Entertaining geography
It so happened that over the past few months I have been collecting information about countries, regions and cities. The result of these efforts was a small link “Change City” on the main page of the Rambler, and half a dozen posts on my blog about strange and funny names, and just the geo-facts that I had to face.
For example, it turns out that Nicolas Sarkozy, like any French president, is also the co-prince of Andorra, and the state of Andorra itself is formally a principality, under the joint protectorate of France and the Bishop of Urxel.
Two Russian cities - Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon argue among themselves, where the cold pole is located - the coldest place in the world. In my opinion, the difference is so small - to die at the minimum temperature of -67.8 or -67.2.
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But now I know the most positive, perhaps, the name of the city. Ukraine, Lugansk region, the city of happiness. Simple Ukrainian Happiness. :) By the way, in Ukraine there is a city with one of the longest names in the database - Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka - a settlement in the Kiev region.
What about the town of Finkenstein am Faker See (Austria, Carinthia)? Or here's another: Ushmanmandeh (Afghanistan). Unfortunately, both of these cities in our database are not included, due to the extremely small size.
But that is not all. If they ask me which country has the most difficult to pronounce names, I will answer without even thinking - Iceland. I still can not understand how they themselves live with this? .. :) Hevudborgarshvaydid. Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Fáskrúðsfjörður. (I hope I haven't accidentally called anyone into our world right now). The last two names I even found it difficult to translate into Russian. :(
There are still many interesting cities that would be worth a visit, at least in order to take pictures next to a sign with the name of the city. This is the Lithuanian city of Kretinga (previously simply Kretin, stress seems to be on the first syllable), and the whole Irish county of Kilkenny, which appeared much earlier than South Park, and the city of Puxi, Tartumaa county. It seems that Katya Lel was somehow right ... :)
And, finally, the unsurpassed record so far is 20-20! - the cities of Hudson, which are called the same, but located in different places (although mostly in the USA). Poor mail there ...
For example, it turns out that Nicolas Sarkozy, like any French president, is also the co-prince of Andorra, and the state of Andorra itself is formally a principality, under the joint protectorate of France and the Bishop of Urxel.
Two Russian cities - Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon argue among themselves, where the cold pole is located - the coldest place in the world. In my opinion, the difference is so small - to die at the minimum temperature of -67.8 or -67.2.
')
But now I know the most positive, perhaps, the name of the city. Ukraine, Lugansk region, the city of happiness. Simple Ukrainian Happiness. :) By the way, in Ukraine there is a city with one of the longest names in the database - Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka - a settlement in the Kiev region.
What about the town of Finkenstein am Faker See (Austria, Carinthia)? Or here's another: Ushmanmandeh (Afghanistan). Unfortunately, both of these cities in our database are not included, due to the extremely small size.
But that is not all. If they ask me which country has the most difficult to pronounce names, I will answer without even thinking - Iceland. I still can not understand how they themselves live with this? .. :) Hevudborgarshvaydid. Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Fáskrúðsfjörður. (I hope I haven't accidentally called anyone into our world right now). The last two names I even found it difficult to translate into Russian. :(
There are still many interesting cities that would be worth a visit, at least in order to take pictures next to a sign with the name of the city. This is the Lithuanian city of Kretinga (previously simply Kretin, stress seems to be on the first syllable), and the whole Irish county of Kilkenny, which appeared much earlier than South Park, and the city of Puxi, Tartumaa county. It seems that Katya Lel was somehow right ... :)
And, finally, the unsurpassed record so far is 20-20! - the cities of Hudson, which are called the same, but located in different places (although mostly in the USA). Poor mail there ...
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/66616/
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