The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Party Room => Topic started by: lbt/cty_lover on January 23, 2008, 06:42:46 PM
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Here is how the game works:
Someone names a city, state, province, nation, continent, island, or land feature (desert, lake, ocean, sea, river, etc.) (aka geographic feature) ON EARTH!
Someone then names another geographic feature that starts with the same letter that the previous geographic feature ended with.
Example
Atlanta
Achorage
Ecuador
Romania
I'll start.
Rome
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Estonia.
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Arctic Ocean
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Nigeria
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Andorra
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Australia
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Alberta
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Arizona
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Athens - Capital of Greek
(I suggest a rule amendment. As there are so many names ending with the same letter as they begin I suggest that the same letter may not be at the beginning and the end of a word in more than two successive posts).
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San Diego
(maybe. I'll think on that rule.)
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Ottawa
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Arkansas
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Shanghai
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Izmir - Town in Turkey
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Rhode Island
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Denmark
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Kenya
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Abu Dhabi - capital of the United Arab Emirates
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Illinois
By the way, you don't have to put down anything about your post.
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Well, just in case it came into question.
Sweden.
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Do that for controversial things, please.
Norway
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Yemen - Country in the Middle East
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Nambia
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Algiers - Capital of Algeria
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Serbia
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Amuay - City in Venezuela
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Yukon
(river)
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Niagra Falls
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:( Fine. I didn't wanna play no more anyhow. >.<
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Arizona
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Albany - capital of the state New York.
Fine. I didn't wanna play no more anyhow. >.<
Was there some kind of quarrel going on?
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Yucatan - A Mexican state. This is kinda fun! :DD
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Niger
Actually, there was a little bit of confusion. Chronicler had posted just before me, so I had to change my post. Then Purple Presence had to change, and then I changed again. It got a little confusing.
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Russia
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Arkansas
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San Felipe - A touristical city in Baja California.
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England
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Dorsetshire
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Egypt
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Teheran - Capital of Iran.
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Nicuragua
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Antietam - Creek in Maryland (and site of the bloodiest day in US history).
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Maryland
(Wasn't the Battle of Shiloh the bloodiest battle during the Civil War, not Antietam)
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Denver
(Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle, but it lasted three days. Antietam was the bloodiest single day. The battle of Shiloh too was one of the 10 bloodiest battles and I think with more victims than the battle of Antietam, but the battle of Shiloh lasted two days).
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Rio de Janeiro
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Olustee
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(Where is that?)
Europe
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El Salvador
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Eisenach - Town in Thuringia, birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach.
(Olustee is a swamp in Florida).
Edit: (You beat me to it arrogantrex ;))
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(That doesn't begin with "r".)
Don't modify your post, though. That is the cause of confusion.
To continue:
Hawaii
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Naples - Town in Italy.
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Don't modify your post, though. That is the cause of confusion
It does indeed. Naples referred to what you posted before.
As for the I, Italy.
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Also, please don't put down another post. Just leave it.
IMPORTANT
If someone messes up, point out the error and continue from there. Don't go back and modify the post or add another posty.
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Sorry, that was all me. I posted from the wrong page. :lol
Yugoslavia
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Aschaffenburg - town in Bavaria.
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Georgia - the country
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Agincourt - Village in France.
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Tuvalu - island country
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Uganda - Country in Africa.
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Afghanistan
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Nantucket - Island of Massachusetts known for its whaling history.
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Tenochtitlan ( spelling? :lol )
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I'd love to see that place if only it was still there in it's state before the conquest.
Nile - longest river in the world.
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I'd love to see that place if only it was still there in it's state before the conquest.
I would too.
Eucador
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Rwanda - African country.
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Antananarivo - capital of Madagascar
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Ob - river in Russia.
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Bangladesh
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Hastings
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Sandy Hook
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Kentucky
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Yemen
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New York
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Kabul
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Lincoln, a small city in Nebraska
And Naples, Italy is much larger than a town! It's a very old city founded by the Greeks as Neapolis and has a greater metropolitan area of about 3 million. Not a town.
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Nevis - One of the islands of the Lesser Antilles.
I certainly didn't mean to belittle Naples in any way and I am aware of its ancient routes. Sometimes I am a little uncertain about when to use the term "town" and when to use the term "city". I heard the two terms used on the same places and sometimes I heard rather large and famous places being referred to as "town". Thank you for correcting blunders on my part :)
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San Salvador
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Roanoke - The "lost colony".
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England
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Delaware
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Edge Hill - hamlet in Warwickshire. Site of the first pitched battle in the English Civil War 1642.
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Lake Superior
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Riga
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(Just curious. Where is Riga?)
Athens
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Sicily
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Yangtze River
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Rome
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Ellis Island
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Darwin - Australia.
(Riga is the capital of Latvia).
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New Zealand
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D¸sseldorf - Town in Germany.
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French Polynesia
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Augsburg - Town in Bavaria.
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Georgia - The State
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Aspern - former Austrian village, meanwhile part of the town (or city) of Donaustadt.
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Nevada
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I hate the A :P:
A problem of the game is that most of the time we end up with the same letters. I don't expect Quebec or Xanten to ever appear in this game.
Austerlitz - Town in the Czech Republic.
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Zimbabwe
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Edmonton
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Nairobi - Kenyan capital
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Inkerman - village on the crimean peninsula.
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Nigeria
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Antwerp - Belgium.
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Paris
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Soest - Town in Germany.
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Tokyo
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Olomouc - Town in the Czech Republic.
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Cancun
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Naab - small river in Bavaria.
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Brazil
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Liechtenstein
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New Orleans
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Strait of Gibraltar
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Red - river
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(With rivers, seas, lakes, mountains, etc., like Red Sea, you must include the word sea or whatever it is from now on)
Reno
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Ohio
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Oregon
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New England
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Delaware
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East Timor
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Richmond
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With rivers, seas, lakes, mountains, etc., like Red Sea, you must include the word sea or whatever it is from now on)
I suggest that we do this only if it is really necessary. Everyone knows the Mississippi or the Nile to be rivers for example. The obligation to use that word all the time would seriously cut down our possibilities not to get the same letters all the time. We have so many "A"s already that I wouldn't insists on the sea behind the Baltic.
Dallas - Texas.
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Okay.
San Diego
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Oregon.
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Nome
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Effingham; a county in the state of Illinois.
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Madrid
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Where is Nome?
Duisburg - German town.
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(Alaska)
Greenland
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Dunkirk - France.
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Kuala Lumpur - Capital of Malaysia
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R¸desheim - Town at the river Rhine and the place where I met another land before time fan for the first time in persona.
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Midway Islands
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Sikkim (In India, no relation to the Sikhs.)
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Massachusetts
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Iwo Jima
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The place name you come up with needs to begin with the last letter of the previous place f-22.
It also must end with a different letter from the one it begins with. In case of less famous places we should add a short line on what and where that place is.
Nice to see you join the game :yes
Anglesey - Welsh island.
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York - a small city in England
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Kauai - Hawaiian island
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Iraq
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Qatar
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Rangoon - capital of Myanmar (Burma)
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Rhode Island
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To Continue:
Dallas
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San Salvador
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Rhine
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El Salvador
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Rome
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Eritrea - African country.
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Aomori - The city in Japan
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Isfahan - former capital of former Persia.
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Nambia
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Amsterdam
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Malawi - country in Africa
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Iceland
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Dakar.
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Reality (Wouldn't this be considered a geographic location?)
Rocky (Mountains) (If reality is not a geographic location.)
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Both end in Y so...
Yangtze (river) - China
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(I had to come up with a contingency plan that would result in the same following post.)
Erie Canal
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London.
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Nova Scotia
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Ashville - Pennsylvania.
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Edgewood, Texas.
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Dubai - United Arab Emirates
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Inchon- South Korea
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Nunavut - territory in Canada
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Taipei - The city in Taiwan
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Israel
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Laos
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Saudi Arabia
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Antananarivo - the city in Madagascar
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Oberhausen - town in Northrhinewestphalia.
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Nambia
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Norfolk - Virginia.
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Knossos - Ancient city on the island of Crete
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Shiloh - Pick the most favorite among the countless towns named after this biblical place. ;)
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Hell - Michigan town (And, if you believe in it, the place were all people who are damned go)
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So if you are bad in life you spend your afterlife in Michigan? :lol
Langeoog - German Island.
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Greenwich - Connecticut
Yes. You are forced live in Michigan if you are damned.
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Hungary
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Yangzhou - City in China
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Ukraine
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Essen - Town in Germany. Funnily enough the name, if literally translated into English, would be either "to eat" or "food".
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Nebraska
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Anger - Town in Austria... No, I don't think people are more angry there than in other places ;)
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Raleigh
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Ho Chi Minh City - Largest city in Vietnam. Used to be called Saigon.
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Yaren - capital of the tiny Pacific island of Nauru
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North America
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Al Manamah - capital of Bahrain (an island in the Persian Gulf)
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Hudson Bay
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Yorktown - Virginia (the world turned upside down ;))
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North (Sea)
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(just a reminder, words like those should include what they are)
Atlantic Ocean
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Nassau - capital of the Bahamas.
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United States (about time the u became available :lol: )
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Santa Cruz - Chile (and countless other countries as well ;))
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Zagreb - Croatia
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Bordeaux - France.
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Xi'an - China
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Nicaragua
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Amesville - Ohio.
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Ecuador
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Rio de Janeiro
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Orkney - Group of islands of the Scottish coast.
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Yerevan - Armenia
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Nuremberg - town in Bavaria.
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Georgia; A state, and a country... and I'd imagine there could be a city called Georgia too
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Amazon River
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Rocky Mountains
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Shanghai
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Italy
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Yangzhou - China
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Ulm
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Mumbai - India
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India
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(amusing, quite amusing :lol )
Aparri - Philippines
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Ireland
I'm afraid we have reached the point where many of the names used previously are being repeated. Quite a couple of the names on this page can be found on earlier pages as well.
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Darwin
I know. I try to avoid repitition. However, in this case, like in Word Assosciation and Word Connection, that would be impossible for a long period of time.
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(I think you're right about that, but there are still a lot places we haven't named yet :yes )
Dili - East Timor
(yes I re-edited that back in)
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To continue from Dili (which doesn't start with "n" (DON'T CHANGE IT))
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
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Luxembourg
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Grand Canyon
(I LOSE! (See signature))
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Nepal
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Lybia
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Angkor Wat - Combodia.
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Toronto - Canada
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Ontario
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Osaka - Japan.
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Azerbaijan
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New Delhi
I LOSE!
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Iceland
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Dublin - Capital of Ireland.
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New Zealand
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Delhi - The old one this time ;)
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Ireland
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Doncaster - England.
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Reunion - French island in the Indian Ocean
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Nova Scotia
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Aizu-Wakamatsu - Japan (yes, it's a real town or city)
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Ukraine
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Elat - Israel
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Tuvalu - an island
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Ural - Mountains, river, and region in Russia.
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Laos - Some country of city (I forget which) in Southeast Asia
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(Laos is a country)
Senegal - west African country
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(thanks)
Leon - France
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Norway
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York
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Karlsruhe - town in Germany.
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Eden-a garden in Genesis
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Nottingham - who doesn't know this place never saw a Robin Hood movie or read a Robin Hood book (the early ballads place him farther to the north of England though).
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Michoacan - where the Monarch Butterfly migrates from Canada.
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Nauru - tiny island nation in the Pacific
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Uruguay-country in South America, I think
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Yakutsk - Russia
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Kentucky
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Yemen, though I have no clue where it is
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Yemen is in the Middle East.
Nebraska
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Thanks!
Australia
EDIT: That was worthless, it ends with the same letter.
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Austin (Texas)
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Normandy - District in France.
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(why do I seem to start with the same letter as I did the previous day?)
Yokohama - Japan
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Aluetian Islands
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Spain
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Netherlands
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Sri Lanka
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Azores - group of Atlantic islands
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San Diego
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Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso in west Africa
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Uzbekistan
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New Mexico
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Oakland
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Denver
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Reno
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Orlando
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Onaslaska (city in Wisconsin)
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Albuquerque-city in New Mexico
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Espoo - Town in Finnland.
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Okahoma-where the wind goes rushing through the trees
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Arnsberg - Town in Germany.
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Greenwich, England-Very time zone-relevant city
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Halifax - Canada.
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Halifax - Canada.
Darn you. :D I've given up and am searching the web for an answer, and I still can't find one.
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Xi'an - Chinese city
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(I had already used that one :P: )
Nuuk - capital of Greenland
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Kerman, Iran
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(once again, I start with the same letter :rolleyes: )
Naples - Italy
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Saudi Arabia
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Anchorage - Alaska
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England
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Dubrovnik - Croatia
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Kansas
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Singapore
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Ethiopia-African country
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I try to avoid places we already had, so darn me :P:
Ajax - Ontario / Canada.
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Xinjiang - autonomous region of China
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Guangzhou - China
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Utrecht - Town in the Netherlands.
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Utah
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Haarlem - another town in the Netherlands (though many may think of a part of the big apple named after this town).
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Moscow - Russia
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Wyoming
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Gotland - Swedish island in the Baltic sea.
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Dover
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Rotterdam - Town in the Netherlands and home to a fellow LBT fan ;)
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Mongolia
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Amsterdam - capital of the Netherlands.
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Michigan
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Naseby - Town in England. In 1645 it became the site of a decisive battle during the English Civil War.
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Yellowknife - Northwest Territories, Canada
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Egypt
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Tierra del Fuego (a vast, cold region in the south of Argentina and Chile)
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Oslo - Norway
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Onon - River in Mongolia.
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Nagasaki
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Innsbruck - capital of the federal state Tyrol in Austria.
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Kalamazoo - a city in Michigan
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Orleans - France.
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Ekaterinburg - the city on the west edge of Syberia. :)
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Please don't change your post.
Greece
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Esbjerg - Danish town.
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Gulf of Mexico
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Oahu-Captial of hawaii
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Uruguay
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York
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Kuala Lumpur
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Rouen - Town in the Normandy.
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Nile - river
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Escondido, CA
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Oran - harbor in Algeria.
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Nanjing - China
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Great Britain
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Nantes - town in France.
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Sierra Nevada - mountain range in California
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Annapolis- Capital of Maryland.
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Sparti - Greece
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Ireland
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Davis Strait - between Greenland and Baffin Island
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Tippecanoe-site of battle that future US president William Henry Harrison won
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English Channel
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Lutynia - Poland.
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Attu - western-most of the Aleutian Islands
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Uganda - African nation
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(Again, I have to use the same letter as I previously did :rolleyes: )
Aral Sea
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Afghanistan
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New Brunswick
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Knoxsville
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East Timor
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Rochester
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Recklinghausen
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Northern Ireland
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Danzig
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(Danzig is a Polish city, right?)
Greenland
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Deadwood - South Dakota
(Yes, Danzig is a Polish city)
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Dallas
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San Francisco
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Oahu
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Uzbekistan
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North Dakota
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Arkansas
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Southampton
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Nicea
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Arctic Circle
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East St. Louis - Illinois
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Shanghai
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Idaho
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Oulu - Finland
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Unterhaching - town in Bavaria.
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Gambia - country and river in west Africa
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Aix la chapelle
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Edinburgh - Scotland
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Honolulu
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Utrecht - town in the Netherlands.
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Togo - country in west Africa
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Okinawa
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Agadir - Morocco
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Rhode Island
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Da Nang - Vietnam
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Greenwich
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Hokaido - The northernmost of the four Japanese main-islands.
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Oran - Algeria
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Norderney - German island.
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Yorktown- The place where George Washington defeated the British. It's a town of less than 500 people today (203 people live there, if I'm not mistaken.)
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New Jersey - The state where Washington won his other two major victories (he didn't win most of his battles, but he did not give up at several points in his career when others might have done so.
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Yellow River
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Ruedesheim
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Mt. McKinley - tallest mountain in North America
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Yosemite National Park
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(I'm going to assume that all of the words are part of the name)
Kazakhstan
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^ I would think so too. We always handled it that way so far.
Novi Sad - Serbian partner town of my hometown Dortmund.
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Djibouti
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Iowa
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Abeline, Kansas (go from the S I guess)
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Estonia
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Aral'sk, Kazakhstan - formerly a busy fish port on the Aral Sea, now 50 miles from the coast of that sea
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Neapolis (Also Naples)
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Scharkow - town in Poland.
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West Bank - disputed region between Israel and Jordan
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Kalmar - town in Sweden.
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Ross Ice Shelf - Antarctica
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Finland
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Danube
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Eudora, Kansas
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American Virgin Islands
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South Island - New Zealand
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Denmark
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Kansas City
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Yukon Territory - Canada
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Yemen
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New York
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Kyrgyzstan
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Newfoundland - Canada
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Dover, Kansas
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Russian Federation
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Nile River
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Red Sea
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Argentina (Algeria, any A country that ends in A)
(Australia; then you can do continents, Australia, Africa... America if you want to get abstract :p)
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Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
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Iceland
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Dundee - Scotland
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Euphrates River
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Selm - Town in Germany. (I decided to count the word "River" as explanatory rather than part of the name same as might be done in case of "Mississippi river" or the like).
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Lake Michigan
(I think words like "lake", "sea" and "mount" should also be counted as explanatory instead of part of the name.)
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Nevada, Missouri (Just to prove it's there XD)
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Amazon River
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Indianapolis, Indiana
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Spain
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Novgorod - Russia
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Dominican Republic
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Egypt
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Tigris River
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Seine (River).
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Ellsworth, Kansas
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Harrisburg - Pennsylvania.
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Germany ;)
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Yellow (Sea)
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Wilson, Kansas
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Northern Ireland
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Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
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Mesopotamia
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Antartica
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Alaska
(I want to see how long we can keep the 'a' going :lol: )
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Albania (Algeria, Alabama, America, Asia, Argentina, Atlanta, Argonia (, Kansas; also in TES XD) Alexandria, Australia {Alemania (Germany in Spanish} if you wanna be technical])
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Antalia
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Andorra
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Albania
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Alberta
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Argentina
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Andorra la Vella
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(Sweet Home) Alabama
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Austria
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Allemagne (Germany in French)
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England
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Deutschland - (German for Germany :P: It is kind of funny how in German a German would be a "Deutscher" while hearing the word "Germane" or "Alemane" we would think of tribes from the time of the migration of nations rather than ourselves :lol)
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Dakota (Avila [Beach], Armenia, etc)
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Angola
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Arabia
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Accra, Ghana
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Aruba
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Abkhazia
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Arizona
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Asmara, Eritrea
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Amsterdam
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Malvern Hill - Virginia.
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Lithuania (Alberta, Astana, etc.)
or Namibia if you want to go form Malvern
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Ankara - capital of Turkey.
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Apia, Samoa
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Agra - India
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Anguilla
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Allegheny (River)
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Yugoslavia (Avarua- Cook Islands, Arcadia- California, Alcoa- Tennessee, etc.)
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Albany (Capital of New York state.)
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Yucatan
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Nashville, Tennessee (BTW, also Aleria, Corsica I knew...)
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(Mt.) Everest - tallest mountain in the world
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Tokyo, Japan
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Orne - department and river in France.
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Enoshima, Japan
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Alps
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Oregon
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New Britain - an island near New Guinea
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Iraq
(I've already done this one, I just couldn't think of another place that ended in a Q)
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Queens, New York, New York, USA
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Senegal - west-African country
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Calgary
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(actually, that word ended in and E, not a C. Well, let's just continue.)
Yonkers, New York - just north of New York City
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Salina, Kansas
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Arctic (Ocean)
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Chicago, Illinois
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Oslo, Norway
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canda
or Ottawa, Kansas :p
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Asuncion - capital of Paraguy
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Niger
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Rio Grande
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Europe
(D)
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Enniskillen - Town in Northern Ireland.
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Nevada, USA
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Ashford - Australia.
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Denmark
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Korinth - Greece.
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Hiratsuka, Japan
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Archangel - Russia
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Lenexa, KS
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(Why do I always have to use the same letter? :rolleyes: )
Algeria
(Hah! Beat That! :lol )
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Alabama (:p two can play that game XD)
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Alaska
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(We doing it again? XD)
Argentina
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(Hey! I just said that one! :angry: )
Azerbaijan
(No a's for you! :lol )
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Nagasaki, Japan
(fixed)
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Italy
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Yokohama
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Amsterdam
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Marengo - Italian village.
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Ontario
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(I think I'll revive this game)
Ottawa
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Austin, Texas
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Nebraska
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(not many players these days :unsure: )
Alberta
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Argos, Greece
(Been doing other things =\ =/)
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Santa Fe - State-capital of New Mexico.
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Ecuador
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Rostov - Town in Russia.
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Vermont (my home state :D )
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Tyrnyauz - Town in the Caucasus region of Russia.
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Zimbabwe
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Ertil - Another Russian town (gee, I love these Russian town names :yes They provide us with rare final letters for the beginning of the next place name).
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Longreach , The town of Australia
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Chile
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Helsinki - Capital of Finland.
Edit - Sorry I was thinking too long and Clawandfang posted before me. So it is:
Elektrogorsk - Another town in Russia.
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Kanawha, a village in Iowa (population 739.)
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¡rnafj¯r?ur - Town in the Faroe Islands (population 49).
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Rome
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Ellsworth, Kansas
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Hoshiarpur - City in India.
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Reykjavik - Iceland
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Kyrgyzstan
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Nepal
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(I guess this game isn't so popular anymore)
Luxembourg
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G¸tersloh - Town in Germany (sorry, forgot about it for some days).
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Haiti
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Ipatovo - town in Russia.
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Oakland, California
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Dallas - Texas.
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Oh, man. I haven't posted here in ages.
Springfield
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Djibouti - small African country
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Ireland
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Denmark
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Kuala Lumpur
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Rostock - Town in Germany.
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Kaliningrad - Russia
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Des Moines - Iowa
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Suriname - country in South America
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Egypt
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Thailand
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Dallas - Texas
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San Antonio, Texas
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Denver - Colorado.
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Romania
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Alps - Mountains in Europe.
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Switzerland (one of the seven counties that are part of the Alps)
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Disneyland
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Delaware
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Edmonton, Alberta
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Nashville - Tennessee.
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(I better start getting used to using the same letter again :rolleyes: )
Easter Island
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You're not the only one. But meanwhile we have also reached a state where places are repeated over and over again :(
Devon - English county.
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New Guinea
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Ashley - Pick your favorite among the many places of that name in the UK or the US (I think there is one in Australia too).
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Yantai, China
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Iztacc“huatl - Mountain in Mexico.
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Laos - southeast Asian country
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Livorno, Italy.
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Ocean City, New Jersey
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Yar - river on the Isle of Wight.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Harrisburg - Pennsylvania.
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Geneva, Switzerland
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Antigua
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Argentina
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Annapolis
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Senegal
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Laos
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Stuttgart - City in Germany.
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Tennessee
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Edmonton - Canada.
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North Korea
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Arkansas
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Sydney, Australia
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York
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Kansas
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St. Lo - France.
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Alamo - Countless places all over the US named after the mission that saw the famous battle during the Texan war of independence.
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Orlando, Florida
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Osnabr¸ck
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Kenya
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Attu - Island in Alaska.
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Utah
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Hudson Bay
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Yellowstone [National Park]
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Evanston (Illinois)
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Nanton (town in Alberta)
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Nantes - City in France.
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South Island (New Zealand)
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Derry - Town in Northern Ireland. But don't call it Derry while around local Protestants. In their presence it ought to be called Londonderry, a name not to be used around Catholics :cry
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Yerevan - Armenia
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New Mexico
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Orleans
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South Korea
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Asuncion
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Nombre de Dios - City in Panama (and one of the earliest surviving settlements in the "New World" too, being founded in 1510).
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Springfield - Illinois, Massachusetts, Vermont, Tennessee, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, or Oregon.
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Djibouti
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Indianapolis, Indiana
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Shenzen (China)
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New City, New York [State]
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Yokohama - Japan
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Anchorage, Alaska
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Estonia
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Albany, New York
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Yorkville (Virginia)
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El Paso, Texas
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Obama, Japan (real place, no joking!)
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Aleutian Islands
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assuming "islands" is not part of the name:
Nashville, Tennessee
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Evansville, Indiana
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Eaton, Colorado.
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Netherlands
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Sandusky, OH
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Yaroslavl, Russia
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Limpopo - African River.
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Oregon
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Novaya Zemlya - large island north of Russia between the Kara and Barents Seas
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Adelaide - South Australia
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El Dorado (nobody knows where)
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(alright! activity here again! :D )
Oklahoma City
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Yarnaz - Valley in China.
Good going Chronicler :yes
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Zagreb - Croatia
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Babylon, Mesopotamia
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Nuremberg - Germany
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Gostei, parish in Portugal
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Indianapolis
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Sicily
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YotsukaidÙ, Japan
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Ohio
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Oregon (province)
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North (Sea)
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Hamburg, Germany
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Greece
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Earth, Milky Way
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Harrisburg - Pennsylvania.
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Geneva - Switzerland
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Albaquerque, United States
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Ecuador
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R¸sselsheim - Town in Germany (known mainly for the presence of the car manufacturer Opel there).
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Madrid (you know where)
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Damascus - Syria
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Stockholm (Capital of Sweden)
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Montevideo - Uruguay
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Okinawa
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Albania
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Almaty - Kazakhstan
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Ytterby, Sweden - where Ytterium was first discovered.
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Yemen
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Nagasaki
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Ipswich - England.
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Haliburton County, Ontario
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Yorkshire
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Edinburgh
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^ Lovely Place I can tell you! :D
Hamburg
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Gabon - African country
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Nassau - Capital of the Bahamas.
