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I live in London Ontario, right by the Thames. Got hassled at customs in Netherlands being asked why my Canadian passport was issued from England. People always say they can't hear the accent when I say I'm from London (besides that time at customs they were accusing my lisp of sounding a bit English)

There's also a Paris Ontario

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> There's also a Paris Ontario

Also Lisbon, Dublin, Vienna, Seville, and Copenhagen. There used to be a Berlin, but it was renamed to Kitchener in 1916.

https://i.redd.it/zhp2c11izm541.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_to_Kitchener_name_chang...

There's also Moscow, Idaho somewhere in there

> I live in London Ontario, right by the Thames.

Wow, I thought you probably meant the latter part as a joke until I looked it up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Ontario)

Thanks for the geography lesson.

And there's also New London, also on the Thames. No, not that one. Not the other one, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Connecticut) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut

The US has at least a dozen Paris-es, including one or two states with two.

The only reason there's not far more confusion over these things is that a lot of these places are too small to have airports...

There's also an Ontario, CA in southern California.

and Ontario, Oregon

And Ontario, CA has a bottled water provider called Niagara[0]. Not to be confused with Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. When I saw a bottle of Niagra water in California (as I'm from Ontario) I was unbelievably confused.

[0]: https://www.niagarawater.com/

It's also possible to fly to Moscow, Idaho which shares an airport with Pullman, WA

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