100 Examples of Nouns Proper to Cities

Cities Proper Nouns

The proper nouns of cities are those that designate a particular city, real or imaginary. For instance: Athens, Bogotá, California, Springfield.

The proper nouns of places, or place names, are always written with a capital initial except when they are used as generic common nouns. In these cases, they must be used with a lower case letter. For instance: Your new assistant is worth a potosí. / This place is a modern Babylon.

Although the majority of place names are written in the singular, some that have a collective meaning are written in the plural. For instance: the Alps, the Bahamas. But there are also those with a lexicalized form of the plural but without collective value. For instance: Aguascalientes, Buenos Aires, Las Vegas, Los Angeles.

The nouns are words that are used to name or identify all the things we know: people, places, objects, animals, concepts. According to the type of object they denote, they are classified as:

Examples of proper nouns of cities

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