Wednesday, March 11

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz


Named in her honor

* Vandalia and Charlotina (proposed but unrealized North American colonies)
* Charlotte, North Carolina
* Charlotte County, Virginia
* Mecklenburg County, Virginia
* Charlotte Hall, Maryland
* Queensbury, New York
* Charlotte Place, Sydney, New South Wales
* Charlottesville, Virginia
* Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
* Fort Charlotte, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
* Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (named for Queen Charlotte's birth family)
* Port Charlotte, Florida
* Queen Charlotte (British merchant ship, after which the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia were named)
* HMS Queen Charlotte
* Queen's College, New Brunswick, New Jersey (now Rutgers University)
* Queens University, Charlotte, North Carolina
* Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand
* Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, The oldest maternity hospital in the United Kingdom
* Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
* Strelitzia reginae, a flowering plant indigenous to South Africa
* Mecklenburg Square, Bloomsbury, London

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