English Name |
Other names or former names |
Aleppo |
حلب - Halab (Arabic, Ottoman Turkish), 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, Interlingua, 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), Άλμα-Άτυ (Greek) |
Amman |
عمان - Ammān (Arabic), רבת עמון - Rabbat ʿAmmon (Hebrew), Φιλαδέλφεια - Philadélpheia (Greek [archaic]), Philadelphia (Latin [archaic]), Amman (Turkish, Azeri), 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 (Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Indonesian, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish), Anqara (Azeri), Ankara - Анкара (Russian, Serbian), Ankara - Անկարա (Armenian), Ágkyra - Άγκυρα (Greek), Anqara - أنقرة (Arabic) |
Antioch |
Antakya (Turkish)*, Antioche (French)*, Antiochia (Hungarian*, Interlingua, 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) |
Arkhangel'sk |
Arjánguelsk, Arcángel (Spanish) |
Astana |
Akmola (variant in Finnish), Akmola (variant in Russian), Akmoła (former Polish), Aqmola (former Kazakh), Astana - Астана (Kazakh, Dutch, Finnish, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian, Turkish, Azeri), Tselinograd (former Russian), Astaná (Spanish) |
English Name |
Other names or former names |
Bangalore |
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (Kannada), பெங்களூர் (Tamil), బెంగళూరు (Telugu), ബാംഗ്ലൂര് (Malayalam), बंगलौर (traditional Hindi)/बेंगलूरु (phonetic transcription of Kannada name in Hindi), बंगळूर (Marathi), બેંગલોર (Gujarati), بنگلور (Urdu) |
Bangkok |
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon' - กรุงเทพมหานคร (Thai)–曼谷(Chinese)- Μπανγκόγκ (Greek) |
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), Pékin (French), Pechino (Italian), Πεκίνο - Pekino (Greek), Pekín (Spanish) - Пекин (Russian), 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), Bisjkek (Dutch), Biškek (Finnish, Slovenian), Biškek - Бишкек (Macedonian, Serbian), Bişkek (Romanian, Turkish), Biškekas (Lithuanian), Biškeka (Latvian), Biszkek (Polish); Frunze (former name) |
Bukhara |
Buxoro (Uzbek, Tajik), Boechara (Dutch), Boxārā - بُخارا (Persian), Bukhara - Бұхара (Kazakh), Bukhara - Бухара (Russian), Buxara (Azeri), Buhara (Turkish, Turkmen, Finnish),Bujara (Spanish) |
Bursa |
Boersa (Dutch), Brousse (former French), Bursa (Azeri, Dutch, Finnish, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian Turkish), Prusa (Latin), Proúsa - Προύσα (Greek), Bursa - בורסה (Hebrew) |
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 |
ঢাকা (Bengali), ढाका (Hindi, Marathi), ڈھاکا (Urdu), ઢાકા (Gujarati), Dacca (former English name until 1982, Spanish), 達卡 (Chinese), 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) |
English Name |
Other names or former names |
Haifa |
חיפה - Ħêphāh (Hebrew), حيفا - Ħayfā (Arabic), Haïfa (French), Haifa (Spanish), Hajfa (Polish), Hayfa (Turkish), Caiphas/Caifa (former medieval crusader names), Sycaminon/Sykaminos (other names [archaic]) |
Hebron |
al Khalil, الخليل(Arabic) Hebrón (Spanish) |
Ho Chi Minh City |
Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnamese), Sài Gòn (Vietnamese, pre-unification), Saigon (former name in English), Gia Ðịnh (Vietnamese, pre-colonial), Prey Nokor (Khmer) Saigón (Spanish) |
Hong Kong |
Heung Gong - 香港 (Cantonese), Hongkong (in old English texts, Finnish), Victoria (obsolete, colonial name of the city on the north shore of Hong Kong Island), 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) |
English Name |
Other names or former names |
İskenderun |
Alexandrië (Dutch), Alejandría (Spanish), Aleksandretta (Polish), Alessandretta (Italian), Alexandreta (Portuguese, Romanian), Alexandretta (variant in English, German), Alexandrétta - Αλεξανδρέττα (Greek), Alexandria - Αλεξάνδρια (Greek), Alexandrette (variant in French, German), Iskandarūn - إسكندرون (Arabic), (al-)Iskandariya (former Arabic), İskenderiye (Turkish until 1939), İskenderun (Turkish), İsgəndərun (Azeri), Scanderoon (former variant in English), Aleksandrija(Montenegrin) |
İzmir |
Esmirna (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) |
