Worst City Names

1

Cockburn, Western Australia

Although this name is often pronounced "Coburn" by those who stand to lose from its awfulness, who actually reads that when they see this word? Oh, how it burns.
2

Twatt, Orkney, Shetland Islands, Scotland

The Shetland Islands, pronounced "Shitland Islands" by the locals. Oh the pride...
3

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapok-
aiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand

Locals call this hill in Hawke's Bay "Taumata" because... Well. Just because.
4

Muff, Ireland

They have a town called Muff. Har har har.
5

Looneyville, Texas, United States

Little Looneyville was named for storekeeper John Looney in the early 1870s. But who gives a shit. This is a hilarious name for a town in the state that brought us Dallas, the Bush Twins and Waco. How awkward must that be when you go to college? "Hey guys, my name's Johnny and I'm from Looneyville!"
6

Titty Hill, Sussex, England

Falling squarely into the extensive Stupid Place Names From England category, Titty Hill is probably located just north of...
7

Thong, Kent, England

Which actually is south-east of...
8

Gravesend, Kent, England

Oh, come on, England. Graves End? What a nasty, depressing little name. You could have at least gone all the way with this one and called it Corpse Feet.
9

Wetwang, Yorkshire... yep! England again!

Okay, so I'll cut England some slack. It's an old country. You know, if the United States is Google, then England is IBM. Their country is older than freakin dirt. They can't be blamed for having names that sound funny in 2007. But this is kind of ridiculous. Wetwang? I'm surprised they don't have towns called Squishy Vagina or Infected Scrotum.
10

Spread Eagle, Wisconsin

If I were mayor of Spread Eagle, I'd be making diplomatic advances towards the city leaders over in Wetwang to form a Sister-City relationship. Or maybe more of a Platonic-Friends-City relationship. After that, we'd just take thing slow and see what happened.
11

Bald Knob, Arkansas, United States

Well, I guess it's better than Hairy Knob. I assume England already has that one covered.
12

Cockup, Cumbria, England

Cumbria is a county in the very north-west of England. What the backwoods of Alabama are to America is what Cumbria is to Britain. They talk funny up there. Thus, it isn't thoroughly surprising that they have a town called Cockup. What do you call someone from this place? A Cockupper? Cockupeleite? Cockuppian? Cockupican? I suppose it's mildly better than Wetwangger.
13

Whiskey Dick Mountain, Washington State, United States

As hard as America tries, it can't compete with Britain's high standards. This was a good effort, though. Well done, Washington.
14

Hookersville, West Virginia

Undoubtedly named before "hooker" meant "prostitute who picks men up on street corners," Hookersville combines two crimes of place-naming. One, a dirty sounding adjective (they couldn't have chosen "Pleasant"? "Sunny"? "Happy"?) And two, they added "ville" to the end of the town's name. Affixing "ville" to the end of a town's name is like dressing your silly little dog in a cardigan and letting him carry his leash around in his mouth. It just makes the poor animal look stupid.
15

Hell, Michigan, United States

The people in this town at least seem to have a good sense of humor about their home's unfortunate name. Although, I'm sure there's some midwestern idiots in Hell who get all offended and defensive when the town shows up on lists like this. I'm looking forward to reading their insightful emails and comments.
16

Toad Suck, Arkansas, United States

So that's what they do down in the big AR.
17

Middelfart, Denmark

I guess it's not so funny to them, but how do we know that "Seattle" doesn't mean "Big Fat Stinking Turd" in Danish? That's right, we don't. And it probably does.
18

Horneytown, North Carolina, United States

Its proximity to Hookersville, West Virginia is no coincidence. I also assume that, like Hookersville, the naming of Horneytown took place before "horney" meant "aching for a hot piece of ass" with an extra "e". But I'm starting to wonder why, pride and tradition aside, the townspeople in these little places never saw it fit to change their homes' names? Do they enjoy being ridiculed by the entire English-speaking world?
19

Shitterton, Dorset, England

I wonder if they bleep out the first part of Shitterton's name if it's mentioned on the Disney Channel?
20

Disappointment, Kentucky, United States

Le sigh. Never mind. You live in a small town in Kentucky. At least it was appropriately named.
21

Fucking, Austria

The idiots who live in Fucking, Austria had a vote in 2004 to determine whether or not they should change the town's name, and you know what they did? They voted against it, preferring instead to put up with international ridicule, numerous stolen road-signs and horrific Google results.

