Place names affect how people perceive, experience and emotionally connect to their surroundings in both conscious and subconscious ways. Psychologists, sociologists and geographers have explored how ...

But until that time, we are operating on the principle that something is better than nothing. So below is a list of Colorado places, and the Indigenous name for that place (in as many languages as ...

Bad Meat? The End of the World? Polish Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska was especially fond of funny names of Polish towns and villages. Since great minds think alike… we take a gander at ...

In fact, they often shorten it themselves—with 168 letters, it’s the longest place name in the world. So why do we even care about the longest place name in the world or place names in general?

What’s in a name? A lot more than you might think. The study of place names is known as toponymy, and it can tell us a lot about who held power in an area and the amount of influence they had ...

This is my stab at putting together a list of local names and places, to explain etymology of local towns, places and things. Taking it from A to Z, we ...