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I used to parrot the "created multiple languages, named the place Mount Doom" meme up until I started getting deeper into Tolkien lore. Now I'm the obnoxious one that points out all the other names for Mount Doom, as well as translating other "cooler" names to show that they're all similarly named (my favorite being Khazad Dum, or "Dwarf Hall", followed by Cirith Ungol, or "Spider Cleft").
This is also fairly common in real life, for example, this map of Japan with the Prefectures translated to English.
I think this is the same in pretty much every country (well, once you add in people's names, like Jacksonville or Virginia), but it's a little more difficult to find because you have to use an etymology dictionary instead of just looking up the meaning of Chinese characters in a regular dictionary of that language because they're are still in current use.
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_county_name_etymologies?wprov=sfla1
I want to go to How Good? now to find out.
On my way to Capital City.
Got to stop at How? Good on the way
...yeah, i'd rock thousand leaves...
"can you fetch the fork lift? I need to get a palette of troops from the army warehouse"
Nourishing joy sounds like a pleasant place.
still hill huh, sounds dangerous
Which is pronounced with the second word as "doom" still so you know that's the only good name he had in his mind