Singapore, Monaco, Vatican City etc. Basically the city-states are their capitals themselves. If you don’t mind a word “City” then Mexico, Luxembourg, Panama, Kuwait among others. This is an interesting question, some of the countries of the world do have their name and their capital’s name as the same.

Here are 10 more cities with the same name:

• Memphis, Egypt vs. Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis, Egypt vs.
• Lebanon, New Hampshire vs Lebanon the country. Lebanon, New Hampshire vs Lebanon the country Shutterstock.
• Springfield, New Jersey vs. Springfield, Illinois.
• Paris, France vs. Paris, Texas.

Yes. One example is Woodbury, NY. One city is in Nassau County on Long Island and the other is in Orange County in the Hudson River valley. Not the same but still severely confusing to those who don’t know the difference.

Places in the US tend to be named for very few reasons… Name of the founder. Some people just have the same name. They want to see their own name being honored and don’t really care if someone else got there first, someplace else.

Alexandria.

Washington

This list enumerates the twenty most common street names and the number of nationwide occurrences:

• Second (10,866)
• Third (10,131)
• First (9,898)
• Fourth (9,190)
• Park (8,926)
• Fifth (8,186)
• Main (7,644)
• Sixth (7,283)

Do you know what place with the shortest name in the world? It’s actually a ten-way tie! There are ten places in the world with names consisting of one single letter. Among them are Å in Norway, Ö in Sweden and Y in both Alaska and France.

Shridhar Chillal, from Maharashtra, India holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest fingernails on one hand. When you add up the length of each fingernail on Shridhar’s left hand, the total length is 909.6 cm – that’s almost 10 meters long (or about the length of two cars)!