List of toponyms

General

• Acapulco (as in ... gold)
• Armageddon
• Auschwitz
• Babel
• Balkanized
• Bantustan
• Bay St.
• Beltway
• Berlin Wall
• Bible
• Bikini
• Blarney
• Boetian
• Bohemian
• Bordeaux
• Brazilianization
• Bronx Cheer
• Brummagem (denotes goods of shoddy quality, from Birmingham)
• Bungalow
• Burgundy
• Byzantine
• Canary
• Cantaloupe (named after the Pope's summer residence of Cantalupo)
• Carthaginian (peace)
• Caucasian
• Champagne
• Chautauqua
• China
• Chinese Wall
• Continental Breakfast
• Coventry
• Cuban (sub sandwich in Florida)
• Denim
• Detroit
• Dijon
• Dixieland
• Dollar
• Donneybrook
• Doolally
• Dunkirk
• Eden
• El Dorado
• Essex (nouveau riche sensibility)
• Fez
• Frankfurter
• Georgia (font)
• Gibraltar
• Greek (all Greek to me)
• Gypsy (from Egyptian)
• Hamburger
• Havana (smoke a...)
• Hell
• Hicksville
• Holland (cotton or linen fabric)
• Hollandaise
• Hollywood
• Indian
• Java
• Jersey
• Jerez (sherry)
• Labyrinth
• Left Bank
• Lesbian
• Lilliputian
• Madison Ave.
• Magenta
• Manhatten
• Marathon
• Madeira
• Madras (plaid)
• Manchester (as in textiles)
• Manila
• Marseillaise
• Masada
• Mausoleum
• Mecca
• Mocha
• Mongoloid
• Motown
• Neanderthal
• Nuremberg (defense)
• Olympian
• Paisley
• Palookaville
• Pantheon
• Pax Romana
• Peking Duck
• Peoria
• Peyton Place
• Port
• Rubicon
• Rugby
• Salisbury Steak (many more British foods named after places)
• Sardines
• Seltzer
• Shambala
• Shanghaid
• Shangrai-la
• Siamese
• Siberia
• Silicon Valley
• Sodomy
• Solecism
• Spa (resort in Belgium)
• Stalingrad
• Surrey (horse-drawn carriage)
• Timbuktu
• Trojan Horse
• Trojaned
• Utopia
• Wall St.
• Watergate
• Waterloo
• Wellingtons
• Woodstock
• Zion

• Hiroshima
• Kyoto
• Maastricht
• Munich
• Oslo
• Potsdam
• Seattle
• Yalta

• Colby
• Munster
• Swiss
• American
• Cheddar
• Gruyere
• Limburg(er)
• Parme(san)
• Roma(no)
• Aveyron(nais)
• Roquefort
• Gloucester
• Cheshire
• Lancashire
• Leicester
• Wensleydale
• Caerphilly
• Derby
• Monterey (Jacks)
• Gorgonzola
• Tilsit
• Gouda

• Americium
• Californium (California)
• Europium
• Francium (France)
• Gallium (Gallia, Latin name for France)
• Germanium (Germany)
• Polonium (Poland)
• Ruthenium (Ruthenia, Latin name for Russia)
• Scandium (Scandia, Latin name for Scandinavia)
• Thulium (Thule, ancient name for Scandinavia)
• Indium (India)
• Berkelium (Berkley, home of Univ. of California)
• Erbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
• Hafnium (Hafnia, Latin name for Copenhagen)
• Holfrlium (Holmia, Latin name for Stockholm)
• Lutetium (Latetia, old name for Paris)
• Magnesium (Magnesia, district in Thessaly)
• Rhenium (Rhenus, Latin name for Rhine)
• Strontium (Strontiun, town in Scotland)
• Terbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
• Ytterbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
• Yttrium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)