Coolest/most beautiful city names?

[monkspider]

What do you think are the most cool or most beautiful city names? I would prefer that you stick to cities that are not tiny little hamlets, but post as you see fit. You can use cities from ancient civilizations as well.

My top 10(not in any real order, per se)
1. Constantinople, Byzantium/Turkey
2. Pyongyang, Korea
3. Auckland, New Zealand
4. Medina, Saudi Arabia
5. Babylon, Babylon
6. Leningrad, Soviet Union
7. Tenochtitlan, Aztec Empire
8. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
9. Angkor Wat, Khmer Empire/Cambodia
10. Versailles, France

[Monk]

That's a pretty original idea for a thread, ms. I've always liked the name Providence for some reason and only discovered earlier today it means something quite unexpected. "Philadelphia" is a nice name as well, as are those on your list.

Isn't Angkor Wat more like a temple than a city, by the way?

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Monk
That's a pretty original idea for a thread, ms. I've always liked the name Providence for some reason and only discovered earlier today it means something quite unexpected. "Philadelphia" is a nice name as well, as are those on your list.

Isn't Angkor Wat more like a temple than a city, by the way?

Philadelphia, good one! I was struggling to think of a good American city name, and the best I could do is Los Angeles.
Angkor Wat was a city too, IIRC. In contemporary times it has come to represent only the temple complex though, like Macchu Pichu.

[Kontiki]

I've always been partial to Victoria. Don't know why, exactly. I just hear Victoria and think beautiful harbor, lots of trees, etc.. Probably because I'm from Vancouver....

[Zopperoni]

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

[Kontiki]

I don't know about the best US city name, but among the worst has to be Tampa. Just an "x" away from legendary tragedy.

[Winston]

Ouagadougou!!

Edit: Damn, Zopper beat me to it.

And Yokohama, Kuala Lumpur, Nairobi, Karachi, Novgorod, Vladivostok, Tashkent, Caracas, Djakarta.

Anchorage, Chicago and Norfolk are pretty neat as well.

[Godbear]

1. caberra - australia
2. seoul - south korea
3. barcelona - spain
4. warsaw - poland
5. vladivistok- russia

[monolith94]

Boston

[Edan]

Not a city, but a town:

Featherstonehaugh

pronounced Fan-shaw.

[Jaguar]

Dubrovnik, Croatia
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
Caracas, Venezuela
An-Nasiriyah, Iraq
Shiraz, Iran
Nairobi, Kenya
Atlanta, Georgia
Taipei, Taiwan

[JCG]

in no particular order...

vienna, austria.
tokyo, japan.
karakorum, mongol empire.
constantinople, byzantine empire.
panama, panama.
El Cairo, Egypt.
cartagena, spain/colombia.
paris, france.
st. petersburg, russia.
tabriz, iran.
roma, italia. (not rome, italy though)
shenyang, china.

[Nubclear]

Vladivostok, RUSSIA
Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL
Halifax, CANADA
Pyongyang, NORTH KOREA
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Salt Lake City, UNITED STATES.

[Immortal Wombat]

Dubrovnik is a good one. Also from Croatia: Split

Krakow, Lahore, Mandalay, Samarqand, Tripoli.

edit: Karakorum, thats the name I've been trying to remember! Thanks JCG

[Lincoln]

Guadalahara, Mexico (even though I can't spell it).

San Francisco

El Camino Reaale

Barcelona