Do you know where Amerika is"

Question

Maybe I shouldn't post this here, but I was surprised when looking at one of my profiles to see this as a location listed for [[Bödecker-51|Carl Heinrich Bödecker (1830-)]].

And of course his emigration was to of all places America.

Answer 1

Lol!!

When I do a search for Amerika on my favourite Swedish map I get 100 hits for places in Sweden with that name. I think mostly they are smaller than a village, more like hamlets or small clusters of buildings.

Answer 2

I was going to ask if you knew when it was named or if it was named for the Americas, and you have it right on the profile:

As a small village of 79 residents (2010), it is known merely for its name, the German word for America, which was given to it in the 19th century. 

Answer 3

In the Netherlands we also have a town called Amerika. It started it's existance as a place to go to instead of emigrating. Where farmers still could buy land