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| 110 | Lydia | Named after the country in Asia Minor whose early inhabitants were called Phrygians. About the time |
| 226 | Weringia | Named for Währing, a part of Vienna in which the University Observatory is situated. (H 27) Named (B |
| 235 | Carolina | Named for an atoll of the Line Islands, 450 miles northwest of Papeete, Tahiti, where the discoverer |
| 241 | Germania | This is the Latin name for Germany, the native country of the discoverer. (H 29) |
| 293 | Brasilia | Named for the South American country. Dom Pedro II (1825–1891), former emperor of Brazil who had wit |
| 401 | Ottilia | “Für den Planeten wurde der in der Schwarzwaldund Vogesensage eine Rolle spielende Name Ottilia gewä |
| 452 | Hamiltonia | Named for Mt. Hamilton in California, the site of the Lick Observatory. (H 49) |
| 519 | Sylvania | This planet is named for the large forests that the discoverer enjoyed tramping through even as a sm |
| 762 | Pulcova | Named for Pulkovo, the locality near St. Petersburg (the former Leningrad), where the famous observa |
| 781 | Kartvelia | This name honors the people of the Russian region of Georgia. Kartveli is the ancient name of the in |
| 830 | Petropolitana | Independently discovered 1916 Sept. 3 by M. F. Wolf at Heidelberg. This planet is named on the same |
| 859 | Bouzareah | This planet was named after the locality where the Algiers Observatory was erected. (H 84) |
| 951 | Gaspra | Named after the resort on the southern shore of Crimea in which the famous Russian writer Lev Nikola |
| 1094 | Siberia | Named for a region of Russia located in northern Asia. (H 103) |
| 1135 | Colchis | Named for the ancient country bordering on Black Sea south of the Caucasus mountains. The area now c |
| 1140 | Crimea | Named for the southern peninsula of Russia extending into the Black Sea where Simeis is located. (H |
| 1306 | Scythia | Named for the country of the ancient Scythians comprising parts of Europe and Asia now in the U.S.S. |
| 1312 | Vassar | Named by Mrs. Maud W. Makemson who computed the orbit while teaching in the women’s college of Vassa |
| 1413 | Roucarie | Named in honor of the mother of the discoverer. (H 128) |
| 1420 | Radcliffe | Named by the orbit computer, Mrs. Maud W. Makemson, in honor of the class of 1912 of Radcliffe Colle |
| 1436 | Salonta | Named for the birthplace of the discoverer. |
| 2116 | Mtskheta | Named after the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Georgia, at the confluence of the rivers Mtkvari a |
| 2120 | Tyumenia | Named for the Tyumen' district of the R.S.F.S.R., the center of the West Siberian oil-gas basin that |
| 2196 | Ellicott | Named in memory of Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867–1962), American astronomer and founder in 1901 of |
| 2253 | Espinette | Named for the discoverer's residence in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. For many of the 45 years the disco |
| 2322 | Kitt Peak | Named to commemorate two important events in the history of the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Memb |
| 2509 | Chukotka | Named for a National Area of the {former} R.S.F.S.R., situated in the northeastern part of the U.S.S |
| 2593 | Buryatia | Named for the {former} Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. (M 7472) |
| 3229 | Solnhofen | The rocks around the limestone quarry at Solnhofen, Bavaria, consist of fossilized reefs. It seems t |
| 3331 | Kvistaberg | Named for the location of the Uppsala Observatory’s observing station. Several minor planets have be |
| 3342 | Fivesparks | Named in honor of Newton and Margaret Mayall, who have enriched the literature for amateur astronome |
| 3365 | Recogne | Named for a high point in the Ardennes, in the Province de Luxembourg. (M 15573) |
| 3896 | Pordenone | Named in memory of Giovanni Antonio Licinio (1483–1539), also known as Il Pordenone, from the birthp |
| 3912 | Troja | Named for the ancient legendary city featured in the works of Homer {see planet (5700)}. The histor |
| 4212 | Sansyu-Asuke | Sansyu-Asuke, in the middle of Aichi prefecture, has a national park where colors are beautiful in t |
| 4408 | Zlata Koruna | Named for a Gothic monastery and a village in southern Bohemia east of Kležt Mountain. The Cistercia |
| 4425 | Bilk | Bilk is the district in the city of Düsseldorf where in 1843 Johann Benzenberg established a private |
| 4800 | Veveri | Veveri is a suburb of the Italian town of Novara. It is a crossroad for a historical man-made irrig |
| 5019 | Erfjord | Erfjord is the name of a small school in a small village of the same name in western Norway. This s |
| 5293 | Bentengahama | Named for a beautiful sandy beach between Kushirozaki lighthouse and Chiyonoura, in the southern par |