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Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia
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Rekjavik - Capital of Iceland.
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Kiev - Ukraine
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Vermont
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(that's my home state :D )
Toronto
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Onyx - California.
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Xanten - Germany
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Nantucket
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Tashkent - Uzbekistan
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Tripoli, Libya
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Inverness - Scotland.
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Suriname - country in South America
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Ewoldt Township, Carroll County, Iowa (have fun trying to figure out which letter to start the next word with)
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(I'll go with the town name)
Puerto Rico
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Olympus Mons, Mars
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Switzerland
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Dghe, Eritrea
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Eritrea, previous post.
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Olympus Mons, Mars
I don't think extra-terrestrial places count, by the way.
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Really? It's a geographical location. But you made the game, so it is your rules.
Erasmusbrug, Netherlands
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Geldern - Town in Germany almost exactly on the border to the Netherlands.
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Really? It's a geographical location. But you made the game, so it is your rules.
Good point. I'll have to change that.
RULE EDIT!!!!
The only acceptable geographic locations are terrestrial locations. That is, only locations on Earth.
Northern Ireland
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Dolomites - Mountain chain that belongs to the Alps.
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SSS Islands, Netherlands
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Saint Martin - One of those Islands ;)
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Sicily
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Yarmouth - Maine.
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Ecuador
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Remagen
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Nettle Bay, back at Saint Martin :^.^:
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Yazoo - (River in the USA).
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Ob - river in Russia
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Big Black River - Another river in the US.
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Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
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Ho, Ghana
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Oswego
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OÙ, France
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Oaxaca - Mexico
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Antietam - Creek in Maryland.
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Mauritius - island nation in the Indian Ocean
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Senegal
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Lourinha, around Lisbon in Portugal.
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Amazon River, in South America
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Aragon - Region in Spain.
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Istanbul
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La Paz - Bolivia
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Zzyzx, California
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Xingu - tributary to the Amazon.
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United Kingdom
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Zzyzx, California
This is the weirdest name I have ever seen. How is is even pronounced?
Anyways, on to something in context.
Massachusetts, United States
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South Georgia
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Asseln - part of Dortmund / Germany.
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Namibia,South Africa
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Asuncion - Paraguay
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Narvik - Norway.
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Kiribati - island nation in the Pacific
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Ingolstadt - Germany ("birthplace" of Frankenstein's monster ;)).
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Tuvalu - island nation in the Pacific
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Ulm
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Madrid, Spain.
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Dominican Republic
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Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea
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Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Oakland, in the United states
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Detroit.
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Trieste - Italy
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Etiopia.
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Austin - Texas
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New Delhi. (misspelling?)
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Instabul, in Turkey
New Delhi. (misspelling?)
No, its ok.[/color][/b]
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Lisbon - Portugal
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haaaaaa, good old Lisbon :^.^:
NeuquËn, in Argentina( :blink: Dunno if I¥m misspelling)
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Narragansett Bay.
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York, UK.
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Kansas
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Sevila, Spain
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Andorra, Spain.
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(Andorra is an independent country, not a part of Spain)
Arica - Chile
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(Thanks, I must have confused it with something else...)
Aveiro - Portugal.
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Oranjestad - Aruba, in the Caribbean Sea
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Denmark.
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Kiev-in Ukraine
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Valmy - France.
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Yakutsk - Russia
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Why always K¥s to me?? <_<
Krakow -Poland
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Washington DC! Do I need t say anything else?
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Lol... :D
Cork - Ireland
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Kerguelen - a group of islands in the south Indian Ocean, owned by France.
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Nigeria (Misspelling?)
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Amsterdam - Netherlands
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Moscow, capital of Russia
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Wilmington - Delaware.
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Nauru - Pacific island nation, also the world's smallest nation on a single island
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EDIT: Chronicler posted before I did. New location...
Uruguay
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Yekaterinburg - Russia
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Gelsenkirchen - Germany.
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Nepal - In the Asian Continent
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Languedoc-Roussillon - French province.
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Nunavut - Canadian territory
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Tunis - in Tunisia
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San Andreas Fault, USA
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Santa Cruz - in Canary islands
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Zwickau - Germany
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Ucraine
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(it's spelled with a 'k', not a 'c')
Easter Island
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Desdemona, Texas
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Arkansas
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Salisbury
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Yaroslavl - Russia
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Liberia - Africa
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Amery Ice Shelf - Antarctica
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Franklin - Tennessee.
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Northern Territory - Australia
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Ytterl‰nn‰s, Sweden
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Salamanca - Spain.
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Antarctic Peninsula
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Ajaccio - Capital of Corsica, birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Omsk - Russia
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Kandersteg - Switzerland
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Guam - Pacific island owned by the U.S.
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Mary's Igloo, AK
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Oruro - Bolivia
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Oatmeal, Texas
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Loreley - Famous rock at the river Rhine.
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Yorkshire - England
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Ebro - River in Spain.
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Ontario (Lake)
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Odder - City in Denmark
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Recklinghausen - Germany.
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Norway
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Yellow (River)
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Wyoming, USA
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Greenland
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Durango, near Silverton
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Oxford - England
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Devonshire - England.
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Edinburgh - Scotland
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Hampton Roads - Body of Water in Virginia. Site of the battle of the ironclads (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads).
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Silkeborg - Denmark
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Gabon - central African country
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Newport, Florida I think
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Trieste - Italy
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Tewkesbury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tewkesbury) - England. Site of the last Yorkist victory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury) (May 4th 1471) during the wars of the Roses.
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York - England
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Kiev- Capital of Serbia
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Venezuela - S. America
Again, this is the first time in a while I've posted in this topic.
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Algiers - Algeria
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^ (Kiev is the capital of the Ukraine, not of Serbia. That would be Belgrade.)
Sao Paulo - Brazil.
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Osaka - Japan
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Albuqurque
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El Salvador - Central America
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Roswell - New Mexico.
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Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
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Stuttgart - Germany.
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Toronto (Onatario, Canada) A fantastic city! ;)
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Oder - River in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany.
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Rovaniemi ( town in northen Finland. It was destroyed to 90 % by German forces in 1944, and... acctually home of Santa Claus :lol: )
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^ I beg your pardon, but there were no German invasions of Finnland in the 1990s.
Illinois
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^ I beg your pardon, but there were no German invasions of Finnland in the 1990s.
Illinois
DAO! I mean 1944! And the forces were retreating! 1994... what was I thinking... :slap
Santa Cruz
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Zwickau - Germany.
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Ukraine
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Edinburgh
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Havana - Cuba
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Atlantic Ocean
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Norwegian Sea
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Essen.
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Norwegian Sea
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Aschaffenburg.
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Gun Barrel City, TX
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Yellowstone
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Engadine - Australia
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Ephesus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus) - Turkey. Location of the Temple of Artemis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis) which was one of the wonders of the ancient world.
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Sidney
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Yucatan - Mexican state on the peninsula of the same name.
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Nice (France)
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Ellsworth - Illinois.
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Hell Creek (Montana)
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Kassel - Germany.
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Laerdal - Norway (the world's longest car tunnel has one of it's entrances here, goes 24,5 kilometres trough the mountains and exits in Aurland.)
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Laurentian Mountains - Quebec
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Spotsylvania Court House - Virginia.
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East Falkland - Falkland Islands
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Dublin
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Newfoundland - Canada
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Denver - Colorado.
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Rhode Island
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Dallas - Texas.
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Salzburg - Austria
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Ganges - River in India.
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Sweden
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Novgorod
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Denmark
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Kentucky
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(Y's not impossible :P: )
Ytterby - smal town in Sweden
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Yellowknife - Northwest Territories, Canada
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Eaton - England (among other) ;)
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New Caledonia - Pacific island owned by France
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Aix - Indiana.
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Xanthi - Greece
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Issus - River and town in Turkey. Site of a battle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Issus) between Macedonian king Alexander "the Great" and Persian King Darius III.
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Slesvig
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Gothenburg
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Gilleleje - Denmark
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El Paso - Texas
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Odder - Denmark
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Rangoon - Former capital of what used to be called Burma, or Birma, and is now called Myanmar. Yes, I know it may nowadays be spelled Yangon as well, but until the names are really settled I think it could work out for the R.
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Neatherland
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Detroit - Michigan
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Tennessee.
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Eritrea - country in east Africa
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Animal Kingdom - theme park
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Middle East
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Tonbridge - England.
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Esbjerg - Denmark
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Guant·namo - Cuba.
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Oslo - Norway
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Okavango - river and delta in Botswana
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Okeefenokee Swamp, Florida
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Papua New Guinea
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Australia
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Ashgabat - Turkmenistan
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Taiwan
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Nashville - Tennessee.
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Engadine - Australia
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Edmonton - Alberta, Canada
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North, South carolina
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Hamilton - Bermuda
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Northumbria, earlier name of Great Britain
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Algiers - Algeria
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Northumbria, earlier name of Great Britain
Not quite, it was one of several kingdoms covering a large part of what is today the English midlands, the northern region around the river Humber (hence the name) including modern day Yorkshire and Cumbria, and a part that today belongs to Scotland. There is a modern county (the north-eastern most) of the name too, but it is much smaller than that kingdom used to be. Excuse the little lesson, the historian just couldn't shut up ;)
Sussex - Another petty kingdom in Great Britain which today has been reduced to a county on England's southern coast.
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Xingu - River in Brasil
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Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia
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Rarotonga - island in the Pacific. I recommed you go there some time.
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Alaska
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Antartica
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Arctic (Ocean)
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Ceylon - Former name of Sri Lanka.
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Norway
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Yeehaw Junction - Florida
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New York
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Kabul - Afghanistan
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Lancaster - England.
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Russia
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Armenia
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Albuqurque - NM
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Egypt
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Thessaloniki - Greece
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Idaho
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Odder - Denmark
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Rhodes - Greek island
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Stockholm
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Munich - (M¸nchen) capital of Bavaria.
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Holland
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Denmark
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Kandersteg
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Gambia - river and country in Africa
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America (which is now under Barack Obama!!! :D )
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Akron - Ohio
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Namibia.
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Aarhus - Denmark
Actually spelled "?rhus"
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St Anton (the Alphs no.1 skiing resort! :D )
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New Brunswick - Canada
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Krypton, Kentucky
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Novosibirsk - Russia
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Kenya
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Albany, New York
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Yorkshire
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Eindhoven - Netherlands.
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Norwich - England
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Hamburg - Germany.
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Guinea-Bissau - west African country
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Uraq, East Azarbayejan
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Quebec - Canada
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Chickahominy - River in Virginia.
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Yellowstone - lake and river
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Edinburgh
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^ Lovely place, Edinburgh :yes
Hartford - Connecticut.
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Des Moines - Iowa
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Salem, Oregon
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Milano
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Oldenburg - Germany.
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Green Bay - Wisconsin
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Yorkstown - England
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Duluth Minnesota
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Holsterbro - Denmark
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Orange County - California.
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Yellowknife - Northwest Territory, Canada
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Equatorial Guinea
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Alaska - USA
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Arkansas - state and river
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San Francisco, CA
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Oak Island - Island of Nova Scotia's coast. Site of the famous "money pit".
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dn...?
Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
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(you only need to use the very last letter, not the last two letters)
Liechtenstein - tiny country between Switzerland and Austria
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Kabul
Did you take the 'k' from 'Oak'?
Newport Beach, Florida
(And with that, I'm singing off, because I want my 1,000th post to be in Darwin's Soldiers)
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Kabul
Did you take the 'k' from 'Oak'?
Newport Beach, Florida
(And with that, I'm singing off, because I want my 1,000th post to be in Darwin's Soldiers)
Yes.
Hudson Bay - Canada
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Yukon Territory - Canada
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Yellow Tavern - Virginia.
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Argentina
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Annapolis - Maryland, USA
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Syracuse University
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York - Western Australia, Australia
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Kalahari Desert
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Tibet
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Texas.
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St. Augustine - Florida (the oldest European settlement in the U.S.)
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Equator (I thought Roanoke or Jamestown would be the oldest settlements in the U.S.)
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(St. Augustine was a Spanish settlement, and they settled the Americas a century before the English)
Richmond - Virginia, United States
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Des Moines (Ah. Understood.)
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Sacramento - California
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Oslo
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Oregon Trail.
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Lincoln - Nebraska, United States
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Nether Wallop, England
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Port-au-Prince - Haiti.
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El Paso - Texas
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Opal, China
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Las Vegas - Nevada
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St. Petersburg
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Green Bay - Wisconsin
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Yorktown
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(1,000th post in this thread! w00t!)
Niagra Falls
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Salem - Oregon
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Muckanaghederdauhaulia, County Galway, Ireland
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That's quite a name.
Aztec - Arizona
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Coesfeld - Germany.
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Dover - Delaware, United States
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Rangoon
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Nepal - Asia
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LambarÈnÈ - Gabon.
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Ed - Eritrea
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DarÛw - Village in Poland.
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Warsaw - Poland
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Wakefield - Town in Yorkshire. Site of the death of the death of the old duke of York during the Wars of the Roses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wakefield).
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Darwin - Australia
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Neosho - Missouri.
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Orleans - France
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San Juan Island - Island on the American Canadian border and (sensationalist speaking) site of the 19th century Cuban missile crisis where the shooting of a British farmer's pig by an American farmer (whose potatoes the pig had eaten) almost caused a war between Great Britain and the USA in 1859, the eve of the Civil War.
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(interesting bit of history)
Davis Strait - between Greenland and Baffin Island
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Taneytown - Maryland.
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(that doesn't sound like the Cuban Missile Crisis I learned about)
Nashville, Tennessee
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^ No nuclear weapons involved either, but still a war between the US and Great Britain erupting in 1859 would have probably "messed up" history as we got to know it beyond all recognition ;)
The British sent 5 warships with more than a thousand soldiers into the region. The US sent the 9th infantry led by George Edward Pickett (the same one who became associated with "Pickett's charge during the battle of Gettysburg four years later). Both sides tried to taunt the other into opening fire but neither complied. At last the British admiral suggested that it was kind of silly to start a war about a killed pig and everyone agreed.
The debate about the ownership of the island continued into the 1870s though when Germany was chosen as an unbiased judge on the matter. The verdict of the Germans was very much in favor of the US who got all of the disputed islands. [history lecture mode off]
El Salvador
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Rabat - Morocco
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Trinidat
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Thailand
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Danzig - Poland.
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Gibraltar
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Reims - France.
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Spain
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Nith River, Canada
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Hawaii
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Idaho
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Opal, Virginia
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Louisville - Kentucky
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Edmonton
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The Nile River
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East St. Louis - Illinois
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Stor - Mountain on the Isle of Sky (Scotland).
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Rappahannok River - mentioned in a Civil War journal as once being swam by a slave girl in her escape from a Virginian plantation
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Kingston upon Hull - England
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Langen - Germany.
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Novi Sad - Serbia
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Dar es Salam - Tansania.
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Macedonia
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Antarctica
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Antwerp - Belgium
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Passau - Germany.
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Utah
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Hearst Castle
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Erie - Pennsylvania
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Ethiopia from Africa
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Angola - also in Africa..
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Aleutian Islands - Off the coast of Alaska
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Santa Fe - New Mexico.
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Ecuador
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Rostov - Russia
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Vladikavkaz - Russia.
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Zwickau - Germany
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Ulricehamn - Town in Sweden.
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Nigeria - Africa
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Alabama - U.S.
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Auckland - New Zealand
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Denver - Colorado.
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Richmond - Virginia
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Doha, qatar
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Albuquerque - New Mexico.
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East London - South Africa
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nanking, China
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Guangzhou - China
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Union Mills - Maryland.
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Silver Spring - Maryland
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Greensboro - North Carolina
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Greenfield - Indiana
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Delaware
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Essen - Germany
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^ I wonder if there is any other town whose name in the local language woudl translate to "Food" (for that's what Essen means).
Nantes - France.
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Suez - Egypt
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Zook, Kansas
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Kansas - USA
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Shelbyville - Not just a Simpsons town, but existing for real in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas. So if you find a Springfield from one of these states with a mountain from the top of which you can see the states of Nevada, Maine, Ohio, and Kentucky you will know you found the Simpson's home :lol
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Essex - Ontario, Canada
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Xenia, Ohio. In the years before the American Civil War Xenia was an important "station" of the "underground railroad", the abolitionist network to help escaped slaves from the south to get to Canada, where they would face no further persecution.
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Alice Springs - Australia
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Shantytown - No kidding, there is a community of that name in Wisconsin.
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New Brunswick - Canada
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Komaki - city in Japan
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Idaho
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Ohio
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Oregon
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Naples - Italy
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Stabiae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabiae) - Ancient Roman town near modern day Naples. Of the three towns destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79AD (the other two being Pompeii and Herculaneum) this is the one that gets the least attention.
I have a suggestion for this game in order to make it a little more than a "rise the postcount" kind of game (similar to word connection / association). My suggestion is that for every place posted here the poster should also provide one trivia fact (if none are known Wikipedia is suitable to look them up). It would make the game more "educational" ;)
What do you think?
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Good idea, I'm up for it. :yes
East Timor
A country that very recently gained independence from Indonesia. (2002)
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Russland - Village in Schleswing Holstein (the northernmost of Germany's "Bundesl‰nder" (Ferderal districts). The funny part about the name is that Russland is actually the German word for Russia.
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Delaware
The first state admitted to the United States
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Eylau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrationovsk) - Former name of Bagrationovsk, Russia. On February 7th - 8th 1807 Eylau was the site of a terrible (and indecisive) battle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Eylau) between Napoleon Bonaparte and a Russian / Prussian army. Though he was not really defeated it was the first time Napoleon could not claim victory after a major battle (that included one of the largest Cavalry charges in history).
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Uganda - country in Africa
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Antarctica
The last of the seven continents to be discovered by humans. The first human to set foot there was John Davis (American) in 1821.
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Arkansas
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St Petersburg - Russia
was the capital of Russia from 1712 to 1918
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Gelsenkirchen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsenkirchen) - Germany. If you ever come to the part of the world where I'm living you may find the extreme rivalry between the soccer clubs of my original hometown Dortmund (Borrussia Dortmund) and a club from the town Gelsenkirchen (Schalke 04). It has become kind of a hereditary enmity and I'm sometimes quite glad I'm not much of a soccer fan myself ;)
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Kansai Intl., Osaka, Japan.
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Liberia
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Atlantic Ocean
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Norwich - England
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Hanover, Germany
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Rangoon, Burma..
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Nevado Sajama - the highest peak in Bolivia
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Aruba
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Allegheny Forest, NY
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Tallahassee, FL
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Earth - Texan town with a bit more than 1000 inhabitants.
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holland
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Denmark
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Krakatoa
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Java
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(just so you know, this game works like word connection, only with one letter instead of two)
(Mount) Aconcagua - tallest mountain in Argentina and South America
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Albuqurque
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Erie, PA
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^ Maybe we ought to make it two letters instead or, as suggested earlier, always include some funfact about the place we name in order to make this a bit more than a mere post count boost game.
Esbjerg (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esbjerg) - The fifth largest town in Denmark with a little less than 115 000 citizens.
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Greenland- world's largest island, coveers 840004 sq. miles
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Denali - also known as Mount McKinley, tallest mountain in Alaska, the United States, and North America. (height of 20,321 ft (6,194 m))
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Ireland
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Danube - second-longest river in Europe (1,770 mi (2,850 km))
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Equatorial Guinea
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Alaska
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Aachen, France
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^ Actually Aachen is in Germany Nick. It's where some of the Emperors of the so called holy roman empire of German nation were crowned. In WW2 it was the first German town to be captured and liberated by the allied forces (it is close to the French border). In English the town is better known as Aix-la-Chapelle.
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Drat! Wrong place :slap Thanks Malte..
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Nebraska
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Appleton, Wi
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New York
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Kinshasa, dem. Republic of Congo
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Antwerp - Belgium
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Pennsylvania
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albania
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Arctic Ocean
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Nova Scotia
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Arkhangel'sk - Russia
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Kabul, Afghanistan
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Los Angeles - California
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Saioo Tome and principle
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El Hierro - one of the Canary Islands
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Ohio
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oregon
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New Jersey
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Yorktown, Va
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Elkhart Lake, Wi
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Elephant Island - island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
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Delafield WI
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Dufourspitze - mountain to the east of (and a little taller than) the Matterhorn
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easter Island
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Darling (River) - Australia
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Ridayh, Saudi Arabia
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(It's spelled 'Riyadh')
Hyderabad - Pakistan
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Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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Moscow - Russia
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Mount Fuji, Japan
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new Brunswick, Canada
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KrakÛw, Poland
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Warsaw, Poland
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Washington, USA
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North Dakota, USA
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Anchorage (city in Alaska)
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essex, U.K.
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Xanadu, capital of Kublai Khan's empire
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Uganda
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Aparri - Philippines
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China Town, Los Angelos
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Tunis, Tunisia
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Oakland, California
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(why are you coming up with these places, they seem like a completely random list)
Djibouti - country in east Africa
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Iran
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Newfoundland - Canada
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Doha, Qatar
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Alcatraz
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Zanzibar island
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(I'll use the R instead of the D)
Reno - Nevada
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Oslo Norway
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Ouagadougou - capital of Burkina Faso, a country in wast Africa
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Uragary
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Lake Superior
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( :rolleyes: this game works like word connection, only with one letter instead of two)
Ross Ice Shelf - Antarctica
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Fiji
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Istanbul
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Lisbon
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Kyoto
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(the next place had to Begin with "N")
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(Pretend I posted "New York" in between yours and Neo's. Then we're all good.)
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Oahu, Hawaii
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Alright.. or you can just change yours to New York..
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United Arab Emirates
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South Korea
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ankara, Turkey
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Antarctica
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Aruba
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Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
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Irwin, Iowa (or any other state starting with I, for that matter)
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Norway
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Yerevan - Armenia
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Nysa Łużycka - one of the rivers that separate Poland from Germany.
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the Alc·zar of Seville, Spain
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Egypt
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Turkey
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Yemen
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Brittany
(A Statement in France)
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(it has to begin with N Neo, because my place ended with n.)
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Nassau
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Unalaska, WI
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Ararat - the tallest mountain in Turkey
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Trenton, NJ
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Norway
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Yalu River
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Uluru - also known as Ayers Rock, Australia
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Uzbekistan
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Nuremberg - Germany
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G'Dansk-Danzig, Poland
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Koblenz - Germany
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Genoa - italy
G'Dansk
More more proper form is "Gdańsk". ;)
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Atlanta, GA
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Arkhangelsk, Russia
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Kingston, Jamaica
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New Zealand
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Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
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Miami (Florida)
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Iraq
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Queensland, Australia
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Dumont d'Urville - French research station in Antarctica
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North Pole :lol
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(Try to think of this as word connection, not association. The name of the place I said ended in an 'E', so the place you say has to start with an 'E'. I guess I'll do it for you. :rolleyes: )
Erie - Pennsylvania
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East Timor
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Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
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Oman
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Nigeria
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Austin, Texas
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Novosibirsk - Russia (I think it's the largest city in Siberia)
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Khatoum, Sudan..
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Milpitas, California
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Sandusky, Ohio
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Ystad - Sweden
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Djibouti
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Iqaluit - Nunavut, Canada
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Isle of Man, England
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Nazca - Peru
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Antarctica
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Arctic
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Cadiz - Spain
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Zambia
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Algiers - Algeria
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Sao Paulo - Most populous city of Brazil and the whole Southamerican continent (about 11 Million inhabitants).
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Oakland, CA
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Dublin - Ireland
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Nunavut- Canada
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Kenya
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(Neo it has to start with a T)
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(Neo it has to start with a T)
:blink: Since when you said that?... :rolleyes: Oh well
Thailand.
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Dinaric Alps - mountain range that stretches from Slovenia to Albania
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Spain
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(neo this is much like Word Connection. the next place has to begin with the letter the previous place ended with..)
