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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.

English Name Other names or former names
Almaty Alma-Ata - Алма Ата (Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish), Ałma Ata (Polish), Almata (Latvian, Lithuanian), Almaty (Kazakh), Almatë (Albanian), Viernyi (formerly, ?e.g. in French), Almatõ (Estonian)
Ankara Ancara (Portuguese), Ancyra (Latin), Angora (former English, former Italian, former Romanian), Ankara - Анкара (Armenian, Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish), Ágkyra - Άγκυρα (Greek), Anqara (Arabic)
Ashkhabad Ašchabád (Czech, Slovak), Aschchabad / Aschgabad / Aschgabat (German), Ašgabat (Finnish), Aşgabat / Aşkabat (Turkish), Aşhabad (Romanian), Ašhabad (Serbian), Ašhabada (Latvian), Ashgabat (Turkmen), Ashkhabad (Russian), Ashxobod (Uzbek), Asjchabad (Dutch), Aszchabad (Polish), Išq Ābād (Arabic), Ašhabad - Ашхабад (Macedonian)
Astana Akmolinsk (Russian), Akmola (variant in Finnish), Akmola (variant in Russian), Akmoła (former Polish), Aqmola (former Kazakh), Astana - Астана (Kazakh, Finnish, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Turkish), Tselinograd (former Russian)
Beijing Běijīng - 北京 (Chinese), Běipíng - 北平 (Chinese [archaic] and Chinese [Taiwan usage]), Bākgìng - 北京 (Cantonese), Bākpìhng - 北平 (Cantonese [archaic]), Pak-kiaⁿ - 北京 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Bukgyeong - 북경 (Korean), Béyjing - بېيجىڭ Бейҗиң (Uighur), Beežin - Бээжин / Bejžin - Бэйжин (Mongolian), Baekging (Zhuang), Bêjing - པེ་ཅིང (Tibetan), Pekin - 北京 (Japanese), Bắc Kinh (Vietnamese), Pekin (Turkish), Beijing (Romanian), Pechino (Italian), Pékin (French), Pekín (Spanish), Peking (Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish), Pequim (Portuguese), Pecin / Beijing (Welsh), Béising, Péicing (Irish), Pechinum (Latin)
Bishkek Bichkek (French), Bischkek (German), Biškek - Бишкек (Finnish, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovene), Bişkek (Romanian, Turkish), Biškekas (Lithuanian), Biškeka (Latvian), Biszkek (Polish); Frunze (former name)
Chennai Madras (former name), চেন্নাই (Bengali)
Chittagong Chottogram - চট্টগ্রাম (Bengali)
Damascus Dimašq - دمشق / Ash-Shām - الشام / Jilliq - جلق (Arabic), Şam (Kurdish, Crimean Tatar), Δαμασκός (Greek), Şam, Dımeşk (Turkish), Damaskos - Դամասկոս, Šam - Շամ (Armenian), Damas (French), Dammeseq - דַּמֶּשֶׂק (Hebrew), Damask - Дамаск (Russian, Bulgarian), Dimaşq˙ (Chechen), ¯Sam - Щам (Kabardian [Circassian]), Damesek (Karaim), Damasco (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), Damascus (Dutch, Latin, Welsh), Damaskus (German, Estonian), Damask (Albanian, Slovenian), Damaszkusz (Hungarian), Damašek (Czech) Damaszek (Polish), Damaskos (Finnish, Northern Lapp), Damaisc (Irish), Dimshek (Somali), Dameski (Swahili), Damashƙa (Hausa), Damaxk - دهمهشق (Uighur), Dà……mǎshìgé - 大馬士革 (Chinese), Dà……mǎshìgé - 大马士革 (Simplified Chinese), Damasukasu - ダマスカス (Japanese), Damasikusi - 다마스쿠스 (Korean), Damsyek (Malay), Dameshk - দামেস্ক (Bengali)
Dhaka Dacca (former English name until 1982), ঢাকা (Bengali)
Dushanbe Doesjanbe (Dutch), Douchanbé (French), Dušanbe (Finnish, Latvian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Tajik), Dušanbė (Lithuanian, Serbian), Duşanbe (Romanian, Turkish), Dūšānbī (Arabic), Duschanbe (German), Dusjanbe (Swedish), Duszanbe (Polish); Hissar (former name); Stalinabad (former name)
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), Quảng Châu (Vietnamese), Kōshū - 広州 (Japanese), Gwangju - 광주 (Korean), Canton (Welsh)
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), Scanderoon (former variant in English)
Izmir Esmirna (Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish), İzmir (Turkish), Izmir (Armenian, Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Serbian), Izmira (Latvian), Smirna (former Serbian, former Romanian), Smirne (Italian), Σμύρνη / Smýrni (Greek), Smyrna (variant in English)
Jakarta Sunda Kelapa (original native name), Batavia (Dutch colonial name), Djakarta (Dutch alternate, French, German), Giakarta (Italian), Yakarta (Spanish)
