Here are 25 of the most unusual place names found throughout the world.

Unusual place names. The most common theory is that the area is named for The Penny pub. 11 Weird Place Names From Around the World. The sign on the train station platform helps you pronounce this 58-letter-long Welsh town name.

Balls Cross Battledykes Bell End Bitchfield Boggy Bottom Butt Hole Road Clitheroe Cockermouth Cockfosters Cocks Crotch Crescent Dicks Mount Ding Dong. Lets look at just a few of our interesting and downright funny place names. Rare Place Names Avalon Heart.

Odessa a Ukrainian port city was given its name by Russias Catherine the Great who was inspired by. Others think it might come from the term Pen y cwm gwic meaning head of the creek Bannister 1871. Alaska may be beautiful but we hear this town is always telling visitors to beat it.

Also several rivers in Western Europe and when accented properly the rough blocky lava found in the US. One of two names for an uninhabited Greek island a bit south of Crete. Taumatawhakatangihanga koauauotamateaturipuka kapikimaungahoronu kupokaiwhenuakitanatahu all one word is one of worlds longest place names.

Or you could choose a name that is virtually unused including Amalfi Genoa Kauai and Ravello. The 50 Weirdest Town Names in America 2 Deadhorse AK. It has a population of.

Here are some of the worlds most unusual place names. Shitterton is a hamlet that has attracted worldwide attention for its name which dates back at least a thousand years and means farmstead on. Short and medium-length names.