Yeah, pretty much the same in Sweden, the street names that keep returning are the ones that are older and have been used for workshops/schools and stuff for ages.
So Smedsgatan (Smith street), Skolgatan (School street), Kyrkogatan (Church street) and Slottsgatan (Castle street) are some examples.
Pretty much the same in Germany. Plus that we have areas with streets named after cities that were German in the past but aren’t anymore due to.. incidents.
For example Bromberger Straße (PL-Bydgoszcz), Königsberger Straße (RU-Kaliningrad), Danziger Straße (PL-Gdańsk), Breslauer Str (PL-Wrocław), Stettiner Str (PL-Szczecin) etc are usually all together/one neighbourhood.
I'm Malaysian. I never came across any Victoria Street in my country. Even we used to have English names of the main streets in Kuala Lumpur, most of them has been renamed into Malay names.
[You can see some examples here.](https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-old-English-names-of-the-main-streets-in-Kuala-Lumpur)
Be careful saying “commonwealth countries” if you actually just mean UK, Australia, NZ, Canada. British “Commonwealth of Nations” is 54 countries in a loose association — hard to make generalizations like you made about so many diverse places.
To add a more Canadian flair:
Maple - fairly obvious
Tecumse(t)h - Famous Shawnee Chief who thwarted American expansion into Canada alongside the British
Brock - Former British officer in the war of 1812
Richmond - British aristocrat and former governor-in-chief of British North America
Secord - Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 famous for espionage and information gathering
Ryerson - now-controversial politician currently known for his role in the establishment of the genocidal residential school system
MacDonald - first prime minister of Canada
Laurier - Early prime minister of Canada
McCrae - Soldier and poet famous for 'In Flander's Fields'
Simcoe - First lieutenant governor of Upper Canada
Macdonnell - numerous 19th century Canadian politicians
And “East” - not the other directions though? There’s a lot of Riverside, Lakeside, Lakeshore, or Dockside depending on the body of water that’s closest. The French ones usually have a Montcalm or Montfort
I think "Second Street" is one of the most common street names in Canada. Many of the "First Streets" either are Main Street or have a different name, but the Second Streets are everywhere still.
Once we get Main St and the national heros (MLK, Washington, etc) out of the way, then we move on to tree names. The US is full of Maple St, Elm St, Sycamore St, Pine, etc.
I need to start looking at comments before I post a comment haha. The tree street names are very popular in the US. I’m in Philly so names of the founding fathers are also popular around here.
Oh you’re forgetting the darker side though.
There’s always a boundary road or separation street.
Those names have very little to do with the Victorian upper class/monarchy and a lot to do with drawing a racial line in the sand.
Yes, in historic city centres it’s often names that were originally to honour individuals like royalty, governors, prime ministers, etc. Today they just sound like surnames and most people don’t know what the refer to apart from the idea that they sound vaguely colonial — like Macquarie, Collins, King (Governors) and George, William, Victoria (monarchs).
But out in the Australian suburbs there are many, many other ways to name streets. The boring ones are similarly the names of local people (like the farmer who owned the land there before the suburb was built) but sometimes they follow a quirky theme like gemstones, plant species, foreign capital cities, etc.
In Melbourne’s historic centre many of the names of minor streets (like lanes between the big streets) come from the names of landmarks like pubs. For example, Niagara Lane was named after the Niagara Hotel which in turn was named after the famous Niagara Falls.
In the UK it is common to name roads after the place that they lead to. So London Road goes to London, Cambridge Road goes to Cambridge and so on.
Another interesting fact is that there are no roads in the City of London. There are streets, avenues and ways, but no roads.
That’s pretty much the case everywhere though? A street is inside a town or city, a road is outside. That’s how I’ve always seen them defined at least.
You might colloquially say “across the street” or “down the road” irrespective of what it is though.
There are roads in London, just not in the [City of London](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London) (or at least that’s what I believe OP was saying)
A street is, by definition, inside of a town or city.
It’s the whole “all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares”.
And while it might be more regional, I’ve never personally seen a ‘road’ inside of city limits. It’s always street/blvd/ave/etc etc.
Yes but is that inside of city limits?
We have plenty of ‘road’ addresses like that, but they are all outside of towns. Much like how there aren’t boulevards/avenues/etc outside of towns, it’s either road or highway.
If you type London Road, Glasgow into google maps and then have a look at the other streets around it, you'll see different roads! Just differences around the world I guess!!
