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However, names can become associated with specific places on a national level, where the best-known example is usually the biggest or otherwise the most significant. The name of this comic indicates the contextualization required to specify one of the less-famous exemplars of a given name. Someone might say they are from "Los Angeles" and would have to say "no, the other one" since the listener would assume they are from Los Angeles, California.
 
However, names can become associated with specific places on a national level, where the best-known example is usually the biggest or otherwise the most significant. The name of this comic indicates the contextualization required to specify one of the less-famous exemplars of a given name. Someone might say they are from "Los Angeles" and would have to say "no, the other one" since the listener would assume they are from Los Angeles, California.
  
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The [[title text]] references {{w|Key, West Virginia}} and {{w|Key West, Virginia}}, two places that, when spoken aloud, are only distinguishable by the pause (comma) location. Neither are to be confused with {{w|Key West|Key West, Florida}}, which is a location well-known nationally.
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The title text references {{w|Key, West Virginia}} and {{w|Key West, Virginia}}, two places that, when spoken aloud, are only distinguishable by the pause (comma) location. Neither are to be confused with {{w|Key West|Key West, Florida}}, which is a location well-known nationally.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 19:46, 23 October 2024

No, The Other One
Key West, Virginia is not to be confused with Key, West Virginia.
Title text: Key West, Virginia is not to be confused with Key, West Virginia.

Explanation[edit]

This is a map of the United States, showing cities or towns with the same name as other more famous places. For example, the map has a dot for a relatively unknown place called Los Angeles, located in Texas, not to be confused with the very well known Los Angeles that is in California.

Few place names are unique, and there may be many places with the same name. Multiple American towns have been named after the same British town, famous person, or geographic feature.

However, names can become associated with specific places on a national level, where the best-known example is usually the biggest or otherwise the most significant. The name of this comic indicates the contextualization required to specify one of the less-famous exemplars of a given name. Someone might say they are from "Los Angeles" and would have to say "no, the other one" since the listener would assume they are from Los Angeles, California.

The title text references Key, West Virginia and Key West, Virginia, two places that, when spoken aloud, are only distinguishable by the pause (comma) location. Neither are to be confused with Key West, Florida, which is a location well-known nationally.

