List of locations in the world with an English name: Difference between revisions

This is a list of place names originally used in England and then later applied to other places throughout the world via English settlers and explorers.

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• Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh (after Earl (later Marquess) of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India (1848–1856))
• McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh (after Sir Donald Friell McLeod, KCSI CB, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab (1865–1870))
• Forsythganj, Himachal Pradesh (after TD Forsythe, Esq, Civil Service, Asst Commissioner Simla District (1850))
• Wellington, Tamil Nadu (after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
• Forbesganj, Bihar (after Alexander John Forbes British District Collector and Municipal Commissioner of East India Company)
• Canning, West Bengal (after Lord Canning, Governor-General of India (1856–1858), and Governor-General & Viceroy (1858–1862))
• Landsdowne, Uttarakhand (after Lord Landsdowne, Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1888–1894)
• Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (The anglicised term of Lakhnau in Hindi)

Places in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

• Port Blair (after Archibald Blair, Esq, Captain in the Maritime Establishment of the East India Company at Bombay)
• Ritchie’s Archipelago (after John Ritchie, 18th-century British marine surveyor)
• Napier Bay Island Group (likely after Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, C-in-C India (1870 – 1876))
• Henry Lawrence Island (after Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB, Chief Commissioner Oudh)
• John Lawrence Island (after Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1864–1869)
• Wilson Island (after Sir Archdale Wilson, Commandant Bengal Artillery Meerut, lead the action in Delhi and Lucknow, 1857)
• Outram Island (after Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, capture of Lucknow, 1857)
• Peel Island (after Captain Sir William Peel, Victoria Cross, wounded in the Relief of Lucknow)
• James Island
• Kyd Island
• Smith Island
• Pocock Island
• Montgomery Island
• Patric Island
• Clyde Island
• Elizabeth Bay
• Campbell Bay
• Macpherson’s Strait
• Mount Harriet National Park (after Harriet Tytler, wife of Capt Robert Tytler of the 38th Native Infantry (1857), Supdt of Cellular Jail (1862). To be renamed “Mount Manipur”)
• Stewart Island
• Stewartgunj
• Anderson Island
• Bennett Island (after Capt Bennett, Marine)
• Colebrook Island

Places in cities

• Churchgate, in Mumbai
• Whitefield, in Bengaluru
• Hastings, in Kolkata

Renamed places

• Daltongunj, Jharkhand (renamed Medininagar, 2004)
• Ross Island (renamed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island, Dec 2018)
• Neill Island (renamed Shaheed Dweep, Dec 2018)
• Havelock Island (renamed Swaraj Dweep, Dec 2018)

Renamed places in cities

• Connaught Place (renamed Rajiv Chowk 1995),

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