The world's silliest place names

In this video we take a world tour of weird place names: from the rude to the ridiculous. We focus in on the mad names of some UK towns, check out some American classics, then I count down my "Rest of the World Top 10".

Enjoy this romp around the world's ludicrously named localities. Thanks to the people of Aa in Estonia for hosting us (not that we actually found anyone there).

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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Welcome to Aa
1:02 British place names (Bottoms, Bell End, Shitterton)
2:27 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
3:08 NordVPN
4:29 USA place names (Protection, Accident, Nameless, Truth & Consequences)
8:29 Zzyzx
9:41 World top 10 place names (Anus, Monster, Maggotty and more)

[_volder]

Not only does Pennsylvania have both an Intercourse and a Blue Ball, but they're only about 8 miles apart, so it's literally possible to be heading toward Intercourse, make a wrong turn, and end up at Blue Ball.

[thecosplaycrafter]

"... than if you're in Clit, Romania, for example, assuming you've been able to find the place." Best line in the whole video by far.

[ivankaramasov]

I grew up close to Hell in Norway. It is surprising how often it freezes over.

[jacobmarsh]

In Alaska, there are about four villages/towns called Moose Pass (only one is an official town). Besides there being about four of them, it's not too funny, but when you are 10 years old and you drive past a gas station with a big sign that says “Moose Pass Gas” it suddenly becomes hilarious.

[rontocknell]

I became aware of two odd place names in Illinois USA when a friend sent me a cutting from a small local newspaper in Oblong, a village in Crawford County, Illinois. The short piece (possibly for comedic effect) announced the marriage of a local man and his fiancée from the McClean County town of Normal, also in Illinois. The headline ran "OBLONG MAN MARRIES NORMAL WOMAN". You don't get headlines like that every day (or maybe they do in Normal and Oblong).

[edderiofer]

In Hong Kong, there is an odd little street called Rednaxela Terrace. Legend has it that during colonial times, the street was once owned by a Mr Alexander and was originally called Alexander Terrace, but during a street census, the census taker (who spoke Chinese) wrote the letters in "Alexander" from right to left (as would have been standard in Chinese at the time), and the name stuck. This is the only example I can find of a street name being reversed due to a clerical error.

[kkt]

Just a little note on Aa and Å: The latter (the letter) is actually placed LAST in the Norwegian alphabet - just after our two other peculiar vowels Æ and Ø - so it does not challenge Aa's place at the alphabetical top of the list. It's pronounced like the English word "awe".

[nochan]

Fun facts; In Norwegian, "Å" sorts last of our alphabet, the end of which is "xyzæøå", so while in English we say "from A to Z" in Norway we say "fra A til Å", making "Å" sort after "ZZYZX". Also, "Å" means "river" as in "Mang en bekk små gjør en stor å" let. "Many streams together make a large river".

[Luubelaar]

Australia has some brilliant ones: Blue Knob and Yorkey's Knob immediately come to mind.
And then there's Climax in Canada. Their town limit sign says "Please come again". Very nice of them.

[AnaIvanovicever]

Many hills and small lakes in Northern Finland have very obscene names. When Finland was ruled by tsarist Russia in the 19th century Russian land surveyors arrived to map out the country, and the locals basically trolled them by making up dirty names in Finnish.

[mwickholm]

South of Ingå in southern Finland there is a small island (max width and max length both just over 60 meters) called Hela världen, which means "the whole world" in Swedish. A megalomaniac tiny island.

[mattwales]

I live in Truth or Consequences, NM. The locals call it T or C for short. The school district refused to change their name, so kids around here still attend Hot Springs High School. A section of town was so upset about the name change that they broke off from the city and became the village of Williamsburg.

[DonPaliPalacios]

In Ecuador we have a large number of bizarre village names, including El Placer del Culo (The Pleasure of the Butthole), Pueblo Arrecho (Badass Town, or Horny Town), Muerto Parado (Dead Man Standing) and Come y Paga (Eat and Pay), all of which are in one single province, Manabí, famous for strange personal names and place names. A common place name in Spanish-speaking countries is Salsipuedes (meaning "get out if you can"), and of course there's one in Manabí as well.

[rovanderby]

Recently I heard that the village of Fucking, Austria, replaced the normal metal plate road sign at the entrance of the village with one made of concrete that weighs a ton, because tourists kept stealing the old one time and time again.

[AstraFleur]

𝗦𝗲𝘅𝗺𝗼𝗮𝗻, 𝖯𝗁𝗂𝗅𝗂𝗉𝗉𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌

Sexmoan was changed to Sasmuan on January 15, 1991, under the Republic Act No. 6976.

The name Sexmoan was derived from the ancient Kapampangan root word "sasmo, " which means "to meet".

The town was known as Sexmoan until 1991 when the spelling was unanimously changed.

The change was made to avoid the negative connotation of the name and to reflect the town's true history.

[EvsUnderscore]

I remember my dad telling me a story from the 80s, when he lived in Arizona, about an almost abandoned town on the route he took to Las Vegas. The towns name was “Nothing” and had a population of only a few people at the time (now everyone is gone). The best part about the town is that the self-proclaimed mayors name was Les Payne. I know nobody will see this comment but I just wanted to archive the funny town name Nothing’s past.

[LouisaDD]

«Assuming you’ve been able to find the place»😂

[idraote]

I think Dull twinning with Boring and Bland deserves a special prize.
As for the Welsh town with the long name, I think they inadvertently used as name the instructions to reach and recognise the place...
"Tell me, John, how do I reach that place you mentioned yesterday?"
"I'll write you a note, James, it's easier"

[BeeMcDee]

The one that always makes me laugh is: In Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, there’s a road called Dick Ward Drive that enters into Fannie Bay. ‘Fannie’ means something very different in Australia than it does in America.

[LuXx_CraftYT]

In Santa Fe, Argentina, there is a town called «Venado Tuerto», which translates into "One-eyed Deer".
In La Pampa there's a town called «Carro Quemado», "Burnt Cart"
And in Córdoba there's a town named «Salsipuedes», literally "GetOutIfYouCan".