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« on: February 27, 2017, 08:05:10 PM »

I'm not sure if this is the right board for this; mods, feel free to move it.

I'm pretty sure we've had threads in the past about countries with odd full names--the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, the defunct Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and so forth--but I don't think we've had one about subnational entities.

Just starting with what I'm familiar with, there's the fact that Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky are all "the Commonwealth of" rather than "the State of". Rhode Island's full name is "the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" ("plantations" is apparently not an allusion to slavery but understandably sets a lot of black activists' teeth on edge nevertheless). My hometown of Greenfield, the greatest small city in America (even greater than Hudson!), decided to keep the name "the Town of Greenfield" to communicate a self-image as a tightly-knit community even after adopting a city form of government in 2003. There are apparently about a dozen other cities towns in the state commonwealth in the same situation.

Any others?
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2017, 10:29:39 PM »

Poolesville, Maryland used to have the legal name of "The Commissioners of Poolesville".
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2017, 10:42:15 PM »

Yorkville, IL is officially the United City of Yorkville. It stems from the 1957 merger of the villages of Yorkville and Bristol which sat on opposite banks of the Fox river.
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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2017, 11:02:49 PM »

City of Creede town or perhaps the Town of City of Creede, Colorado

City of Central, Colorado
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2017, 11:07:35 PM »

City of Creede town or perhaps the Town of City of Creede, Colorado


Similar to The City of The Village of Indian Hill, OH
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2017, 11:53:46 PM »

City of Orange Township and South Orange Village Township, NJ.
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« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2017, 12:18:05 AM »

Near Greenfield there's also the village of Montague City, a CDP (I think) in the Town of Montague.
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2017, 03:07:14 PM »
« Edited: March 01, 2017, 03:12:24 PM by Tintrlvr »

Poolesville, Maryland used to have the legal name of "The Commissioners of Poolesville".

South Orange, NJ at one time had the official legal name of "the Township of the Borough of South Orange Village" (including three of the four legal municipality types in New Jersey in its name). This was caused by switching from the Village to the Borough form of government as most municipalities in NJ did in the early 20th century, then later switching to the Township form of government because the federal government was really bad at understanding what NJ meant by "Township" and at one time offered subsidies to such places as if they were rural and unincorporated, even if they were not. Even today, it's still the Township of South Orange Village.

I see this was covered (in less detail) above.
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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2017, 03:52:17 PM »

There is also the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia, which isn't very Jewish and certainly isn't autonomous.
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« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2017, 09:39:18 PM »

City of Creede town or perhaps the Town of City of Creede, Colorado
Similar to The City of The Village of Indian Hill, OH
Voted the snobbiest city in Ohio, for good reason.
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« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2017, 06:38:51 AM »

North, South Carolina
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« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2017, 06:41:23 AM »

I've always found Norlina, North Carolina interesting for some reason.
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