List of places named after Queen Victoria

Many places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria. As such, Victoria is one of the most commemorated individuals in place-names around the world.

Places named after Queen Victoria (in red)

Other places that have the name "Victoria", without the association with Queen Victoria, tend to be derived from the Spanish language-word for 'victory', see Victoria (disambiguation).

Commonwealth

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

The Bahamas

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belize

Canada
Main article: Royal eponyms in Canada > Queen Victoria

During the process of Confederation, "Victorialand" and "Victorialia" were among the alternative suggestions to Canada as to what the name of the new Dominion should be.[1][2]

Alberta

British Columbia

Ontario
  • Queen Street, Toronto, Ontario
  • Victoria Street, Toronto
  • Victoria Park Avenue, Toronto
  • Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, Ontario
  • Victoria Street (N and S), Kitchener, Ontario
  • Victoria Street, London, Ontario
  • Victoria Avenue, Windsor, Ontario
  • Victoria College, U of Toronto
  • Queen Victoria PS, Toronto
  • Queen streets and Victoria streets in almost every city or town
  • Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, Barrie
  • Victoria Gardens Long Term Care, Hamilton

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Nova Scotia

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Territories

Ghana

India

Jamaica

Malaysia

Malta

Mauritius
  • Queen Victoria, Mauritius, a village in the district of Flacq, Mauritius

New Zealand

Ross Dependency

Nigeria
  • Victoria Island, Lagos
  • Victoria Garden City, Lagos
  • Victoria Cemetery, Lagos

Pakistan
  • Empress Market, Karachi
  • Bahawal-Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur
  • Victoria Tower Jacobabad
  • Haranpur (Victoria) Bridge
  • Victoria Memorial Hall, Sibi, Balochistan

Papua New Guinea

Seychelles

Singapore

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

United Kingdom

Note: this is only a small sample of the hundreds of locations in the United Kingdom with the name 'Victoria'.

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

Isle of Man

Jersey

Zambia
  • Victoria Falls (David Livingstone named the great Mosi-oa-Tunya falls after Queen Victoria)

Outside the Commonwealth

Burma, Hong Kong, Ireland and Zimbabwe were within the British Empire at the time many of the listed places were named. Hong Kong and Zimbabwe stopped being members of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1997 and 2003, respectively.

Argentina

Burma/Myanmar

Chile

France
  • Avenue de la Reine Victoria, Biarritz
  • Avenue Reine Victoria, Nice
  • Excelsior Régina Palace, Nice
  • Avenue Victoria, Paris

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 until 1997.

Ireland

Romania

Switzerland

United States

Zimbabwe

Former places

South Australia

Bangladesh

Cameroon
  • Limbe, was known as Victoria until 1982

The Gambia

Hong Kong

India

Ireland

Isle of Man

Pakistan
  • Victoria Road, Karachi. (renamed Abdullah Haroon Road)
  • Queen's Road, Karachi (now Moulvi Tamizuddin (M.T.) Khan Road)
  • Victoria Museum (now defunct), Karachi

Sierra Leone
  • Victoria Park, Freetown (since mid 2017 Freetown Amusement Park)

South Africa

Sri Lanka

England
  • Victoria Bridge, London, built in 1851-8, demolished in 1934 and replaced with the present Chelsea Bridge
  • Victoria Road, Battersea, London (leading to the bridge mentioned above), later renamed Queen's Road and now called Queenstown Road

Scotland

Zimbabwe

See also

References
  1. "How Canada Got Its Name – Origin of the Name Canada". Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  2. http://books..com/books?id=aiUZMOypNB4C&lpg=PA357&dq=Vesperia%20Canada&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=3&pg=PA16
  3. Preetha, M. Soundariya (28 January 2012). "Victoria Town Hall stands tall after restoration". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  4. "Albert Victor Bridge".
  5. "EThekwini Online - Victoria Street Market". Archived from the original on 8 March 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
  6. "Durban: Victoria Embankment Walking Tour". Archived from the original on 29 March 2002.
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