Aren’t those cities named after their respective rivers, though? I could be wrong about those two, but in all other cases I can think of, that doesn’t apply. Colorado, Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio are all named after rivers and we still use the “x River” format for those rivers.
It seems like it might be more of a convention for English speakers in the eastern vs western hemisphere to me.
Aren’t those cities named after their respective rivers, though? I could be wrong about those two, but in all other cases I can think of, that doesn’t apply. Colorado, Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio are all named after rivers and we still use the “x River” format for those rivers.
It seems like it might be more of a convention for English speakers in the eastern vs western hemisphere to me.