Funny-named towns

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, town in Wales, UK.

No - the village is called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, it is the station that has the ridiculously long name as a Victorian marketing gimmick.

Well, AFAIK the short form is signed, sometimes without spaces, but the official form is the long one.

And I forgot the true longest placename in the world, at least when pronounced. It is in my country and I've been to all of its neighborhoods, the last one fell in late July. Its name is Zaragozaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... (A load of a's here) ...aaaaa. This is perfect to couple with the Chinese province of Shaaaaaaaa... (Again, another ton of a's here) ...aaaaaanxi.

[english si]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, town in Wales, UK.

No - the village is called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, it is the station that has the ridiculously long name as a Victorian marketing gimmick.

Well, AFAIK the short form is signed, sometimes without spaces, but the official form is the long one.

You knew wrong about the official form and I corrected the two common errors you made (including that it is a town).

The 'short form' is the official (and original) name. Only the station has the long name officially.

The actual short forms are "Llanfairpwll", "Llanfair PG" or just "Llanfair".

[NE2]

Not funny.

[agentsteel53]

More profan locations:
Puta, Azerbaijan (Spanish for "slut")
Zorra, ON, Canada (Spanish for "bitch")
Shit, Iran
Poo, Spain

there's a town in Spain called Feces de Abajo, from what I can tell.

[1995hoo]

Check out this map:

Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Oh, and I didn't posted the best one:
Obama, Japan. Yeah, it's true, google it.

[mUtcd33]

We have a ton of them here in PA:

Virginville
Bird-In-Hand
Moon Township
Zelienople
Hokendauqua
Strong
Jim Thorpe
Peach Bottom

[Molandfreak]

We have a ton of them here in PA:

Virginville
Bird-In-Hand
Moon Township
Zelienople
Hokendauqua
Strong
Jim Thorpe
Peach Bottom

King of Prussia

[hotdogPi]

Triangle, New York
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Ã..., Norway
Lion's Head, Ontario
Walla Walla, Washington
Grand Junction, Colorado (not really considered grand)
Anaconda, Montana
Jackpot, Nevada
Alliance, Nebraska
Penguin, Tasmania
Alanland, Delaware

Calvin, Oklahoma
Hobbs¹, New Mexico

Brady, Texas
Bunch, Oklahoma

¹ There is no town called "Hobbes".

[Molandfreak]

DISH, Texas. (yes, you spell it with all caps).

[DSS5]

Surprised Weed, California hasn't been mentioned. It even has a Weed High School.

Another good one is Hell for Certain, Kentucky.

The NC Outer Banks is home to the towns of Duck and Kill Devil Hills.

[Brian556]

Flushing, NY
Fish Kill, NY
Krum, TX (some people think this is funny)
Fucking, England

[DSS5]

Flushing, NY
Fish Kill, NY
Krum, TX (some people think this is funny)
Fucking, England

That reminds me of a story I read where PETA tried to get Fishkill to change it's name, even though it was actually just Dutch for "Fish Creek."

[national highway 1]

Great Kills, Staten Island, NY

[agentsteel53]

Fucking, England

okay, I'll bite.  where is this?

[NE2]

Fucking, England

okay, I'll bite.  where is this?

Maybe England took over Austria after WWIII.

[vtk]

Surprised Weed, California hasn't been mentioned.

I thought it was. Did you read all 160+ posts and not see it?

[empirestate]

Grand Junction, Colorado (not really considered grand)

It was founded on the Grand River at its confluence with another river...what would you have named it?

[english si]

Maybe England took over Austria after WWIII.

I read this as WWII.

And we did (well Britain did), along with the Commies, Frogs and the USA, dividing both Vienna and the country in the same way as we did Germany. We quickly released it back to the people (48?).

[DSS5]

Surprised Weed, California hasn't been mentioned.

I thought it was. Did you read all 160+ posts and not see it?

I used the handy-dandy search box at the top right corner.

[vtk]

Perhaps I was thinking of this, in an older but similar thread, and its followups:

Nobody mentioned Weed, CA? 

On the other hand, why doesn't this come up with a simple search for Weed?  I had to use the Advanced Search.

[agentsteel53]

because this is CA, not WA or CO.

[J N Winkler]

And we did (well Britain did), along with the Commies, Frogs and the USA, dividing both Vienna and the country in the same way as we did Germany. We quickly released it back to the people (48?).

I think Allied occupation of Austria (and the resulting partition, although the part of Vienna inside the Ringstrasse was formally an "International Zone" and was patrolled by representatives of all four occupying powers) ended with the signing of the peace treaty in 1953.

[agentsteel53]

I always find it interesting to recall that Austria was officially neutral during the cold war.  growing up, I don't recall any special difficulty in going there from Hungary.  this was similar to going to Czechoslovakia, and very much contrasted with going to West Germany.

[formulanone]

because this is CA, not WA or CO.

Zing.