A - Z of Geographical Place Names

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Ufton Nervet, a village in Berkshire, England.

Vementry (Vemunðarey in Old Norse) - an uninhabited Scottish island in the Shetland Islands (not to be confused with the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica)

Wyndham, a small village in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales built alongside the Ogwr Fawr tributary of the River Ogmore.

Atlanta, GA - capital of Georgia, United States, and its largest city. It was an important Civil War battle site.

Blue Mountains - the longest mountain range in Jamaica. There is a premim coffee called the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee that is grown between 2,000 and 5,000 feet above sea level on the Blue Mountains.

Chagos Archipelago, a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean; situated some 500 kilometres 310 miles) due south of the Maldives archipelago.

Dingle Peninsula aka Corca Dhuibhne - County Kerry, Ireland -- The city of Dingle is located on the peninsula.

Équateur, one of the ten provinces of the Congo.

(Province of) Forlì-Cesena - A province in Italy with an area of 2,377 square kilometres (918 sq mi) and a total population slightly under 400,000. (In comparison, my county is larger and has well under 10,000 people in it and I live in a rather less populated part of the county.).

Garnedd Ugain, a mountain in Wales that forms part of the Snowdon Horseshoe.

Hebrides - An archipelago off of the west coast of Scotland divided into the Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides. I've often thought it would be interesting to spend a month or two one summer renting and living in a rent house on some place like Colonsay.

Isabelle Peak, a peak located on the Continental Divide on the border of Banff and Kootenay National Parks in the Canadian Rockies.

Jokkmokk, Sweden.

Kingston, Jamaica - Largest city, chief seaport, and capital of Jamaica.

Lake of the Woods -- Minnesota, US and Ontario and Manitoba, Canada

Supposed to be very good lake for Muskie fishing, especially just over on the Canadian side.

There are several small islands with houses. They apparently drive the building materials to the islands across the ice in the wintertime and come back in the summer to build the homes.

Who wouldn't want to live here?

Mäntsälä.