Can you name the places suggested by clues (having 'NEW' in the name)?

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  • All clues refer to geographic places having in the name the word NEW or its meaning (like NOVO, NEU, NUEVO, NIEUW, etc). In capital letters what has to be guessed.
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REGION in the northeastern corner of the USA, bordered by the Ocean and Canada.
US CITY at the mouth of the Hudson River, divided into 5 boroughs widely celebrated in books, movies and TV programs.
CITY on the banks of the Ob River in the West Siberian Plain. Largest commercial and industrial center of Siberia.
CITY and metropolitan borough in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne.
U.S. STATE on the Atlantic Ocean. The most densely populated state. Known as 'the Garden Sate'.
U.S. STATE. One of the Mountain States. Known as 'the Land of Enchantment'.
SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. The only one in Oceania with one land border. Mount Wilhelm is its highest peak.
COUNTRY CAPITAL CITY. Port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea. Also known as 'Hogbonou' and 'Adjacé'.
STATE in northeastern Mexico, with Monterrey as capital city.
PROVINCE of Canada. The one with Halifax as capital city.
DISTRICT of San Pedro Department in Paraguay. Founded as a German colony in 1887.
DEPARTMENT of Nicaragua, with Ocotal as capital city.
CITY in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy. Built after 1948 when the Paris Peace Treaty established a new border between Yugoslavia and Italy.
CITY on the banks of the River Usk, east of Cardiff in Wales. Locally known as 'Casnewydd'.
CAPITAL CITY of the Isla de la Juventud, special municipality of Cuba.
CITY. Considered the economic and cultural center of Lower Carniola. Located along a bend in the Krka River, in southeastern Slovenia.
CITY located in the southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. Known by the local nickname 'New Gunswick' and promoted as 'the Healthcare City'.
TOWN of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Situated on the Una river on the border with Croatia. Known to Romans as 'Castrum Novum' (new town).
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ITALIAN TOWN, north of Genoa. Born as 'Curtis Nova'. Known for its chocolate (Elah-Dufour) and its museum devoted to 2 famous cyclists (C.Girardengo and F.Coppi).
CITY. Located in Rostov Oblast (Russia), on the banks of the Tuzlov River and the Aksay River. Formerly the capital of the Don Cossacks.
CITY. Largest coal exporting harbour in the world. Situated at the mouth of the Hunter River, NNE of Sydney in Australia.
CITY of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern in Germany. Located on the shore of a lake called the Tollensesee. Famous for its rich medieval heritage of Brick Gothic.
CITY of Taiwan. Its area includes substantial stretch of Taiwan's northern coastline and surrounds the Taipei Basin.
CAPITAL CITY of the East Berbice-Corentyne Region. One of the largest towns in Guyana.
ORIGINAL NAME of St. George's, the largest city, the former capital and the first permanent settlement on the islands of Bermuda.
ORIGINAL FOUNDING NAME assigned to 'Santiago de Chile' by Spanish Conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, as a homage to St James and as a symbol of the new limit of the explored world.
ISLAND. The 2nd-largest one in the world. Located in the Southwest Pacific.
ISLAND. Located in Notre Dame Bay. According to a theory, its name commemorates the 1523–24 expedition of Giovanni da Verrazzano.
Tropical ISLAND in the narrowest part of the Mozambique Channel. It's one of the Scattered Islands, that form one of the districts of the TAAF.
Large Canadian ISLAND, off the east coast of North America. Originally called 'Terra Nova' ('New Land' in Latin).
Large volcanic ISLAND in in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Also called 'Lavongai'.
SWEDISH COLONY along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655.
HISTORICAL NAME for the region of Canada west and south of Hudson Bay
FRENCH COLONY in North America from 1534 (exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by J.Cartier) to 1763 (cession).
RIVER. A tributary of the Kanawha River. One of the US American Heritage Rivers.
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How many NEW places do you know ? (1) Quiz

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