When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to? - eviltoast

For example, in Washington Heights and Golan Heights, what does “heights” mean? What does it tell us about the place?

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      1 year ago

      It’s funny because the area where I grew up was kind of a dumping ground but now, you can’t find a home there for less than 10 million, even older one story brick houses. What is so appealing about Utah that our housing prices are so astronomical? We don’t have many towns with “heights” after their names!