List of places named after Queen Victoria

Summary

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.

Places named after Queen Victoria (in red)

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

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

  • Queen Victoria, Mauritius, a village in the district of Flacq, Mauritius

New Zealand edit

Ross Dependency edit

Nigeria edit

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

Pakistan edit

  • Empress Market, Karachi
  • Bahawal-Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur
  • Victoria Tower Jacobabad
  • Haranpur (Victoria) Bridge
  • Victoria Memorial Hall, Sibi, Balochistan

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

  • Avenue de la Reine Victoria, Biarritz
  • Avenue Reine Victoria, Nice
  • Excelsior Régina Palace, Nice
  • Avenue Victoria, Paris

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.