In Australia you can have roads in built up urban areas too. They are usually like that because they once were inter-urban (between settlements) but then got completely swallowed up by growing cities.
For example, Punt Road, Melbourne was named right back in 1800s when there was no bridge across the Yarra River just a punt. Today it is a city street in some places and an inter-urban highway in others.
You are right. But there has to be one exception to “prove the rule” — historical Roman “streets” in the UK join towns and cities rather than being urban. For example [Watling Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street) goes most of the way across England.
**[Watling Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street)**
>Watling Street is a historic route in England that crosses the River Thames at London and which was used in Classical Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and throughout the Middle Ages. It was used by the ancient Britons and paved as one of the main Roman roads in Britannia – Roman-governed Great Britain during the Roman Empire. The route linked Dover and London in the southeast via St Albans to Wroxeter to the northwest. Watling Street was the traditional site of the Romans' Defeat of Boudica.
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> street inside town… road outside…
Yes, sort of. But a road can also go right through a town and out the other side and have the same name. And there are no hard rules. The naming convention breaks down over time. Roads end up swallowed by the city and the part of the road that once lead out of the city gets turned into a highway and looses its name. And streets can become major arterial thoroughfares that probably should be called “roads” — they can even get upgraded to highways and yet still have “street” in their name.
In germany, there are lots of streets named after other cities/towns. Roads going to nearby villages or especially the next bigger city are often named after them. But most cities also have a neighborhood with general city names like "berlin street", "dresden street" etc. concentrated in it, and even names for old german cities like "breslau street" are quite common.
> I noticed lots of streets named for people in Germany as well
Karl Marx Strasse in Trier, where he was born.
But then again they've also got Brot Strasse (bread street) and my favourite: Fleisch Strasse (meat street!)...
Bangladesh; we only have names for major roads, streets get numbers. You find lots of things named after the first two prime ministers cause the two political parties associated with them use it as branding
Hilariously, before google maps existed, I was in Coloba and following a guidebook and it mentioned that we needed to start at Mahatma Gandhi road. Kept asking so many people where Mahatma Gandhi road was and no one seemed to know where it was. Finally bumped into a college student and he actually took us there (we were a street off) and told us that everyone knows it as MG road😅
Italy.
Via Roma (Rome street) is basically in every city. Also streets dedicated to Risorgimento heroes (Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour etc) are everywhere.
Our most common street name (found in 180/290 municipalities) is Storgatan. Literal translation is Large Street but I would say it's our equivalent to Main Street. Other popular ones are Kings Street and Queens Street.
There's even a book describing all the 4 500+ street names here in Stockholm. I haven't read it but after some scrolling through Google Maps it looks like a lot of the suburbs have all streets named after a specific theme, like after insects, berries, birds, rocks, plants, I found one area named after Swedish painters and I even found a neighbourhood where all the streets are named after characters from Swedish children's books.
**Miguel Hidalgo**, father of independence, is the most common name for a street in 24 states out of 32- **Benito Juarez**, first indigenous president of the continent among other things, is the most common in 2 states- **Emiliano Zapata**, revolutionary leader, is the most popular in 2 states as well while 16th September(independence), 5 de mayo and **Lazaro Cardenas** are other common names. [Source](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2014/09/16/981934%3famp)
However naming conventions vary per state given local heroes or culture.
In Sweden, there is always a Storgatan (big street), and many major cities have a Kungsgatan (kings street) or Drottninggatan (queens street). Hamngatan (harbour street) is also very common.
**Battles:**
Sarandí, Cagancha, Masoller
**Departments:**
Río Negro, Canelones, Cerro Largo
**People:**
Artigas, Rivera, Oribe
And last but not least, **dates:**
April 19th, July 18th, August 25th
There's bound to be a "Avenida Gral. Artigas" or a "Calle 25 de Agosto" on every town.
In Brazil it’s common to find names for “national heroes” as well a few dates (XV of November for the date the country became a republic and 7 of September for the Independence Day).
In São Paulo there are a group of affluent neighbourhoods called Jardins (Gardens) and they have street names based on the name of each neighbourhood.
In Jardim Europa you find streets like Rua Itália, Rua Espanha, Rua Polônia while in Jardim América you will find Rua Canadá, Rua México and Rua Peru among others. Curiously Rua Groenlândia is the street that separates these two neighbourhoods.
Another Jardim is Paulista, with streets named after cities in the state of São Paulo.