| 5331 | Erimomisaki | Named for the promontory at the southern end of Hokkaido. Warm and cold currents, crossing each othe |
| 5471 | Tunguska | Named for the site, in Siberia, of the presumed impact of a 60-meter minor planet on the 85th annive |
| 5557 | Chimikeppuko | Named for the small lake in Tsubetsu {see planet (4845)}, a town in the eastern part of Hokkaido {s |
| 5631 | Sekihokutouge | Named for a pass in central Hokkaido {see planet (3720)}. At an altitude of 1050 meters, the pass c |
| 5778 | Jurafrance | The French Jura, a department in eastern France, was created in 1674 from the southern part of Franc |
| 5935 | Ostankino | Named for a district of Moscow that included the village Ostankino, the eighteenth-century county se |
| 6194 | Denali | Mt. Denali, rising 6194 meters above sea level, is the tallest peak in North America. The name Dena |
| 6215 | Mehdia | Mehdia, equivalent to the Arabic word for “gift”, is a region in Morocco with rich natural resources |
| 6267 | Rozhen | The National Observatory of Bulgaria has been established at Rozhen, not far from the city of Smolja |
| 6346 | Syukumeguri | Syukumeguri is a district in the southern part of the village of Kurohone, Gunma prefecture. The di |
| 6362 | Tunis | Located on the southern Mediterranean coast, Tunis (Tunisia) has always been a meeting place between |
| 6370 | Malpais | Spanish for “bad country,” early explorers of the American Southwest described as Malpais a countrys |
| 6395 | Hilliard | Named in honor of Elizabeth (1904– ) and Leslie Hilliard (1905– ), who acquired the house in Bath, E |
| 6418 | Hanamigahara | Hanamigahara is beautiful forest park in the northern part of Kurohone village, Gunma prefecture. |
| 6590 | Barolo | Barolo, in the Langhe district of the Italian region of Piedmont, is known for some of the world's f |
| 6739 | Tärendö | Archaeological remains show that Tärendö, a small community just north of the Arctic Circle in the S |
| 6797 | Östersund | The provincial capital of Jämtland in northern Sweden, Östersund is on the shores of lake Storsjön i |
| 6851 | Chianti | The Chianti region in Tuscany, Italy, is world-renowned for its beautiful landscape and for its famo |
| 6879 | Hyogo | Named for the prefecture where this planet was discovered. Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe Cit |
| 6971 | Omogokei | Named for a ravine, 18 km long, at the foot of Mt. Ishizuti, the highest mountain in western Japan. |
| 6987 | Onioshidashi | Onioshidashi is a lava plateau formed by the lava flow of the 1783 eruption of Mt. Asamayama. The gi |
| 6989 | Hoshinosato | Chichibu Hoshi-no-sato is home to more than ten astronomical observatories built by amateur astronom |
| 6991 | Chichibu | Chichibu is the name of the western part of the Saitama prefecture. |
| 7017 | Uradowan | Named for the bay that is the principal entrance by sea to Kochi prefecture. |
| 7041 | Nantucket | Named for the Massachusetts island and the Maria Mitchell {see planet (1455)} Observatory located t |
| 7167 | Laupheim | Named in honor of Robert Clausen (1951– ) and his team at the public observatory in Laupheim, a town |
| 7233 | Majella | The Majella National Park in Abruzzo, Italy, is one of the largest, wildest and best preserved natur |
| 7248 | Älvsjö | Älvsjö, now a residential suburb of Stockholm, is the location of the battle of Brännkyrka (1518), i |
| 7298 | Matudaira-gou | Matudaira-gou is located in the east of Toyota city, Aichi prefecture. It is the motherland of the |
| 7603 | Salopia | Named for the English county of Shropshire (or Salop), where Church Stretton is located. Situated in |
| 7704 | Dellen | Dellen, two connected lakes in the Swedish province of Hälsingland, are appreciated among fly-fisher |
| 7705 | Humeln | Humeln is a Swedish lake located close to the city of Oskarshamn, where the Baltic Sea meets Kalmars |
| 7706 | Mien | Mien is a lake located in the province Små land in the southern part of Sweden. It is 9 km across an |
| 7755 | Haute-Provence | Haute Provence is a very beautiful region in southern France where, in 1936, the astronomical observ |
| 7770 | Siljan | Lake Siljan, located in the beautiful Swedish province Dalarna, is the largest impact crater in the |
| 7771 | Tvären | Tvären is a kilometer-sized bay close to Studsvik in Sweden. The maximum depth is 85 meters, and it |
| 7986 | Romania | The country of Romania is located in southeast Europe, with Bucharest as its capital. It has a land |
| 8075 | Roero | The region of Roero, in Piemonte, Italy, is greatly appreciated for its natural beauty, its agricult |
| 8088 | Australia | Named for the continent in the Southern Hemisphere. With this naming the first discoverer pays trib |
