Scottish Place Names Around the World (original) (raw)

As Scots emigrated around the world they often reminded themselves of home by giving Scottish place names to the locations in which they settled. Most of these Scottish names are found in North America and Australia / New Zealand. 50% of the suburban names in Dunedin have a Scottish connection - and Dunedin itself is the old name for Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city. But they also pop up with unfailing regularity in sub-Saharan Africa (there are at least 550 towns, suburbs, villages, mountains, rivers and other topographical features in South Africa alone) and Asia (Aberdeen in Hong Kong is perhaps the best known).

For a comprehensive background to Scottish place names around the world, see the Overview page.

To find where many other Scottish locations can be found elsewhere than Scotland around the world, go to:

Toponymist researcher Ian Kendall has provided another perspective. He is taking cities and towns around the world and finding the origins of the names used in their districts and suburbs. He has supplied the Scottish-related names found in a number of locations around the world. The current cities/towns are:

| Adelaide, Australia Atlanta, Georgia, USA Auckland, New Zealand Baltimore, Maryland, USA Bridgetown, Barbados Brisbane, Australia Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Calgary, Alberta, Canada Canberra, Australia Cape Town, South Africa Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Christchurch, New Zealand Chicago, Illinois, USA Dunedin, New Zealand Durban, South Africa East London, South Africa Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Hamilton, New Zealand Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Harare, Zimbabwe Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Houston, Texas, USA Invercargill, New Zealand | Johannesburg, South Africa Kingston, Jamaica Melbourne, Australia Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota Nashville, Tennessee, USA Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Perth, Australia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Port Elizabeth, South Africa Port-of_Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada Sydney, Australia Toronto, Ontario, Canada Townsville, Queensland, Australia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Washington, DC, USA Wellington, New Zealand Wilmington, Delaware, USA Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |