List of places named after peace

List of places named after peace

*An Binh, Vietnam
*An-pêng, town near Tainan, Taiwan
*Beja, Portugal (from Latin "Pax Julia" via Arabic "Baja")
*Brunei Darussalam ("State of Brunei, Abode of Peace")
*Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
*Echota, the old center of the Cherokee nation [http://chickamaugacherokee.org/echotapeacecity.html]
*Friedeburg, a city in the Frisian region of Germany
*Friedenburg, town in Perry County, Missouri
*Hoa Binh, Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam
*Jerusalem
*Kyoto (old name 'Heian' = peace)
*International Peace Garden, Manitoba, Canada and North Dakota, USA (the latter nicknamed Peace Garden State)
*La Paz (several places)
*Mir Space Station
*Mirgorod, city in Poltavs’ka oblast’, Ukraine (means "Peace City")
*Mirny (means "peaceful"), several settlements in Russia bear this name
*the Pacific Ocean
*Pacific, Missouri
*Peace river, small river in south-central Florida
*Peace river, major river in British Columbia, Canada
*Peace River, town of 7k on Peace river, Canada
*Peace Dale, village in S. Kingston, Canada
*Port-de-Paix, Haiti
*Salem (several places)
*Sea of Tranquility, on the Moon
*Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park [http://whc.unesco.org/sites/354.htm] , Alberta, Canada and Montana, USA
*Xi'an (literally, western peace)

List of places indirectly named after peace

*Islamabad, Pakistan
*Pacifica, California
*Pacific Beach, California
*Pacific Beach, Washington
*Pacific City, Oregon
*Pacific Grove, California
*Pacific Heights, California
*Pacific Palisades, California
*Solomon Islands

ee also

*Peace
*S-L-M


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