Where am I?

0 You can say "Can you please tell me where I am?" Or " can you tell me the name of this town ?" 0-

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01cite10Teo12cite10If I travel to a place the name of which I don't know, what expresssions should I use to ask the local people? Can I say,12br
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11i10Excuse me, where am I?12i10If you have a map, you can ask "11i10Excuse me, where am I on the map?12i10"12br
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0 If you want to know the name of the town, it would be best to ask "Excuse me, what is the name of this town?" If you just say "Excuse me, where am I?" you might get an answer like "You're in front of the bus station" or "You're at Fourth and Main Street." 0-

0When you answer, "You are at Fourth and Main Street." Do you mean "You are at Fourth Street and Main Street."?02br
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00If that, the latter one, is what that, the former one, means, why don't you say "You are at Fourth and Main 01u00Streets02u00." with a "s" at the end of the word "Street"? 0-

0Hi,02br
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01font00why don't you say "You are at Fourth and Main 01u00Streets02u00." with a "s" at the end of the word "Street"?02font02br
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00Perhaps we feel we are saying "You are at Fourth Street and Main Street", and we are simply omitting the first word 'street'. 02br
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0"Excuse me, where am I?" is best avoided. It gives the impression that the speaker is suffering from (or has just recovered from) amnesia.02br
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0 Or it might be Fourth Avenue and Main Street. One might well even say "You're at Fourth and Main." 0-

MrPedantic"Excuse me, where am I?" is best avoided. It gives the impression that the speaker is suffering from (or has just recovered from) amnesia.

Can we say, "Excuse me. Where is it?"?

Teo, only if you want the person you said this to to look at you in puzzlement and say, "Where is WHAT?"

The other suggestions in this thread - Excuse me, what's the name of this town?, or Excuse me, can you show me where I am on this map? - will work just fine.

"Where is it?" sounds like you're looking for something in particular, like "Where is the Opera House?" or "Where is the nearest bank?"

If you start out with "Excuse me, but I'm lost. Where am I exactly?" no one will think you are amnesiac. Well, Mr P. might