This map makes zero sense. I need to see the data to understand I think. I’m unfamiliar with the apparently majority of Hawaiian cities with the name “Hawaiian” in them? In fact, there isn’t a single one to my knowledge.
And while Kansas City and Souix City or NYC all have city in the name, I’m scrolling around Georgia for instance, and there isn’t a single “______ City” in the state that I can see.
Going down Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Georgia I see Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Ray City, Sale City, Twin City, and Union City. Despite the “city” element, a good number of them are towns of a few hundred people and wouldn’t be easy to spot on a map
Edit: same method for Hawai’i shows Hawaiian Acres, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Ocean View, and Hawaiian Beaches
I’m sorry but you americans are so uncreative for town names. Couldn’t you have just kept whatever the natives called that land, because the american names are so boring.
NJ has a lot: Lopatacong, Paramus, Manahawkin, Absecon, Piscataway, Manalapan, Cinnaminson, Hackensack, Parsippany, Teaneck, Manasquan, Raritan - just to name a few!
Come on over to Washington where we have places like Seattle, Tacoma, Puyallup, Snohomish, Skykomish, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, and Issaquah, just to name a few.
We just have a looot of towns, so a bunch get boring names.
Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.
I’m not American. But also, most place names are like this, they’ve just been through enough years of language changes and conquests for the obviousness to be obscured. Beijing and Tokyo are “northern capital” and “eastern capital” respectively, for example. Hawai’i is either named after the guy that discovered the big island or just means “homeland”. “Denali” means “tall”
I guess it doesn’t take very many to make the map if there are no/few other identifiable naming conventions. Fair strategy scrolling municipalities on Wikipedia - thanks for that.
This map makes zero sense. I need to see the data to understand I think. I’m unfamiliar with the apparently majority of Hawaiian cities with the name “Hawaiian” in them? In fact, there isn’t a single one to my knowledge.
And while Kansas City and Souix City or NYC all have city in the name, I’m scrolling around Georgia for instance, and there isn’t a single “______ City” in the state that I can see.
Hawaiian should be it’s own category/color, like Spanish. It makes more sense since there’s far more naive Hawaiian words than just “Hawaiian”.
Going down Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Georgia I see Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Ray City, Sale City, Twin City, and Union City. Despite the “city” element, a good number of them are towns of a few hundred people and wouldn’t be easy to spot on a map
Edit: same method for Hawai’i shows Hawaiian Acres, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Ocean View, and Hawaiian Beaches
I’m sorry but you americans are so uncreative for town names. Couldn’t you have just kept whatever the natives called that land, because the american names are so boring.
NJ has a lot: Lopatacong, Paramus, Manahawkin, Absecon, Piscataway, Manalapan, Cinnaminson, Hackensack, Parsippany, Teaneck, Manasquan, Raritan - just to name a few!
Come on over to Washington where we have places like Seattle, Tacoma, Puyallup, Snohomish, Skykomish, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, and Issaquah, just to name a few.
We just have a looot of towns, so a bunch get boring names.
Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.
I’m not American. But also, most place names are like this, they’ve just been through enough years of language changes and conquests for the obviousness to be obscured. Beijing and Tokyo are “northern capital” and “eastern capital” respectively, for example. Hawai’i is either named after the guy that discovered the big island or just means “homeland”. “Denali” means “tall”
I guess it doesn’t take very many to make the map if there are no/few other identifiable naming conventions. Fair strategy scrolling municipalities on Wikipedia - thanks for that.