Nashville, TN
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Enschede - Netherlands
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Egypt
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tbilsi- Georgia
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Italy
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yangtze River, China
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Russia
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Alexandria
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Amundsen-Scott - research station at the South Pole
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toronto, canada
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Oran - Algeria
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North cpyrus
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Suez - Egypt
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Zimbabwe
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El Salvador
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Rhine River
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Euphrates (River)
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Superior (lake)
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Red River (the one that just flooded in North Dakota)
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Darling (River), Australia
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Germany
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Yucatan Peninsula
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Nagasaki - Japan
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isle de Juvatad, Cuba
(island of Youth)
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Long Island
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georgia
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Anshan - China
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Nepal
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Turkey
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Yorktown VA
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New Zealand
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Dehli - India
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Indianapolis
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San Francisco - California
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Cocomo
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Bermuda
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Algeria
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Albania
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arrowhead,Wi
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Dallas, Texas
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Sacramento - California
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Oregon
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Nuuk - capital of Greenland
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(Godthaab is another name for it)
Kosovo
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Kokomo
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mongolia
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Atlas Mountains - northern Africa
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shara desert
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English Channel
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comoros
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Sicily
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Manchester
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Erie, PA
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El Paso - Texas
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Somalia
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(you're only supposed to use one letter here, not two)
Alps
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South China Sea
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Madeira
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Amazon
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Niamey - Niger
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Turks and Caicos
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Serbia
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Austin, TX
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Niger
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rocky mountains
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Sierra Nevada
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Tegucigalpa
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Arlington Va
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Niagara Falls - New York
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South Carolina
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Almaty - Kazakhstan
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Yukon
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Nevada
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dallas, Texas
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Szczecin, Poland
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Nice, FRance
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Elbląg - Poland
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Grand Rapids MI
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Singapore
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Eritrea
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Armenia
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arizona
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Amazon River
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Niger
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Rijeka, Croatia. Nice place to spend vacation. ;)
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Kansas
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Seoul - South Korea
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luxembourg
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Germany
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Youngstown, PA
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Nova scotia
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Alborg - Denmark
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Gabon
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Nouakchott - Mauritania
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Thiensville WI
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Eugene - Oregon
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Helsinki-Vantaa
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Athens
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Stockholm - Sweden
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Montenegro
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Oxford - England
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Dover, England
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Rotterdam - Netherlands
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Macedonia
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Adelaide - Australia
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America
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Anaheim, CA
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mali
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Iceland
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Detriot , MI
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Tuvalu - Pacific island nation
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Uzbekistan
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Nagasaki - Japan
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Indonesia
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Aswan - Egypt
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Nanking, China
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Grand Rapids - Michigan
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Sri Lanka
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Aden - Yemen
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nepal
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La Paz - Bolivia
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Zambia
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Aleppo - Syria
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Portugal
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Lesotho
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Oregon
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Nigeria
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Armernia
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Argentina
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Azores
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Serbia
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Azerbaijan
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Nairobi
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Israel
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Laos
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Sengal
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Luxembourg
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Ghana
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Apennines - mountain range along the Italian peninsula
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Switzerland
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Dublin - Ireland
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Nambia
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Andes
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Shanghai
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Indianapolis - Indiana
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South Carolina
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Amsterdam - Netherlands
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Montana
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Atlantic (Ocean)
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Calgary
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Yakutsk - Russia
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Kenya
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Aral'sk - Kazakhstan
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Ski - Norway
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ireland
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Dijon - France
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Netherlands
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Santa Fe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico) - State capital of New Mexico (though that one is just one out of many towns of that name which translates to "Holy Faith").
Let's try to raise the level of this game (we can all spell and know a number of place names) a bit by always adding a few funfacts to each place we name so it is a bit more than a mere postcount game ;)
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Estonia- broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991..
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Argentinia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinia) - The only South American Country in which citizens of European descent are a large majority.
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Antartioca- the Earths 5 largest continent, at almost 6 million square miles in area.
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Aral (Sea)
Once the world's fourth largest lake, it has been shrinking since the 1960s. It is now at 15 percent of its former volume, and the damage is thought to be irreversible.
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Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world, and second largest overall
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Reykjavik
capital of Iceland
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Kingston- capital of Jamaica
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New Brunswick
one of the first four provinces of Canada
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Kinshasa- capital of the DRC.
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Alaska
49th state to join the U.S.
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Arizona, joined the Us in 1912
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Anchorage
largest city in Alaska: more than half of Alaskans live in or near this city
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Eritrea- became independent from Ethopia in 1993
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Athens
capital of Greece
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Somalia- located in Africa
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Andes
one of the longest mountain ranges in the world
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Seville - Spain
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England
one of the four provinces of the U.K.
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Dunkirk - France. The place known of the greatest military evecuation of the World War two.
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Kazakhstan
once part of the Soviet Union, it is now the 9th largest country in the world
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Nantucket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantucket,_Massachusetts) - Island that is part of the US state of Massachusetts and is best known for its history as the site of a large whaling industry.
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tunisia_ bordered by Algeria and Libya
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Arcadia (Greece)
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Austria_ Central European country
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Austin (Texas)
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You have to add a description..
Nigara Falls - sits on the border between the US and Canada
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Salamanca (city in Spain)
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Calgary - city in Canada
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York (city in the U.K.)
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Yangtze
longest river in China at 3964 miles long
Edit: I'm not going to bother changing this post just because I was too slow
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Edessa (historic city in Syria)
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Sao Tome _ Island nation in the Altantic Ocean
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Eau Claire (Wisconsin)
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Bethlehem
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Madison, Wisconsin.
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Novosibirsk - Russia
largest city in Siberia
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Kentucky (US state, obviously)
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Yemen- Middle Eastern Country
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Nanking (Chinese city)
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Glasgow
largest city in Scotland
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Washington (State)
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North Korea- has the 4th largest standing army in the world..
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Earth (yes, I know, it is cheap, but it counts as geography, and little else starts with "ea")
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Hungary - country in Europe..
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Yemen (Arab state near the red sea)
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Nashville _ cirty in Tenessee
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Leeds (City in the UK)
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South Tyrol, region in Italy
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Olympus (Famous Greek Mountain.)
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USA- United States
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Salzburg (Austrian city)
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Gdansk - Poland
formerly known as Danzig, Germany
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Kaliningrad (Russia, formerly known as Konigsburg.)
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Denver, Colorado
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Romania (Eastern Europe)
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Angola - South Africa
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Laramie (town in Wyoming)
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East Timor
attained independence in 2002
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Oregon (US state)
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Norway, Scandavian country
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Yemen (Arab state)
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Nebraska- Us state
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Kansas (another US state)
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Sudan_ largest country in Africa
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Nigeria (most populous country in Africa)
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Aegean (Sea)
of its more than 1500 islands, only 10 percent are inhabited
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Nicosa- capital of Cyprus
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Saarland- part of Germany
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delafield
- city in Wisconsin
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Dallas (Texas)
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Sao Paulo_ larrge city in Brazil
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Louisiana (USA)
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Armenia- cebntral asian country
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Atlanta (Georgia, USA)
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Aswan, Egypt-
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Nagaland, India (yes, that is a real place)
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Denmark, small country in Europe
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Kimberly, a city in Australia.
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Youngstown, Pa
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Niger, Africa
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rwanda- Africa
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Alabama (USA)
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Andalusia - Spain
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Alexandria- Egypt
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Andorra La Vella
capital of Andorra, a tiny country between France and Spain
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Angola (Africa)
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Algiers - capital of Algeria
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Shanghai, China.
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Lappland (Northern Europe)
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Dover, Delaware
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Renton (city in Washington state.)
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Nepal
a country between India and China, also where you'll find Mt. Everest, tallest mountain in the world
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Lima (Capital of Peru)
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Albany, Ny
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York (UK)
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Kansas, US
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South Dakota, USA
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Andorra - small European Country
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Alaska (USA)
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Arctic Ocean
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North Dakota (USA)
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Alcatraz island, - its in California
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(I'm going with "d" as in "island")
Dover, England.
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Rangoon
capital of Myanmar
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North Carolina (USA)
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Nairobi- capital of Kenya
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(edited)
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Ireland, Europe (Ninja'd!)
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Doha, Qatar
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Armenia, in the Caucuses
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Appleton, WI
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Nicaragua (Central America)
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Ashland, WI
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Antigua (little island country)
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mississippi (USA)
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Idaho- US
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Oklahoma, USA
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Albania- Southeastern European Country
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Atlanta (Georgia)
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Auckland, New Zealand
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Dallas, Texas
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Seville , Spain
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Estonia (Northern Europe, by the Baltic sea)
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Ankara, Turkey
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Athens, Greece
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Sapporo - Japan
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Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso.
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Ukraine- located on the Black Sea
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Netherlands (Europe)
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Sumatra - Indonesia
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Rajasthan, India
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angola, _africa
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Larissa, a city in Greece.
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Santiago, Chile
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Gothenberg (Sweden; I think someone from the GoF is from there?)
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Guttenburg, Germany
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Georgia (the country, not the US state.)
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Aachen, Germany
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Naples, Italy.
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St. Petersburg, Russia
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Gorki, Russia.
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Islamabad, Pakistan
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Addis Ababa, Eithiopia.
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bangkok Thailand
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Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas, USA.)
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Soeul South Korea
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Los Angeles, California.
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Sahara desert
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Rangoon, Burma.
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Naimbia
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Azerbaijan, Asia
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Nassau, Bahamas
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Australia, its own continent.
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Asmara, Eritrea
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Ragusa, Italy.
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San Marino - country surrounded by Italy
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Novosibirsk, Russia.
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KOrean peninsula
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Anyang, China
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gogland island, Russia
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Dongfeng County, China.
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Yalta, Russia
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Altoona, Pennsylvania
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Arlington VA
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Niagara Falls, NY.
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Seward, AK
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Darlington, England.
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ontario, Canada
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Ocean City, Maryland.
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Yaren
capital of Nauru, a tiny Pacific island nation
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Nairobi, Capital of Kenya.
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Iraq
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Quatar, a Persian gulf state.
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romania
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Austria, Europe.
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Augusta, Maine
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Algiers, Algeria.
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Sierra Leone
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Edmonton, Canada.
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Northwest Territories
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Saskatchewan (Canada)
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New Brunswick, CA
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Kent, England.
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Turkmenistan
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Nicosia (Cyprus)
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American Samoa
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Anchorage, Alaska
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El Salavador
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Russia.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Romania
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Aurora, Illinios
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Austria.
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antartic Ocean
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Norway.
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Yemen
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Nauru
tiny Pacific island nation
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Russia
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Austin - Texas
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Indianapolis, Indiana
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Sicily, Italy
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Yorktown, Virgina.
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Andorra
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Aligers, algeria
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Salamanca, Spain
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Cayman islands
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Novi Sad - Serbia
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Door County Wisconsin
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Yorkshire, England.
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Erie PA
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Essen, Germany.
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Nicarugua (lake)
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Angola (Africa)
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Amazon -rainforest
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Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Senegal
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Liechtenstein
tiny country between Austria and Switzerland
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Normandy -region of FRance
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York, England.
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Kenya
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Abuja, Nigeria.
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Jamaica
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Canadian Shield (we can use geographic features, right?)
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Yeah we can..)
Djibouti
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(Thanks for letting me know)
Tijuana, Mexico.
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nazko (river)
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Kokomo (Indiana)
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Montana
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Leningrad, Russia
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Dongguan, China
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Anonnay, France
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Yorkville, USA (part of Manhattan)
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Lexington, KY
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Onongada County, New York
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Danube (river)
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Bentonville, Arkansas
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lexington, NH
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Ontario, Canada (I'm in the top 10! :) )
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Oahu
one of the Hawaiian islands
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Urugary
South American Country
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York, UK
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key west Florida
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Tarragona, Spain
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Atlantis
(Unlike Atlantis, this thread has risen!)
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Siberia, Russia
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Auckland - New Zealand (largest city in New Zealand)
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Dublin, Ireland
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Nagashino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagashino_castle) - Castle in Japan, site of a famous battle in 1575.
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Osaka, Japan
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Alcatraz, famous island prison
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Zwickau - Germany
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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Row, Poland
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Warsaw, Poland.
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Waterloo - Belgium.
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Ōyama, Ōita, Japan
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Austin, Texas.
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Nairobi - Kenya
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Issus - town and river in modern day Turkey. Site of the battle of Issus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Issus) 333BC.
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Saragossa, Spain
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Nepal
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Alberta, Canada.
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Dallas, Texas
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Sheridan, Illinois
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Nairobi, Kenya.
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Iaeger, West Virginia
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Rostov - Russia
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Vecliepāja, Latvia
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Asia
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Adelaide - Australia
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Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
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Hamburg - Germany
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Singapore
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El Cajon, CA
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Nuuk - Greenland
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Kyrgyzstan
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Nazar, Navarre, Spain
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Rotterdam - Netherlands
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Mackenzie, British Columbia
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the Equator
(come on guys, someone else post)
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Rostov - Russia
(I usually prefer to wait a bit before posting here. It's not that fun when it's just the two of us.)
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Vlor”, Albania
(the problem is that if we don't keep it on the first page, it'll die and be forgotten. My posts are always 4 or 5 days apart, once it's reached the bottom 3 slots.)
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Edgewood, British Columbia (Canada)
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Dubrovnik - Croatia
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Kentucky, USA
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Yekaterinburg - Russia
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GotMilk? (actual town)
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Kaliningrad, Russia.
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Dijon - France
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Nashville, Tennessee.
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Ecuador
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Radon, Orne, France
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Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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Trondheim - Norway
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Mwami, Zimbabwe
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India
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Aa, Estonia
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Amritsar, India
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Rio Grande
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
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Nouga, Mali
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Aleppo - Syria
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Orwell, Vermont
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(I think I know where that town is, even though I've never been there)
Los Angeles - California
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Saratoga, NY.
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(^^I was thinking of George Orwell when I picked it)
Antietam, site of famous American Civil War battle
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Manchester, UK.
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Roswell, New Mexico
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Lanzhou, China
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United States
(this will work for my 2000th post)
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(Good post! :) )
Salamis, Greece.
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(^^Congratulations!)
Springfield
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Danville, Indiana.
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Einsiedeln Abbey
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York, Pennsylvania.
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Kenya
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Alabama
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Axarqu“a, Andalucia
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Anzio, Italy.
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Omsk - Russia
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Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania
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Estonia, country in northern Europe.
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Anadyr - Russia
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Reykjavik - Iceland
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Karelia, a location in Russia.
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Angkor, Cambodia
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Rhode Island
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Denmark
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Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
(also known as Bangkok)
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Tunguska - a region in Russia, site of a massive explosion in 1908 (it's still unknown whether it was caused by an asteroid or a comet)
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Antioch (now Konya), city in Turkey, historically part of Syria, named after a Greek noble named Antiochus.
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Honshu - largest of the Japanese islands
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ukraine
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Europe! (I know, cheap shot!)
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(You don't know how many times I've been tempted to do that with all the things ending in "a")
Erg of Bilma, a Dune Sea in south central Sahara
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Aral (Sea) - lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, due to intense irrigation it has shrunk to 15 percent of it's former volume of 50 years ago
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a town in Wales (bet they have fun with return addresses)
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Houston, Texas.
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New York (City)
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Kaifeng, China.
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Geronimo, Texas
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Ouagadougou, Capital of Burkino Faso.
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Utrecht City, Utrecht
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Taishan, Guangdong Province, China
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Newport Beach
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Hagerstown, Maryland
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Nepal
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Lincoln, UK
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Nevada
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Athens, Greece.
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Sunshine 60, tallest building in Japan until 1991.
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Ercea, a village in Romania.
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Atlantis, nobody knows where
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Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Liechtenstein
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Nome - Alaska
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Estonia, northern European country.
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Africa
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Alaska, USA
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Australia, only island/continent/country
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Atlantic City, NJ
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York, UK
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Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan
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Ural (Mountains) - mountain range that separates Europe and Asia
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Lincolnshire, England
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Earth :P: (I've been waiting so long to get to post that)
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Hammerfest - Norway
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Topeka
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Altoona, Pennsylvania
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Alba, Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland
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Albany, NY
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Yale, famous college
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England, UK
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Dogwood, Indiana
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Darwin - Northern Territory, Australia
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North Dakota, USA.
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Amsterdam
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Minnesota, USA.
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Anchorage, Alaska, I think
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Eastern - a region in each of the following countries: Sierra Leone, Kenya, Zambia, Sri Lanka, Nepal
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N A Degerstrom Yard Heliport
(Hey, next poster will make the 1,800th post!)
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(Guess it'll be me, then)
Twizell Castle, Northumberland
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Essen - Germany
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New Kent County, Virginia
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(I'm going to ignore the 'county' part)
Twin Falls - Idaho
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Sacramento, California capital
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Omsk - Russia
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Kaliningrad, also in Russia.
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Doolittle, Missouri
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Estonia, Europe.
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Arctic Circle
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Lesotho, a country in Southern Africa.
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Orange Free State, a former country also in South Africa
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Ekanterinberg, Russia (also called Yekanterinberg)
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Sentosa siloso beach
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Greater Khorasan
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New Guinea
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Annapolis, Maryland
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Saratoga, site of a battle, I think
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Azerbaijan - former Soviet republic
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Norway
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Yemen, Arabia
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Naples - Italy
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Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada
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Equator
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Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
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Hewlett, New York
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Tennessee, USA
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East Timor
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Rhode Island, USA.
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Dos Picos County Park, San Diego
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Kennywood, a theme park in Pennsylvania.
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Dubai - United Arab Emirates
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Indianapolis, USA
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Southers Marsh Golf Club, in Plymouth, MA
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Boston, USA
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Eiffel Tower, France
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Reims, France.
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Seward Montessori, South Minneapolis
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Indore, India.
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Equatorial Guinea (I've waited a while to get tot post this one )
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Antananarivo, Capital of Madagascar.
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Ōta, Gunma
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Alabama, USA
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Atyrau, Kazakhstan
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USA!
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(w00t!)
Australia! :huh:
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Andorra, Europe.
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Andalusia, Spain
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Estonia
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Atlanta, USA.
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(Five of the places on this page so far start and end with 'A')
Asia
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Africa
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Attica, Greece
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Etruria
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Anshan, China.
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Nehalem River, Oregon
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Rhodes, Greece
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Seattle
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Europe! lol
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Ewe River
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Edirne - Turkey
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Edingale, England
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Edessa, Turkey.
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Ampleforth College, England
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Emesa, ancient name for the city of Hims, Syria.
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Arfon, district of Wales
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New Jersey, USA.
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Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China
(Have fun figuring out which letter to start with!)
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(I'm just going with "I")
Iowa, USA (a much simpler place to say :lol)
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Angola
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Argentina, South America
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Arkhangel'sk - Russia
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Kyoto, Japan
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Oklahoma... where the wind comes sweeping down the plain! USA. :lol
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Alaska, also known as Seward's Folly.
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Anadarko, Oklahoma.
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Ordo Templi Orientis, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Salerno, Italy.
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Ontario, a Great Lake.
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Ohio, USA
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Opal, Xinjiang, China
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Luca, Italy.
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Agro Park, Malaysia
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Kansas, USA
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Salt Lake City, UTah
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Yorktown, VA.
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Normandy (While we're on the topic of notable battlefields)
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Yemen, Arabian Peninsula.
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Ngulu, atoll in the middle of nowhere
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Uganda, Africa.
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Anaheim
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Madagascar, Africa
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Azerbaijan
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Nigeria, Africa.
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Austin, Texas
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Netherlands, Europe
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Slovakia
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Australia.
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Alexandria - Egypt
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Andalusia, Spain
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Athens - Greece
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Serbia, Europe.
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Alexander (Island) - largest island in Antarctica
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Rhode Island, USA
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Arabian Peninsula
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Atlanta, GA
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Arkansas
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Saarland (region of Germany)
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Delphi, Greece.
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Isle of Man, UK
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indiana( US state)
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Afghanistan
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Nigeria, Africa (Indiana does NOT work with Isle of Man!)
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Andorra la Vella, Andora
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Albuquerque, NM
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(sorry I didn't see your post, before posting Indiana)
Eritrea, Africa
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Angola, Africa.
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Austria
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Australia
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Amazon (Basin) - South America
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Nile (River)
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Ezhou - China (just southeast of Wuhan)
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Uganda, Africa.
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(Just thought I'd poke my head in and see how this game is doing!)
Arctic Circle
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Eritrea, Africa
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(Sea of) Azov - part of the Black Sea, between Russia and Ukraine
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Volgograd, Russia. Formerly known as Stalingrad.
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Dnieper - longest river in Ukraine
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Rio Grande (River that divides USA and Mexico)
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(Mt) Erebus - Ross Island, Antarctica, the world's southernmost active volcano
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South Dakota, where Mt. Rushmore is.
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(Lake) Albert - between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, one of many lakes on the Great Rift Valley of east Africa
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Transylvania (always wanted to use that one! :DD ), a region in Romania.
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Aparri - Philippines
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Ireland, Europe.
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Dover - Delaware
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Rome, Italy.
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Essex - Ontario, Canada
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Xiamen, China.
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North Pole - Alaska (just southeast of Fairbanks)
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English Channel, between the UK and France.
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Lanzhou - China
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United Kingdom, Europe.
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Manhattan, NY
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Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Avalon - New Jersey (between Atlantic City and Cape May)
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New Caledonia, Oceania.
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Angeles - Philippines
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San Antonio, Texas.
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Oregon - Wisconsin, USA (just south of Madison)
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Navi Mumbai, City on the West Coast of India.
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Izumo - Japan
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Centrailia(AKA the real Silent Hill)- Pennslyvania(thought it would be funny if I referanced Centrailia)
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Andes Mountains, South America.
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Sapporo - Japan
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Oregon, USA
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Kyoto,Japan.
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Niger, Africa
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Rajasthan, India.
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Nuussuaq - Greenland
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Nashville,Tennesse
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El Paso, Texas.
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(That's exactly what I was planning to post! :! :lol )
Orlando - Florida
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Orleans, France.
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El Salvador
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Russia, Europe.
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Atsumi - Japan (there are actually two separate cities in Japan with this name)
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Los Angeles,California.
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Stalingrad, now Volgograd, Russia
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Dej - Romania
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Jacksonville, Florida.
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Ellesmere (Island) - Canada (10th largest island in the world)
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Elba, an Island in Italy off the coast of Tuscany.
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Arrowhead, the name of author Herman Melville's house, where he wrote Moby Dick.
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Denmark, Europe.
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Kirov - Russia
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Victoria Falls, between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Sao Paulo - Brazil
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Old Faithful, Yellowstone
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Lappland, a region in far northern Europe.
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Denmark (thought you'd like to do something with a K)
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Khabarovsk - Russia
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Kaifeng, China.
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Glasgow - Scotland
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Washington (State), USA
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Nuussuaq - Greenland
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Queens, New York City.
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Southern Alps - mountain range in New Zealand
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Scotland Yard
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Dagestan, Russia.
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Noril'sk - Russia
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Kyiv, capital of Ukraine
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Vladivostok - Russia
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Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
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Yunnan, a poorer province in China.
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Nysa, Poland
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Ambon - Indonesia
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North Dakota, USA.
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Arica - Chile
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Amazon River, South America.
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New York - USA
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Kentucky, USA
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(Chronicler's New York post was the 2000th post in this game! Congratulations!)
Yellow River, China
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Rawalpindi, Pakistan's 4th largest city.
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(If this game reaches 3,000, we should rig it so Noname gets the 3,000th post. We've been the threee most loyal players.)
Isla Holbox, Mexico
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(I've already got the 1000th and 2000th posts in my game, I think. No need to rid things. It isn't like it is based on merit... just when we post. It says nothing about one's intelligence, or even skill in the game.)
Link: http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...80#entry9101644 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=5398.1980#entry9101644)
Xinjiang, China.
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Gˆppingen, Germany
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(I was aware that post would be the 2000th post of this game, which is why I chose New York. (I chose to leave out the 'City' part) If it had been any other post, I would have used something else.)
Nauru - a Pacific island nation
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Uruk, ancient city of Babylonia
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Kiribati - a Pacific island nation that consists of three island groups (Gilbert islands, Phoenix islands, and Line islands)
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Isle of Man, United Kingdom.
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Nicosia - Cyprus
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South Ossetia, contested region in the Caucuses.
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Alborg - Denmark
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Gdansk, Poland.
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Krakow - Poland
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Waterloo, site of Napoleon's defeat
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Ohio, USA
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Oahu, Hawaii
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United Kingdom
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Montana, USA.
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Adwick railway station, United Kingdom
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North Carolina, USA.
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Ay, France
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Yemen, Arabian Peninsula.
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Nicholas, West Virginia
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South America.
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Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
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Indiana, USA.
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anaheim
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Montreal - Quebec
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Cyprus
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Sandwich Islands (old name for Hawaii)
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Sima, Island of Anjouan, Comoros,
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Afghanistan
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New Jersey.
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Yellowknife - Northwest Territories, Canada
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Harlem, neighborhood in New York City.
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Milwaukee-city in Wisconsin
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East Timor, Asia.
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Red City, Morocco
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Yugoslavia, former country in the Balkans.
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Albuqurque
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Enez - Turkey
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Yerevan, Armenia.
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Nouakchott - Mauritania
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Tennessee, USA
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Edmonton - Alberta, Canada
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Antilles
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Staten Island, NYC.
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Dar Es Sallam
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Mogadishu - Somalia
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Ukraine, Europe.
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Erie, PA
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England, UK.
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Davao - Philippines
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Orleans, France.
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Estonia
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Alabama, USA
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Ahvaz - Iran
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Zhigansky Ulus, Russia
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Samara. Russia.
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Aleutian (Islands) - Alaska
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Southern California
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Azerbaijan, Asia (in the caucuses)
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Newcastle - Australia
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England, Arkansas (yes, it is a real town)
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Delafield, WI
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Del Rio - Texas
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Oakland, California.
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(that city put me in a football kinda mind)
Denver, Colorado
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Renton, Washington State.
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New York, New York
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Kentucky, USA
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Yorktown, site of final battle of American Revolution
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Nebraska, USA. State full of corn...
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Alaska, the state that rhymes with Nebraska
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Arkansas, another US state. This is where Wal-Mart is based.
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Saskatoon - Saskatchewan, Canada
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Nigeria. This is where email scams are based.
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New Caledonia, Oceania.
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Aspen, Colorado
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Netherlands, Europe.
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San Jose - California
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Eden Valley, Minnesota.
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Yasuj, Iran
(Don't get to do places that start with J much)
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Jericho, West Bank.
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Orion, Alberta, Canada
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Novosibirsk - Russia
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Kaliningrad - Russia
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, nicknamed the Deuce
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Rostov - Russia
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Vatican City, smallest soverign country on the planet
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York, England. City whose Duke New York was named after and the city where Constantine the Great (man who legalized Christianity) was declared Roman emperor by his troops.
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Koper - Slovenia (perhaps the only coastal city in Slovenia)
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Russia, Europe/Asia.
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Albany - New York
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Yemen, Asia.
