Names of African cities in different languages

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This is a list of cities in Africa that have several different names in different languages.

English Name Other names or former names
Alexandria Alejandría (Spanish), Alexandria (German, Interlingua, Norwegian, Swedish), Αλεξάνδρεια (Greek), Al-ʼIskandariya - الإسكندرية (Arabic), Iskandariah (Malay, Indonesian), Alessandria d'Egitto (Italian), Alexandria Magna (Latin), İsgəndəriyyə (Azeri), Alexandrie (Czech, French), İskenderiye (Turkish) Aleksandria (Finnish), Lixandra (Maltese)
Algiers al-Jazāir - الجزائر (Arabic), Aljir (Indonesian), Algeri (Italian), Alger (Finnish, French, Norwegian, Swedish), Algier (Danish, German), Alġier (Maltese), Argel (Spanish, Portuguese), Əlcəzair (Azeri)
Antananarivo Tananarive(French [slightly archaic]), Antananarivo (Norwegian)
Aswan Assuan (German, Finnish, Italian, Swedish), Assouan (French), Asuanas (Lithuanian), Asuan, Asvan (Turkish),
Béjaïa Bougie (French), Bugia (Italian), Bugía (Spanish), Saldae (Latin)
Cairo al-Qāhirah - القاهرة / Mişr al-Qāhirah - مصر القاهرة (Arabic), Mişr - مصر (Arabic [short form]), Mαşr - مصر (Egyptian Arabic [short form]), Qahir - קַהִיר (Hebrew), Kahire (Turkish), Κάιρο (Greek), Il Cairo (Italian), Il-Kajr (Maltese), Le Caire (French), Kaxira (Somali), Alƙahira, Birnin Misra, Misra (Hausa), Kair (Polish) , Kairo (Estonian, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish), Qahirə (Azeri), Q̇ahira- КъахІира (Chechen), Kaherah (Malay, Indonesian), Kāiluó - 開羅(Chinese), Kāiluó - 开罗 (Simplified Chinese)
Cape Town Kaapstad (Afrikaans, Dutch), iKapa (Xhosa), Kapa (Sesotho), Kepṭāun - केपटाउन (Hindi), Kapstadt (German), Città del Capo (Italian), Le Cap (French), Kāipǔdūn - 開普敦 (Chinese), Kāipǔdūn - 开普敦 (Simplified Chinese), Kēputaun - ケープタウン (Japanese), Cape Town (Norwegian) Kapstaden (Swedish) Kapkaupunki (Finnish)
Carthage Carthage (French), Cartagine (Italian, Romanian),Kartaġni (Maltese), Karthago (German, Finnish, Swedish), Карфаген ("Kartagen") (Russian), Cartàggini (Sicilian), Kartagina (Polish), Kartaca (Turkish)
Kinshasa Kin (local short form), Kinsásá (Lingala), Kinshasa (English, Finnish, French, German, Interlingua, Norwegian, Swahili), Kinsasa (Kongo, Icelandic), Léopoldville (French [archaic], English [archaic]), Leopoldstad (Dutch [archaic]), Jīnshāsà - 金沙薩 (Chinese), Jīnshāsà - 金沙萨 (Simplified Chinese), كينشاسا (Arabic), کینشازا (Farsi), Kinŝaso (Esperanto), 킨샤사 (Korean), Kinšasa (Latvian, Lettonian), קינשאסה (Hebrew), Киншаса (Macedonian, Russian), Киншасӕ (Ossetian), キンシャサ (Japanese), Kinszasa (Polish), Kinşasa (Turkish)
Lagos Èkó (Yoruba), Ikko (Hausa), Lājūs - لاجوس (Arabic), Lāgèsī - 拉各斯, Lāgēsī - 拉哥斯 (Chinese, Simplified Chinese), Lagos (Finnish, Norwegian)
Oran وهران, Wahran (Arabic)
Tangier Tingis (Catalan, Latin), Tanger (Dutch, Finnish, French, Polish, Swedish), Tanġier (Maltese), Tanca (Turkish)

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