Japanese place names include names for geographic features, present and former administrative divisions, transportation facilities such as railroad stations...
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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...
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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...
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charged words, as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended...
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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...
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Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (23 letters) Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are: Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland...
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Toponymy (redirect from Place names)
toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage...
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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...
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list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically...
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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...
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