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Palindromic Places, Part 2
As a follow-up to my previous post about the community of Blake in Dekalb county Alabama, I thought I'd investigate a bit more the possibility of palindromic place names in the United States. Referring to data from the 2000 Census, I crunched the numbers, er... letters.Turns out, there aren't that many palindromic places. If you do not include the state abbreviation, there are only fourteen names with the quality:
All of these places are cities, towns, villages, or CDPs according to the Census data. Unfortunately, the document I have does not include relevant country names or such (so, maybe readers can send in more interesting tidbits).
If one decides to append the associated two-letter state abbreviation to the place names, one gets only a single additional palindrome. That distinction belongs to a 'borough' in Pennsylvania named 'Apollo'.
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Interesting stuff, Eric. All of this is new to me. I'm sure you know of this page already (heck, maybe you wrote the page), but Wikipedia has several international locations on their palindromic places page. Also, interestingly there is only one nationality which is palindromic, that is, a Nauruan (individual from the country of Nauru). All of this is new to me as of five minutes ago - the beauty of the Internet. -Ben
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_palindromic_places
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My dad grew up in Zion, Illinois. They almost had it.
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