What are some US cities that have the same name as cities in another country?

Question

I am trying to complete a challenge on the geocaching website. Here is the challenge, "In order to complete this challenge, you must take a picture of yourself next to an identifying sign of a city that shares a name with a city in another country. For example, Berlin, Vermont and Berlin, Germany. Make sure to list the name of the city and the coordinates of the photo in your comment."

I don't travel too much so I don't know any "same name" cities. Can you help me out? Thanks!

Answer 1

There are many US cities with the same name as cities in other parts of the world. Here are a few -



Alexandria, Virginia....................... Egypt

Athens, Georgia............................Greece

Lincoln, Nebraska..........................UK

Durham, North Carolina..................UK

Lancaster, California......................UK

Manchester, New Hampshire..........UK

Portsmouth, Virginia......................UK

Worcester, Massachusetts............UK

Richmond, Virginia........................UK

Birmingham, Alabama...................UK

Rochester, Minnesota....................UK

Boston, Massachusetts.................UK

Washington DC.............................UK

Oxford, Mississippi........................UK

Newcastle, Washington..................UK

St. Petersburg, Florida...................Russia

San Jose, California.......................Costa Rica

Answer 2

There's also a Lancaster in Pennsylvania. I'm afraid your challenge isn't much of a challenge, as there are hundreds of such places. Of course, then you get derivatives - New York is named after York, as is Yorktown, New England itself is too obvious. There's a tiny once-gold mining town in New Mexico called Madrid. Population is 100 or something. There's hundreds if not more.

Answer 3

Almost every town in New England has a counterpart somewhere in Europe. Throw a dart at a map of New England states, then type the name of town name closest to the dart in Google.



Derry NH - Derry Ireland

Woburn MA - Woburn England

Hampton, NH, Hampton, VA - Hampton England

Portsmouth, NH, Portsmouth, VA - Portsmouth England

Boston, MA, - Boston England

Exeter, NH - Exeter England



Consider when the US was colonized most of those colonists used the names they were familiar with for the New World towns they were establishing.



As development moved west the ties to Europe weren't as strong. So you won't find as many European town names in the west.

Answer 4

Madrid, Iowa...Madrid, Spain

Paris, Kentucky...Paris,France

Vancouver, Washington...Vancouver, Canada

Birmingham, Alabama...Birmingham, England

Manchester, New Hampshire...Manchester, England

Dublin Ohio...Dublin, Ireland

Lima, Ohio...Lima, Peru

Toronto, Ohio...Toronto, Canada

San Jose, CA...San Jose, Costa Rica

Alexandra, Virginia...Alexandra, Egypt

Athens, Georgia...Athens, Greece

Melbourne, Florida...Melbourne, Australia

Glasgow Montana...Glasgow, Scotland

San Luis Obispo, CA...San Luis Obispo, Mexico

Nogales, Arizona...Nogales, Mexico

London, Ohio...London, England

Waterloo, Iowa...Waterloo, Canada, and Waterloo, Belgium

And I am sure there are others too.

Answer 5

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