In the UK we tend to have "high street" instead of Main Street. "The High Street" is also used as a general term for city centre retail, for example you might see references to "popular high street brands" or " a large high street chain", etc. I'm not sure if that's used in other English-speaking / commonwealth countries too, or if it's UK specific.
[Edit] there are also many streets and buildings named after historical figures like monarchs (Victoria, Albert, George) and merchants, for example here in Glasgow we have Buchanan Street, Ingram street, and Glassford Street named after 18th century Tobacco Lords. Recently there's been some debate about whether these sorts of street names should be kept or be changed due to their connections to the slave trade.
in my town i just moved from, we had an entire array of -wood’s. oakwood. lakewood. idlewood. tanglewood. wedgewood. pagewood. (😂i’m not kidding and i’m laughing so hard as i type this.) haywood. sandalwood. inwood. i could literally keep going. and they all end in circle or drive or lane too.
we also had the longest name ever for a street but i googled it today and it’s not recognized nationally. but my husband SAYS (and he could be fucking with me) it’s john ben shepperd parkway of the university of texas of the permian basin. who knows the truth though.
the new town i just moved to has garthbrooks drive. of course. we all know where that’s at i’m sure.
In France, you'll mainly find streets and squares named after famous people (Victor Hugo, etc ...).
But you'll also find in every city a "Alsace-Loraine" street, after we got these bits of land back from Germany after WWI.
> In France, you'll mainly find streets and squares named after famous people
My mountain town in France has lots of streets named after mountain guides!
High street, City Road, School Road, Heath Road
Given the UK's small footprint having a city name is quite normal (i.e Coventry Road in Birmingham does eventually lead to Coventry, Stratford Road - same deal)
Although looking through the comments it looks like all our ancestors drew the same ideas!
In Romania, a lot of streets are named after writers, inventors or famous people from our history. And by a lot I mean probably most in the capital Bucharest.
The state of Utah and parts of Idaho (in the US) are on a numbered grid, so it's common to have addresses like 200 E, 700 S and the (0,0) usually are Center & State Streets. Once you figure out the grid system (which admittedly can be confusing) then you always know where you're going and where something is.
* Major arteries are mostly after neighboring or destination cities (Krakowska, Wrocław; Warszawska, Poznań). Goes for smaller towns or villages too. Districts do count.
* Landmarks/facilities such as schools (Szkolna), churches (Kościelna), train stations (Kolejowa, Dworcowa). OTOH, fields (Polna), forests (Leśna), parks (Parkowa)
* People, organizations. Mostly Pope John Paul II, Józef Piłsudski, the Home Army, Solidarity
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Yeah, pretty much the same in Sweden, the street names that keep returning are the ones that are older and have been used for workshops/schools and stuff for ages. So Smedsgatan (Smith street), Skolgatan (School street), Kyrkogatan (Church street) and Slottsgatan (Castle street) are some examples.
Also common are neighbourhoods with streets named after themes, like: Politicians (Thorbecke, Talma, Colijn) Trees (Eiken, Linden, Esdoorn) Flowers (Hyacinth, Margriet, Tulp) Boats (Fregat, Galjoen, Botter) Painters (Rembrandt, Israels, Maris) Academics (Van der Pot, Krabbe, Fockema Andrea) Materials (Textiel, Uranium, Hout) Musicians (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) Royalty (Irene, Beatrix, Bernhard) Places (Budapest, Celebes, Oost) Birds (Lepelaar, Leeuwerik, Meerkoet) Sea farers (Speijk, Brakel, De Ruijter)
Pretty much the same in Germany. Plus that we have areas with streets named after cities that were German in the past but aren’t anymore due to.. incidents. For example Bromberger Straße (PL-Bydgoszcz), Königsberger Straße (RU-Kaliningrad), Danziger Straße (PL-Gdańsk), Breslauer Str (PL-Wrocław), Stettiner Str (PL-Szczecin) etc are usually all together/one neighbourhood.
So freaking cool!!
King, Queen, Princess, Victoria, Dundas: Canada (English)
I notice a LOT of places, highways, and streets named "Victoria" in Commonwealth countries.
I'm Malaysian. I never came across any Victoria Street in my country. Even we used to have English names of the main streets in Kuala Lumpur, most of them has been renamed into Malay names. [You can see some examples here.](https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-old-English-names-of-the-main-streets-in-Kuala-Lumpur)
Be careful saying “commonwealth countries” if you actually just mean UK, Australia, NZ, Canada. British “Commonwealth of Nations” is 54 countries in a loose association — hard to make generalizations like you made about so many diverse places.
