EVERY Capital City Named After People

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@NameExplain 7 ай бұрын

How many of these cities have you been to?

@gmg9010 7 ай бұрын

I mean I’ve been to my state capital of Bismarck,ND which I’m pretty sure is also named after a real person.

@DonTitoNYC 7 ай бұрын

Two. Washington, DC and Santo Domingo.

@christopherbentley7289 7 ай бұрын

One - Bratislava

@bj.a.j. 7 ай бұрын

(common) Pronunciation error for Mongolian, you pronounced aa as a, a as aa, in other words, swapping long vowels with short vowels and vice-versa. 'a' in 'baatar' is almost silent. Basically: replace Peter's 'e' with 'a' to pronounce 'baatar' How many cities? One, you know which one.

@NBrixH 7 ай бұрын

I should say that you spelled ''San Salvador'' wrong at 3:38

@username65585 7 ай бұрын

Washington DC is a double since District of Columbia comes from Christopher Columbus.

@shinsenshogun900 7 ай бұрын

Colombo and Washington walk into the city

@geographyjawade6655 7 ай бұрын

No Washington and DC is really two different entities, the DC is only there because the area is like a city-state, n both entities shares the same geographical boundaries, similar to that of Singapore. Just like in any other state, Dover, DE , Atlanta, GA etc...Washington, DC is quite similar. Washington is the city, DC is the area in witch the city is in. If DC should become a state, Washington would be the capital of DC.

@NBrixH 7 ай бұрын

@@geographyjawade6655but the name of the whole territory is Washington DC, yes? So it’s still named after two people in one.

@carsonianthegreat4672 7 ай бұрын

@@NBrixHno, the name of the territory is the District of Columbia. Washington used to be just one of several cities inside of DC (Georgetown, for example), until all the other cities were annexed by Washington - but the City of Washington ≠ the District of Columbia.

@kenaikuskokwim9694 7 ай бұрын

The capitals of South Carolina and Ohio were also named for Columbus. Maryland is named for one queen, her capital for another, future queen. Albany was named for a future king, but it's not all monarchs and presidents. Bismarck was named for a foreign leader, Pierre for a fur trader, Carson City for a fur trapper, Juneau for a goldpanner, Des Moines (it is said) for random monks. Saint Paul is obvious, but the original name was Pig's Eye, after a local tavern owner of French origin. The US Virgin Islands' capital is named for a Danish queen. British Columbia already had Victoria, so Saskatchewan honored her with the generic Regina.

@douglasphillips5870 7 ай бұрын

There's a good likelihood that Athena, and Romulus were named after the cities. They were patrons of the cities and took their names

@arvinroidoatienza7082 7 ай бұрын

But we don't even know if they are actually real

@molLluaga 7 ай бұрын

@@arvinroidoatienza7082 Rome is real. I have been there 😊

@ThighFish 7 ай бұрын

Athena no, Romulus yes.

@DevSarman 7 ай бұрын

Indonesian capital of Jakarta also somewhat fits the title as well, since the word "Jakarta" comes from "Jayakarta", a vizier of Banten Sultanate

@yohanesbobbysanjaya3541 7 ай бұрын

no, his name is "Jayawikarta" and he was one of the dukes of Jayakarta. while the name of "Jayakarta" literally means City of Victory as Prince Fatahilah successfully taken away Sunda Kelapa from Portugal

@davidmedlin8562 7 ай бұрын

Surprised Simon Bolivar doesn't have any capitals named after him, guess a few countries is enough lol

@Bacopa68 7 ай бұрын

He's got a peninsula named after him in Texas. It's a part of Galveston County.

@kirliefiguera8627 6 ай бұрын

Bolivia?

@pradyumnamukunda9222 6 ай бұрын

He has an entire country (Bolivia) named after him

@David-yw2lv 4 ай бұрын

That's a nation.@@kirliefiguera8627

@ahmadkadan6314 7 ай бұрын

Syria and Turkey both have a bunch of cities named after the Seleucid dynasty. Laodicea, Seleucia, Apamea, Antiochia etc. (Apart from Alexandretta of course.) Ancient Greeks really loved naming cities after themselves.

@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES 7 ай бұрын

Kayseri form Caesar

@CanalExclave 7 ай бұрын

Great video! But I think you missed San Marino City, the capital of San Marino. It's named after Marinus, the founder of the country (and the city).

@SabatiniRafa 7 ай бұрын

eaeee Olavo!! beleza?

