Cities with the same name around the world

Thousands of cities around the world share a name. Search any of those names here, see how often it repeats, and open the map with all its locations.

# Name Cities Countries View
1 San Antonio 52 16
+12
2 Santa Cruz 47 16
+12
3 San Jose 45 14
+10
4 San Miguel 40 12
+8
5 Santa María 40 13
+9
6 Santa Rosa 40 14
+10
7 San Francisco 39 13
+9
8 San Isidro 39 11
+7
9 San Pedro 38 12
+8
10 Santa Lucía 35 15
+11

What is a homonymous city?

On Geodatos, homonymous cities are places in different parts of the world that share the same name. That does not mean they are administratively related: only that the name matches. Opening a name shows every match on a map, with country and coordinates so you can tell them apart.

Why do city names repeat?

Many names repeat for historical and cultural reasons. Saints and religious dedications such as San José or Santa Rosa traveled with colonization and missions. Migrants brought the name of their hometown with them. Homage to famous cities or historical figures is also common. That is why the same name can appear in several countries, sometimes dozens of times, without a single original.

A few examples

Stories behind the names

The distribution of these cities reveals migrations, shared languages, and names that traveled enormous distances.

A truly global name

Victoria appears on every inhabited continent and across an especially broad mix of countries and time zones.

Nearly antipodal names

Ashburton, an English town, has its antipode near New Zealand, where there is another Ashburton. Other cities such as Scarborough and Perth also connect places separated by enormous distances.

One Alexandria, many continents

Alexandria stretches across five continents, although more than half of the matches are in North America.

Names that crossed oceans

San Francisco recurs from Mexico and Central America to the Philippines and South America, a geographic trace of the spread of Spanish religious names.

Notes about the data