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No, Lake in Sudan
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Ontario - Canada
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On, ancient city in Egypt. Known to the Greeks as Heliopolis.
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New Brunswick - Canada
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Kalandia, West Bank (small village I found on wikipedia.)
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Almaty - Kazakhstan
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Yukon territory, Canada
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Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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Ice Mountain, West Virginia
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New York (State)
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Kykuit, massive house built by John D. Rockefeller
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Tennessee, USA.
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Edmonton - Alberta, Canada
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North Dakota, USA.
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Aspen Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
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East Anglia, UK.
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Atlanta - Georgia, USA
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Albania, Europe.
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Auschwitz, infamous Nazi concentration camp
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Zurich - Switzerland
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Vienna - Capital of Austria
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Athens - Greece
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San Antonio, Texas.
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Ormond beach, Florida
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(My grandfather lives right NEXT to that town, in a place called Ormond-By-The-Sea!)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Gibraltar
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Rhodes, Greece.
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Sulawesi - 4th largest island in Indonesia, and 11th largest in the world
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Manila - Republic of the Philippines
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(Just to let you know, LBTFan, in this game the place you post has to start with the same letter as the one at the end of the place said in the previous post. For example, you said "Manila", that means I have to name a place that begins with an "A".)
Adelaide - Australia
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Ok I didn¥t known that.
EncarnaciÛn - Paraguay
this is right or?
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That's right. :)
Niagara Falls
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Shiraz - Iran
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ZYZZYX (or something like that, know the last letter is correct), CA
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Xylokastro - Greece
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Osaka - 3th biggest city in Japan
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?, Moskenes
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Svalbard - group of island in the Arctic Ocean, part of Norway
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Dakar, Senegal
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Reykjavik - Iceland
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Kythira, island of Greece
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Atacama Desert, Chile.
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Attu (Island) - westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
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Ukraine, Eastern Europe.
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Eden, possibly existant garden of unknown location
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Innsbruck - Austria
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Krakau - Poland
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United States of America. Really, if you need me to tell you where THIS one is... :lol
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(Actually, a survey study in 2002 (http://www.youthink.com/images_quiz/2009/03/21/full_135522784.jpg) showed that 11% of young Americans couldn't find the United States on a map.)
The Arc, a river in France
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(At least 89% CAN, then. :lol I don't believe those surveys anyway.)
Canada, another easy-to-find country on a map.
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Appalachian (Mountains) - mountain range in the eastern United States
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Nova Scotia
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Adriatic (Sea) - between Italy and the Balkans
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Caspian Sea, Asia.
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Aberwyvern, fictional town and castle used by David Macaulay to explain medieval castles and history.
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Niederoesterreich, Austria
Is it cheating to use another language?
It is German for Lower Austria.
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Havana - Cuba
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Is it cheating to use another language?
I think I used some Scottish name in the past. So far, the only thing lbt/cty_lover has ixnayed is the use of non-Earth locations (as I did with Olympus Mons, which prompted the rule change.)
Awkley, hamlet in parish of Olveston in South Gloucestershire, England.
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as long as its on earth and a vaild lanuage its ok
yosemite-national park in california
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Ellesmere (Island) - 3rd largest island in Canada and 10th largest in the world
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Eilat - Israel
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Tallinn - Estonia
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Nicholas County, West Virginia
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York, England.
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Kilpatrick, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Kyoto - Japan
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Oregon, USA
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New Amsterdam
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Mauritania
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Alex, Haute-Savoie, France
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Xanthi - Greece
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Ibiza - the third largest of the Balearic Islands
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Algarve - mountains along the southern coast of Portugal
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Ekarti, Greece.
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Inuvik - Northwest Territories, Canada
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Kabul - capital and largest city of Afghanistan
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La Paz - Baja California, Mexico
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Zulia - Venezuela
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Apulia, Italy.
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Arbil - (Kurdistan) Iraq
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La Paz - the world's highest city, Boliviens.
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Zhongshan - (China) research base in Antarctica
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Normalnull
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Lisbon, Portugal
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Nagoya - Japan
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AWQAF, Africa Muslim Open College
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Florence - capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
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(Love that city!)
Equatorial Guinea, only Spanish or French speaking country in Africa
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Aachen - Germany
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(All the things ending in N! I get them every time!)
Norway
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Yonkers - New York
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S„o Paulo - The largest city in Brazil.
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(Lake) Okeechobee - Florida
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Envy, Switzerland
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York, Pennsylvania.
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Kansas City - Missouri
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Yyteri, district of Finland
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Icaria, Greece.
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Amarillo - Texas
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Overhill, a term referring to many Cherokee towns and villages in what would later be Tennessee.
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Louisville - Kentucky
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Ewing Island, small offshoot of Antarctica
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Danbury, Connecticut.
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YaoundÈ - capital city of Cameroon
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Everett, Washington state.
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Tuvalu - Pacific island nation
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Ukraine, Europe.
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Eighty Mile Beach - part of the northwest coast of Australia
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Herts, Hertfordshire
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Sfax - Tunisia
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Xingu River, Brazil.
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Ruja Incorporated Florist, Chicago, Illinois
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Tabriz - Iran
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Zambia, Africa.
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Ash Street, Suffolk, England
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Tuscany, Italy.
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York, North Yorkshire
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Kuala Lumpur - The capital and largest city of Malaysia.
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Richmond - Virginia
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Djibouti, Africa.
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Ii, Finland
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Independence - Missouri
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Eindhoven - Netherlands
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New Zealand, Oceania.
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Dawson - Yukon Territory, Canada
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Neville, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Ebetsu - Japan
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Ulan Bator - The capital and largest city of Mongolia
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Riverside - California
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Enschede - Netherlands
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Earth
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Honolulu - Hawaii
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Ural Mountains, mostly in Russia, considered the boundary that separates Europe and Asia
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London - England
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New Delhi - the capital of India
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Italy
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Yerevan - the capital and largest city of Armenia
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Niger River
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Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
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Hamburg, Germany.
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Gogol, Goa
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Larissa, Greece.
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Antwerp - Belgium
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Podunk, generic name for small backwash towns in America.
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Korea, divided peninsula in East Asia.
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Arkhangelsk, Russia
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Kingston - Jamaica
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Namibia, Africa.
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Arques-la-Bataille, France
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Ed - Eritrea
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Danzig, former name of Gdansk, Poland.
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Groningen - Netherlands
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Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Kansas, where Dorothy is no longer in.
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Siena, Italy.
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Arkansas, where Kansas meets AR
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Salerno, also in Italy.
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Olbia - Sardinia, Italy
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Not one to break a chain...
Alba, Italy
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Yemen
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Naples, Italy. I can always bring a chain back. ;)
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San Marino - tiny country in the middle of Italy
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Ostia, Italy.
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Andorra La Vella - Andorra (tiny country between France and Spain)
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Atlanta, Georgia.
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Another one ending in a! I must be unlucky.
Atlantis, for another unlucky city.
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Salamanca, Spain
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Anchorage - Alaska
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Estonia, Europe.
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Another A! Seriously?
Fine, then I'll just post Atlantis again.
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St John's - Newfoundland
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Siberia, Russia.
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Asuncion - Paraguay
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YAY! Not an A!
Nirvana, which is everywhere and so therefore also on Earth
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I don't think that is a geographic place. YOU LOSE! Only kidding. :lol
Arica, Chile.
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Well, I was in Nirvana when I got to post one that didn't start with A. However, you've dragged me back out of it by posting another placethat ends with 'A" :(
Appalachian Mountains
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San Antonio, Texas.
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Orange (River) - South Africa
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Evergreen State College
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Eritrea, Africa.
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Accra - capital of Ghana
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Aden, Yemen
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The New World, generally understood to be the Americas and sometimes Australia.
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(Note: As of this post, the Geography Game is officially the LONGEST GAME IN THE PARTY ROOM!!! :celebrate Great job guys! It took all of us!)
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YAY!!! :) :lol: :D
Danbury, Connecticut.
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Yukon (River) - Alaska and Yukon Territory
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New Hampshire, USA.
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Ervenik, Croatia
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Kansas City, USA
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Yyteri, Finland
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Isle of Man, UK.
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Norway
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Yuma - Arizona
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Arizona, USA
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Arkansas, USA
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Salisbury
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York, UK.
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Kilroy's College, Ireland
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El Paso - Texas
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Oswego, New York.
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Orwell High School in Suffolk, England
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Lanai - 6th largest of the Hawaiian islands
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İyidere, Turkey
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East Islip, New York State.
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Portsmouth, England
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Houston Street, New York City...
And that's pronounced "House-ton" not "Hews-ton" ;)
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^I honestly did not know that about the pronunciation.
the Louvre, something else that gets mispronounced on a daily basis
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England, UK.
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Denmark, site of a famous play from England's greatest writer
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Kahoolawe - smallest of the 8 Hawaiian islands, also the only uninhabited island of those 8
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Edo, former name of Tokyo, Japan.
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O'Brien, CA
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New Brunswick, NJ.
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Kentland IN
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Deragon Cave, deepest cave in Khorasan, located in South Khorasan, Iran near Sarayan
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Nassau - Bahamas
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Uzbekistan - Midle East
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Nunavut - territory in Canada
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Timbuktu, can't remember whether it's a real place or not, though
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(It is a real place. It was the capital of the medieval kingdom of Mali, now it's just another city in the country of Mali.)
United Arab Emirates
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Salerno, Italy.
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Ob (River) - Russia
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Bradley Land, a phantom island
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Dodecanese - Greek islands off the coast of Turkey
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East Asia... where all the "Mongoloid" people are. :lol
Yes, I know... cheap one. That's an old racial classification, no offense meant.
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Albuqurque, where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer.
That's an old pop culture reference, no offense meant.
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East Timor, a tiny Roman Catholic country in the middle of Indonesia.
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Rwanda
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Afghanistan, Asia.
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Aria, another region in modern-day Afghanistan
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Alabama, USA
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Atlas (Mountains) - Morocco and northern Algeria
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Saratoga, site of a critical battle in the Revolutionary War
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Asia, site of a lot of stuff. Trust me.
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Australia... home of Ayers Rock/Uluru, Sydney's Opera house... and kangaroos. XD
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Arnold Hill Comprehensive School In Nottinghamshire, England
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Lincoln, Illinois... the only settlement to be named for Abe BEFORE he was president.
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Niihau - 2nd smallest of the eight Hawaiian Islands, also the smallest populated of those islands
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Urquhart Castle, beside Loch Ness
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Urquhart Castle, beside Loch Ness
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Exeter - England
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I hate finding place names that start with "E"... not very many of them.
Eastchester, a town in New York.
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At least it's not A. E doesn't come up as much as A, to my knowledge.
'K' is sufficiently rare, methinks :)
Rock, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
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Karelia, a region in Finland and Russia.
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Alofi - Niue (New Zealand Pacific island territory)
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Isle of Man, United Kingdom.
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Niamey - Niger
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Ysplanti, Michigan.
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Isla Zapatera, a shield volcano within Lake Nicaragua
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Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire
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New France, apparently a country according to Wikipedia, but I'd never heard of it.
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(It was a French colony in the 17th century. Today, most of it is the Canadian province of Quebec.)
Edirne - Turkey
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Erasmus Hall, Brooklyn
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Las Vegas - Nevada
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Shanghai - China
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Isla Vista, biggest party town in America! (except maybe Chronicler's last post)
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Asmara - the capital city of Eritrea
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Albuquerque - New Mexico
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^Win city!
Elba, the island Napoleon saw ere he was able.
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Arica - Chile
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Amiens - France
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Sens, also in France.
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Samarkand - Uzbekistan
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De Moines
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Siberia, Russia.
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Austin - Texas
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Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Aizu-Wakamatsu - Japan
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USA, North America.
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ASU, Noth America :D
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Ukraine - eastern Europe
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Eyton on Severn, a village in England
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New England, a region in the Northeast US.
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Duluth, MN
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Hamburg, Germany.
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Ghent - Belgium
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Tennessee, USA .
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Equatorial Guinea, only Spanish and French speaking country in Africa
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Angola, another country in Africa.
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Ghana
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Angola, another country in Africa.
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(Gulf of) Aden - between Yemen and Somalia
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Ngulu, abandoned atoll in the middle of nowhere
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Urumqi - large city in northwestern China
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I've heard of that... not very large at all. :lol
Ireland, Europe.
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(every time I get D, I want to do Denmark...must be creative...)
Dubai!
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Good one... the world's most indebted piece of sand! :lol
Iceland, the the world's most indebted piece of ice! :DD
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Darn you! Another D!
Den...Den...Den...Arrg!
Disneyland!!!
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(If you're having trouble coming up with another name, perhaps you should consider using physical features instead of countries and cities. For example...)
Drake Passage - between Antarctica and South America
(I wanted to do Dead Sea, but that would give you another D)
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East China Sea, near the pacific.
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Arabian (Peninsula) - Asia
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Nha Trang, Vietnam
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Guiyang, China.
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Gyzylarbat, now known as Serdar, Turkmenistan
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Toronto, Canada.
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(Sea of) Okhotsk - eastern Siberia
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Kentucky, USA
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Ystrad Meurig, UK
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Graz - Austria
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ZZYZYX - California
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Xok - Azerbaijan
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Kytˆ, an island in Espoo, Finland
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Oceania, a huge region of water and islands in the pacific ocean.
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Aswan, city in Egypt
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Niger, Africa.
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Rub' al Khali - southern Saudi Arabia, world's largest sand desert
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Iceland, a very cold country. :lol
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Devon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon) - A county on the southwestern peninsula of England.
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Newcastle - New South Wales, Australia
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Edward, smallest great lake of Africa
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Dijon - France
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Nairobi
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Irakleiou - largest city on the island of Crete, Greece
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Uugalautiit Island, an awesomely named island offshore of Canada
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Tunis - Tunisia
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Salamanca- Spain
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Aswan - Egypt
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New Zealand, Oceania.
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Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
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Manaus - Brazil
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Springfield, a great many places
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Dushanbe - Tajikistan
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Eagle River, Wisconsin
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River Rouge, Michigan.
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Nambia
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Accra - Ghana
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Annapolis, MD
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Samarkand - Uzbekistan
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Delaware, USA.
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Essen - Germany
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Norway, Scandinavia.
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York - England
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Kwajalein Atoll, a small island with way too much history on Wikipedia
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Lebanon, Asia.
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Nassau - Bahamas
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Ukraine, Eastern Europe.
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Erfurt - Germany
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Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a hill in New Zealand. Famous for being the longest place name in any English-speaking country.
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United Kingdom, also an English-speaking land. XD
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Mississippi (River)
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Iceland, Europe.
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Damascus - Syria
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Sydney, Australia
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Yemen, Asia.
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Nuevo Laredo - Mexico (just across the border from Laredo, Texas)
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ontario, canada
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Oviedo - Spain
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Orleans, France.
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Sydney - Australia
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Yemen, Arabian peninsula.
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You already used that 6 posts ago. I know that by this point we're going to get some repeats, but I think we should limit the number of times a particular name is used to no more than one per page.
Nagpur - India
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Rhine River_Germany
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(Lake) Erie - North America
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England, UK
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Delafield WI
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Daytona, Florida.
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Andros (Island) - one of the largest islands of the Bahamas
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Lol. Star Fox must hate that island (I know, the spelling is different)
South Carolina, USA.
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Andorra - Europe
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Albuqurque
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Erzurum - Turkey
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Mirax Island Resort, Cambodia
(3,000 POST!!!)
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talahasee, Florida
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East Anglia, England.
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Ajaccio - France (largest city on the island of Corsica)
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Oahu, Hawaii
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Ural (River) - Russia and Kazakhstan (forms part of the border between Europe and Asia)
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Liberia, African country formed by freed American slaves in 1821.
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Anzio, Italy.
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Ore (Mountains) - northern half of the border between Germany and Czech Republic
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Easter Island -owned by Chile
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Denmark, Europe.
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Kyrgyzstan - Central Asia (a former Soviet republic)
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New Zealand
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Dunkirk, France
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Kazakhstan - also in Central Asia (also a former Soviet republic) (also happens to be the 9th largest country in the world)
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(with a million sq miles in area)
Nicosia- capital of cyprus
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Algeria - 2nd largest country in Africa and 11th largest country in the world
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Avat, village in Kazakhstan
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Tajo (River) - Spain and Portugal, reaches the Atlantic at Lisbon
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Ohio-river
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Orleans, a city in France for which the American city is named after.
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south bend, Indiana
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Danbury, Connecticut.
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Yamoussoukro - Cote d'Ivoire (West Africa)
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Osaka, Japan.
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arlington, virginia
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Nova Scotia, Canada.
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aral sea - central asia
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La Paz - Bolivia
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Zambia, Africa.
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Aden - Yemen
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Nova Scotia- Canada
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Altiplano - plateau in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru
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Oihal“a, Tr“kala
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Astrakhan' - Russia
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North Dakota, USA.
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athens, greece
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Saskatoon - Saskatchewan, Canada
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Ning' an, China
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Newfoundland - Canada
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Djibouti- country in Africa
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Ithaca, Greece
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Apia - Samoa
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Abel, Alabama
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London - Ontario, Canada
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North Carolina, USA.
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Adriatic (Sea) - between Italy and the Balkans
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Cirrus, a building in Helsinki Finland
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Stockholm - Sweden
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Molotov, Azerbaijan - now known as Oktyabrkənd
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Vancouver - British Columbia, Canada (where the Olympics are currently being held)
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Rhode Island
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Denmark, Europe.
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Krakatoa, island volcano
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Albania, Eastern Europe.
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Abuja - Nigeria
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Angola, Africa.
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Alborg - Denmark
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Gulf of Finland
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Danbury, Connecticut.
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Russia
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Kaliningrad, Russia.
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Durban - South Africa
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Nizhy Novgorod, Russia.
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Dubrovnik - Croatia
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Kyoto, Japan
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Niger
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Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Grenoble - France
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Edmonton, Canada.
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Asbury Park, New Jersey
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Kansas, USA.
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Sao Paulo - Brazil
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Ohio, USA.
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Omsk - Russia
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Krakatoa, an island east of Java
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Austria, small country in Europe.
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Ewing, NJ
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Georgia, USA
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Acapulco - Mexico
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Oman, Arabian Peninsula.
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Naseby - English village in the east midlands. Site of one of the decisive battles of the English Civil War in 1645 in which the Royalists were defeated.
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Yorktown, Virginia. The site of the final, decisive battle of the American Revolutionary war.
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Newfoundland, Canada - The first English colony in the Americas, founded in 1583.
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Danbury, Connecticut.
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Yazoo - City, county, and river in Mississippi. The later playing a role as a major obstacle to the Federals during the Civil War's Vicksburg campaign.
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Oberlin, Ohio. A small town known for its liberal college.
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Nepal - country in the Himalayas between India and China. Mt. Everest is found on its border with China.
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Lhasa, Capital of Tibet, currently occupied by China.
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Ardennes - A region of forest, hills, and mountains in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the northeast of France which has gained tragic fame as one of Europe's main battle grounds, the Romans and Franks already fought battles in this region in their respective times and more battles between most of the major powers of European history took place there in the 17th to 19th century. In WW1 the region saw bloodshed again. For some reason it was still considered impossible terrain for an enemy attack in 1940 until said attack came :confused
Finally the battle of the Bulge also took place in that region.
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Shiloh - the site of another bloody battle, this time during the American Civil War.
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^ Aye, also the site where the highest ranking general to be killed in action on the southern side during the Civil war fell (many mistake Stonewall Jackson for the one, but it was Albert Sidney Johnson).
Harrisburg - capital of Pennsylvania. In much of the world the name Harrisburg is associated with the worst nuclear accident in American history (which still went of lightly compared to what could have happened). I remember that when on 9/11 a plane over Pennsylvania was first mentioned I really went like "Please, please, don't let the nuclear power plant in Harrisburg be the next target!"
By the way, there was another accident there last November which again didn't turn out as bad as it could have and did not compare to the case in 1979, but still it is kind of disturbing.
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Glasgow, United Kingdom - largest city in Scotland
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Waterloo, site of the very famous battle in which Napoleon was finally defeated for good.
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^ It is kind of funny that Wellington there determined to call the battle after the village close to which his headquarters was which of all possible names had to be named Waterloo :slap
The story is even stranger if one considers that for a while an alternative name suggested mainly by Bl¸cher had been in use. If the battle had been named after the place where the two commanders met it would have been the battle of "La belle alliance" which would translate to "the beautiful alliance" which would be quite fitting considering the many nations assembled on the battlefield against Napoleon (the English made up for only a small portion of the "English" army actually). Perhaps the name "La belle alliance" sounded too French so one better settled down on the Waterloo :confused
In spite of being one of the most famous battles in human history the battle of Waterloo arguably was rather pointless. Even if Napoleon had won that day he was bound to be defeated ultimately. His defeat had been sealed more than a year ago (actually much earlier already) and at least with regard to the question of whether or not Napoleon was to continue to rule France in the long run even a victory of Napoleon at Waterloo probably wouldn't have changed anything at all anymore... oh wait, this is the geography game, isn't it? :lol
Ocana - Sticking with locations of the Napoleonic wars Ocana was the site of the greatest single victory of the French over the Spanish on the Iberian peninsula (which otherwise proved to be a site of a war of attrition the effects of which can hardly be overestimated (though often they are underestimated; overshadowed by Napoleons disastrous attack on Russia)). Ocana is a town in the Spanish province of Toledo.
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Argentina, a land Napoleon never touched. :lol
Interestingly, even he had won and somehow managed to regain his previous power as "Emperor", Napoleon was believed to have been sick, and possibly would have died within a couple of years no matter what the outcome of Waterloo or any similar battle. He died in exile at St. Helena within a short time, in any case.
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^ Napoleon did not, but still parts of Argentina (then a Spanish colony) became a theater of war during the Napoleonic wars when the British launched an unsuccessful invasion in 1806 - 1807.
Staying within the theme of Napoleonic wars our next place is
Austerlitz - actually that name is kind of dated for the Czech town of Slavkov u Brna where on December 2nd 1805 (the first anniversary of his staged coronation) Napoleon won what is often perceived as his greatest victory. Outnumbered by the Austrian and Russian forces in this battle that was also referred to as the "Three Emperor's battle" (in spite of the fact that emperor Francis II of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire (which was dissolved as a consequence of this battle) was not present at all). Also... oh well... geography game it is :oops
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Zimbabwe, Africa. This has nothing to do with Napoleon or his wars. :lol
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Australia - home to the Inland Taipan.
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Alabama, a state in the Southern USA.
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Altona - District of the town of Hamburg which until the 19th century belonged to Denmark.
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Alaska, a freezing cold state, formerly a Russian territory, the largest state in the US by far, with very few people living in it, and another place that begins and ends with the letter A. :lol
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Anadyr - Founded on July 21, 1889 as Novo-Mariinsk and renamed on August 5, 1923, it's the easternmost town in Russia. (All settlements further east don't have town status.)
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Rotenburg - town in Germany that gained recent infamy through a case of "consensual cannibalism" that occured there :x :confused
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Grant, Alabama. A town of 665 people, it is part of the Huntsville-Decatur area.
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Thimphu - capital of and largest city in Bhutan, a small country in the Himalayas.
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Uruk - Ancient town on the river Euphrates (modern day Iraq) which played an important role in the ancient empires of Sumer and later Babylon (a period in the bronze age is named after this town). It lost most of its influence relatively early though. It was abandoned entirely in the time of the Islamic conquest.
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Kaliningrad, Russia. Formerly the German city of Koenigsburg, Germany (spelling?) If my history is correct, this was the city of famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
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Delaware - Nicknamed The First State because it was the first state admitted to the United States (December 7, 1787). It is also the second smallest state (only Rhode Island is smaller).
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El Escorial, Spanish royal site
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Lappland, a region is FAR northern Scandinavia.
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Denver - Founded in 1858 as a mining town, now the capital of and largest city in Colorado.
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Ravenna - Town in northern Italy that was the capital of the Western Roman Empire for some time in the 5th century :blink:
Later it became the capital of the Ostrogoth kingdom and the siege of the town by the Byzantines gave the basis to the "Rabenschlacht" (litterally raven-battle) which is part of several sagas.
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Atlanta- Major city in the American South, and capital of the US state of Georgia.
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Anatolia - Also known as Asia Minor, the westernmost region in Asia, takes up about two-thirds of Turkey.
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Andorra, a small country in Europe.
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Atlas (Mountains) - A mountain range across northern Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). It is home to many plant and animal species unique in Africa, many of them now endangered and some are already extinct (including the Atlas Bear, the only species of bear in Africa).
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San Andreas Fault
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Tennessee, a state in the American South.
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Elazig (Province) - A province of Turkey, site of a 5.9 earthquake nearly two weeks ago (March 8).
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Guantanamo Bay, an American Detainment Camp in Cuba which unfortunately remains open.
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Yemen, the poorest country in the Arabian peninsula.
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New Mexico - 47th state in the United States, admitted on January 6, 1912.
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Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso.
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Utah - 45th state in the United States, admitted on January 4, 1896
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Haiti, poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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Iceland - 18th largest island in the world, also one of the most geologically active places in the world, due to being on both a hotspot and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Democratic Republic of Congo. Massive country in the middle of Africa, former Belgian colony, mineral-rich, and known for ongoing wars, poverty, and all manner of atrocities. :blink:
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Orange, provincial city of Sew South Wales
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England, a country in the United Kingdom, but NOT an independent state.
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Dublin - Capital of Ireland. The name comes from the Irish words Dubh Linn, meaning "black pool". It was originally settled by the Norse in 841 A.D.
