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JimDabelltoday at 1:46 AM1 replyview on HN

These are known as tautological place names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam...


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teiferertoday at 6:53 AM

Thanks for sharing!

My contribution to this discussion is the place in BTTF which makes fun of this concept, the home of Marty McFly: Hill Valley

Not a tautological name but an oxymoronic one!

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