- Source: List of country subdivisions named after people
This is a list of country subdivisions named after people. It details the name of the country subdivision and eponym. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the administrative division.
This is a summary from List of etymologies of administrative divisions.
Australia
Jervis Bay Territory – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Queensland – Queen Victoria
Tasmania – Abel Tasman
Victoria – Queen Victoria
Bermuda
Devonshire Parish – William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire
Hamilton Parish – James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton
Paget Parish – William Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert
Pembroke Parish – William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
St. George's Parish – St. George
Sandys Parish – Sir Edwin Sandys
Smith's Parish – Sir Thomas Smith (English aristocrat)
Southampton Parish – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
Warwick Parish – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Brazil
Rondônia – Marshal Cândido Rondon
Santa Catarina – Saint Catherine
São Paulo – Saint Paul
Cameroon
Adamaoua Region – Modibbo Adama
Canada
This is a summary of Canadian provincial name etymologies.
Alberta – Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria
British Columbia – Christopher Columbus (→ Columbia, an American sailing ship → Columbia River → Columbia Territory of Hudson's Bay Company → British Columbia)
Prince Edward Island – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (son of George III of the United Kingdom), commander of British forces in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Chile
Santiago Metropolitan Region – Saint James the Greater
O'Higgins Region – Bernardo O'Higgins
Aisén (region) – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (officially, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region)
Magallanes Region – Ferdinand Magellan
Colombia
Bogotá – Bacatá – an indigenous cacique (emperor)
Bolívar Department – Simón Bolívar
Caldas Department – Francisco José de Caldas
Nariño Department – Antonio Nariño
Norte de Santander Department – Francisco de Paula Santander
Santander Department – Francisco de Paula Santander
Sucre Department – Antonio José de Sucre
Córdoba Department – José María Córdoba
Dominican Republic
Duarte – Juan Pablo Duarte
Espaillat – Ulises Francisco Espaillat (author and president)
María Trinidad Sánchez – María Trinidad Sánchez (female soldier)
Monseñor Nouel – Monseñor Dr. Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla (archbishop and president)
Sánchez Ramírez – Brigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez
Ecuador
Bolívar – Simón Bolívar
Estonia
Valga – from German family names de Walco or de Walko.
France
Adélie Land – Adèle Dumont d'Urville, wife of Jules Dumont d'Urville
Bassas da India – Fernão de Loronha
Crozet Islands – Julien-Marie Crozet
Juan de Nova Island – João da Nova
Kerguelen Islands – Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec
Saint Paul Island – Saint Paul
Tromelin Island – Jacques Marie Boudin de Tromelin, Chevalier de La Nuguy
Ireland
County Kilkenny – Cainnech of Aghaboe
County Offaly – Failge Berraide
County Roscommon – Coman mac Faelchon
County Tyrone – Eógan mac Néill
Italy
Aosta Valley – Augustus
Emilia-Romagna – Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 187 BC)
Friuli-Venezia Giulia – Julius Caesar
Jamaica
Clarendon Parish – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Hanover Parish – George I of Great Britain, of the House of Hanover
Saint Ann Parish – Lady Anne Hyde (first wife of James II of England)
Saint Elizabeth Parish – Elizabeth Modyford (wife of Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet, the first English colonial governor of Jamaica)
Saint James Parish – James II of England
Trelawny Parish – Sir William Trelawny, 6th Baronet
Malaysia
Putrajaya – Tunku Abdul Rahman
Mexico
Guerrero – Vicente Guerrero
Hidalgo – Miguel Hidalgo
Morelos – José María Morelos
Quintana Roo – Andrés Quintana Roo
Veracruz-Llave – Ignacio de la Llave
New Zealand
Auckland Region – Earl of Auckland
Cook Islands – Captain James Cook
Gisborne District – William Gisborne
Hawke's Bay – Edward Hawke
Marlborough District – Duke of Marlborough
Nelson City – Horatio Nelson
Tasman District – Abel Tasman
Wellington Region – Duke of Wellington
Nigeria
Adamawa State – Modibbo Adama
Norway
Jan Mayen – Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout
Queen Maud Land – Queen Maud of Norway
Papua New Guinea
Bougainville – Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Paraguay
Presidente Hayes – President Rutherford B. Hayes of the United States
Philippines
This is a summary of Philippine provincial name etymologies.
Aurora – Aurora Aragon Quezon
Isabela – Queen Isabella II of Spain
Quezon – Manuel Luis Quezon
Quirino – Elpidio Quirino
Rizal – José Rizal
Sultan Kudarat – Muhammad Kudarat
Portugal
Santarém – from Saint Irene of Tomar
Romania
This is a summary from Etymological list of counties of Romania
Bessarabia – from Basarab I
Russia
Kaliningrad Oblast – Mikhail Kalinin
Khabarovsk Krai – Yerofey Khabarov
Kirov Oblast – Sergey Kirov
Leningrad Oblast – Vladimir Lenin
Saint Petersburg – Peter the Great
Sverdlovsk Oblast – Yakov Sverdlov
Ulyanovsk Oblast – Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Oblast – Vladimir the Great
Yaroslavl Oblast – Yaroslav the Wise
United Kingdom
Anglesey – Ongull, a Scandinavian landowner
Angus – King Oengus I of the Picts
Bedfordshire – Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire)
Brecknockshire – Prince Brychan
Buckinghamshire – Bucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire)
Cardigan – Ceredig, son of Cunedda
Fife – Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruithe
Glamorgan – Prince Morgan the Old of Gwent
Gwynedd – Cunedda
Hampshire – Hamo, a 6th-century Saxon settler and landowner
Kirkcudbright – Saint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert")
Lothian – Leudonus
Merionethshire – Meirion, son of Cunedda
Montgomery, Powys – Roger de Montgomery
Nottinghamshire – Snot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire)
Roxburghshire – Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire)
Rutland – Rota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land")
Dependencies
Bermuda – Juan de Bermúdez (see the paragraph Bermuda above for its subdivisions)
Falkland Islands – Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland
Gibraltar – Arabic Jabal Tāriq (جبل طارق), meaning "mountain of Tariq", because Tariq ibn-Ziyad, the militar leader of the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711, landed there from Africa
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha – Helena of Constantinople, and Tristão da Cunha
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands – George III and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, respectively.
United States
This is a summary from List of U.S. state name etymologies.
Delaware – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
District of Columbia – Christopher Columbus
Georgia – King George I of Great Britain
Louisiana – King Louis XIV of France
Maryland – Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I
New York – James Stuart, Duke of York (later James II of England)
Northern Mariana Islands – Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain
North Carolina and South Carolina – King Charles I of England
Pennsylvania – Admiral Sir William Penn
Virginia and West Virginia – Queen Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen"
Washington – George Washington
Related lists:
List of U.S. counties named after women
Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
Uruguay
Artigas – José Artigas
Flores – Venancio Flores
Venezuela
Anzoátegui – José Antonio Anzoátegui
Bolívar – Simón Bolívar
Falcón – Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
Miranda – Francisco de Miranda
Monagas – José Tadeo Monagas
Sucre – Antonio José de Sucre
Vargas – José María Vargas
See also
List of etymologies of administrative divisions
List of eponyms
List of places named after people
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of country subdivisions named after people
- List of countries named after people
- List of places named after people
- List of places in the United States named after people
- List of places in Brazil named after people
- List of organisms named after famous people (born 1950–present)
- List of places in Germany named after people
- List of country subdivision flags in Asia
- List of places named after James Cook
- List of organisms named after famous people (born 1900–1949)
