Way earlier, the question about 'Why "Paris, France" rather than "Paris, Texas"?' prompted me to root around in the back of an atlas I had at home. Living in a part of Australia known as New England, I'm well aware of how names from the colonising country get transferred to the colonised one. I stopped at Abingdon but, at that point I'd already seen:

Abbotsford; 1 in each of Scotland, Sth Africa, Aust., British Columbia and Wisconsin,
Aberdeen; Scotland (of course), Sth Africa, Canada, Hong Kong, Aust. (all 1 each) and 6 in USA, and
Abingdon; England (the original, near Oxford), 1 each in NSW & Qld, and 3 in USA.

Within a couple of hours' drive of my home in New England (Oz) I have the following 'foreign' place names:
Abingdon; (as above),
Armidale; the original (Armadale) is in Scotland but there are 2 others in Melbourne and Perth (Oz),
Ben Lomond (again, from Scotland),
Dundee; (ditto) but there are others in Sth Africa, Michigan, NY and Texas,
Glencoe; (ditto but as Glen Coe) with others in Canada, Sth Africa, Alabama, Minnesota & New Mexico,
Invergowrie; (ditto),
Kingstown: (original from Cumbria &/or Irish Republic) but also in the West Indies,
Lismore (if I drive fast); (originals in Scotland and Ireland) but also in Canada,
Malpas; (original in England) but 2 in Oz,
Manilla; (original in Spain) but another in Iowa, and
Tamworth; (originals in England) but also in Canada

And there's also (within the same distance):
Bolivia; with another in N Carolina
Kentucky; a town (hamlet, really) rather than a Commonwealth parading as a State, and
Texas; with another in Maryland.

Not to mention Yarrowyck, which also has (in the same Shire) another locality, Yarrowitch; This confuses lots of people.

I wasn't surprised at us having lots of UK (OK, it WAS Great Britain at the time) names and I'm aware of how migrations between goldfields across the globe transferred all sorts of names, but I found the other occurrences interesting.

And the foot-hand coordination thingy (of which there are several) is to do with both learned behaviour and neurological interconnections.

Cheers, Rowan