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** Russians have their own set of nicknames (almost all of which are derogatory, see this [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0_404 Wiktionary entry]] for examples) for Ukraine. One of them is "Country 404", which is used to [[TakeThat mock Ukraine]][[note]]404 is [[CommonHTTPStatusCode HTTP status code for "Page does not exist"]] -- therefore implying that Ukraine "[[{{Unperson}} does not exist]]"; in other words, in the eye of Russia, Ukraine does not count as a sovereign nation.[[/note]].

* Ukraine: The Bread Basket of Europe. Stalkeristan/Vodkastan/Chernobylistan/Cheekibreekiistan

* UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}: The Mistake on the Lake[[note]]originally used only to refer to Cleveland Stadium, former home of the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Browns]] and [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Indians]][[/note]], The Land

* Hampton Roads metropolitan area: The 757; The 7 Cities[[note]] Referring to the seven larger cities that make up the metropolitan area: Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Newport News, and Suffolk.[[/note]]

* Hampton Roads metropolitan area: The 757

** Norfolk: The Mermaid City

* Australia: LandDownunder, Oz, 'Straya (roughly equivalent to the US' "'Murica")

* Adelaide - The City of Churches
* UsefulNotes/{{Brisbane}} - Bris Vegas
* UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}} - The Harbour City

** The northernmost town in Mexico, officially Vicente Guerrero but more commonly called Los Algodones, has come to be known by Americans (and to a lesser extent Canadians) as "Molar City". Reason? The town of under 7,000 near Yuma, Arizona has about ''600 dentists'' working in about 300 different practices, with about 80% of the patients Americans and virtually all the rest Canadians. Essentially all of the dentists are bilingual, and most if not all of the clinics have [[UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan US telephone numbers]]. The main draw is that major dental procedures are a fraction of the cost in either the US or Canada. For a fuller explanation, see [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/welcome-to-molar-city-mexico-the-dental-mecca-americas-health-care-costs-built_n_5dc5772ae4b0fcfb7f651721?1jg this 2019 story]]. %% The story lists the population as "under 5,000", but the 2020 Mexican census counts about 6,700.

** The Mexico City neighborhood of Tepito (which is considered the Mexican version of the New York's Bronx) is nicknamed ''El Barrio Bravo'' (The Tough Neighborhood)

* Nashville: The Athens of the South [[note]]for its many universities[[/note]], Music City, Nashvegas [[note]]mostly used sarcastically by residents, in reference to the many ill-mannered tourists who visit for bachelorette parties and the like[[/note]], and Smashville [[note]]coined after the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Nashville Predators']] Stanley Cup run in 2017[[/note]]

* Richmond: The River City, RVA, The 804

** Northern metro (Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson, Williamsburg, James City & York Counties): The Peninsula[[note]]This part of the area sits on the Virginia Peninsula.[[/note]]

** South Boston is usually referred to as Southie, while North Boston is called the North End.

* UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}: The Mistake on the Lake[[note]]originally used only to refer to Cleveland Stadium, former home of the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Browns]] and [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Indians]][[/note]]

** Northern metro (Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson, Williamsburg): The Peninsula[[note]]This part of the area sits on the Virginia Peninsula.[[/note]]

** The nickname "The City of Hope" was added by current president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, so it's a more recent nickname. The more popular one is "The City of Palaces", and [[http://www.oocities.org/es/ciudaddelaesperanza/Ciudad_de_palacios.html how]]!

* Rome: The Eternal City, Caput Mundi ''(Lat:Capital of the World)''

*** Englishmen will sometimes call the residents of the above country "Merkins". This is a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, since it sounds very much like "Americans," [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin but on the other hand...]]

* Colombia: Land of Christopher Columbus. Cocainistan thanks to its infamous role in the drug trade.

