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List of places named after Victoria of the United Kingdom

 
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A number of places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria.

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Commonwealth Realms

Australia

Belize

Canada

Victoria Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

United Kingdom

Note: this is only a small sample of the hundreds of locations in the United Kingdom with the name 'Victoria'.

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Isle of Man

Jersey

Outside the Commonwealth Realms

Cameroon

  • Limbe, was known as Victoria until 1982

Hong Kong

India

Ireland

Kenya

Malaysia

Malta

  • Victoria, capital of the island of Gozo, also known locally as Rabat

Myanmar / Burma

Nigeria

Pakistan

Seychelles

Singapore

South Africa

Sri Lanka

  • Victoria Reservoir

Tanzania

Uganda

United States

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Other

There are other places that have the name "Victoria", with or without other words, but not all were named after Queen Victoria; see Victoria (geographical disambiguation).


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