[LMB] OT: city names

Katrina Allis k.m.allis at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 09:43:47 GMT 2007


On 05/12/2007, BOB!! <robtjwms at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Elizabeth Holden <azurite at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> > I asked about Hastings UK and Marvi asked:
> >
> > > Yes. Is there another one?
> >
> > According to Wikipedia, there are seventeen of them, all in nations
> > that used to be British
> > colonies - the US, Canada, Australia, Barbados, NZ, etc. Eight are
> > listed in the US alone.  I knew
> > about the one in Ontario and suspected there were more.
>

I believe that Hamilton has the dubious distinction of being the most
popular city name, but I'd have to check.

I couldn't be bothered counting them on Wikipedia, but there were lots.

Katrina - who was born in a Hamilton


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