This is a list of places with
reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.
Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of
Australia,
Chile and
New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.
Gargar, Armenia: not an actual reduplication in Armenian, as the two ‘r’ sounds are different in this place name and are spelled using different letters.
Gergere, Turkey, an ancient town lying on the eastern frontier of the
Cappadocia satrapy
Gergeri, Crete, Greece, named after the Anatolian
Gergere, during the 10th-century Orthodox
colonization of the island
Shanshan, Xinjiang, China, is not actually a reduplicated place name; the Chinese name consists of two
characters, 鄯善, that are
homophonic but distinct
This is a list of places with
reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.
Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of
Australia,
Chile and
New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.
Gargar, Armenia: not an actual reduplication in Armenian, as the two ‘r’ sounds are different in this place name and are spelled using different letters.
Gergere, Turkey, an ancient town lying on the eastern frontier of the
Cappadocia satrapy
Gergeri, Crete, Greece, named after the Anatolian
Gergere, during the 10th-century Orthodox
colonization of the island
Shanshan, Xinjiang, China, is not actually a reduplicated place name; the Chinese name consists of two
characters, 鄯善, that are
homophonic but distinct