Yellowstone National Park, USA

Zanzibar, visited first by Vasco Da Gama in 1499 AD on his way to India.

Albina, Moldova

Broome, WA. 75 years ago, today, (3 March 1942) Japanese Zeros bombed Broome, noted for a thriving pearling industry. Dutch East Indies aircraft, fleeing the Japanese invasion there, were trying to evacuate their women and children to the relative safety of Australia. More than 80 people, mostly women and children, died in the onslaught.

Cranford, New Jersey

Dunfermline, Scotland. It used to be the Royal burgh of Scotland at the time of Malcolm Canmore up to Robert the Bruce.

Ellis Island, NY

Falkirk, Scotland

Galapagos Islands, famous for now extinct giant tortoises

Hannibal, Missouri, USA

Irian Jaya, the Western half of New Guinea, which is now a province of Indonesia. The Eastern half is called Papua Niugini

Jamnagar, Gujarat, India

Khorasan or Khwarezmia, a medieval country in Central Asia, around Samarkand and Bokhara, along the ancient Silk Road from Istanbul to Beijing, which was overthrown by the Mongol hordes.

Loas

Missoula, Montana