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by blackhawkC17 694 days ago
Moscow, Idaho.

St Petersburg, Florida.

Angola, New York.

Melbourne, Arkansas.

There’s an entire Wikipedia page for US cities and towns named after non-US places.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._places_named_af...

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This is the opposite, though. A non-US place named after a US city. That's less common.