ITT: Translate town names from your country or region to English. Feel free to make it more or less literal.. I am doing Catalonia.
Ultramort - Ultradeath Viladecans - Dogtown Igualada - Equalized Sant Joan de Vilatorrada - Saint John of Toastedville Lloret de Mar - Littleparrot of the Sea Salt - Jump Barberà del Vallès - Barbarianland of Valleyland Molins de Rei - Kingmills Vila-seca - Drytown Esparraguera - Asparaguslands Malgrat de Mar - Despite of Sea Caldes de Montbui - Hotsprings of Mount Ox Montgat - Cathill Palafolls - Foolscastle Anglès - English Matajudaica - Killsjudaic Porqueres - Piglands
łódź - boat zielona góra - green mountain jelenia góra - elk mountain białystok - white hill/slope nowa wies - new village (not really a city but worth mentioning because it's litteraly most popular name for small settlements here in Poland) Swinoujscie - pigs river mouth Szczytno - top place (szczyt means top)
Julian Walker
>Queenstown - town named after the Queen >Woodlands - land with woods >Admiralty - a naval base where an Admiral served >Harbourfront - an area in front of a harbour >Buona Vista - good view >one-north - some hippie name >Cashew - a fucking nut h-haha
Bentley Murphy
It's never been setled, but yes, suo = swamp
Another few I just recalled:
Varkaus = Theft Nastola = Pin Land Virrat = Streams
ah...how about this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōfuku_Station this station name "koufuku" signifies "happiness", so this station is the very "happiness" station.
Joshua Gonzalez
H-here you go. r8 plz. Pekan Nenas = Pineapple Town Kota Tinggi = Highrise Port Batu Pahat = Chisel Rock Sungai Petani = Farmer's River Langkawi = Heart-red Eagle Pengkalan Kubor = Cemetery Jetty Gua Musang = Fox Cave Pasir Mas = Golden Sand Ayer Keroh = Murky Water Alor Gajah = Elephant Canal (Elephant Crossing) Nilai = Value Bukit Tinggi = High Hill Batu Gajah = Elephant Boulder/Rock Lumut = Moss (plant) Ayer Tawar = Fresh Water (contra to Salt Water) Simpang Empat = Four junctions Air Itam = Black Water Nibong Tebal = Thick Oncosperma tigilarium Palm Semporna = Perfection Papar = Lowland / Flat land Kuching = Cat Sri Aman = Peacefully Bukit Beruntung = Profit Hill Batu Arang = Charcoal Stone Batang Berjuntai = Swaying Rod / Hanging Branch Kerteh = Dried Swamp Kuala Lumpur = Muddy Confluence
Brandon Robinson
A lot of our towns are named after rivers they were built on and those were typically named by some some long dead tatar tribe with exact meaning either unknown or being dumb shit like "river". A lot of names are old to properly translate too.
Nathan King
We also have "new village"s in Catalonia. "Vilanova". It is full of them. hehe Kualalumpurians on suicidewatch Overall it really sounds like your area is a smelly wet swamp. Do the names correlate in any way to history or natural surroundings?
David Peterson
Interesting map giving the literal names of everything
Kayden Nelson
Possibly, there was an article on our main newspaper about the dark roots of some edgy placenames not long ago.
Zachary White
>happiness >closed
Anthony Nguyen
>Kualalumpurians on suicidewatch They'd prefer to be called as Key-ELite. Those smug city niggers. Btw, it become muddy confluence because of the peak in tin mining in 1700s-1800s by bongs. >Overall it really sounds like your area is a smelly wet swamp. I picked the easiest ones to be translated in English. Most names are untranslatable.
Owen Sanchez
cute
Carson Kelly
That's actually a bretty ebin map. Thanks
Julian Anderson
>no Bielsko-Biała Do you even White-White?
Oliver Torres
Podčetrtek - Underthursday Podsreda - Underwednesday Murska Sobota - The Sunday of the River Mura Nova Gorica - New Wine-Hill Polhov Gradec - The Dormouse's Small Castle Kočevje - Many Huts Bled - Pallid Rogatec - Horned One Laško - Wop Land Višnja Gora - Sour Cherry Mountain Godešič - Son of God's Helper (Godeschalk) Lovrenc na Pohorju - Lawrence on the Pohorje Mts.
Liam Green
We have a town called Cityjew
Jaxon Baker
Austra has a place called Jewcastle
Parker Watson
I looked up jude schools and it doesn't seem to exist. did you lie to me adolf
Kevin Rogers
Mexico has a town on the border of Texas called Matamoros - kill moors/muslims
Isaac Harris
Judenburg, my green friend.
Christopher Cooper
the old world seems like a rpg desu
Thomas Thompson
Črna na Koroškem - The Black One (female) in Carinthia Babno Polje - The Field of the Hags Beljak (Villach in Austria) - Egg White Železniki - Iron Men Krvava Peč - Bloody Oven Podlipoglav - Underbeechhead Ajdovščina - Heathen Country Ilirska Bistrica - The Quick-Running Stream of the Illyrians Velenje - The Command Tuji Grm - Foreign Bush Slovenj Gradec - The Small Castle of the Slovenians
Luis Miller
>Wagga wagga >Wollongong >Woolloomooloo
James Young
You now realize that RPGs are inspired by europe.
Nolan Walker
I've heard 我孫子市(Abiko-city which means "My grand-son") sounds retarded for chinese
Mason Reyes
somebody who lives in Dogtown has a 100% chance of owning a potionshop, never sleeping and having his daughter kidnapped my goblins
Dominic Lewis
Dortmund - Theremouth Kaltenbrunn - Cold well Thomasgschieß - Thomas' shit Ursulapoppenricht - Ursula banging richt (richt means forest clearing) Zornhof - Anger yard Landshut - Country's hat
Lincoln Wilson
Stockholm - Trunkholm Göteborg - Goth fortress Malmö - Ore island Linköping - Lin town Västerås - West ridge Örebro - Penny (öre) bridge
Isaac Reyes
>land of friends
Isaac Johnson
The only village that matters, the magnificent town of Cold Vodka.
Oslo - Hill of the Gods Trondheim - Home of the Tronders Bergen - The green meadow between the mountains Kongsberg - King's mountain Stavanger - Staff-fjord
