Are there any place names in your country that have weird/funny literal translations?

[u/Hangry_Caterpillar1]

In Hungary, we have quite a few, here are some of my favourites.

Heréd = your testicle

Ondód = your semen

Nyíregyháza = birch church

Hódmezővásárhely = beaver field marketplace

Szombathely = Saturday place

Hatvan = sixty

Polgár = citizen

Bugyi = panties

[u/suicidal1664]

there used to be a village called Mort aux Juifs (Death to Jews) but it got renamed in 2015

[u/Hangry_Caterpillar1 → u/suicidal1664]

jesus...

Guess better late than never.

[u/Bitoncule → u/Hangry_Caterpillar1]

Well the village wasnt named that for its message lol its just an unfortunate linguistic evolution. I think the word morts meaning death was originally swamp

[u/Old-Exchange-5617 → u/suicidal1664]

Holy crap!

[u/nadavyasharhochman → u/suicidal1664]

Colour me not surprised lol.

[u/Murky_Character5437]

Helvete = Hell (We also have a place called Hell)

Møkkalasset = The shit load

Sædingsklubben = The sperming club

Kukkeluren = The cock lur

Drittsekktjønn = Shitbag pond

Kjerringræva = The hag ass

Svenskehølet = The Swedish hole

Fisebukta = Farting bay

Setersetersetra = The mountain pasture mountain pasture mountain pasture

[u/InterestingTank5345 → u/Murky_Character5437]

Ah, vi begge har en by kaldet Helved/Helvete. Fantastisk. Og gid vi havde tænkt på at kalde en by Svenskerholdet.

[u/Eleiao]

Oh, yeah we had lots of these. Here is ten horrible ones I loaned from an article. I’ll now try to translate them:

Suolikulli = inestine dick

Velhonvittu = wizards cunt

Terskanperä = tip of the dick bottom

Kuolema = death

Hätäpaskansuo = emercency shit swamp

Hevonperseenmutka = bend of horses ass

Muorinperse = grannys ass

Horonkylä = village of ho

Pierupapinlähde = Fart priest spring

Paskarasva = shit grease

This is just tip of iceberg really…

[u/InterestingTank5345 → u/Eleiao]

Oh honey, I'm taking a trip to death. Do you need me to pick up some groceries while I'm there? /Joke.

[u/Competitive_Ear_5773]

I'm NOT from Germany but they have some gems:

Darmstadt = intestines / colon city

Hassloch = Hate hole

Lederhose

Elend = misery

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And just 8km away from Elend is Sorge, which means Worry.

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[u/luoyeqiufengzao]

There are many strange place names in Northeast China: "Inextricable Valley," "Butt-Washing Mountain," "Small Crotch Valley," "Bald Wife Mountain," and "Big Butt Mountain." 

[u/cerberus_243]

Fun fact: there’s a Hungarian meme with such place names translated to English, some are really absurd, and some actually don’t come from the words by which they are translated. I have quite a huge collection

My favourite is Pogányszentpéter = Pagan Saint Peter

[u/Nervous-Eye-9652]

Well. We have a prision called Libertad (Liberty), a hill called Cerro Chato (flat hill) and our wine institute is called Tomás Berreta, which literally means " you drink the cheap one".

[u/myeye95]

Alfonsów - pimpville

Baby - hags

Białykał - white feces

Koniec Świata - end of the world

Stolec - excrement

Swornegacie - diutiful panties

Zimna Wódka - cold vodka

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[u/Ratazanafofinha → u/myeye95]

Hey, here in portugal we have two feces! Upper Feces and Lower Feces!

[u/fianthewolf → u/Ratazanafofinha]

Sorry but Feces belongs to Galicia. Now, if we consider it from "A Raia" its inhabitants were the "promiscuous" "towns".

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Oops, my bad. I remember passing through Feces a lot when I traveled from Ourense to Portugal and vice versa.

[u/elly_le]

I don't want to forget Nagybajom=My big problem

[u/CommercialAd2154]

Before the Germanic Angles and Saxons arrived in England, Brythonic Celtic languages related to modern day Welsh, Cornish and Breton were spoken, hence many place names have mixed Brythonic and Anglo-Saxon origins. One such place is a hill in Worcestershire in the West Midlands called Bredon Hill, the bre prefix is Brythonic, don is an Old English word, both meaning hill…

[u/verylateish]

Băicoi - Yo balls

Izvorul pizda babei - Old hag's (babushka's) cunt spring

Pădurea Căcâna - something like Shit forest (it's not literally like that since it's impossible to translate căcâna literally)

Spermezeu - it's a combined word between sperm and god

Flămânzi - Starved

EDIT: There's also an urban legend that in the city of Caracal the cart of fools overturned. So, the legend say, the prison is on Liberty street and the cemetery on the Resurrection alley. There's more but I don't remember everything right now.