@CanalExclave 7 ай бұрын

@@SabatiniRafa 😃😃

@ksizzln6289 7 ай бұрын

he also missed st. george’s grenada!

@alexj9603 7 ай бұрын

And what about St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda?

@carlobasilone3133 7 ай бұрын

Since you've mentioned other Catholic Saints, you might want to include the Capital of Argentina which was named after "Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires" which like "Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles" in California were actually named after the Virgen Mary. Although Los Angeles is nether a National Capital nor a State Capital.

@kaloarepo288 7 ай бұрын

Los Angeles is actually named after a basilica in the Italian city of Assisi -famous as the birthplace of St Francis but this basilica is named after the virgin Mary the queen of the angels.

@timchiu501 6 ай бұрын

Just like La Paz, Bolivia

@kaloarepo288 6 ай бұрын

But I don't think the name derives from that huge basilica in the city of Assisi in Italy but it is named after the virgin Mary queen of peace!@@timchiu501

@timchiu501 6 ай бұрын

@@kaloarepo288 sorry, I am replying to Carlos, if you consider Virgin Mary is a real person that existed, then La Paz is named after a person.

@carlobasilone3133 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for adding La Paz which I overlooked. I was pointing out what most English speakers are usually not aware of, that some very important and world renowned cities are actually named after Saint Mary or the Virgin Mary@@timchiu501

@juleksz.5785 7 ай бұрын

Warsaw is named after Wars and Sava - mythical couple of fisherman and mermaid

@arvinroidoatienza7082 7 ай бұрын

But they aren't real?

@juleksz.5785 7 ай бұрын

@@arvinroidoatienza7082 Just like Athena and Rome

@arvinroidoatienza7082 7 ай бұрын

@@juleksz.5785 Romulus was semi real. Athens is not in the video

@juleksz.5785 7 ай бұрын

@@arvinroidoatienza7082 oh i forgot that they need to after real people

@faxepl 7 ай бұрын

@@arvinroidoatienza7082mermaids are real! 😊 Not sure about the fishermen tho 😐

@nickbenton4881 7 ай бұрын

Calling Bishkek the most “dubious entry” after including Athens from Athena is pretty hilarious 😅

@sydhenderson6753 7 ай бұрын

You left out San Marino, which is named after Saint Marinus (c 275 - c 366). Georgetown, Guyana is named after George III. The capitol of São Tomé and Príncipe is São Tomé which is named after Saint Thomas aka "Doubting Thomas."

@sydhenderson6753 7 ай бұрын

The capital of Grenada is Saint George's, named for someone who is not only legendary but no longer a saint. Similarly, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda is Saint John's, another possessive.

@sydhenderson6753 7 ай бұрын

I don't know which Saint John. There are many.

@marcobelli6856 6 ай бұрын

@@sydhenderson6753why saint George is Not a real saint?

@sydhenderson6753 6 ай бұрын

@@marcobelli6856 You're right, the Catholic made his feast day optional, but they didn't delete him. St. Christopher was another one like that, although the Orthodox Church fully venerates them.

@ShawnRavenfire 7 ай бұрын

Washington DC is actually a two-for-one deal, because in addition to being named after George Washington, the district in which it's located is Columbia, which was named after Christopher Columbus.

@wdiribarne 7 ай бұрын

If we're counting saints' names, Buenos Aires could fit in as well. The spaniards originally named it Port of Holy Mary of the Good Winds, hence, it's named in honour of Virgin Mary. Also, for a long time it also was officially referred to as "Trinity City", which didn't stick in

@Lightmations2024 Ай бұрын

buenos aires translates to fair winds

@laurenceallanbukas8987 6 ай бұрын

Johannesburg is definitely named after a man named Johann. It’s currently disputed if it was after Johannes Rissik or Johannes Joubert. But the presence of the suffix -burg tells us that the name may have been given by the Dutch rather than by the English. And Johannes might pertain to Saint John.

