Names of Asian cities in different languages

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This is a list of cities in Asia that have several different names in different languages, including former (e.g. colonial) names.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


[edit] A

English Name Other names or former names
Aleppo حلب‎ - Halab (Arabic), Halep (Turkish), Heleb (Kurdish), Hələb (Azeri), Alepo (Portuguese, Spanish), Alep (French, Romanian), Alepas (Lithuanian), Алеппо (Russian)
Almaty Alma-Ata - Алма Ата (Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish), Ala-Mutu (Chinese), Ałma Ata (Polish), Almata (Latvian, Lithuanian), Almaty (Kazakh), Almatë (Albanian), Viernyi (formerly, ?e.g. in French), Almatõ (Estonian)
Amman عمان - Ammān (Arabic), רבת עמון - Rabbat ʿAmmon (Hebrew), Φιλαδέλφεια - Philadélpheia (Greek [archaic]), Philadelphia (Latin [archaic]), Amã (Potuguese), Ammán (Spanish), Amanas (Lithuanian), Амман (Russian)
Ankara 安卡拉 (Chinese), Ancara (Portuguese), Ancyra (Latin), Angora (former English, former Italian, former Romanian), Ankara - Анкара (Armenian, Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish), Ágkyra - Άγκυρα (Greek), Anqara (Arabic, Azeri)
Antioch Antakya (Turkish)*, Antioche (French)*, Antiochia (Hungarian*, Latin, Slovak), Antiochia or Antiochia/Antioch/Antiochien am Orontes (German)*, Antiochia or Antiochia di Siria (Italian)*, Antiochia or Antiochia Syryjska (Polish)*, Antiochia or Antiochia vid Orontes (Swedish)*, Antióchia - Αντιόχεια (Greek), Antióchia i epí Dáfni - Αντιόχεια η επί Δάφνη / Antióchia i epí Oróntu - Αντιόχεια η επί Ορόντου / Antióchia i Megáli - Αντιόχεια η Μεγάλη (extended names in Greek), Əntakiyyə (Azeri)*, Antiochie (Czech)*, Antiochië (Dutch)*, Antioch-on-the-Orontes (extended name in English), Antiohia (Romanian), Antiokia (Bahasa Indonesia, Danish*, Finnish*), Antioquía (Spanish)*, Antióquia (Portuguese)*, Antiohija (Croatian, Bosnian), Antiohija - Антиохија (Macedonian, Serbian*)
Ashkhabad Ašchabád (Czech, Slovak), Aschchabad / Aschgabad / Aschgabat (German), Ašgabat (Finnish), Aşgabat / Aşkabat (Turkish), Aşhabad (Romanian), Aşqabad (Azeri), Ašhabad (Serbian, Montenegrin), Ašhabada (Latvian), Ashgabat (Turkmen), Ashkhabad - Ашхабад (Russian), Ashxobod (Uzbek), Asjchabad (Dutch), Aszchabad (Polish), Išq Ābād (Arabic), Ašhabad - Ашхабад (Macedonian, Serbian)
Astana Akmola (variant in Finnish), Akmola (variant in Russian), Akmoła (former Polish), Aqmola (former Kazakh), Astana - Астана (Kazakh, Finnish, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian, Turkish, Azeri), Tselinograd (former Russian), Astaná (Spanish)

[edit] B

English Name Other names or former names
Bangkok Krungthepmahanakorn - กรุงเทพมหานคร (Thai)–曼谷(Chinese)
Beijing Běijīng - 北京 (Chinese), Běipíng - 北平 (Chinese [archaic]), Bākgìng - 北京 (Cantonese), Bākpìhng - 北平 (Cantonese [archaic]), Pak-kiaⁿ - 北京 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Bukgyeong - 북경 {北京} (Korean), Béyjing - بېيجىڭ Бейҗиң (Uighur), Beežin - Бээжин / Bejžin - Бэйжин (Mongolian), Baekging (Zhuang), Bêjing - པེ་ཅིང (Tibetan), Pekin - 北京 {ペキン} (Japanese), Bắc Kinh (Vietnamese), Pekin (Turkish, Polish), Beijing (Romanian), Pechino (Italian), Pékin (French), Pekín - Пекин (Russian, Spanish), Peking (Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Swedish), Pequim (Portuguese), Pecin / Beijing (Welsh), Béising, Péicing (Irish), Pechinum (Latin)
Bengkulu City Kota Bengkulu (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Bangka Hulu (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia [archaic]), Bencoolen (former English colonial name), Benkoelen (Dutch)
Bishkek Bichkek (French), Bischkek (German), Biškek (Finnish, Slovenian), Biškek - Бишкек (Macedonian, Serbian), Bişkek (Romanian, Turkish), Biškekas (Lithuanian), Biškeka (Latvian), Biszkek (Polish); Frunze (former name)
Bukhara Buxoro (Uzbek, Tajik), Boxārā - بُخارا‎ (Persian), Bukhara - Бұхара (Kazakh), Bukhara - Бухара (Russian), Buxara (Azeri), Buhara (Turkish, Turkmen, Finnish)
Bursa Brousse (former French), Bursa (Azeri, Dutch, Finnish, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian Turkish), Prusa (Latin), Proúsa - Προύσα (Greek), Bursa - בורסה (Hebrew)

[edit] C

English Name Other names or former names
Chengdu 成都 - Chéngdu (Chinese), 成都 (せいと) - Seito (Japanese), 成都 (성도) - Seongdo (Korean), Thành Đô (Vietnam), چېڭدۇ/чеңду - Chingdū (Uighur)
Chennai Madras (former name), চেন্নাই (Bengali)
Chittagong Chottogram - চট্টগ্রাম (Bengali)
Chongqing 重慶 - Chóngqìng (Chinese), 重慶 (じゅうけい) - Jūkei (Japanese), 重慶 (중경) - Chunggyeong (Korean), چۇڭچىڭ/ чуңчиң - Chūngchīng (Uighur) - Trùng Khánh (Vietnamese)

[edit] D

English Name Other names or former names
Damascus Dimašq - دمشق / Ash-Shām - الشام / Jilliq - جلق (Arabic), Şam (Kurdish, Crimean Tatar), Δαμασκός (Greek), Şam, Dımeşk (Turkish), Damaskos - Դամասկոս, Šam - Շամ (Armenian), Dəməşq, Şam (Azeri), Damas (French), Dammeseq - דַּמֶּשֶׂק (Hebrew), Damask - Дамаск (Russian, Bulgarian), Dimaşq˙ (Chechen), ¯Sam - Щам (Kabardian [Circassian]), Damesek (Karaim), Damasc (Romanian), Damasco (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), Damascus (Dutch, Latin, Welsh), Damaskus (Estonian, German, Norwegian), Damask (Albanian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian), Damaszkusz (Hungarian), Damašek (Czech), Damaszek (Polish), Damaskos (Finnish, Northern Lapp), Damaisc (Irish), Dimshek (Somali), Dameski (Swahili), Damashƙa (Hausa), Damaxk - دهمهشق (Uighur), Dàmǎshìgé - 大馬士革 (Chinese), Dàmǎshìgé - 大马士革 (Simplified Chinese), Damasukasu - ダマスカス (Japanese), Damaseukuseu - 다마스쿠스 (Korean), Damsyik (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Dameshk - দামেস্ক (Bengali)
Dhaka Dacca (former English name until 1982), 達卡 (Chinese), ঢাকা (Bengali), Dakka - Дакка (Russian), Dəkkə (Azeri), Daca (Portuguese)
Dushanbe Doesjanbe (Dutch), Douchanbé (French), Dušanbe - Душанбе (Croatian, Finnish, Latvian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Tajik), Dušanbė (Lithuanian), Duşanbe (Romanian, Turkish), Düşənbə (Azeri), Dūšānbī (Arabic), Duschanbe (German), Dusjanbe (Swedish), Duszanbe (Polish); Hissar (former name); Stalinabad (former name)

[edit] G

English Name Other names or former names
Guangzhou Canton (English [alternate]), Gwóngjàu - 广州 / 廣州 (Cantonese), Guǎngzhōu - 广州 / 廣州 (Mandarin Chinese), Kńg-chiu - 广州 / 廣州 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Guōng-ciŭ - 广州 / 廣州 (Mindong), Gvangjcouh (Zhuang), Kanton / Guangzhou (German), Kanton (Finnish, Polish), Quảng Châu (Vietnamese), Kōshū - 広州 {こうしゅう} (Japanese), Gwangju - 광주 {廣州} (Korean), Canton (Welsh), Cantão (Portuguese)

