Place-names of the World

16th century 2nd largest city Aegean Sea Algonquian ancient Arabic Arctic Ocean Atlantic Australia Black Sea Canada Cape Celtic Central Africa century BC Chinese city and seaport city in west city was founded coast colony Columbus Discovered Dutch east English explorer Europe flowing former name France French Gaulish Gaulish tribe group of islands Gulf historic province honour of English Indoeuropean inhabitants Iranian Islands in South Italian Italy Lake land Mediterranean mountain name derived name of River name probably Named after English Named after River Named in honour North Island north Italy north-east France north-west USSR Old High German Original name peninsula Phoenician place-names port Portuguese possibly referring region renamed republic in north-west republic in West Roman name Russian Sanskrit seaport settlers Slavonic South America south France south-east Spain Spanish Spanish explorer Strait territory town uncertain origin USSR West Africa West Germany West Indies word