@allanrichardson1468 7 ай бұрын

For many years the capital of the Dominican Republic was named Ciudad Trujillo (pronounced “See you Dad True hee yoh;” ciudad is Spanish for “city”) after the long time dictator Rafael Trujillo. After he died, the capital was renamed Santo Domingo after Saint Dominic, the name given in 1495, shortly after Bartholomew Columbus founded the city (he named it La Nueva Isabela after the Queen of Spain at the time). The country itself is also named after Saint Dominic (La República Dominicana in Spanish). It’s neighbor on the island, Haiti, has a capital named Port-Au-Prince, or “Prince’s Port,” but it is unclear which prince. Some people believed it was named after a sailing ship named Prince. Or maybe the future American rock star? JK LOL

@skye1283 7 ай бұрын

does anyone else get weirdly annoyed when people use english words for phonetic transcriptions? (in a language that absolutely does not need them no less)

@ryqd 7 ай бұрын

@@skye1283I'm not a native English speaker and despite that, the part of using English words doesn't actually annoy me. What annoys me if when the purported pronunciation isn't the closest possible approximation, such as in this example. The "-dad" in "ciudad" doesn't rhyme with "dad" and the "-llo" in "Trujillo" doesn't rhyme with "you".

@allanrichardson1468 7 ай бұрын

@@ryqd Some people do need them, if they haven’t learned the rules of spelling in another language, like Spanish (at one time, many Anglo Americans did not know how to pronounce the Spanish J, so the old cars being shipped to Jalapa were called “jalopies”). I am aware that the last syllable of “Trujillo” does not rhyme with “you.” I typed “yoh” and failed to notice that autocorrect changed it to “you.” I have since corrected that.

@lurji 7 ай бұрын

@@skye1283they make me wanna die

@AN456d 7 ай бұрын

@@ryqdthat's just it, it really isn't phonetically spelled correctly lmao

@mpbekanayake70 7 ай бұрын

Hey... you missed Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte in Sri Lanka J R Jayawardena was the president of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989 and he established the administrative capital in 1982 in the city of "Kotte" renaming it "Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte"

@Syiepherze 6 ай бұрын

Maybe, not sure about that one though... "Sri Jayawardhanapura" (Resplendent City of Growing Victory) was the epithet of the ancient Kotte capital. The establishment of the capital as Sri _Jayawardene_ pura Kotte during the _Jayewardene_ administration is more of a coincidence, but it is quite convenient lol 😅

@mariapopa1890 7 ай бұрын

As a romanian, I'm actually happy you decided to include us. And if you know anything about Romania, our capital city being named after a shepherd makes a lot of sense

@mjmulenga3 7 ай бұрын

Fun fact: I went to college with a member of the Mwa Lusaka family. Nice guy. This city was only founded in 1906 after the colonial government acquired some land from chief Mwa Lusaka in a promising location that was more central than Livingstone. (The _mwa_ prefix simply means "place of" in the Soli language.)

@agentg11 7 ай бұрын

Cool

@onehillyboi 7 ай бұрын

Washington DC was named after 2 people. Washington after George Washington (as mentioned in the video), but also DC, which stands for District of Columbia. Columbia, of course being named after explorer Christopher Columbus

@bjornmu 7 ай бұрын

Norway's capital Oslo was named Christiania until 1925 (spelled with K from 1877). It was named after the Danish King Christian IV.

@GrandHoff 7 ай бұрын

Budapest, Hungary was originally 2 cities on either side of the Danube (Buda and Pest). If legend is anything to go by, Buda dates back to the middle ages being the Hungarian version of Bleda who was the brother of Atilla the Hun who invaded and took over the settlement.

@heronimousbrapson863 7 ай бұрын

The capital of British Columbia is also named Victoria, although it is a provincial capital, not a national one.

@paulclapham5791 7 ай бұрын

Also Victoria is on an island and not on the mainland of the province.

@y_fam_goeglyd 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting! How about the origins of names of countries and/or states or provinces, whether after humans or not? Or rivers? Basically you could turn this into a little series!

@adamlaspata7001 7 ай бұрын

No matter your pronunciations, your videos are educational and entertaining, Patrick.

@Excellent135 6 ай бұрын

Jakarta is named after Prince Jayakarta, a local ruler there during Banten Kingdom times.

@abdulrimi 7 ай бұрын

Nigeria's capital city Abuja is named after a 19th century emirate and its capital city of the same name, which in turn was named after one of its rulers "Abu Jatau". The land on which the modern Abuja was built used to be part of the old Abuja emirate, and the emirate and its capital were renamed "Suleja" (after another emir) in the 1970s when the new capital was chosen and given the name Abuja.

@michalvalko248 7 ай бұрын

Some of historical names that came to my mind: Constantinopole, Nur-sultan

@franciskafayeszter4138 7 ай бұрын

Budapest could be on the list - well, if we take the rules a bit loosely. The name Budapest is a combination of the names Buda and Pest (the two cities together with Óbuda were united 150 years ago). Buda is named after a person: Buda or Bleda, the brother of Attila the Hun.