| 8250 | Cornell | Named for Cornell University, on the occasion of its hosting the “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors” confer |
| 8275 | Inca | At the time of the Spanish conquest (1531-1539) the Inca state was a highly civilized and sophistica |
| 8277 | Machu-Picchu | Machu-Picchu, “old peak”, 2350 meters high, is the site of ancient Inca ruins about 80 km nortwest o |
| 8380 | Tooting | Named for a suburb of London. Tooting's postal code is SW17. Name suggested by E. Bowell, who live |
| 8423 | Macao | Named in honor of Macao, the beautiful peninsula near Zhuhai. An international tourist attraction a |
| 8968 | Europaeus | Named for Caprimulgus europaeus, or nightjar. |
| 9154 | Kol'tsovo | A suburb of Novosibirsk, Kol'tsovo is the site of the State Scientific Institute of Virology and Bio |
| 9167 | Kharkiv | Kharkiv (Khar'kov), an industrial and cultural center, is one of the largest cities in Ukraine. It |
| 9220 | Yoshidayama | Yoshidayama is a hill located in Sakyo, a district in the northeastern part of Kyoto. It contains t |
| 9235 | Shimanamikaido | Named for a toll road, the Nishiseto Expressway, whose nickname is Shimanami Kaido. The third road c |
| 9289 | Balau | The Balau area, near Costigliole d'Asti (Piedmont, Italy), is renowned for its natural beauty, its a |
| 9325 | Stonehenge | Stonehenge, a prehistoric circular complex of large standing stones, is located north of the city of |
| 9357 | Venezuela | The Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela (“Little Venice”) was named in 1499 by Amerigo Vespucci becau |
| 9578 | Klyazma | The Klyazma river, with its source north of Moscow and a total length of 686 km, flows gently in an |
| 9612 | Belgorod | An industrial, scientific and cultural center in southern Russia, close to the Ukrainian border, Bel |
| 9645 | Grünewald | Named for the German painter and watercolor artist Matthias Grünewald (c. 1460-1528). His original |
| 9663 | Zwin | The Zwin is a naturally protected reserve, the result of the silting up of the bay that stretched to |
| 9668 | Tianyahaijiao | “Tianya Haijiao”, which literally means “edge of the sky, rim of the sea”, is the name of a famous r |
| 9674 | Slovenija | Named for the European nation in which the Crni Vrh Observatory is situated. This is the first mino |
| 9674 | Slovenija | Named for the European nation in which the Crni Vrh Observatory is situated. This is the first mino |
| 9742 | Worpswede | Named for the German colony of artists near the city of Bremen. Beginning in 1889, many painters set |
| 9839 | Crabbegat | Crabbegat is an idyllic road at the border of the Wolvendael park, close to the Royal Observatory at |
| 10012 | Tmutarakania | Tmutarakania was a Russian principality in the Tamanian peninsula from the tenth to the twelfth cent |
| 10039 | Keet Seel | Keet Seel is a well-preserved prehistoric cliff-dwelling, occupied by ancestors of the modern Hopi p |
| 10071 | Paraguay | Paraguay is a South American country bordered by Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. The Paraguay river r |
| 10072 | Uruguay | Uruguay is located north of the Rio de la Plata estuary and east of the river that gave the country |
| 10075 | Campeche | The Bay of Campeche is surrounded by the Mexican states Campeche, Tabasco and Veracruz. During June |
| 10102 | Digerhuvud | Digerhuvud is the place on Gotland where seastacks are most common. |
| 10103 | Jungfrun | Jungfrun is the largest seastack on Gotland. |
| 10104 | Hoburgsgubben | Hoburgsgubben is a very characteristic seastack on southern Gotland, looking like an old man watchin |
| 10105 | Holmhällar | Holmhällar, on Gotland, contains an unusual area of seastacks. One of the expeditions from the Uppsa |
| 10106 | Lergrav | Lergrav is one of the most exotic seastack sites on Gotland. |
| 10121 | Arzamas | Arzamas, on the Tesha river, was founded in 1578 by Ivan the Terrible. It became a major transit cen |
| 10123 | Fideöja | There are two small counties, Fide and Öja, on the Swedish island of Gotland. The church in Öja hos |
| 10131 | Stånga | Stånga has hosted annual games typical of Gotland every summer since 1924. |
| 10132 | Lummelunda | In Lummelunda, about 15 km north of Visby, the capital of Gotland, there can be found a 4-km long ca |
| 10147 | Mizugatsuka | Mizugatsuka is a park in the middle of the southern trail of Mt. Fuji. The clear air makes it a mecc |
| 10195 | Nebraska | Named for the U.S. state of Nebraska, this is the first minor planet to be discovered from an observ |
| 10242 | Wasserkuppe | The Wasserkuppe, at 950 m, is the highest peak in the Rhön. The area is used for glider training. |