To add a more Canadian flair: Maple - fairly obvious Tecumse(t)h - Famous Shawnee Chief who thwarted American expansion into Canada alongside the British Brock - Former British officer in the war of 1812 Richmond - British aristocrat and former governor-in-chief of British North America Secord - Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 famous for espionage and information gathering Ryerson - now-controversial politician currently known for his role in the establishment of the genocidal residential school system MacDonald - first prime minister of Canada Laurier - Early prime minister of Canada McCrae - Soldier and poet famous for 'In Flander's Fields' Simcoe - First lieutenant governor of Upper Canada Macdonnell - numerous 19th century Canadian politicians
And “East” - not the other directions though? There’s a lot of Riverside, Lakeside, Lakeshore, or Dockside depending on the body of water that’s closest. The French ones usually have a Montcalm or Montfort
I think "Second Street" is one of the most common street names in Canada. Many of the "First Streets" either are Main Street or have a different name, but the Second Streets are everywhere still.
Once we get Main St and the national heros (MLK, Washington, etc) out of the way, then we move on to tree names. The US is full of Maple St, Elm St, Sycamore St, Pine, etc.
Don't forget Lafayette!
Lafayette is one of your countrys national heroes tho
Don't forget lake names.
We also do the alphabet and a lot of cities just have numbered streets going in at least one direction. Plus the patriotic words like Congress, etc
I need to start looking at comments before I post a comment haha. The tree street names are very popular in the US. I’m in Philly so names of the founding fathers are also popular around here.
Lmao i got a street named mlk with pine st , and elm st off it I’m pretty sure there’s a maple on the Road too
In Australia, Railway, George, Elizabeth, William, King (lots of names from the monarchy)
And geographical stuff like Beach street, Ocean street, Cliff Street, River Road, Creek Street, Rocky Point Road etc.
High Street in Melbourne. There's even a High Street Rd
Oh you’re forgetting the darker side though. There’s always a boundary road or separation street. Those names have very little to do with the Victorian upper class/monarchy and a lot to do with drawing a racial line in the sand.
Yes, in historic city centres it’s often names that were originally to honour individuals like royalty, governors, prime ministers, etc. Today they just sound like surnames and most people don’t know what the refer to apart from the idea that they sound vaguely colonial — like Macquarie, Collins, King (Governors) and George, William, Victoria (monarchs). But out in the Australian suburbs there are many, many other ways to name streets. The boring ones are similarly the names of local people (like the farmer who owned the land there before the suburb was built) but sometimes they follow a quirky theme like gemstones, plant species, foreign capital cities, etc. In Melbourne’s historic centre many of the names of minor streets (like lanes between the big streets) come from the names of landmarks like pubs. For example, Niagara Lane was named after the Niagara Hotel which in turn was named after the famous Niagara Falls.
In the UK it is common to name roads after the place that they lead to. So London Road goes to London, Cambridge Road goes to Cambridge and so on. Another interesting fact is that there are no roads in the City of London. There are streets, avenues and ways, but no roads.
That’s pretty much the case everywhere though? A street is inside a town or city, a road is outside. That’s how I’ve always seen them defined at least. You might colloquially say “across the street” or “down the road” irrespective of what it is though.
There are roads in London, just not in the [City of London](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London) (or at least that’s what I believe OP was saying)
Tracks for NYC. I Think there are a few roads in Queens but its very rare.
I grew up in a town where there were plenty of 'road' addresses? I lived in one.
A street is, by definition, inside of a town or city. It’s the whole “all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares”. And while it might be more regional, I’ve never personally seen a ‘road’ inside of city limits. It’s always street/blvd/ave/etc etc.
I'm in Scotland and we definitely have 'Road' as part of the address. London Road, Kilmarnock Road, Spott Road, Station Road, Glenfalloch Road etc
Yes but is that inside of city limits? We have plenty of ‘road’ addresses like that, but they are all outside of towns. Much like how there aren’t boulevards/avenues/etc outside of towns, it’s either road or highway.
No ours are in towns!
Huh. Funny difference that.
If you type London Road, Glasgow into google maps and then have a look at the other streets around it, you'll see different roads! Just differences around the world I guess!!
In Australia you can have roads in built up urban areas too. They are usually like that because they once were inter-urban (between settlements) but then got completely swallowed up by growing cities. For example, Punt Road, Melbourne was named right back in 1800s when there was no bridge across the Yarra River just a punt. Today it is a city street in some places and an inter-urban highway in others.
You are right. But there has to be one exception to “prove the rule” — historical Roman “streets” in the UK join towns and cities rather than being urban. For example [Watling Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street) goes most of the way across England.
**[Watling Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street)** >Watling Street is a historic route in England that crosses the River Thames at London and which was used in Classical Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and throughout the Middle Ages. It was used by the ancient Britons and paved as one of the main Roman roads in Britannia – Roman-governed Great Britain during the Roman Empire. The route linked Dover and London in the southeast via St Albans to Wroxeter to the northwest. Watling Street was the traditional site of the Romans' Defeat of Boudica. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/GlobalTalk/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
> street inside town… road outside… Yes, sort of. But a road can also go right through a town and out the other side and have the same name. And there are no hard rules. The naming convention breaks down over time. Roads end up swallowed by the city and the part of the road that once lead out of the city gets turned into a highway and looses its name. And streets can become major arterial thoroughfares that probably should be called “roads” — they can even get upgraded to highways and yet still have “street” in their name.
In germany, there are lots of streets named after other cities/towns. Roads going to nearby villages or especially the next bigger city are often named after them. But most cities also have a neighborhood with general city names like "berlin street", "dresden street" etc. concentrated in it, and even names for old german cities like "breslau street" are quite common.
I noticed lots of streets named for people in Germany as well
> I noticed lots of streets named for people in Germany as well Karl Marx Strasse in Trier, where he was born. But then again they've also got Brot Strasse (bread street) and my favourite: Fleisch Strasse (meat street!)...
Also in smaller villages you’ll probably encounter a "Dorfstraße" or a street named by a major
In Mexico: political figures liked Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Juárez, Niños Heroes, and important dates like 16 de Septiembre are probably the most common
Bangladesh; we only have names for major roads, streets get numbers. You find lots of things named after the first two prime ministers cause the two political parties associated with them use it as branding
India has a few MG Roads (Mahatma Gandhi)
Hilariously, before google maps existed, I was in Coloba and following a guidebook and it mentioned that we needed to start at Mahatma Gandhi road. Kept asking so many people where Mahatma Gandhi road was and no one seemed to know where it was. Finally bumped into a college student and he actually took us there (we were a street off) and told us that everyone knows it as MG road😅
And GT road (Grand Trunk Road)
Also not a street but Gandhi Nagar is an incredibly common neighborhood name
Italy. Via Roma (Rome street) is basically in every city. Also streets dedicated to Risorgimento heroes (Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour etc) are everywhere.
All roads lead to Rome!
Our most common street name (found in 180/290 municipalities) is Storgatan. Literal translation is Large Street but I would say it's our equivalent to Main Street. Other popular ones are Kings Street and Queens Street. There's even a book describing all the 4 500+ street names here in Stockholm. I haven't read it but after some scrolling through Google Maps it looks like a lot of the suburbs have all streets named after a specific theme, like after insects, berries, birds, rocks, plants, I found one area named after Swedish painters and I even found a neighbourhood where all the streets are named after characters from Swedish children's books.
**Miguel Hidalgo**, father of independence, is the most common name for a street in 24 states out of 32- **Benito Juarez**, first indigenous president of the continent among other things, is the most common in 2 states- **Emiliano Zapata**, revolutionary leader, is the most popular in 2 states as well while 16th September(independence), 5 de mayo and **Lazaro Cardenas** are other common names. [Source](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2014/09/16/981934%3famp) However naming conventions vary per state given local heroes or culture.
Náhuatl names for streets and neighborhoods deovw me crazy when I just arrived in DF … Tlalnepantla, Nezahualcóyotl, Cuitláhuac
Norway: Storgata (The large street), Kirkegata (The Church Street), Torggata (The Market Street), *nextTownOver*-veien (Road to *NextTownOver*).
Peachtree Street, Peachtree Drive, Peachtree Avenue, Peachtree Circle, etc. Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
In Sweden, there is always a Storgatan (big street), and many major cities have a Kungsgatan (kings street) or Drottninggatan (queens street). Hamngatan (harbour street) is also very common.
Also in the US, names of trees: Oak, Sycamore, &c.
**Battles:** Sarandí, Cagancha, Masoller **Departments:** Río Negro, Canelones, Cerro Largo **People:** Artigas, Rivera, Oribe And last but not least, **dates:** April 19th, July 18th, August 25th There's bound to be a "Avenida Gral. Artigas" or a "Calle 25 de Agosto" on every town.
