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There can also be cases where nobody in the area actually uses anything close to the "official" name - e.g. Fraserburgh being known as "The Broch" or Aberchirde

• ochrist 3y ago
  The Netherlands have several of these, the most famous one probably being The Hague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague#Etymology Officially (in some official documents) the name of the city is "'s-Gravenhage", but normally it's just called "Den Haag". Another similar one from The Netherlands is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'s-Hertogenbosch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'s-Hertogenbosch