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New Brunswick. Only constitutionally bilingual province in Canada
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Kentucky - The Bluegrass State, it was admitted as the 15th state on June 1, 1792. Before then, it was a part of Virginia.
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Yopps Green, now known as Plaxtol, is a small village in Kent.
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Nagano, Japan - Hosted the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, the southernmost city to have ever hosted those games.
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Oklahoma, USA. A very flat farming state, just north of Texas, also known for oil, political conservatism, the site of Oral Roberts university, a very strong college basketball tradition, and a musical bearing its name.
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Alamo. Remember it.
(why am I still awake? It's 3 o clock at night!)
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Orlando, Florida. A very popular tourist destination.
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Opal, Virginia
(why am I still awake? It's 4 o'clock at night!)
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London, UK. If you need me to tell you much about this one... :blink:
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Nettle, Arkansas, which like Opal, Virginia, is also known as Fayetteville, despite the fact that both were discovered by me typing in a random word starting with the right letter, followed by a United State.
(why am I still awake? It's 5 o'clock in the morning!)
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Eritrea - An east African country that was an Italian colony from 1890 to 1941, when the British expelled the Italians in World War II. It was then a part of Ethiopia from 1962 to 1993, when it became independent.
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Angola, another African country, formerly colonized by Portugal.
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Almaty - The largest city in Kazakhstan, it was also its capital from 1929 to 1997. The name comes from the Kazakh word for apple. In fact, the region around the city is thought to be the ancestral home of domestic apples.
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York, a city in northern England, where Constantine was crowned one of the then co-emperors of the Roman Empire, and the city for which New York takes its name.
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Kazakhstan - A former Soviet Republic, it is the 9th largest country in the world and also the world's largest landlocked country. It is also the site of the space launch facility for the Russian space program, located in Baikonur.
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Nairobi, the capital of and largest city in Kenya.
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Izmir, Turkey - Known as Smyrna in ancient times, it is one of the oldest settlements of the Mediterranean basin. It was possessed by empires like the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Byzantines. It was renamed Izmir when the Turks first captured the city in 1076. The new name wasn't officially recognized by the English language until the Turkish Postal Service Law of March 28, 1930. It is now the third largest city, and second largest port city, in Turkey.
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Rome, Italy. We all know it was the capital of the Roman Kingdom, Republic, Empire, Papal States, and current capital of Italy. What most people do not know about it is that, while the traditional founding date is 753 BC, it may have existed before that by at least 50 years.
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Elat, Israel - The southernmost city in Israel, it is also a busy port, being the only one on the Red Sea. It proved vital to the development of modern Israel. Shortly after the creation of modern Israel in 1948, its Arab neighbors blocked all land routes, and Egypt refused to give Israel access to the Suez Canal. This made Elat crucial to allowing trade with Africa and Asia, which included oil imports. Peace treaties have since eased tensions in the region.
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Tauranga, New Zealand - One of New Zealand's port cities, and one of the largest cities in New Zealand as well.
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Atlanta, major city in the American State of Georgia. Originally known as "Terminus", this city was founded in the American South far away from any river or ocean, and despite being famously burned during the US Civil War, it recovered and is now home to companies such as Coca-Cola and Home Depot. CNN is also headquartered there, despite being owned by New York City-based Timewarner.
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Olathe, Kansas
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Erie, Pennsylvania - Named after Lake Erie, which was named after the Native American tribe who lived on its shores. The city was part of a triangle of land that was disputed between Pennsylvania and New York until it was officially given to Pennsylvania on March 3, 1792.
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…ire, the Irish name for Ireland and in no way related to the above posted location
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Ekaterinberg, a city in Russia, sometimes spelled with a "Y" as the first letter.
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Gibraltar - A British territory on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea on the Strait of Gibraltar. It was ceded by Spain to Great Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Twice, (1967 and 2002) the people of Gibraltar were asked to vote on whether they would like to be ceded back to Spain. Both times, 99% of the voters opposed the proposal, choosing to remain a British territory.
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Rom, a river running through Switzerland and Italy
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Moscow - Capital of and largest city in Russia. It is also the largest city in Europe, by many definitions. It is named after the Moskva River, on which it is built. The name probably came from a word in the ancient Finnic language meaning "dark" or "turbid".
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Wisconsin- the 30th state to join the US in1848. its official state animal is the badger though it is unknowns how many badgers call wisconsin home.
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Nassau - Capital of and largest city in The Bahamas. Although it was a British colony for most of its history, it was originally founded by the Spanish. At times, it was briefly occupied by the Spanish, the French, and the Americans (during the American War for Independence). In the early 1700s, it was a stronghold of pirates, including Blackbeard.
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Ukraine, a Slavic country to the south of Russia. For a long time, it was a place that empires would fight over, largely for its famous Black Earth Belt, one of the great breadbaskets of the world in its day. The modern Ukraine has been independent since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Ebola, river in the Congo
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Afghanistan, a country in Central Asia and a horrible wreck.
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Nigeria, a country in Africa and also a horrible wreck, though this time it's less America's fault than it is France and Britain's.
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Angola, another African country that's a mess.
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Allegheny (Mountains) - Part of the Appalachian Mountains, it runs from north-central Pennsylvania, through western Maryland and eastern West Virginia, to southwestern Virginia. Its highest point is Spruce Knob at 4863 ft (1482 m), which is also the highest point in West Virginia.
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York, United Kingdom - Founded by the Romans in 71 AD., the city has a rich cultural heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its existence. Today, it is home to 140,000 people and is a popular tourist spot.
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Kaliningrad, a city in Russia. Formerly the city of Konigsburg, the city is now in an enclave of Russia that is separated from the huge mass of the country, to the west of the rest of the behemoth-sized land.
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Delta State, a state in Nigeria
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England, a country in the United Kingdom. We all know about London and 1066 and the Magna Carta, so I'll spare you a history lesson. :lol:
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Dawson - A town in Yukon, Canada, it is famous for the Klondike Gold Rush, which lasted from 1896 to 1899. The town was first settle in 1896, and the population exploded to 40,000 two years later. Once the gold rush ended, the population fell to about 8,000. After the territorial capital was move to Whitehorse in 1952, the population fell to as low as 600. Today, the population has slightly increased to 1,327.
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Nepal - a country of 29 million in South Asia. It is highly diverse, and it is the most recent country, as of 2010, to become a republic.
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Lagos, NOT the capital of Nigeria, but it is the largest city in that country by far.
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Saint Petersburg - Founded by Peter the Great in 1709, it contains 4.6 million residences and is Russia's second largest city, after Moscow.
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Gabon, a small country in Africa.
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New Orleans - A major American port city, it is home to 336,000 residents and is often referred to as the most unique city in America.
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Sri Lanka, an island country to the south of India.
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Austin - The capital of the American state of Texas, it is home to 758,000 and is the 15th largest city in the US. It was selected as the second Best Big City in "Best Places to Live" by Money magazine in 2006, and third in 2009.
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North Carolina, a US state in the American South. Known for tobacco, the city of Charlotte, the research triangle park, furniture, tar, and the Bank of America company.
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Aachen - A city in Germany, it is also the westernmost city in Germany, located very close to the border with Belgium and the Netherlands. It was formally known as Aix-la-Chapelle, which it is still called in French. In the Middle Ages, Charlemagne built the Palatine Chapel (which is now a part of the Aachen Cathedral). In this chapel is where the remains of Charlemagne are buried.
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Naples, Utah - A small city of 1300 in the American state of Utah, it is a possible candidate for the location of the Great Valley in the Land Before Time.
p.s. I'm serious about the Great Valley part. It belongs in a valley called Ashley Valley. Like the Great Valley, Ashley Valley is a lush green valley surrounded by mountains. There's a river running through it, and there is a big lake. The Ashely Valley also contains the nearby villages of Vernal, Jensen, and Maeser.
Here's a picture from Google Earth:
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_qd0fIb3l590/S8Yi4E-hEtI/AAAAAAAAAFA/pxEhI77gh9A/s800/untitled.jpg)
(the lake is sort of hard to see, but it's there)
Here's another pic:
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qd0fIb3l590/S8YmqLGHHQI/AAAAAAAAAFE/dXO0ET0WSi8/untitled.jpg)
I'll explain:
1: Real-life picture of Ashley valley. It's nothing short of magnificent.
2: Picture form Google Earth. Expect for the river part, the picture looks somewhat :p similar to Littlefoot's discovery of the Great Valley in LBT1
3: In the nearby town of Vernal, dinosaurs are celebrated figures, as shown by this sign.
4: The National Dinosaur Monument is located not far away from the valley and is a popular tourist destination. :p
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Southern Los Angeles, the location of the Great Valley according to some user on Wikipedia whose edit saying this I reverted because he didn't provide any proof. :p
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San Francisco - The 4th largest city in California and 12th largest in the United States. It was founded by the Spanish in 1776, became a part of Mexico when it gained independence in 1821, then became a part of the United States after the Mexican-American War of the late 1840s. Much of the city was severely damaged in 1906 by a massive earthquake and the resulting fires. The city quickly rebuilt itself in only a decade.
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Osaka, Japan - With a daytime population of 3.7 million, it is the second most populated city (during daylight hours) in Japan. Being one of the world's largest metropolitan areas, it has a status as an economic center, and it is often referred to as "the Mecca of gourmet food" for its yummy food.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Osaka_Castle_03bs3200.jpg/250px-Osaka_Castle_03bs3200.jpg)
(are images permitted?)
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(Of course!)
Aspen Cove, a small fishing community in Newfoundland
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Ewing , NJ - First settled by Europeans in 1699.
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Green River, Utah - Beginning in the Wind River Mountains of Colorado, the 730-mile-long river flows through the states of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming and is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. It is the river that runs through Ashley Valley, one of the possible locations of the Great Valley (see my post above). Its shores were inhabited by dinosaurs (especially in the Ashely Valley), as suggested by fossils. It contains promising oil fields, further suggesting that dinosaurs once lived along its shores.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/DinosaurNM1Panorama.jpg/600px-DinosaurNM1Panorama.jpg)
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Riverside, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, or part of its own metropolitan area, depending on the source you read.
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Erie, Pennsylvania - an industrial city of 104,000 in Northeastern Pennsylvania, its economy is based on plastics, automotive building, and tourism. It was a finalist for the All-American City Award in 2009.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Eriesky2.jpg/800px-Eriesky2.jpg)
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Edison, Ohio. A village of 437 people.
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Norfolk, Virginia - a port city of 234,400 in Virginia, it is a very important strategic military and transportation point in America.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b1/NorfolkMontage1.JPG/300px-NorfolkMontage1.JPG)
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Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Also one of the world's highest capitals, if not the highest.
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Uruguay - a small country of 3.3 million in South America that is amongst one of the most economically developed countries in South America.
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Yugoslavia, a now-gone state that failed twice, first as a kingdom, then as a communist republic. Today, Yugoslavia has split into Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovinia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, possibly Kosovo, and maybe another country that I missed.
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(the one you missed is Macedonia)
Auckland - The largest city in New Zealand. With a population of about 1.4 million, it has 31% of the entire population of New Zealand. It is also one of the few cities in the world to have harbors on two separate bodies of water: Manukau Harbour of the Tasman sea to the west, and Waitamata Harbour of the Pacific Ocean to the east.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Auckland_urban_area.png/270px-Auckland_urban_area.png)
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Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire. A huge country in central Africa. Mineral rich in copper, coltan, and many other natural resources, but it is VERY poor and stricken with war, disease, and countless other afflictions. Not to be confused with a country to the south of it known as "Congo."
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Owatonna, Minnesota, hometown of Adam Young, founder of synthpop band Owl City.
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Ancona, a city in Italy, not too far from Rome and Ravenna.
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Adobe Walls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Walls), trading post in Hutchinson County that was twice the sight of a battle between white people and native Americans in 1864 respectively 1874. Especially the second battle found its way into folklore in spite of the first being by far the larger encounter (most likely because in that second battle a native American was shot at a distance of between a kilometer and a mile which apparently discouraged the natives so much that they abandoned the attack).
PS: I like how much more detailed and educational this game has become :yes
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The Silver Trail, a Yukon trail originally built in 1950, which has since become a highway (Yukon Highway 11).
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Little Big Horn - River in Wyoming and Montana and tributary to the Big Horn River. Sticking with battles between whites and native Americans the banks of the Little Big Horn River in Montana became the site of probably the most famous battle ever fought between native Americans (various tribes of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho) and American soldiers (the 7th Cavalry commanded by George Armstrong Custer).
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Wpdms_nasa_topo_little_bighorn_river.jpg)
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(Speaking of Indian-American battles)
Nine Men's Misery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Men%27s_Misery): a site where nine colonial soldiers were tortured by the Narragansett Indian tribe after the Battle of Central Falls, Rhode Island, during King Phillips' War, a relatively obscure war which killed the highest percent of the American population out of any war America has ever fought. The pile of stones memorializing the 9 dead colonists is considered the oldest veterans' memorial in the United States.
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Yellow House Canyon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_House_Canyon) - Continuing with sites of battles between Native Americans and white people there was one fought at Yellow House Canyon / Texas between white Bison hunters and Comanche in 1877. It was the last fairly large battle that took place in Texas between Whites and Native Americans.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow_House_Canyon_north_of_Slaton_Texas_2009.jpg)
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(Rio) Negro - The largest left tributary of the Amazon River. Its name means "black river" because it appears black from a distance, even though it actually isn't. The Negro merges with the Amazon near the city of Manaus, Brazil.
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Ohio, a state in the USA. Considered a political bellwether due to the fact that it is not only the "most average" state in the Union, but Ohio's culture, economy, and social setup reflect the averages for the US as a whole. Some parts of the state are poor (inner city Cleveland, rural Appalachia), and some are rich (Suburbs, Cincinnati, Columbus), and the companies with headquarters or major operations there can be used as means of measuring the national economy, such as Proctor&Gamble, which makes consumer products, or Kroger, which is a HUGE supermarket chain.
I'd say more, but it would take a long, long time. My uncle is somewhere in Ohio right now. I wish I knew exactly where. Last I heard it was in Cleveland.
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Oregon - 33rd state admitted to the United States on February 14, 1859. Before then, it was part of the Oregon Country, which was disputed between the United States and Canada (which was still a part of Britain at the time). Before a war could break out, the disputed land was peacefully divided by the Oregon Treaty at the 49th parallel, the current border between the U.S. and Canada.
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New Jersey - A state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, it is bordered on the northeast by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey lies largely within the sprawling metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is the most densely populated state in the United States. It also has the second highest median income of any state.
(http://www.law.georgetown.edu/rossrights/chapters/images/new_jersey.jpg)
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Yorktown, a city in the state of Virginia where the British were defeated, leading to American independence. Outside of a monument commemorating the victory, there really isn't very much in Yorktown at all.
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Naples - The third largest city in Italy. It was founded in the 8th century B.C. as the Greek colony of Neapolis (New City). It was the capital of the Kingdom of Naples from 1282 to 1816. The city is also famous for pizza, which originated there.
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Sodom - A Biblical city, smited by God according to the Christian Bible, and origin of the term "sodomy".
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Menlo Park - Site of Thomas Edison's workshop and now site of a mall.
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Kansas, a US state in the great plains, a major center of farm and airplane production, and the state which was famous for Brown v. Board of Ed, in which "separate but equal" was struck down by the Supreme Court.
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Senegal - A country in west Africa. It was a French colony until it achieved independence on April 4, 1960. Its capital, Dakar, is located on the westernmost tip of the county as well as the continent of Africa. It was named after the Senegal River, which forms its border with Mauritania to the north.
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Lesotho, the only country in the world completely surrounded by another country, in this case South Africa. It's also the southernmost landlocked country in the world.
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^Not quite so. Vatican City and San Marino are both surrounded by Italy.
Oklahoma, another state in the American Great Plains. Known for grain production, oil, aerospace parts, two significant cities (Oklahoma City and Tulsa), conservative politics, Oral Roberts University, and a low population, especially given that it is one of the larger states in the union.
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Alice Springs - Located in the geographical center of Australia, it is the second largest city in the Northern Territory. With a population of 27,481, it is home to about 12% of the population of the entire territory. The city wasn't connected to Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, by railroad until 2003.
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Springfield, Illinois - With a population of almost 120,000, it is the state capital of Illinois and is famous for being the home of Abraham Lincoln.
(http://www.springfield.il.us/RUDAT/Pictures/downtown.JPG)
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Djibouti - An African country which gained independence from France in 1977, but still shares many of its government aspects and culture with France, most notably in education.
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Indianapolis, Indiana - the capital of the US state of Indiana, it has a population of almost 800,000, and is the 14th largest city in the US. Its economy is mostly focused on government, manufacturing, education, health care, fiance, and tourism. It is well known for hosting sporting events, such as the Indianapolis 500.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Downtown_indy_from_parking_garage_zoom.JPG/800px-Downtown_indy_from_parking_garage_zoom.JPG)
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Ireland, a small island country off the west coast of Europe.
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Denmark - The southernmost of the Nordic countries (Scandinavia). It was recently ranked the least corrupt country in the world (2008), the happiest place in the world (2006 to 2008), and the second most peaceful country in the world, after New Zealand (2009).
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Kentucky, USA - a state of more than 4 million people in the Eastern US, Kentucky is the 37th largest state in terms of total area, the 36th largest in land area, and ranks 26th in population. It is known for breeding horses, bourbon distilleries, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, and college basketball. It also has the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the US.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Map_of_USA_KY.svg/286px-Map_of_USA_KY.svg.png)
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Yemen, a poor country in the Arabian peninsula, and one of the few that lacks much oil.
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New Jersey - Despite being the 47th largest state in area, it is the 11th largest state by population. As a result, it is the most densely populated state in the United States. This is because most of the state lies within the metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia.
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(Another Y. So few places have that as the first letter...)
Ypsilanti, Michigan. Named after Demetrius Ypsilanti, a hero in the Greek War of Independence. Here's a pic.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/East_Cross_Street_Depot_Town.jpg/800px-East_Cross_Street_Depot_Town.jpg)
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Iditarod, a trail in the Alaskan interior where twenty mushers brought diptheria medicine from Nenana to Nome in 1925. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorates this event with an annual sled dog race following the same route.
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Detroit - The largest city in Michigan, it is often nicknamed the Motor City because of the automotive industry that the city is famous for. It was founded by the French on July 24, 1701. Its name comes from the French word for "strait", due to its location on the Detroit River between lakes Huron and Erie. The population peaked at 1.8 million in 1950. The population today is only half that amount.
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togo- western african country
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Obama, Japan. This small city happens to have the same name as the president.
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Arthur's Pass, a township in New Zealand which also shares the name of an American President.
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Salamanca, Spain, a city in Western Spain.
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Anos is a commune in the PyrÈnÈes-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
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Shakespeare, Ontario, which is fittingly a hamlet.
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East Anglia, England.
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Arp, Texas has a Wikipedia page where you can learn more then you ever wanted to know about Arp's demographics and state basketball records.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. A city formerly know for steel, which now hosts steel plants around it in the suburbs, and is home to Heinz Ketchup, major universities and hospitals, and football.
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Harlow, a former new town and now a local government district in Essex, England
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Washington D.C. - The capital of the United States, it has a resident population of almost 600,000 and is home to many museums and institutions. It also holds the government of the United States and is probably one of the most important cities in the world.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/DCmontage3.jpg/250px-DCmontage3.jpg)
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Cyprus, a prosperous and independent country in the Mediterranean
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Seattle, a city in Washington state, USA. Known for Aircraft production for Chicago-based Boeing (formerly in Seattle), Starbucks coffee, Microsoft, Grunge Music, Costco, and lots of rainy days.
Seattle's main skyline attraction is the Space Needle, but the tallest building is the Columbia center.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Seattle_4.jpg/800px-Seattle_4.jpg)
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Easter island- Pacific island famous for its Maori Statues.
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Denmark, the European country which Hamlet was said to have been the prince in Shakespeare's classic play.
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Kansas City, the largest city in the state of (spoiler): Missouri
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Yemen, a country in the Arabian peninsula. I'll give you one guess to what language they speak. :rolleyes:
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Yemeneze? :lol
Neuschwanstein, this really awesome castle in Bavaria, Germany, that was opened to the public with the death of King Ludwig II.
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Edmonton!!!
A fancy little city in Alberta, Canada, Edmonton is the capital of the province of Alberta and is home to the world's largest shopping mall- West Edmonton Mall- or to Albertans- WestEd.
Surrounding Edmonton are such spiffy little farming communities as Millet and the Swedish city of Wetaskiwin.
(http://www.destination360.com/north-america/canada/images/s/canada-edmonton.jpg)
That's it :D
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Nashville, Tennessee. Home of the American country music scene.
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Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.
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Houston, major city in Texas. Known for the Johnson space center (mission control), oil extraction and refining, a huge ship channel and a large museum district.
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Newport, which actually has nothing to do with the Cigarette brand. It does have it's own Monopoly themed game, though :lol
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Toronto, Ontario. Largest city in Canada and home to the CN Tower :D
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Ohio, state in the USA.
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Osaka, Japan. Has some massive ferris wheel thing and is the location of a Hello Kitty store.
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Nebraska, USA. The state with a ton of corn, flat land, under 2 million people, Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway (huge corporation), the union pacific railroad, and a capital named after Abraham Lincoln's last name. I'll give you one guess as to it's name.
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Austin, Texas.
Everything is bigger there :lol
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Newfounland, Canada, Province of canada and home to a very large breed of dog
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D“az, Nueva Esparta, a municipality in Venezuela in Nueva Esparta State
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Akron, Ohio. The so-called rubber city because of the presence of Goodyear tire. It's a large suburb of Cleveland.
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Norway, part of Scandanavia and, according to some exchange students I met, rivals of Sweden :lol
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Yekaterinburg, Russia. A city in the Urals mountains where the last Czar and his family were killed by the communists.
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Gitega, one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. It's the one right in the middle.
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Aruba, a small island in the Caribbean sea.
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Aornos, the site of the last great siege of Alexander the Great, in 326-327 BC.
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Sydney Australia- home of the Sydney Opera House and location of the year 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Yarmouth, Maine. It was well known for "Herbie," a 110 foot tall elm tree and the largest and oldest of its kind on New England. Unfortunately, Herbie recently contracted Dutch Elm Disease and had to be cut down.
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England, a country within the UK. We all know about it, I'm sure. :lol:
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Dolon, village in the Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan, which coincidentally shares a name with one of the characters from Darwin's Soldiers :D
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North Korea. It's communist :D
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Austria, a small country to the North of Italy.
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(Sorry for my absence. I've been busy with other things for a while.)
Andros (Island) - The largest island of the Bahamas, it is known to the Bahamians as "Big Yard". It is actually three separate islands: North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros. North Andros is the sixth largest island in the Caribbean. (The five larger islands are Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad.)
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Springfield. Take your pick which one :)
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Drakensberg - The highest mountain range in southern Africa, it stretches along the eastern coast of South Africa and the small countries of Lesotho and Swaziland. The major rivers of South Africa, the Orange and the Vaal, drain from these mountains to the west.
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Georgia, and not the US state, either. Georgia also refers to a small country in the Caucuses, a former part of the Soviet Union.
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Acapulco, one of the most well known Mexican tourist resorts. The name means "place of broken reeds" in the Nahuatl language.
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Osh - The second largest city in Kyrgyzstan, it is one of the oldest settlements in Central Asia and is one of few places where a statue of Lenin still stands. The city has been appearing in the news lately, due to riots.
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Orleans, a city in France which gives New Orleans its name. Joan of Arc was said to have inspired the French military to lift a siege of this city.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, a real town that makes frequent appearances in popular culture, notably as the setting of The Office.
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Nuuk - The capital of Greenland. With a population of 15,469, it is one of the smallest capital cities in the world by population. It was founded in 1728 as Godthab (translated: "Good Hope"), and given its current name (translated: "The Tip") in 1979.
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Kingdom of Caid - one of the kingdoms of the Society for Creative Anachronism, located in SoCal and Hawaii.
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Durban - The third largest city and busiest port in South Africa. With a population of almost 3.5 million, it is the biggest city along the east coast of the continent of Africa. It is also one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Noank, Connecticut - a very small village (1830 people at the last census), but home of Amelia Earhart and Bull Halsey, two important people in American History.
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Kauai - The fourth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands, it is also the oldest in terms of geology. The highest average annual rainfall in the world is on this island. (460 inches on the east side of Mount Waialeale)
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Irik Island, an arctic Canadian island in Hudson Bay, near Whale Cove
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Kuujjuaq - The largest Inuit village in and the capital of Nunavik, the northernmost region in the Canadian province of Quebec (taking up the entire northern third of the province). With two runways at the local airport, it is the transportation hub of the entire region.
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Quw’ - the place from which Solomon obtained horses in the Bible. It existed as a vassal state at various times from 9th Century BC to around 627 BC.
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Ellsworth (Mountains) - A mountain range in Antarctica, which runs along the western edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica. It is the tallest mountain range in Antarctica, with the tallest mountain on the continent, Vinson Massif, located there.
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Hallmark, Louisville, a small neighborhood virtually indistinguishable from it's neighbors and home of the church of Reverend Dr. Walter Malone Jr. (who, if this Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfX20mOP_JU) is of any note, seems like a rather energetic guy)
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KrakÛw - The second largest city in Poland, it is also one of the oldest cities in Poland. It was the capital of Poland from 1038 to 1596. Before he became the Pope, Pope John Paul II was the archbishop of KrakÛw.
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Wichita, Kansas, the 51st largest city in the country and ranked the most "affordable city" in the country by MSN Real Estate.
