Strange names of cities and villages in Russia. Funny city names. City under one roof

It cannot be said that there are very diverse names of settlements on the territory of Russia. In 45% the names are repeated. The most common are: Mikhailovka, Berezovka, Pokrovka, and there are as many as 166 settlements with the name Aleksandrovsk. But there are names that have glorified the city throughout the country, and without an attractive history, fame came to the settlement only because of the name.

The Moscow region also boasts interesting names for its villages. One of these is Durykino. By the way, the few residents who still live here are even proud of this name, because it was given by Peter I himself. During construction, the king needed great amount eggs, was the cry throughout the country. Residents of modern Durykino overdid it and brought not fresh, but boiled eggs to the construction site. It was then that the king called the village residents fools, and over time the name stuck.

The list of cities with funny names can also include a settlement called Radio ( Odintsovskii district). Although the origin of the name is very trivial. The settlement formed around the antenna receiving end point, on the site of a testing ground for radio link lines.

In the Solnechnogorsk region there is a village called Chernaya Gryaz. There are two versions of the origin of the name. According to one of them, the name of the settlement is associated with a river that flows there and has very muddy waters. According to another legend, allegedly Catherine II, stopping on the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, got out of the carriage and got her snow-white shoes dirty. It seemed to the queen that the land here was too black, so they began to call the village - Black Mud.

Mamyri is another unique name for a village in the Moscow region. According to one legend, the name comes from the French expression Ma Marie!, that is, “Mama Marie”. Legend has it that in ancient times, a Frenchman asked one of the village residents on dates for a very long time, constantly repeating “Mama Marie.” That's what the locals called their settlement.

According to another version, before her death, a local landowner married a Frenchman and, sensing his death, transferred the village to her husband, indicating in the inheritance document “The village of Mon Mari should be transferred to such and such.” Later, the name was simply adjusted to be more consonant with the Russian language.

By the way, in the Novo-Fominsk region there is also a village with the same name.

There is a city in this district called Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region). It is home to about 12 thousand people. However, the official date of foundation is considered to be the first mention of the settlement in the chronicles of 1723. That year they began to build a copper smelter near the village of Karaulskoye. However, historians very much doubt that 1723 can be considered the founding date.

Why the city received the name Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region) is not at all clear; no documented data exists. Like most cities in the Urals, this one was founded around an industrial copper mining enterprise.

Nizhniye Sergi in Sverdlovsk region They also have an interesting name, but the city got its name because of its location - on the Serga River. It was based on railway and an iron smelter. At the time of its founding, about 20 mines had already been developed in the district.

Another city is Rezh, Sverdlovsk region, located on the river of the same name. The founding date is considered to be 1773. The origin of the name is not known for certain. There is a version that translated from the Mansi language means “rocky shores”. Indeed, the city of Rezh, Sverdlovsk region, stands on the river of the same name, where there are more than 60 large rocks. According to another version, the name comes from the word “duct”. But there is more to the origin of the name of the river. In distant times, when in a place modern city The first settlers appeared, one of them, seeing the steep banks at the confluence of the river with the Neva, exclaimed: “Fathers, he seems to be cutting the Nevue.” This is how the name “Dir” appeared.

Available in Opochka. It is believed that the first fortress in these places appeared 800 years ago. And the settlement received its name because of the gray-whitish sedimentary rocks called “opoka”, which were used for construction. This is how the name was preserved - the city of Opochka, which for a long time played a huge defensive role for Russia.

There are interesting names in the Pskov region. For example, the city of Dno. Small in size and number of inhabitants, a little over 7 thousand people. This name is associated with the Russian word “Bottom”, which has several meanings, in particular it means the lowest part of the valley. But the city of Dno is known for the events of 1917. It is believed that here railway station Nicholas II signed his abdication from the throne.

On the Utro River there is a small settlement - the city of Pytalovo. According to one version, the town was named after the surname of the owner of these lands - Lieutenant Pytalov (1766).

Volgograd region

There is a village in this area with an interesting name - Tsatsa. In fact, the word “tsatsa” from the Kalmyk language means “Buddhist chapel.” And Buddhists in this area call clay figurines that are placed with the deceased as a symbol of positive energy.

Irkutsk region

There is a village called Lokhovo in the Irkutsk region, which can be included in the list of cities with funny names. Surely many have heard about this settlement, since there was even a television scandal over the issue of renaming (2005). Then local residents defended the name and even organized a rally against the renaming. So, the village of Lokhovo remained on the map, which was named, by the way, in honor of Mikhail Lokhov, a local rich farmer who did a lot for these places.

