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Is there also a New York, Texas?

Actually yes there is. Next up, NYSE launches in Paris, Texas.

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TIL there's an Eiffel Tower[0] in Paris, Texas!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower_(Paris,_Texas)

It actually has a cowboy hat, incredible!

And can do gender reveals!

...but the one in Paris, Tennessee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower_(Paris,_Tennessee...) looks much more true to the original - although apparently none of the two replicas fulfills the purpose of a tower (enabling you to climb to the top of it)...

Get on Maine's level. They have Mexico, Poland (home of Poland Springs!), China, Peru, Norway, Sweden, Denmark... that's not even delving into another dozen or two towns named for foreign cities rather than nations. The history of why the heck this happened is interesting [0]

0: https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2015-09-24/why-are-so-many...

Exactly the same situation in Central Texas. Many German, Swedish, Czech enclaves resulting in towns with names like New Sweden. Indiana has a bit of this as well.

I watched the 2024 eclipse from a curiously named Brazil, Indiana. Besides the name, a couple oddities were that nobody was there to watch the eclipse (we had an entire campground well in the totality to ourselves for $50) and someone from Chicago moved there to sell excellent deep dish pizza.

Missouri has a lot of those names, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Missouri_places_named_...

There's also a Texas, New York:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas,_New_York

> It is officially part of the town of Mexico.

Mexico, New York, of course.

Ah yes, Paris, Texas - made famous by a movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)), which inspired the name for a (Scottish!) band (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_(band)), which then of course eventually had to publish a concert DVD named "Texas Paris" (the concert wasn't in Paris, Texas however, but in Paris, France - https://www.amazon.fr/Texas-Paris-Concert-integral-Bercy/dp/...).

Euronext Texas, based in Paris.

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