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Old 08-13-2014, 12:51 AM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Actually you can put anything in China that is located south of Shanghai on the Worst list. South China has terrible city names
Because everything ends with -zhou
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Old 08-13-2014, 12:54 AM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Sofia is one of your favorite names for a major CITY
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Old 08-13-2014, 12:57 AM
 
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hong kong
moscow
praha
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Old 08-13-2014, 01:14 AM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Favourite:

Prague
Vienna
Rio De Janeiro
Odessa
Alexandria
Tripoli
Casablanca
Tangier
Cairo
Johannesburg
Athens
Astana
Baku
Nairobi
Marseille

Least:


Ho Chi Minh City
Phnom Penh
Kabul
Beirut (attractive people, nice city, but the name is campy)
Ulaanbaatar
Kiev
Zagreb
Tehran
Shiraz
Bangkok
Chongqing
Islamabad
Abu Dhabi
Haifa
Addis Ababa
Djibouti

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Old 08-13-2014, 01:17 AM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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What does -Pur and -Bad means in India? Half of their cities end with those words.
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Old 08-13-2014, 01:30 AM
 
Location: Hong Kong / Vienna
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-abad is a suffix that forms part of many city names in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. It is derived from the Persian word ābād (آباد) meaning city and commonly attached to the name of the city's founder or patron. In India, -abads are generally legacies of Persianized Muslim rulers such as the Mughals.
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-pur is a suffix meaning "city" or "settlement", used in several place names across South Asia, Afghanistan and Iran, ultimately originated from sanskrit Pura or Puri.
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Old 08-13-2014, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Seoul
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Sofia is one of your favorite names for a major CITY
1.2 millon people qualifies as major city
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Old 08-13-2014, 03:37 PM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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1.2 millon people qualifies as major city
Yeah but Sofia, nice name for a girl but for a city not so much.
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Old 08-17-2015, 11:02 AM
 
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Yeah but Sofia, nice name for a girl but for a city not so much.
It's Sòfia, not Sofià.
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Old 08-17-2015, 11:25 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Most, not in any particular order:
Sarajevo
Brazzaville
Santiago
Montreal
Kinshasa
Beijing
Buenos Aires
Copenhagen
Ljubljana
Amsterdam
Liege
Monrovia
Nairobi
Mogadishu

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Tokyo
Antwerp
Ghent
Rome
Cape Town
Zagreb
Skopje
Bucharest
Budapest
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