| 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) |
Geographical Sobriquets
On March - 22 - 2010
Sobriquets-Geographical Nicknames of Countires
On February - 19 - 2010
Sobriquets-Geographical nicknames
Geographical nicknames or sobriquets as they are popularly known as forms an integral part of any PSC or Bank PO exam. Many Quiz or trivia questions are made using these. Here is a collection of a few sobriquets.
Africa ——————————————The dark continent
Atlantic ocean———————————- The hering pond
Netherlands———————————The Land of Canals
Bangalore————————————– The garden city of India
Aberdeen————————————-The Granite city
Turkey —————————————-The sick man of europe
Calcutta—————————————- The city of palaces
Egypt—————————————— The gift of Nile
Belgrade—————————————The white city
Venice—————————————The Queen of the Adriatic
Finland—————————————– The land of thousand lakes
Japan ——————————————The land of rising sun
Oxford —————————————-The city of dreaming spires
Korea—————————————-The Hermit Kingdom
Punjab —————————————–The land of rivers
Amritsar————————————— The city of golden temple
San Francisco——————————-The City of the Golden Gate
Huangho River-China————————— The sorrow of china
Damodar River———————————-The Sorrow of Bengal
Rome —————————————– The city of seven hills
Thailand————————————— The land of white elephants
Bab el Mendab———————————The gateway of tears
Moscow—————————————The port of five seas
Cuba——————————————The Sugar Bowl of the World
Chicago—————————————The windy city
Gibraltar————————————The key of Meditteranian
Guinea coast——————————–The White Man’s Grave
Banrain————————————-The island of pearls
Tristan da Cunha————————— The World’s Lonliest island
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