The following places were named for their main products:
- Açailândia, Brazil (from the açaí palm)
- Alumínio, Brazil
- Apatity, Russia
- Asbest, Russia
- Brazil, from brazilwood.
- Carbon County, Utah from the coal mined there.
- Coal Center, Pennsylvania
- Coal City, Illinois
- Copperton, Utah named for the copper processing plants build there
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Diamantina, Brazil
- Elektrėnai, Lithuania
- Elektrostal, Russia (from the plant of the same name, stal meaning "steel")
- Gas, Kansas
- Glassport, Pennsylvania
- Gloversville, New York
- Irondale Township, Minnesota and Ironton, Minnesota
- Iron City, Tennessee
- Iron County, Utah named for the iron mines operating there
- Iron Mountain, Michigan
- Kant, Kyrgyzstan (from kant, "sugar")
- Mastichochoria, Greece, from the mastic tree and resin.
- Mountain Iron, Minnesota, named after Mountain Iron Mine
- Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia (from neft, "oil") (destroyed in 1995)
- Neftegorsk, Samara Oblast, Russia (from neft, "oil")
- Nefteyugansk, Russia (from neft, "oil" and Yugan River)
- Nikel, Russia
- Nitro, West Virginia
- Oil City, Pennsylvania
- Oildale, California
- Ouro Preto, Brazil (Portuguese for "black gold")
- Saffron Walden, Essex, UK
- Steelton, Pennsylvania
- Uglegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia (from ugol, "coal")
- Vale do Aço, Brazil (Portuguese for "steel valley")
- Vuhlehirsk, Ukraine (from vuhil, "coal")
- Zernograd, Russia (from zerno, "grain")
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, places, named, main and/or products:
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of
drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the
Lord,”
—Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 10–11)
“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-Interest always runs a good race.”
—Gough Whitlam (b. 1916)
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
—Bible: New Testament John 8:32.
These words of Jesus are inscribed on the wall of the main lobby at the CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia.
“We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.”
—George Wald (b. 1906)