F**king, Rape, Condom! 10 places that have weird, surprising names

The Ulu mosque shaft in Hasankeyf, Batman, Turkey

Do we know that there was a city named by accident, and it was called usually that! A Turkish city shares it’s name with a renouned superhero and an Austrian encampment has a name so hapless that English speakers usually can’t contend it (or even form it). A demeanour during 10 of a many surprising and unfortunately named places around a world…

Batman: No a Dark Knight didn’t go here on vacation! This Turkish city’s ex-mayor even threatened to sue Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for their use of a name in a films ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Dark Knight’. Batman was called Iluh compartment 1957, when it was renamed after a stream namesake, perceived a city status, and became a district center. It isn’t a usually place to share it’s name with a DC superhero. There are Batman railway station, Batman’s Hill and Division of Batman in Melbourne, Australia and a Batman Highway/Bridge in Tasmania.

Accident: This city in Maryland, United States is believed to have been indeed named by an accident! The locals proprietor of Accident is called an ‘Accidental’, and no we are not creation that up.

The Austrian village’s signboard has been stolen mixed times by tourists

F***ing: Yes, that’s right! A place named after a F-Word! Not really. This Austrian encampment is indeed called ‘Fooking’. It was spelt Vucchingen in 1070, Fukching in 1303, Fugkhing in 1532, and got a stream spelling in a 18th century. The encampment has a race of 104 available in 2005. Its highway signs are a renouned caller attraction, and they were mostly stolen by souvenir-hunting tourists until 2005, when a signs were mutated to be theft-resistant. 

Beer is a pleasing and scenic coastal encampment in Britain

Beer: Good news for splash lovers! There’s a British encampment named after your favourite beverage. Located in Devon, England with a race of over 1800 people, a name was not subsequent from a drink, though from a aged Anglo-Saxon word “bearu” (“grove”), referring to a strange forestation that surrounded a town.

Rape: This is a normal tenure for a resolution of a county of Sussex, in England. The county had several “rapes”: a rape of Arundel, a rape of Bramber, etc. The rapes might also get from a complement of fortifications devised by Alfred a Great in a late ninth century to better a Vikings.

Condom: Also referred to as Condom-en-Armagnac, it is a kibbutz in southwestern France in a dialect of Gers, of that it is a subprefecture. It’s name has no propinquity with a English word and comes from a Gaulish difference condate and magos total into Condatomagos, that means “market or field, of a confluence”. Condatómagos developed into Condatóm and afterwards into Conddóm. Condom was initial available in Latin in a 10th century as Condomus or Condomium.

Disappointment Islands: True to their name, these islands are arid, and are not generally gainful to tellurian habitation. They are a tiny organisation of coral islands in French Polynesia and were named so by British path-finder John Byron since he found a locals to be antagonistic toward him.

Nameless: This is an unincorporated encampment in Tennessee, United States. There is no agreement on a origin. One chronicle of a name’s start binds that when residents practical for a post office, a place for a name on a focus was left blank, and a U.S. Post Office Department returned a focus with “Nameless” hammered on a form. In another version, a residents themselves motionless that a encampment should be “nameless” after one of them pronounced “This here’s a indistinguishable place if we ever seen one, so leave it be.”

Bangkok during night

Krungthep Mahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathani Burirom-udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amonphiman Awatansathit Sakkathattiya Witsanu Kamprasit: This is not an enourmous typo though a full rite name of Thailand’s collateral city Bangkok. It translates as — City of angels, good city of immortals, pretentious city of a 9 gems, chair of a king, city of stately palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Visvakarman during Indra’s behest. The name is even listed in Guinness World Records as a world’s longest place name.

Hell: It’s a encampment in a Lånke area of a municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway and has turn a teenager traveller captivate since of a name, as visitors mostly have their sketch taken in front of a hire sign. The name stems from a Old Norse word hellir, that means “overhang” or “cliff cave”. There’s also a city named Hell in a US state of Michigan, that is ironically located 294 miles (473 km) from another city named Paradise.

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