After having lived in London, Ontario for the last two decades this troper has to deal with this regularly. When I am referring to the 'other London' I have to use the London, England form and when I am talking about my hometown on an international Internet discussion board I will even state London, Ontario, Canada just to make sure there is no confusion.

This troper thought he was averting the TropeNamer when speaking to a Canadian Customs officer in Toronto and was asked where he was arriving from. I had flown from Heathrow to Toronto via Chicago, so my response was "London, via Chicago." The customs officer gave me an are-you-going-to-make-me-beat-it-out-of-you look and impatiently demanded, "London,....?" Right, because I made the flight equivalent of a two-hour drive by ''changing planes outside the country''. You couldn't even book that if you tried!

This troper finds his hometown of Grand Forks, British Columbia (Canada) is often confused with the similarly sized town of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

I would have thought it would be this one.

This troper is from Illinois. We have a Peru. And an Oregon. And a Cairo. And she still has to ask "South America or north of here?", or "State or city?" The pronunciation difference with Cairo (Egypt is "KY-ro," Illinois is "KAY-ro"; no, I don't know why) usually averts this, unless it's in print.

Wait, do you live in southern Illinois?

This troper from Missouri feel that the pronunciation of Cairo as "KAY-ro" grates on her ears, as does people saying "Ver-SALES," Indiana. It's "KY-ro" and "Ver-SIGH." *facepalm*

This troper's friend, on saying he was from the city of Liverpool whilst in Florida, was apparently asked "Oh, Liverpool! Do you know any of TheBeatles?"

Which Liverpool's that, then?

Peru Indiana, Ireland Indiana, Brazil Indiana, Kokomo Indiana. Then of course there's London Ohio, London Kentucky. Also bizarrely Delaware Ohio.

This troper is a Spaniard, and there are lots of Latin American cities named after Spanish ones. Also, she's got plenty of Latin friends, and she always has to pause and think, "Wait, no, they mean Guadalajara, México, not the one in Spain..."

This Troper lives in the State of New York, she has to keep telling people that she lives in the state, not the city.

The above is the bane of This Troper's existence. It's actually simpler to say she's from Erie, Pennsylvania.

By way of an inversion, in the UK there's New York, Lincolnshire and California, Norfolk. One can only imagine what happens when a resident of either of these tiny villages tries to explain where they're from.

There are also a couple of New Yorks in the North. One's a village a few miles outside Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the other is on the River Nidd in North Yorkshire. Not helping matters is the fact that the former isn't far from the original (apparently) Washington: it's entirely possible to drive between Washington and New York up the north-east coast.

This Troper, when living in Missouri, told a somewhat ditzy co-worker that his parents lived in New Jersey. Her response? "New Jersey, Missouri"? To this day, he doesn't know if there actually ''is'' a New Jersey, MO.

Moscow. That is all.

Idaho or Russia?

Or Vermont?

or Pennsylvania

Birmingham, Alabama has the extra bonus of having an uncannily similar history to Birmingham, England (Well, except for the civil rights movement and church bombings.)

Some people ask me if Birmingham, Eng. (my homecity), is named after Birmingham, Alabama. Sigh.

This troper's home town of Vancouver, WA ''will'' cause confusion with people from the East Coast. If he says he's from Vancouver, people assume Vancouver, British Columbia. Say he's from Washington, and people assume DC. If he says he's from Portland (Oregon, just across the Columbia River), people will think of Portland, Maine.

In Missouri, there's a Cuba, a Kabul, a Mexico, and possibly several other confusing location names.

Florida and California, Bergen, Norway, anyone?

Getting directions to Newark Airport in New Jersey, this troper was told it was 15 minutes travel time from Pennsylvania Station. Pennsylvania Station (known as Penn Station) is a major transfer point in Manhattan, NYC for rail and subway trains, and is widely known to everyone who ever travels in NYC. It seems that Newark, New Jersey also has a Pennsylvania Station, which no one outside of the nearby area has ever heard of, which is the one 15 minutes from the airport.

Don't worry, even locals get confused between Newark Penn and New York Penn sometimes. Good planning there.

While watching Tim Burton's version of ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', this troper couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Violet Beauregarde's nationality: Germany and England are pretty well-known countries, but who ever heard of Georgia? As it turned out, there's also a state in the US named Georgia.

