I can spend quite a lot of time just panning through google maps when I’m bored. And sometimes I find something ridiculous enough to share with my other geography nerd friend. This was one of these things.
I spotted “Eerste Exloërmond” and “Tweede Exloërmond”. “Eerste” means “first”, and “tweede” means “second”. So in english that’s just “first and second exloërmond”.

WHY??

• starting a placename with an ordinal when another place shares its name is dumb!! Starting with an ordinal is cool when it’s the only place with the name: “First crossing”. But doing it like they did irl is just going “hmm yes I have town 1 aaaaand oh yes town 2”
• why are they separate towns?? They are RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER. Oh did the <measuring on google maps> 1.9km between their two main roads create such a historical and cultural divide to have them separate?? Why is the first Exloërmond not just a township of the second one? It has 365 inhabitants!! That’s not a town!! YOU ARE A ROAD. In any SANE province like Brabant you would be NEVER be a full town!! The second one actually deserves to be called a town since it has an actual town at the south end of it. I do not believe for a moment that the people in Eerste Exloërmond would say that they feel separated from the people in Tweede.
• why not keep going? Where is 3rd exloermond? We should call every place in the country “Nth Exloërmond” if we accept this ABSURDITY

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