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Last but not least: Whakapapa

Why is this the worst place name in the world? In Maori, the native language of New Zealand, the "wh" sound is pronounced "f". Say it aloud in your office and see what happens.


Found this while looking for City Names for my new cities for Escambia

LOL
to add
Salmon Arm,BC
Moose Factory,ONT
Moosejaw,SK
Happy Valley Goose Bay,NL
Bad Axe,MI
Gay,MI
Embarrass, MN
Marine on St. Croix, MN
Sleepy Eye,MN
Hells Creek bottom, MS
Butts, MO
Ho-ho-kus, NJ
Knob Lick, MO
Butternuts, NY
Coxsackie, NY
Nags Head, NC
Sugar Tit, SC
Gayville, SD
Dildo, Newfoundland
Joe Batts Arm, Newfoundland
Beaverdale, PA
Big Beaver, PA
Bird-in-Hand, PA
Blue Ball, PA
Burning Well, PA
Burnt Cabins, PA
Village of Four, MO
Bald Butte, MT
Nova Scotia has:
Bangs Falls
Beaver Harbour
Bible Hill
Chimney Corner
Cow Bay
Diligent River
Dingwall
Donkin
Economy
Ecum Secum
Folly Lake
Garden of Eden
Goshen
Harmony
Homeville
Joggins
Lower Economy (wouldn't want to live there)
Mabou
Malignant Cove
Meat Cove
Memory Lane
Necum Teuch
Paradise
Old Barns
Pleasantville
Port Bickerton
Prospect
Pugwash
Scotsburn
Shag Harbour
Sissiboo Falls
Tatamagouche
The Hawk
The Ovens
Upper Economy

I drove through a place called Cow Roast once.

Everything else i was going to mention has already been said

Whoa. Why does Western Countries have weird name?

Luckily names in Asian Countries can't sound weird as most Wesern people may not understand some of these Asian town/city names.

In Singapore, there's an island that is called Pulau Hantu, which literaly means Ghost Island. It's famous for its coral reefs though.

oh my god saathoff, dude, your a genious! I cant stop laughing at your post! lols

Haha, that's awesome.

I live in Sussex, never heard of Titty Hill though .

probably the best I can think of is here in CT we have a town named Bethlehem. Now not that its a bad name but imagine the scrutiny if you convince a die hard catholic you live in Bethlehem only to then inform them you meen CT not the birth place of Christ.

ahh yeah.. One from Iowa isnt so bad, but its Fertile, IA. We have a city called Strawberry Point, some people just call it Strawberry. We also have a Rome, IA and i think we have a Paris, IA too

Ireland has some funny names:

Tubbercurry, County Sligo
Kill, Co. Dublin
Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
Kilcock, Co.Kildare
Trim, Co. Meath
Cocktown, Co. Wexford
Muff, Co. Donegal
Nobber, Co. Donegal
Ballsbridge, Dublin, Co. Dublin
Clones, Co. Monaghan
Effin, Co. Limerick
Hackballscross, Dundalk, Co. Louth

haha i love it

Town, Co. Londonderry, Norn Ireland

Try these on for size:
10 of the most mispronounced names in the world

About the pronounciation of the word Phuket on the website shown above, it is actually pronounce as "Pull-ket".

Btw, are there any Thai here on SimSports? Cuz I'm half Thai, half Chinese Singaporean; my mother was born in Chiang Mai (pronounce as "Ch-ay-ng My), Thailand.

Im not sure. The closest person i know that close to the Asian decent is my gf's dad who's korean. And i know he's not on here

I'm not thai, but I'm sorta Asian...My parents are from the Philippines, but my grandparents are directly from Spain, and my other grandparents are from an American province in the Phils. So that makes me half Filipino-Spanish-American

btw, I actually have a thai friend at school.