Broxeele, France, cognate of "Brussels"
ITT: Cities in your country with the same name as a foreign city
Vienne, France
Valence, France
If I reckon we have Paris, which is a village
Brest, France(same name as a Belarussian city)
we have a lot of them, most are small cities/towns though
pic related is in Paris, Texas kek
Athens, Georgia, USA
I probably shouldn't post this, but we have Arabia in Helsinki
Versailles, (pronounced "ver-sails") Ohio
Pretty funny
not what you asked, but Todmorden is a false cognate in German
London, Ontario
Population approximately 500k
90% white
This region of Portugal has a lot of french derived names, mostly because they were French colonies. After the reconquista and the expelling of the moors, some areas in southern Portugal were desertified. Most of the lands were granted to military orders like the Templars that incentivized southern french to come repopulate the area.
There's a village just outside of Uppsala called Danmark (Denmark)
Sint-Winoksbergen > Broksele.
There's a Gothenburg in Nebraska, USA.
Yikes
>Albion
Howdie Monsieur
Paris, Denmark
theres a village called richmont
Turkey, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen