List of toponyms
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This is a list of toponyms followed by the name of the place it takes its name from.

General

• Acapulco (as in ... gold)
• Angora
• Armageddon
• Auschwitz
• Babel
• Balkanization, a geopolitical term for the fragmentation of a region — the Balkans, region in southeastern Europe
• Bantustan
• Bay St
• Beltway
• Berlin Wall
• Bible, bibliography — Byblos, city on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon
• Bikini
• the Blarney and Blarney Stone — Blarney Castle
• Boetian
• Bohemian
• Bombay duck, a kind of fish — Bombay, old name for Mumbai, coastal city in western India
• Bordeaux
• Brazilianization
• Bronx Cheer
• Brummagem, goods of shoddy quality — Birmingham, city in England
• Bungalow
• Byzantine
• Canary
• Carthaginian (peace)
• Caucasian
• Chautauqua
• China
• Chinese Wall
• Sent to Coventry
• Denim
• Detroit
• Dijon
• Dixieland music — Dixies or "Dixies land", a nickname for the south-eastern states of the United States.
• Dollar
• Donneybrook
• Doolally
• Duffel, heavy woollen cloth — Duffel, a town in Belgium
• Eden (place of dubious existence)
• El Dorado
• Essex, 'common' or 'nouveau riche' sensibility — Essex, a county near London
• Fez, (also called tarboosh), a hat — Fez, a city in Morocco
• Finlandization
• Frankfurter
• Georgia, a font from Microsoft — Georgia (U.S. state)
• Gibraltar
• Greek, a language usage ("all Greek to me") — Greek language of Greece
• Gypsies, nomadic peoples in Europe and United States — Egypt
• Havana (cigar)
• Hell, usage in language — Hell, mythical place
• Hicksville
• Holland, cotton or linen fabric — Holland
• Hollandaise
• Hollywood
• Iliad (see Troy)
• Indian
• Java
• Jersey cattle (also tomato, milk, cream, jumper) — Jersey, one of the Channel Islands
• Labyrinth
• Left Bank
• Lesbian, homosexual — Lesbos, island in Greece
• Lilliputian, meaning very small sized — Lilliput, fictional island in the book Gulliver's Travels
• Madison Avenue
• Magenta
• Marathon
• Madras, lightweight cotton fabic — Madras, old name for Chennai, coastal city in southeastern India
• Manchester (as in textiles)
• Manila
• Marseillaise
• Masada
• Mausoleum, a large and impressive tomb — Mausoleum of Maussollos in Turkey
• Mecca
• Mocha
• Mongoloid
• Motown
• Maus
• Neanderthal
• Nuremberg (defense)
• Olympics, worldwide games — Mount Olympus, tallest mountain in Greece
• Paisley
• Palookaville
• Peoria
• Peyton Place
• Rubicon
• Rugby football — Rugby School, in Rugby, central England
• Sardine
• Seltzer (commercial name)
• Shambala
• Shanghai (verb)
• Shangri-La, a mythical utopia, a language usage — Shangri-La, fictional place in the novel Lost Horizon
• Siamese twins, conjoined twins — Siam, old name for Thailand
• Sent to Siberia
• Sodomy, forbidden sexual acts — Sodom, Biblical town on the plain of the Jordan River
• Solecism
• Spa, place having water with health-giving properties — Spa, a municipality in Belgium
• Stalingrad
• Surrey, horse-drawn carriage — Surrey, southern England
• Timbuktu
• Trojan horse, malicious computer virus — Trojan Horse, of Troy, from the Illiad
• Trojaned
• Utopia, term for organized society — Utopia, fictional republic from the book of the same name
• Wall Street
• Watergate
• Woodstock
• Xanadu, a symbol of opulence — Xanadu (or Shangdu), summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire
• Zion

Events/Agreements

• Hiroshima
• Kyoto
• Maastricht
• Munich
• Oslo
• Potsdam
• Seattle
• Yalta
• Waterloo

Food and Drink

• Burgundy
• Cantaloupe (also called rockmelon), a variety of melon — Cantalupo, the Pope's summer residence
• Champagne
• Cuban, sub sandwich in Florida — Cuba, country in the Caribbean
• Dunkirk spirit
• Hamburger
• Sherry wine, a mispronunciation of Jerez — Jerez de la Frontera, a city in southern Spain
• Manhattan cocktail — Manhattan Club in New York City
• Madeira wine, a fortified wine and Plum in madeira, a dessert — Madeira islands of Portugal
• Peking Duck, a Chinese dish made of duck — Peking, old name for Beijing, China
• Port wine (or Porto), sweet fortified wine — Oporto, in northern Portugal
• Salisbury Steak — Salisbury, England

Cheese

• American
• Aveyron(nais)
• Caerphilly
• Cheddar
• Cheshire
• Colby
• Derby
• Gloucester
• Gorgonzola
• Gouda
• Gruyere
• Lancashire
• Leicester
• Limburg(er)
• Monterey (Jacks)
• Munster
• Parme(san)
• Roma(no)
• Roquefort
• Stilton
• Swiss
• Tilsit
• Wensleydale

Elements

See: Chemical elements named after places

See also

• Lists of etymologies

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