@duckpotat9818 7 ай бұрын

New Delhi might be named after King Dhilu but again not confirmed

@ayush1ism 6 ай бұрын

But it's certainly less contentious than Bishkek

@Bombsuprise 7 ай бұрын

Haha, you said "port , too" and my brain heard "portmanteau", and I was like... what? Oh, my bad! Fun video.

@jensschroder8214 7 ай бұрын

2:03 King William III of Nassau was governor of the Netherlands and king William III of England and Ireland. He was King William II of Scotland. He was also Prince of Orange (in France) and Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (today in Germany, Hessen). His family can be found today in the Princes of Orange and Kings of the Netherlands. In addition, the princes of Luxembourg are related to him. The color orange and the fruit orange are named after the Principality of Orange. The Princes and Counts of Nassau was a German title. The Princes of Nassau Orange were heavily involved in the independence of the Netherlands.

@kaloarepo288 7 ай бұрын

Actually the fruit is not named after the French city - the word is from Arabic and just happens to be a homophone of the french city - in English at least.

@jonnyminogue 6 ай бұрын

What about Bloemfontein, South Africa? It’s one of its capitals. Its etymology is a bit muddled, but could be named after Jan Bloem II

@sohopedeco 7 ай бұрын

Maputo used to be called Lourenço Marques prior to Mozambique's independence. Lourenço Marques had been a Portuguese explorer to the land.

@eminzide 7 ай бұрын

the capital of the state of Penang in Malaysia is George Town.... named after King George III after it was colonised by the British..... also Constatinople was the capital city of the Ottoman Empire....

@AmbitiousAlgiers 7 ай бұрын

Algiers is named after its founder Bologhine Ibn Ziri in the 10th century, the "Ziri" name became "Dzayer" which is the arabic name of Algiers !

@krokorok_ 7 ай бұрын

what's the music used at the start of the video?

@markshepherd3632 7 ай бұрын

George Washington was actually named after Washington village in Country Durham. There is Washington old hall which is ancestral home of the Washington family. The village creast is incorporated in District of Colombia creast.

@raymndcraNFS 6 ай бұрын

BTW the Quezon city the place in the Philippines was named after the 2nd president and it was founded himself in 1939

@thenubeatnik 6 ай бұрын

My state capital which is Queensland in Australia Brisbane is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane who was the governor of the colony of New South Wales that was before my state was formed and became independent from New South Wales in 1859

@dracodarastrix4175 7 ай бұрын

You forgot one. Willemstad. It is capitol of Curaçao a former Dutch Colony. But too be honest I don't know which William it is named after. If I had the guess it's either William the Silent or William the 3rd.

@radosawrusnak7700 6 ай бұрын

Poland’s capital city Warsaw comes from legendary figuers of Wars and Sawa, more plausible etymology though points at certain Warsz, a former owner of the locality

@rodrigojds 5 ай бұрын

I used to live on the Isle of Man and I've always been told that the word 'Douglas' came from the 2 rivers that joined up there - river Dhoo and river Glass. Dhoo-Glass = douglas

@sriharish3370 6 ай бұрын

Kazakhstan's current capital city, Astana, was previously called Nur Sultan, which was named after the former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev. This could have featured on the list too

@p.a.stewart5446 7 ай бұрын

You mentioned Athens and Rome but forgot Paris? TSK TSK. He is just as real or mythological as Romulus and/or Athena

@DavyCDiamondback 7 ай бұрын

I agree, but I could debate Athena is more likely to be based on a real person (a legendary woman who's truth was lost to mythology as she gained goddess status, probably not but maybe) than Paris, who is likely just a character in a story.

@psychopathetic5341 7 ай бұрын

The thing that surprised me the most was that apparently Bucharest and Budapest, Luanda and Lusaka and Maputo and Maseru don't have similar origins

@mrainbowgs 7 ай бұрын

Following these rules I believe Philipsburg on Sint Maarten was been forgotten. Sint Maarten is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, however, it is a Sovereign state and I believe that would qualify them as "defiantly a country".

@stefanleonardo9734 7 ай бұрын

Bucur(Bucharest) was a shepard. His church still stands to today. You'll find it at Piata Unirii.