Place name in comic Well-known place Notes
Albany, GA Albany, NY Albany, NY is the capital of New York state.
Albany, MN
Albany, WY
Alexandria, LA Alexandria, VA Alexandria, VA is known for being George Washington's hometown.
Alexandria, Egypt Major economic and cultural center on the Mediterranean.
Anchorage, KY Anchorage, AK Anchorage, AK is Alaska's most populous city.
Atlanta, DE Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA is the capital of Georgia, a center of the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 60's, and a major air transportation hub. The comic has a single "Atlanta" next to dots for both Atlanta, CO and Atlanta, NE. Atlanta, CO does not seem to exist, so the dot may be an error, or may be missing its label (e.g., for Yuma, CO or Akron, CO).
Atlanta, ID
Atlanta, MI
Atlanta, NE
Atlanta, TX
Atlanta, WI
Atlantic City, WY Atlantic City, NJ Atlantic City, NJ is a famous coastal resort town in New Jersey known for its casinos, boardwalk and beaches.
Austin, MN Austin, TX Austin, TX is the capital of the state of Texas, and the 11th most populous city in the US.
Baton Rouge, SC Baton Rouge, LA Baton Rouge, LA is the capital of the state of Louisiana.
Beaumont, CA Beaumont, TX Beaumont, TX is known for the oil discovery that sparked the Texas oil boom of the early 1900s.
Beverly Hills, IL Beverly Hills, CA Beverly Hills, CA is a city in Los Angeles County, CA and is home to many celebrities, luxury hotels, and the Rodeo Drive shopping district.
Beverly Hills, TX
Bloomington, MN Bloomington, IN Bloomington, IN is the location of Indiana University.
Boston, MO Boston, MA Boston, MA is the capital of Massachusetts and the site of several key events of the American Revolution.
Bowling Green, FL Bowling Green, KY Bowling Green, KY is the largest city of this name, and the 3rd most populous city in Kentucky. Home of the auto plant that makes the Chevy Corvette. Bowling Green, OH is directly named after the Kentucky city.
Bowling Green, OH
Bridgeport, WV Bridgeport, CT Bridgeport, CT is the most populous city in Connecticut and fifth most populous in New England.
Buffalo, TX Buffalo, NY Buffalo, NY is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City.
Buffalo, WY
Cambridge, OH Cambridge, England, UK A city in Cambridgeshire, known as the home of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Universities. There is also a village of Cambridge in Gloucestershire.
Cambridge, MA Cambridge, MA is a city in the Boston metropolitan area, known as the home of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology among others. Cambridge, Massachusetts is in turn named after Cambridge, England.
Cedar Rapids, NE Cedar Rapids, IA Cedar Rapids is the 2nd most populous city in the state of Iowa.
Charlestown, Unknown State Charlestown, MA Charlestown, MA is an area of Boston and home to Bunker Hill, the site of a key American Revolutionary War battle. Originally a separate town, it was the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
[In the original comic, the Charlestown label was located over Long Island but there was no dot for the label, and an update later removed the Charlestown label entirely.]
Cleveland, UT Cleveland, OH Cleveland, OH, named after its founder, General Moses Cleaveland, is one of the 3 largest cities in the state of Ohio.
Columbus, GA Columbus, OH Columbus, OH is the most populous city in Ohio, as well as its state capital. It is named after Christopher Columbus. Many other locations throughout the United States bear that name.
Dallas, GA Dallas, TX Dallas, TX is the 3rd most populous city in Texas and the 9th most populous city in the United States.
Dallas, NC
Dallas, OR
Dallas, SD
Dayton, NV Dayton, OH Dayton, OH was a prominent city in the industrial growth of the Midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but is best known as the home of the Wright Brothers, where they constructed the first airplane.
Des Moines, NM Des Moines, IA Des Moines, IA is the capital of the state of Iowa, and its largest city by population.
Des Moines, WA
Detroit, AL Detroit, MI Detroit, MI is well known as the center of the U.S. automobile industry and is the largest city in Michigan.
Detroit, KS
Disney, OK Disneyland
Disney World 		Disney, OK is a small town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, but has no relation to either Walt Disney himself or to the Disney Corporation. There are no other towns or cities with this name, but references to being at "Disney" could include Disneyland in California, Walt Disney World in Florida, or other Disney amusement parks around the world.
Fayetteville, TN Fayetteville, AR
Fayetteville, NC 		Fayetteville, NC is the most populous US city of that name, and home to the largest military installation in the world. Fayetteville, AR is the 3rd most populous city in Arkansas and the home of the University of Arkansas. There are many other places with this name.
Gettysburg, OH Gettysburg, PA Gettysburg, PA is well known for being the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, the deadliest battle in the US Civil War, and the site of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Gettysburg, SD
Grand Rapids, MN Grand Rapids, MI Grand Rapids, MI is the second most populous city in the state of Michigan.
Houston, AK Houston, TX Houston, TX is the most populous city in Texas and the 4th most populous city in the United States.
Houston, AL
Houston, FL
Houston, IN
Houston, MO
Houston, OH
Indianapolis, IA Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis, IN is the capital of Indiana and the most populous city in the state.
Jackson, AL Jackson, MS Jackson, MS is the capital of Mississippi, but there are many other states with Jacksons. This one is likely particularly notable due to its proximity to Jackson, MS.
Jamestown, CA Jamestown, VA Jamestown, VA was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
Jamestown, ND
Jersey Shore, PA Jersey Shore region, NJ The Jersey Shore is a coastal region of New Jersey. It is also the namesake of a reality TV show.
Key West, VA Key West, FL Key West, FL is an island city off the tip of Florida that is popular with tourists and contains the southernmost point of the continental states.
Knoxville, IA Knoxville, TN Knoxville, TN is the 3rd most populous city in Tennessee and the home of the University of Tennessee.
Las Vegas, NM Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas, NV is the most populous city in the state of Nevada and is well known for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife.
Lincoln, CA Lincoln, NE Lincoln, NE is the capital of Nebraska.
Lincoln, IL
Lincoln, MT
Lincoln, RI
Lisbon, ME Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal.
