This is a list of asteroids named after places, organized by continent.

Africa

• 1193 Africa (Africa)
• 790 Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
• 1197 Rhodesia (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
• 1213 Algeria (Algeria)
• 1278 Kenya (Kenya)
• 1279 Uganda (Uganda)
• 1432 Ethiopia (Ethiopia)
• 1638 Ruanda (Rwanda)
• 1718 Namibia (Namibia)
• 1816 Liberia (Liberia)

Asia

• 1157 Arabia (Arabia)
• 1584 Fuji (Mount Fuji, Japan)
• 2169 Taiwan (Taiwan)
• 3720 Hokkaido (Hokkaido, Japan)

China

• 1125 China (China)
• 2045 Peking (Peking, now Beijing, China)
• 2197 Shanghai (Shanghai, China)
• 3297 Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
• 3494 Purple Mountain (Purple Mountain Observatory)
• 3613 Kunlun (Kunlun Mountains)

Russia and the former Soviet Union (Asia)

Many of these names were given by Soviet astronomers between 1917 and 1990.

• 780 Armenia (Armenia)
• 1094 Siberia (Siberia, Russia)
• 2140 Kemerovo (Kemerovo, Russian SFSR, now Russia)
• 2297 Daghestan (Daghestan, Russia)
• 2566 Kirghizia (Kirghiz SSR, now Kyrgyzstan)
• 2584 Turkmenia (Turkmen SSR, now Turkmenistan)
• 2698 Azerbajdzhan (Azerbaijan)
• 2700 Baikonur (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan)
• 5471 Tunguska (Tunguska, Russia)

Europe

• 1381 Danubia (River Danube)

Czech Republic

• 2123 Vltava (Vltava river)
• 2403 Šumava (Šumava )
• 2747 Český Krumlov (Český Krumlov)
• 2889 Brno (Brno)

Eastern Europe

• 434 Hungaria (Hungary)
• 589 Croatia (Croatia)
• 690 Wratislavia (Wroclaw, Poland)
• 1160 Illyria (Illyria, Croatia)
• 1284 Latvia (Latvia)
• 1537 Transylvania (Transylvania, Romania)
• 1807 Slovakia (Slovakia)
• 2315 Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia)
• 2575 Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
• 4018 Bratislava (Bratislava, Slovakia)
• 9674 Slovenija (Slovenia)

France

• 21 Lutetia (Paris)
• 138 Tolosa (Toulouse)
• 4690 Strasbourg (Strasbourg)
• 6268 Versailles (Versailles)
• 9385 Avignon (Avignon)

Germany

• 241 Germania (Germany)
• 257 Silesia (Silesia)
• 301 Bavaria (Bavaria)
• 371 Bohemia (Bohemia)
• 930 Westphalia (Westphalia)
• 10775 Leipzig (Leipzig)

Italy

• 472 Roma (Rome)
• 477 Italia (Italy)
• 487 Venetia (Venice)
• 704 Interamnia (Teramo)
• 2601 Bologna (Bologna)
• 4464 Vulcano (Vulcano, Italy)

Greece

• 582 Olympia (Olympia)
• 1119 Euboea (Euboea)
• 1138 Attica (Attica)
• 1151 Ithaka (Ithaca)
• 1161 Thessalia (Thessaly)
• 4356 Marathon (Marathon)
• 4357 Korinthos (Corinth)

The Low Countries

• 1294 Antwerpia (Antwerp, Belgium)
• 1336 Zeelandia (Zeeland, Netherlands)
• 2713 Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
• 9471 Ostend (Ostend, Belgium)
• 9472 Bruges (Bruges, Belgium)
• 9473 Ghent (Ghent, Belgium)

Russia and the former Soviet Union (Europe)

Many of these names were given by Soviet astronomers between 1917 and 1990.

• 787 Moskva (Moscow, Russia)
• 1140 Crimea (Crimea, Ukraine)
• 1149 Volga (Volga River)
• 2046 Leningrad (Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg)
• 2121 Sevastopol (Sevastopol, Ukraine)
• 2141 Simferopol (Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine)
• 2170 Byelorussia (Belarus)
• 2171 Kiev (Kiev, Ukraine)
• 2419 Moldavia (Moldavia)
• 2606 Odessa (Odessa, Ukraine)
• 2699 Kalinin (Kalinin, now Tver, Russia)
• 3012 Minsk (Minsk, Belarus)

Scandinavia

• 1495 Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
• 1500 Jyväskylä (Jyväskylä, Finland)
• 2191 Uppsala (Uppsala and Uppsala University, Sweden)
• 2676 Aarhus (Århus, Denmark)
• 10549 Helsingborg (Helsingborg, Sweden)
• 10550 Malmö (Malmö, Sweden)
• 10551 Göteborg (Göteborg, Sweden)
• 10552 Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)

Spain

• 945 Barcelona (Barcelona)
• 1159 Granada (Granada)
• 9453 Mallorca (Majorca)

Turkey

• 1174 Marmara (Sea of Marmara)

United Kingdom

• 2830 Greenwich (Greenwich)
• 8837 London (London)
• 8849 Brighton (Brighton)

North America

Canada

• 6714 Montréal (Montréal, Québec)

USA

• 334 Chicago (Chicago)
• 341 California (California)
• 484 Pittsburghia (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
• 508 Princetonia (Princeton University)
• 516 Amherstia (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
• 736 Harvard (Harvard University)
• 793 Arizona (Arizona)
• 916 America (United States of America)
• 581 Tauntonia (Taunton, Massachusetts)
• 1345 Potomac (Potomac)
• 1602 Indiana (Indiana)
• 2322 Kitt Peak (Kitt Peak, Arizona)
• 3031 Houston (Houston, Texas)
• 3043 San Diego (San Diego, California)
• 7041 Nantucket (Nantucket, Massachusetts)
• 10195 Nebraska (Nebraska)

Oceania

• 3563 Canterbury (Canterbury, New Zealand)
• 8088 Australia (Australia)

Polar regions

• 1031 Arctica (The Arctic)
• 2404 Antarctica (Antarctica)

South and Central America

• 293 Brasilia (Brazil)
• 469 Argentina (Argentina)
• 4337 Arecibo (Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico)
• 8277 Machu-Picchu (Machu Picchu, Peru)
• 8279 Cuzco (Cuzco, Peru)
• 9357 Venezuela (Venezuela)
• 10972 Ecuador (Ecuador)
• 10973 Quito (Quito, Ecuador)
• 10797 Guatemala (Guatemala)
• 10799 Yucatán (Yucatán, Mexico)

Fictional places

• 1282 Utopia (Utopia)

See also

• List of asteroids
• List of asteroids named after important people
• Meanings of asteroid names