A - Z of Geographical Place Names

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Nötö.

Oqaatsut, Greenland.

P - Texas Panhandle

As dry as the area is, it's hard to imagine that there are granite mountains half a mile below ground -- the Amarillo Mountains -- covered by an alluvial floodplain.

Qasigiannguit.

Rääkkylä.

Sardinia - The second largest island in the Mediterranean, it is an autonomous region of Italy.

Taj Mahal - great Mughal monument: a white marble mausoleum in Agra, northern India, completed in 1643 in memory of Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. It is considered the greatest example of Mughal architecture.

Umbria - The only region of Italy that is completely surrounded by other regions of Italy. All the other Italian regions have either a coastline or border on another country (or both). Umbria is the only exception.

Venice, Italy - historic city and seaport in northeastern Italy, built on islands in a lagoon on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park -- located in Alaska.

Xenia Street, Staten Island & Queens, New York City, New York, USA.

Yyteri.

The only beach in Finland. See how unpopulated it is.

(The) Zambezi, the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa.

The Aa river (Holland).

Blencathra, also known as Saddleback, one of the most northerly mountains in the Lake District, England.

(Neuschwanstein) Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by King Ludwig, II of Bavaria, as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner.

(It is too COOL, for WORDS!! I remember walking up the hill and when I came to a clearing in the trees, looking over at the mountains {the Swiss Alps} and town, and knowing, for the first time in my life, the meaning of the word "awe". Also, Sleeping Beauty's castle, at Disneyland, CA, is patterned after Neuschwanstein Castle {English: "New Swanstone Castle"}.)