Exotic city names. The most unusual cities in the world

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

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 extreme cold, which prevents the bodies from decomposing and makes them attractive to wildlife. People who could soon die are transported to the more southern parts of Norway by plane.

A city spanning two countries

Cities that are located on the territory of two states at once is a much more common phenomenon than you might imagine, but this one is the most unusual of 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 a given country in which the Swiss franc is used as the main currency. There are two postal codes here at once: German and Swiss. Residents of the city call both German and Swiss numbers, and the Büsingen football club is the only German club playing in the Swiss League.

The most infernal city

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

Tourists happily take pictures next to signs that say "Welcome to Hell" and you can buy six square centimeters of Hell for $6.66 at the local gift shop.

Austrian city in China

The Chinese are known for being able to make a good copy of everything 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 are exact copies of the original. Incidentally, real estate prices in Hallstatt, China are higher than in Austria.

Last free city

Slab City is a city in California populated by the homeless, 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, no utilities, no taxes.

It all sounds uncomfortable, but many people who have visited this city have reported that it is very pleasant. Locals call their home "the last free city in America."

cave city

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

Ground houses were built here in the seventies, but locals 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 the state of 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, as 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 the incredibly beautiful Chavin in Morocco are painted in various 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 have long since left this city, but the tradition remains.

alien city

In 1947, a UFO crashed near the city of Roswell. What actually fell next to 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 over an oil field.

No one lives permanently in this city. 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 due to the fact that it is built right into a large basalt rock.

There are streets here, over which hangs not the sky, but tons of basalt rock. It may seem that they are about to fall on you, but they have been holding on for many centuries.

A city where there are more dead than living

There are 17 cemeteries in Colma, California. The ratio of the dead to the 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 makers and florists, but in the eighties, specialists from other fields began to flock here. To date, the city's motto is: "It's good to be alive in Kolma!"

How many amazing cities in the world! Some are famous for their craftsmen, others for historical sights, others attract guests with fun carnivals or festivals, and the fourth - with their own names. When people settle in a new place and establish a settlement, they come up with a name for this place. It can be associated with a legend, with the name of a hero, with the area where it is located, or with some kind of event. But sometimes the name causes complete bewilderment - why? Why was this place named so?

Cities of the world

That is exactly what the town in the state of Arizona (USA) is called - Why (why). Either its first settlers themselves were surprised why it occurred to them to stay here, or because of the transcription of the letter Y, as the saying goes. official version and looks from above the intersection of roads on which stands why.

In Germany, in the state of Bavaria, a city flourishes Kissing. A city with such a name cannot fail to flourish. I wonder if there is some special tradition associated with kissing here, or if the city glorified some famous kiss?

If something in life has failed you, try to go to South Africa. It is here that the city for the most persistent is located - try again and… try again!

Rafting enthusiasts have their own heavenly place for their hobby - a city named Slime (Dirt). For romantics in England there is a very nice place - the city Roseberry Topping (Strawberry Topping). But where I would not like to go is to a town in the Cayman Islands called Hell). Yes, the place is gloomy, located among the rocks. Here anyone can exclaim: "I live in Hell!". But tourists really like to send postcards from here to their friends - straight from Hell.

Sometimes a city with the most common name changes it to a more original one. So it happened with the resort town Hot Springs (Hot springs), whose inhabitants decided to change his name to Truth or Consequences (Truth or Consequences), yielding to temptation. The organizers of the game show of the same name promised to move production to a city that would be named after the program.

The city with the most long name also worthy of being mentioned among the unusual - Thaumatawenuakitanatahu. It is located in New Zealand and means the following - "The top where Tamatea Pokai Uenua played the flute for his beloved." Beautiful, isn't it? In contrast, there is a city that is just an empty place, which is exactly what the name of the town Noodle (Noodles) sounds like in Texas slang. And how to live in cities with the name Spot (Spot), Monkey's Eyebrow (Monkey Eyebrow) or even worse Idiotville (Idiotville). I can’t even imagine what the inhabitants of these cities and towns answer when asked where they come from?

And we have?