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Accra - Capital of and largest city in Ghana. It became the capital of the British colony of Gold Coast in 1877. Riots in 1948 launched the movement for Ghana's independence from Britain, which was achieved in 1957.
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Arno, the most important river in Italy's Tuscany Area except for the Tiber.
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Oranjestad - The capital of Aruba, it was founded in 1796, but never had an official name until the 1820s. Often referred as "Playa", the city is located on the southern coast near the western end of the island.
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Oranjestad will always hold a special place in my heart because it was the final answer to a trivia game I played with my friends once. The final question was "What is the capital of Aruba?" Obviously none of us knew, and for years afterwards "Oranjestad" became our default answer when asked a question we couldn't possibly know the answer to.
Del Playa, a street in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara. Right on the beach, it's beautiful by day, but should be avoided by night.
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Algeria - The largest country on the Mediterranean Sea, 2nd largest in Africa, and 11th largest in the world. Its name is derived from its capital, Algiers. In ancient times, the northern part of this country was known as Numidia.
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Amberg, Germany
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Georgetown, Kentucky, USA.
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New Delhi - The capital of India. It lies within the metropolis of Delhi, just south of the Old City (Delhi). It was founded by the British on December 15, 1911, and construction on the majority of it was finished on February 13, 1931. Before New Delhi, the capital of British India was Calcutta. The proposal to move the capital was made to the government of British India in the early 1900s, who felt that it would be easier to administer the colony from Delhi than from Calcutta.
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Ilkeston is a town in Derbyshire, England. It has its own notable football club, and is also one of the few places where the distinctive dialect of East Midlands English is extensively spoken. As per Wikipedia:
One might greet a friend with "Eh up, me duck!" or "'Yup yooth!" and ask if they require refreshing ale with "fancy a pop?"
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Northern Cape - One of the nine provinces of South Africa, it is also the largest in area and least densely populated. Many of the diamond mines that South Africa is famous for are located in this province. The Orange River, the longest river in South Africa, flows westward across the province and along its border with Namibia.
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Exeter is a city in Devon, England, with a long and rich history. It was rated one of the top ten profitable locations for a business to be based.
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Rio de Janeiro - Portuguese for River of January, it is the second largest city in Brazil, third largest in South America, and 6th largest in the Americas. It was the capital of Brazil from 1763 to 1960. It will host the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2014 FIFA World Cup final match. Among it's famous landmarks are Sugarloaf Mountain and the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer, one of the new seven wonders of the world, atop Corcovado Mountain.
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Orange, a past city of Burgundy which was elevated to a principality of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Frederick I. It gave its name to the extant Royal House of the Netherlands, until finally being ceded to France. Surprisingly, it was named neither for the color or the fruit, but after Arausio, a Celtic water god.
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Ejutla District is located in the south of the Valles Centrales Region of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxana has many districts; Ejutla is in the Valles Centrales, the only enclave district.
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Anchorage - The largest city in Alaska and home to about 40% of the entire population of Alaska. It was founded in 1914 as a railroad construction port for the Alaska Railroad. It was hit by the second largest earthquake in recorded history, magnitude 9.2, on March 27, 1964.
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Haha, I was just in Anchorage! :p I got back from my cruise today, and it's a beautiful city.
Eagle River, a community within the Municipality of Anchorage and another place I visited on my trip. It was the first checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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RÈunion - A small island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and owned by France. Before the 20th century it went through many name changes. It was known as Œle Bourbon (after the royal House of Bourbon) from 1649 to 1793 and again from 1815 to 1848, it was given the name Œle Bonaparte (after Napoleon Bonaparte) from 1801 to 1810, and the current name of RÈunion (commemorating the union of revolutionaries on August 10, 1792) was used from 1793 to 1801 and again since 1848.
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Northern Cape - The largest province in South Africa, and yet the one with the smallest population, this province is famous for it's diamond mines, and the Orange River with flows across its border.
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(I think there's a rule that you can't repeat a location more than once per page, and the one you just used also appears at the top of this page.)
El Salvador - "The Savior" in Spanish, it is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. It was one of the five Central American countries that were part of the United Provinces of Central America, the others being Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. The United Provinces of Central America was formed in 1823, following independence from Mexico, and was dissolved in 1839 into the five countries that exist today.
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rhinelander, Wisconsin- cebtral Wisconsin city, named presumably after the Rhine region of Germany.
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Reykjav“k - The capital and largest city of Iceland. With a population of 120,000, it is home to more than a third of the entire population of Iceland. It is believed to be the site of the first permanent settlement on Iceland, established in 870 A.D. The city itself was founded in 1786 as an official trading town. Today, it is the center of the only metropolitan area in Iceland, the Greater Reykjav“k Area, which has a population of 202,000, nearly two thirds of the entire population of Iceland.
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Kyle Bay, New South Wales - named for Robert Kyle, local shipbuilder, Kyle Bay is a popular tourist location and is home to a wide variety of demographics.
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Yerevan - The capital and largest city in Armenia. It has been the capital since 1918 and is the thirteenth in the history of Armenia. It is also one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities, dating back to 782 BC. It was under the Soviet Union in the 20th century that it was transformed from a town to a modern city.
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New Old Town, an RV park near Rocky Mountain House and the north Saskatchewan River bank, in Canada. Here's its website (http://www.newoldtowncottages.com/), there's not really anything notable about it, but I thought the name was funny.
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Newport - 22 states in the United States have a city or town named Newport. There are also places in Australia, Ireland, and England that are named Newport. The largest city in the world with this name is in southern Wales, U.K. The most well-known city of Newport is the one located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
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Tegucigalpa is the capital city of Honduras and also it's largest city. Interestingly, in the Honduras constitution, the neighboring city of Comayag¸ela is also called the capital city, and so for a time Honduras had two capitals. This was fixed when in 1938 the government declared that Comayag¸ela was a barrio district (i.e. part) of Tegucigalpa.
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Albany - The capital of New York State. It was founded by the Dutch in 1614 as Fort Nassau and renamed Fort Orange in 1623. In 1664, it was taken over by the English and renamed Albany in honor of the Duke of Albany. It wasn't until 1797 that it became the capital of New York. Due to it's location at the eastern end of the Erie Canal, it was a center of transportation in the 19th century. It was also one of the ten largest cities in the United States between 1810 and 1860.
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Nashville - The capital of the state of Tennessee. It was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Wataugans in 1779, and was originally called Fort Nashborough, after the American Revolutionary War hero Francis Nash. Nashville quickly grew because of its prime location, accessibility as a river port, and its later status as a major railroad center. In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1843, the city was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee.
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(Please read the rules. You're supposed to choose a name of a place that begins with the same letter as the last letter of the previously named place. For example, you said Nashville, so now I have to name a place that begins with E.)
East Timor - Also known as Timor-Leste, it comprises mostly of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the western half being a part of Indonesia. It was colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century. It declared independence in 1975, but was quickly invaded and occupied by Indonesia. It regained its independence on May 20, 2002, becoming the first new country of the 21st century. Along with The Philippines, it is the only Roman Catholic country in Asia.
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Roland, Iowa, part of Story County, is a city that elected an 18 year old high schooler, Sam Juhl, as their mayor in 2006. Another notable resident from Roland is Gary Thompson, a notable basketball player for Iowa State.
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Dubrovnik - A coastal city near the southern tip of Croatia. In the Middle Ages (when it was known as Ragusa), it was a city-state and the only one on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea to rival Venice. It officially lost it's status as a city-state with its surrender in 1806 to Napoleon, and later integrated into the Austria-Hungary Empire. When Austria-Hungary fell in 1918, following World War I, it was incorporated into Yugoslavia. When Croatia declared independence in 1991, it was attacked by Yugoslavia and suffered 7 months of shelling. By 2005, most of the damage of the Old Town was repaired.
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Knotts Berry Farm! An awesome place in Buena Park, California. It's both an amusement park and a preservatives manufacturer. Around Halloween, it changes its name to the phonetically ironic "Knotts Scary Farm."
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scandavia- region in europe consisting of denmark norway and sweden
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Albuqurque - where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm rootbeer, and the towels are oh so fluffy!
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^ My brother lives there interestingly
Eritrea -became independent from Ethopia in 1993. capital is Asmara.
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Asmara - capital of Eritrea, which became independent from Ethiopia in 1993 ;P
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Avarua - Capital of the Cook Islands, a Pacific archipelago that belongs to New Zealand. It is located on the northern part of the island of Rarotonga. Despite being only a town of 5500, its population makes up over a third of the entire island that it's on.
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Antioch - Ancient city founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals, home of the Holy Spear of Antioch which inspired the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Heliopolis - Egypt
Name translates to "city of the sun" in Greek.
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South Korea- occupies South half of the Korean peninsula capital is Seoul.
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Aberwyvern - A fictional castle built in Wales, used by David Macaulay in his book and animated movie to explain the anatomy and history of castles.
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Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya, and it's leading image in Wikipedia would make an awesome stereogram.
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Indianapolis - The capital of Indiana, the 14th largest city in the U.S., and the second-largest state capital in the U.S. (after Phoenix, Arizona). Founded in 1820 as the site for the new state capital, it is closer to the exact center of its state than any other state capital. Its name literally means "Indiana City". One of its most famous sporting events is the Indianapolis 500, which takes place each year on Memorial Day weekend.
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Saratoga, site of a pivotal Revolutionary War battle where generals Gates and Arnold defeated British General Burgoyne's forces. America's victory here caused both France and Spain to formally enter the war on America's side.
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Arhangelsk, a major Russian port in the Arctic.
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Khartoum, Capital city Sudan, which will lose its southern area to South Sudan in July.
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Montpelier - The capital of Vermont, and the smallest state capital in the U.S. with a population of about 8,000. It was founded in May 1787 near the geographical center of Vermont. One of its first residents, Colonel Jacob Davis, named the settlement after the French city of Montpellier, due to the national enthusiasm for anything French as a result of the aid France provided during the American Revolution. It was chosen as the state capital on November 8, 1805. It was incorporated as a village in 1818, and then as a city in 1895.
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Rangoon, captial of myanmar aka Burma
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Norland, EnglAnd. A village that's existed since the 13th century, has a rare example of a heather moorland. They also throw an annual scarecrow festival since 1999.
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Danbury, Connecticut, a city in the USA.
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›ylanly, a a town and capital of Gurbansoltan Eje District in the Daşoguz Province of Turkmenistan. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 26,901.
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›ylanly, a a town and capital of Gurbansoltan Eje District in the Daşoguz Province of Turkmenistan. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 26,901.
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Yemen - A country on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It has a land area of 555,000 square kilometers and a population of about 24 million. Its name in Arabic is "Al Yaman", which means "The South". It was part of the Ottoman Empire until its independence in 1918. It was split into North Yemen and South Yemen in 1962, then reunited on May 22, 1990.
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Norfolk Island is the only non-mainland Australian territory to have achieved self-governance. Also, the train leaves at Norfolk.
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Kuwait - A small country on the Persian Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Its name comes from the Arabic "akwat" which is plural for "fortress built near water". It was created after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI and gained independence from Britain on June 19, 1961. It's massive oil fields were discovered in the late 1930s. It was invaded by Iraq on August 2, 1990 and liberated by U.S. led forces on February 26, 1991. As the Iraqi forces retreated, they dumped 11 million barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf (the largest oil spill in the world to this day) and set fire to many of the oil wells. It took up to 9 months to put out all of the fires and more than 2 years to rebuild the infrastructure for exporting oil.
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Tilamook - a city in Oregon famous for it's cheese factories. "World Famous," according to their website.
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Kip is a village in Croatia, population 182. It is connected by the D5 highway.
(Since I joined this thread I have been waiting for somebody to post a place ending in P, but finally I've decided to give up and do it myself. Too bad I won't get to post my place though, someone else gets to :p)
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Puerto Rico - An island territory of the United States in the Caribbean Sea. Its name is Spanish for "Rich Port" and was claimed for Spain by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage to the new world. Despite separate attempts by the English, French, and Dutch to capture the island, Spain held onto it until after the Spanish-American War in 1898, when it ceded the colony (along with Guam and the Philippines) to the United States. It has been officially called a Commonwealth since 1947, despite numerous votes on whether it should become a state or an independent country.
The way I see it, if anything is going to eventually become the 51st state, my money is on Puerto Rico.
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Oceania - a continent composed of Australia, New Zealand and the surrounding islands. There is some debate whether Oceania is a continent or if Australia is the continent, not least because the highest mountain in Australia is different from the highest mountain in Oceania.
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(Since you want a place that ends in a P, I decided to do a little searching and found one.)
Antwerp - A city in Belgium, it is the capital of the Antwerp Province, has a population of nearly 500,000, and has one of the largest seaports in Europe. The golden age of this city lasted through much of the 16th century (becoming the second largest European city north of the Alps by 1560), but ended after it was sacked by the Spanish on November 4, 1576. After Napoleon captured the city, he attempted to enlarge the port to rival that of London, but lost his war before he got a chance to finish it. The city also hosted the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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Plentywood- A small town in Sheridan County, which makes up the far northeast corner of the state of Montana. It has a population of 1,734. A local tall tale suggests that the name of the nearby Plentywood Creek, after which the city was named, comes from a search for firewood.
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(D'oh! Thanks for the gesture anyway, Chronicler. I was gonna post Pelvanida :p)
Dartmouth - An ivy league college on New Hampshire, for liberal arts majors.
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(I'd like to see what you have to say about that place, so I found another chance for you. (and an interesting one, too :lol ))
Happy Camp - A town in California with a population of just over 1,000 and located near the northern border. Some roads out of town (like the one that leads to Oregon) are seasonal, which means you can't use them during the winter. The town is also located within the proposed state of Jefferson, which has been trying to secede from California and Oregon since World War 2.
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Pelvanida is a research station located in the deserts of Nevada. It focuses on experimental weaponry and ceased to exist in July of 2009. :p
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Agadez - With a population of 88,500, it is the largest city in the northern part of Niger, an African country in the Sahara Desert. The city was founded in the 14th century and became a major part of trans-Saharan trade. It was also briefly controlled by the Ottoman Empire, it's furthest extent in Africa, before it came under French rule in 1900.
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(It's been a while since this game has seen any activity, and I'd like to bring it back.)
Zanzibar - One of the large islands just off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa. Settled by Arab traders as early as the middle ages, the island became British territory in the late 19th century. It gained independence in December 1963, but just four months later, it merged with Tanganyika (the mainland part of modern Tanzania) to form the United Republic of Tanzania. A town on this island (also named Zanzibar) was the site of the shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar war, which took place on the morning of August 27, 1896, and lasted for just 38 minutes. This island is also the birthplace of Freddie Mercury of the rock band Queen.
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Okay, why not?
Rabelais University - A French college named after the satirist. I picked it solely because it's named after an author I read recently in class, and his stuff was awesome and hilarious. His pastiche on the education system reminded me of my actual college so accurately I couldn't stop laughing.
All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good; they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule and strictest tie of their order there was but this one clause to be observed,
Do What Thou Wilt;
because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us
If you're a college student, you'd understand it.
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yemen- country on the arabian peninsula, was divided into north and south until the end of the cold war..
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(nick, you're supposed to start your location with the last letter of the previous location)
Ngulu - A tiny completely forgettable atoll that apparently has 26 people on it according to Wikipedia. I know it because when I played "Spin the globe with your eyes closed and see where you point to" as a kid, I got it twice in a row.
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Uluru - supposedly the largest rock in the world
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Utah-I don't think I have to introduce this state into any dinofans,since it's home to many found fossils,including Utahraptor ,Troodon,Allosaurus,Apatosaurus,Torosaurus,and Stegosaurus just to name a few.
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Hawaii - 50th state to join the United States. It is the only state that was once its own kingdom, until the monarchy was overthrown and the islands were annexed as a U.S. territory in 1898. It is also the only state that is actually growing in land area (not surprising, considering that they're volcanic islands).
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Isla Vista - A college town wrapped around University of California Santa Barbara. Raucous parties 7 days a week at all times. I may or may not have been involved in some of them. Most popular for its Halloween 'parties' where enough outsiders infiltrate the town to partake in the drinking, risque costumes and general hedonism that in recent years police action and roadblocks are a regular event.
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Hawaii - 50th state to join the United States. It is the only state that was once its own kingdom, until the monarchy was overthrown and the islands were annexed as a U.S. territory in 1898. It is also the only state that is actually growing in land area (not surprising, considering that they're volcanic islands).
currently mainly Kilauea Volcano is responsible for the new land since its erupting since ehm... dunno, but some year in the 80s, the other Volcanos( Mauna Loa, the biggest mountain of the earth btw, is inactive atm)
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Arkhangelsk - A city in northwestern Russia, on the coast of the White Sea. Although people had lived in (and fought over) this area since the early days of Vikings, the present city was founded in 1584 by order of Ivan the Terrible, serving as Russia's only link to sea trade for over a hundred years. During WWII, it was one of the two port cities (the other was Murmansk) through which Allied aid came into the Soviet Union.
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Kilauea Volcano - A volcano in Hawaii, its responsible for all of Hawaii's new land since its eruptions from the 1980s, the other Volcanos (including Mauna Loa, the biggest mountain of the earth) are inactive at the moment.
(You'll never guess where I got this information; took hours of searching)
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Oahu - The most populated of the Hawaiian Islands and third largest in land area. 44mi long and 30mi across, it is the 20th largest island in the United States. 75% of Hawaii's population lives on this island, and 75% of those people live in or near the city of Honolulu on it's southern shore. Kamehameha conquered this island in 1795, marked as the start of the Kingdom of Hawaii that would last until the annexation to the U.S. in 1898.
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I gotta get us out of Hawaii
Ulan Bator - One of the oldest cities in the world, it is currently the capital of Mongolia. It's also nowhere near Hawaii in any way.
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Rochester - The third largest city in New York state, after New York City and Buffalo. Became one of America's first boomtowns after the Erie Canal opened in 1823. In the 1830s, it was the largest producer of flour in the United States, giving it the nickname of the "Flour City," until later in the 19th century when the flour industry moved westward with the agriculture.
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RomÊ - A duchy in Rome, named after the collective term for the offspring of the city founder, Romulus. (Have fun with this next one! ;D )
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?sica - A Roman fort whose ruins lie near Haltwhistle, Northumberland. It's function was to protect Haltwhistle Burn, a river crossing Hadrian's Wall.
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Avignon - A city in southern France. Best know for once replacing Rome as the Pope's residence for much of the 12th century. The city and surrounding area remained Papal territory until it was annexed by France in 1791, during the French Revolution.
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Northumbria was the kingdom of around AD 800 that later became the United Kingdom. It was founded by ?thelfrith, but mythologically its founding is attested to Brutus of Troy.
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Amarillo - 14th largest city in Texas, and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. It's name comes from the Spanish word for yellow. In the 1930s, it was the world's only source of commercial Helium. Historic Route 66 runs through this city.
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Okay, Arkansas is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Arkansas, United States with a funny name.
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Yellow (River) - Also known as Huang He, it is the 6th longest river in the world, and 2nd longest in Asia, after the Yangtze. It is known as "the cradle of Chinese civilization." It has also been nicknamed "China's Sorrow" due to its many devastating floods throughout history. In fact, the two deadliest natural disasters in recorded history (not counting famines or epidemics) were caused by the flooding of this river (2nd worst in 1887, and the worst in 1931, which killed 1 to 4 million people). Its name comes from the appearance of its muddy water. The saying "when the Yellow River flows clear" is basically a Chinese version of the phrase "when pigs fly."
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Willamette Valley - A famous location for anyone who played the classic kid's edutainment game Oregon Trail, this Oregon fruit basket was a popular destination for settlers who traveled west during the mid to late 1800s. The final stretch to the valley required settlers to either brave the Columbia River or the Dalles road.
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Yucatan peninsula: It's part of the states of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Close to Yucatan a huge asteroid hit planet earth 65 million years ago ending the era of the dinosaurs.
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Aberwyvern castle is a fictitious medieval castle built in 13th century Wales, invented by David Macaulay in order to explain the construction and features of such a fortification in his book Castle. I freaking loved that book as a kid.
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Bombay, India
one of the biggest cities in India, its name used to me Bombay but the name was changed to Mumbay a few years ago
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(Please read the rules. You're supposed to name a place that starts with the same letter as the last letter in the name of the place in the previous post. I'll just keep going from here.)
Yakutsk - A city in the middle of Siberia, and a major port along the Lena River. It was officially founded in 1632, but never developed into a city until the discovery of gold and diamonds in the surrounding region in the late 19th century. The city's growth was also helped by the forced labor camps that were set up under Stalin.
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Krager¯ is a town in Norway. It's sister city is Visby, Sweden. (Have fun finding a place name beginning with ¯! :p)
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(I had to search through the index of a world atlas, but I managed to find one. :) )
ÿlfjellet - The highest mountain in Norway's Saltfjellet mountain range, consisting of two peaks, one at a height of 5745ft, and the other at 5417. It's name comes from the words ¯l (haze) and fjell (mountain).
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Texas - The place where Fiesta Equestria (a brony convention) is taking place. MY fiance works an a MLP video game, and she's gonna be on a panel featured at the convention! I'm so proud of her!
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Seychelles - A country that consists of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, just east of Africa. Of all the African countries, it is the smallest in both land area and population. The islands were never inhabited until the arrival of European explorers in the 16th century. It also has one of the coolest flags. Flag of Seychelles (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Flag_of_Seychelles.svg)
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Saratoga, a site in New York where several Important Revotutionary War battles took place.
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Everything ends in A
Abilene, a city in Kansas.
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Eryx was an ancient mountain that doubled as a city in Hellenistic Sicily. Kinda of a real-life Minas Tirith, it was founded by a brother of Aeneas and fell during the First Punic War.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuchang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuchang) -- I had to look one up, but I wanted to move it forward.
Xuchang
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Guantanamo Bay - A boy of water in Cuba, Guantanamo is usually referred to as an American containment camp stationed in the area. It's appeared in American politics numerous times, with several attempts to get it shut down early as 2005. As of March 2013, 166 detainees remain at Guantanamo.
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
This city has the distinction of switching nationalities thrice in the previous 120 years. It started as the Russian settlement town of Vladimirovka in 1882, before being transferred to Japanese jurisdiction as a result of the Russo-Japanese War. As a result of Japan's defeat in World War II, it was returned to Soviet control.
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Kristianstad was originally erected as a castle erected as a castle against the threatening Swedes in 1614 when the area known today as "Sweden" belonged to Denmark. It was the last city built before the Danes lost the land to Sweden, and only in modern times has become a commercial city.
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Du Quoin is a city in southern Illinois. It is the home of the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds, where the Du Quoin State fair is held annually.
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Edit: Whoops. I made a mistake. Misread the rules.
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Double post. GAH! Let me try again.
Namsen, a river in central Norway, that is the largest river of Nord-Tr¯ndelag county.
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Ytter-Vkna is one of three major islands in the municipality of Vikna in Nord-Tr¯ndelag county, Norway.
You're supposed to start your location with the last letter of the previous location ;)
EDIT: You caught it before I'd even finished posting. Nice recovery!
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Nauru - Tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean. At an area of just 8 square miles, it is the world's smallest republic (not counting Monaco and Vatican City), and with a population just under 10,000, it is also the second least populated country in the world (only Vatican City has less). Once had the highest per-capita income in the world, thanks to it's phosphate mines, which have just recently run out.
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Udaipur is a city in the state of Rajasthan in India. It was the final capital of the Mewar kingdom, which later became a princely state under British administration. It was also referenced in the Jungle Book as the birthplace of the fictional panther Bagheera.
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Rabat is the capital city, and second largest city, of Morocco. It is located at the mouth of the river Bou Regreg.
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Torrey Pines is the official PGA Tour Championship golf course of San Diego (i.e. if they ever have PGA in San Diego, Torrey Pines would host.) It's actually two different golf courses, and stated in Escondido, which is just off of San Diego county.
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Suriname - A country in South America. Formerly a Dutch colony known as Dutch Guiana, it became independent in 1975. It is the smallest country in South America (French Guiana is smaller, but is not independent). It is also the only independent country in the Americas where Dutch is the official language.
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Essex is a county in England. It became a county of England when the Kingdom of Essex was subsumed into the Kingdom of England.
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Xinjiang - The large autonomous region of northwestern China. It's name, given by the Qing Dynasty in the 1880s, means "New Frontier". Despite covering one sixth of the entire country, it is sparsely populated as far as China goes, with a population less than 22 million.
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Guangdong - is a province on the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China. It is the most populous province in China with a population of over 100,000,000 as of 2010. It also has a extremely unbalanced sex ratio, in the 1-4 age group there are over 130 boys for every 100 girls.
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Gullywash Gardens is a small farm based in Belle Plain, Minnesota that sells a variety of farm goods like eggs and vegetables. Their mascot is a Jack Russell/Poodle mix named Maggie and they share their name with a popular Team Fortress 2 map.
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Sun City is an unincorporated town in Arizona. It is a retirement community that is famous for being featured in the case Spur Industries v. Del E. Webb Development Co., which is a case commonly featured in law courses (including the introduction to law course that I took in college) to demonstrate the principals of nuisance law and conflicts between industrial and residential interests.
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Yokosuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and is well known as the setting of the Sega game Shenmue.
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(Mount) Ararat - At a height of 16,854ft, it is the tallest mountain in Turkey. According to the Bible, it is also the place where Noah's Ark came to rest after the flood. Many expeditions have been made to find evidence of the ark on this mountain, but all of them have been unsuccessful.
