For example, for the UK: Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest, Vancouver after Captain George Vancouver, and Pittsburgh after William Pitt (the Elder).

Places don't have to be on Earth: eg the Kuyper Belt and Oort Cloud are perfectly valid suggestions for the Netherlands (though so is Tasmania).

PS since no Bulgarians have posted (yet) I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_toponyms_in_Antarctica


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