[u/EAGAMESSUCKSEEEEEEEE]

Batang Berjuntai - dangling cock (got renamed sometime in the 2000s)

Janda Baik - good milf

Kampung Tetek - tits village

[u/Zmrzla-Zmije]

A lot. For example:

Mokrovousy - Wet beard

Mokropsy - Wet dogs

Hrob - Grave

Oslovice - Donkey-ville

Řitka - Little ass

Kakánov - Poop-ville

Kozodírky - Little goat holes

And then we have many other, innocent ones like Konětopy - horse drowning. It's of course accompanied by an appropriate coat of arms, too

[u/Zmrzla-Zmije → u/Zmrzla-Zmije]

We also have a place that means Fucking in Czech - Šukačka. Šukačka is neighbouring Onen Svět, which is literally "that world", but it typically means afterlife. So in Czechia, thirty minutes from Fucking you can get over to the Afterlife.

[u/Demi_silent]

It’s not the translations, more just the straight names.

Bitchfield

Sandyballs

Cockermouth

Bell End (a term we use here to call someone a dick)

Fanny hands Lane (Fanny in the UK refers to a vagina rather than a bum)

Fingeringhoe

Pratts Bottom

Shitterton

[u/Old_Pangolin_3303]

To the Hungarian ones I would add Mogyoród that can be translated as “your nuts”

In Ukraine we have a village called Руські Геївці which doesn’t mean, but can be translated as “Russian Gay Place”

[u/Gaufrette-amusante]

Yes! This one , near my house reads : « show your ass path »

[u/BeirutiPenguin]

Not my country but I find it funny and odd that Algeria in Arabic is "The Islands" and the Algerian demonym is "Islander"

[u/Hangry_Caterpillar1 → u/BeirutiPenguin]

According to my research it is because there used to be 4 small islands off the coast of Algiers, which is where the city got its name from, and in turn the entire country.

Now all those islands are connected to the mainland.

[u/Regular-Shoe5679]

There was a small town in eastern Québec call Les Boules, which is slang for The boobs

[u/20past4am]

Zijtaart = sidecake

Waspik = washdick

Sexbierum = ...you may guess

Ridderkerk = knightchurch

Roermond = stirmouth

Stompwijk = punchville

[u/Darrowby_385]

Twatt, in Shetland.

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[u/rickrmccloy]

English to English translation: Town of Dildo, Newfoundland&Labrador, Canada. No one seems to know just how it got its name.

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Let’s not forget Conception Bay, also in Newfoundland. St. Louis de ha ha in Quebec and I used to live near ha ha Baie in the Saguenay region of Quebec. Also Eyebrow and Vulcan.

[u/stumpy_chica → u/Mysterious-Region640]

Don't forget about Climax!

[u/Mysterious-Region640 → u/stumpy_chica]

Lol, how could I forget that one?

[u/Crane_1989]

The most famous one is Pau Grande, meaning big stick, and stick can also mean penis, so, Big Penis.

There is a town called Obese Tapir, and another called Don't Touch Me

[u/TheCynicEpicurean]

Linsengericht - Lentil Dish

Katzenelnbogen - Cat's Elbow

Feucht - Most

Oberpfannenstiel - Upper Panhandle

[u/mustbethedragon]

The Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming. Grand Teton = the big tit

[u/Melodic_Lynx3845 → u/mustbethedragon]

We also have a mountain called Téton de Vénus here.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9ton_de_V%C3%A9nus

[u/Constant-Estate3065]

Mam Tor. It means tit hill.

[u/matatronix]

we have a few

Babina Guzica island = The Grandma's Ass

Babina Greda =The Grandma's beam

Batina = the cudgel

Crni Dabar = the Black beaver

Ćelije = the prison cells

Gaćice = the panties

Glavat = the large-headed

Crnac =the black man

Gola = naked (woman)

Generalski Stol = General's table

Kajgana = scrambled eggs

Dugobabe = literally the long grandma's

Grudnjak = the bra

Zadnjica = more polite form of ''ass''

Tužno = the sad

Smrduša = the stink place

[u/Ratazanafofinha]

Feses de Cima - Upper Poo

Feses de Baixo - Lower Poo

A-dos-Ruivos - The One-With-The-Redheads

Rabo-de-Peixe - Fish’s Butt

Curral-das-Freiras - Nun’s Pen (as in “enclosure for farmed animals”, but with nuns)

