Almost a demarcated as those maps I shared of Germany a while back (here and here), how’s this map of the ending of town names in Poland?
This is a bit more North West/South East than anything else, but as ever, it’s because of history and you can see it in the political landscape too:
KO absolutely KO’ing PiS in the North West, PiS peeing all over KO in the South East.
These are examples of Poland A & B, the division between the ex-Prussian area and the Austro-Russian areas in the Partition of Poland in the late 18th Century. And while that might seem reasonable for the town names which were around then and would have persisted, it’s amazing that the divide is still evident in elections held this year:
Still, really helpful when you land in a field in the middle of nowhere. Is that nearby village an -owo or an -ów?
Got to be good for a few extra points.