Unusual, Funny and Strange Town and Place names around the world
Few days ago, I was coming back from my home province to my workplace by bus. While enjoying the foggy winter morning through window, I read a milestone saying “Arai Hazar: 20 kilometers ahead”. The words “Arai Hazar” means "Two Thousand and Five Hundred" in English which is some strange as a place name. I was thinking if there are more places in this mother earth with unusual strange names. After coming back I searched the internet and found a lot of. Some of them are too funny and some reflects the intelligence behind the naming. I found some names which are explicitly adult in words so I omitted them.
- Acme (West Virginia, USA)
- Affetside (near Bury, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, UK)
- Air (Aberdeenshire, UK)
- Alewife (Boston, MA, USA)
- Arai Hazar (means “Two thousand and five hundred” in English, Bangladesh)
- Armed Knight (Cornwall, UK)
- Ass (Ukraine)
- Assawoman (Virginia, USA)
- Assloss (Ayrshire, Scotland)
- Baan Baan (near Bong Bong, St Dapto, NSW, Australia)
- Babes Well (Durham, UK)
- Backside (Banffshire, Scotland)
- Bake (Cornwall, UK)
- Bald Knob (NSW, Australia)
- Balls Falls (Twentymile Creek, Ontario, Canada)
- Bangers Whistle (Cornwall, UK)
- Bargain, Sorry (Cornwall, UK)
- Barking (Essex)
- Bashley (Hampshire, UK)
- Beer (Devon, UK)
- Beer Bottle Crossing (Idaho, USA)
- Beggars Bush (Sussex)
- Big Bone Lick (Kentucky, US)
- Big Knob (Kentucky, USA)
- Big Ugly (West Virginia, US)
- Bird-In-The-Hand, near Blue Ball & Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
- Bitchfield (Lincolnshire, UK)
- Bitter End (Tennessee, US)
- Black Car (near Wymondham, Norfolk, UK)
- Black Charlie's Opening (Australia)
- Blackhead (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- Blankets (Aberdeenshire, Scotland)
- Bloody Bridge (County Down, Ireland)
- Bloody Bush (Northumberland. UK)
- Blow Me Down (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- Blowhard (Australia)
- Blowhole (NSW, Australia)
- Bone (Cornwall, UK)
- Booze Moor (Nth. Moor, UK)
- Boring (Oregan, US.. it's near Clackamas)
- Bottom Boat (West Yorkshire, UK)
- Brest (France)
- Broadbottom (near Hyde, Cheshire, UK)
- Broken Bridge (Co Limerick)
- Burning Well (Pennsylvania, USA)
- Buttocks Booth (Northampton, UK)
- Buttzville (PA,USA)
- Can Do (North Dakota, USA)
- Canyon Sin Nombre/Canyon Without a Name (San Diego County, California)
- Christmas (Michigan, US)
- Climax (Colorado, USA) (Michigan, USA)
- Clitsome View (Somerset, UK)
- Clones (Co.Monaghan Ireland)
- Cockburn (Western Australia)
- Condom (Sth. West France)
- Dead Chinaman (Papua New Guinea)
- Deputy Row (Northumberland, UK)
- Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
- Dimple (Derbyshire, UK)
- Disappointment (Kentucky, USA)
- Dollarbeg (Scotland)
- Dwarf (Kentucky, USA)
- Eggs and Bacon Bay (Sth. of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)
- Elbow (Northamptonshire, UK)
- Embarrass (Minnesota, USA)
- Erect (NC, USA)
- Faggot (Northumberland, UK)
- Fart (Virginia, USA)
- Fashion Island (Bangladesh)
- Flat Lick (Kentucky, US)
- Four Foot (Somerset, UK)
- French Lick (Indiana, USA)
- Gay Street (Sussex, UK)
- Gay Town (Co Donegal, Ireland)
- Gayville (South Dakota, USA)
- Gravesend (England)
- Great Cockup & Little Cockup (2 hills in The Lake District, UK)
- Great Snoring and a Little Snoring (Norfolk, UK)
- Green Bottom (Cornwall, UK)
- Gun Barrel City (Henderson Co., Texas, USA)
- Hare Law (Durham, UK)
- Hell (Michigan, US)
- Herpes (village in France)
- Hook (Swindon, Wiltshire; Goole, Yorkshire; and a 3rd in Basingstoke, Hampshire all in UK)
- Hornyold Road (Malvern Wells, UK)
- Hot Coffee (Mississippi, USA)
- Hygiene (Colorado, USA)
- ii (Finland)
- Infinite Loop (Cupertino, CA, USA)
- Inkpen (Berkshire, UK)
- Isle of Dogs (an island in the Thames at Tower)
- Kidlaw (Northumberland, UK)
- Kilbride (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- Kill (Co Kildare, Ireland)
- Kissing (Germany)
- Knockdown (Wiltshire, UK)
- Knott (Inverness-shire, Scotland)
- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (Massachusetts,US) -translates in local Indian language: Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary
- Left Hand (West Virginia, USA)
- Little Tongues (Lancashire, UK)
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Wales). The translation of the name is ' St. Marys Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Llantysilio of the Red Cave'.
- Lolita (Texas, USA)
- Mammoth (Arizona, US)
- Marblehead (Boston, US)
- Middelfart (Denmark)
- Monkey's Eyebrow (Kentucky)
- Mozart (Saskatchewan, Canada)
- My Large Intestine (Texas, USA)
- Nasty (near Stevenage, Herts, UK)
- No Name (Colorado, USA)
- Nobs Crook (Hampshire, UK)
- Normal (Illinois, USA)
- Odd (West Virginia, USA)
- Okay (Oklahoma, USA)
- Old Wives (Saskatchewan, Canada)
- Once Brewed & Twice Brewed (both near Corbridge, UK)
- Panic (Pennsylvania, US)
- Paw Paw (Illinois, US)
- Pinch (West Virginia, US)
- Pity Me (Co Durham UK)
- Placentia (Newfoundland, Canada)
- Plain City (Utah, USA)
- Poopoo (Hawaii, USA)
- Promised Land (Tasmania, Australia)
- Pussy creek (Ohio, USA)
- Quaking Houses (Durham, UK)
- Queen's Letch (Northumberland, UK)
- Quick (West Riding, Yorkshire, UK)
- Rattlesnake Harbour (Southern Ontario, Canada)
- Readymoney (Cornwall, UK)
- Sally’s Bottom (Cornwall, UK)
- Shetland Islands (Scotland)
- Shitterton (Dorset, UK)
- Sleepy Eye (Minnesota, US)
- Spit Junction (NSW, Australia)
- Stinking Bay (Arkansas, US)
- Stop-and-Call (Pembrokeshire, UK)
- Sugar Tit (South Carolina, USA) (Kentucky, USA)
- Superb (Saskatchewan, Canada)
- Superior (West Virginia, USA)
- Sweet Lips (TN, USA)
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu (New Zealand) - The name was given in the nineteenth century, when it was desired a development of the community and its transformation into a commercial and tourism center.
- Titless (Switzerland)
- Truth Or Consequences (New Mexico, USA)
- Upper Bleeding (Sussex, UK)
- Upper Bottomley and Lower Bottomley (Bottomley being a hillside hamlet in West Yorkshire, UK)
- Vinegar Hill (Monmouthshire, Wales)
- Virginville (Pennsylvania, US)
- Wagga Wagga (Australia)
- Weed Patch (California, USA)
- Wet Rain (Yorkshire, UK)
- Wetwang (England)
- Whiskey Dick Mountain (Washington State, USA)
- Why (Arizona, USA)
- Worms (Germany)
- Zip Down (Pennsylvania, USA)