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Pistoia: Pistoia (a city and comune, the capital of the province of Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy); Pistoia (a province of Tuscany, Italy)
Pitarlet: A toponym in Prat-Bonrepaux, Ariège
Piémont: Piedmont (an administrative region in the north of Italy)
Piémontais: Piedmontese (native or inhabitant of Piedmont, Italy) (usually male)
Piérie: Pieria
Plaisance: a surname; Piacenza (a province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy); Piacenza (the capital city of the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy); a municipality of Papineau Regional County Municipality, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada
Plaisir: Plaisir
Plaisirois: resident or native of Plaisir
Plamondon: a surname, mostly found in Quebec
Planchet: a male given name
Plant: a surname
Plantaurel: a mountain range in Occitania, France
Plante: a surname
Planty: Planty (a village in Aube department, Grand Est, France)
Plançon: a surname
Platon: Plato (Greek philosopher)
Platon: a surname
Plaute: Plautus
Plessis: Plessis: a surname
Plessisville: Plessisville (a town, the seat of L'Érable Regional County Municipality, Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada)
Pleuven: Pleuven (a village and commune of Finistère department, Brittany, France)
Pline: Pliny
Pliocène: Pliocene period
Plotin: Plotinus (philosopher)
Plouha: Plouha (a town in Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France)
Plouhinec: Plouhinec (a town and commune of Finistère department, Brittany, France); Plouhinec (a town and commune of Morbihan department, Brittany, France)
Ploulec'h: a commune of Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France
Plourde: Plourde: a surname
Plumier: a surname
Plutarque: Plutarch (Greek historian)
Pluton: Pluto (dwarf planet)
Pluton: Pluto (god)
Pléchou: French toponym encountered in Montjoie-en-Couserans, Ariège
Pléistocène: Pleistocene period
Pléthon: Plethon (the Hellenic-styled alias of Georgios Gemistos, a 14th-century Greek scholar)
Pochon: a French surname, Pochon
Podgorica: Podgorica
Podolie: Podolia
Podor: a city in northern Senegal
Poelaert: a surname from Dutch
Pogba: a surname
Pogu: a surname
Poidatz: a surname
Poilievre: a surname
Poilièvre: a surname
Poilâne: a surname
Poincaré: a surname, Poincaré
Poingdestre: alternative letter-case form of poingdestre.
Pointe-Noirais: native or inhabitant of Pointe-Noire
Pointe-Noire: Pointe-Noire (a city in the Republic of the Congo); Pointe-Noire (a commune on the island of Guadeloupe, France)
Pointe-du-Lac: Pointe-du-Lac (a borough, a former village municipality of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada)
Pointe-à-Pitre: Pointe-à-Pitre (a commune and city in Guadeloupe department, French West Indies)
Poipet: Poipet (a city in Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia)
Poirier: a habitational surname
Poirot: Poirot: a surname transferred from the given name
Poisson: a metonymic surname
Poissons: the constellation Pisces 'the Fishes'; the zodiac sign Pisces, after the above
Poissons: Poissons (a municipality in northern Champage); Poissons (a canton of Haute-Marne department, named after the above town, its capital)
Poitiers: Poitiers (a city, the capital of Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
Poitou: Poitou (a geographic region and former province of France, whose capital was Poitiers; now split between the administrative regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire)