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named by Spanish explorers after a paradise island thought to be ruled by Queen Califia; she was a mythical black Amazon Queen in the chivalric romance Las Sergas de Esplandián (1510) by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo

land of the Indus River, derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu

Londinium in Latin, a major Roman settlement founded in AD 43 — believed to be Celtic in origin, Plowonidon, "settlement where the river is too wide to ford"

named for the river, Rio Colorado in Spanish; from colorado "ruddy, reddish", literally "colored", past participle of colorar "to color, dye, paint"; from Latin colorare "to color, to get tanned". When Colorado became a territory in 1861, William Gilpin, the first territorial governor, formally requested that it be called by the old Spanish name.

land of happiness led by a lamasery high in the Tibetan Himalayas, according to the novel Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton; "La" means "mountain pass" in Tibetan, but "Shangri" has no meaning; possibly a misreading of Shambhala, Sanskrit term meaning "place of peace/tranquility/happiness", name of a mythical Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas

Tupi-Guarani Indian name meaning "river fish" (possibly designating the perch-like white mullet, scientific name Mugil curema); original spelling Paratii, also spelled Parati (pronounced like para-ti, "for you" in Portuguese)

"second lake" in Maori (roto means lake and rua two or second); discovered in the 14th century by Ihenga, a young Te Arawa man hunting after delicacies for his pregnant wife; Rotorua is the heartland of New Zealand's Maori culture

Lousonna in Latin, name of a small Roman town founded in 15 BC near a neolithic settlement, possibly after the Celtic name of a local river, Lous

(likely) historical site of a Roman Villa