[edit] H

English Name Other names or former names
Haifa חיפה - Ħêphāh (Hebrew), حيفا - Ħayfā (Arabic), Haïfa (French), Hajfa (Polish), Hayfa (Turkish), Caiphas/Caifa (former medieval crusader names), Sycaminon/Sykaminos (other names [archaic])
Hong Kong Hongkong (in old English texts, Finnish), Xianggang - 香港 (Mandarin Chinese), 香港 {ホンコン} (Japanese), 홍콩 (Korean), Hiong-káng - 香港 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Hương Cảng or Hồng Kông (Vietnamese)

[edit] I

English Name Other names or former names
İskenderun Aleksandretta (Polish), Alessandretta (Italian), Alexandreta (Portuguese, Romanian), Alexandretta (variant in English, German), Alexandrétta - Αλεξανδρέττα (Greek), Alexandrette (variant in French, German), Iskandarūn - إسكندرون (Arabic), (al-)Iskandariya (former Arabic), İskenderiye (Turkish until 1939), İskenderun (Dutch, German, Turkish), İsgəndərun (Azeri), Scanderoon (former variant in English), Aleksandrija(Montenegrin)
Izmir Esmirna (Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish), İzmir (Turkish, Azeri), Izmir - Измир (Armenian, Dutch, Finnish Romanian, Russian, Serbian), Izmira (Latvian), Smirna (former Serbian, former Romanian), Smirne (Italian), Σμύρνη / Smýrni (Greek), Smyrna (variant in English)

[edit] J

English Name Other names or former names
Jakarta Sunda Kelapa (original native name), Batavia (Dutch colonial name), Betawi (former colonial name, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Djakarta (Dutch alternate, French, German, Romanian), Giakarta (Italian), Yakarta (Spanish), Dzhakarta - Джакарта (Russian), Džakarta (Croatian, Serbian), Dzsakarta (Hungarian), Cakarta (Turkish)
Jeddah جدّة - Jiddah (Arabic), Cidde (Turkish), Dschidda (German), Djedda (Dutch), Djeddah (French), Jedda (Italian, Spanish, Finnish), Jidá (Portuguese), Ciddə (Azeri), Dżudda (Polish), Džida (Lithuanian), Yidda (Spanish var.)
Jerusalem Gerusalemme (Italian), 耶路撒冷 (Chinese), Hierusalem (Latin), Ierusalim (Romanian), Ierusalím - Ιερουσαλήμ or Ierosólima - Ιεροσόλυμα (Greek), Ierusalim - Иерусалим (Russian), Jerozolima (Polish), Jerusalem (Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish), Jerusalém (Portuguese), Jerusalén (Spanish), Jeruusalemm (Estonian), Jerusalim - Јерусалим (Serbian), Jeruzalem (Croatian, Dutch, Polish (old), Slovak, Slovene), Jeruzalém (Czech), Jeruzalė (Lithuanian), Jeruzāleme (Latvian), Jeruzsálem (Hungarian), Jérusalem (French), Yerusaghem - Երուսաղեմ (Armenian), Qüds, Ürşəlim (Azeri), Yərušaláyim - יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (Hebrew), Yərûšəlem - יְרוּשְׁלֶם (Aramaic), al-Quds - القُدس (Arabic), Єрусалим (Ukrainian), Kudüs (Turkish), Quddus (Uzbek), Baitul Maqdis (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia)

[edit] K

English Name Other names or former names
Kayseri Caesarea (Latin), Kayseri (Turkish), Qeysəriyyə (Azeri) Former names: Mazaka, Cäsarea (German), Mazaca, Caesarea (English)
Kolkata Calcutta (former English name), কোলকাতা / Kolikata - কলিকাতা (Bengali), Kəlküttə (Azeri), Kal'kutta - Калькутта (Russian), Kalkuta(Polish, Serbian), Calcuta (Romanian), Calcutá (Portuguese)
Kota Kinabalu Api-Api (former Malay), 亚庇 - Yabi (former Chinese), Jesselton (colonial English name), Api (colonial Japanese name)

