A city name that never wasSourced
It borrowed an airport's name.
The airport was elsewhere.
Two Japanese towns proposed merging as Minami-Centrair, referencing Chubu Centrair Airport. The airport was actually in neighboring Tokoname. Opposition to the name helped derail the merger in 2005.
The proposed city
never took off.
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