User:Linshee/List of places named after women

There are a number of places named after famous people. For more on the general etymology of place names see toponymy. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

Austria

 * Amaliendorf-Aalfang – Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma
 * Elisabeth-Vorstadt (Salzburg) – Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Azerbaijan
Former:
 * Elizavetpol was the name of Ganja – Czarina Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden)
 * Yelizavetpol was the name of Ganja – Czarina Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden)

Belgium

 * Sint-Agatha-Berchem – Agatha of Sicily

Belize

 * Victoria Peak (Belize) – Queen Victoria

Bolivia

 * Azurduy Province – Juana Azurduy de Padilla, revolutionary guerrilla

Brazil
For a longer list, please see List of places in Brazil named after people.

Cambodia

 * Phnom Penh – said to be named for Lady Penh

Canada

 * Alberta – Princess Louise Caroline Alberta
 * Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of King George III of the United Kingdom
 * Kirkland Lake, Ontario – Ms. Winnifred Kirkland, secretary at the Ontario Department of Mines
 * Patricia, Alberta – Princess Patricia
 * Queen Elizabeth, Saskatoon – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
 * Regina, Saskatchewan – Queen Victoria
 * Victoria, British Columbia – Queen Victoria
 * Victoriaville, Quebec – Queen Victoria

Colombia

 * Albania, La Guajira – Alba Dolores Sánchez González (1895–1982), wife of the commissar of La Guajira, Eduardo Londoño Villegas
 * Clemencia, Bolívar – Maria Clemencia Grau
 * Inírida, Guainía – Princess Inirida
 * Leticia, Amazonas – Leticia Smith
 * Policarpa, Nariño – Policarpa Salavarrieta
 * Santa Sofía, Boyacá – Sofia Angulo de Reyes (1843–1898)

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Former:
 * Cité Maman Mobutu (Kinshasa) – Marie-Antoinette Mobutu (1941–1977), First Lady of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Élisabethville was the name of Lubumbashi – Queen Elizabeth of Belgium

Costa Rica

 * Santa Bárbara de Heredia – Saint Barbara
 * Santa Ana (canton) – Saint Anne

Croatia

 * Ernestinovo – Mrs. Ernestina Klein

Cyprus

 * Paphos – Paphos, daughter of Pygmalion (mythology)

Czech Republic

 * Karlín – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria
 * Terezín – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria

Denmark

 * Augustenborg – Auguste, duchess of Schleswig-Holstein
 * Charlottenlund – Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark
 * Dronninglund – Queen Charlotte Amalie
 * Liseleje – Elisabeth (Lise) Classen
 * Mariager – Blessed Virgin Mary
 * Marielyst – Marie Kørgensen

Dominican Republic
Former:
 * Emma Balaguer Viuda Vallejo (Azua) – Emma Balaguer Vallejo (1911–1992), Joaquin Balaguer's sister
 * Elupina Cordero de Las Cañitas (Hato Mayor) – Elupina Cordero (1892–1939), a Dominican catholic religious
 * Mamá Tingó (Monte Plata) – Mamá Tingó, Dominican activist leader
 * María Trinidad Sánchez Province – María Trinidad Sánchez, a female soldier in the wars of independence
 * Julia Molina Province was the name of María Trinidad Sánchez Province – Altagracia Julia Molina (1863–1964), Rafael Trujillo's mother
 * Villa Julia Molina was the name of Nagua – Altagracia Julia Molina

Ecuador

 * Ines Arango (Orellana) – Ines Arango (1937–1987), Colombian missionary

Egypt

 * Faiyum:
 * formerly named Arsinoe – Arsinoe II of Egypt
 * Saint Catherine, Egypt – Catherine of Alexandria
 * Victoria (neighborhood) – Queen Victoria

El Salvador

 * Santa Ana, El Salvador – Saint Anne
 * Santiago de María – Santiago González (politician), President of El Salvador with his daughter Maria Concepcion Gonzalez Fortis (1872–1943)