| 10243 | Hohe Meissner | The Hohe Meissner (750 m) is a volcano north of the Rhön between the Werra and Fulda rivers, southea |
| 10244 | Thüringer Wald | The Thüringer Wald is a mountain range east of the Werra river, flowing from northwest to southeast |
| 10246 | Frankenwald | The Frankenwald forms the continuation of the Thüringer Wald mountains to the southeast up to the Fi |
| 10248 | Fichtelgebirge | The Fichtelgebirge is a compact mountain range east of the city of Bayreuth. The highest mountain i |
| 10254 | Hunsrück | The Hunsrück lies west of the Rhine between the rivers Nahe and Mosel. In the southern part many sem |
| 10255 | Taunus | The Taunus is the continuation of the Hundsrück at the eastern side of the Rhine. Its highest mount |
| 10256 | Westerwald | North of the Lahn river lies the Westerwald, a low mountain range with some volcanoes, blending into |
| 10293 | Pribina | Pribina (800?--861) was seated in Nitra, where he built the first church in Slovakia and founded the |
| 10399 | Nishiharima | Nishiharima is the southwestern area of Hyogo prefecture and site of the Nishi-Harima Astronomical O |
| 10454 | Vallenar | Vallenar, capital of the Chilean province of Huasco, is located some 90 km north of the La Silla obs |
| 10661 | Teutoburgerwald | The Teutoburgerwald forest is famous because it was here, in 9 A.D., that Varus was defeated by Armi |
| 10663 | Schwarzwald | The Schwarzwald, or Black Forest, lies east of the Rhine river and extends from Basel as far as the |
| 10769 | Minas Gerais | The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais (general mines), located in the mineral-rich uplands of the Braz |
| 10770 | Belo Horizonte | Belo Horizonte is the beautiful capital (1897) of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It was the f |
| 10794 | Vänge | Vänge is the place where, according to an old saga, a man called Tjelvar first came ashore on Gotlan |
| 10799 | Yucatán | The Yucatán peninsula became a Mexican state in 1824. It is a popular tourist destination because o |
| 10807 | Uggarde | With a diameter of 50 meters, Uggarde Rohr is the largest of the 1400 cairns on Gotland that were co |
| 10808 | Digerrojr | Digerrojr is a large cairn on Gotland. |
| 10810 | Lejsturojr | Lejsturojr is a large cairn on southern Gotland. |
| 11005 | Waldtrudering | Waldtrudering is a beautiful residential area in Munich, Bavaria, where the discoverer and his famil |
| 11083 | Caracas | Founded in 1567, Caracas is the capital of Venezuela and one of the principal cities of South Americ |
| 11335 | Santiago | The capital of Chile, Santiago was founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. |
| 11678 | Brevard | Brevard County, Florida, is the location of the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory, from |
| 11780 | Thunder Bay | Thunder Bay, located on the shores of Lake Superior, is the most populous municipality in Northweste |
| 11870 | Sverige | Sverige (Sweden) is a nation in northern Europe, located on the Scandinavian peninsula together with |
| 11908 | Nicaragua | Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American isthmus. It is bordered in the west by the |
| 11912 | Piedade | Serra de Piedade in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, east of the capital of Belo Horizonte, is t |
| 11927 | Mount Kent | Mt. Kent Observatory is a facility for astronomical education, research and outreach operated by the |
| 11945 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Dutch financial-business capital, started its existence in Oct. 1275 as a small fishing s |
| 12079 | Kaibab | The Kaibab Formation is a massive limestone layer of Permian age that forms the bedrock of much of N |
| 12188 | Kalaallitnunaat | Kalaallit Nunaat (Country of the Greenlanders) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmar |
| 12246 | Pliska | Pliska was the first capital of the Bulgarian state, founded in 681. The conversion into Christianit |
| 12325 | Bogota | Bogota is the capital of Colombia. It has a population of 8 million. With many universities and l |
| 12339 | Carloo | Carloo, a small hamlet south of the Royal Observatory at Uccle, was a former seigniory that was ment |
| 12340 | Stalle | Stalle is a hamlet in the eastern part of the municipality of Uccle. It was mentioned in the twelfth |
| 12341 | Calevoet | Calevoet is a hamlet in the southwestern part of the municipality of Uccle. The name means “grassle |
| 12406 | Zvíkov | The Zvíkov castle was built by the Přemyslids dynasty above the confluence of the Vltava and Otava r |
| 12758 | Kabudari | Kabudari, or “big tree” in the Arawak indigenous language, is a native name from the municipality of |
| 13293 | Mechelen | Mechelen, 25 km south of Antwerp, was settled on the banks of the Dyle river in Gallic-Roman times. |
