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Where the United States got their names

ιϝʹ Gamelion ψʹ.βʹ / 2023 February 06 · Tagged as cartography, language · Leave a comment

A map of where the United States got their names. On the east coast, most were named after a person or place from Europe; further west, most were named after Indian tribes or native place names. Idaho in particular was "made up out of whole cloth by an eccentric prospector pretending to be a delegate from a nonexistent territory".

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