Place names that sound fake

Odradek

Isle of Man

The Netherlands

Death Valley

Imipolex G

Fucking, Austria

Heinzes

Weedsport, New York

Salix Babylonika

Moose Factory

glennmagusharvey

Imipolex G said:

Fucking, Austria

Hell, Michigan
Fauquier County, Virginia
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

The Hague, The Netherlands

glennmagusharvey

so this page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names

Boring, Maryland	Named for a former postmaster David Boring, whose profession suited the family name.
Boring, Oregon	Twinned with Dull, Scotland.
Boring, Tennessee	Well-named: as of January 2018, the length of its Wikipedia entry is 1,528 characters (compared to 74,813 on this page).

Tre

Jane said:

Moose Factory

Moose Jaw, SK

glennmagusharvey

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stupid+Lake/@55.6872358,-93.5049879,18993m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x527d4e580b7c7df9:0x727d5ccd3e112362!8m2!3d55.6622131!4d-93.4502976

i don't think it's possible to drive here

Bee

glennmagusharvey

hey hey hey

remember that really crappy game?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name,_Colorado

glennmagusharvey

Honestly, sometimes you don't even have to have a particularly funny name for it to sound unrealistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cos_Cob,_Connecticut

glennmagusharvey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Lick,_North_Carolina

a "lick" is an actual term for either a very small stream or a surficial mineral deposit that animals frequently make use of, though apparently Lizard Lick might not have been named for either of these reasons.

but who cares; the rest of the article reads like How To Get Famous As A Small Town

Anonus

glennmagusharvey said:

hey hey hey

remember that really crappy game?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name,_Colorado

that's the Old West for you

Princess Alice

Wikipedia said:

There are two exits along Interstate 70 in Colorado that are truly nameless: Exit 218 east of Loveland Pass, and Exit 354 west of Limon - in both these instances, advance signage is marked merely with an exit number and the distance to that exit.

Wow, it's true.

Exit 218

Exit 354

Klinotaxis

Jane said:

Moose Factory

wh-

huh.

sunn wolf

Pease Pottage sounds like someone’s attempt at the most cutesy olde england place name possible but it is real

vtk

Knockemstiff, Ohio

Fossilmaiden

Sandy Island, New Caledonia

Sredni Vashtar

Small towns outside of State College, Pennsylvania that actually exist: Nowhere, Waddle.

glennmagusharvey

Sredni Vashtar said:

Small towns outside of State College, Pennsylvania that actually exist: Nowhere, Waddle.

also, State College, Pennsylvania.

Bee

Salix Babylonika

Sredni Vashtar said:

Small towns outside of State College, Pennsylvania that actually exist: Nowhere, Waddle.

but how could you forget about the rest of the infamous PA towns like Intercourse, Bird-In-Hand, King of Prussia, Blue Ball, Burningwell, the twin towns of Effort and Results, and many more?

Klinotaxis

long running feud with In-The-Bush?

glennmagusharvey

oh right, King of Prussia

meanwhile, Prince William County, VA and Prince George's County, MD.

also, Fresh Kills, NY.  as well as Flushing, NY.

Princess Alice

There's also Mars, Pennsylvania, which isn't that funny until you see a traffic sign that's just like

← Mars 4

glennmagusharvey

Central Avenue said:

There's also Mars, Pennsylvania, which isn't that funny until you see a traffic sign that's just like

← Mars 4

That's nothing; we've got Jupiter.

Odradek

Central Avenue said:

There's also Mars, Pennsylvania, which isn't that funny until you see a traffic sign that's just like

← Mars 4

My dad used to live there

vtk

Neptune, Ohio

glennmagusharvey

vtk said:

Neptune, Ohio

dang, that's far out

though Mississippi and West Virginia go even farther; they go all the way to last one, Pluto

Princess Alice

I would be interested to know if there are any cities named after Solar System bodies beyond Pluto.

Probably not, I guess, but it would be cool if there were.

Fossilmaiden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres,_California

Princess Alice

I mean, I guess it's cool that there's another city that shares its name with a dwarf planet, but by "beyond Pluto" I mean farther from the Sun. :P

Imipolex G

Mars, PA seems less weird when you see signs for it all the time.

My favorite weird Pennsylvania name is Lititz

Fossilmaiden

Central Avenue said:

I mean, I guess it's cool that there's another city that shares its name with a dwarf planet, but by "beyond Pluto" I mean farther from the Sun. :P

That wasn't at you. :|

Bee

The obligatory Welsh "I slammed my face on the keyboard centuries before keyboards were invented":

Klinotaxis

that map is pretty good

Odradek

A few months ago I stood in line behind a big bearded guy with "Legal Martian Aliens For Trump" t-shirt, and I'm still not over it

Princess Alice

Klinotaxis said:

that map is pretty good

I like how the name is so long that it stretches into mainland Europe

Salix Babylonika

I'm not sure I could tell you a single thing about that man's political opinions.

Odradek

Jane said:

I'm not sure I could tell you a single thing about that man's political opinions.

He's from Mars, so almost certainly pro-Trump

Calica

Bee said:

nice

lee4hmz

Weed, CA