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Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your... by mrweasel on Saturday September 14, 2024 @12:39PM (#41540882)

Plenty of European countries have conflicting city/town/village names as well. If they grow to large they are sometimes specified by adding more locality to their name.

Denmark has three cities names Nykøbing, typically specified as Nykøbing Mors, Nykøbing Sjælland or Nykøbing Falser. Small places are just allowed to conflict as long as they aren't in the same postcode.

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Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your... by riffraff on Sunday September 15, 2024 @01:12AM (#41545360)

Indeed, Italy has a ton of cities called something like "old town", "new inn" or "castle", for obvious reasons.

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Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your... by dredmorbius on Sunday September 15, 2024 @03:19AM (#41545833)

Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany.

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Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your... by scooke on Monday September 16, 2024 @10:49AM (#41556686)

I made the mistake once of "flying to Frankfurt!" on some low-cost airline out of the UK and landed in Frankfurt-Hahn. Yikes.

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Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your... by SahAssar on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:00PM (#41560075)

In "Frankfurt-Hahn" the "Frankfurt" is still the same Frankfurt you (probably) wanted, you just got a different airport located further out. "Frankfurt an der Oder" is on the other side of Germany on the border with Poland, a ~7h drive away.

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