Estonia

 * Anna – Saint Anne
 * Kadriorg – Catherine I of Russia
 * Kristiine – Christina, Queen of Sweden
 * Maarja-Magdaleena – Mary Magdalene
 * Maarjamäe – Marie, wife and/or daughter of Anatol Orlov-Davydov
 * Pirita – Bridget of Sweden

Finland

 * Kaarina (Swedish: Sankt Karins) – Catherine of Alexandria
 * Kristinestad (Finnish: Kristiinankaupunki) – Queen Christina of Sweden
 * Loviisa (Swedish: Lovisa) – Lovisa Ulrika, Queen of Sweden
 * Mariehamn (Finnish: Maarianhamina) – Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
 * Ullanlinna (Swedish: Ulrikasborg) – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden

Germany

 * Charlottenburg (state of Berlin) – Princess Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen consort of King Frederick I of Prussia (est. 13th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
 * Cologne (state of North Rhine-Westphalia; Köln, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, CCAA) – Roman Emperor Claudius and Agrippina the Younger, empress consort (lit. Claudian colony and sacrificial altar of the Agrippinensians)

Georgia
Former:
 * Dedoplistsqaro, Tamariani (Lagodekhi) and Tamarisi – Queen Tamar of Georgia
 * Ninotsminda – Saint Nino, an Equal to the Apostles and the Enlightener of Georgia
 * Tamar (Batumi) – Queen Tamar of Georgia
 * Luxemburg was the name of Bolnisi – Rosa Luxemburg

Ghana

 * Queen Anne's Point – Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Greece

 * Athens – Athena
 * Santorini – Saint Irene
 * Thessaloniki – Thessalonike, sister of Alexander the Great

Grenada

 * Victoria, Grenada – Queen Victoria

Guatemala

 * Aparicio (Suchitepequez) – Francisca Aparicio de Barrios, First lady of Guatemala
 * Flores Costa Cuca – Jose Felipe Flores, Physician and Maria Josefa Barrios y Aparicio "Maruca or Cuca" (1878–1959), daughter of Justo Rufino Barrios
 * San Joaquin (Alta Verapaz) – Joaquina Cabrera, a former president's mother
 * Santa Catarina Barahona – Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Sancho de Barahona, Founder
 * Santa Elena Barillas (Guatemala) – General Manuel Barillas, president of Guatemala
 * Santa Lucía La Reforma – Saint Lucy and Justo Rufino Barrios the liberal reformer
 * Santa Rosa Cuilapa – Rose of Lima

Guyana

 * Anna Regina – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
 * Victoria, Guyana – Queen Victoria

Haiti

 * Cite Simone (Port-au-Prince) – Simone Duvalier, First lady of Haiti

Honduras

 * Santa Rosa de Aguán – Saint Rose of Lima

Hong Kong

 * Victoria City – Queen Victoria

Hungary

 * Erzsébetváros – Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria
 * Krisztinaváros (Budapest) – Archduchess Maria Christina
 * Terézváros – Queen Maria Theresa

India
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 * Chandigarh – Goddess Chandi
 * Hyderabad – Hyder Mahal, wife of Quli Qutub Shah.
 * Indira Point – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
 * Mumbai – Mumbadevi
 * Shimla – Goddess Shyamala, an incarnation of Hindu deity Kali
 * Secunderabad- After Named after Sikandar Jah, the third Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty
 * Sri Ganganagar – General Sri Ganga Singh, a Mahajaya ruler from 1888 to 1943
 * Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore – Potti Sreeramulu, an Indian revolutionary
 * Udaipur – Maharana Udai Singh II
 * Udham Singh Nagar district – freedom fighter and Indian revolutionary Udham Singh
 * Vasco da Gama – Vasco da Gama
 * Visakhapatnam – ruled by King Visakha Varma
 * Vizianagaram – Raja Pusapati Vijaya Rama Raju (Gajapathi Clan)
 * Vallathol Nagar – Vallathol Narayana Menon, Malayalam poet
 * Williamnagar – Williamson A. Sangma, the founder Chief Minister of Meghalaya

Indonesia

 * Jl. Dewi Sartika – Dewi Sartika
 * Jl. Fatmawati – Fatmawati, Sukarno's wife
 * Kartini, Sawah Besar – Kartini, Javanese women's rights figure

