It'd be so cool if the game would appropriately pick from a huge list of landmarks and adjectives to automatically name a region of the map.

Stardock, you gotta make this happen!

Just imagine, the game detects a mountain range with a river in between and intelligently picks from the list to name it something like:

"The Gleaming Shards"

Its dont in some Civilization 4 mods, and i'd LOVE to see it in Elemental too

IIRC, when Elemental was first being discussed, Stardock mentioned that players would be able to name everything on the strat map. 

I name cities after myself all the time Also many of the characters in my game are named after me and my wife.

Sometimes I pick characters from some movie or TV show I like to name cities or characters. Sometimes it's celebrities I'd love to see duke it out. A few times I've used characters (or places) from other games - Thrall, New Reno, Cloud, Graham, Liberty City, Krynn, Iolo, Nameless, etc.

Tried naming them all Ed once. That game got... a little confusing.

It's a neat idea, and it would further make this game world more attractive than Meadow Lane = Industrial complex, barren ground with yellow stains, or 

Oak Grove Alley = concrete as far as the eye can see , and Spring Brook Walk = Swamp of the Dead.

That is to say the real world.