Charleston

Charleston is the name of a dance and of several villages, towns and cities in New Zealand, the United States and Scotland. There are also places with the related names of Charlestown and Charles Town.

New Zealand:

• Charleston, New Zealand near Westport, New Zealand

Scotland:

• Charleston, Angus, near Dundee
• Charleston, Renfrewshire, near Paisley

United States:

• Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital
• Historic Charleston, South Carolina and nearby North Charleston, South Carolina
• Charleston, Arkansas
• Charleston, Illinois
• Charleston, Kentucky
• Charleston, Missouri
• Charleston, New York; not to be confused with the neighborhood of Charleston located on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York
• Charleston, Tennessee

Several United States Navy ships have been named the USS Charleston.

Charleston is also the name of a house in Sussex, where the Bloomsbury painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell lived and worked.

Also see Charlestown