The United States also has a Melbourne
1. Many place names in the United States are named after cities or towns in the Old World. Berlin, Athens, London, Manchester and other big cities can be found on the map of the United States. The names include the names of medium-sized British cities or ports such as Portland and Portsmouth, as well as less famous ones such as Syracuse (a city in Sicily), Dundee (a small town in Scotland), and Montpelier (France). place.
Interestingly, those big places in the United States that are named after large places in the Old World are often small towns, while some big cities in the United States are named after some inconspicuous towns in the British Isles, such as Baltimore.
2. During the colonial era, the British or other European colonists often named some overseas places after their own place names, the names of kings, and the names of ministers. For example, Kingston, the "King City", the capital of Jamaica is named after it. In addition, there are more than 30 Kingstons in the United States alone. Queenston is also named this way. Place names like "Victoria" can be found in many former British colonies. Australia has the state of Victoria, and Hong Kong also has Victoria Bay. Adelaide in Australia and Charlottesville in the United States are both named after the Queen of England. Cities such as Charleston, Jamestown, and Georgetown are named after kings, and many can be found in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
In addition, there are places named after ministers, nobles, and generals. Sydney, Sidney, a certain British colonial secretary, Australia, the United States, and Canada have this place. Others like Melbourne, Kimberley, Salisbury (now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe), etc. are all British ministers.
As for the Cologne you mentioned, it is actually named after Columbus. Christopher Columbus is an Italian name, Spanish calls him Cristóbal Colón.
In addition, names like Midland and Middleville can also be found a lot in the United States. There is also a city in the United States called "Canton", which is what Western businessmen called Guangzhou in the past.
Another characteristic of place names is that they add "新" in front of place names in the Old World, such as New Zealand, New Zeeland, and Zeeland is the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. There is also New York, New York, New York, which the Dutch named New Amsterdam. Others include New Guinea, New South Wales, New Britain, New Ireland (all in present-day Papua New Guinea), Nova Scotia (New Scotland), New England (the six northeastern states of the United States)...the list goes on.
In addition, there are places named after the names of important figures in the country with -land added to them. For example, Queensland in Australia, and Wilhelmland (Papua New Guinea), the German Pacific colony before World War I. The largest concentration of such place names in existence is in Antarctica. Queen Maud Land, Queen Maud Land, commemorates Queen Maud of King Haakon VII of Norway; Princess Martha Land, Crown Princess Martha Land, commemorates Crown Princess Martha of Norway (later the wife of King Harald V of Norway) Queen); Enderby Land, Mary Bird Land, Wilkes Land, all add -land after the person's name. Greenland has "Peelee Land", which commemorates the American polar explorer Peary.
Tripoli is derived from the Greek Tripolis, meaning "Three Cities". There is also Tripoli in Lebanon.
Forgot to say. Koln in Germany and Colon in Panama do not mean the same thing. They are just translated into Chinese. Because their pronunciations are similar, they are both translated into Cologne.
By the way, the ancient Korean Kingdom also had Guangzhou. Just on the outskirts of Seoul, this organization no longer exists. Today's North and South Korea also have place names such as Jinju, Haeju, Jinhae, and Andong. Vietnam and Taiyuan. There is also a place in Japan called Qingdao.
By the way, let me tell you another interesting thing. The Alps are very famous. There is the Dinaric Alps in Croatia, which can be regarded as the orthodox remnant of the Alps. There is nothing to say. There is the Southern Alps in New Zealand. They are Europeans, so there is nothing wrong with naming them after European places. .
The most ridiculous thing is that little Japan also seriously named the "Japanese Alps", including the three major mountain ranges of Hida, Kiso and Akaishi. In fact, these mountains were invented by an Englishman at the end of the 19th century, but the Japanese found them a treasure.
The countries called Guinea in the world are:
Guinea (capital: Conakry); Guinea-Bissau (capital: Bissau);
Equator Guinea (capital: Malabo); Papua New Guinea (capital: Port Moresby)
In fact, China and Vietnam have several names that are the same. Look at the map yourself. In addition, the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand also have the same ones, such as Auckland (the largest city in New Zealand). There are also them in Spain and South America, like Valencia.
The United States also has St. Paul, Bismarck, etc.
There are also many duplications at the county level in China. . . . If there are more at the township level. . . A small village would have a name, and hundreds of villages would use it