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Rank Topic Wikipedia views
Oct 21 2010
1 New York City, New York – James of York and Albany 65788
2 Philippines – Philip II of Spain 41530
3 Israel – Jacob (alternative name) 39588
4 Los Angeles, California – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels 37825
5 Washington, D.C. – George Washington 32416
6 Colombia – Christopher Columbus (after the Italian version of his name) 24873
7 San Marino – Saint Marinus 24266
8 Rome – Romulus 23150
9 Saudi Arabia – Muhammad bin Saud 22844
10 San Francisco, California – Saint Francis 22382
11 Sydney – Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney 18662
12 Dominican Republic – Saint Dominic 18330
13 Bolivia – Simón Bolívar 16347
14 Seattle, Washington – Chief Seattle 16231
15 Mumbai – Mumbadevi 15743
16 Barcelona (Carthaginian: Barcino) – Hamilcar Barca (etymology disputed) 15291
17 Houston, Texas – Sam Houston 14685
18 Melbourne – William Lamb, Lord Melbourne 14162
19 Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore 13932
20 Cambodia – Kambu Svayambhuva 13549
21 El Salvador – "The Saviour", Jesus 12911
22 Saint Petersburg – St. Peter, as the patron saint of Peter the Great (Saint Petersburg, Florida in the United States was in turn named after the Russian city) 12484
23 Istanbul, formerly Konstantinoupolis/Constantinople – Constantine I 12425
24 Vancouver, British Columbia – Captain George Vancouver, English explorer of Dutch descent ( [link]) 12164
25 Mauritius – Maurice of Nassau 11620
26 Athens – Athena 11457
27 Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas 11378
28 Brisbane – Sir Thomas Brisbane 11240
29 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – William Pitt the Elder 11185
30 San Diego, California – Didacus of Alcalá, better known as San Diego 10751
31 Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin 9964
32 Gibraltar – Tariq ibn Ziyad (British overseas territory) 9840
33 Liechtenstein – Anton Florian of Liechtenstein 9100
34 Bermuda РJuan de Berm̼dez (British overseas territory) 9014
35 Americas (North America and South America) – Amerigo Vespucci or Richard Amerike 8821
36 Charlotte, North Carolina – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 7618
37 Seychelles – Jean Moreau de Sechelles 7617
38 San Antonio, Texas – Saint Anthony of Padua 7168
39 Cologne (state of North Rhine-Westphalia; , , CCAA) – Roman Emperor Claudius and Agrippina the Younger, empress consort (lit. in ) 6590
40 Ho Chi Minh City – Ho Chi Minh 6310
41 San Jose, California – Saint Joseph 6165
42 Falkland Islands – Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland (British overseas territory) 6049
43 Saint Lucia – Lucy of Syracuse (?) 5969
44 Lisbon (Latin, Olisipo, Olisipo Felicitas Iulia, Felicitas Julia Olissipo, Ulyssipolis, Ulisseia) – Ulysses 5822
45 Jacksonville, Florida – Andrew Jackson 5806
46 Johannesburg – Johannes Rissk; Johannes Meyer 5700
47 Auckland – George Eden, Earl of Auckland 5693
48 Hiroshima – Ōe no Hiromoto + Fukushima Motonaga (disputed) 5251
49 Adelaide – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen 5051
50 Solomon Islands – Solomon 5044
51 Bucharest – Bucur, legendary shepherd 4909
52 Santiago – James, son of Zebedee (Saint James) 4849
53 Kiribati – Thomas Gilbert 4441
54 Marshall Islands – John Marshall 4109
55 Cook Islands – Captain James Cook 4015
56 Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Christopher 3740
57 Thessaloniki – Thessalonica, sister of Alexander the Great 3676
58 Victoria, British Columbia – Victoria of the United Kingdom 3381
59 Santorini – Saint Irene 3350
60 Santo Domingo – Saint Dominic 3277
61 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Saint Vincent 3238
62 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands – George III of the United Kingdom, and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich respectively (British overseas territory) 3022
63 Christchurch – Jesus Christ (indirectly via Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford in England) 2850
64 Hamilton, Ontario – George Hamilton 2845
65 Darwin – Charles Darwin 2600
66 Cork - Corc 2594
67 Kingston, Jamaica – King William III of England 2562
68 Quezon City – Manuel L. Quezon 2551
69 Amman – Ammon 2486
70 Antioch was the name of an antique city near today's Antakya – Antiochus 2252
71 Kingston upon Hull – Edward I of England 2218
72 Regina, Saskatchewan – Victoria of the United Kingdom 2189
73 Pretoria – Andries Pretorius 2176
74 Lviv – Leo I of Halych 2167
75 Durban – Sir Benjamin d'Urban 2095
76 San Salvador, El Salvador – Jesus (the Christian Savior) 1954
77 Cairns – William Wellington Cairns 1937
78 Zaragoza (; in ) – Emperor Augustus 1866
79 Hobart – Lord Hobart 1833
80 Santiago de Compostela – Saint James the Great 1820
81 Grenoble () – Roman Emperor Gratian 1781