Lisbon, NH
Long Beach, NJ Long Beach, CA Long Beach, CA is the 7th most populous city in California. The location in New Jersey is typically referred to by its full name, Long Beach Township, or the more generalized location of Long Beach Island.
Los Angeles, TX Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA is the 2nd most populous city in the United States, behind New York City.
Louisville, CO Louisville, KY Louisville, KY is the largest city in Kentucky.
Manhattan, KS Manhattan, NYC, NY Manhattan, NYC, NY is one of the five boroughs of New York City, corresponds to the New York County.
Manhattan, MT
Memphis, NE Memphis, TN Memphis, TN is the 2nd most populous city in Tennessee and had a prominent role in the US Civil Rights movement.
Mesa, CA Mesa, AZ Mesa, AZ is a suburb of Phoenix, and the largest suburban city by population in the United States.
Mesa, CO
Miami, AZ Miami, FL Miami, FL is the seventh largest city in the United States and a major tourism hub.
Miami, TX
Mountain View, HI Mountain View, CA Mountain View, CA is the "birthplace" of Silicon Valley, and is the location of many high technology companies, most notably Google.
Nashville, AR Nashville, TN Nashville, TN is the capital of Tennessee and a major center for the country music industry.
New England, ND New England The New England region consists of 6 states in the northeast United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New Haven, KY New Haven, CT New Haven, CT is the second largest city in Connecticut, and is known for its distinctive pizza. It also home to Yale University
New York, TX New York, NY New York City, NY is the largest city in the United States.
Newark, DE Newark, NJ Newark, NJ is the largest city in the state of New Jersey, and part of the greater New York metropolitan area. It hosts one of the New York metro area's three major airports. Newark, DE is the third largest city in Delaware and home to the University of Delaware. Unlike Newark, NJ, Newark, DE is pronounced as if it were two words /ˈnuːɑːrk/ .
North Pole, NY North Pole, AK North Pole, AK is a small city in Alaska known as a tourist attraction and the recipient of letters addressed to Santa Claus.
North Pole Northernmost point on Earth's surface.
Oakland, OR Oakland, CA Oakland, CA is currently the home to three professional sports teams including the Oakland Athletics and is the former home of several more, including the Oakland Raiders, now in Las Vegas.
Orlando, OK Orlando, FL Orlando is the 4th most populous city in Florida and home to Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando.
Ottawa, KS Ottawa, ON Ottawa, ON, Canada is the capital of Canada.
Pasadena, MD Pasadena, CA Pasadena, CA is the home to the California Institute of Technology and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It is also the home of the New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade and hosts the college football Rose Bowl Game played on New Year's Day afternoon. Pasadena, TX was named after its California counterpart, but it is ironically the larger of the two (both in population and area).
Pasadena, TX
Peoria, AZ Peoria, IL Peoria, IL is known for being considered an "Average American Town", in the phrase "Will it play in Peoria?" It is actually smaller than Peoria, AZ.
Philadelphia, MS Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA is the most populous city in Pennsylvania and was an important meeting place during the American Revolution.
Philadelphia, NY
Phoenix, MD Phoenix, AZ Phoenix, AZ is the capital of Arizona and the 5th most populous city in the United States.
Phoenix, OR
Plano, IL Plano, TX Plano, TX is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and the home of many corporate headquarters.
Plymouth, CA Plymouth, MA Plymouth, MA was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Mayflower Pilgrims. Named after the city in the Southwest of England which was the final port of departure.
Plymouth, IN
Portland, ME Portland, OR Portland, OR is the largest city in the state of Oregon and was named after Portland, ME
Princeton, ID Princeton, NJ Princeton, NJ is famous for being the home of the eponymous Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, MA
Richmond, VT Richmond, VA Richmond, VA is the capital of Virginia. It was named after the suburb of London, UK due to an observed similarity of the river. London's Richmond was named for the palace built there by Henry VII, itself named after the market town and castle in the north of England that was a childhood home. That was in turn named for the Normandy area from which the noble family came who were gifted this land for their part of the Norman Conquest of England in the 11th century. There are more than fifty settlements called Richmond across the world, directly or indirectly taking their names from one or other of the English 'originals'.
Roswell, GA Roswell, NM Roswell, NM is the site of one of the most famous “alien coverups” in American history, and is well known for its alien-themed tourism.
Saint Louis, MI St. Louis, MO St. Louis, MO is the 2nd most populous city in the state of Missouri and has the iconic Gateway Arch.
Saint Louis, OK
Salem, CT Salem, OR Salem, OR is the capital of Oregon.
Salem, MA Salem, MA was the location of the Salem witch trials.
San Diego, TX San Diego, CA San Diego, CA is the 8th most populous city in the US and the 2nd most populous in California.
Santa Fe, TX Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe, NM is the capital of the state of New Mexico.
Savannah, MO Savannah, GA Savannah, GA is the oldest city in the state of Georgia and its fifth most populous.
South Bend, TX South Bend, IN South Bend, IN is the location of the University of Notre Dame.
Texas, NY State of Texas Texas, NY is a hamlet in Oswego County, NY, near the southeastern corner of Lake Ontario. It is officially part of the town of Mexico, NY. No plans for a wall [citation needed]. Not to be confused with New York, TX.
Vienna, ME Vienna, Austria Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria.
Washington, NC Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States. The city of Washington, NC is actually older than Washington, D.C., having been founded in 1776.
State of Washington Washington is the 13th most populous U.S. state, and the only state named after a U.S. president.
White House, TN White House in Washington, D.C. The White House is the official residence and office of the President of the United States in Washington, D.C. Unlike most other places identified in this comic, the White House in D.C. is not a name of a city, but rather the name of a famous building and the grounds that the building is located on.

