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In general, I have seen mentioning the country after a city name quite often in American publications, and not only with capitals. Maybe this is because of the famous geographical knowledge of Americans?

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DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The US has a huge number of cities named after cities/regions in other parts of the world, e.g.:

Moscow, Idaho

Ottawa, Illinois

Brussels, Wisconsin

Ontario, California

Paris, Texas

etc!

Adding the country or state designation after one of these names is helpful for clarity.
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- SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Side note, Paris, Texas is a pretty great movie.
  
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  - sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Seconded, brilliant film.
    
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scheep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
who knows

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