@RealUlrichLeland 7 ай бұрын

There are also countries named after people. The United States of America is indirectly named after Amerigo Vespucci, Colombia is named after Columbus, Bolivia is named after Simón Bolivar, Saudi Arabia is named after the royal house of Saud and the official name for Greece is the Hellenic Republic which is named after Helen of Troy. Also, the entire planet Neptune was initially proposed to be named after king George III. When Neptune was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel he proposed it should be named Georgium Sidus (Georgian planet), but it obviously didn't catch on.

@isaacbobjork7053 6 ай бұрын

Interestingly enough Maputo used to be called Lourenço Marques, who also was a person

@Lauvreede3003 6 ай бұрын

William III who Nassau and Kingston where named after was mostly the King of the Netherlands and co-monarch of England (Britain)

@vivianedossantoscaipira7075 7 ай бұрын

Next video: Airports named after people I'm telling you, there's a lot.

@yorgunsamuray 7 ай бұрын

Bishkek's Soviet era name was Frunze, a Soviet general originally born there.

@mathieuserradell3367 6 ай бұрын

where does your accent come from? below = belowa, thank you = thank youwa, patreon = patreona ?

@StoneTitan 3 ай бұрын

I wonder how many were at some point named after a person. As many cities have changed names after a change of policy or falling to another civilization

@David-yw2lv 4 ай бұрын

I heard London came from Old English for fortress on a hill.

@mlfett6307 7 ай бұрын

Canada's capital Ottawa, was originally called Bytown after Colonel John By.

@laurenceallanbukas8987 6 ай бұрын

Ho Chi Minh is named after the general who fought for Vietnamese Independence

@jcxkzhgco3050 7 ай бұрын

Johannesburg was most definitely named after someone but it’s not clear which person it is

@moganite5168 7 ай бұрын

Its only a provincial capital but Darwin in the Northern Territory is named after Charles Darwin

@eliscanfield3913 7 ай бұрын

Doesn't bother me in the least, but the sweet, sweet algorithm doesn't care so long as I make random type-y noises

@ayush1ism 6 ай бұрын

You forgot Delhi!!!!!!! Delhi is the anglicised name for the Persian name for the city Dehli, which comes from the cities original name dilli. Dilli comes from Dhilika which is the name of the ancient settlement establishment by the king of kannauj called Raja Dhilu. So delhi is named after Raja Dhilu

@asshole9191 7 ай бұрын

I'd argue that Nassau is not named after a person but after a city in honor of a person.

@whatsgoingon71 7 ай бұрын

Calling Nassau a city is quite a stretch... 😂

@alexj9603 7 ай бұрын

@@whatsgoingon71Nassau is actually a city in Germany (current population: 4600). The house of Nassau was named after their city (and castle) of origin.

@whatsgoingon71 7 ай бұрын

@@alexj9603 thank you, but i was actually talking about Nassau in Germany. Which, as you pointed out, is too small to be called a city.

@alexj9603 7 ай бұрын

@@whatsgoingon71 That depends on your definition of a "city". If you just go by size, you have a point. But in medieval Europe, certain places were given the privilege to call themselves "cities" and to build a city wall, regardless of their size. And in modern times, they still carry this title with a lot of pride. Especially the smaller ones.

@fariesz6786 7 ай бұрын

the case of Douglas is not _coincidence_ as much as both the city name and person name stemming from the same expression

@dixgun 7 ай бұрын

I thought Arthur Wellesley was a different person than Lord Wellington. Therefore I thought that Wellington, New Zealand was named after the same fellow who the beef and the boots are named after, Lord Wellington.

@mneumayr 7 ай бұрын

You could add Paris to the list of cities sounding like a person from legends / mythology, but isn’t.

@Blockhog 7 ай бұрын

Does that 15% take into account cities named after natural landmarks that are named after people? There has to be some of those right?

@TearMeOpenIBelieve 6 ай бұрын

If you did every non capital city too, there would be like 30 just named after LaFayette in the USA

@Me-ui1zy 7 ай бұрын

I was expecting Nur Sultan from Kazakhstan. As they changed the name of Astana in 2019. However, it appears last September they changed it back after Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan's president who served from 1991) resigned from office amid controversy.

@AkinwaleMubarak 6 ай бұрын

Abuja in Nigeria was name after king of 19th century of the same modern Abuja region Abu Jatua which was later relocated to suleja in the name of his grandson

@zygfrydmina8419 4 ай бұрын

legend says that Warsaw comes from the fisherman Vars and mermaid Sava

@KarlXiao18 6 ай бұрын

Is the capital of St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Kingstown, also named after a king? Also, the capital of Antigua & Barbuda St. John's is a person's name by itself. The same for São Tomé, the capital of São Tomé and Príncipe.