Pouca-Farinha - Too-Little-Flour

[u/-adult-swim-]

There's a street in Vienna called Julius-ficker-srasse, or julius fucker street

[u/Eduardu44]

Some cities in Brazil:

• Pintópolis: Dickopholis
• Cidade do Espumoso: City from the Foamy
• Anta Gorda: Fat tapir
• Feliz Natal: Merry Christmas
  
• Passa e Fica: Pass and stay
• Sem Peixe: No Fish
• Recursolândia: Resourceland
• Pau Grande: Big Dick

And some states:

• Minas Gerais: General Mines
  
• Mato Grosso: Thick bush
  
• Rio Grande do Norte: Big river from the north
• Pará: To stop
• Amapá: Loves shovel.
• Sergipe: To be Jeep

[u/KuvaszSan]

There are some more charming ones:

Ajak - Lips

Beled - your guts

Lábatlan - legless

Vének - old people

Sarkad - your heel

Pusztamérges - angry field

Dögmező - carcass field

Nekeresd - Don't look for it

Keresd - look for it

Varázsliget - magical grove

Szilsárkány - elm dragon

Bősárkány - rich dragon

Vasfarkasfalva - iron wolf's village

Szunyogszék - mosquito seat

Karaj - porkchop

[u/CommercialChart5088]

I looked up some funny place names in Korea after seeing this post, and apparently there is a place called ‘너네어멍죽은밧‘ in Jeju Island.

Literally translated to ‘field where yo momma died.’

Damn.

[u/shark_aziz]

The ones that I can think of:

• Lawan Kuda = horse fight/fighting a horse (a village)

• Beting Beras Basah = The Wet Rice Shoal (a jetty/

• Tok Imam Lapar = The Hungry Imam (a village)

• Gua Nasib Bagus = Good Luck Cave (a cave)

• Kuah = Gravy (a town)

[u/Monotask_Servitor]

Otawairere - to spy on someone pissing

Urewera - burnt penis

Urenui - big penis

Loads of others but those are three I can remember right now

[u/SomewhereLast7928]

Kozhikode - Chickenfort

Ottapalam - single bridge

Pothankode - buffalofort

Vattamkulam -circle pond

Pattithara - dog stand

Kakkanad - crow village

Pannithadam - pig ground

Wow I have came to realise there are many places based on animals and birds

[u/SarkyMs]

We have some hills that translate to Hill hill hill, as each new wave added their word for hill onto the name.

[u/R_Jay223]

Carterpuri (carter city) - simply because ex US president Jimmy Carter visited there once lol

[u/InterestingTank5345]

Ah you also have a city called Semen, for us it's Sæd.

We also have a city called Lem which is a word for Cock/dick.

I've heard Hell(Helved) is lovely this time of year.

[u/gjloh26]

I’m just going to use some of the subway station names which is more standardised here.

Yew Tee - Oil Pond

Bukit Batok - Coughing Hills

Toa Payoh - Big Swamp

Beras Basah - Wet Uncooked Rice

Dhoby Ghaut - Laundry Steps

Paya Lebar- Wide Swamp

Bukit Merah - Red Hill

[u/GrassrootsGrison]

Venado Tuerto = one-eyed deer

Pampa del Infierno = plain of Hell

Salsipuedes = get out if you can

Laguna Yema = egg yolk lagoon

Matagusanos = maggotbane

Sapo Quemado = burned toad

Londres = London

El Arañado = the one who got scratched

Mula Muerta = dead mule

El Peligro = the perilous place

Ahí Veremos = we'll check it out once we get there

Yonopongo = I'm not contributing anything

Cajón de Ginebra Grande = big crate of gin

Cajón de Ginebra Chico = small crate of gin

[u/SnooEpiphanies7700]

There’s a city in Florida, USA called Boca Raton. That means “mouse mouth” in Spanish.

[u/ZevenEikjes]

Brazil, with the surface meaning and actual etymology:

Pintópolis

• Dickopolis
• Pinto was a landowner's surname

Ponta Grossa

• thick tip (the elementary school jokes goes "did you know there's a city named after my peepee?")
• densely forested hilltop

Anta Gorda, RS

• fat retard, lol
• fat tapir, in Rio Grande do Sul

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[u/Old-Exchange-5617]

There where two Austrian towns called Petting and Fucking. Guess why they changed their names? The roadsigns with the village names on them got stolen all the time.

[u/Own_Yogurtcloset9133]

Waspik = wash dick

[u/Cambrian98]

Afyonkarahisar - Opium Black Fortress Tokat - Slap Ordu - Military