Transcript[edit]

[A typical line-drawn map projection of the United States, with discontiguous Alaska and Hawaii moved into a convenient corner.]
[Coastlines and national borders are in a firm half-tone.]
[Non-coastal state boundaries are shown in a lighter tone and feature the standard two-letter abbreviations.]
[Location dots and labels of the settlements they represent are overlaid in solid black.]
[Within each of the states, expanded here for readability, are the following placenames...]
AK [Alaska]
Houston
AL [Alabama]
Detroit
Houston
Jackson
AR [Arkansas]
Nashville
AZ [Arizona]
Miami
Peoria
CA [California]
Beaumont
Jamestown
Lincoln
Mesa
Plymouth
CO [Colorado]
[An unlabelled dot, between text for Louisville, CO and Atlanta, NE; likely Yuma, CO.]
Louisville
Mesa
CT [Connecticut]
Salem
DE [Delaware]
Atlanta
Newark
FL [Florida]
Bowling Green
Houston
GA [Georgia]
Albany
Columbus
Dallas
Roswell
HI [Hawaii]
Mountain View
IA [Iowa]
Indianapolis
Knoxville
ID [Idaho]
Atlanta
Princeton
IL [Illinois]
Beverly Hills
Lincoln
Plano
IN [Indiana]
Houston
Plymouth
KS [Kansas]
Detroit
Manhattan
Ottawa
KY [Kentucky]
Anchorage
New Haven
LA [Louisiana]
Alexandria
MA [Massachusetts]
Princeton
MD [Maryland]
Pasadena
Phoenix
ME [Maine]
Lisbon
Portland
Vienna
MI [Michigan]
Atlanta
Saint Louis
MN [Minnesota]
Albany
Austin
Bloomington
Grand Rapids
MO [Missouri]
Boston
Houston
Savannah
MS [Mississippi]
Philadelphia
MT [Montana]
Lincoln
Manhattan
NC [North Carolina]
Dallas
Washington
ND [North Dakota]
Jamestown
New England
NE [Nebraska]
Atlanta
Cedar Rapids
Memphis
NH [New Hampshire]
Lisbon
NJ [New Jersey]
Long Beach
NM [New Mexico]
Des Moines
Las Vegas
NV [Nevada]
Dayton
NY [New York]
North Pole
Philadelphia
Texas
[Further subtitled as...]
(Texas, Mexico)
OH [Ohio]
Bowling Green
Cambridge
Gettysburg
Houston
OK [Oklahoma]
Disney
Orlando
Saint Louis
OR [Oregon]
Dallas
Oakland
Phoenix
PA [Pennsylvania]
Jersey Shore
RI [Rhode Island]
Lincoln
SC [South Carolina]
Baton Rouge
SD [South Dakota]
Dallas
Gettysburg
TN [Tennessee]
Fayetteville
White House
TX [Texas]
Atlanta
Beverly Hills
Buffalo
Los Angeles
Miami
New York
Pasadena
San Diego
Santa Fe
South Bend
UT [Utah]
Cleveland
VA [Virginia]
Key West
VT [Vermont]
Richmond
WA [Washington]
Des Moines
WI [Wisconsin]
Atlanta
WV [West Virginia]
Bridgeport
WY [Wyoming]
Albany
Atlantic City
Buffalo


