Jump to content

List of locations in the world with an English name

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of place names originally used in England and then later applied to other places throughout the world via English settlers and explorers.

Argentina

[edit]

Australia

[edit]

See English place names in Australia

Bangladesh

[edit]

Barbados

[edit]

See English place names in Barbados

Bolivia

[edit]

Bermuda

[edit]

Canada

[edit]

See English place names in Canada

Chile

[edit]

Costa Rica

[edit]
  • Liverpool

Hong Kong

[edit]

India

[edit]

Places in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

  • Port Blair (after Archibald Blair, Esq, Captain in the Maritime Establishment of the East India Company at Bombay)
  • Ritchie's Archipelago (after John Ritchie, 18th-century British marine surveyor)
  • Napier Bay Island Group (likely after Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, C-in-C India (1870 – 1876))
  • Henry Lawrence Island (after Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB, Chief Commissioner Oudh)
  • John Lawrence Island (after Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1864–1869)
  • Wilson Island (after Sir Archdale Wilson, Commandant Bengal Artillery Meerut, lead the action in Delhi and Lucknow, 1857)
  • Outram Island (after Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, capture of Lucknow, 1857)
  • Peel Island (after Captain Sir William Peel, Victoria Cross, wounded in the Relief of Lucknow)
  • James Island
  • Kyd Island
  • Smith Island
  • Pocock Island
  • Montgomery Island
  • Patric Island
  • Clyde Island
  • Elizabeth Bay
  • Campbell Bay
  • Macpherson's Strait
  • Mount Harriet National Park (after Harriet Tytler, wife of Capt Robert Tytler of the 38th Native Infantry (1857), Supdt of Cellular Jail (1862). To be renamed "Mount Manipur")
  • Stewart Island
  • Stewartgunj
  • Anderson Island
  • Bennett Island (after Capt Bennett, Marine)
  • Colebrook Island

Places in cities

  • Churchgate, in Mumbai
  • Whitefield, in Bengaluru
  • Hastings, in Kolkata

Renamed places

  • Daltongunj, Jharkhand (renamed Medininagar, 2004)
  • Ross Island (renamed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island, Dec 2018)
  • Neill Island (renamed Shaheed Dweep,Dec 2018)
  • Havelock Island (renamed Swaraj Dweep, Dec 2018)

Renamed places in cities

  • Connaught Place (renamed Rajiv Chowk 1995),

Ireland

[edit]

Israel

[edit]

Jamaica

[edit]

Malaysia

[edit]

Montserrat

[edit]

Pakistan

[edit]

Serbia

[edit]

South Africa

[edit]

Sri Lanka

[edit]

See Place names in Sri Lanka with an English name

  • Alton
  • Brampton
  • Bray
  • Devon Falls
  • Harrow
  • Hatton
  • Hythe
  • Kenilworth
  • Marlborough
  • Norton Bridge
  • Norwood
  • Preston

Trinidad and Tobago

[edit]
  • Plymouth

United States

[edit]

See List of locations in the United States with an English name