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Timbuktu is a town in Mali, situated on the southern edge of the Sahara desert. It was a major center of trade in salt, gold, ivory and slaves from the 1300s through the 1600s. Exaggerated descriptions of the city by historians have given the city a reputation for being mysterious. Because of this, it is best known in Western culture as an expression for a distant place. Unfortunately, after the capture of the town by Islamist rebels in 2012, several important historic sites in the town were destroyed including several shrines and burial chambers.
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Uruba is a popular beashside tourist attraction and vacation place. It was immortalized (along with many similar places like Bermuda, Jamaica, Bahamas) in the Beach Boys song "Kokamo."
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Attica is a historical region of Greece. The region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which is surrounded by the Aegean Sea. The current administrative region of Attica is much larger than the historical region, although both include Athens and its intimidate surroundings.
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Attawapiskat First Nation is an isolated First Nation located in Kenora District in northern Ontario, Canada.
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The Niagara Gorge is carved by the Niagara River along the border between the United States and Canada. The gorge begins at Niagara Falls, a collective name for three separate waterfalls, and ends at the Niagara Escarpment, which designates where the falls began several thousand years ago.
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Eagle Creek is a moderately large community in Oregon named after a creek that used to run through it. It's notable for having a camping backpack-producing company named after it.
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Krakatoa is a volcanic island between the islands of Java and Sumatra. The current island is famous for being a remnant of a much larger island that was destroyed as the result of a 1883 eruption. The eruption of 1883 was one of the most massive eruptions in recorded history, causing a massive tsunami and a massive emission of dust which reduced the world's average temperature for several years.
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Albuqurque is a magical faraway place where the sun is always shining and tye air smells like warm root beer and the towels are oh so fluffy. Where the lepers play their ukeleles all day long and anybody on the street will gladly shave your back for a nickel.
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Ecuador is a republic in South America. It is one of only two countries in South America that do not border Brazil. It returned to civilian rule in 1979 after the country had been governed for eight years under a succession of dictatorships.
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Republic of the Congo - Also referred to as Congo-Brazzaville (the second part is the capital city), to help differentiate it from neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa. A former French colony until 1960, it was also formerly known as the People's Republic of the Congo from 1970 to 1991.
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Old Trafford is an area of within the Trafford borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is famous as the site of Old Trafford Football Stadium, which is the home of Manchester United.
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Douglas State Forest is a national park in Massachusetts. It is a landmark on the Midstate Trail and notable for its lakes and mountain biking trails.
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Tucson, Arizona is the home of the University of Arizona. With a population of over 500,000 it is also the second-most populated city in Arizona, behind Phoenix. It is known by several nicknames including "The Old Pueblo", whose origin is not entirely known, and "Optics Valley" which refers to the large number of optics companies that have been spawned due to optical research at the University of Arizona.
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Nahrabi is a village in the Central District of Ravansar County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 355, in 71 families.
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Iceland is an island country located in-between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. It is generally considered to have one of the world's oldest operating Parliaments, the Al?ingi, which operated from 930 until 1799 and was reestablished in 1845.
It gained wide exposure in the international press due to the "Kitchenware Revolution" that took place in 2009. In that "revolution" thousands of residents protested in the streets, with many banking on pots and pans and pelting politicians with eggs. The revolution led to new elections, the creation of a constitutional commission, and several referenda. Despite the referendum on the new constitution passing by a wide margin, the old governing party was reelected in the most recent elections and they have indicated that they will not ratify the new constitution or any of its reforms.
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Denmark - One of the Scandinavian countries, it consists of the peninsula of Jutland, that borders Germany to the south, and the Danish archipelago to its east. It possesses the autonomous regions of the Faroe Islands and Greenland. It is also frequently ranked as the happiest country in the world.
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Krakow is the second largest city in Poland. It is one of the oldest cities in Poland, dating back to at least at 7th century as a continuously occupied settlement. It has served as a center of culture, art, commerce, and academia in Poland for much of its existence.
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Wadsworth, Ohio is a city in Medina County, and as of two weeks ago it is my new home.
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Oxfordshire, also called the County of Oxford, is a county in England. Its primary city is Oxford, which is a center of education and tourism. Of particular note, of course, is Oxford University, which is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
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El Paso - Located on the westernmost point of Texas, it is the 6th largest city in the state and the 19th largest in the U.S. Founded in 1659, it lies just across the Rio Grande from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, and has been considered one of the safest large cities in the country for the past twenty years.
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Olympia, Washington is the capital city of the US state of Washington. It is a major center of culture in the northwestern United States, containing within its limits the Olympia Family Theater, Theater Artists Olympia (TAO), Olympia Little Theater, the Olympia Symphony Orchestra, and many other theatrical and operatic companies.
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Algiers - Capital and largest city of Algeria. Its name is derived from the Arabic name al-Jazair, which means "The Islands", referring to the four islands that were once separate from the mainland. Built on the site of the Roman town of Icosium, the city was founded in 944 AD. After some time under Ottoman control, it became part of the French colony of Algeria in 1830, which later became an independent country in 1962.
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Sikeston, Missouri is a city located just north of the "Missouri Bootheel" with a population just above 16,000. It was a strategically important city during the Civil War due to its location at the intersection of railroad and road routes. Artillery, troops, and other equipment were transported via Sikeston in preparation for the Battle of Belmont and the Battle of Island Number Ten, among several others.
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Nuuk - Capital and largest city of Greenland. Formerly known as Godthab. With a population of 16,454, it is one of the smallest capital cities in the world. It is also one of the northernmost capital cities in the world, second only to Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Kazakhstan is a landlocked country that spans two continents, having part of its territory in Europe and the other portion in Asia. In fact, it is the largest landlocked country in the world, being larger in area than all of the countries of Western Europe combined. It regained its independence after breaking away from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Nuuk = Capital and largest city of Greenland. Formerly known as Godthab. With a population of 16,454, it is one of the smallest capital cities in the world. It is also one of the northernmost capital cities in the world, second only to Reykjavik, Iceland.
Nairobi is the captial and largest city of Kenya. The area was essentially uninhabited swamp until a supply depot of the Uganda Railway was built in 1899. Nairobi is now one of the most prominent cities in Africa both politically and financially.
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Iraq - A country in the Middle east. Its name has been in use since the 6th century, and is believed to have come from the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk. The region, known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, has been part of many empires over thousands of years. The modern country was created in 1920, as a British territory following the break up of the Ottoman Empire, and later gained independence in 1932.
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Qom is a city in north-central Iran. It is considered a holy city by Shi`a Islam and it is a common destination of pilgrimage. Due to its location only about 100 miles outside of Terhan, many clerics and government officials maintain offices within both cities.
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Minao is a village in the Tiankoura Department of Bougouriba Province in south-western Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 323.
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Orlando, Florida is a popular tourist destination in central Florida. It is the most visited city in the United States according to Forbes Magazine, hosting or being near many popular tourist destinations including: Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Studios Florida, Sea World, and many others.
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Ottawa - Capital of Canada. The name comes from the Algonquin word Adawe, which means "to trade". Known as Bytown when it was founded in 1826, it was renamed Ottawa when it was made a city in 1855, and was made capital of Canada just two years later by Queen Victoria.
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Alton, Illinois is a city on the Mississippi River in south central Illinois. It is known for being important in the Camp Jackson Affair, which challenged the neutrality of Missouri and led to the eviction of its Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson from office. During that incident, the weapons in the St. Louis arsenal were sent to Alton to avoid them falling into confederate hands, as it was believed that the Governor planned to use the state militia to attack the arsenal. It is also the birthplace of the famous jazz musician Miles Davis.
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New Zealand - A large island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean. First inhabited over 700 years ago, it was one of the last major landmasses to be settled by humans. When Dutch explorers discovered the region, they named it after the Dutch province of Zeeland. It's native Maori name is Aotearoa, which means "land of the long white cloud". The country consists of two major islands, the names of which were never actually formalized until just earlier this year. Officially known as North Island and South Island, their Maori names (Te Ika-a-Maui and Te Waipounamu respectively) are also officially recognized.
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Dunkirk is a city (officially a commune) in northern France. It is famous as the site of the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II and the subsequent Dunkirk evacuation, which freed over 300,000 allied troops who were stranded at the Port of Dunkirk.
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Kyoto - A city in Japan. It's name means "Capital City". It was the capital of Japan from the 8th century AD until 1869, when the imperial court was moved to Tokyo. During WWII, it was one of the cities considered by the U.S. on which to drop one of the atomic bombs. Not only did it avoid such a terrible fate, it was also mostly spared from conventional bombing, making it one of very few cities in Japan to have a lot of prewar buildings still standing.
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee is a city about 25 miles outside of Knoxville. Many of the original residents of the area were evicted by order of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in order to form the Oak Ridge settlement. Oak Ridge was the site of numerous plants which were used to separate Uranium 235 from Uranium ore. The work conducted at this site was essential for the development of the atom bomb. More recently, the city is currently the site of the world's fastest supercomputer, the Titan.
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Edinburgh - Capital of Scotland. Became known as the "Athens of the North" during the Scottish Enlightenment of the late 18th century. Political power was moved to London after the Treaty of Union united the kingdoms of England and Scotland in 1707, but the Scotland Act of 1998 reintroduced a devolved Scottish Parliament.
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Harrisburg, Illinois is the county seat of Saline County in Illinois. It is the site of a multiplex between several highways, including U.S. Route 45, Illinois Route 13, Illinois Route 145, and Illinois Route 34, making it an important way-point before entering the Shawnee National Forest. It attracted news headlines last year when it was the target of a large EF4 tornado, that destroyed multiple homes and businesses.
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Gettysburg - County seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania. First settled in 1780 and later incorporated in 1806. Know for the famous Civil War battle that took place there on July 1-3, 1863, as well as Lincoln's address on November 19 later that same year. Today, it has a population of 7,620, and its biggest industry is tourism for the historic sites.
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Geneva is the second-most populated city in Switzerland and it serves as the capital of the Swiss canton of Geneva. It is an international center of diplomacy due to the fact that many international agencies have set up their headquarters in Geneva, including the Red Cross, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, and the World Trade Organization.
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Athens - Capital and largest city of Greece, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. A powerful city-state in the Classical Era, it is regarded as the cradle of Western Civilization, and the birthplace of Democracy. The modern city was made capital of Greece soon after its independence in 1834. The city hosted the first Olympic Games in 1896, and later hosted them a second time in 2004.
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Springfield is the current capital of the US state of Illinois. It was preceded by the former capitals of Kaskaskia and Vandalia. Besides the sixth Illinois State Capitol (the current one) and the fifth Illinois State Capitol (currently used as an historical site) the city also contains many other notable buildings, including the Hoogland Center for the Arts, which is the home of Springfield Theatre Centre, the Springfield Ballet Company, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and the Springfield Municipal Opera. The city also lays claim to the invention of the corn dog, although there is considerable controversy and multiple counter-claimants to that claim.
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Dover - Capital of Delaware. Founded in 1683 by William Penn, and later incorporated as a city in 1717. The state capital was moved to here from Newcastle in 1777 due to its central location and relative safety from British raiders at the time. It is one of four state capitals not near an Interstate highway. One of the major sporting events is the two NASCAR races (one in spring, one in fall) that take place every year at Dover International Speedway.
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Royalton, Illinois is a small town in southern Illinois. Its population was only 1,130 as of the most recent census. It has two major distinctions of note: It was the site of the worst mining accident in southern Illinois history (the 1914 North Mine explosion which killed 51 miners) and it is the location of the only Russian Orthodox church in southern Illinois.
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Newport - City in northeastern Vermont, county seat of Orleans County. Located at the southern end of Lake Memphremagog. Settled in 1793 as Pickeral Point, later renamed Lake Bridge. Incorporated as a city in 1918, taking portions of the neighboring towns of Newport and Derby. Birthplace of former NASA Astronaut Duane Graveline.
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Tver is a Russian city located north of Moscow. During medieval times, it was one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the Russian states, the Principality of Tver. Due to dynastic struggles and the role of the city in a failed rebellion that was brutally crushed, it lost influence in favor of the Principality of Moscow. It currently serves as the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia.
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Rapa Nui - Better known as Easter Island. An island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean and one of the most remote inhabited places in the world (1200 miles to the nearest island and over 2000 miles west of South America). It was given the name Easter Island because it was discovered by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen on Easter Sunday in 1722. The island is famous for the hundreds of moai (the giant head statues) located along the coast. It is believed the mass construction of these statues ultimately led to ecological disaster that left the island treeless and led to a huge population loss (from 15,000 to 2000-3000) before the Europeans had even arrived.
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Indianapolis is the state capital of Indiana and it is also its most populous city. Due to its status as the capital of the state, much of the city's productivity revolves around the government sector, with manufacturing being the second-largest segment of its economy. Historically, it resides upon the original location of the East-West National Road, which is no longer extant and has long since been replaced by other highways, which was the first improved interstate highway built in the United States.
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Singapore - A city-state and island nation in southeast Asia, just85 miles north of the equator. Its name is derived from the Malay word Singapura, which means Lion City. Founded in 1819 as a trading outpost for the British East India Company, it became a British territory in 1824. After the end of British rule in 1963, it was a part of Malaysia for only two years before becoming completely independent in 1965. The city has since become known as one of the Four Asian Tigers.
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East St. Louis, Illinois. East St. Louis is situated directly across the river from the much larger city of St. Louis. Its population has declined from a high of over 80,000 in the 1950s to its current level of 27,000. Its rapid loss of population is attributed to many factors, but the loss of industrial and railroad jobs is generally blamed for the financial decline of the area.
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South Australia - A state in south central Australia, it is 4th largest in area, 5th largest in population, and is the only state that borders all the others on the mainland. It was declared a colony in 1834 and proclaimed two years later, the only Australian state to be settled entirely by free settlers. It is also located within an unusual time zone: UTC+ 9:30, as opposed to just 9:00 as you might expect.
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Alberta is one of Canada's three prairie provinces, and is the one with the highest population. It has one of the strongest overall economies in Canada, being dependent upon natural gas, oil, and other petrochemical industries. It is also one of the most conservative provinces within Canada, with conservative governments having been elected for most of the previous 80 years.
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Augusta - Capital of Maine. It was settled in 1754 as Fort Western and incorporated in 1797 as Harrington, which was changed to Augusta a few months later. It became the state capital in 1827, seven years after Maine became a state. With a population just under 20,000 it is the third smallest state capital in the U.S., after Montpelier, Vermont and Pierre, South Dakota.
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Alderney is the most northern of the Channel Islands. It is a small island of roughly 3 square miles in area. It only has a population of 1903 people as of the most recent population estimate. During World War II the entire population of the island was evacuated, but many people who decided to evacuate by their own means ended up trapped on Guernsey during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
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Yekaterinburg - Formerly known as Sverdlovsk in Soviet times, it is the fourth largest city in Russia. It is located on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, which divide Europe and Asia. It is also in this city where the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918.
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Greater Caucasus is the most prominent mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. It stretches across a wide area from Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea. The watershed of this range is generally consider the boundary between Eastern Europe and Asia.
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Sochi - Site of the currently ongoing Winter Olympic games. It is already likely to be the warmest Winter Games on record, with the latest heatwave reaching up to 60F. The most likely reason for such warm weather is due to its location on the eastern shore of the Black Sea.
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Incheon (or Inchon) is a city located in South Korea. It is famous for the site of the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War, which resulted in a decisive victory for UN forces. It has since led Korea's economic development as a major port city and as the site of South Korea's first Free Economic Zone, which gives businesses special incentives in order to encourage investment.
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Nepal - A small country located along the Himalayas between India and China. Most famous for having the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. This country is also unique for having the only non-rectangular national flag in the world, as well as a time zone of UTC +5:45, one of only two time zones in the world with a 45-minute increment from UTC (the other being the Chatham Islands east of New Zealand).
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Lesotho is a small landlocked that is surrounded entirely by South Africa. It is one of the few constitutional monarchies in Africa, with Swaziland being less a constitutional monarchy, but a more absolutist one. It is currently afflicted with one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world, with nearly one third of its population having the HIV virus. Due to this problem, and numerous other difficulties, there is a movement called the People's Charter Movement that seeks the annexation of the country by South Africa.
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Orlando - The fifth largest city in Florida, and also a very popular tourist destination. Its most famous tourist destination, Walt Disney World, first opened in 1971. The resort was built in this city because of its inland location, which helps to minimize damage from hurricanes.
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Okinawa Prefecture includes hundreds of islands in the Ryukyu Island chain. The principal inhabitated islands are those of the Okinawa Island group, with the Miyako Islands and Yaeyama Islands being less populated. The islands were the site of the Battle of Okinawa during World War 2, in which over 12,000 allied troops and 111,000 Japanese troops died. During that battle and its immediate aftermath, over a quarter of the population of the islands died. From the end of the war the islands were under American administration, but they were returned to Japanese administration in 1972. To this day, over 18% of the main island is occupied by American military bases.
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Arecibo - A municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, about 50 miles west of the capital city of San Juan. It is the site of the Arecibo Observatory, which was built in 1963 and has the world's largest radio telescope.
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Olney is a small town in Richard County, Illinois. It has two minor claims to fame. For one, it was just south of the population center of the United States as of the 1950 census. Secondly, it is known for its population of white squirrels. Two separate residents (William Stroup and Jasper C. Banks) acquired albino squirrels and raised them in captivity in 1902. After a change in state legislation in 1910, the confinement of wildlife was prohibited and the squirrels were released. In the intervening years a variety of town ordinances have been passed in order to protect the squirrels. Among other things the albino squirrels have the right-of-way on all public streets and there is a $750 fine for running one over.
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Yellowknife - Capital and largest city of Northwest Territories, Canada. It was first settled after the discovery of gold in the area in the mid 1930s, though it didn't become the capital city until 1967. The local mining industry shifted focus after the discovery of diamonds just north of the city in 1991. Yellowknife is so remote that it wasn't until November 2012 that a permanent continuous road was built connecting the city to the rest of Canada.
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El Paso is a city is western Texas that stands on the opposite side of the Rio Grande from Ju·rez, Chihuahua, Mexico. It is a major repository of military and governmental agencies. Among other agencies, it contains William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Biggs Army Airfield, and Fort Bliss. It also is a major cultural center in the southwestern United States, containing the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, Abraham Chavez Theatre, Plaza Theatre, the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, and many other artistic and cultural events.
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Oregon - Nicknamed the Beaver State, it is the 9th largest and 27th most populous state in the United States. It became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Its most densely populated area is the Willamette River Valley in the western part of the state, which includes the cities of Eugene, the state capital Salem, and the state's largest city Portland.
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Nagasaki is a city on Kyushu island in Japan. The city was actually founded by the Portuguese in the late 1500s. The city then became a hub of trade and European influence for the next several centuries. It is, of course, infamous for being the last city to date to have experienced an attack by nuclear weapons. The attack by the plutonium-based implosion weapon codenamed "Fat Man" resulted in the deaths of over 70,000 individuals. The city was rebuilt after the war and remains a port city.
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Israel - A small country in the Middle East. It's population is an exception to the region due to its large Jewish population, especially in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Ever since independence in 1948, Israel has been at the heart of many wars and conflicts, and currently occupies the neighboring territories of West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights.
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Louisiana is the 18th state to join the United States, with its day of admission being April 30, 1812. The land which currently makes up the state of Louisiana was purchased in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase which doubled the size of the young country. It joined the confederacy in the Civil War, but was quickly defeated as the United States wanted to cut the confederacy in two by capturing and securing the Mississippi River. It still retains many unique cultures within its borders due to French, Spanish, African, and Native American influence during its history. This unique cultural amalgamations include Creole, Cajun, and IsleÒo culture.
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Abu Dhabi - Capital of the United Arab Emirates. Although many ancient civilizations have existed here, the modern city was first founded in the late 18th century. Before oil was discovered in the late 1930s, the local economy was dominated by the pearl trade. Today, among the world's largest producers of oil, it is also considered one of the richest cities in the world.
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Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and is its most important cultural and economic center. It is one of the few cities in the world to be transcontinental, with part of its population living in Europe and the other residing in Asia. The city was founded as Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine to be the capital of what became known as the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire. The city more commonly became know as Istanbul after its conquest by the Ottomans in 1453.
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Lagos - A massive city in the African country of Nigeria. With a population estimate of at least 12 million, it is the largest city in all of Africa and seventh largest in the world. It's name comes from the Portuguese word for "lakes". It was also the capital of Nigeria from 1914 to 1991.
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South Dakota is the 40th state to gain admission to the union. It is a relatively sparsely populated state, ranking 46th in population despite being ranked 17th in land area. It has the fifth lowest domestic product of any state in the United States, with much of its economic production coming from the service industry, agriculture, and tourism. It has numerous tourist attractions including Deadwood, Mount Rushmore, and several state and national parks.
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Agadez - The largest city in northern Niger, with a population over 88,000. The city saw significant violence in 2007 due to the Second Tuareg Rebellion. This severely limited travel to the region and essentially destroyed the local tourist industry.
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Zambia is a country in southern Africa. Zambia was a British protectorate from the late 1800s to 1964 when it went under the name of Northern Rhodesia. It existed as a single-party state from the 1970s to the early 1990s when the United National Independence Party was the only legal political party. Thereafter a period of governmental liberalization and economic growth took place during a time of growth in the mining industry and an increase in global copper prices.
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Alaska - Largest state in the U.S. at 663,268 sq mi, as well as the least densely populated at just 1.25/sq mi. It was first settled by the Russians in the 18th century. Russia later sold the territory to the U.S. in 1867 for $7.2 million, just 2 cents per acre. It became the 49th state on January 3, 1959.
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Albuquerque is the most populous city in New Mexico. It is a center of education, culture, and science in the southwestern United States. It contains the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College. In terms of culture, it is the site of Albuquerque Botanical Gardens, Albuquerque Biological Park, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, and the its Museum of Natural History and Science.
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(Mount) Erebus: The second highest volcano in Antarctica (12,448 ft) and the southernmost active volcano in the world. Located on Ross Island, it has been continuously active since at least 1972. It is also where Air New Zealand Flight 901 encountered whiteout conditions and crashed on November 28, 1979, killing all 257 people aboard. Debris from the crash on the flanks of the volcano can still be seen from the air to this day.
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St. Louis is one of the most important ports on the Mississippi River. Its population has declined since the 1950s, but it still has 319,000 residents as of 2013, with nearly 3,000,000 in its metropolitan area. It is home to four major sports teams, with only basketball not being represented in its sports franchises. It is also a cultural and tourist center for the Midwest, with the city serving as the home of the St. Louis Symphony, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Fox Theatre, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Missouri History Museum. One of the city's most famous attractions is the Gateway Arch which was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States.
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South Sudan - A country in Africa that used to be part of Sudan until gaining independence on July 9, 2011, making it the most recently independent country in the world. The current capital is Juba, the largest city in the country, though plans are underway to move the capital to Ramciel, which is closer to the geographical center of the country. In the short time since independence, this new country has sadly seen a lot of internal conflict.
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Nicaragua - is a country situated in the Central American Isthmus. Since gaining independence from Spain in the 1820s, it has undergone many periods of political unrest. It has had twelve constitutions (depending on what you want to consider a constitution) since its independence. Currently, the country is also attempting to construct a canal (http://www.newsweek.com/nicaragua-canal-panama-china-shipping-257815) to rival the Panama Canal, although several logistical challenges remain.
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Alps - A major mountain range in central Europe that stretches along Italy's land borders and reach as far north as southern Germany. The range has about a hundred peaks that are at least 4000m (13,123ft) tall, including the Matterhorn and Mount Blanc (the tallest at 4810m or 15,781ft). The name is believed to be derived from an ancient Celtic word that means "high mountains". These mountains formed over the last tens of millions of years from the collision of the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. This region has also been the site of ten Winter Olympic Games, with the most recent being Torino, Italy in 2006.
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Sioux is an unincorporated community located in the town of Bayview, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Xylokastro - A town in Greece located on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, along the Gulf of Corinth. It has a population of 5715, and likely got its name from a wooden castle that was built in the 13th century, known as Solo Castro.
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Ohio - The state in which I now live after the Fire Marshall kicked me, my wife, and our roommate out of our San Francisco apartment because it was a 2-person apartment and said roommate wasn't on the lease.
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Ontario is the most populous province in Canada. It had a population of over 12,000,000 people as of the last census. The province itself is named after Lake Ontario, which in turn come from the word "Ontar“:io" meaning 'Great Lake'.
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Ouagadougou - Capital of the West Africa nation of Burkina Faso. It is by far the largest city in the country (as is the case with most African nations and their capitals) with a population of nearly 1.5 million. The spelling of the name is due to the country being a former French colony (if it had been English, the city's name would be spelled "Wagadugu").
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Ulan Batarr is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. An independent province at this time and one of the most populated cities in the Middle East, it remains one of the oldest continually-populated cities in the world.
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Rangoon (also called Yangon) is the formal capital of Burma. It was replaced as capital with the planned city of Naypyidaw in 2006, though it still remains the largest city in the country and its most important economic center.
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Netherlands - A small but densely populated country in western Europe. It's name literally means "low country", which is an accurate description of its geography. Much of the land actually lies below sea level, having been reclaimed from the sea over the last few centuries. Only 50% of the country has a land elevation of more than just one meter above sea level.
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Springfield is the third most populous city in Missouri. It has several claims to fame, among them: it is generally recognized as the birthplace of Route 66 and it is also the home of the Springfield Cardinals, a AA team of the St. Louis Cardinals farm system.
