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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Ottoman Locations

We searched every named street in America for Ottoman Locations. 7 names turned up. A rare one we found is Yemen Road in Williamson County, TX.

974 roads in 49 states are named after Ottoman Locations

Mississippi is the densest

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

1 out of every 2,366 roads in Mississippi 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 Yemen Road in America

Yemen vilayet

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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.

Van turns up in 196 counties

Van, Turkey

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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.

Syria Road turns up in 4 counties

Ottoman Syria

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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

Ottoman Tripolitania

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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.

Palestine turns up in 77 counties

Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem

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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.

Damascus turns up in 144 counties

Damascus Eyalet

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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 Williamson County, TX

Yemen Road

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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: Van

329 roads 196 counties ~501.5k views last year

Van, Turkey

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

Most popular: Levant Way

32 roads 24 counties ~229.4k views last year

Ottoman Syria

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

Most popular: Tripoli

147 roads 69 counties ~207.5k views last year

Ottoman Tripolitania

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

Least popular: Damascus

264 roads 144 counties ~34.6k views last year

Damascus Eyalet

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

Least popular: Yemen Road

1 road 1 county ~64.5k views last year

Yemen vilayet

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

Least popular: Palestine

201 roads 77 counties ~158k views last year

Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem

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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.