David Nash and Jane Simpson have collected several hundred nicknames, which you'll see below. But, as the quotation from Smith shows, there are questions about the meaning, form and use of hypocoristics. Here are some. We suspect that all English-speaking countries have some nicknames for places. This seems quite rare.
Pubs often get nicknames, as do schools.
However we have found very few nicknames for farms. We have found many nicknames for suburbs of Sydney, but few for suburbs of Adelaide. We have almost no data from Tasmania, but that's because we don't know many Tasmanians.