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Discussion

We might want a table for this comic, with three columns: one for the name of the town, one for which state the copycat is in, and one for the original. We could also add a column for "why the original is well known," but that might be a bit much. 108.162.245.124 20:38, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

I agree, this feels like a very table-able comic. Especially to get all the cities and not make readers try to see "hey, did I miss one?" 172.70.117.158 20:49, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
I think the term copy-cat should not be used here, since Lincoln, IL, for instance is older and carries the name longer than Lincoln, NE.--162.158.88.74 21:05, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Although the people in Lincoln, UK (also Boston, Washington, Richmond, Plymouth, Newhaven...) might have prior claims - Richmond is an even more interesting case, in fact. And of course I also recognise Lisbon and others. 141.101.98.244 21:26, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
May I suggest merging the first two columns and just listing [City, State] under "Place name in comic"? MajorBurns (talk) 21:38, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

In the map there are (at least) three Lincoln, two Jamestown, five Houston... Vdm (talk) 20:52, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

There is a Jamestown in NY and PA also. I would expect to find a Jamestown in at least half of the states. Rtanenbaum (talk) 22:06, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

There seems to be an extra dot in the northeast corner of Colorado - It looks like it might correspond with the Atlanta label, but there is no Atlanta in Colorado. Based on the position of the dot I'm guessing it may correspond to Akron or Yuma.--MajorBurns (talk) 21:56, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Google Maps says there's an Atlanta, Colorado, but it is in the south-east corner of the state, not where the dot is. It looks like it is in the middle of nowhere outside of Springfield. Blaisepascal (talk) 00:42, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Jersey Shore PA - I just drove from New Jersey across the state of Pennsylvania, and saw the sign for Jersey Shore in the mountains in the middle of PA. What the? Turns out there was a town founded by two brothers from New Jersey called Waynesburg. When a neighboring town wanted to insult them by calling them "Jersey Shore" they went ahead and officially made Jersey Shore the name of the town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore,_Pennsylvania. I wonder how many people turn off the highway in the middle of PA wanting to go to the Jersey Shore hundreds of miles away. Rtanenbaum (talk) 22:06, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Why no Hollywood, Florida? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida

Same reason there's no Richmond, Dublin, or Pittsburg (admittedly, a different spelling), California, just to name some of the closest ones to me. The map would be solid black if it labeled every "other one." Borglord (talk) 01:57, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

..No Springfields? Really? There's gotta be 30+ of them! Danish (talk) 02:00, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

The comic doesn't seem to include the duplicates that are fairly well known, like Hollywood, FL. And the prevalence of Springfield is well known due to "The Simpsons". I think Groening chose that name because it wouldn't be associated with any particular state. Barmar (talk) 04:06, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

`The most frequently occurring community name varies through the years. In a past year, it was "Midway" with 212 occurrences and "Fairview" in second with 202. More recently, "Fairview" counted 288 and "Midway" 256. The name "Springfield" is often thought to be the only community name appearing in each of the 50 States, but at last count it was in only 34 states.` https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-most-common-citytown-name-united-states Steve (talk) 02:48, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

The comic has been updated to remove Charlestown and move Salem, CT. The extra dot in Colorado remains, however. The image attachment has been updated, but I think I'm still seeing the cached version. Orion205 (talk) 03:47, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

While we're on the subject, I thought it was more likely referencing Charles Town, WV. There are quite a lot of Charlestown locations and I don't think any of them are particularly famous. Which is probably why it was removed. Shamino (talk) 13:54, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Since so many of the names are duplicated multiple times, shouldn't the title be "No, An Other One"? Barmar (talk) 04:06, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm surprised he missed Minneapolis, Kansas (about 75 miles west of Manhattan). Though maybe it would've made Kansas too crowded. --Aaron of Mpls (talk)

I'm surprised he missed Duluth, GA too, but we can't have everything we want. ( --Don from Rochester . . . but not from New York ;^) Oh yeah; there's also a Buffalo in MN too. 172.70.34.190 11:00, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
In Indiana, there's also another Nashville, another Columbus, a Kokomo... even a Mexico. If every fairly well-known place name were included, wherever it was duplicated, it would need one of those scrollable mega-maps, just to fit it all. -- Just visiting from Indiana, 12:53 UTC 24 June 2021

