silly – meiadeleite.com

did you know the most common name for a city in the world is “oktjabrskij”? or that there are 11 cities named “springfield” in the usa, and another 11 named “clinton”? :)

here’s a ranking of the top-20 most frequent names of cities, freshly squeezed from postcrossing‘s database (might not be totally accurate):

City name	Country	Total of cities
Oktjabrskij	Russia	23
Springfield	USA	11
Clinton	USA	11
Pervomajskij	Russia	11
Neustadt	Germany	9
Madison	USA	8
Hidalgo	Mexico	8
Komsomolskij	Russia	8
Washington	USA	8
Lebanon	USA	8
Shāhpur	India	8
Dmytrivka	Ukraine	7
Kamenka	Russia	7
Auburn	USA	7
Burlington	USA	7
Greenville	USA	7
Viişoara	Romania	7
Áyios Dimítrios	Greece	7
Troickoje	Russia	7
Farmington	USA	7

impressive redundancy if you ask me, but then again, except maybe a couple of countries, all the others on this list are pretty big… perhaps they just ran out of imagination?

anyway, there you go: one more reason never to forget the zip code! 8-)