
• Blubberhouses[?], Yorkshire, England
• Blue Ball, Pennsylvania[?]
• Bob ¹
• Boom, Belgium
• Boring, Oregon[?], USA
• Bottom, North Carolina[?]
• Bra, Italy[?]
• Brown Willy[?], a tor in Cornwall, UK
• Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts
• Chinaman's Knob[?], Australia
• Climax, Colorado[?]
• Condom, France
• Cunter, Switzerland
• Die, France[?]
• Dikshit[?], India
• Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Ed, Sweden[?]
• Elephant Butte, New Mexico
• Eighty-Eight, Kentucky[?]
• Foul Mile, England
• French Lick, Indiana
• Frisby on the Wreake[?], Leicestershire, England
• Fucking, Austria
• Fuku[?], China
• Goodyear, Arizona
• Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, a train station in Gwynedd, Wales
• Grand Tetons, Wyoming, USA (meaning: "big tits" in French)
• Gunbarrel, Colorado
• Gunbarrel Highway[?], Australia
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta, Canada
• Hell, Michigan[?]
• Hell, Norway
• Hell Hole Gorge National Park, Australia
• Hells Gate Roadhouse[?], Australia
• Hérrison, France[?] (meaning: "hedgehog")
• Himmelspforte, Germany[?] (meaning: "heaven's gate")
• How, Wisconsin
• Humpty Doo, Australia
• Intercourse, Pennsylvania
• Isles of Scilly (pronounced "silly"), England
• Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Kokomo, Indiana
• Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit, the poetic name of Bangkok
• Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, Australia
• Lake Titicaca
• Lickey End[?], Worcestershire, England
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales
• Lower Slaughter[?], Gloucestershire, England
• Lord Hereford's Knob[?], hill on the Welsh border
• Lough Neagh[?] (pronounced 'Lock Nay!'), Northern Ireland
• Macgillicuddy's Reeks, mountains in Ireland
• Mianus, Connecticut[?]
• Mockbeggar, England
• Moose Factory[?], Canada
• Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky[?]
• Mount Jerome[?], Ireland
• Muck[?], island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
• Muff, Northern Ireland[?]
• Mumbles, Wales
• Mutters[?], Austria
• Natters[?], Austria
• Ninety Six, South Carolina
• No Name, Colorado[?]
• Normal, Illinois
• Petting, Germany
• Piddle[?], river in Dorset, England
• Pis Pis River[?] Nicaragua
• Pity Me[?], England
• Pratt's Bottom, England
• Prickwillow[?], England
• Rancho Cucamonga, California
• Rann of Kachchh[?], India
• Rum[?], island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
• Rum Jungle[?], Australia
• Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha![?], Quebec, Canada
• Saint-Tite[?] (pronounced St. Tit), Quebec, Canada
• Salsipuedes[?], California (meaning: "leave if you can")
• Seldom Seen Roadhouse, Australia
• Semen, Indonesia[?]
• Sexmoan[?], Pampanga, Philippines (now renamed to Sasmuan)
• Sexsmith, Alberta[?]
• Shafter[?], California
• Shag Island[?]
• Shag Harbour[?], Nova Scotia, Canada
• Shittlehope[?], Durham, England
• Shitlington Crags[?], Northumberland, England
• Silly, Belgium
• Simmering, Vienna, Austria
• Snodland, England
• Sommerloch, Germany[?] (meaning: "summer slump")
• Spuzzum[?], British Columbia, Canada
• Swords, outside Dublin in Ireland
• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu Hill, New Zealand
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Tiruchchirappalli[?], India
• Titz[?], Germany
• Town of Seventeen Seventy[?], Australia
• Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
• Twatt[?], Orkney Islands, Scotland
• Twenty, Lincolnshire, England
• Ugley[?], Essex, England
• Void, France[?] (Now merged with neighbouring place to form Void-Vacon)
• Wagga Wagga[?], Australia
• Waikikamukau, New Zealand
• Walla Walla, Washington, USA
• Wank[?], mountain in Bavaria, Germany
• Wankers Corner, Oregon[?], USA
• Weed, California, USA
• Westward Ho![?], England (The exclamation mark is part of the name. The town takes its name from the title of a book by Charles Kingsley)
• Why, Arizona[?]
• Woolloomooloo, Sydney[?], Australia
• Worms, Germany (home of the Diet of Worms!)
• Y, Alaska

Notes: ¹After Nunavut separated from the Northwest Territories, a poll was conducted as to what the remainder of the territory should be named. Retaining the name Northwest Territories won by a substantial margin, but a distant runner-up choice was Bob. [1] (http://www.caldercup.com/CNEWSNunavut/feature11)