The following places were named for their main products: Açailândia, Brazil (from the açaí palm) Alumínio, Brazil Apatity, Russia Asbest, Russia Asbestos, Canada Batu Arang, Selangor, Malaysia (from Batu Arang, "coal" in Malay) Birżebbuġa, Malta (from żebbuġ, "olives") Brazil, from brazilwood. Carbon County, Utah from the coal mined there. Coal Center, Pennsylvania Coal City, Illinois Copperton, Utah named for the copper processing plants build there Côte d'Ivoire Diamantina, Brazil El Nido, Palawan, Philippines (Spanish for nest, or edible bird's nest) Elektrėnai, Lithuania Elektrostal, Russia (from the plant of the same name, stal meaning "steel") Fermont, Canada (French contraction of "Fer Mont", meaning "Iron Mountain" named for exploited iron ore deposits in Mont Wright) Gangcheng, Shandong, China (钢城, literally "the town of steel", gang 钢 meaning "steel" and cheng 城 meaning "city" or "town") Gas, Kansas Glassport, Pennsylvania Gloversville, New York Irondale Township, Minnesota and Ironton, Minnesota Iron City, Tennessee Iron County, Utah named for the iron mines operating there Iron Mountain, Michigan Kant, Kyrgyzstan (from kant, "sugar") Kappara, Malta (Maltese for "caper") Lime Ridge, Pennsylvania, a supplier of limestone. Mastichochoria, Greece, from the mastic tree and resin. Mellieħa, Malta (from melħ, "salt") Mountain Iron, Minnesota, named after Mountain Iron Mine Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia (from нефть or , "oil") (destroyed in 1995) Neftegorsk, Samara Oblast, Russia (from нефть or , "oil") Nefteyugansk, Russia (from нефть or , "oil" and Yugan River) Nikel, Russia Nitro, West Virginia Oil City, Pennsylvania Oildale, California Ouro Preto, Brazil (Portuguese for "black gold") Saffron Walden, Essex, UK Salzburg, Austria, and many other German-speaking places beginning with Salz- (salt) Silverton, New South Wales, Australia Steelton, Pennsylvania Tabaco, Philippines (Spanish for tobacco, the city's traditional product) Tongling, Anhui, China (铜陵, literally "copper hills", tong 铜 meaning "copper" and ling 陵 meaning "hills") Uglegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia (from ugol, "coal") Vale do Aço, Brazil (Portuguese for "steel valley") Vuhlehirsk, Ukraine (from вугіль, or , "coal") Żebbuġ, Malta and Żebbuġ, Gozo (Maltese for "olives") Żejtun, Malta (Siculo-Arabic for "olives") Zernograd, Russia (from зерно, or , "grain" or "corn")
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