Used to seeing Cityname, State. But today I saw Countryname, State with Jamaica, Vermont. Huh. Looked it up and confirmed that really is a town in the United States of America. Thought that was funny.

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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.

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