| 13513 | Manila | Manila is the capital of the Philippines, with a capital region of about 12 million inhabitants. Wit |
| 13586 | Copenhagen | Founded as a fishing village in the 10th century, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the ea |
| 13688 | Oklahoma | Oklahoma is a U.S. state, and this was the first minor planet to be discovered from an observatory t |
| 13868 | Catalonia | Catalonia is an autonomous region in northeastern Spain bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, France an |
| 14441 | Atakanoseki | Atakanoseki was a checkpoint set up in Komatsu-city, Ishikawa Prefecture, in 1187. In the 400-year- |
| 14764 | Kilauea | This Hungaria object is named after the active volcano Kilauea on Hawaii. The summit is 1247 m and d |
| 14909 | Kamchatka | The Kamchatka peninsula, between the Pacific Ocean and the sea of Okhotsk, was investigated by S. P. |
| 15050 | Heddal | Heddal is the name of a small school in a small village of the same name in southern Norway. This s |
| 15212 | Yaroslavl' | Founded in 1010, Yaroslavl' was the capital of an independent principality, incorporated into the Mo |
| 15523 | Grenville | Grenville Turner (b. 1936), a geochronologist and meteoriticist, refined the argon-39/argon-40 age-d |
| 15675 | Goloseevo | The Main Astronomical Observatory of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences is located in the Go |
| 16525 | Shumarinaiko | Lake Shumarinai is located in the western part of the Nayoro basin. It was created artificially in |
| 16770 | Angkorwat | Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia, built from the early twelfth century, that is the larges |
| 16801 | Petřínpragensis | Petřín is a memorable hill in the center of Prague. There is located the Štefánik Observatory, foun |
| 17445 | Avatcha | Avatcha Bay, on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, was used by Vitus Bering as a bas |
| 17465 | Inawashiroko | Inawashiroko, one of the largest lakes in Japan, is located in Bandai-Asahi National Park. It is kn |
| 17955 | Sedransk | Kyra Lauren Sedransk (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18636 | Villedepompey | Once a small village, the Lorraine city of Pompey grew after the 1870 war, when a steel factory was |
| 18725 | Atacama | The Atacama desert, which covers regions II, III and IV of Chile, is one of the driest deserts on Ea |
| 19137 | Copiapó | Copiapó, a mining district in northern Chile, was in 2010 the scene of a severe mining accident, wit |
| 19148 | Alaska | While searching for de la Croyère's mythical land, the Second Kamchatka expedition reached Alaska in |
| 19204 | Joshuatree | Joshua Tree National Park was founded in 1936 as Joshua Tree National Monument largely through the e |
| 19534 | Miyagi | Miyagi is a Japanese prefecture in the Tohoku region of Honshu. Its coastal area was heavily damaged |
| 19691 | Iwate | Iwate, the second largest prefecture in Japan, is located in north Honshu. Its coast was heavily dam |
| 19713 | Ibaraki | The Japanese prefecture of Ibaraki houses three research centers (Tsukuba, Tokai and Kashima) that c |
| 19731 | Tochigi | Tochigi is a prefecture north of Tokyo. Its World Heritage site in Nikko houses shrines and temples |
| 19776 | Balears | The people of the western Mediterranean group of islands Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera, kn |
| 19916 | Donbass | The Donetskij coal basin is located mainly in Ukraine and partly in Russia. This geographical regio |
| 20204 | Yuudurunosato | Yuudurunosato is the nickname of Urushiyama, located in the western area of Nanyo city. The nicknam |
| 20252 | Eyjafjallajökull | The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland erupted in Mar. 2010 after an extended period of se |
| 20513 | Lazio | Lazio is the Italian region containing Rome, the everlasting city. The Regione Lazio allowed the cre |
| 20613 | Chibaken | Chiba prefecture is located east of Tokyo. In 2011, some areas were damaged during the Tohoku earthq |
| 20936 | Nemrut Dagi | This Hungaria object is named after the volcano Nemrut Dagi in Turkey. It is the most western volca |
| 21257 | Jižní Čechy | Jižní Čechy (South Bohemia) is a region of the Czech Republic known for its pleasant landscape, hist |
| 21302 | Shirakamisanchi | Shirakamisanchi is a mountain district spreading over Aomori Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, Japan. |
| 21663 | Banat | The Banat, home of the “Donauschwaben”, is a European region between the Maros river in the north, t |
| 21966 | Hamadori | Hamadori is a coastal region in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The area between Abukuma highland and t |