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), Τζακάρτα (Greek), Dzhakarta - Джакарта (Russian), Džakarta (Croatian, Serbian), Dzsakarta (Hungarian), Cakarta (Turkish) |
Jericho |
Ariha,أريحا (Arabic) Jericó (Spanish) |
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), እየሩሳሌም (Amharic) |
English Name |
Other names or former names |
Macau |
O Mun - 澳門 (Cantonese/Traditional Chinese), Maa Gau - 馬交 (Cantonese/TC, informal), Aomen - 澳门 (Mandarin/Simplified Chinese), Macao (Finnish, French, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese), Macau (Dutch, English, German), 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) |
Manila |
Maynilà (Tagalog, with diacritics), Manila (Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Ilokano, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swahili, Turkish, Vietnamese, Waray), Manila - Манила (Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian - Cyrillic script), Maníla (Icelandic), Mǎnílā - 马尼拉 (Mandarin Chinese - simplified characters), Má-nî-la (Min Nan Chinese), Manilha (alternative Portuguese), Manilla (Dutch; alternative English and German spelling), Manille (French), Manilo (Esperanto), Manira - マニラ (Japanese), Menila (Kapampangan), مانيلا (Arabic), ম্যানিলা (Bengali), فیلیپین (Farsi), 마닐라 (Korean), מנילה (Hebrew), மணிலா (Tamil), มะนิลา (Thai), مانىل (Uyghur) |
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), Makkah (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, Spanish), Médine (French), אל-מדינה "Al-Medina" (Hebrew), Mədinə (Azeri), Madina (Uzbek), Мadinah (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Medine (Turkish) |
Moscow |
Moscú (Spanish), Moscou (French), Mosca (Italian), Moskova (Turkish), Moskou (Dutch) |
Mumbai |
मुंबई (Marathi, Hindi), મુંબઈ (Gujarati), ಮುಂಬೈ (Kannada), மும்பை (Tamil), ਮੁਮਬਏ (Panjabi), মুম্বাই (Bengali, Assamese), मुम्बई (Nepali), Bombay (English, former name and variant), Bombaj (Polish), Βομβάη-Bombai (Greek), 孟買 (Chinese), Bombaim (Portuguese) |
English Name |
Other names or former names |
Nablus |
Nāblūs (Arabic), Nabloes (Dutch), Naplouse (French), Nablus (English, German), Nablus - Наблус (Russian), Shkhem - שכם (Hebrew) |
New Delhi |
नई दिल्ली (Hindi), نئی دلی (Urdu), ਨਵੀਂ ਦਿੱਲੀ (Panjabi), নয়া দিল্লী / নতুন দিল্লী (Bengali), புது தில்லி (Tamil), 新德里 (Chinese), Nueva Delhi (Spanish) Neu-delhi (German alternate), Nieuw-Delhi (Dutch alternate), Nuova Delhi (Italian), Yeni Dehli (Azeri,Turkish), Nyu-Deli - Нью-Дели (Russian), Nju Delhi (Serbian), Nova Delhi (Portuguese), Új-Delhi (Hungarian), Νέο Δελχί(Greek), Dellium Novum (Latin) |
Nicosia |
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), Lefkoşe or Lefkoşa (Turkish) |
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), Σεούλ (Greek), Seulas (Lithuanian), Soul (Czech, Finnish, Slovak), Söul (Swedish), Szöul (Hungarian) |
Singapore |
Singapour (French), Singapura (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese), 新加坡 - Xīnjiāpō (Chinese), Singapur - Сингапур (Russian, Polish, Serbian), Singapur (Spanish,Turkish), 昭南 - Shōnan (colonial Japanese name), Szingapúr (Hungarian), Temasek (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia [archaic]), Sin-ka-pho - 新加坡 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Singapūra (Latvian), Σινγκαπούρη - Singapouri (Greek) |
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, Spanish, 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, Turkish), Tóquio (Portuguese), Tόκυο (Greek) |
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) |
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Other names or former names |
Yekaterinburg |
Jekaterinenburg (Dutch), Jekaterinburg (Serbian, Finnish, German, Slovene, Swedish), Jekaterynburg (Polish), Iekaterinbourg / Ekaterinbourg (French), Ekaterinburg (Romanian, Turkish), Ekaterimburgo (Spanish), Sverdlovsk (former name),Jekaterinburga (Latvian), Jekaterinburgas (Lithuanian), Αικατερινούπολις - Ekaterinoupolis (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 (Dutch, German), Yerevan (Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese), Yirīfān (Arabic), Υερεβάν (Greek) |