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Places Named After People

Can you guess the names of these places that were named after people?
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Named After
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Place
A British Explorer that was killed in Hawaii
Mountain known in Māori as Aoraki
Mount Cook
An Italian Explorer who accidentally 'discovered' a continent
Capital and largest city in Ohio
Columbus
A Portuguese explorer who sailed through this passage during the first circumnavigation of the globe
Passage that separates mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego
Strait of Magellan
The Independence fighter nicknamed 'El Libertador'
Country home to the largest salt flat in the world
Bolivia
A Monarch of ancient Israel and character in the Bible
Melanesian island nation
Solomon Islands
The second longest reigning British monarch
Largest city on Vancouver Island
Victoria
A brutal dictator of the USSR whose name means 'man of steel'
Former name of Volgograd
Stalingrad
The 9th King of France with this name
Major city on the Mississippi River
St. Louis
The 'Great' king of Macedon
Largest city on the Mediterranean once home to an ancient wonder of the world
Alexandria
The first person to reach the South Pole
Sea near Antarctica
Amundsen Sea
Jesus Christ
Spanish speaking country known as the 'Land of Volcanoes'
El Salvador
An Italian explorer _______ Vespucci
The 'New World'
America
Captain James ______ who shipwrecked and died on the island in 1836.
Now known as K'gari since 2023, this Australian island is the largest sand island in the world
Fraser Island
A Vietnamese communist revolutionary
Formally known as Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City
Kazakhstan's first president from 1991 - 2019
Kazakhstan's capital was briefly renamed to this from 2019 - 2022
Nur-Sultan
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9 Comments
dirtynho
+4
Level 49
Jun 7, 2023
Maybe accept Magellan's Passage as well, but great quiz!
Ascorbic
+1
Level 69
Oct 17, 2024
Thanks! I just put parts of the answers in the answer boxes to remove any confusion.
frankdebruin
+2
Level 72
Jun 7, 2023
Maybe accept Qingdao?
Persephoneb
+3
Level 81
Jun 7, 2023
Qinhuangdao and Qingdao are two separate cities 440 km apart. One is in Shandong province while the city in the answer is in Hebei Province. Also the qing in Qingdao does not reference the dynasty but a color shade similar to aqua.
Ascorbic
+1
Level 69
Jun 8, 2023
Qinhuangdao has now been swapped for a different city.
fapsauce
+3
Level 45
Jun 7, 2023
Accepting Cook but not Amundsen, for example, is frustratingly inconsistent
Ascorbic
+1
Level 69
Jun 7, 2023
Amundsen is accepted, you may have had a typo.
fapsauce
+1
Level 45
Jun 7, 2023
Solomon is another one. Are we guessing the name, or the place name
Ascorbic
+1
Level 69
Jun 7, 2023
Place name. I allowed 'Cook' for example as it had already been given in the question that it was a mountain.
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