| 22195 | Nevadodelruiz | The Hungaria planet is named after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia. This 5389-m active volc |
| 22618 | Silva Nortica | Silva Nortica is a historical name of the region covering the territory on the borders of South Bohe |
| 22719 | Nakadori | Nakadori is the central part of Fukushima prefecture, Japan, and is located between the Ou Mountains |
| 22802 | Sigiriya | Sigiriya is a fifth-century rock fortress in central Sri Lanka. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| 22827 | Arvernia | Arvernia is the Latin name of the Auvergne, a region in south-central France. Much of the Auvergne |
| 23477 | Wallenstadt | Wallenstadt (in German, Walenstadt) is one of the greater lakes in Switzerland. Franz Liszt dedicat |
| 23638 | Nagano | Nagano Prefecture lies in the center of Honshu Island, Japan. It shares borders with eight prefectur |
| 23988 | Maungakiekie | Maungakiekie, or “One Tree Hill”, is the volcanic cone in the city where this minor planet was disco |
| 24794 | Kurland | Kurland (Courland) is the ancient name of the districts Zemgale and Kurzeme in present-day Latvia. |
| 24899 | Dominiona | Canada is officially the “Dominion of Canada” under the Constitution Acts of 1867 and 1982. Such de |
| 25155 | van Belle | Gerard van Belle (b. 1968) is an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory. His research interests includ |
| 26027 | Cotopaxi | The Hungaria planet is named after the 5897-m active volcano Cotopaxi. The Cotopaxi is situated in t |
| 26210 | Lingas | The Lingas plateau is located in the Cevennes National Park and is the site of the Pises Observatory |
| 26715 | South Dakota | South Dakota, in which the Badlands Observatory is situated, became the fortieth U.S. state when the |
| 26857 | Veracrux | Veracruz is a major port on the Gulf of Mexico, founded in 1519 by the Spanish explorer Hermán Corté |
| 26922 | Samara | The 580-km Samara river, with its source in the foothills of the Urals, flows northwest and joins th |
| 26960 | Liouville | Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) was a French analyst and geometer and the first to prove the existence |
| 27714 | Dochu | Dochu in Awa is the soil column which was formed when a steep cliff eroded due to the wind and rain. |
| 27789 | Astrakhan | The Astrakhan Khanate, a Tatar feudal state, was established around 1460, after the collapse of the |
| 29157 | Higashinihon | “Higashi Nihon” (East Japan) was struck by one of the most destructive earthquakes in history on 201 |
| 29189 | Udinsk | Udinsk (Ulan-Ude), southeast of Lake Baikal at the confluence of the Selenga and Uda rivers, is the |
| 30888 | Okitsumisaki | Okitsumisaki in western Kochi prefecture is a small promontory jutting into the Pacific Ocean. It i |
| 30938 | Montmartre | Montmartre, a large hill in Paris (France), is primarily known for the white domed basilica on its s |
| 31031 | Altiplano | The Altiplano in the central Andes lies mostly within Bolivia and Peru, and hosts the cities of Puno |
| 31110 | Clapas | Clapas is the former name for stone houses in the Montpellier area. Nowadays, it's the nickname of t |
| 31147 | Miriquidi | The word Miriquidi is first mentioned in a document of the emperor Otto II in the year 974. It mean |
| 31650 | Frýdek-Místek | The twin cities of Frýdek and Místek, on opposite sides of the Ostravice river at the border of Sile |
| 32766 | Voskresenskoe | Voskresenskoe is an urban settlement, the center of the Voskresenskoe region of the Nizhnij Novgorod |
| 33817 | Fariswald | Faris Irwin Wald (b. 2002) is a finalist in the 2017 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competitio |
| 34351 | Decatur | Decatur, Alabama, is on the south bank of the Tennessee river, approximately 25 km west of NASA's Ma |
| 34611 | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches is the site of an Indian settlement, named for the Nacogdoche Indians. |
| 35352 | Texas | The largest state in the continental U.S., Texas is well known for its proud and independent people, |
| 36033 | Viseggi | Monte Viseggi is the site of La Spezia Astronomical Observatory. The observatory, founded in 1989 by |
| 36614 | Saltis | Saltis is a nickname for Saltsjöbaden, where the Stockholm Observatory was located from 1931 to 2001 |
| 37471 | Popocatepetl | The Hungaria planet is named for the 5462-m Mexican volcano Popocatépetl. Several eruptions have oc |
| 37596 | Cotahuasi | The Cotahuasi Canyon, near the Peruvian city of Arequipa, was formed by the Cotahuasi river. Runnin |
| 39529 | Vatnajökull | Vatnajökull (Glacier of Lakes) is the largest glacier in Iceland, covering 8 percent of the country. |
| 41481 | Musashifuchu | Fuchu is the name of the place where Kokuhu (the ancient Japanese provincial government office) was |
