Unreal titles

1. correctly pronounce the name of the volcano Eyafyatlayokudl until recently could only locals. This title consists of three Icelandic words eya - "island", fyatla. "Mountain" and yokudl - "Glacier". 2. Iceland has another geographic point with no less funny name. Ёskyuvatn. The lake is located in the crater of the volcano Askja (ISL. Askja), in the northeastern part of the glacier Vatnayokudl. The lake was formed as a result of powerful volcanic eruption in 1875. 3. In the 80 years the Ivory Coast, whose name in most countries, translated into local languages, demanded that this power is only called in the French manner. As a result of our geographic atlas appeared in Russian unpronounceable name "Côte d'Ivoire". 4. The authorities of Burma several years ago, said that to gain a foothold for a long time the name of the Asian country should be replaced by an authentic "Myanmar", and the capital Rangoon was renamed Yangon. 5. Fight for place names patriotic quietly conducted in India: Bombay, instead of the usual all appeared on the map of Mumbai funny. And in Argentina, refuse to call the disputed archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean to the British Falkland Islands manner: for the South Americans, they Malvinas (from the name of the French port of Saint-Malo). 6. Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Andes and the Western Hemisphere (6,960 meters), located in Argentina on the border with Chile. At the top, of course, eternal snows and glaciers 7. 7. Garmisch-Partenkirchen - a world famous mountain resort in the Bavarian Alps, at an altitude of 700 m. 8. Halmahera - not a bad word, but the name of inter-island sea in the Pacific Ocean between the islands of Halmahera, Obi Bird's Head Peninsula and the peninsula on the island of New Guinea. Heavenly place: surface temperatures from 25 ° C to 7 August 28, 6 ° C in May. 9. Do not think that unpronounceable name - entirely non-Russian. In 2008 it was organized (note the Russian-speaking people) campaign for renaming streets Sharikopodshipnikovskaya. According to the laws of the metropolitan street name should be euphonious, easy to pronounce, concise and easy to remember. Sharikopodshipnikovskaya does not meet any of these requirements. 10. Tenochtitlan - the old name of the capital of Mexico, Mexico City. The city was the capital of the Aztec Empire from the XIV century up to 1521, so that the wearing Aztec name. It's good that the Aztecs did not occur to give the name of the city in honor of one of its most revered gods Huitzilopochtli.

Source: mirfactov.com/