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- Sydney's Aboriginal name “Djubuguli” refers to what is today named Bennelong Point (where the Opera House stands), whereas “Cadi” denotes the entire Sydney Cove.
- "Mianjin" was the Turrbal word for the central Brisbane area.
- Canberra is taken from the Ngunnawal language's "Kanbarra".
- Hobart's Palawa Kani name is "Nipaluna".
- A main Kaurna presence was in "Tarndanyangga" near the River Torrens and the creeks that flowed into it, an area that became the site of the Adelaide city centre.
- Seattle is actually named after a Native American leader (Chief Seattle) of the Duwamish tribe. Long before the area acquired its current name it was home to an extensive series of villages, such as Stook and Choo-tuhb-ahlt'w.
- "Shawmut" was a name given to the peninsula housing present-day Boston by local Algonquins.
- Originally, Malibu was dubbed "Maliwu," meaning "it makes a loud noise all the time over there".
- After the arrival of white settlers, natives took to calling New Orleans (along with several other towns bordering the Mississippi river) "Malbanchia," which, according to historian William A. Read, means "a place for foreign languages."
- A village dubbed "Ogapogee" by the Tesuque people sat in the centre of Sante Fe, New Mexico.
- Rhode Island's Provdience, along with much of its surrounding territory, was called "Pancanaset".
- Chicago's present-day name derives from the Potawami tribe's word for "wild onions"—"checaugou."