They even named an entire state after a country (Georgia)
What is the deal with all that?
My wife was born in Lebanon, Indiana.
Here in Ohio I live in Lima, and close by we have Cairo and Russia... They are all pronounced differently than the city or country they are named after, though... Lima with an "I" like "lime," Cairo like Care-oh and oddly Russia is Rooshy. Never understood that last one, they others at least make sense based on spelling.
I think Ohio is the king of states with unoriginal town names. ---