Iran

 * Apamea (Media) – Apama, mother of Antiochus I Soter
 * Nahavand:
 * formerly named Laodicea – Laodice of Macedonia

Iraq

 * Apamea (Babylonia) – a royal woman named Apama among the Seleucids
 * Apamea (Sittacene) – Apama, mother of Antiochus I Soter

Ireland (Republic of)
Former:
 * Maryborough was the name of Portlaoise – Mary I of England
 * Queenstown was the name of Cobh – Queen Victoria

Italy

 * Jolanda di Savoia – Yolanda of Savoy
 * Mafalda – Mafalda of Savoy
 * Margherita di Savoia – Queen Margherita of Savoy

Ivory Coast

 * Yamoussoukro – Queen Yamoussou

Jamaica

 * Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica – Lady Anne Hyde

Japan

 * Torahime, Shiga – Tora Gozen, a late Heian period prostitute

Kazakhstan

 * Imeni Diny Nurpeisovoy – Kazakh composer and dombura player Dina Nurpeisova

Kenya

 * Karen, Kenya – Karen Blixen, a Danish author of the colonial memoir Out of Africa
 * Port Victoria (Kenya) – Queen Victoria

Lebanon
Former:
 * Laodicea in Phoenicia was an ancient name of Beirut – royal woman named Laodice among the Seleucid dynasty

Lithuania

 * Marijampolė – Blessed Virgin Mary

Malaysia

 * Taman Tun Teja – Princess Tun Teja
 * Victoria, Labuan – Queen Victoria

Mali

 * Timbuktu – Buktu, a malian old woman who lived in that region

Malta

 * Santa Luċija – St. Lucy
 * Santa Venera – St. Venera
 * Victoria – Queen Victoria

Mexico

 * Guadalupe, Zacatecas and other communities named Guadalupe – Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mary)

Moldova

 * Regina Maria, Soroca – Marie of Romania

Mozambique
Former:
 * Ilha Josina Machel (Manhiça) – Josina Machel, a former President's wife
 * Porto Amélia was the name of Pemba, Mozambique - Queen Amélie of Orléans

Namibia

 * Mariental, Namibia – Maria, the wife of the first colonial settler of the area, Hermann Brandt

Netherlands

 * Anna Paulowna – Anna Pavlovna of Russia
 * Emmaberg – Queen Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
 * Geertruidenberg – Gertrude of Nivelles
 * Julianadorp – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
 * Sint Annaparochie – Saint Anne
 * Sint-Oedenrode – Saint Oda
 * Wilhelminadorp, Best – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
 * Wilhelminadorp, Goes – Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands
 * Wilhelminaoord – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

New Zealand

 * Aidanfield – Mother Aidan Phelan (1858–1958)
 * Alexandra – Alexandra of Denmark
 * Queenstown, New Zealand – Queen Victoria
 * Victoria, New Zealand – Queen Victoria

Nicaragua

 * Arlen Siu (Granada) – Arlen Siu, a guerrilla revolutionary heroine
 * Santa Lucía, Boaco – Saint Lucy
 * Santa María, Nueva Segovia – Saint Mary
 * Santa Teresa, Carazo – Saint Teresa of Ávila

Nigeria

 * Victoria Island, Lagos – Queen Victoria

North Korea

 * Kimjongsuk County – Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla and Kim Il-sung's first wife Kim Jong-suk

Norway
Former:
 * Victoriahavn was the name of Narvik from 1887 through 1902 – Crown princess of Norway, Victoria of Baden

Panama

 * Amelia Denis de Icaza (corregimiento) – Panamanian romantic poet Amelia Denis de Icaza

Papua New Guinea

 * Marienberg Rural LLG – Marie von Bismarck (1848–1926)
 * Queen Carola Harbour – Carola of Vasa

Paraguay
Former:
 * Doña Heriberta Stroessner de Iglesias was the name of Alto Verá – Heriberta Stroessner de Iglesias (1884–1946), Alfredo Stroessner's sister

