Aio.

n.  a populated place in Ethiopia.


n.  an abandoned populated place in the Solomon Islands.

Aioi.

n.  a t-shaped bridge in Hiroshima, Japan.  The word “describes two trunks growing from the same root” (Jiro Takei, Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden).

<And there was Aioi Bridge.  It slid right under the crosshairs, a tiny T right in a gap of clouds.  —Kim Stanley Robinson, “The Lucky Strike,” The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century.>

n.  a village in the Hokkaido and Hyogo regions of Japan.

<If you followed the bank [of the Nozeri brook] for about three-quarters of a mile downstream, you came to the village of Aioi.  There is a statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy, in this village.  —Natsume Soseki, Botchan.>

Aioio.

n.  an island in French Polynesia.

Aioua.

n.  a populated place in the Shepherd region of Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides).

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