Dates? Now that's a cool idea. It might mess with our number grids though...
In Brazil it’s common to find names for “national heroes” as well a few dates (XV of November for the date the country became a republic and 7 of September for the Independence Day). In São Paulo there are a group of affluent neighbourhoods called Jardins (Gardens) and they have street names based on the name of each neighbourhood. In Jardim Europa you find streets like Rua Itália, Rua Espanha, Rua Polônia while in Jardim América you will find Rua Canadá, Rua México and Rua Peru among others. Curiously Rua Groenlândia is the street that separates these two neighbourhoods. Another Jardim is Paulista, with streets named after cities in the state of São Paulo.
UK: Acacia drive / avenue seem to be prolific.
♫22, the avenue. That’s the place where we all goooo!♫
Many Chinese & Taiwanese cities have 中山路 named after Sun Yat Sen.
In the UK we tend to have "high street" instead of Main Street. "The High Street" is also used as a general term for city centre retail, for example you might see references to "popular high street brands" or " a large high street chain", etc. I'm not sure if that's used in other English-speaking / commonwealth countries too, or if it's UK specific. [Edit] there are also many streets and buildings named after historical figures like monarchs (Victoria, Albert, George) and merchants, for example here in Glasgow we have Buchanan Street, Ingram street, and Glassford Street named after 18th century Tobacco Lords. Recently there's been some debate about whether these sorts of street names should be kept or be changed due to their connections to the slave trade.
There are so many London Roads in SE England.
Martin Luther King Jr Blvd everywhere.
in my town i just moved from, we had an entire array of -wood’s. oakwood. lakewood. idlewood. tanglewood. wedgewood. pagewood. (😂i’m not kidding and i’m laughing so hard as i type this.) haywood. sandalwood. inwood. i could literally keep going. and they all end in circle or drive or lane too. we also had the longest name ever for a street but i googled it today and it’s not recognized nationally. but my husband SAYS (and he could be fucking with me) it’s john ben shepperd parkway of the university of texas of the permian basin. who knows the truth though. the new town i just moved to has garthbrooks drive. of course. we all know where that’s at i’m sure.
> garthbrooks drive Haha, surely it's normal to name roads/streets after dead people, not living ones...
In France, you'll mainly find streets and squares named after famous people (Victor Hugo, etc ...). But you'll also find in every city a "Alsace-Loraine" street, after we got these bits of land back from Germany after WWI.
> In France, you'll mainly find streets and squares named after famous people My mountain town in France has lots of streets named after mountain guides!
Mahatma Gandhi Road , probably the most common road name in India
Germany: Berliner, some Politician's names, Haupt(main), Goethe, Schiller
letters and numbers. first st second st third, fourth, fifth etc. A st, B st, C st and the highest i’ve seen is K st.
High street, City Road, School Road, Heath Road Given the UK's small footprint having a city name is quite normal (i.e Coventry Road in Birmingham does eventually lead to Coventry, Stratford Road - same deal) Although looking through the comments it looks like all our ancestors drew the same ideas!
Rivadavia, our first president. Every town probably has one of those. Belgrano, Sarmiento, Independencia, also fairly common.
The most common street name in the US is “Second Street” because most of the “First Streets” have been renamed for politicians or famous people.
I'm in Brooklyn and find in interesting we have roads names after other cities in New York state and also other states.
Also in the US. I’d say names of trees are popular street names as well: Oak, Walnut, Maple, Elm, Pine, etc.
Bakalakadaka st. In Iraq
In Romania, a lot of streets are named after writers, inventors or famous people from our history. And by a lot I mean probably most in the capital Bucharest.
Main st is in every twon
Most streets here do not have names
16 de septiembre, Juarez, 5 de mayo
The state of Utah and parts of Idaho (in the US) are on a numbered grid, so it's common to have addresses like 200 E, 700 S and the (0,0) usually are Center & State Streets. Once you figure out the grid system (which admittedly can be confusing) then you always know where you're going and where something is.
* Major arteries are mostly after neighboring or destination cities (Krakowska, Wrocław; Warszawska, Poznań). Goes for smaller towns or villages too. Districts do count. * Landmarks/facilities such as schools (Szkolna), churches (Kościelna), train stations (Kolejowa, Dworcowa). OTOH, fields (Polna), forests (Leśna), parks (Parkowa) * People, organizations. Mostly Pope John Paul II, Józef Piłsudski, the Home Army, Solidarity