"Faraway Places with Strange Sounding Names.....
 

What are some of the stranger names of places that you have been or would like to go to~

Would you believe there is a Hooker, Oklahoma? I saw someone from there with a t-shirt saying "I went to the Hooker reunion."

I have three:

Ouazazate, Morocco
Ouagadougue, Burkino Faso
Ganerazhou, Zimbabwe

Not really places, so much as street/lane/road names.

Barefoot Lane
Mousehouse Street
Cutthroat Lane

But speaking of strange and/or funny place names, I found the following website that you all might enjoy:

http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/place_names.htm

Been there:
Honolulu, Alaska.
Red Devil, Alaska.
Rest and Be Thankful, Scotland (on the way to Muck).
Pumpkin Center, California.
Drain, Oregon, not too far from Riddle.
Sappho, Washington, down the road from Humptulips.

Right here at home in Massachusetts, Buzzards Bay and a series of towns named for body parts: Marblehead, Braintree, and Athol.

I've heard of a place called Boring, Oregon.

Sorry, not really strange or far...I don't follow directions well!

Bastard (Norway)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Dikshit (India)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Tittybong (Australia)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)

A little town near me called Nonesuch. They have turned the now defunct school into an antique mall with a wonderful restaurant in the basement called the Glitzhttp://www.irishacresgallery.com/restaurant.html You must try it if you are ever in the area.

Accident and Detour, Maryland--both real town names.

When I was a teenager living in Germany, my father was a Captain in the US Army. He was communicating by radio with a new lieutenant while on manuevers one day. The lieutenant was lost. My father asked if he had seen any road signs with town names on them.

The lieutenant replied "Yes, sir--I keep seeing signs for some town called Umleitung."

Umleitung translates as detour.

I think the prettiest name I've ever encountered was a town in Guatemala named Solola. It just rolls off the tongue.

I am also very fond of the village names around Oaxaca that are part Spanish and part Indian:
San Bartolo Coyotepec
San Martin Tilcajete
San Francisco Telixtlahuaca
(pronunciation guide provided upon request)

ChatNoir

I'm sure you will win the prize for the best list of names!!!

It certainly put a smile on my face after a hard day at work.

Oh I agree Sue! Now whenever somebody mentions Okney I'll think of ChatNoir!

Piapot, Saskatchewan.

Actual places I have been:

Hell, Cayman Islands
Pennis, Scotland
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch, Wales

Now you're 'aving a laugh. There's nowhere called Pennis in Scotland... Pennan, but not Pennis.

I do know that the undertaker in Twatt used to drive around with a sticker in the back window of his hearse in support of the local anti drinking campaign.

It said "Arrive alive in Orkney"

Deep in the Ozarks, around my old hiking turf - Bald Knob, Missouri.

In Rossendale, Lancashire (UK) there are two parts to the Village of Ramsbottom; Lower Ramsbottom,..... and I am sure you can guess the other!

Gee, thanks ChatNoir.
I can't stop chuckling and it's been 10 minutes since I read your post.

There are several places in Mississippi with unusual names.

Soso, MS
Hot Coffee, MS
Rolling Fork, MS
D'lo, MS (named because when someone arrived there they exclaimed "This place sure is damn low.")

and I don't think anyone has named

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico