Have you ever traveled somewhere and thought, “I can’t believe this is actually the name of a city!”
Geographer and Nokia’s Director of Places Gary Dale has. In fact, he’s created an interactive map highlighting the world’s most suggestive city names. Some of the highlights:
- Poo, India
- Poo, Spain
- Bitche, France
- Arsoli, Italy
- Nob Hill, San Francisco, United States
- Climax, Georgia, United States
- Intercourse, Pennsylvania, United States
- Tittybong, Australia
- Pee, Liberia
- Vagina, Russia
- Anus, Philippines
- Gland, Switzerland
- Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Bum, Southern, Sierra Leone
- Spread Eagle, Newfoundland, Canada
“Maybe it’s part of being British, but an airport whose code is BUM is just … funny,” Dale told the Daily Mail. ‘The source of each of these vaguely rude sounding names was from Yahoo’s WOE data set, before the data was released via the GeoPlanet API and (currently offline) GeoPlanet Data download. A list of real but amusing sounding place names, culled from GeoPlanet by one of the old Yahoo! Geo team, has been sitting in a file on one of my backup drives for too many years now.”
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Jessica Festa is the editor of the travel sites Jessie on a Journey (http://jessieonajourney.com) and Epicure & Culture (http://epicureandculture.com). Along with blogging at We Blog The World, her byline has appeared in publications like Huffington Post, Gadling, Fodor’s, Travel + Escape, Matador, Viator, The Culture-Ist and many others. After getting her BA/MA in Communication from the State University of New York at Albany, she realized she wasn’t really to stop backpacking and made travel her full time job. Some of her most memorable experiences include studying abroad in Sydney, teaching English in Thailand, doing orphanage work in Ghana, hiking her way through South America and traveling solo through Europe. She has a passion for backpacking, adventure, hiking, wine and getting off the beaten path.