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Darjeeling is a town in the Indian state of West Bengal. It gives its name to the 2007 drama The Darjeeling Limited.
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Greenland - An autonomous country within Denmark and the largest island in the world. Over 80% of the island is covered by the largest ice sheet in the Arctic. This ice sheet has depressed the central land by as much as 300m below sea level. In fact, according to the topography of the underlying bedrock, the island would actually be three large islands if this ice sheet was suddenly removed.
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Denamrk or, more formally, the Kingdom of Denmark is a small Nordic country to the south of Sweden and Norway in Western Europe. The kingdom itself includes the entity of Denmark itself as well as two other countries, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
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Krakatoa is a volcanic island situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It's 1883 eruption was was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history, and due to its historical recency its effect on modern literature and public perception on volcanos can still be seen today.
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Krakatoa is a volcanic island situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It's 1883 eruption was was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history, and due to its historical recency its effect on modern literature and public perception on volcanos can still be seen today.
EDIT: Oops. Double Post. To keep the last letter the same, let's make Albania the location for this post.
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Arizona is the 48th state, and the last contiguous state, that was admitted into the United States. Its name originates from the name "Arizonac", which in turn was derived from the name "alĭ ṣonak" which means small spring.
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Antarctic (Peninsula) - The northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, which lies just 1000 miles away from the southernmost part of South America. Underneath the ice sheet, the underlying bedrock is actually a chain of islands rather than a single landmass. Of the entire continent, it was this land that explorers first discovered in 1820 and some years later first set foot on. Today, this land has seen much more warming due to climate change that almost anywhere else in the world.
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Chelsea Star Hotel is a very price-oriented hotel in the middle of Times Square, New York City. I am really in debt for them for having a room super last minute, especially considering the location.
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Liechenstein - A tiny country in central Europe, with an area of just 62 sq mi and a population of 35,000. It is located right in the middle of the Alps and is bordered by Switzerland to the west and Austria to the east. It is one of only two countries in the world (the other being Uzbekistan in central Asia) that is doubly landlocked, meaning that one must travel through no less than two other countries the reach any coastline.
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Nagasaki- A prefecture in Southern Japan home to the town of Nagasaki, known for being a westernized port city and the second atomic bombing when Kokura was passed up due to weather. Also home to Nagasaki Prefecture is Sasebo, a US naval city, and Shimabara which was partially destroyed when Mt. Unzen erupted in 1991.
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Tripoli, city in modern day Libya. It was the sight of an American naval siege to rescue the sailors of the Philadelphia from Muslim pirates. (It was part of the Ottoman Empire more or less then though kinda rogue.) It is near Benghazi, another city that was controlled by the Bashaw (and is lately known for having four ambassadors die there.) The pirates on the Barbary Coast often demanded tribute, and Tripoli was one of those. Most of Europe caved to the pirates too easily, but Jefferson stood up to them.
It is currently the capital of Libya and is also their largest city.
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Just to clarify, LittlefootAndAliTogether, the rules of the game state that the first letter of your place must be the last letter of the previous place.
Iraq is an predominantly Arab country located in Western Asia. Most of the population of the country are Muslims, but their are numerous minority populations including those of Christian, Yarsan, Yezidi and Mandean faiths.
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Qatar (Arabic: دولة قطر Dawlaṫ Qatar), is a sovereign Arab country located in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
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We've almost broken 3,000 replies!
The Rhine is a river originating in the Swedish Alps and travels through several countries including Germany and France before emptying into the North Sea in the Netherlands. It has been a significant travelway for trading since the Prehistoric ages and was the source of heated skirmishes for control during the years of the Holy Roman Empire. The Loreley rock, situated at the narrowest and most dangerous part of the river, is associated with several legendary tales, poems and songs.
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England - One of the four countries of the United Kingdom. It covers much of the island of Great Britain, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. It's name comes from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that settled in the area after the fall of the Roman Empire. It was formed as a unified kingdom sometime in the 10th century, and later joined with Scotland in 1707 to form the United Kingdom.
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D'Arcy is a small village in western Saskatchewan, Canada. The post office started out with the name D'Arcy Station in 1911 and was named after the Father of the Confederation Darcy McGee. D'Arcy School District #3016 was the first one room school house in D'Arcy.
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Yemen is an Arab country in Southwest Asia, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. The flag's red, white and black stripes, all taken from the Pan-Arab colors, symbolize the blood of the fallen, hopes for a bright future, and Yemen's troubled past, respectively.
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Newfoundland is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Dunwich is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It was once the capital of the Kingdom of the East Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period, but most of that ancient town has since eroded into the nearby harbor. It inspired the fictional town of Dunwich in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
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Halsey Castle is a private residence in Escondido, California. Its acre of land includes a moat, drawbridge, parapet and even working cannon despite otherwise being an ordinary house owned by a couple.
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Estonia.
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Appleton is a town is northern Wisconsin.
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North Star Mall is a shopping mall in San Antonio, Texas that I just got to visit and it's freaking huge. It recently celebrated its 35th anniversary.
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Lower Peninsula is the "mitten' portion of Michigan
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Abaokoro is a settlement in Kiribati. It is located about nine nautical miles from Tarawa. It is located in the Tarawa Atoll.
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Organ Mountains are part of a national monument in New Mexico- Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks.
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South Congress Cafe is a pretty tasty restaurant in Austin TX. It's a little overpriced though.
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East Timor gained its independence from Indonesia in 2002, it occupies half of the island of Timor.
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The Red River of Wisconsin is a 47.2-mile-long tributary of the Wolf River. It flows through Gresham and has a dam. Below Gresham, the Red River flows into the Wolf River in northern Shawano County.
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Clear *bzzt*
Hmm. Not sure whether to use R in "River"or N in "Wisconsin"... I'll go with N.
Nova Mutum is a municipality in the state of Mato Grasso, Brazil.
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Oh man, I'd completely forgotten about this. We were so close to 3K too!
Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona, and is a suburb located about 20 miles (32 km) east of Phoenix.
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Argentina
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Alberta is a western province of Canada. With an estimated population of 4,196,457 as of July 1, 2015, it is Canada's fourth-most populous province.
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Acadia National Park is in Maine
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Arizona, a southwestern U.S. state, is best known for the Grand Canyon, the mile-deep chasm carved by the Colorado River.
(Alternately, if the last letter is supposed to be K: Krakatoa, or Krakatau, is a volcanic island situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung.)
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Kenai is a peninsula in the US state of Alaska, and include Kenai Fjords National Park.
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The Idatrod Trail was the route taken during the famous 1925 serum run to Nome.
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Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, was once two separate national monuments, Lassen Volcanic, and Cinder Cone.
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One more post till 3,000 replies!!!
Kerr County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. Movies filmed there include Hud (1963) starring Paul Newman and
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) starring Robert Redford.
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(I had been avoiding this topic for quite a while mostly because it has simply gotten way to complicated for me. It just wasn't fun anymore when I had to keep visiting Wikipedia for every post here just to get some info on some rather obscure place. On another forum I visit, they have a their own place-name game going on where they don't require any descriptions to go with names, and I actually liked that a lot. Of course, I understand that some of you might like the old way better, so perhaps we should reduce descriptions to just one sentence from now on. I'd like for this game to not be so much of a chore anymore.
Anyway, since I got a new atlas for Christmas, I might as well try getting back into this game.)
Yaren - The capital of Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific.
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(Nobody plays it but you and me, so if you want to dial down the description part that'd be fine with me Also Yay 3000 posts!!! )
Nigeria - Home of the prince who's going to make me rich as soon as I wire $2000 to cover his bank fees.
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Aldabra is an atoll in the Indian Ocean. It is the second largest coral atoll in the world. It is also home to the world's largest population of giant tortoises, at 100,000 individuals.
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Anchorage - The largest city in Alaska.
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England - A country that wants to leave the EU. Not the most exciting answer, but it ends with D which is a cool and uncommon letter in this thread. Have fun with it next poster ;)
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(If you're looking for rare letters, I believe the rarest one you can find at the end of a place name is J. When I had looked through my old atlas, the only places ending in J that I could find were cities in Iran. I guess if you really want a challenge, that would be my suggestion.)
Denmark - A small country that's part of Scandinavia, and is also the country where you'll find the headquarters of the Lego company.
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(P is another really uncommon one, the only time I got a P location was when I specifically requested one back in, like 2014 or something.)
Kharaj is a city in Iran, it first appeared on censuses in 2006.
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Japan - A country in east Asia consisting of a series of large islands. It has one of the largest economies in the world, and is also facing problems due to an aging population (it's estimated that by the middle of this century, 30% of Japan's population will be over 65 years old).
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Norway is a democratic country in Scandanavia. I flew there once but unfortunately it was the day of the Oslo shooting so it wasn't the happiest trip :(
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Yellow (River) - The second-longest river in China, named so because of the sediment in the water.
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Wadsworth Ohio is a really small town that I lived in for two years. It snowed a lot and there was literally nothing to do, I couldn't stand it. There's a reason almost half of my posts on the GoF are from those two years.
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(I think something worth keeping in mind for this topic is to make it easy for everyone to understand which letter they're supposed to use for the next post. For example, in my most recent one, I put the "River" part in parentheses to show that I wanted you to use W instead of R. The way you formatted your recent post, however, it's hard for me to tell if you want me to use H or O. I'm going to assume H here, but please try to make sure it's easier to tell which letter you want the next poster to use.)
Honolulu - Capital of Hawaii, and home to nearly a third of the state's entire population.
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Oh, ok. I always figured next poster could use whichever they prefer but I'll specify in the future.
The Underground Railroad was a network of safespots used by slaves to escape from the American south to the North during the times when slavery was legal. I got to follow along it when I was in high school during a history-themed family vacation to the east coast.
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Delaware - Second smallest state in the U.S., and the first of the original colonies to ratify the constitution on December 7, 1787, giving it the distinction of "the first state".
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Erasmus is a university in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It's named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist and theologian.
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South Sudan - A country in east Africa that became independent on July 9, 2011, making it the most recently independent nation in the world. However, despite its independence from Sudan, it is currently plagued by ethnic violence, civil war, and famine.
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Naantali is a small city in western Finland, just north of Turku, and one of the oldest towns in the country, known for its medieval abbey church and its distinctive wooden old town.
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Isle of Wight is a county and island located in England's English Channel.
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Tallahassee - The capital of Florida, the name comes from the old native Muskogean word meaning "old fields" or "old town", and was chosen as the capital of Florida in 1822 because it was seen as being right in the middle between St. Augustine and Pensacola, the colonial capitals of East Florida and West Florida respectively.
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Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of the Northern Europe. One of the former Soviet Socialist Republics and not proud of it. :rolleyes:
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Ashkelon is the southernmost Mediterranean city in Israel and one of the most ancient ports in the world. The modern city was established in 1948 and has since then grown to house 130,000 people and it's a nice place even if it lacks visible proof of its long history. I visited there last summer and I really enjoyed my short time there.
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Nagano - A city in Japan that hosted the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. To date, it is the southernmost city in the world to have ever hosted a winter Olympic games.
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Oryol is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River.
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Lanai is one of Hawaii's islands, home to some beautiful rock formations in the Garden of the Gods.
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Itaquaquecetuba is a municipality in the state of S„o Paulo, Brazil.
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(Lake) Athabasca - The eighth largest lake in Canada, located along the northern end of the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta, it drains northward via the Slave River, the Great Slave Lake, and finally the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean.
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Augsburg is a city in Germany. It was a Free Imperial City for over 500 years.
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Guria is a region (mkhare) of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus. Guria borders the Black Sea to the West and the Autonomous region of Adjara to the south. The mkhare's capital is the city of Ozurgeti and it is home to over 100 000 people.
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Algeria - At an area of 919,595 sq mi (2,381,741 sq km), it is the tenth-largest country in the world and the largest in Africa (a title once held by Sudan before South Sudan broke away in 2010). And with a latest population estimate of 41.064 million, it is the 35th most populated country in the world and the 10th most populated in Africa.
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Avigayil is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank. Due to being unofficial, neighboring communities have been trying to get it dismantled, but Isreal is in return trying to officialize it so that doesn't happen.
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Lakshadweep is an Union Territory of India and it consists of an group of islands located off the Southwestern coast of the country. The archipelago is home to 65 000 people and its capital is called Kavaratti. It shares its language, Malayalam, with the Indian state of Kerala.
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Palau - A Pacific island nation, located just east of the Philippines and south of Japan. The islands were first settled around 3,000 years ago, then were colonized by the Spanish in 1574, then were sold to Germany in 1899 after the Spanish-American war, then were conquered by Japan in WWI, then were captured by the United States in WWII, and then became an independent nation in 1994.
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United States Range is a mountain range on the Canadian Ellesmere island, located in the territory of Nunavut. It is part of the Arctic Cordillera and its highest peak is Mount Eugene at 1860 m. Nearby lies another funnily named mountain range called the British Empire range. The region is completely uninhabited.
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Ecuador - A country in South America along the Andes mountain range. In the 15th century, it was part of the native Inca Empire which was conquered by the Spanish. It was part of Gran Columbia when it declared independence from Spain in 1820, then became its own independent country in 1830.
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Romania- A country in Southeastern Europe on the western shore of the Black Sea. The country is home to nearly 20 million people and its known especially for one of its regions called Transylvania which is dotted with pristine landscapes and castles. It has had a violent recent history with its 1989 revolution claiming more lives than any other revolution during the breakup of the former Warsaw pact.
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Alcatraz (Island) - A 22 acre island just 1.25 miles north of San Francisco, its name comes from the Spanish word for "Pelicans", it is most famous for its prison that was in operation from 1934 to 1963, and is now designated a national historic landmark.
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Zealand or SjÊlland- The largest island in Denmark and the whole Baltic Sea and the home to the country's capital Copenhagen which is also the largest city in the Nordic countries. It houses 39% of Denmark's population as well as its largest lake called Arres¯.
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Denmark - Scandinavian country with an area of 16,573 sq mi and a population of 5.75 million (not counting the dependencies of Faroe Islands and Greenland). Its land consists of the peninsula of Jutland and 443 surrounding islands (only 74 of them are inhabited), and is a relatively flat land with an average elevation of 31 meters.
It is also the country where the Lego company was founded and is based.
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Kryvyi Rih- The second largest city in Dnipro oblast of Ukraine. It has long been an industrial city and today it is one of the region's main centers in steel production. Interestingly, it is the only city in the former Soviet Union with a metrotram, a tram line built in a metro tunnel, the other being Volgograd. The name means Crooked Horn.
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Honolulu - Capital and largest city of Hawaii, with a population of 337,256 (55th largest in the United States). It is the most remote city of its size in the world, and is also the second largest city in Polynesia (the largest is Auckland, New Zealand). Its name means "sheltered harbor" or "calm port". It is also ranked as the second safest city in the United States.
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Utah is a western U.S. state defined by its vast expanses of desert and the Wasatch Range mountains.
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Honshu - The largest and most populated island of Japan. It's 1300km long and a width varying from 50km to 230km and has a total area of 225,800km sq (about 60% of the total area of Japan), making it the seventh largest island in the world. It's population is over a hundred million (about 80% the total population of Japan), with around 25% of them in the Kanto area around Tokyo.
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Uluru. Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock, a large rock formation located in the Australian Outback.
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United Kingdom - A country in Europe consisting of the island of Great Britain and a norther portion of the island of Ireland. It is the 11th largest country in Europe, the 21st most populated country in the world, and has the 12th longest coastline in the world. It consists of four "countries": England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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Mesa - A city with approximately 500,000 people located in the southwestern United States in the suburbs of Phoenix, AZ.
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Ariel: A Jewish city in central Samaria, the northern half of the West Bank. It has a population of 19 000, making it the largest Israeli settlement in Samaria and it is the home to the newest university in the country.
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Louisiana - a state in the south-central United States known for having a rich Creole culture. Its capital is Baton Rouge and its largest city is New Orleans.
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Aberdeen - The third largest city in Scotland, and one of Scotland's 32 council areas. It's name comes from the medieval settlement named "Aberdon" (derived from the Gaelic "Obar Dheathain"), which means "the mouth of the Don".
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Nordaustlandet (or North East Land) - The second largest island of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago straight north from Scandinavia. The island itself is uninhabited but it is a somewhat regular stop on Svalbard cruises.
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Taos - a town in the northern part of the state of New Mexico (my home state! :)littlefoot ) located in the southwestern United States. It has approximately 6,000 people and is best known for skiing and its huge 'hippie' culture, as well as a population of Native Americans who still live in traditional 'pueblo' houses.
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Saskatchewan - A province in Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905 (at the same time as Alberta). It has an area of 651,900 sq km and a population of around 1.1 million, with half of those people living in the two largest cities of Saskatoon and the capital Regina. It is a land-locked region with over 100,000 lakes within its borders. Two towns near its southern border were the site of the hottest temperature ever recorded in all of Canada, 45C (113F) back in 1937.
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Nigeria - a country in western Africa with a population of approximately 185,000,000. Its capital city is Abuja and its largest city is Lagos. English is the country's official language, however there are many tribal languages that are also spoken there.
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Antananarivo - Capital and largest city of Madagascar. Located in the middle of the island and founded between 1610 and 1625, its name means "City of the Thousand" in honor of the one thousand soldiers originally assigned to guard the hilltop palace.
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Old Crow (or Teechik in Gwich’in) - A small village in northern Yukon, Canada. It is one of the last villages to use Gwich’in language and the only community in Yukon that isn't connected to the road network. The village lies on the shores of the Porcupine River, a tributary of the Yukon river.
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Williamsburg - A city in the US state of Virginia. It was founded in 1632 as Middle Plantation, replaced Jamestown as the Virginia colony's capital in 1699, then was replaced by Richmond in 1780 due to fears it would be vulnerable to a British invasion during the American Revolution. Today, the popular tourist destination of Colonial Williamsburg (the restored historic part of the city) is part of the so-called Historic Triangle (along with nearby Jamestown and Yorktown) that receives four million visitors each year.
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Gdansk - A port city on the shores of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland. Historically known as Danzig, the city of Gdansk was a member of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages. It is the center of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and stands at the mouth of the Vistula river. The city also lies relatively close to Malbork castle, the medieval center of the Teutonic Knights and world's largest brick castle.
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Kazakhstan - A former Soviet republic in central Asia (in fact, it was the last of the former Soviet republics to declare independence from Russia). With an area of 2.7 million sq km (1 million sq mi) it is the ninth largest country in the world, and the largest land-locked country in the world. With a population of around 18 million, it has a relatively low population density. Its capital is Astana, and its largest city is Almaty (which used to be the capital until it was moved in 1997).
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Niue - A semi-independent country and an associated state of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is called Alofi (the second smallest capital in the world) and the country's population is a mere 1,600. It is one of the largest coral atolls in the world and as such, it is trying to promote tourism as a engine for its economy but its more than isolate location hinders those efforts greatly. Niuean is a member of the Polynesian language family.
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Egypt - One of the world's oldest nation-states that endured for thousands of years, the modern country began with its independence from Britain in 1922. With a population of over 95 million, it is the most populated Arabic country, the third most populated country in Africa, and the fifteenth most populated country in the world, but the vast majority of them live along the Nile river and delta, with the rest of the country being sparsely populated. With an area of over one million sq km (nearly 400,000 sq mi) it is the 29th largest country in the world.
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Telluride - a town in the western United States located in the state of Colorado. It has about 2,500 people and is renowned for skiing. It used to be a mining town, and it actually got its name from the various telluride ores present there.
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East Timor (or Timor-Leste) - A small country in Southeastern Asia and the first new independent nation of the 21st century after a long struggle against Indonesian occupation. East Timor has nine major indigenous languages and it's the only Christian country in Asia in addition to the Philippines, Armenia and Georgia. The capital is called Dili and it is located on the northern coast of the country.
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Rio Rancho - A city of approximatley 95,000 people located in the southwestern United States in the state of New Mexico. It's a suburb of Albuquerque (the state's largest city) and is itself the third largest city in New Mexico, behind Las Cruces and Albuquerque. Its nickname is "The City of Vision". It has a very high population of people in witness relocation.
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Oulunkyl‰ (consider the last letter A) - A neighborhood in northern Helsinki, the Finnish capital. Largely a rural area until the early 20th century, today Oulunkyl‰ is home to over 22 thousand people. It borders the Central Park of Helsinki which is a large woodland and recreational area spreading towards the Vantaa river which forms part of the boundary between Helsinki and a neighboring city which holds the same name as the river.
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(Actually, I decided to accept the challenge of that last letter.)
ƒtran - A river in Sweden that is 240 km long, has a drainage basin area of 3343 km sq, and drains southwest into the sea of Kattegat.
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Nicosia - The capital of Cyprus. Located in the central parts of the island, on the Mesaoria plain, the city is cut in half between the areas governed by the separatist Turkish state and the recognized Cypriot government. Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicosia is the last shared capital in the world.
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Aurora - a city of approximately 325,000 people located in the state of Colorado in the United States. It is the third most populous city in Colorado, behind Colorado Springs and Denver, the latter of which Aurora is a suburb of. It spans three counties, with most of the city lying within Arapahoe and Adams counties, and a small portion in Douglas county. It made headlines a few years ago when there was a mass shooting in a movie theater there.
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Albany - Capital of the state of New York. Founded by the Dutch in 1614 as Fort Nassau and later as Fort Orange, when the British took control of the colony in 1664, it was renamed after the Duke of Albany (later Kings James II of England). Officially chartered as a city in 1686 (the oldest continuous such charter in the United States), it became the state capital in 1797. It was a major center of trade in the 18th and 19th centuries due to its location at the north end of the navigable part of the Hudson River and on the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal that connected to the Great Lakes.
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Yangon (formerly Rangoon) - The largest city and former capital of Myanmar. Yangon has managed to preserve most of the old colonial architecture of the British era but around the well-preserved central parts of the city opens many impoverished areas with limited infrastructure. It is also a major Buddhist center and a home to Shwedagon Pagoda which is believed to house many relics from the founding fathers of the religion. Its name meaning End of Strife, Yangon lost its capital status to newly built Naypyidaw in 2005.
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Niue - a small island in the South Pacific that is a freely-associated state of New Zealand. It was first settled by Samoans around 900 AD, and it was later settled by people from Tonga in the 1500s. Now it boasts a population of approximately 1600, along with its own language, which 40% of the island's population speaks exclusively. It also has its own currency, but it primarily uses the New Zealand dollar. James Cook, the first European to try and land there in 1774, named it "Savage Island", which endured for several centuries before the island's traditional name (Niue) started to be used again.
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I already used Niue on the last page. :D
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas - The only hamlet on the British-administered island of Tristan de Cunha. Home to less than 300 people, Edinburgh is the most remote permanently inhabited place in the world with the nearest other village being located on Saint Helena, more than 2,100 km away. The surrounding archipelago is home to Gough and Inaccessible islands which were proclaimed World Heritage Sites in 1995 due to their importance for rare bird species. Tristan de Cunha is only accessible by ships from South Africa which have very irregular timetables as the islands don't have an airport of their own.
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I already used Niue on the last page. :D
Sorry. I forgot you'd done it, and I wanted to take a little break from doing places in New Mexico and Colorado.
Salida - a town of approximately 5200 people located in southern Colorado along the Arkansas river. Its name is the Spanish word for "exit". It is the county seat and most populous city for Chaffee County.
I actually will be going through that town tomorrow :p :SmugSpike
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Arunachal Pradesh - A state of India located in the far northeastern parts of the country. Located on the foothills of the Himalayas, Arunachal has been greatly commended for its natural beauty and named as the Paradise of the Botanists. China claims most of the state as South Tibet and it a focus of one of the two major territorial disputes between the two countries, the other area being called Aksai Chin near Kashmir. Arunachal's capital is called Itanagar and the state population is about 1,4 m people, the third lowest in the country.
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Hilo - With a population of 43,263, it is the largest settlement (it's not officially a city) on the big island of Hawaii, and county seat of Hawaii county. Located on the eastern coast of the island, this area has been inhabited since at least 1100 AD, when the Polynesian settlers arrived at the Hawaiian islands. According to oral history, the name means "to twist". It's location in a somewhat funnel-shaped bay also makes it vulnerable to tsunamis, with particularly destructive ones that occurred in 1946 and 1960, and there is even a museum focused on tsunamis, the only one of its kind in the state.
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O'ahu - an island located in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is the most populous and third largest of the Hawaiian islands. It is also home to the state capital, Honolulu.
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United Kingdom - A country in Europe that consists of four "countries": England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland; with the first three consisting of the entire island of Great Britain. England conquered Wales in the late 13th century, England and Scotland joined to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, then all of Ireland was also joined to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Much of Ireland later became independent in 1922, with the northern portion of the island remaining part of the country, leading to its current full name of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Mykolaiv is a city in southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast.
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Vermont - A state in the United States of America. It has an area of 9,616 sq mi (4,923 sq km) (ranked 45th of 50) and a total population of 624,594 (ranked 49th of 50). It was admitted as a state on March 4, 1791, the 14th state to join the union, making it the first one after the original thirteen colonies. Prior to that, as a result of land disputes between the neighboring colonies of New York and New Hampshire, it was an independent republic from 1777 until its admission into the United States in 1791.
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The Touraine District (District 10) is a municipal district in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. The district was known as Riverains from 2002 to 2009.
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Texas - A state in the United States of America, second largest in both area (268,596 sq mi) and population (29,183,290). It was admitted as a state on December 29, 1845, the 28th state to join the union. Prior to that, it had been part of Mexico before breaking away to become an independent republic in 1836.