Talk:List of double placenames

Rewrite
I've reordered this page and given it an introduction, followed by the categories in order or importance/contemporaneity. Whether the page should be continued as a comprehensive list of amalgamated placenames worldwide is up for debate. It would be far more in line with the Wikipedia approach to simply use the "Amalgamated placenames" category for towns and districts, so that they could be dynamically collected into a listing. If we continue as the contributor who created the "United Kingdom" section did, we are going to have a very unwieldy article. I would suggest that this page therefore be limited to countries, states, dependent territories and the city of Budapest. Tacitus 15:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * As the adder of the UK section, I concur: but why exempt Budapest? As a piece of trivia, I find Lewis with Harris more amusing. Also, we should remove the "List" from the page title if the relative sizes of introduction and list demand it. jnestorius(talk) 21:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I believe the article was originally called Double placenames, but was then renamed "List of ..." Somewhat confusingly, there is also a Wikipedia page, Category:Double-named places which refers to what would more accurately be called reduplicative placenames such as Pago-Pago. This suggests that "double" is rather an ambiguous term, since various sorts of doubleness are conceivable. Wouldn't "Amalgamated placenames" be more accurate? As for Budapest, it's the notable example there of a completely merged spelling without any space. It would be good for this page to include a cities list of manageable length, let's say 10 items, but how could one define this: places with more than 100,000 inhabitants? Tacitus 22:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Article title
As per comments above, there is some confusion as to what a double named place might be. This article perhaps should be called amalgamated place names or double-barrelled place names.--Golden Wattle talk 20:38, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Does "barrel" add anything? —Tamfang (talk) 06:17, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Bosnia et al.
The place known as Bosnia-Hercegovina in this article is more commonly known as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

71.102.144.27 00:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Svalbard and Jan Mayen?
When were Svalbard and Jan Mayen treated one entity?!? Jakro64 (talk) 03:54, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Why is King's Cross St Pancras a binomial placename?
Both King's Cross and St Pancras are train stations, so there is no hierarchical ordering in those names. So it seems to me that King's Cross St Pancras should not be a binomial placename. Bernard Teo (talk) 23:35, 1 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Most of the names mentioned are for combinations of things of equal rank. —Tamfang (talk) 06:19, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

German partitions
I'm a bit surprised to find no mention of another class of double names: those of lordships created by partition among brothers, like Saxe-Meiningen. —Tamfang (talk) 06:22, 16 December 2023 (UTC)