Locations by Letter - P

Can you name these real and fictional locations that start with the letter P?
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Last updated: December 9, 2019
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First submittedMarch 27, 2014
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Location
Headquarters of the U.S. military
Pentagon
Catholic country of Eastern Europe
Poland
Dystopian nation with annual Hunger Games
Panem
Where bulls run with people
Pamplona
Moon rich in Unobtanium
Pandora
Place of purification in the afterlife
Purgatory
Recently demoted dwarf planet
Pluto
The White House's street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Paradise City
Rock where Simba looks out over his lion kingdom
Pride Rock
City on the Seine
Paris
Most famous temple of Athens
Parthenon
Oceanic sound on which Seattle sits
Puget Sound
Country from which Paddington Bear emigrated
Peru
Roman city destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius
Pompeii
It's in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane
The city of brotherly love
Philadelphia
51st U.S. state?
Puerto Rico
Fertile grassland region of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil
Pampas
City with a leaning tower
Pisa
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Level 77
Jun 3, 2014
It should be spelled "Parthenon".
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Level ∞
Jun 4, 2014
Fixed
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Level 58
Oct 27, 2014
Hmm so Paddington is from Peru. I was so certain he was from Paraguay.
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Level 59
Oct 27, 2014
I completely blanked on Poland. *derp*
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Level 54
Oct 27, 2014
please accept pompey and pompay for pompeii
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Level 51
Mar 17, 2024
well one's a Roman General and the other sounds like an English person's wage in Australia so I don't think that makes much sense.
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Level 66
Oct 27, 2014
Canada doesn't start with a P!
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Level 82
Aug 3, 2016
they also don't have hunger games every year.
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Level ∞
Nov 28, 2016
Not yet
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Level 82
Jun 27, 2017
Just wait 'til the Poutine runs out.
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Level 70
Oct 27, 2014
I thought Paddington was from Paraguay also.
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Level 51
Mar 17, 2024
What made you think that? His accent maybe?
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Level 38
Oct 27, 2014
Is it bad that I tried Panama City before Paradise City?
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Level 62
Oct 27, 2014
Got confused about "Oceanic sound", and started typing in things like pwooosssshhh and other such watery sounds. My brain clicked in the end, I'm happy to say...
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Level 37
May 16, 2017
If you can accept Pampa (singular) for the Pampas, which are plural, why draw the line at accepting Pompey or Pompay

instead of Pompeii? - If you're going to bastardize, go all the way!

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Level 59
Jun 27, 2017
I've never seen Pompey or Pompay as alternative spellings for Pompeii, apart from on this particular quiz.
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Level 48
Oct 12, 2018
Pompey is slang for the naval town of Portsmouth in the UK
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Level 56
Jun 27, 2017
Bastardize? The locals call it Pampa, most other languages call it Pampa.
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Level 71
Feb 20, 2018
Pity it is an English Language Quiz isn't it. You should stick to the Spanish quizzes.
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Level 37
May 16, 2019
Sulps: It's called "Las Pampas", which is plural. The locals may call it "Pampa" (though I've never heard one say it), just like locals may say "The Village" instead of "Greenwich Village", but that doesn't change the proper name of the place.
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Level 76
Jun 26, 2019
Sulps is right. I'm argentinian, we call it Pampa all the time, or, if we want to be more accurate, "región pampeana" (pampean region). This would be the "proper name". In any case, it's a small semantic debate, but certainly not a bastardization.
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Level 62
Nov 11, 2019
Yeah...and leaning tower of pizza
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Level 67
Jun 27, 2017
I believe Patagonia encompasses Pampas - would you accept that 'P' answer?
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Level 76
Jun 26, 2019
No, it doesn't.
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Level 79
Jun 28, 2017
Did anybody else get Pampas by accidentally misspelling Pamplonia?
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Level 79
Jun 29, 2017
Yep.
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Level 65
Jun 26, 2019
Yep
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Level 56
Jun 29, 2017
Fun fact: when Pompeii was rediscovered in 1599, the team accidentally dug into what they thought was the house of a man named Pompey. The city of Pompeii had been so far removed from public memory that nobody understood the inscription on a wall that said, "decurio Pompeii." The moral of this story is that accepting "Pompey" as an alternate spelling would be to repeat the mistakes of history.
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Level 89
Dec 22, 2018
I wonder if they'll think that unearthing Knoxville someday in the distant future still watching Jackass movies.
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Level 93
Jan 17, 2019
fun fact portsmouth football club (UK) is nicknamed pompey
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Level 65
Jun 26, 2019
So they guy named Pompey lived in Pompeii
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Level 65
Jun 26, 2019
I should have gotten Purgatory. I'm an idiot.
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Level 59
Aug 28, 2019
I only got Panem because I tried Panama City.