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A Capital Built to Belong to No State

A Colonial Capital That Stayed

A Country Shaped Like a River System

A Country Without a Founding Day

A Fifth of the World's Fresh Water

A Kingdom That Ended Twice

A Name Already in Print Before the Declaration

A Peninsula of a Thousand City-States

A River Geologist Lending His Name

A River That No Longer Reaches the Sea

A scenic area instead of a national park

A Square Mile That Runs Itself

A Village Renamed

Above the Tideline

An Archipelago Between Two Empires

Between Two Giants

Brazil's Empire Fell to a Coup, Not a Revolution

Canada Came Within One Point of Losing Quebec

Chicago Raised Itself on Jacks, Then Turned Its River Around

Denali, A Hundred-Year Fight Over a Name

Eleven Time Zones

Europe's Working Sea

Five Lakes, One Border

Four lagoons in the dunes: what the 1999 floods did to a desert park

Four Nations, One State

France's Ocean Is Almost Never Near France

From a dozen kingdoms to one: how England was unified

From a Sardinian hill to the Río de la Plata: where the name Buenos Aires came from

From colonies to Commonwealth: how Australia gained its autonomy

From Dutch Fort to English City: How New York Got Its Name

From Gastown to Granville to Vancouver: how the city got its name

From Phoenician outpost to free port: how Melilla became a city

From Rival Towns to Boomtown: The Making of Seattle

From royal approval to the 2015 avalanche at Langtang

From seven islands to one city: how Mumbai was joined together

From Union to Democracy

Germany's Landscape Runs From Alpine Peaks to Ground Below Sea Level

Gujarat Was Made by a Vote, and Its Capital Moved After

Hokkaido's Name Was Built From Two Rejected Proposals

How a court ruling over one word reshaped Catalonia's statute

How a flood and a dam made Amsterdam a trading port

How a Single River Word Split Into Sindh and the Indus

How Argentina got its name from silver

How Medieval Lombardy Gave Europe Its Word for Banker

How Morocco got its name, and what it is called elsewhere

How Norway kept its own constitution inside a union with Sweden

How the gold rush carried California to statehood and sent its capital wandering

Ice Erodes What Isn't Attached to Anything

Karnataka Kept the Name Mysore for Seventeen Years After It Outgrew It

Madrid, the Capital Nobody Owned

Mexico City Is Still Sinking Into the Lake It Drained

Moscow's Long Memory

Named After a President Who Never Lived There

Named for the Man Who Found It

New South Wales' Near Miss With Federation

Nobody Agrees What the Word Parisii Meant

Older Than the Amazon

Rome Was Seven Villages Before It Was One City

San Francisco Renamed Itself to Beat a Rival Town to the Name

Seven Thousand Islands, Three Regions

Singapore Was Expelled, Not Seceded

Standard Italian Started Out as Tuscany's Regional Dialect

Telangana Spent Fifty Eight Years Waiting to Leave Andhra Pradesh

The Aqueduct Clause That Made Los Angeles Sprawl

The Area That Moves With the Border

The City the River Named

The Collision That Shaped the Subcontinent

The Consolidation Act That Made Philadelphia County-Sized

The Densest Address on Earth

The Glacial Valley That Chose Berlin's Site

The Language Protest That Renamed Madras State Tamil Nadu

The Largest Protected Water on Earth

The Overcrowding Crisis That Produced Barcelona's Eixample Grid

The Plate Boundary That Built Indonesia's Volcanoes

The Rift Becoming an Ocean

The River That Carved a Mile Down

The River That Chose London

The Sea That Opened Behind It

The Trench and the Roof of the World

The Trench That Does Not Belong