List of places named after Victoria of the United Kingdom

List of places named after Victoria of the United Kingdom

A number of places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria.

Commonwealth Realms

Australia

*Queen Street, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
*Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, New South Wales
*Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne, Victoria
*Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle
*Queen Victoria Village shopping centre, Melbourne, Victoria
*Queen's College, Melbourne, Victoria
*Great Victoria Desert
*Victoria Square, Adelaide, South Australia
*Lake Alexandrina (South Australia), South Australia
*Victoria Street, Melbourne, Victoria
*State of Queensland
*State of Victoria

Belize

*Victoria Peak

Canada

*Empress, Alberta
*Queen Street (Ottawa), Ottawa, Ontario
*Queen Street (Toronto), Ontario
*Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario
*Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario
*Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
*Regina, Saskatchewan
*Victoria Island, Nunavut/NWT
*Victoria Island, Ottawa/Gatineau
*Victoria Square, Montreal, Quebec
*Victoria Street, Montreal, Quebec
*Victoria Place, Montreal, Quebec
*Parc Victoria, Quebec City, Quebec
*Victoria Park, London, Ontario
*Victoria Park, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
*Victoriaville, Québec
*Rue Victoria, Longueuil, Québec
*Victoria, British Columbia
*Victoria, Manitoba
*Victoria, Prince Edward Island
*Victoria, New Brunswick
*Victoria, Nova Scotia
*Victoria Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan
*Victoria Peak, British Columbia
*Victoria County, New Brunswick
*Victoria County, Nova Scotia
*Victoria County, Ontario (now City of Kawartha Lakes)

New Zealand

*Mount Victoria, Auckland
*Mount Victoria, Wellington
*Queen Street, Auckland
*Victoria Street, Auckland, Auckland
*Victoria Park, Auckland, Auckland
*Victoria Square, Christchurch

Papua New Guinea

* Mount Victoria

United Kingdom

"Note: this is only a small sample of the hundreds of locations in the United Kingdom with the name 'Victoria'."

England

*Queen Victoria Road, Coventry
*Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
*Queen Victoria Street, London
*Royal Victoria Dock, London
*Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
*Victoria and Albert Museum, London
*Victoria Embankment, London
*Victoria Park, East London
*Victoria Hall, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire
*Victoria Park, Stretford
*Victoria Quays, Sheffield
*Victoria Avenue, Wellington [Shropshire]
*Victoria Gardens and Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall
*Victoria Road, Brighton
*Victoria Road, Cambridge
*Victoria Road, Canterbury
*Victoria Road, Chelmsford, Essex
*Victoria Road, Dagenham, Essex
*Victoria Road, Diss, Norfolk
*Victoria Road, Halton, Cheshire
*Victoria Road, Kilburn, London]
*Victoria Road, London
*Victoria Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk
*Victoria Road, Plymouth
*Victoria Road, South Ruislip, London
*Victoria Road, Stretford, Manchester
*Victoria Road, Swindon, Wiltshire
*Victoria Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
*Victoria Station, London

Northern Ireland

*Great Victoria Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
*Great Victoria Street railway station, Belfast
*Victoria College, Belfast
*Victoria Park, Belfast
*Victoria Square, Belfast

Scotland

*Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh
*Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow
*Victoria Park, Aberdeen
*Victoria Park, Dingwall
*Victoria Park, Glasgow
*Victoria Road, Aberdeen
*Victoria Road, Ballater
*Victoria Road, Brora
*Victoria Road, Dundee
*Victoria Road, Dunoon
*Victoria Road, Fort William
*Victoria Road, Glasgow
*Victoria Road, Gourock
*Victoria Road, Helensburgh
*Victoria Road, Kirkcaldy
*Victoria Road, Leven, Fife
*Victoria Road, Lockerbie
*Victoria Road, North Berwick
*Victoria Road, Peterhead
*Victoria Street, Dunfermline
*Victoria Street, Edinburgh
*Victoria Street, Fraserburgh
*Victoria Street, Galashiels
*Victoria Street, Lanark
*Victoria Street, Newton Stewart
*Victoria Street, Perth
*Victoria Tower, Greenock

Isle of Man

*Victoria Pier, Douglas
*Victoria Road, Douglas
*Victoria Road Prison, Douglas
*Victoria Road, Onchan
*Victoria Road, Castletown
*Victoria Road School, Castletown
*Victoria Street, Douglas

Jersey

*Victoria College, Jersey Victoria College, St Helier, Jersey

Outside the Commonwealth Realms

Cameroon

*Limbe, was known as Victoria until 1982

Hong Kong

*Jubilee Street
*Queen's Pier
*Queen's Road
*Queensway
*Queen Victoria Street
*Statue Square
*Victoria City
*Victoria Gap
*Victoria Harbour
*Victoria Park
*Victoria Peak
*Victoria Prison
*Victoria Road
*Victoria Technical School

India

*Victoria Terminus, (VT) Bombay; Recently changed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai, although it is known locally as VT.
*Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, (VJTI) Bombay; Renamed in 1998 to Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai.
*Victoria Memorial, Kolkatta
*Victoria Public Hall, Chennai
*Victoria Park, Bhavnagar


=Ireland=

*Queen Street, Dublin
*Victoria Street, Dublin
*Victoria Cross, Cork
*Victoria Place, Galway
*Victoria Quay, Cork
*Victoria Quay
*Victoria Street, Cork
*Victoria Avenue, Cork
*Victoria Road, Cork

Kenya

*Lake Victoria

Malaysia

*Victoria Institution, (An Elite High School), Kuala Lumpur

Malta

*Victoria, capital of the island of Gozo, also known locally as Rabat

Myanmar / Burma

*Mount Victoria (Nat Ma Taung)

Nigeria

*Victoria Island, Lagos

Pakistan

*Empress Market, Karachi
*Victoria Road, Karachi

Seychelles

*Victoria

Singapore

*Queen’s Avenue
*Queen’s Close
*Queen’s Crescent
*Queen's Road
*Queen Street
*Queenstown
*Queensway
*Victoria Junior College
*Victoria Lane
*Victoria Park Close
*Victoria Park Road
*Victoria Street
*Victoria School
*Victoria Cross
*Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall

South Africa

*Victoria Street, Durban [http://www.durban.gov.za/eThekwini/Tourism_and_Leisure/shopping/markets/vsm/5740]
*Victoria Embankment, Durban [http://durban.kzn.org.za/durban/about/102.html]
*Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
*Victoria Street, Somerset West, Western Cape

Sri Lanka

*Victoria Park, Colombo

Victoria Dam

Victoria Reservoir

Victoria Bridge

Tanzania

*Lake Victoria

Uganda

*Lake Victoria

United States

*Victoria, Virginia, founded 1906.

Zambia

*Victoria Falls

Zimbabwe

*Victoria Falls

Other

*Victoria Bridge, of which there are many
*Victoria Hospital, of which there are many
*Victoria Park, of which there are many
*Victoria Station, of which there are many
*12 Victoria, an asteroid discovered in 1850

There are other places that have the name "Victoria", with or without other words, but not all were named after Queen Victoria; see Victoria (geographical disambiguation).


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