I love to use french names from atlases and maps. Detailed roadmaps are available from the internet, and are an infinite source of names. Depending when you look at, you can give a different flavor to you region. Some examples: Corsica: Asco Terello Ominanda Calacuccia etc... Provence: Brignoles Aups Salerne La Sigue Les Nourradons Les Clarettes Masseboeuf Vignaubiere etc... Basque country: Navarrenx Saint-Jean-Pied-De-Port Urepel Vera de Bidassoa Ainhoa St-Etienne de Baigorry la Rhunne etc... Britany: Meslouan Kernascleden Quelfenec Kergedalen Saint Karadec de Tregomel Lochrist Priziac etc... Northern France: Airainnes Quesnoy Le Mesge Fourdrinoy Soues Yseux etc... Eastern France: Toul Metz Foug Blenod Dieulouard Gondrecourt Gerbeviller Rambervillers Around Lyon: La Contamine Saint Blaise Blandins Chabons Virieux Plan-bois etc... Alps (long names are more frequent): Saint-Jean De Maurienne Saint-Julien Mont Denis Saint Martin de la Porte La Bachellerie Montamarfrey-Montpascal Bonneval sur Arc Les Avanchez-Valmorel La Forclaz La Traversaz La Perousaz La Setaz La Clusaz etc... Central plateau: Yssingeau Chambon St Paulien Monistrol sur loire Monistrol sur allier Mezenc Amplepuis Le Monastier Riom etc... the same can be said for other european countries: there are tons of +-100km areas in europe with a specific set of names attached to it. Giving such names give your region a certain unity. And I prefer this much more than "centralia" and other pompous names, or "paradisia" "ecologia" or other dreamland names. A city also needs heavy industry. A city also have history: for example a tiny town in rhone valley (Cruas) is both a renown medieval village and an heavy industry center (I mean cement factories and nuclear plants).