@laurenceallanbukas8987 6 ай бұрын

The capital city of Ecuador is formally known as San Francisco de Quito, named after Francis of Assisi

@neanineto5516 7 ай бұрын

The name of Pretoria has been changed to Tshwane, I think you forgot to mention that. also laughed every time at "'British Ties"'' aka Heavy colonialism, dispossession and maybe Genocide.

@pwp8737 7 ай бұрын

I believe Tshwane is used for the regional municipality (like a county) that Pretoria is a part of; though the city has kept its name.

@bj0rn986 7 ай бұрын

You missed Sri Jayewardenepura, the capital of Sri Lanka, which was named after its former president.

@Syiepherze 6 ай бұрын

Not really. The full name was pretty much always there since ancient Kotte, it's just that the modern capital was chosen during Jayewardene's term in the 80s

@maxmclaughlin7762 7 ай бұрын

Why do Romulus for Rome and Athena for Athens count as people but Éiru for Ireland (Éire) doesn’t count?

@BThings 7 ай бұрын

I'm guessing it's because Ireland is a country, not a capital city. The mention in the video of Ireland "not counting" was for the ancillary factoid that Saint Lucia is the only country named after a real woman, rather than a mythological/legendary one.

@DrFerno727 7 ай бұрын

Is Wellington (NZ) from the Duke of Wellington ?

@kaloarepo288 7 ай бұрын

Yes -I think he was the British prime minister at the time of its founding.

@Snorlax-cuddles 6 ай бұрын

The republic of Congo Brazaville... Cool, someone named a city after my favourite website

@sujalgarewal2685 7 ай бұрын

* Sad Alexandria noises *

@noahe.2590 7 ай бұрын

The de facto capital of Bolivia is actually La Paz, it’s where the president’s office is.

@laurenceallanbukas8987 6 ай бұрын

Asunción, Paraguay is named after the Virgin Mary’s Assumption the patroness of the city

@ShriSanjay 7 ай бұрын

shri lanka - colombo - name after colombs

@mykytka7133 7 ай бұрын

When i saw the title of the video i immediately thought about Washington. When you told about 33 countries that have capitals named after a person i was shocked, but thought it's probably because of pacific nations. Only 2 minutes later i remembered about my own country, Ukraine...

@highpath4776 7 ай бұрын

Better do the colonies and the capitals that are not named after people as well in due course

@Weird0Memer 7 ай бұрын

As a bahamian, that pronunciation of my capital was horrendous, its pronunciation is (Na -Saw)

@guillemedina7908 6 ай бұрын

You forgot the capital of Paraguay, Asunción. Its full name is "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción", which translates to "Our Lady of the Asumption", you know, the Virgin Mary.

@timchiu501 6 ай бұрын

Yes, just like La Paz in Bolivia, I guess there are a lot more in Latin America.

@beargreen1 4 ай бұрын

A lot of capitol cities

@StAugustine6 7 ай бұрын

Washington DC is actually named after two people. You mentioned George Washington, but the DC stands for District of Columbia, Columbia as in Columbus. I'm sure you know this, but I thought it would have been pertinent to point out.

@grantottero4980 6 ай бұрын

Please, please...!!! The Italian pronunciation of Savorgnan di (de) Brazzà is with GN pronounced like a (double) Spanish ñ (ññ), and the two ZZ pronounced [ddz], and the final accented "à" bearing the stress of the word. Little differences in the venitian regional dialect of the explorer, but not so much significant (mainly, the two ZZ becoming [z]).

@ignatiusqi9736 7 ай бұрын

"it's just a coincidence that it sounds exactly like the name of Douglas" no. the name "Douglas" arose as a Celtic toponymic surname, which Douglas, Isle of Man might be one of its origins.

@TheInvisibleCanadia 7 ай бұрын

Surprised you didn't mention that the DC in Washington, DC stands for District of Columbia, with "Columbia" coming from Christopher Columbus.

@gadaadyn8190 4 ай бұрын

Incorrect Information: Ulaanbaatar acutely means “Red Hero” and is not not for a specific person. It is not named after Sukhbaatar. There is already a province and city named after him but the capital is not name for him. This is very large mistake to make .