#place-name
27 words tagged “place-name”
Welsh for a coastal salt marsh — the flat wet land where sea meets field.
Nickname for Michigan's Lower Peninsula (and the state) by its shape.
Northwest Indiana, the Chicago-adjacent zone that insists it's not Illinois.
Nickname for Indianapolis.
The thumb-shaped region of eastern Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Oakland's nickname for itself.
San Francisco, by its original area code.
The former inflatable-roof Minneapolis stadium (1982-2014).
University Way in Seattle's U-District.
San Diego shorthand for Tijuana, Mexico.
San Diego's Ocean Beach neighborhood.
Sault Ste. Marie — the twin-city port at Michigan's eastern U.P. (and across the river in Ontario).
Nickname for St. Louis, Missouri.
A causeway or paved track — Welsh for the kind of road Romans built.
Short for the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Southern California.
The Inland Empire, by its area code east of Los Angeles.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
In LA, the San Fernando Valley north of the hills.
Detroit's Seven Mile Road — north-side cultural artery.
Nickname for Lambeau Field, home of the Packers.
The East Bay, by its area code (Oakland, Berkeley).
Northern California.
The cluster of suburbs southwest of Detroit along the river.
Local nickname for Pontiac, Michigan.
Short for the Inland Empire, east of LA.
Detroit's M-10 / John C. Lodge Freeway.