Of course, cities like Lisbon or Buenos Aires are world-famous–but less known is where they actually got their names. TRAVELBOOK has gone on a quest to uncover the origins of 11 city names worldwide ...

Below is a list of the 10 most populated cities with the word “spring” in their names sorted by current population size and some details about how they were formed. There are also details about the ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word or ...

You don’t need a passport to visit Peru, Morocco, Versailles or the North Pole. You don’t even need to leave Indiana. From names that conjure far-off places to those that feel plucked from a fantasy, ...