** Rio de Janeiro: Marvelous City
** Curitiba: Exemplar City

* UsefulNotes/Nashville: The Athens of the South [[note]]for its many universities[[/note]], Music City, Nashvegas [[note]]mostly used sarcastically by residents, in reference to the many ill-mannered tourists who visit for bachelorette parties and the like[[/note]], and Smashville [[note]]coined after the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Nashville Predators']] Stanley Cup run in 2017[[/note]]

* UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}: Chi-town, City of Big Shoulders, Windy City

* UsefulNotes/NorthKorea

** UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo: Rain Land

* UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}: Chi Town, City of Big Shoulders, Windy City

* Toronto - T.O., Hog Town, The Big Smoke, The Center of the Universe, T-dot

* Vancouver - Vancity, Rain City, Raincouver, Terminal City, Hollywood North, Vansterdam, Lotus Land, City of Glass, No Fun City.

* Mexico City: ''La Ciudad de la Esperanza'' (The City of Hope) and outside the city (and inside too) it's nicknamed ''Chilangolandia'' (Chilangoland, since the people from Mexico City are nicknamed ''Chilangos'' in a pejorative way).

* Peru: Land of the Incas.

* Paraguay: The Heart of America.
* Belize: The Jewel of Central America.

** São Paulo: Rain Land

** The desert areas are known as "The Red Centre"

* New Zealand: Land of the Long White Cloud, The Shaky Isles, [[Website/TheOnion Australia's Canada]]. Sometimes called Sheepistan for its great ovine heards, or Tolkienistan for being where the LOTR and Hobbit films were shot.

* Brisbane - Bris Vegas
* Sydney - The Harbor City

* Starkville, Mississippi: Starkvegas

** Northern metro (Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg): The Peninsula[[note]]This part of the area sits on the Virginia Peninsula.[[/note]]

* UsefulNotes/StLouis: St. Louie (only by non-residents), The 'Lou (popularized by rapper Nelly)

** Its capital city. Guadalajara, is nicknamed ''La Perla de Occidente'' (The Pearl of the West) and it's neighbor city, Zapopan, is ''La Tierra del Maiz'' (Land of the Corn).

* Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Empires (due to the Afghans' record for defeating every foreign power which tries to occupy them, [[WebVideo/CrashCourse unless you are the Mongols]]) [[http://stephenkotkin.com/articles/trashcanistan-a-tour-through-the-wreckage-of-the-soviet-empire/ Trashcanistan]], according to one source, on account of how destruction is more common than function.
* Australia: LandDownunder, Oz, 'Straya (roughly equivalent to the US' "'Murica")
** The desert areas are known as "The Red Centre"
** Also called Nopeistan for its infamously terrifying wildlife and weather.
* Canada: The Great White North, America's Hat, Soviet Canuckistan.
* Japan: Land of the Rising Sun. Sometimes called Hentaiistan playfully.
* Korea: Land of the Morning Calm
** Under the isolationist Joseon Dynasty, Korea become known as "the hermit kingdom". In more recent times, that term has been applied to UsefulNotes/NorthKorea.
* Philippines: The Pearl of the Orient
* New Zealand: Land of the Long White Cloud, The Shaky Isles, [[Website/TheOnion Australia's Canada]]. Sometimes called Sheepistan for its great ovine heards, or Tolkienistan for being where the LOTR and Hobbit films were shot.

* France is often nicknamed "l'Hexagone" by multiple French news channels, because of, well, its [[ShapedLikeItself hexagonal shape]]. By extension, the adjective "hexagonal" is often applied to anything made in France.
** People poking fun at its modern military record and history of failing to meaningfully apply effective force call it Surrenderistan.
* China is nicknamed by their own citizens as ''The Heavenly Kingdom''. (天朝/tiāncháo)
** In the early days of the Cold War, U.S. media liked to refer to the People's Republic of China as "Red China", presumably in an effort to suggest that it was illegitimate and "not real China". During the same time period, Taiwan was referred to as "Free China", which was quite funny since it was a military dictatorship at the time.
* Ukraine: The Bread Basket of Europe. Stalkeristan/Vodkastan/Chernobylistan/Cheekibreekiistan

* Kuwait is nicknamed by their own citizens as "Q8", which is pronounced in the same way as the name of the country. Invadedistan.
* Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Rainbow Nation.

* UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates
** UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}: Hotlanta, (The) ATL, The 404[[note]]this and several other city nicknames are based on telephone area codes, a usage first seen in Toronto[[/note]]
** UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}: Charm City. The City that Reads. (Negatively, "Bodymore, Murderland", "Harm City" and "The City that Bleeds")
** UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}: Beantown (never used by any actual residents), The Hub (of the Universe)
** Charlotte: The Queen City, "Crown Town"
** UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}: Chi Town, City of Big Shoulders, Windy City
** UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}: The Mistake on the Lake[[note]]originally used only to refer to Cleveland Stadium, former home of the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Browns]] and [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Indians]][[/note]]
** [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]]: Big D
** UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}: The Motor City, Motown, The D
** Hampton Roads metropolitan area: The 757
*** Norfolk: The Mermaid City
*** Northern metro (Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg): The Peninsula[[note]]This part of the area sits on the Virginia Peninsula.[[/note]]
*** Southern metro (Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk): The Southside
** Green Bay: Titletown [[note]]After [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague The Packers]] ''humiliated'' the New York Giants in the NFL Championship of 1961, and even more so after their three straight NFL titles from 1965–67[[/note]]
** UsefulNotes/{{Houston}}: Space City, H-Town, Clutch City[[note]]originally applied to the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Houston Rockets]] after their two NBA titles in the '90s, but now also applied to the city as a whole[[/note]]
** UsefulNotes/{{Indianapolis}}: Naptown, Circle City, the Crossroads of America, Indy
** UsefulNotes/LasVegas: Sin City, Lost Wages
** UsefulNotes/LosAngeles[=/Hollywood=]: Tinseltown, The Dream Factory
** UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}: Brew City, Mil Town, and occasionally, The Brew or The Mil
** [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis/Saint Paul]]: The Twin Cities. Minneapolis itself is "the Mill City" (it was an early center of the milling industry) or "the City of Lakes" (guess why).
** UsefulNotes/NewOrleans: The Big Easy
** UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}}: The Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps
** UsefulNotes/{{Oakland}}: The Town (by Bay Area residents)
** UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}: The City of Brotherly Love, Philly, Illtown (negatively, Killadelphia, although that's dropped off since about 2000).
** UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}: The Burgh, Pikksburgh (pronunciation with the regional accent)
** UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}: The City of Roses or Rose City (official), Stumptown, Bridgetown or Bridge City, Beervana, Rip City[[note]]usually used in the context of the city's [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] team, the Trail Blazers[[/note]]
** Richmond: The River City, RVA, The 804
** UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco: The City by the Bay, Frisco ([[BerserkButton never used by actual residents]]), The City (by residents)
** UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}: The Emerald City
** UsefulNotes/StLouis: St. Louie (only by non-residents), The 'Lou (popularized by rapper Nelly)
* UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}
** Rome: The Eternal City, Caput Mundi ''(Lat:Capital of the World)''
** Venice: The Queen of the Adriatic, The City of Masks
** Bologna: UsefulNotes/{{Basket|ball}} City
* UsefulNotes/{{France}}
** Paris: The City of Love or The City of Light
* UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}