I'd like to see a map of all these. Lines linking each of the dots to the location of the more famous town. Possibly with lines in different colours connecting to the oldest and largest other ones, where they're not the same as the most famous one. (I suspect a significant number of the "oldest" lines would point off the right edge of the image) Angel (talk) 08:37, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

There's also a Bowling Green, Missouri. WhiteDragon (talk) 13:12, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I wish Lansing Illinois (just south of Chicago off I-80) had made the list. When I was traveling there for work, our hotel reservations were frequently messed up, because the central booking office had us in Michigan. 172.70.130.144 13:17, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Reminds me of the time a "Microsoft tech support" scammer called and claimed to be calling from Lansing despite obviously being in a call center in India. When we asked what state Lansing was in, he claimed to be calling from "Lansing, Miami." 172.69.63.121 13:41, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I feel like there is an opportunity for adding "Other examples not in comic" such as Brooklyn, Iowa or the absurd number of Mount Pleasants OddOod (talk)

At first, I thought about suggesting this, as well. But, it would be an enormous list (orders of magnitude longer than the ones that _are_ in the comic), and therefore not really tenable. For example, I sometimes describe the place I live as being on the line from Jamaica to Florida, adjacent to Jacksonville and just off Halifax. That's Florida, MA and the rest in southern Vermont. That's four just within 20 miles of where I sit. Also, I grew up in Bristol (RI, not England), but there are about 40 places in the US with that name. And, on a different tack the nearby "city" actually promotes itself in being the _only_ place named Brattleboro. MAP (talk) 22:27, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I can't believe they missed Dublin and/or Albany in the SF bay area in California!

I actually have a place in Bangor,NY it confuses people all the time Mr.Do

Is the State of Washington not considered more significant than a mere district? 172.69.35.149 18:14, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I mean, Washington DC is the capital of the entire country, so both are very significant. 172.69.33.97 20:08, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Ontario, CA - I have gotten packages that originated in Ontario, CA and wondered why they were shipping from Canada, until I realized that they were coming from Ontario, California. Rtanenbaum (talk) 20:57, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

How did Lebanon come to be such a popular name (sixth most common according to the Wikipedia list)? 162.158.92.182 09:04, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

How about entries for what the lesser-known city is known for? I can start: Austin MN is home of Hormel, maker of Spam, and features the Spam Museum. Who is next? 172.70.126.58 10:29, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Richmond, VT is home of a person (also apparently given the job of "Weigher Of Coal") who helped to establish the name of Spam (as in unwanted advertising)... 141.101.99.79 11:14, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

So, anyway, the Transcript is both empty and marked incomplete. Really, it would at best be a Transcriptised non-tabular list of the named places, grouped to their 'other one' states. I can't see much more that can be done, save for "line-drawn state lines and dots" being mentioned. It's very much an inferior copy of the table itself, but definitely should be there to fulfil the general needs of the Transcript. I'll do it myself if nobody else has (or otherwise resolved) by the time the next comic goes up. 141.101.99.79 11:14, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Agree that there should be a transcript. It should mention what type of map and that all states have their abbreviation in gray text. Then proceed approximately in reading order giving each states abbreviation and then the cities mentioned in each state. That would be great. Do not have the time the next week, else this was something I often have done with large transcripts. --Kynde (talk) 20:54, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
I prepped a version that satisfies almost all your demands, already, except that it's arranged alphabetical to state ID, because that seemed more logical to dive into than to try a 'reading order' of any kind. I also took a couple of other small liberties with the usual Transcript notation to improve understanding, not having found a prior example that has done this in a 'better' way. I'll pop it in right now and then leave it to the multitudinous Gods Of Wikiediting to correct it, 'correct' it, improve it and 'improve' it as they see fit. Fill yer boots! 141.101.98.124 21:42, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

here is a challenge: find a regex that matches all the cities in this map in the top half of the US, but not the ones in the bottom half. have fun and dont use the auto-regex-golf thing, thats just no fun. :) 172.69.63.7 16:40, 25 June 2021 (UTC)Bumpf