Peru

 * Castrovirreyna – Doña Teresa de Castro
 * Heroínas Toledo District – María e Higinia Toledo and their mother Cleofé Ramos, heroines of Peruvian independence
 * María Parado de Bellido District – María Parado de Bellido, an indigenous Peruvian revolutionary
 * Micaela Bastidas District – Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, a martyr for Peruvian independence
 * Villa María del Triunfo – María Delgado de Odría (1900–1990), First Lady of Peru
 * Zúñiga District – Diego López de Zúñiga, 4th Count of Nieva

Philippines

 * Aurora – Aurora Quezon, first lady of the Philippines
 * Isabela, Basilan – Queen Isabella II of Spain
 * Isabela Province – Queen Isabella II of Spain
 * Magdalena, Laguna – Mary Magdalene
 * Remedios T. Romualdez, Agusan del Norte – Remedios Trinidad Romualdez, mother of then First Lady and Congresswoman Imelda Romualdez Marcos
 * Santa Rosa, Laguna – St. Rose of Lima
 * Victoria, Oriental Mindoro – Victoria Quirino, daughter of President Elpidio Quirino

Poland

 * Annopol – Anna Jabłonowska, wife of founder
 * Frampol – Franciszka Butler, wife of founder
 * Konstancin – Konstancja Skórzewska, mother of founder
 * Platerówka – Emilia Plater, national heroine
 * Terespol – Teresa Słuszka, wife of founder

Portugal

 * Rainha D. Leonor (Albufeira) – Eleanor of Viseu
 * Santa Joana (parish) – Joanna, Princess of Portugal
 * Vila do Conde – Mumadona Dias

Puerto Rico

 * Amalia Marin (Ponce) – Amalia Marín Castilla (1876–1957)
 * Eleanor Roosevelt (Hato Rey) – Eleanor Roosevelt, American Politician
 * Isabela, Puerto Rico – Queen Isabella I of Castile
 * Isabel Segunda, Puerto Rico – Isabella II of Spain
 * Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico – Doña Juana Díaz
 * San Germán, Puerto Rico – Germaine of Foix, the new queen of King Fernando or Saint Germanus of Auxerre

Romania

 * Constanţa – Flavia Julia Constantia, sister of Constantine the Great
 * Oneşti – Stephen the Great's daughter, Oana

Russia
Former:
 * Imeni Poliny Osipenko (rural locality) – Polina Osipenko, military pilot
 * Mariinsk – Queen Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)
 * Mariinsky Posad – Queen Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)
 * Yekaterinburg, Russia – Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Queen Catherine I of Russia
 * Yekaterinodar was the name of Krasnodar – Catherine the Great

Sierra Leone

 * Charlotte, Sierra Leone – Princess Charlotte of Wales

Singapore

 * Alexandra, Singapore – Alexandra of Denmark
 * Queenstown, Singapore – Queen Elizabeth II

South Africa

 * Port Elizabeth – Elizabeth Donkin (wife of acting governor Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin)

South Korea

 * Myeongseongsan – Empress Myeongseong

Spain

 * Doña Mencía – Mécia Lopes de Haro, Wife of captain Alvaro Perez de Castro
 * Dos Hermanas – Two sisters of Gonzalo Nazareno, Elvira and Estefania Nazareno
 * El Puerto de Santa Maria – Saint Mary
 * Fuente la Reina – Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon
 * Isla Cristina – Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
 * Talavera de la Reina – Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile
 * Villamanrique de la Condesa – Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans
 * Villanueva de la Reina – Queen Isabella II of Spain
 * Villares de la Reina – Berengaria of Castile

Suriname

 * Julianatop – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

Sweden

 * Charlottenberg – Charlotta Larsson (1797–1856) (wife of the founder of the industry)
 * Dorotea – Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden, Swedish queen
 * Fredrika – Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden, Swedish queen
 * Katrineholm – Catharina von der Linde, daughter of the estate owner, 17th century
 * Kristinehamn – Queen Christina of Sweden
 * Mariefred – Mary, mother of Jesus
 * Mariestad – Queen Mary, wife of Charles IX of Sweden
 * Ulricehamn – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden
 * Vilhelmina – Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden, Swedish queen

