List of locations in the world with an English name

This is a list of place names originally used in England and then later applied to other places throughout the world via English settlers and explorers.

Argentina edit

Hurlingham
Londres (Spanish for London)
Ranelagh

Australia edit

See English place names in Australia

Barbados edit

See English place names in Barbados

Bolivia edit

Manchester

Bermuda edit

Canada edit

See English place names in Canada

Chile edit

Costa Rica edit

Liverpool

Hong Kong edit

India edit

Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh (after Earl (later Marquess) of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India (1848–1856))
McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh (after Sir Donald Friell McLeod, KCSI CB, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab (1865–1870))
Forsythganj, Himachal Pradesh (after TD Forsythe, Esq, Civil Service, Asst Commissioner Simla District (1850))
Wellington, Tamil Nadu (after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
Forbesganj, Bihar (after Alexander John Forbes British District Collector and Municipal Commissioner of East India Company)
Canning, West Bengal (after Lord Canning, Governor-General of India (1856–1858), and Governor-General & Viceroy (1858–1862))
Landsdowne, Uttarakhand (after Lord Landsdowne, Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1888–1894)
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (The anglicised term of Lakhnau in Hindi)

Places in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Port Blair (after Archibald Blair, Esq, Captain in the Maritime Establishment of the East India Company at Bombay)
Ritchie's Archipelago (after John Ritchie, 18th-century British marine surveyor)
Napier Bay Island Group (likely after Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, C-in-C India (1870 – 1876))
Henry Lawrence Island (after Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB, Chief Commissioner Oudh)
John Lawrence Island (after Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1864–1869)
Wilson Island (after Sir Archdale Wilson, Commandant Bengal Artillery Meerut, lead the action in Delhi and Lucknow, 1857)
Outram Island (after Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, capture of Lucknow, 1857)
Peel Island (after Captain Sir William Peel, Victoria Cross, wounded in the Relief of Lucknow)
James Island
Kyd Island
Smith Island
Pocock Island
Montgomery Island
Patric Island
Clyde Island
Elizabeth Bay
Campbell Bay
Macpherson's Strait
Mount Harriet National Park (after Harriet Tytler, wife of Capt Robert Tytler of the 38th Native Infantry (1857), Supdt of Cellular Jail (1862). To be renamed "Mount Manipur")
Stewart Island
Stewartgunj
Anderson Island
Bennett Island (after Capt Bennett, Marine)
Colebrook Island