| 41986 | Fort Bend | Founded in 1984, the Fort Bend Astronomy Club has the mission to serve people in the Houston area wh |
| 41986 | Fort Bend | Founded in 1984, the Fort Bend Astronomy Club has the mission to serve people in the Houston area wh |
| 43511 | Cima Ekar | Cima Ekar, near Asiago, hosts the largest astronomical facilities in Italy. |
| 43881 | Cerreto | Cerreto D'Asti, in the Italian Piedmont region, is home to the observatory of the Astronomical Assoc |
| 47164 | Ticino | Ticino is one of the cantons of Switzerland. The Gnosca Observatory, where this minor planet was di |
| 47294 | Blanský les | Blanský les (Blanský Forest) is a south Bohemian highland remarkable from both historical and biolog |
| 52334 | Oberammergau | Oberammergau, situated in the Bavarian Alps, is the festival place of a famous Passion Play, accordi |
| 54827 | Kurpfalz | The county Palatine of the Rhine (“Kurpfalz”) goes back to a territory of the Holy Roman Empire. In |
| 55735 | Magdeburg | Magdeburg, first recorded in 805, is situated on the Elbe river and is currently the capital of Saxo |
| 55875 | Hirohatagaoka | Hirohatagaoka is a hill on which Hadano High School is located. Founded in 1926 and originally named |
| 56000 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia, or “Land between the Rivers”, is the region between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in |
| 58679 | Brenig | Brenig, a part of Bornheim, is located near the Rhine river between Cologne and Bonn. It is home to |
| 59369 | Chanco | Chanco is a toponym used by the Flemish scientist-author Godefridi Wendelini (1580-1667), who named |
| 63387 | Brazos Bend | Brazos Bend State Park is located on 4975 acres in Fort Bend County, Texas. One of America's top te |
| 65541 | Kasbek | This minor planet at the Hecuba Gap is named for the 5050-m-high inactive volcano Kasbek in the Geor |
| 68325 | Begues | From its altitude of 500 meters, Begues, the discovery site of this minor planet, offers a panoramic |
| 73610 | Klyuchevskaya | This Hungaria minor planet is named for the active 4750-m Klyuchevskaja volcano on the Kamchatka Pen |
| 79418 | Zhangjiajie | Zhangjiajie, situated in the northwest of Hunan province, is known for its unique tourist and natura |
| 79864 | Pirituba | Pirituba is a neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil. Its name derives from the Tupi language words “pir |
| 80801 | Yiwu | Yiwu, with a population of 20~000, is a small county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in |
| 85214 | Sommersdorf | Sommersdorf is a municipality in the northern part of Bavaria. Every five years since 1968, the Fran |
| 85217 | Bilzingsleben | About 370 000 years ago in the middle glacial period, an anthropoid Eurasian group bilzingslebenensi |
| 85267 | Taj Mahal | The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum, commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to hou |
| 86043 | Cévennes | The Pises Observatory is located on the Lingas plateau near Mount Aigoual in the Cévennes National P |
| 88146 | Castello | The archaeological site Castello lies on a hill in the Swiss village of Tremona. This site contains |
| 88260 | Insubria | Regio Insubria is the old Celtic name of western Lombardia, a region of northern Italy known for its |
| 90672 | Metrorheinneckar | Founded in 2005, the metropolitan area along the Rhine and Neckar rivers with 2.4 million people inc |
| 96506 | Oberösterreich | Oberösterreich is one of the nine federal states of Austria and one of the most important industrial |
| 110294 | Victoriaharbour | Victoria Harbour is a natural harbor located between Hong Kong Island to the south and Kowloon to th |
| 110298 | Deceptionisland | Deception Island is the caldera of an active volcanic island off the Antarctic Peninsula. The island |
| 114703 | North Dakota | North Dakota became the 39th U.S. state when the Dakota Territory was divided in 1889. The name was |
| 117993 | Zambujal | Zambujal is the site of a Chalcolithic fortification of the third millennium B.C. situated close to |
| 118172 | Vorgebirge | The Vorgebirge foothills west of the Rhine extend from Bonn to Cologne. |
| 120462 | Amanohashidate | Amanohashidate is a well-known tourist spot in Japan. It is a sandbar, separating Miyazu Bay and As |
| 123290 | Manoa | Manoa is the valley on the island of Oahu in which the University of Hawai'i was founded in 1907. T |
| 127870 | Vigo | Vigo is one of the largest and most vibrant cities of Galicia. It is an active seaport on the Spani |
| 128633 | Queyras | Queyras is a valley of the French Alps and also a regional national park. This place is famous for a |
