Most of the time they don't even bother with "New" ...
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Or the original, correct pronounciation.
There's a Miami Oklahoma. Except it's pronounced My am uh. And if you say it wrong you will be corrected.
Miami, Oklahoma is named after the Miami Indians who were originally from the northeastern midwest. places in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan are named after them because that's where they're from. places in western Missouri/eastern Kansas, or Oklahoma/northern Texas are named after them because they were relocated there
Miami, Florida is named after the unrelated Mayaimi Indians who lived near Lake Okeechobee. the city is at the mouth of the river that begins at the lake
so most places named Miami are not "imitations" of Miami, Florida, and in fact have no relation at all
I feel like you can't correct people if you can't even spell it right.
This town is the type of place where I suspect people can't spell at all. I've only been there twice, passing through.
Memphis, Tennessee has entered the chat!
There's also a Shanghai, West Virginia
Kinda weird to pretend it's an American thing when it was happening long before the US even existed.
Here's a partial list of locations in the UK. As you can see, not exactly a modern development
And it's not just "New." Novo, Nova, Nueva, Neu, etc. For example, Porto-Novo, the capital of Benin, was named by the Portuguese in the 1700s.
I got curious when N words (lol not like that) were all I could think of and did some digging. Shin, Xin, Jadid, and a bunch more. Naming a city after an existing city is an ancient tradition
I mean, weren't they essentially Europeans at the time? It's just people honoring their origins.
Blushingly looks at Pennsylvania, USA
Juggsville, Virginville, Intercourse, Climax, Blue Ball, Bird In Hand...
a few others that stray far from OP
Edit: formatitting
I like the spanish names of things. Here in colombia they name things like La Ceja (The eyebrow) or Belén (Bethlehem). We’re a super original species. /s
I thought the more famous examples would be York, Orleans, Zeeland, England, etc
My state has a lot of original names, and the names are a little out there. My favorite game with people outside of my state is for them to pronounce city names
- Bemidji
- Shakopee
- Baudette
- Brainerd
- Zumbrota
- Hackensack
Minnesota represent. A lot of native names making it more unique on a global scale, ain't never seen a New Minneapolis.
Or naming their country:
"bunch of states from this continent, that are together" →United States of America
See also: European Union
See also: United Mexican States
europeans naming cities:
- naples
- fehérvár, belgrade
- newcastle
- tripoli, tripoli (ok, these two are in the middle east and north africa, not europe, but still)
europeans naming regions:
- galicia (spain)
- galicia (eastern europe)
The Germans straight up forgot to name Cologne. It comes from the Latin name colonia
They were still Europeans when they named those cities