Kaluga region

There is a town with a funny name in this area - Deshovki. One version of the origin of the name goes back to the time of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. When all the cities in the district were taken, except Kozelsk, the inhabitants of the modern village of Deshovki asked to leave the walls of the fortified town. The residents of Kozelsk took pity and let in the villagers with whom the Tatars passed. This is how the village retained the name Deshovki, that is, people who sold their brothers for practically nothing.

Oryol Region

There is another city in this district with a funny name - Mymrino, by the way, the birthplace of Zyuganov G. The settlement was given this name by a landowner who, according to legend, had a terrible character and was very cruel.

Buryat Autonomous Okrug

There is a village in this area with the funny name Zady. The name appeared in Soviet times due to the fact that the most profitable business for local population there was a trade in manure. So the village was given official name. Although there is another one that existed earlier - Durlai, named after one of the Buryat brothers, the founders of villages in these places.

Kemerovo region

The official name of the village of Starye Chervi is Starochervovo. However, the popular name has taken root more and is even listed at a stop located on the highway. It is believed that the official name comes from the word “chervovo”, that is, red. In the old days, chervonets were made from an alloy of copper and gold that was mined here. It is not clear where the name Old Worms came from, either because gold miners in the process of working are very reminiscent of worms, or because such a name is easier to pronounce.

Ryazan Oblast

This region also boasts Russian cities with unusual names. One of these is Good Bees. This name is associated with beekeeping. Previously, when there was a wasteland here, the monks of the Theological Monastery collected honey here in a natural apiary. In this context, the word “good” means “benign” or “best.”

By the way, there are also interesting villages in the area - Dobry Sot and Paseka.

Voronezh region

There is a village in this area called Khrenovoe. It was founded back in the 18th century. In the old days, logging took place on the banks of the Bityug River, where the village is located. Later, Count Orlov founded a stud farm on these lands. By the way, a riding school still operates in the village today.

According to one version, the name was given due to the fact that horseradish grows very abundantly in these places. According to another version, when Catherine II passed here, she simply said “Khrenovaya road,” and so the name of the settlement was assigned - Khrenovoe.

There is a village in these places with most interesting name- Vydropuzhsk. In ancient writings from the 16th century, the village is mentioned under the name Vydrobozhsk. According to one version, the name was given because of the large population of otters in these places. But since the village is located on the road where Catherine II often passed, there was a story about her. They say that once the queen was walking in these places and was afraid of an otter. In honor of this “noble” event, the meeting of the otter and the queen, they decided to rename the village from Vydrobozhsk to Vydropuzhsk. But the most interesting thing is that local residents claim that there have never been otters in these places.

Transbaikal region

The Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky district was probably once inhabited by very cheerful people. Here there is the village of Khokhotuy, which stands on the Duralei River, and another river flows nearby with the same name as the village - Khokhotuy. The village appeared during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1899).

Although there are versions that the name comes from the Buryat word “hogot”, which translates as “birch”. According to another legend, from the word “khohtotui”, that is, “the place where the road runs.”

Each of these cities is small, but unique. You might want to visit one of these unusual communities.

The city where you can't die

Longyearbyen in Norway is one of the northernmost settlements and a place where you officially cannot die. There is a cemetery here, but it has not been used for 70 years.

The reason is the intense cold, which prevents the bodies from decomposing and makes them attractive to wild animals. People who are likely to die soon are transported to more southern parts of Norway by plane.

A city stretching across two countries

Cities that straddle two states at the same time are much more common than you might imagine, but this one is the most unusual of them all. Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German exclave in Switzerland. Economically it is part of Switzerland, administratively part of Germany.

This is the only city in this country where the Swiss franc is used as the main currency. There are two postal codes here: German and Swiss. Residents of the city call both German and Swiss numbers, and Büsingen football club is the only German club playing in the Swiss league.

The most hellish city

In the US state of Michigan you can find Hell, namely a city called Hell. The origin of the name is unknown, but residents are happy to keep it to maintain the hellish image of their city.

Tourists are happy to take photos next to signs that read “Welcome to Hell,” and at the local gift shop you can buy six square centimeters of hell for $6.66.

Austrian city in China

The Chinese are known for being able to make a good copy of anything in the world, including an entire city. To be able to travel without leaving the country, they decided to create their own version of the Austrian town of Hallstatt.

First the church was built, and then streets began to surround it, which were exact copies of the original. By the way, real estate prices in Hallstatt, China, are higher than in Austria.

Last free city

Slab City is a city in California populated by homeless people, retirees, and generally people who have nowhere else to go. They live in trailers and makeshift shacks with no addresses and no running water or electricity. There are no rents or utilities, no taxes.

This all doesn't sound very comfortable, but many people who have visited the city have reported that it is very pleasant. Local residents call their house "the last free city in America".

Cave City

Matmata in Tunisia is a city where most of the underground Berber dwellings remain inhabited.

In the seventies, above-ground houses were built here, but local residents prefer to stay in their underground dwellings. Fans " Star Wars"will quickly realize that this place is Luke Skywalker's home.

City under one roof

An entire city in Alaska is located in a 14-story building that was previously a large military facility. Here you will find shops, a police station, a hospital, and a church.

The purpose of this decision was to save on heating costs, since the weather here is always cold and windy. The population of the city is 220 people.

The bluest city

The walls, doors and even the stairs of incredibly beautiful Chavin in Morocco are painted in different shades of blue.

According to one of the main theories, the city was painted by the Jews who lived here, since blue is a sacred color for them. The Jews left this city a long time ago, but the tradition remained.

Alien city

In 1947, a UFO fell near the city of Roswell. What actually fell near the city is still unknown, but Roswell became known as "Alien City."

Themed festivals are held here, and even the local McDonald's is decorated in the appropriate style.

City on the high seas

Oil Rocks is an Azerbaijani industrial city. It is located in the open sea on metal platforms above an oil field.

No one lives in this city permanently. About two thousand workers come here for several months to work in shifts.

City in the rock

Setenil de las Bodegas is a city in Spain that attracts the attention of tourists from all over the world, mainly because it is built right into a large basalt rock.

There are streets here with not the sky hanging over them, but tons of basalt rock. It may seem like they are about to collapse on you, but they have been standing for many centuries.

A city with more dead than living

There are as many as 17 cemeteries in the city of Colma, California. The ratio of dead to living here is a thousand to one! This happened due to the fact that at one point the authorities decided to move all the cemeteries from nearby San Francisco here.

Previously, the population of this town consisted exclusively of gravediggers, monument manufacturers and florists, but in the eighties specialists from other fields began to flock here. Today the city's motto is: "It's good to be alive in Colma!"

The Russian people, of course, have no problems with imagination. But apparently they didn’t bother too much with the names of most settlements. As a result, what we have: approximately 44% of names are repeated. A third of them are named by name (Ivanovka, Mikhailovo, Aleksandrovka...), and a quarter by nature (Sosnovka, Berezovka, Kalinovka...). This is understandable: previously we somehow managed without brainstorming sessions and creative agencies. But among the 165 thousand rural settlements, 1,300 urban-type settlements and 1,100 cities of Russia, there are real “pearls” of extraordinary folk thought! There are about a thousand names that stick in your memory. Together with the regional editors of KP, we selected from them two hundred of the most, in our opinion, strange and funny.

Let's start with the Perm region. There is a village called Tupitsa. We don’t know why she’s like this...

Or the village of Suchkino. I wonder how the locals feel about this name.

No less interesting is how the residents of the Dude village introduce themselves. "My name is Valera. I'm a dude"? By the way, the sign near the village, as you can see in the photo, is worn out... But the Dudes don’t worry about it.

And there is also the village of Gorshki in the Perm region.

And the village of Rozhki, consonant with them.

There are Sparrows.

And there are Mosquitoes. Hmm, who would risk going there in the summer?

Photo: ALEXEY ZHURAVLEV true_kpru

And the village of Putino. Also available.

And here is the village of Khomyaki. “Looks like someone is eating too much!?” – I remembered from the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.

In addition, in the Perm Territory there are such interesting settlements as Balagury, Pakli, Zaitsy and... Freedom!

Fast forward to Krasnodar region. Here, not only the settlements are pleasing, but also the rivers. There are, for example, the rivers Kherota, Ovechka, Kura-Tsetse...

And from the villages, Batteryka, Za Rodinu, Indyuk, Chushka, and Pyatikhatki stood out. Among the farms are Oasis, Pervaya Sinyukha, Srednie Chuburki, Watchmen First, Labor Armenia, Wide Gap.

But perhaps the coolest name of the village in this region is Vesyolaya Zhizn. You drive past and that’s it, your fun life is over...