| 133293 | Andrushivka | Andrushivka is a district center in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. First mentioned in 1768, it has |
| 137066 | Gellért-hegy | Gellért-hegy is a 235-meter high hill on the shore of the Danube in Budapest. The Urania observatory |
| 175208 | Vorbourg | In the twelfth century the knights of Telsperg erected two castles in Vorbourg to control the road l |
| 175613 | Shikoku-karst | Shikoku Karst is a karst plateau, located at the border of Ehime and Kochi prefectures. With an are |
| 175730 | Gramastetten | Nestled in the beautiful landscape of Muehlviertel (Upper Austria), Gramastetten is a resort for rel |
| 176710 | Banff | Banff, Alberta, well known for its hot springs and mountainous scenery, is one of Canada's most popu |
| 181702 | Forcalquier | Forcalquier is a French community in front of the Luberon Massif, in the Alpes-de Haute Provence de |
| 185636 | Shiao Lin | This minor planet is named in memory of the people of Shiao Lin, literally “Little Forest” in Mandar |
| 198993 | Epoigny | The name Epoigny comes from Epona, the Gallic goddess of horses. It is a place some 15 km from Le C |
| 205424 | Bibracte | Situated at the Mont Beuvray (Morvan, France), some 35 km from Le Creusot, Bibracte was the capital |
| 212998 | Tolbachik | This Hungaria minor planet is named for the complex volcano Tolbachik on the Kamchatka Peninsula in |
| 216439 | Lyubertsy | Lyubertsy is a major industrial and scenic center in the Moscow region. It lies in the green belt so |
| 218752 | Tentlingen | Tentlingen (French: Tinterin) is the municipality of the discoverer in the district of Sense in the |
| 221516 | Bergen-Enkheim | Bergen-Enkheim is the easternmost borough of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2005 it has hosted the discov |
| 224592 | Carnac | Already inhabited some 450~000 years ago, the site of Carnac, in Brittany, is famous for its numerou |
| 227065 | Romandia | Romandia is the Latin name of the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Romandia extends between the |
| 238593 | Paysdegex | The French astronomy club Orion is situated in Pays de Gex, near Geneva. The club offers a large var |
| 242648 | Fribourg | Fribourg is a young, dynamic and bilingual region of Switzerland near the capital, Bern. |
| 243491 | Muehlviertel | Muehlviertel, the northernmost of the four districts (together with Hausruckviertel, Traunviertel an |
| 243637 | Frosinone | Named Frusna in ancient Volscan and Frusino by the Romans, Frosinone is a provincial administrative |
| 249302 | Ajoie | Ajoie is the name of a region in the North of Swiss Jura. The main city in Ajoie is Porrentruy. |
| 256796 | Almanzor | Plaza del Moro Almanzor is the highest peak (2592 m) in the Sierra de Gredos, Avila, Spain. |
| 264061 | Vitebsk | Vitebsk is the fourth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Belarus. Founded in the tenth century, |
| 264131 | Bornim | Bornim is a district of Potsdam, capital of the German state of Brandenburg, and is home to the Inas |
| 266465 | Andalucia | Andalucia (Andalusia) is an autonomous Spanish community with the largest number of inhabitants spre |
| 282669 | Erguël | Erguël is an ancient seigniory of the Catholic diocese of Basel. Erguël is now called the valley of |
| 284891 | Kona | Kona is the name of a district of the Big Island of Hawai'i. The district is on the leeward side of |
| 314040 | Tavannes | Tavannes is a municipality of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is located in French-speaking Bernese Ju |
| 322390 | Planes de Son | Les Planes de Son is a 1500-m-high plateau in the Catalan Pyrenees. It is the location of a facilit |
| 325366 | Asturias | The Principality of Asturias, in northwest Spain, is known for its coastline, mountain landscapes an |
| 325558 | Guyane | Guyane is the official name for French Guiana, an overseas region of France on the North Atlantic co |
| 335853 | Valléedaoste | Named for the Italian Aosta Valley Autonomous Region, which supports the Astronomical Observatory of |
| 336108 | Luberon | Luberon is a region in the middle of Provence in the far south of France. The discoverer has made ma |
| 365131 | Hassberge | Hassberge is the name of a small and beautiful Nature Park located northwest of Bamberg, Germany. M |
| 369297 | Nazca | The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs, located in the Nazca Desert of Peru. Created betw |
| 371220 | Angers | Angers is a city in western France about 300 km southwest of Paris. It is chef-lieu of the Maine-et- |
| 386622 | New Zealand | New Zealand is a country comprising two main islands, and numerous smaller islands, situated in the |
| 398045 | Vitudurum | Vitudurum was a Roman neighborhood that was built around 1 CE in today's district of Oberwinterthur |