Category:Double-named places

There are a number of places in the world with doubled names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the local language from which the name derives. In some Indonesian languages, for instance, it is common to pluralize a noun by doubling the word. Thus 'orang' might mean 'man', while 'orang orang' would mean 'men'. The linguistic term for this is reduplication.

There is a greater clustering of double-named places in Indonesia, Australia, and Oceania than elsewhere, but these names occur in Africa, the Americas and Europe as well.