The way people act like York isn't a city in England

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They were still Europeans when they did the naming
- Not necessarily. The majority of current US was colonised long after it became an independent state.
I live in New England, USA. I was talking with a Brit about the British show The Archers. The Brit asked me whether I could tell which places were made up for the show and which were real. I told him that if I new a place in New England named something, it was probably a real place in the UK.
The third one in this series is my favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13RhSc-DaOI
New Zealand did it with a whole ass country
Sometimes they don’t even put new in front of it. Illinois has a Milan, but they pronounce it My-lan. Smh
- Bagdad, Arizona
  
  No I did not misspell that.
  
  There's a Bagdad in Tasmania too, went past it when I was down there a while back (as well as Jericho and the Nile River).
  
  Supposedly that city is named after a dad who ran a mining operation loading stuff out in bags. Ridiculous.
  
  There's also a Bagdad in Florida.
The city of York used to be called Amsterdam before, right?

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