[edit] L

English Name Other names or former names
Latakia اللاذقية - Al-Ladziqiyah (Arabic), Λαοδικεία - Laodikeia (Greek), Laodicea ad Mare (Latin), Lazkiye (Turkish), Lattaquié (French), Laodicea (Italian)
Lucknow Lokh-nou (Bengali)

[edit] M

English Name Other names or former names
Macau Aomen/澳门 (Chinese), Macao (Romanian, Finnish), Macau (English, Portuguese), Makao (Serbian)
Makassar Ujung Pandang (former Malay), Ujungpandang (former Bahasa Indonesia), Makasar (Dutch, Polish, Norwegian var.), Macassar (Portuguese, English var.), Makasaras (Lithuanian)
Malacca Melaka (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Malaca (Portuguese, Spanish), Malakka (Dutch, German, Polish), ملقا - Malaqa (Arabic), Mâ-la̍k-kah - 麻六甲 (Minnan / Taiwanese)
Mecca مكة المكرمة‎ - Makkatul Mukarramah (full Arabic Name), মক্কা (Bengali) La Mecque (French), La Meca (Spanish), La Mecca (Italian), Mecca (Romanian), Mekka (Basque, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish), Məkkə (Azeri), Мекка (Russian), Makka (Uzbek), Meka (Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian), Mekah (Malay), Mekkah (Bahasa Indonesia), Mekke (Turkish)
Medina المدينة المنورة - Madinatul Munawwarah (full Arabic Name), মদিনা (Bengali), Medina - Медина (Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian), Médine (French), אל-מדינה "Al-Medina" (Hebrew), Mədinə (Azeri), Madina (Uzbek), Мadinah (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Medine (Turkish)
Mumbai Bombaj (Polish), Bombay (English, former name and variant), 孟買 (Chinese), মুম্বাই (Bengali), Bombaim (Portuguese)

[edit] N

English Name Other names or former names
Nablus Nāblūs (Arabic), Nabloes (Dutch), Nablous (French), Nablus (English, German), Nablus - Наблус (Russian), Shkhem - שכם (Hebrew)
New Delhi Dilli (pronunciation in many Indic languages), 新德里 (Chinese), দিল্লী or Dilli, নয়া দিল্লী or Noya Dilli, নতুন দিল্লী or Notun Dilli (all in Bengali), Neu-delhi (German alternate), Nieuw-Delhi (Dutch alternate), Nuova Delhi (Italian), Yeni Dehli (Azeri), Nyu-Deli - Нью-Дели (Russian), Nju Delhi (Serbian), Nova Delhi (Portuguese), Új-Delhi (Hungarian), Yeni Delhi (Turkish)
Nicosia Lefkoşe or Lefkoşa (Turkish), Lefkosía - Λευκωσία (Greek), Nicosia (Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish), Nicósia (Portuguese), Nicosie (French), Nikosia / Lefkosia (Finnish), Nikosia (German), Nikosija (Latvian, Russian, Ukrainian), Nikosio (Esperanto), Nikozija (Lithuanian, Serbian), Nikozja (Polish), Nīqūsiyā (Arabic)

[edit] O

English Name Other names or former names
Osaka 大阪, Daban (Chinese), 大阪 {おおさか} Ōsaka (Japanese), 오사카 Osaka (Korean), 大阪{대판} Daepan (former Korean)

[edit] P

English Name Other names or former names
Pyongyang بيونيانغ - Byawnyāngh (Arabic), 平壌 - Píngrǎng (Chinese), Pjongjang (Finnish, Serbian), Pjöngjang (German), Pyongyang (Danish, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish), Phenian (Polish, Romanian), Phenjan (Hungarian), 平壌 (ピョンヤン) - Pyon'yan (Japanese), 평양/平壤 - Pyeongyang (Korean), Пхеньян - Pkhyenyan (Russian), Bình Nhưỡng (Vietnamese)