This troper encountered this while driving cross-country in the USA. He found it particularly hilarious when he drove by Carthage, Athens, Lebanon, and many other Eastern Europeon and Middle Eastern places. It was topped off by seeing a town named Sparta. One can only imagine the sort of reaction Sparta USA had to the whole 300 THIS. IS. SPARTA. meme.

When I was at school, another boy (who was from Greenwich, of Observatory fame) got all excited about a magazine article about a detective, until it was pointed out to him that the article said that the guy was from Greenwich ''Village'' -- the one in New York, NY. To further confuse Londoners, New York also has a Chelsea, a Soho and a Battery, complete with Battery Park -- the latter being similar in sound to Battersea, whose main claim to fame (other than the Dogs' Home, and Clapham Junction for those who realise that the latter is actually in Battersea, not Clapham) is Battersea Park, where part of the Festival of Britain was held (the only part to survive for several years afterward).

I have friends who live in Bury, which is just north of Manchester, UK. To my university companions they all think I mean Bury St Edmonds, near Cambridge. The two are over 150 miles apart (a long distance for the UK).

Australia can provide more than a few. In Queensland there's a Texas (though its not that big a town) and a suburb on the Gold Coast called Miami. There's also a Warwick and Ipswich compared to Warwick and Ipswich in England.

There's also a purely Australian example. There's a suburb called Windsor in the state capitals of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

Hamilton.

Ah, good old Eatern Pennsylvania: Lancaster, Reading, Lebanon, to name a few. I once thought it a decent idea to move to Intercourse, PA and try to make a killing in t-shirts and hats.

America is just north of oxford.

When I was a little girl watching reruns of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air I thought for a surprisingly long time that it had something to do with the local town of Bel Air, Maryland. Bel Air, MD can also be confusing for non-locals who often mix up directions between Bel Air the town, Bel Air Road, Belair Road, and Blair Road (which is, of course, near the location of the Blair Witch Project). I still confuse Chapel Hill, NC and Chapel Hill, MD.

This troper has something of an inversion. As an American from New Jersey who currently lives in the TropeNamer city of London, England, I was more than slightly surprised to find that there was a Newark in England. Also, Jersey causes a lot of confusion. Most people (in the northeast of America, anyway) always refer to New Jersey as Jersey. So this troper got massively confused that her school was having a field trip to Jersey...until she realized they meant the ''Bailiwick'' of Jersey, which was a hell of a lot closer.

This Troper lives near the Newark in England. It's full name is Newark-on-Trent, but no-one calls it that. There are a large number of places called Newark around the world (mostly in the US and Australia), and the England one hosted a "Newarks of the world festival" in 1995.

I live in Norway. Once I got a letter from USA that had made a little detour and picked up some extra stamps and a written clarification: "That's Norway, EUROPE!".

When this Troper's family went to America one Christmas we were staying in the city of Betehlehem in Pennsylvania (there is also a Nazareth nearby).

Also, one purpose of this was to visit some freinds my dad had made online, apparently when he told them he was from Manchester (England) he was asked which one (I don't think he was aware that there were other Manchesters in America before that).

Ohio's got plenty - London, Geneva, Medina (That's Meh-die-nah), Lancaster, Rome, Windsor, Lima, Kent, and Troy just to name a few. Although most of those aren't exactly booming centers of population.

This troper grew up in Berlin... New Jersey. Which is good for that kind of thing, as he also spent time in Gloucester. Things didn't get any better after leaving the state, as he ended up living just outside of Hollywood... Florida. Moving to Boston hasn't improved anything, with the large number of towns named after towns in England around.

Odd version: I have to say City, Country when talking about Mongolia, or else people will assume it's somewhere in the States they haven't heard of. This has bed over to the rest of my life, resulting in sentences that leave out the state, creating this trope in people who ask where I'm referring to. Mongolia, by the way, has a Hollywood. It's named that for the hell of it and is neither big nor interesting in any way. Due to the transliteration system, though, it's Huulwood - which makes you sound like a redneck and evokes this trope when you get, 'Huulwood, USA?'

This Troper lives in Missouri City, Texas not to be confused with Missouri City in Missouri. Ours is ''much'' bigger. Nearby is a Fresno and a Richmond. All next to the Houston and not the street in Manhattan, the one in the UK or British Columbia.

I take offense to you saying that Frankfurt an der Oder isn't important! (My mom was born there.)

It's in Maine?