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Canada did it right, and just named the city without adding new.

London Ontario, Paris Ontario, Berlin Ontario (before it was renamed over a minor European dispute).

Unfortunately Nova Scotia was already called that before it joined.

To be fair, have you ever been to regular York? I have, it sucked. New York is a slight to moderate improvement.

Big Jian Yang energy

It's even more entertaining.

For example Manna-hatta was renamed by Europeans (specifically the Dutch) New Amsterdam and later renamed again by Europeans (this time the English) as New York.

By the time there were officially "Americans" (i.e. after the Independence of the United States) the deed was already done.

I know, we'll call it New Amsterdam!! How clever and inspired. Wait - wouldn't New YORK be better? Oh man you just read my mind.

Wait until you hear about Latin American colonizers taking inspiration in the cities of "Granada", "Córdoba" and "Santiago" to name their cities "Granada", "Córdoba" and "Santiago". At least Venezuela changed a couple letters from Venezia.

Still better than I'd do naming things. It'd just be Landplace 1, Landplace 2, etc.

No new Scunthorpe though, for some reason 🤔

Sometimes they didn't even do that much. Which is why there's a Portland in Maine and a Portland in Oregon