{"id":656,"date":"2009-12-15T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=656"},"modified":"2009-12-15T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:03:54","slug":"odd-and-funny-place-names-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/odd-and-funny-place-names-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd and Funny Place Names in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the joys of traveling in a foreign country (or reading a map, if you can\u2019t travel) is seeing all the strange, wonderful, funny and otherwise goofy names along your route. That applies to just about any country, as people living in F*@#$g (Austria) and Climax Springs (USA) can tell you. And Great Britain is just chock full of odd place names.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a very entertaining way of passing time during long and otherwise boring road trips. And since the holidays are right around the corner and may of you will travel to Poland to spend Christmas and New Year with your loved ones, I thought it might be a good idea to show you just what kind of odd names you can encounter while driving from one end of the country to the other. Yes, Poland. Poland has its own share of strange (and some are really strange) place names.<\/p>\n

For example, take this village in kujawsko-pomorskie<\/strong> voivodeship \u2013 Z\u0142e Mi\u0119so<\/strong>. Yep, a place named \u201cBad Meat.\u201d Let\u2019s just hope no food processing plants are located there.<\/p>\n

Bad Meat can definitely be one of Stanis\u0142awa\u2019s Problems. Yes, there is a village between Siedlce<\/strong> and Bia\u0142ystok<\/strong> called K\u0142opoty Stanis\u0142awy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Fancy traveling a bit further than just boring, old Poland? No worries, you can do that without ever leaving the country. There\u2019s a Korea<\/strong> in podkarpackie<\/strong> voivodeship (wonder if they make kimchee there), Ameryka<\/strong> (America) nearby Opole<\/strong>. Not enough? We also have W\u0119gry<\/strong> (Hungary), Pary\u017c<\/strong> (Paris) and Wenecja<\/strong> (Venice).<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a very cool map of most of the places with goofy names in Poland. Some of them I will not list here, because I want to keep it as a PG blog.<\/p>\n

And what\u2019s my favorite name? I heard about this one a while back, but didn\u2019t quite believe it. Ma\u0142a Wie\u015b przy Drodze<\/strong> \u2013 Little Village by the Road.<\/p>\n

Now, courtesy of yellerbelly\u2019s most excellent photography skills and his Warsaw Daily Photo<\/a> blog, I have visual proof that Little Village by the Road is not an urban legend and does indeed exist.<\/p>\n

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So, what are some of your favorite Polish place names?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

One of the joys of traveling in a foreign country (or reading a map, if you can\u2019t travel) is seeing all the strange, wonderful, funny and otherwise goofy names along your route. That applies to just about any country, as people living in F*@#$g (Austria) and Climax Springs (USA) can tell you. And Great Britain…<\/p>\n

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