Bashkiria also has settlements with life-affirming names. For example, the village of Forward. Why not daily motivation?

- Where are you going ?

- I'm going forward!

By the way, local residents They call them either “Vperdyuks” or “Vperdyuks”... Whichever you like. But we haven’t figured out how to do it right yet.

Also known in Bashkiria is the village of Druzhba (the locals are called Druzhbane). And then there are Mars, Paris and Venice. In general, it’s like the Universe in miniature.

Let's move on to the Irkutsk region. There is a village called Zada. People love to take pictures from behind in front of the sign... But the village with the sonorous name Lokhovo has surpassed Zada in popularity among selfie lovers.

IN Kemerovo region is the village of Antibes. And with it Drachenino and Uporovka.

The Tyumen region is also famous for its considerable list of funny names. There is Kokuy, Partizan, Razdolye, Vagina, Half, Chubby, Shortness of breath, Goldobino, Sour, Beautiful, Nevolino, Elbows, Bad, Kinder, Cotton wool, Political Department, Shot.

IN Chelyabinsk region, like Bashkiria, also has its own Paris. And Fershanpenoise is available. And even the villages of Leipzig and Berlin.

In Udmurtia there are such unusual villages: Muki-Kaksi, Baldeika, Podmoy, Kosolapovo, Karavay, Zherebenki, Babino, Lyuk, Chur, Uzi. And the villages: Skates, Zabegalovo, Berezka, Krasny Kustar, Bannoye, Roosters, Kabanikha, Kozlovo, Barany, Malaya Igra and Bolshaya Igra, Ubytdur, Capture, Vanya-Chumo, Adam.

But the most creative people, apparently, live in the Pskov region! There the cities of Dno, Opochka, Pytalovo are lit... And the villages: Ulcers, Torchilovo, Babki, Badgers, Bolshoy Khochuzh, Sos, Blagodat, Novy Opel, Lobok...

... Kozyulki, Mochilki, Potseluyevo, Teeth, Crooked Hats, Lamons, Runts...

... as well as Zhizhitsa, Mokriki, Puffy, Butts, Red Seat, Alyo, Grandfather-Kabak, Bald-Flies, Legs, Fast, Big Rods, New Life.

In the Sverdlovsk region there are the following cities: Nizhnie Sergi, Rezh, Novaya Lyalya (and the village of Staraya Lyalya - this is all the Novolyalinsky urban district). And the villages - Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha, Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, Laya, Krasny Adui.

IN Yaroslavl region– Woe-Gryaz, Pshenichishche, Zhupeevo, Bukhalovo.

IN Voronezh region there is Khrenishche.

In Kaluga there is the village of Zhivotinki. The name is quite harmless and to the point: after all, a livestock farm is located here.

IN Lipetsk region There is a village called Zasosnaya. In Vologda there are two villages with the name Konets (and there are eight of them in Russia).

In Crimea there is a city called Saki, from which the locals made the city of Psaki. Thus, they allegedly denied entry to the famous American.

There are also a lot of unusual and funny names in the Trans-Baikal Territory. For example, in the Argunsky region there is the village of Duroy. There is also the village of Klichka, which is named after a mining engineer. In the Sretensky district there is the village of Bolshie Boty. Not far from the regional capital there is the village of Ulety. And in the Chernyshevsky district there is the village of Ukurey. In the Khiloksky district - Khokhotuy.

And in Murmansk region There is a village called Afrikanda. Under the snow, Afrikanda looks especially exotic.

IN Saratov region there is a village called Lokh.

And in Omsk - Babezh, Big Scourges, Big Murly, Volchanka, Zagvazdino, Lezhanka, Prishib. In Samara there is the village of Koshki (it is a sister city of Myshkin, Yaroslavl region). In Penza - Tatarskaya Pendelka, Chulpan, Bogdanikha, Bright Path, Rubezh, Traffic Police. In Vladimir region stand out: the village of Krasnaya Gorbatka, the village of Perebor, the village of Likhaya Pozhnya. In Bryansk - Mamai, Bibiki, Zaytsev Dvor, Crimea, Varna, Bald, New Scales, Usherpie, Gobiki, Badgers, Byakovo, Sluchok, New World, Vesyoly, Hooks, Bobrik, Gnilevo, Usokh, Lizogubovka, Lozhki, Ugrevische, Shiryaevka, Shapkino... And in the Khabarovsk Territory there is the village of Condon. In the Smolensk region - the village of Boduny. In Tambovskaya - Big Rzhaksa.

In Mordovia you can find settlements with the following names: Piksyasi, Chudinka, Red Warrior, Syryatino, Sialeevsky Maidan. In Chuvashia – the village of Bolshoye Murashkino, the village of Opytny, the village of Khachiki. In Mari El there is the village of Surok.

In Troitsky administrative district There is a village called Babenki in Moscow.

And in Ryazan region there was once a village Lost heaven. Nobody lives there now. This is a tract. It seems that there is a much more friendly atmosphere in the local village of Good Bees.

In the Kostroma region there is the village of Pyankovo.

The Altai Territory is distinguished by the settlements of Chistaya Griva, Komar, Zyatkovo, Vysokaya Griva, Dobraya Volya, Beshentsevo, Raigorod, Valley of Freedom, Lokotok, and Pravda.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory you can find Minderla, Oblique Spoons, Shalobolino and Cucumbers.

There you will also be intrigued by a village with the mysterious name Secret. Why Secret? It's a secret…

BY THE WAY

5 interesting facts about Russian settlements

1) The village “Central estate of the state farm named after the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution” is the longest name of a settlement in the country. I wonder if local residents are annoyed by having to pronounce or write this oh-so-long name somewhere in documents?

2) Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo and Starokozmodemyanovskoe are the longest combined names of settlements. It seems that from childhood everyone is ready to work as a TV announcer. After all, by the time you tell me where you’re from...

3) 46 settlements in Russia have two-letter names. Of these, 11 are Yar. And there is also, for example, Yb - in Komi there are three villages with that name. Remember this to stun your opponents when playing town-village games.

4) There are only two settlements in the country with names starting from Y. These are Yoshkar-Ola and Yozefovka (a village in the Smolensk region).

5) And the names of 27 settlements in Russia begin with the letter Y. Almost all of them are in Yakutia. These are, for example, Ytyk-Kyuel and Yllymakh. In general, there are cities in our country with absolutely all letters, excluding soft and hard signs, of course.

There are seven villages named Khrenovo in Russia! This one is in the Ivanovo region. Photo: Andrey KARA

Tupitsa, Suchkino, Bukhalovo, Lokhovo, Khrenovo... Among the 170 thousand settlements of the country, we have chosen those that you cannot drive past without emotions

The Russian people, of course, have no problems with imagination. But apparently they didn’t bother too much with the names of most settlements. As a result, what we have: approximately 44% of names are repeating. A third of them are named by name (Ivanovka, Mikhailovo, Aleksandrovka...), and a quarter by nature (Sosnovka, Berezovka, Kalinovka...). This is understandable: previously we somehow managed without brainstorming sessions and creative agencies. But among the 165 thousand rural settlements, 1300 urban settlements and 1100 cities of Russia there are real “pearls” of extraordinary folk thought! There are about a thousand names that stick in your memory. Together with the regional editors of KP, we selected from them two hundred of the most, in our opinion, strange and funny.

Let's start with the Perm region. There is a village called Tupitsa. We don’t know why she’s like this...

Photo: Alexey ZHURAVLEV

Or the village of Suchkino. I wonder how the locals feel about this name.

Photo: Alexey ZHURAVLEV

And the village of Putino. Also available.

And here is the village of Khomyaki. “Looks like someone is eating too much!?” - I remembered from the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.

In the Kemerovo region there is the village of Antibes. And with it Drachenino and Uporovka.

The Chelyabinsk region, like Bashkiria, also has its own Paris. And Fershanpenoise is available. And even the villages of Leipzig and Berlin.

Kozyulki, Mochilki, Kissuevo, Teeth, Crooked Hats, Lamons, Runts...

And also Zhizhitsa, Mokriki, Puffy, Butts, Red Seat, Alyo, Grandfather-Kabak, Bald-Flies, Legs, Fast, Big Rods, New Life.

In the Yaroslavl region - Gore-Gryaz, Pshenichishche, Zhupeevo, Bukhalovo.

In the Voronezh region there is Khrenishche.

In Kaluga there is the village of Zhivotinki. The name is quite harmless and to the point: after all, a livestock farm is located here.

In the Lipetsk region there is the village of Zasosnaya. In Vologda there are two villages with the name Konets (and there are eight of them in Russia).

In Crimea there is a city called Saki, from which the locals made the city of Psaki. Thus, they allegedly denied entry to the famous American.