Jerusalem Gerusalemme (Italian), Hierusalem (Latin), Ierusalim (Romanian), Ierusalím - Ιερουσαλήμ or Ierosólima - Ιεροσόλυμα (Greek), Ierusalim - Иерусалим (Russian), Jerozolima (Polish), Jerusalem (Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish), Jerusalém (Portuguese), Jeruusalemm (Estonian), Jeruzalem (Croatian, Dutch, Polish, Slovak, Slovene), Jeruzalém (Czech), Jeruzalė (Lithuanian), Jeruzāleme (Latvian), Jeruzsálem (Hungarian), Jérusalem (French), Yerusaghem (Armenian), Yərušaláyim - יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (Hebrew), Yərûšəlem - יְרוּשְׁלֶם (Aramaic), al-Quds - القُدس (Arabic), Єрусалим (Ukrainian), Kudüs (Turkish)
Kolkata Calcutta (former English name), কোলকাতা / Kolikata - কলিকাতা (Bengali)
Lucknow Lokh-nou (Bengali)
Mecca مكة المكرمة‎ (full Arabic Name), La Mecque (French), La Meca (Spanish), La Mecca (Italian), Mekka (Basque, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Polish, Swedish), Мекка (Russian)
Medina المدينة المنورة (full Arabic Name), Madanah (Bahasa Indonesia), Medina (Dutch, German), Médine (French), אל-מדינה "Al-Medina" (Hebrew)
Mumbai Bombay (former name), মুম্বাই (Bengali)
Nablus Nāblūs (Arabic), Nabloes (Dutch), Nabloos - Наблус (Russian), Nablus (English, German), Shkhem - שכם (Hebrew)
New Delhi Dilli (pronunciation in many Indic languages), 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)
Samarkand Samarcand (old Romanian), Samarcanda (Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish), Samarcande (French), Samarkand (Dutch, Finnish, German, Romanian, Slovene, Swedish), Samarkanda (Polish), Semerkant (Turkish), Samarkandas (Lithuanian), Samarkándhi - Σαμαρκάνδη (Greek), Samarqand (Estonian)
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]), Sōru - ソウル (Japanese), Keijō - 京城 (けいじょう) / Kanjō - 漢城 (かんじょう) (Japanese [archaic]), Hân-siâⁿ - 漢城 (Taiwanese [Hokkien]), Xơ-un / Hán Thành (Vietnamese), Seul (Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish) - 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)
Tashkent Tachkent (French), Taschkent (German), Tashkent - ' (Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian), Tashqand (Arabic), Tasjkent (Dutch, Swedish), Taskéndi - Τασκένδη (Greek), Taskent (Hungarian, Italian), Taszkent / Taszkient (Polish), Taškenta (Latvian), Taškent (Slovak, Croatian, Serbian), Taşkent (Romanian, Turkish), Taškentas (Lithuanian), Toshkent (Estonian, Uzbek), তাশখন্দ or Tashkhond''' (Bengali)
Tbilisi Tiflis (English [archaic]), Tbilisi - თბილისი (Georgian), Ţpilisi - ტფილისი (Georgian [archaic]), Tbilisi - Тбилиси / Tiflis - Тифлис (Russian), Tp'xis - Տփխիս (Armenian), Tbili (Svan), Tbîlîsî (Kurdish), Kalak - Калак (Ossetian), Kart - Қарҭ (Abkhaz), Gürƶex - Гуьржех (Chechen), Guržeğe - ГуржегӀе (Ingush), Kwrdžy - Курджы (Kabardian [Circassian]), Tiflis (Turkish, Azeri), Τίφλις / Τιφλίδα (Greek), Tiflīs (Arabic), Dìbǐlìsī - 第比利斯 (Chinese, Simplified Chinese), Tíbǐlǐxī - 提比里西 (Chinese [Taiwan]), Tífúlìsī - 提弗利司 / Tífúlǐsī - 梯弗裡斯 (Chinese [archaic]), Tobirishi - トビリシ (Japanese), Teubillisi - 트빌리시 (Korean)
Tokyo Edo / Yedo (English [archaic]), Tokio (English [archaic]), Tōkyō - 東京 (Japanese), Edo - 江戸 (Japanese [archaic]), Donggyeong - 동경 (Korean), Dōngjīng - 東京 (Mandarin Chinese), Jiānghù - 江戶 (Chinese [archaic]), Tang-kiaⁿ - 東京 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Dùnggìng - 東京 (Cantonese), Tokyo / Đông Kinh (Vietnamese), Tokyo (Malay, Bahasa Indonesia), Tóquio (Brazilian Portuguese)
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)
Yerevan Erewan - Երևան (Armenian), Erevan (French, English [rare], Portuguese variant, Romanian, Slovene), Ereván (Spanish), Erevāna (Latvian), Erewań (Polish), Erivan (Turkish), Erywań (former Polish), Jerevan (Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Serbian, Swedish), Jereván (Hungarian), Jerevanas (Lithuanian), Jerewan / Eriwan (German), Yerevan (Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese), Yirīfān (Arabic), Ερεβάν (Greek)

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