** Monterrey: ''La Sultana del Norte'' (The Sultaness of the North)
*** Also known as ''La ciudad de la carnita asada''' (City of Barbecue), because people in northern Mexico in general are fond of hosting barbecues.
** Aguascalientes (both the city and the state): ''La Tierra de la Gente Buena'' (The Land of the Good People)
*** And, in a very derogative way, it's sometimes nicknamed ''La Tierra de la Gente Buena... Para Nada'' (The Land of the Good... For-Nothing People) because of the perceived lazyness of their people there.
** Jalisco: ''La Tierra del Mariachi'' (The Land of the Mariachi) since Mexican Mariachi is said to have begun there.
*** Its capital city. Guadalajara, is nicknamed ''La Perla de Occidente'' (The Pearl of the West) and it's neighbor city, Zapopan, is ''La Tierra del Maiz'' (Land of the Corn).
*** One of the (in)famous neighborhoods, San Juan de Dios, is nicknamed in Guadalajara as ''Taiwan de Dios'' since there's a sizable Chinese community there, and lots of stores that sells Chinese products.
*** The city's strong LGBT community has also created the nickname ''Donde se dan los hombres'' (literally "Where men are plentiful", but figuratively "Where men hump each other").
** Mexico City: ''La Ciudad de la Esperanza'' (The City of Hope) and outside the city (and inside too) it's nicknamed ''Chilangolandia'' (Chilangoland, since the people from Mexico City are nicknamed ''Chilangos'' in a pejorative way).
*** The nickname "The City of Hope" was added by current president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, so it's a more recent nickname. The more popular one is "The City of Palaces", and [[http://www.oocities.org/es/ciudaddelaesperanza/Ciudad_de_palacios.html how]]!
*** The Mexico City neighborhood of Tepito (which is considered the Mexican version of the New York's Bronx) is nicknamed ''El Barrio Bravo'' (The Tough Neighborhood)
* UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}
** Toronto - T.O., Hog Town, The Big Smoke, The Center of the Universe, T-dot
*** The city proper and its suburbs have separate nicknames based on their telephone area codes. The city proper is The 416, and the suburbs are The 905. Although each of the codes is now overlain with two distinct area codes, the nicknames are still used, since most phones in each area still have the original codes.
*** More recently, the city proper has picked up the added nickname of The 6, popularized (though not coined) by Music/{{Drake}}. It comes both from the last digit of "416" and the six municipalities[[note]]the former City of Toronto, Etobicoke, Scarborough, York, North York, East York[[/note]] that were merged by the Ontario provincial government in 1998 to establish Toronto's current borders.
** Ottawa - Bytown, The Hill, Beavertown.
** Hamilton - Steeltown, The Hammer.
** Sudbury - Nickel City, Laketown, The Sudz.
** Thunder Bay - Lakehead, [=TBay=], The Bay, West Finland.
** Winnipeg - Winterpeg, The Peg, Chicago North.
** Moose Jaw - The Jaw, Jawtown, Little Chicago.
** Calgary - C-Town, Cowtown, Stampede City.
** Edmonton - E-Town, The Big E, The Chuck, Deadmonton, Redmonton, Edmonchuck,[[note]]also spelled "Edmonchuk"; a reference to the city's large Ukrainian–Canadian community, with "chuk" being a common element of Ukrainian surnames[[/note]] River City, The City of Champions.
** Vancouver - Vancity, Rain City, Raincouver, Terminal City, Hollywood North, Vansterdam, Lotus Land, City of Glass, No Fun City.
** Saint John, New Brunswick - The Port City, Canada's First City
* UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}
** São Paulo: Rain Land
** Rio de Janeiro: Marvelous City
** Curitiba: Exemplar City
* UsefulNotes/NorthKorea
** Pyongyang: Jerusalem of the East (pre-communist nickname, referring to the successes of Christian missionaries in the city)
* UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}
** Adelaide - The City of Churches
** Brisbane - Bris Vegas
** Sydney - The Harbor City
* Nova Scotia: The Holy Land, by Scottish-Americans, especially those in the Northeast.
* California is often given Russian-style nicknames by conservatives reflecting its perceived "commie" leanings, such as Kalistan, the Socialist Republic of Kalifornia, etc.

* In Chicago, the sculpture named "Cloud Gate" is universally known as The Bean... Much to the artist's annoyance.
* Also in Chicago, the newly-renamed "Willis Tower" is still the Sears Tower. We don't care who owns it now or whether Sears Roebuck is on the brink of bankruptcy, it's still the Sears.
* Chicago again, the Marina Towers highrise is sometimes called "Music/{{Wilco}} Towers", having appeared on the cover of ''Yankee Hotel Foxtrot''.
* In downtown Vancouver, just outside one of the skytrain stops, is a sculpture universally referred to as [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/32118911@N05/4344901265/ the big ball of tin foil.]]

** Other buildings in the area have received similar nicknames such as "The Shard", "The Walkie-Talkie" or "The Inside-Out Building".