Places Named After People

Can you guess the names of these places that were named after people?

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Last updated: June 8, 2023

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Named After	Clue	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	Island nation to the north of the Coral Sea	Solomon Islands
A British Queen that reigned for 63 years	Largest city on Vancouver Island	Victoria
The Man of Steel (not Superman)	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	Second largest city in Egypt once home to an ancient wonder of the world	Alexandria
The first person to reach the South Pole	Sea next to western Antarctica	Amundsen Sea
Jesus Christ	Spanish speaking country once with the highest murder rate in the world	El Salvador
An Italian explorer named Vespucci	'New World'	America
A Scottish woman that was shipwrecked on the Island in 1836	The largest sand island in the world, 250 km north of Brisbane	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

Level 43

Jun 7, 2023

Maybe accept Magellan's Passage as well, but great quiz!

Level 68

Jun 7, 2023

Maybe accept Qingdao?

Level 78

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.

Level 64

Jun 8, 2023

Qinhuangdao has now been swapped for a different city.

Level 44

Jun 7, 2023

Accepting Cook but not Amundsen, for example, is frustratingly inconsistent

Level 64

Jun 7, 2023

Amundsen is accepted, you may have had a typo.

Level 44

Jun 7, 2023

Solomon is another one. Are we guessing the name, or the place name

Level 64

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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