Re: The Map
As the others have said prosaic names, with translation into some placeholder language are a good idea.
Personally I like to push things a bit further and use a mixture of languages, for my last couple of fantasy campaigns I have used Latin, Lithuanian, Scots Gaelic and sometimes a little Greek (sadly all provided by Google translate).
The other thing I find helps to give things a bit of authenticity is, mostly for settlements but it works anywhere, is to reference human(oid) history and geography.
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