Unless I misunderstand you, it's probably impossible. Houston in Ohio is in the top half of the map (however you define that line) while the Houston in the usual Alaska map-discontinuity is in the bottom half of the map. And I bet that a moment's search will find others amongst the shared names. 141.101.99.104 17:35, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
Bowling Green (OH and FL) splits even on true latitude, at well within each band of top/bottom value ranges. Assuming you don't add the home-state code (which could be the only thing needed to even try to regex, if you do), there's no wedge you can apply. 162.158.158.105 22:10, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
Using Automatic tools is always fun! fun-ctional. 162.158.91.183 12:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Bloomington MN is an odd one — it is both larger by area and by population than Bloomington IN! 141.101.98.206 20:31, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Bloomington, IL is comparable in population and slightly larger in area than Bloomington, IN; Bloomington, MN has IL beat in both metrics. If counting Bloominton-Normal, IL as one twinned city, it easily beats both 172.70.130.87 01:51, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Even if there's no plans for a wall around Mexico, NY, maybe that's who Trump expected would pay for his wall. Barmar (talk) 13:19, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm really annoyed that he included Portland. Doesn't everybody know about Portland, ME?

NYC here - I had no idea about Portland, ME 172.70.117.92 01:44, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Here's how he might have come up with this list. (1) Find all duplicates in a list of U.S. city names. (2) Select the top 100 (searched on the web, occurring on the web, etc.) names (or enough to fill the comic nicely). An alternate (2) is select the top 100 (or some number) largest cities of those. Moscow,ID

I likewise wondered about the omission of Hollywood, FL (as well as Miami, OH) but it’s true that it can’t list every single one. It would be interesting to list some of the other pronunciation differences, as is currently done for Newark. (E.g., Albany, GA is pronounced al-BEN-ee) Miamiclay (talk) 18:15, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

I think you mean Oxford, Ohio; home to Miami University. [1] 162.158.166.117 07:28, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
There's also Cleveland, Mississippi; Princeton, Indiana; and Jackson, New Jersey. JsfasdF252 (talk) 00:18, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

In the New England area, there are quite a few towns with duplicate names, probably brought over with the colonists. Seems all the New England states have a Milford, a Bedford, a Plymouth, A Belmont, a Winchester...

How do you miss London, OH?

There are places in China whose name literally translates to "Pennsylvania", "Connecticut"[citation needed] and "Texas" respectively, and this can lead to confusing translations on public signs. Imagine that you see "Welcome to Pennsylvania" in China. [citation needed] Additionally, a word that literally translates to "Washington" can be found in names of apartment groups. [citation needed] --ColorfulGalaxy (talk) 10:45, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Also, there are 3 places called Buda in the US – a city in Texas, a village in Illinois and an unincorporated community in Nebraska. In the same county as the latter, there is also a city called Ravenna and a township called Odessa. There are so many place names in the US that are homographs or homophones of other place names (both in and outside the US) that they just require a much bigger map. 172.68.50.126 20:09, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Just done a bit of checking, and currently Washington seems to be the most popular US placename (named for the person, I would imagine, rather than the ancestral home that he was patronimically named for), then Springfield (descriptively geonymic, probably), Franklin (again, mostly for the man?) and Greenville (another geonym). ((Above, "Midway" and others were mentioned, it's possible that my checked list has a different qualifying criterium than the list looked at for that answer.)
Looking worldwide, San José has thousands of examples, by some counts, but also with a heavy emphasis on "San"s and "Santa"s in that obvious thematic vein as you continue down that particular list. Maybe a few "no horse" 'town's in that tally, though.
In the UK, we have almost a dozen Newports, scattered around. And more if you count names with Newport in them, like Newport Pagnell. Which (as an example) is 70 miles from the sea, but then Newport (as it was, give or take spelling, in Norman and even pre-Norman times before being gifted to the Pagnell family) actually means "New Market-town", just to indicate why you shouldn't expect all Newports to be coastal (or on significantly navigable trading rivers of some historic note). – And there are dozens of Newport places in the US, but how many are purely descriptive of originally being an actual new port and how many are more just imitative of original places (or named for people, themselves named for places of (familial) origin) in a suitable/unsuitable geophysical locale to match the inference, I wouldn't care to say. 172.70.162.170 22:28, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

I actually live in "the other" Bloomington. --108.162.216.53 01:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello from Phoenix, Oregon! 172.71.146.18 (talk) 17:37, 24 January 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

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