Driving back from the Netherlands, on one of our trips there, we made a diversion because I had spotted a little spot on the map called AMERICA and I really wanted to go there to see this AMERICA in the Netherlands.

It’s a small village with a café in the middle, we stopped there and had our coffee & cake and had our thermos filled with coffee so that we had enough until we got down to Bavaria. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any photos of the town sign of AMERICA in the Netherlands.

Recently, I stumbled across this map online, which I don’t want to deprive anyone of, because there are places with funny names in Germany, too. You can find AFRIKA, BENZIN and SCHABERNACK in the north-east. In the north and northwest you will find ENGLAND, KALIFORNIEN, BRASILIEN and RUSSLAND.

If you want to have fun with this map, you can look in the table and find the translations.

I wish you a lot of fun with the ingenuity of the Germans with their toponymy.

Namen deutscher Orte by Katapult – LINK CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Namensnennung – Nicht kommerziell – Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International)