Fun fact, Lebanon, Ohio is locally pronounced Leb-anen or sometimes Leb-nen.

"cañada" with the accent over the "n" in Spanish means "gully" or "cattle track" so there's a freeway exit for "Cañada Road" that I drive past every now and then.

These are so fun to me.

There is a Norway, Illinois as well! It did, in fact, have a large Norwegian population. It’s the site of the state of Illinois’s Norwegian Settlers Memorial.

Don’t get me started on foreign city names, too. In Illinois there’s an Athens (ay-thens), a Marseilles (marr-sales) and a Cairo (Kay-Roh) Illinois. Pekin, of course (named after Peking, China). There’s also a Pekin, Ohio.

You forgot Lebanon, VA! I know about that one.

Also the excellent series China, IL

Thanks for the list. I wonder if there is a name for this type of occurrence?

On another note,

Columbia is everywhere (technically old poetic name for America, but same root as Colombia)

Thy banners make tyranny tremble,
When borne by the red, white, and blue.
When borne by the red, white, and blue.

not quite the same but there is a paris illinois and suppesdely like 20 strewn around the us.