List of places named after Queen Victoria

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Places named after Queen Victoria (in red)

Many places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria. As such, Victoria is one of the most commemorated individuals in place-names around the world.

Other places that have the name "Victoria", without the association with Queen Victoria, tend to be derived from the Spanish language-word for 'victory', see Victoria (disambiguation).

Commonwealth[edit]

Australia[edit]

Australian Capital Territory[edit]

New South Wales[edit]

Queensland[edit]

South Australia[edit]

Tasmania[edit]

Victoria[edit]

Western Australia[edit]

The Bahamas[edit]

Bangladesh[edit]

Barbados[edit]

Belize[edit]

Canada[edit]

Main article: Royal eponyms in Canada > Queen Victoria

During the process of Confederation, "Victorialand" and "Victorialia" were among the alternative suggestions to Canada as to what the name of the new Dominion should be.[1][2]

Alberta[edit]

British Columbia[edit]

Ontario[edit]

  • Queen Street, Toronto, Ontario
  • Victoria Street, Toronto
  • Victoria Park Avenue, Toronto
  • Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, Ontario
  • Victoria Street (N and S), Kitchener, Ontario
  • Victoria Street, London, Ontario
  • Victoria Avenue, Windsor, Ontario
  • Victoria College, U of Toronto
  • Queen Victoria PS, Toronto
  • Queen streets and Victoria streets in almost every city or town
  • Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, Barrie
  • Victoria Gardens Long Term Care, Hamilton

Manitoba[edit]

New Brunswick[edit]

Newfoundland and Labrador[edit]

Nova Scotia[edit]

Prince Edward Island[edit]

Quebec[edit]

Saskatchewan[edit]

Territories[edit]

Ghana[edit]

India[edit]

Jamaica[edit]

Malaysia[edit]

Malta[edit]

Mauritius[edit]

New Zealand[edit]

Ross Dependency[edit]

Nigeria[edit]

  • Victoria Island, Lagos
  • Victoria Garden City, Lagos
  • Victoria Cemetery, Lagos

Pakistan[edit]

Papua New Guinea[edit]

Seychelles[edit]

Singapore[edit]

South Africa[edit]

Sri Lanka[edit]

Tanzania[edit]

Trinidad and Tobago[edit]

Uganda[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

Note: this is only a small sample of the hundreds of locations in the United Kingdom with the name 'Victoria'.

England[edit]

Northern Ireland[edit]

Scotland[edit]

Wales[edit]

Crown Dependencies[edit]

Isle of Man[edit]

Jersey[edit]

Zambia[edit]

  • Victoria Falls (David Livingstone named the great Mosi-oa-Tunya falls after Queen Victoria)

Outside the Commonwealth[edit]

Burma, Hong Kong, Ireland and Zimbabwe were within the British Empire at the time many of the listed places were named. Hong Kong and Zimbabwe stopped being members of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1997 and 2003, respectively.

Argentina[edit]

Burma/Myanmar[edit]

Chile[edit]

France[edit]

Germany[edit]

Greece[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 until 1997.

Ireland[edit]

Romania[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

United States[edit]

Zimbabwe[edit]

Former places[edit]

Australia[edit]

South Australia[edit]

Bangladesh[edit]

Cameroon[edit]

  • Limbe, was known as Victoria until 1982

The Gambia[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

India[edit]

Ireland[edit]

Isle of Man[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

  • Victoria Road, Karachi. (renamed Abdullah Haroon Road)
  • Queen's Road, Karachi (now Moulvi Tamizuddin (M.T.) Khan Road)
  • Victoria Museum (now defunct), Karachi

Sierra Leone[edit]

  • Victoria Park, Freetown (since mid 2017 Freetown Amusement Park)

South Africa[edit]

Sri Lanka[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

England[edit]

  • Victoria Bridge, London, built in 1851-8, demolished in 1934 and replaced with the present Chelsea Bridge
  • Victoria Road, Battersea, London (leading to the bridge mentioned above), later renamed Queen's Road and now called Queenstown Road

Scotland[edit]

Zimbabwe[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "How Canada Got Its Name – Origin of the Name Canada". Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  2. ^ Rayburn, Alan (January 2001). Naming Canada: Stories about Canadian Place Names. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802082930.
  3. ^ Preetha, M. Soundariya (28 January 2012). "Victoria Town Hall stands tall after restoration". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Albert Victor Bridge".
  5. ^ "EThekwini Online - Victoria Street Market". Archived from the original on 8 March 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
  6. ^ "Durban: Victoria Embankment Walking Tour". Archived from the original on 29 March 2002.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_places_named_after_Queen_Victoria&oldid=1217617682"