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Nickname - Nicknames of geographical places

Nickname - Cities

See also: list of city nicknames for a more comprehensive list.

• Heart of America (It's in the Heart of America), City of Fountains (It has the most public fountains of any U.S. city), & the Emerald City(After the 1939 Film) - Kansas City, KS & MO
• The Big Sweet Grass Basket, The Palmetto City, The Holy City, The Big C-H-S, The Marina City & Chucktown - Charleston, South Carolina
• Charm City - Baltimore, Maryland
• The Big Apple - New York, New York
• "The Windy City", "Second City", "City of Big Shoulders", and "Hog-Butcher To The World" - Chicago, Illinois. (These last two are from the poem by Carl Sandburg; see also Nicknames for Chicago.)
• The Forest City - Cleveland, Ohio and London, Ontario
• The Big Easy - New Orleans, Louisiana
• Space City, Bayou City, H-Town, Oil Capital of the World - Houston, Texas
• Hotlanta/ATL/A-Town/The A - Atlanta, Georgia
• The Circle City - Indianapolis, Indiana
• Bluff City, City of Churches, Blues City,M-Town, The M - Memphis, Tennessee
• Mill City, City of Lakes, Twin_Cities - Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Motor City, De-twah (Mostly used by Michiganders), D-Town - Detroit, Michigan
• Music City - Nashville, Tennessee
• The Big Smoke - London, United Kingdom, also Toronto, Canada
• "Hogtown", "T-Dot"; and Centre of the Universe - Toronto, Canada, often used negatively by Canadians who live outside of Toronto due to the fact that the city is one of the financial and cultural hubs of Canada and that there is a perceived bias towards Toronto by the Canadian media and its Prime Minister
• "The Hammer" and "Steeltown" - Hamilton, Ontario
• Van City - Vancouver, British Columbia
• Beantown - Boston, Massachusetts
• City of Angels - Los Angeles, California
• Pearl of the Orient - Hong Kong and Manila both claim this nickname.
• Queen City of the South - Cebu City, Philippines
• City of Brotherly Love - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Emerald City - Seattle, Washington
• The Ingrown Empire - pejorative slang for the Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest) Spokane, Washington
• Crossroad of the Pacific - Honolulu, Hawaii
• The City of Lights and Flowers - Anchorage, Alaska
• Harbour City Sydney, Australia
• Winterpeg or "The Peg" - Winnipeg, Canada Due to the city's extremely cold weather and the idea that Winnipeg is the geographic centre of Canada.
• J-Ville, "Where Florida Begins" - Jacksonville, Florida
• Big D - Dallas, Texas
• BK/BX- Boroughs in New York City Brooklyn, New York and Bronx, New York
• "T-Town" - Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Nickname - Countries

• The Great White North - Canada
• The Land Down Under - Australia
• The Land of the Long White Cloud - New Zealand
• L'hexagone (The Hexagon) - France
• The Fine Country - Singapore - Often in a sarcastic or satirical manner, as to playfully describe the law enforcement of Singapore as corruption-free and highly efficient; however, the island nation is also widely accepted has been imposing high fines to minor offences such as littering with such high effienciency that granted such nickname to the nation.
• The Land of the Rising Sun - Japan
• The Pearl of the Orient Seas - Philippines
• Da Lu (mainland - lit. 'Big Land') - mainland China
• The States, America - United States

Nickname - Regions

• The Wet Coast - British Columbia, Canada; a play on "The West Coast" because that area of the country rains a lot
• The Left Coast - Washington, Oregon, and California, United States; due to their location in the country and general support of "the left" (liberal political ideology).
• Bridge of the World, Heart of the Universe (Spanish: Puente del Mundo, Corazón del Universo) - Republic of Panama; due to the convergence of the principal trade routes through its Panama Canal

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Nicknames of geographical places", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki