Japanese place names include names for geographic features, present and former administrative divisions, transportation facilities such as railroad stations...

The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages. The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon (にほん) and Nippon (にっぽん). They...

short place names, natively in Latin characters or romanized, with one or two letters. A, a former village in Kami-Amakusa city, Kumamoto, Japan Á, a farm...

charged words, as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended...

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (23 letters) Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are: Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland...

Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no Shimei, Nihonjin no Seimei, Nihonjin no Namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed...

toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage...

misunderstood names, such as the name of the Yarra River. There are a suspicious number of place names which translate as pretty and resting place, which may...

Names. The Japanese government supports the exclusive use of the name "Sea of Japan" (Japanese: 日本海), while South Korea supports the alternative name...

list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically...