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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Libyan Places

We searched every named street in America for Libyan Places. 16 names turned up. A rare one we found is Sirte Terrace in Santa Clara County, CA.

1542 roads in 46 states are named after Libyan Places

Nevada is the densest

States have a different total number of roads, so we compare by a percent of roads.

1 out of every 215 roads in Nevada resonates with this theme.

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Each dot is one county, sized by how many of its roads resonate with the theme. A small dot is a handful; a big one is hundreds.

Sizes are relative to this search: the biggest dot is this theme's busiest county, so a big dot here and a big dot in another theme are not the same number.

The only Zaara Drive in America

Sahara

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Barce Road in America

Barca (ancient city)

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called Brega Lane

Brega

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Sirte Terrace in America

Sirte District

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Surman Lane

Surman, Libya

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

Tripoli turns up in 69 counties

Jafara

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

Sidra Way turns up in 4 counties

Sidra, Libya

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

Wax Way turns up in 15 counties

Zuwarah Airport

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

1 street exists only in Santa Clara County, CA

Sirte Terrace

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Every name in the theme was counted against every other named road in the country. These appear exactly once: tap a thumbnail to walk them.

The county shown here holds the most of singular roads. Somebody named these roads, and nobody anywhere copied.

Most popular: Sahara

1,302 roads 182 counties ~2.7M views last year

Sahara

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Barca Lane

12 roads 9 counties ~33.7k views last year

Barca (ancient city)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Brega Lane

3 roads 1 county ~18.7k views last year

Brega

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Surman Lane

2 roads 2 counties ~8.5k views last year

Surman, Libya

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Tripoli

147 roads 69 counties ~9.2k views last year

Jafara

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Sirte Terrace

1 road 1 county ~18.3k views last year

Sirte District

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

all but the most common: all the streets, minus the most common roads in the country. This lets us see the 'long tail' of interesting roads in the country.