Battle of the New's - which ones are most similar to the "Old"? (area, buildings)

[Acajack]

Tons of places in the world are named New, Novo, Nuevo/Nueva, Nouveau/Nouvelle for places that already existed.


Any nominees for the "New" places that are most similar to the ''Old"? You can cover physical or human geography, built form, etc.

[BigSwede]

New Swede, Maine looks very much like it´s swedish equivalents.
The buildings are of course americanized, but other than that it´s pretty much the same.
I understand why they settled there.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by BigSwede

New Swede, Maine looks very much like it´s swedish equivalents.
The buildings are of course americanized, but other than that it´s pretty much the same.
I understand why they settled there.

That's interesting. I am semi-familiar with that area but was not aware of Swedish colonization there. There is also a town called Stockholm right next to New Sweden. So I did a little search and in the 1800s the main languages of this little corner of the USA were Swedish and... French.


There is also a town called New Denmark across the Canadian border in New Brunswick, about 50 km from New Sweden, Maine.

[UrbanLuis]

I have been told that certain parts of Nova Scotia kind of look like Scotland. Rocky foggy coastlines, Specially around Cape Breton.

[Zoisite]

Not an answer to the question, just a little bit of trivia, but the question got me wondering how many places named Newport there are in the world so I looked it up. There are 56 Newports in the world, (33 of them are in USA alone). The thing they all have in common is that at the times they were named, for lack of better names they were named for being what they literally were, namely new ports.


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[Natnasci]

Only thing similar between New Denver, BC and Denver, Colorado is the topography, except elevation.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Natnasci

Only thing similar between New Denver, BC and Denver, Colorado is the topography, except elevation.

Was the former named for the latter?

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by UrbanLuis

I have been told that certain parts of Nova Scotia kind of look like Scotland. Rocky foggy coastlines, Specially around Cape Breton.

You stole my idea!

[BigSwede]

Originally Posted by Acajack

That's interesting. I am semi-familiar with that area but was not aware of Swedish colonization there. There is also a town called Stockholm right next to New Sweden. So I did a little search and in the 1800s the main languages of this little corner of the USA were Swedish and... French.


There is also a town called New Denmark across the Canadian border in New Brunswick, about 50 km from New Sweden, Maine.

There are a couple of other New Sweden´s in the US that looks nothing like Sweden, not even the one in Minnesota.

[Joe90]

Certainly not New Zealand. I've never heard it said that NZ is just like the Netherlands.