And in the Murmansk region there is the village of Afrikanda. Under the snow, Afrikanda looks especially exotic.

In the Saratov region there is the village of Lokh.

And in Omsk - Babezh, Big Scourges, Big Murly, Lupus, Zagvazdino, Lezhanka, Prishib. In Samara there is the village of Koshki (it is a twin city of Myshkin, Yaroslavl region). In Penza - Tatarskaya Pendelka, Chulpan, Bogdanikha, Bright Path, Rubezh, Traffic Police. In the Vladimir region, the following stand out: the village of Krasnaya Gorbatka, the village of Perebor, the village of Likhaya Pozhnya. In Bryansk - Mamai, Bibiki, Zaytsev Dvor, Crimea, Varna, Bald, New Scales, Ushcherpye, Gobiki, Badgers, Byakovo, Sluchok, Novy Svet, Vesyly, Hooks, Bobrik, Gnilevo, Usokh, Lizogubovka, Spoons, Ugrevishche, Shiryaevka, Shapkino... And in the Khabarovsk Territory there is the village of Condon. In the Smolensk region - the village of Boduny. In Tambovskaya - Bolshaya Rzhaksa.

In Mordovia you can find settlements with the following names: Piksyasi, Chudinka, Red Warrior, Syryatino, Sialeevsky Maidan. In Chuvashia - the village of Bolshoye Murashkino, the village of Opytny, the village of Khachiki. In Mari El there is the village of Surok.

In the Troitsky administrative district of Moscow there is the village of Babenki.

And in the Ryazan region there was once the village of Lost Paradise. Nobody lives there now. This is a tract. It seems that there is a much more friendly atmosphere in the local village of Good Bees.

In the Kostroma region there is the village of Pyankovo.

BY THE WAY

5 interesting facts about Russian settlements

4) There are only two settlements in the country with names starting from Y. These are Yoshkar-Ola and Yozefovka (a village in the Smolensk region).

What funny names of Russian settlements do you know? We are waiting for your comments!

There are settlements on the planet with such amazing names that it is difficult to believe in their existence. And to live in the city of Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan, perhaps, only people with a good sense of humor can live. And it should be noted that these are not the strangest names out there.

1. Swastika

Swastika town in Ontario, Canada - pretty strange place. In fact, this is not a Nazi haven at all - the city was founded almost 30 years before Adolf Hitler began using the swastika. The name of the city was chosen in honor of the ancient Indian sign of prosperity and fertility.

2. Kingdom of Satan

What's funny and strange is that there are cities and geographic places on Earth named after hell. For example, two cities in the United States (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.

3. Peniston

The name of the town of Peniston in Yorkshire, England, probably derives from older forms of Welsh and English languages. The name originally meant "Hilltop Village". Today, everyone is giggling at him.

4. Nothing

The previously populated (although very few people lived in it) village of Nothing in Arizona, was completely abandoned in 2005. The sign at the entrance to the city reads: “The dedicated citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the necessity of work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoped for Nothing and worked in Nothing."

5. North Pole

There are cities named North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.

6. Nameless

Unnamed - small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be built in this place with a turn to a city that did not yet exist. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription “Unnamed” was installed at the bend. As a result, the name stuck.

7. Moon

Northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend of the river.

8. Mars

Tourists have recently often visited the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is there a non-working former spaceship installed in the city, but you can also say that you visited the Martians (that’s what the locals are called).

9. George Washington

George Washington is the only city in the United States that bears the full name of its founding father.

10. Ganja

The city with the most Rastafarian name can be found in Azerbaijan. Moreover, this is not even a village that was named as a joke, but the second largest city in the country.

11. Chinatown

Chinatowns or Chinatowns exist in major cities all over the world, but there is an entire city in Wisconsin that bears a similar name.

12. Batman

Everyone knows the famous comic book hero, but few people know that in Turkey, in the province of Batman, on the banks of the Batman River (a tributary of the Tigris River) there is a city called Batman. The main local attractions are oil refineries and a large military air base.

13. Bastardtown

Bastardtown in County Wexford, despite its name, is a picturesque Irish seaside village.

14. Å

Locality with such a laconic name - a beautiful seaside village in the very north of Norway. Six other Norwegian towns, a Swedish and a Danish town also have a similar name.

15. Accident

Interestingly, the town of Casualty was built in the 1770s in Western Maryland by accident. Two surveyors marked out the ground, randomly choosing the same oak tree as a reference point. It was on that spot that the city was founded.