Syria
Former:
 * Apamea (Syria) – Apama, wife of Seleucus I Nicator
 * Latakia, formerly Laodicea – Laodice of Macedonia, mother of Seleucus I Nicator
 * Palmyra (modern) (Tadumr) – named after a daughter of one of Noah's distant descendants, who was buried in a city
 * Laodicea ad Libanum was the name of a Hellenistic settlement – a woman named Laodice among the Seleucids

Thailand

 * Chulabhorn District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province – Princess Chulabhorn
 * Galyani Vadhana District, Chiang Mai Province – Princess Galyani Vadhana
 * Mae Fa Luang District – Princess Mother Srinagarindra (Mae Fa Luang)
 * Sirindhorn District, Ubon Ratchathani Province – HRH Princess Sirindhorn
 * Srinagarindra District, Phatthalung Province – HRH Princess Srinagarindra
 * Ubolratana District, Khon Kaen Province – Princess Ubol Ratana
 * Vibhavadi District, Surat Thani Province – Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit
 * Watthana District, Bangkok – Princess Galyani Vadhana, alternative transliteration

Trinidad and Tobago

 * Charlotteville – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Turkey

 * Apamea (Euphrates) – Apama, wife of Seleucus I Nicator
 * Apamea (Phrygia) – Apama, wife of Seleucus I Nicator
 * Apamea Myrlea:
 * named for Apama, wife of King Prusias I of Bithynia
 * Ladik, formerly Laodicea Pontica – one of the Seleucids named Laodice
 * Laodicea on the Lycus – Laodice I, wife of Antiochus II
 * Laodicea Combusta – Laodice of Macedonia, mother of Seleucus I Nicator
 * Sinop – Sinope – disputed
 * Stratonicea (Lydia):
 * named for a royal wife named Stratonice, possibly the wife of Eumenes II
 * Stratonicea (Caria):
 * named for Stratonice of Syria

Ukraine
Former:
 * Katerynopil – Catherine the Great
 * Mariupol – St.Mary or Empress consort of Russia Maria Fyodorovna
 * Smila – unnamed local heroine
 * Krystynopol was the name of Chervonohrad – Krystyna Lubomirska, wife of Feliks Kazimierz Potocki
 * Mykytyn Rih was the name of Nikopol – Cossack Mykyta Tsyhan (as Cygan)
 * Yekaterinin Shanets was the name of Pervomaisk – Catherine the Great
 * Yekaterinoslav was the name of Dnipro – Catherine the Great
 * Yelizavetgrad was the name of Kropyvnytskyi – Saint Elizabeth and Empress regnant Elizabeth of Russia

Great Britain

 * Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire – Queen Alexandra of Denmark
 * Maryland, London – Henrietta Maria of France
 * Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
 * Queen Camel – Eleanor of Provence
 * Queen Charlton – Queen Catherine Parr
 * Queen's Park, London – Queen Victoria
 * Queenborough – Philippa of Hainault
 * Victoria, Cornwall – Queen Victoria
 * Victoria, London – Queen Victoria
 * Victoria, Newport – Queen Victoria

Northern Ireland

 * Helen's Bay – Lady Helen Dufferin
 * Victoria Bridge, County Tyrone – Queen Victoria

United States

 * Charlotte, North Carolina – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 * Los Angeles, California – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels

United States Virgin Islands

 * Charlotte Amalie – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)

Uruguay

 * Santa Lucía (Canelones Department) – Saint Lucy
 * Santa Rosa (Canelones Department) – Saint Rose of Lima

Zambia

 * Helen Kaunda (Copperbelt) – Ms. Helen Kaunda (d.1973), mother of President Kenneth Kaunda
 * Julia Chikamoneka (Kasama) – Julia Chikamoneka (1910–1986), Zambian freedom fighter
 * Victoria falls – Queen Victoria

Zimbabwe
Former:
 * Beatrice, Zimbabwe – Beatrice Borrow (1868–1946), the sister of Lieutenant Henry J. Borrow, member of the Pioneer Column
 * Victoria falls – Queen Victoria
 * Fort Victoria was the name of Masvingo – Queen Victoria