Do you know the origin name of your country/city and where it comes from?

well we have the same origin of country and i think i learned this detail in school. i can still remember we do have a subject social history where we even study the evolution of our flag, oh those where the days, learning the origin of our country, the life styles before and how it eveolved, from those datus to the presidents, now i find it good to look back and remember this details. thanks on that.

I live in the bush in New South Wales. This is the land where the Kamillaroi Aborigines called home. They wandered around this vast area and where I live was called Billah-gah which means 'place of oaks'. I haven't seen many oaks but the land abounds with black cypress.

I'm in the U.S., and the word America I believe came from the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. I was born and raised in the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, and both city and state were named for places in England, as is the case of a lot of places here in the United States. I'm sure there are few cities/towns that are unique to the U.S., except for the really strange/obscure names.

Nice discussion...Cheers to you for starting with our beautiful country, the beautiful Philippines. I'm from Bicol, I just want to share where the name Mayon Volcano (the one with the perfect cone) came from. Mayon came from the word Magayon meaning beautiful. Hehe funny from the country goes to the volcano, just to share, Mayon being the famous spot and the pride of Bicol region.

I live in Davao and it comes from the word three Bagobo subgroups when referring to Davao River, an essential waterway.While, The aboriginal Obos who inhabit the hinterlands of the region called the river, Davoh; the Clatta or Guiangans called it Duhwow, or Davau, and the Tagabawa Bagobos, Dabu. To the Obos, the word davoh also means a place"beyond the high grounds".ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davao_City

Hi neelianoscet, Yes of course! i am also here in the Philippines,And i know that philippines comes from the name of king Philip of spain.I was born in Mindanao which is the land of promise.Good day!

Las Vegas means The meadows http://www.greentreks.org/watershedstv/old_cattails/lasvegas.asp

hehe ^_^ INteresting, and all i know about philippines is that, it's mostly under spanish influence, including all your names, which havs got spanish flair in it.. hehe ^_^ As for singapore, it's being founded by some prince out there, by chance.. haha =D IT's too long whereby i have forgotten the name.. hehe ^_^ BUt he's the one to give the name, Temasak or lion city, for singapore.. As upon arrival on our shore, he saw a lion.. lol =D

i am presently living here in Lapu-Lapu City in Cebu. i do not know where "Opon" came from which was the original name of Lapu-Lapu City but i am sure, the present name of this city came from our first national hero, Lapu-Lapu who fought against Magellan in 1721. with Cebu, i also don't have the idea where does "Sugbu" came from or what does it mean. but with Bulacan, my home province, i'm sure it came from the word "bulak", which is cotton.

hello neelia!well, with the name of my country...you already say it there so i just share my province & town's name... well, as you know i am from Laguna, and it was named after Laguna de Bay... having a number of lakes around... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_%28province%29 and my town is Calamba, which they say came from the word 'kalan-banga'..and here's the story... The name of the city comes from a legend that during the early time of the Spanish period in the country, two "guardias civil" or soldiers were lost and passing through what is now Calamba. The soldiers met a young lady who came from a river carrying a jar of water and a wooden stove. The soldiers unwittingly in Spanish language and in authoritative tone, to conceal the fact that they were lost, asked the local maiden the name of the place they were in. The lady, who speaks only her native language, naturally thought she was being interrogated about what she was carrying and nervously uttered "kalan-banga", meaning "clay stove" (kalan) and "water jar" (banga). Because the Spaniards could not pronounce it properly, the town has been called Calamba supposedly since then. This legend is immortalized with a large concrete water jar erected in the city plaza with the names of the city's barangays written on its surface. It is considered the World's Biggest "Claypot". This same jar is also found in the city's seal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamba_City so that's it...

I was always told that a guy with the last name of DuSable founded the city of Chicago. I don't know what the indigenous people of the US called that area before DuSable came and married a woman that was native to the area.

Hi,i hails from India and India called also as Bharatadesam.Bharatadesam name came because of the king,Bharath who ruled this country long time.Where as the name India came like this-The name India may refer to either the region of Greater India (the Indian subcontinent)..or to the contemporary Republic of India in there. well the term is supposedly derived from the name of the Sindhu (Indus) river and has been in use in Greek since Herodotus (4th century BC). this term appears in old English in the 9th century..n again in modern English since the 17th century....thus the name can be safely said to have been introduced by the English. Have a nice time.

Hi there! I am a Filipino myself and I have to applaud you about your wide knowledge of our country's name. Do you know that some Filipino sociologist was not really in agreement with our Country's name. Basically their argument came from the originality of the word which you already mentioned was came from the Spaniards. Using it they say we still under their influence. They thought it is more proper to use some of native languages like 'Maharlika' which doesn't sound like a country name does it? On the other hand, my Provincial name is 'Batangas' derived from the word 'Batang' which I do not know excatly the meaning. And my town is 'Bauan' which was derived from the word 'bawang' that describes the geographical location of our place.

I live in Ecuador, the city i live is Guayaquil. Now im not really sure(im 90% sure im right), but Ecuador is named after the equator(the imaginary line that divides the equally the northern and the southern hemispheres). In fact the center of the world is located in here. Now my city is called Guayaquil because of a story of two native american lovers called "Guayas" and "Quil"(dont really remember the story, and its a legend so its not all entirely true anyway). The actual name is Santiago de Guayaquil. Other cities in america have been name after santiago(which was one of the direct disciples of Jesus).

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I know that my city Conyers used to be train stop a watering post on the way to Covington through to Augusta an Marthasvile which was later renamed Atlanta, this place was actually pretty much a giant brothel, until a church mob ran them off an they all went to Covington. Actually this place was occupied by mound building native americans indians, the down the street from me known as Hightower Trail was once known as the Great Indian Road, the Cherokee an the Muscogee an Creek lived near each other at the border later that area was settled an changed to Hightower Trail. During the Civil War the residents fled because it was a major train stop, but Sherman never harmed Conyers. This place has mostly been about agriculture, it is one of the few places you can find though where a big city is only 15 mins away from farm animals, during the 1996 Olympics the Equestrians events were held here at a newly built Georgia HorsePark, which caused major growth for the whole area, restaurants,hotels, just major growth city been much more crowded since 96. I can also tell you just down the street, a Lady that claimed to see the Virgin Mary used to live here an people all over the world would come here to bottle her well water for healing powers, which is funny cause we all share the same underground river for the wells around here...lol An well I know my county Rockdale is named after rocks because of the rocks that are present here huge ones, that are formed from being so close to Stone Mountain, anyways there was a huge one next to this Church called Rockdale Baptist Church, an later is was name after this church. The name Conyers was from a rich powerful banker from Covington