What city has two names twice?

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Thu Oct 26 00:18:29 UTC 2006


New York, New York.

  "A city so nice, they named it twice."  (Many thousands of Googlits.)

  JL

"James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
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    According to http://gc.kls2.com/airport/VHHH, it is Hong Kong, Hong Kong.



       - Jim Landau    (18 KY, 4 MI, 17 DC, 20 SJ)



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