On the pillar path
Seven men came together:
Seven temporarily liable,
tightened province,
County Terpigorev,
empty parish,
From adjacent villages:
Zaplatova, Dyryaeva,
Razutova, Znobishina,
Gorelova, Neelova -
Crop failure too...

There are many cities with strange names all over the world. And our country is no exception! If you happened to travel by car across the expanses of our vast country, then you also met funny, funny and even such original names that do not withstand censorship .... But people thought when they called the place where they were going to live! Although, maybe it's all the tricks of the neighbors?

Judge for yourself: Bolshoy Pupsy (a village in the Tver region), Deshevki (a village in the Kaluga region), Such (a village on Sakhalin), Bolshoye Struikino (a village in the Novgorod region), Ovnishche (a village in the Tver region), Dno ( a city near Pskov), Trusovo (a village in the Komi Republic), Kosyakovka (a village in Bashkiria), Krutye Khutor (a village in the Lipetsk region), Novopozornovo (a village in the Kemerovo region), Bolotnaya Rogavka (a village in the Novgorod region), Old Worms (a village in the Kemerovo Region), Verkhnye Zachatie (a village in the Chekhov District), Durakovo (a village in the Kaluga Region), Hare Bubble (a river in the Kemerovo Region), Kozyavkino (a village in the Kemerovo Region), Tsatsa (Volgogradskaya region), Zveronozhka (a river in the Moscow region), Mukhodoevo (a village in the Belgorod region), Yes-yes (a village in the Khabarovsk Territory), Bolshoye Bukhalovo (a village in the Vologda region), Zhabino (a village in Mordovia), Dudes (a village in the Perm region), Musorka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region), Bezvodovka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region) and even Good Bees (in the Ryazan region)!

Personally, I have always dreamed of traveling different countries and explore more and more new places. But how to choose where to go, because the world is so huge? Maybe the names of cities will prompt the heart? I decided to make a small review and picked up the most beautiful of them!

The most beautiful city names in the world

• Pattaya - "the wind that comes before the start of the rainy season", southeast of Thailand;
• Antananarivo - "the city of a thousand warriors", the capital of Madagascar;
• Gargaliani is a city in Greece;
• Tegucigalpa - the extraordinary beauty of the "silver hills", the capital of Honduras;
• Clermont-Ferrand - City extinct volcanoes» in the south of France;
• Koenigsberg - "royal shore" or "shore of kings", the former name of Kaliningrad;
• Wolverhampton is a city in the south of the West Midlands;
• Aguascalientes - the fiery name of the city in Mexico "hot waters";
• Reykjavik - "smoking bay", the capital of Iceland;
• Southampton - South coast beautiful Great Britain;
• Knokke-Heist is a city in the far north of Belgium.

The most beautiful names of cities in Russia

• Pereslavl-Zalessky is a very sonorous name;
• Veliky Novgorod - I have never been to this Great City;
• Zvenigorod - it's worth a trip at least in order to understand what exactly is ringing there;
• Peterhof - this place simply cannot be ordinary;
• Bodaibo - it's even hard to believe that this is in Russia;
• Insar - there is something oriental in this;
• Shlisselburg - there is something German in this;
• Kargopol - at least unusual;
• Svetlogorsk is a bright name for the city;
• Kolomna - it's very beautiful there;
• Oranienbaum - although it is not quite a city, it sounds beautiful.

And what beautiful names of cities in Russia and the world do you know?

People's opinions

I recently visited a country where I liked the name of the city Gura-Humorului. In this city, I visited a monastery, which was built in the 15th century, and then a hydropark with pools. I remembered the name for 3 whole days, it’s even hard to pronounce. And not far from this city there is a town where I have friends who also have great name Vatra Dornei.

I really like the names of foreign cities: Valletta is the capital of the Mediterranean state of Malta, the name Italian city Verona, but in this case also because the events of Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" took place in it.

Anthracite, what is it all about ??? But the name of the city is funny.

I dream of visiting the city of Sortavala, I even had the opportunity, but it fell through. Even from the name it seems to me that deer walk there on foot and everything around is just fields of berries!

Marseilles
Los Angeles
Bender Saru Bejevan
Paris
Lankaran
Zimbabwe
St. Petersburg
Arkhangelsk

I dream of visiting Paris. My God, this is an amazing city!

I know only one city, which in my opinion is the best and most, the most, and it has a very beautiful name, this is of course the city of Odessa, but do you know what the second name of this pearl by the sea is? "Southern Palmyra" doesn't it sound right?.)

Montreal ("Royal Mountain") - the most, in my opinion, the most beautiful name
Ravello
Lucerne
Milan
Genoa
Monte Carlo
Dusseldorf
Belgrade
can be listed and listed

But the most funny names Fleas - Pskov region. Bezhanitsky district
Blava - Orenburg region. Kuvandyksky district
Bukhalovo - Tver region Bologovsky district
Durakovo - Kaluga region Zhukovsky district
Kozly - Tver region. Udomlya district
Vagina - Tyumen region. Aromashevsky district
Tumors - Pskov region. Nevelsky district
Swimming trunks - Novgorod region. Pestovsky district
Popki - Volgograd region. Kotovsky district
shitty - Voronezh region. Novousmansky district
Kaka - Rep. Dagestan Akhtynsky district
Pysi - Pskov region. Usvyatsky district
Sovlokh - Khanty-Mansiysk author. env. Berezovsky district
Burdocks - Ryazan region. Ryazan region
Mochily - Moscow region. Serebryanoprudsky district
Scrotum - Kaluga region. Meshchovsky district
Bruises - Smolensk region. Krasninsky district
Siskovsky - Volgograd region. Podtelkovsky district
Soskovo - Moscow region Taldom district
Otkhozhe - Tambov region. Rzhaksinsky district

Murmansk
Vladikavkaz
Vladivostok
Rostov the Great
Velikiy Novgorod
Arkhangelsk
Sochi
Anapa
Yalta
Khabarovsk
Novosibirsk

And from the world
Memphis
Cairo
Alexandria
Sparta
Rome
London
Rio de Janeiro
Havana
Montreal
San Francisco

I like the names of cities in Italy: Palermo, Milan, Florence, Venice, Naples, Vicenza… I can name many very beautiful names. From Russian cities - St. Petersburg, Togliatti.

redactorolga, the last name, by the way, is also Italian in fact.
By the way, yes. So the city was named after the Italian communist leader Tolyatti.

Pattaya is a chic city, I will definitely return there more than once.

List of top cities in the world:

Balakovo
Saratov
New York
Boston
Hong Kong
St. Petersburg
On this, I have all this elite top.

Can you praise your swamp? ahaha

I think that the coolest name is the city of Saint-Petersburg!

It is somehow difficult for me to list the names of cities only because of the sound, if I have never been to them.
And from those where I have been, Venice, Paris, Odessa, Luxembourg, Brussels, Sevastopol, Riga remained in my memory.
There are many more, but the most beloved city and beautiful for my soul is St. Petersburg. If you are destined to live a second life, then only in it, in this mysterious and beautiful, mystical and poetic city.

There are settlements on the planet with such amazing names that it is difficult to believe in the fact of their existence. And to live in the city of Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan can, perhaps, only love with a good sense of humor. And it should be noted that these are not the most strange names from existing ones.

1. Swastika

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

2. Kingdom of Satan

In a funny and strange way, there are cities and geographic places on Earth named after hell. For example, two cities in the USA (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 old forms of Welsh and English. Originally, the name meant "Hilltop Village". Today, everyone who is not lazy is giggling over him.

4. Nothing

The formerly inhabited (although very few people lived in it) village of Nothing in Arizona was completely abandoned in 2005. A sign at the entrance to the city says: "The devoted citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the need for work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoped for Nothing and worked for Nothing."

5. North Pole

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

6. Nameless

Nameless - a small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be laid in this place with a turn to the still non-existent city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. In the end, the name stuck.

7. Moon

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

8. Mars

Tourists in recent times often visit the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is 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 Rastaman 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 around the world, but Wisconsin has whole city which has 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 of Batman. The main local attractions are oil refineries and a large military airbase.

13. Bastardtown

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

14. Å

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

15. Accident

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