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List of etymologies of administrative divisions; List of national capital city name etymologies; List of river name etymologies; List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin; List of place names in Canada of aboriginal origin; List of indigenous names of Eastern Caribbean islands; Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong
List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
The Indian name is alternatively derived from Brahmadesh ( Sanskrit: ब्रह्मादेश ), "land of Brahma ". [citation needed] A folk etymology of Myanma derives it from myan ("fast") and mar ("tough", "strong"). [citation needed] Myanmar, the present endonym: As above.
These are lists of U.S. county name etymologies.Many U.S. states have counties named after U.S. presidents such as Washington, Madison, Polk, Jefferson, etc. Counties are also commonly named after famous individuals, local Native American tribes once in the area (Washoe County, Nevada), cities located within the county, and land or water features (Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, meaning "Fat Hill ...
Cleveland is derived from Old English and literally means 'Cliff land'. County abolished 1996. The late Roman name for Cornwall was Cornubia, from the name of the tribe which lived there, the Cornovii, meaning 'people of the peninsula', either from Latin cornu or from Brythonic cern, both meaning 'horn'.
The name Africa was originally used by the ancient Romans to refer to the northern part of the continent that corresponds to modern-day Tunisia. There are many theories regarding its origin. Africa terra means "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular), referring to the Afri tribe, who dwelt in Northern Africa around the area of Carthage.
The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties. [1] The state was first divided into 27 counties on February 18, 1850. These were further sub-divided to form sixteen additional counties by 1860.
The name means "City of Victory". The city was founded in 1569 by the Mughal emperor Akbar, and served as the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1571 to 1585. Agra (1501–1540): Derived from Sanskrit Agrevaṇa (अग्रेवण), or 'the border of the forest'. The name was first mentioned in the epic Mahābhārata.