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Re:British Placename Mapper by arethuza on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @06:05AM (#39988937)
There can also be cases where nobody in the area actually uses anything close to the "official" name - e.g. Fraserburgh being known as "The Broch" or Aberchirder as "Foggie", Gardenstown as "Gamrie"...

NB Been a while since I lived in an adjacent area, things may have changed...

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Re:British Placename Mapper by ochrist on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:23PM (#39992514)
The Netherlands have several of these, the most famous one probably being The Hague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague#Etymology

Officially (in some official documents) the name of the city is "'s-Gravenhage", but normally it's just called "Den Haag".

Another similar one from The Netherlands is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'s-Hertogenbosch

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