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 |
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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) |
[edit] See also
- Exonym and endonym
- List of Latin place names in Africa
- Names of European cities in different languages
- Names of Asian cities in different languages
- List of cities in the Americas with alternative names
- List of countries and capitals in native languages
- List of alternative country names
- List of country names in various languages
- List of city name changes
- List of places