Geographical Sobriquets
Posted by admin on 22nd March 2010
| Surname | Name |
| Bengal’s Sorrow | Damodar River |
| Blue Mountains | Nilgiri Hills |
| City of Sky-scrapers | New York |
| City of Seven Hills | Rome |
| City of Dreaming Spires | Oxford |
| City of palaces | Kolkata |
| City of Golden Gate | San Francisco |
| City of Magnificent Buildings | Washington D.C. |
| City of Eternal Springs | Quito(S.America) |
| China’s Sorrow | Hwang Ho |
| Cockpit of Europe | Belgium |
| Dark Continent | Africa |
| Emerald Isle | Ireland |
| Eternal City | Rome |
| Empire City | New York |
| Forbidden City | Lhasa (Tibet) |
| Garden City | Chicago |
| Gate of Tears | Strait of Bab-el Mandeb |
| Gateway of India | Mumbai |
| Gift of the Nile | Eqypt |
| Granite City | Aberdeen (Scotland) |
| Hermit Kingdom | Korea |
| Herring Pond | Atlantic Ocean |
| Holy Land | Jerusalem |
| Island Continent | Australia |
| Island of Cloves | Zanzibar |
| Isle of Pearls | Bahrein (Peesian Gulf) |
| Key of the Mediterranean | Gibralter |
| Land of Cakes | Scotland |
| Land of Golden Fleece | Australia |
| Land of Maple Leaf | Canada |
| Land of Midnight Sun | Norway |
| Land of the Thousand Lakes | Finland |
| Land of the Thunderbolt | Bhutan |
| Land of white Elephant | Thailand |
| Land of Five Rivers | Punjab |
| Land of Thousand Elephants | Laos |
| Land of Rising Sun | Japan |
| Loneliest Island | Tristan De Gunha (Mid-Atlantic) |
| Manchester of Japan | Osaka |
| Pillars of Hercules | Strait of Gibraltar |
| Pearl of the Antilles | Cuba |
| Playground of Europe | Switzerland |
| Quaker City | Philadelphia |
| Queen of the Adriatic | Venice |
| Roof of the World | The Pamirs |
| Rose Pink City | Jaipur |
| Sugar bowl of the World | Cuba |
| Venice of the North | Stockholm |
| Windy City | Chicago |
| Whirteman’s grave | Guinea Coast of Africa |
| Yellow River | Huang Ho (China) |
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