[edit] S

English Name Other names or former names
Samarkand সমরখন্দ (Bengali) Samarcand (old Romanian), Samarcanda (Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish), Samarcande (French), Samarkand - Самарканд (Dutch, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish), Samarkanda (Polish), Semerkant (Turkish), Samarkandas (Lithuanian), Samarkándhi - Σαμαρκάνδη (Greek), Səmərqənd (Azeri), Samarqand (Uzbek, Estonian), Szamarkand (Hungarian)
Seoul Keijo / Hansung (English [archaic]), Seoul - 서울 (Korean), Gyeongseong - 경성 - 京城 / Hanseong - 한성 - 漢城 (Korean [archaic]) / Hanyang - 한양 - 漢陽 (Korean variant [archaic]) / Hànchéng 漢城 / Shǒu’ěr - 首爾 (Chinese), Hànchéng 汉城 / Shǒu’ěr - 首尔 (Simplified Chinese), Jīngchéng - 京城 (Chinese [archaic]), Souru - ソウル (Japanese), Keijō - 京城 (けいじょう) / Kanjō - 漢城 (かんじょう) (Japanese [archaic]), Hàn-siâⁿ - 漢城 (Taiwanese [Hokkien]), Xơ-un / Hán Thành (Vietnamese), Seul (Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, Azeri) - Seul/ Сеул (Bulgarian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian), Seulum (Latin), Seulo (Esperanto), Seula (Latvian), Seoel (Dutch), Séoul (French), Seúl (Spanish), Seül (Catalan), Seulas (Lithuanian), Soul (Czech, Finnish, Slovak), Söul (Swedish), Szöul (Hungarian)
Singapore Singapura (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese), 新加坡 - Xīnjiāpō (Chinese), Singapur - Сингапур (Russian, Polish, Serbian), 昭南 - Shōnan (colonial Japanese name), Szingapúr (Hungarian), Temasek (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia [archaic]), Sin-ka-pho - 新加坡 (Minnan / Taiwanese)

[edit] T

English Name Other names or former names
Tashkent Tachkent (French), Taschkent (German), Tashkent - Ташкент (Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian), Tashqand (Arabic), Tasjkent (Dutch, Swedish, Danish), Taskéndi - Τασκένδη (Greek), Daşkənd (Azeri), Taskent (Hungarian, Italian), Taszkent / Taszkient (Polish), Taškenta (Latvian), Taškent (Slovak, Croatian, Serbian), Taşkent (Romanian, Turkish), Taškentas (Lithuanian),Toshkent (Estonian, Uzbek), তাশখন্দ or Tashkhond (Bengali)
Tokyo Edo / Yedo (English [archaic]), Tokio (Polish, German, Romanian, English [archaic]), Tōkyō - 東京 {とうきょう} (Japanese), Edo - 江戸 {えど} (Japanese [archaic]), Donggyeong - 동경 {東京} (Korean), Dokyo - 도쿄 (Korean), Dōngjīng - 東京 (Mandarin Chinese), Jiānghù - 江戶 (Chinese [archaic]), Tang-kiaⁿ - 東京 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Dùnggìng - 東京 (Cantonese), Tokio (Dutch, Finnish, Polish), Tokió (Hungarian), Tokijo (Serbian), Tokyo / Đông Kinh (Vietnamese), Tokyo (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Tóquio (Portuguese)
Trabzon Trabzon (Azeri, Romanian, Turkish), Trapezunt (German, Finnish, Polish, former Romanian), Trapezúnda - Τραπεζούντα (Greek), Trebisonda (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Trebizonda (former Romanian alternative to Trapezunt), Trébizonde (French), Trebizon (former variant in English)

[edit] Y

English Name Other names or former names
Yekaterinburg Jekaterinburg (Serbian, Finnish, German, Slovene, Swedish), Jekaterynburg (Polish), Ekaterinbourg (French), Ekaterinburg (Romanian), Ekaterimburgo (Spanish), Sverdlovsk (former name),Jekaterinburga (Latvian), Jekaterinburgas (Lithuanian),Αικατερινούπολις (Greek - καθαρεύουσα), Jekatyerinburg (Hungarian)
Yerevan Erewan - Երևան (Armenian), Erevan (French, English [rare], Portuguese variant, Romanian, Slovene), Ereván (Spanish), Iravaan (Persian), Erevāna (Latvian), Erewań (Polish), Erivan (Turkish), Erywań (former Polish), Jerevan / Ереван (Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Serbian, Swedish), İrəvan (Azeri), Jereván (Hungarian), Jerevanas (Lithuanian), Jerewan / Eriwan (German), Yerevan (Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese), Yirīfān (Arabic), Ερεβάν (Greek)

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