Rude Sounding Places From All Over The World

Some rude place names are accidental; others are just boldly descriptive. Venice’s Ponte delle Tette, or Bridge of the Boobs, marks the entrance to the port city’s former red light district where 1000 prostitutes once plied their trade. The equivalent in English towns was Gropec–t Lane, also a reference to the prostitutes who once worked there. Derbyshire’s Spanker Lane might have related origins.

Travel is a rite of passage for every young person but perhaps never more so than on a road trip through Bavaria via Petting, Kissing and Wank Mountain before arriving at F—ing, just over the border in Austria. If planning on taking this route it’s wise to make a pit stop first in France, for Condom.

Travellers can be forgiven for being distracted by all the Bums and Diks in Africa. Afghanistan has several Bums; Ukraine has an Ass.

Algeria has not one but two Tits (located about 10 hours’ drive apart on the Trans-Sahara Highway); there are Brests in Normandy, France and also in Belarus. Dildo is an airport in Chad and a town (and an island) in Newfoundland. Canada also has a Crotch Lake in Ontario and a Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia but, for me, nothing quite compares to the stark terror of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in the Rocky Mountains.

There’s an Effin in Limerick, Ireland – Let’s go to the Effin pub! Where’s the Effin hotel? – but even more entertainment to be had in the Shetland Islands at White Stane of Willies, Junk and Twatt. (I am not making any of this up.)

The small settlement of Vilapene in Galicia, Spain, translates to Penisville. There’s a town called Rectum in The Netherlands, located about 130km east of Amsterdam. It’s funniest if you Google it because the top hits range from “Best Rectum Hotels” to a “Rectum Destination Guide”.

Suggestive place names are found all over the planet – from Mexico, where there’s a Poop in southeastern Yucatan state, to Crap in Albania and the Anuses of the Philippines, Indonesia and France. And while it’s all very well to giggle at Intercourse, Pennsylvania, it’s worth remembering Australia has an Intercourse Island – located in the Dampier Archipelago off the north coast of WA.

The Australian fondness for blunt and bawdy language might explain why there are so many knobs (rocky outcrops) strewn across the continent. A personal favourite is Yorkeys Knob in far north Queensland, just outside Cairns on the road to Port Douglas, not so much for the name as the views and brews from its hilltop boat club. Elsewhere in Australia, there’s a Peculiar Knob, a Six Mile Knob, a Prominent Knob and a Delicate Nobby. Tasmania has a Misery Knob and a Pisspot Creek but these are anomalies on an island better known for being Snug, Paradise and Nowhere Else.

And I suspect Victoria’s Tittybong (population three) and Burrumbuttock in NSW sound less droll in their original Indigenous languages than they do in English. That’s the problem with English. It’s a language so rich in innuendo that funny-sounding foreign (and local) places don’t stand a chance of being taken seriously.

Take a trip to Sydney and you might be giggling at the fact that there are suburbs called Rooty Hill, Pleasure Point and Bobbin Head but the locals seemed unfazed so it’s probably best to keep the smut to yourself. It’s best that way, wherever you find yourself in the world.

As the Albanians probably say, one person’s Crap is another person’s treasure. But sometimes, thankfully, even the locals are in on the joke.

A viral video from mid-2018 showed politicians in Ghana wetting themselves as the names of several obscure towns were read out in parliament. Those towns were Kote ye Aboa (Penis is a Fool), Etwe nim Nyansa (Vagina is Wise) and Shua ye Morbor (Testicles are Sad).

Proving, yet again, that we are all children at heart. Are there any rude-sounding places where you live? Be sure to share them in the comments below!