cities - worldwide

[lmviterbo]

Well, I said I had found 3xX. Not 4xX though. (And there's at least one 2xX in Portugal, Freixo de Baixo.)

3xX

Xiloxoxtla (colloquial, also approved at GeoNames; the official name is Santa Isabel Xiloxoxtla), Mexico (19.26, -98.21) (pop.: 3,171)

photo CC BY-SA 4.0 Isaac Vásquez


Note: I also found a 5xO in Mexico:

5xO

Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (also known as Coita), Mexico (16.762, -93.375) (pop.: 82,059)

photo © pemozi



And now, for the next one, there's also a 5-letter town:

5xY

Ysbyty Ystwyth, Wales, UK (52.326, -3.863) (pop.: 409)

photo © The Lowland Hundred


There are some 4xZ in Poland.

[midoriiro]

lmviterbo: thank you for the clue!

Zaździerz - Poland


Zezulin Niższy - Poland

[Fons]

Great finds, I didn't expect that we could find so many places. The only ones that didn't came further than 3 were Jhajjar, India and (Santa Isabel) Xiloxoxtla
What's the next topic?

[midoriiro]

next topic: since it's the time of EURO 2016, we are going to post birthplaces of national teams' squad members!

I will start with A:

Antalya - birthplace of Volkan Babacan, goalkeeper of Turkey

[Fons]

Wayne Hennessey, goalkeeper of Wales

He's born in Bangor

[laurentina]

another B
Basel , Birthplace of
Arlind Ajeti
Eren Derdiyok
and the Xhaka Brothers
Granit Xhaka
Taulant Xhaka

[LArdennais]

Caen (14 - Calvados), birthplace of Benoît Costil, goalkeeper of French team.

[laurentina]

Gary Cahill Defense
Dronfield England,

[midoriiro]

Elbasan, Albania - birthplace of albanian forward Armando Sadiku

[LArdennais]

Farciennes, birthplace of "Red Devil" Laurent Ciman

[laurentina]

Graz birthplace of Marcel Sabitzer forward

[lmviterbo]

Haltern am See, Germany, birthplace of Benedikt "Benni" Höwedes

photo © Wolfgang Köhler

[Fons]

Selçuk İnan and İsmail Köybaşı
Born in İskenderun.

[lmviterbo]

Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland, birthplace of the centre back, and captain of Torino, Kamil Glik

photo W. Gorgolewski

[midoriiro]

Kamenica nad Hronom - birthplace of slovak defender Kornel Saláta