82 Yekaterinburg, Russia – Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Catherine I of Russia 1696
83 Wolverhampton – Wulfrun 1635
84 Trier (state of Rhineland-Palatinate; ) – Augustus (lit. in ) 1522
85 Acre, formerly named Antiochia Ptolemais – Alexander the Great's generals Antiochus and Ptolemy Soter 1398
86 Karlsruhe (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Margrave Charles III WIlliam of Baden-Durlach 1385
87 Augsburg (state of Bavaria) – Roman Caesar Augustus 1383
88 Valletta – for Grandmaster Jean de la Vallette 1337
89 Kitchener, Ontario – Horatio Kitchener 1332
90 St Albans – St Alban 1304
91 Townsville – Robert Towns 1300
92 Port Moresby – Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby 1273
93 County Kerry - Ciar 1235
94 Pamplona () – Pompey the Great (founder) 1213
95 St Andrews – St Andrew 1170
96 Valladolid () – Al-Walid I 1111
97 Aurangabad – Aurangazeb (Mughal emperor) 1086
98 Monrovia – James Monroe 1050
99 Fredericton, New Brunswick – Prince Frederick, Duke of York 1018
100 Susa, formerly named Seleucia – Seleucus I Nicator 999
101 Dnipropetrovsk – bolshevik Grigory Petrovsky who was one of the leaders of Communist Ukraine in 20's–30's 982
102 Southern Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) – Cecil Rhodes 971
103 Georgetown – King George III of the United Kingdom 955
104 Bodh Gaya – Buddha 941
105 Prince George, British Columbia – George III of England 932
106 Matamoros, Tamaulipas – Mariano Matamoros 905
107 Port Elizabeth – Elizabeth Donkin (wife of governor Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin) 899
108 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of King George III of the United Kingdom 898
109 Connacht - Conn Cétchathach 879
110 Khabarovsk – explorer of Siberia Yerofey Khabarov 877
111 Markham, Ontario – William Markham 877
112 Bury St Edmunds – Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia 873
113 Barrie, Ontario – Sir Robert Barrie 867
114 Jamshedpur, also called Tata Nagar – Jamshetji Tata 861
115 Lethbridge, Alberta – William Lethbridge 842
116 Edirne, formerly Hadrianopolis – Roman emperor Hadrian 840
117 County Tyrone – after Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages 830
118 Karlovy Vary – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 829
119 Kimberley – John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 827
120 Burnaby, British Columbia – Robert Burnaby (politician and explorer) 810
121 Peterborough, Ontario – Peter Robinson 803
122 Adana, formerly Antiochia in Cilicia and Antiochia ad Sarum – one of the Seleucids named Antiochus 793
123 Longyearbyen – world's northernmost town – John Munro Longyear 764
124 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul 760
125 Bendigo – William Abednego Thompson -boxer indirectly 759
126 Rizal – Jose Rizal 758
127 Nelson – Admiral Horatio Nelson 757
128 Abbotsford, British Columbia – Harry Abbott (railway superintendent) 752
129 Brazzaville – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza 751
130 Sucre РAntonio Jos̩ de Sucre 742
131 St. Gallen – Saint Gall 734
132 Tiberias – Tiberius Caesar Augustus 734
133 Churchill, Manitoba – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough 728
134 Port Louis – Louis XV of France 716
135 General Santos City – General Paulino Santos 708
136 Sherbrooke, Quebec and Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia – John Coape Sherbrooke 700
137 San Gimignano – Saint Geminianus 677
138 Yaroslavl – prince Yaroslav I the Wise 666
139 Hamilton – Henry Hamilton 651
140 Telford – Thomas Telford 644
141 Sanremo – Saint Romulus of Genoa 631
142 Invercargill – William Cargill 618
143 Valenzuela City – Pio Valenzuela 610
144 Latakia, formerly Laodicea – Laodice of Macedonia, mother of Seleucus I Nicator 608
145 's-Hertogenbosch (lit. The Duke's Forest) – Henry I, Duke of Brabant 608
146 Charleroi – Charles II of Spain 584
147 Palmerston North – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 576
148 Stanley – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 571
149 Napier – Charles James Napier 561
150 Zhongshan, Guangdong – Dr. Sun Yat-sen 555
151 Mackay – John Mackay 549
152 Mariupol – St.Mary or tsarine Maria Fyodorovna of Russia 540
153 Sankt Pauli (state of Hamburg) – (Saul) Paul of Tarsos 531
154 Charlotte Amalie – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) 530
155 Sydney, Nova Scotia – Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney 528
156 Kristiansand – King Christian IV of Denmark 525
157 Pietermaritzburg – Two theories exist. 517
158 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan – Albert, Prince Consort 509
159 Legazpi City – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi 509
160 Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia) – Cecil Rhodes 502
161 Gandhinagar – Mahatma Gandhi 495







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