PLACES OR RIVERS (MR)
MACON city of France and Georgia, USA
MADEIRA volcanic island group in the Atlantic and a Brazilian river
MALACCA state in SW Malaysia
MALI West African country, home of Timbuktu
MANHATTAN an island at the northern end of New York bay
MANILA the capital of the Philippines
MARENGO village near Turin, and Napoleonic battle site
MASSA a town in the western part of Italy
MAUD Grampian village to the west of Old Deer
MAYO county in the Republic of Ireland
MEATH county in the Leinster province, Eire
MECCA holy city of Islam in western Saudi Arabia
MEDINA Saudi Arabian holy city
MEGARA a town in eastern-central Greece
MELTON villages of Humberside and Suffolk
MILO found in Carmarthenshire
MINORCA second largest of the Balearic Islands
MODENA city in Emilia, Italy
MOROCCO North African country
MORIA an area the dwarfs mined in the book Lord of the Rings
MUIR found on the road between Inverey and Claybokie, Aberdeenshire
MUNSTER industrial city in North-west Germany
NATAL former province of S. Africa, also an Atlantic port in NE Brazil
NEATH West Glamorgan town and river
NELSON a Lancashire town
NENE a river that rises near Daventry, Northants
NESS a monster of a Scottish loch
NEWMARKET racehorse town of Suffolk
NEWBIE coastline area south of Annan in Dumfries and Galloway
NEWTON popular place name across Britain
NIGER landlocked country of West Africa
NITON small town found on the southern part of the Isle of Wight
NOME an Alaskan town, finish of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race
NURSLING village near Romsey, in Hampshire
ORLEANS a town in France
OUTWELL village in Norfolk near Wisbech
OXFORD well known university city
PAISLEY an industrial town in South-west Scotland
PALMYRA ancient city and oasis in Syrian desert
PANAMA republic of Central America
PANDY village and locality found in Gwynedd
PANTON hamlet near Wragby, Lincolnshire
PARIS the capital of France
PARTON village of Cumbria
PAUL village on south side of Penzance, Cornwall
PEMBROKE - a town in SW Wales
PENANG - island lying off NW coast of peninsular Malaya
PENK river rising west of Codsall, Staffordshire
PENNINES the hills that make Englands backbone
PETERSHAM London locality in Richmond
PHOENIX capital of Arizona
PIEDMONT region between New Jersey and Alabama
PINKIE Lothian battle site, south-east of Musselburgh
PINNER London locality in the borough of Harrow
POLLY Highland river
POMPEY slang name for Portsmouth
POPLAR London district in Tower Hamlets
PORTLAND an Isle in Dorset, south of Weymouth
PREES village near Whitchurch, Shropshire
PUDSEY West Yorkshire town near Leeds and Bradford
PUEBLO city and county of south central Colorado
PUNA a cold, bleak plateau of the Andes
RABAT port and the capital of Morocco
RAGLAN village south-west of Monmouth
RATLING hamlet near Aylesham, Kent
RATTERY village west of Totnes, Devon
RHINE well known river of German
RHONE a region and river of France
ROKER area of Sunderland
ROMA Italian name for Rome
ROMAN an Essex river
ROTHER a river in Kent and East Sussex
RUBICON river of central Italy
RUSSIA the largest country of the world
RYAL a hamlet in Northumberland
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