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), Ţpilisi - 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) |
See also
- Exonym and endonym
- List of Latin place names in Asia
- Names of European cities in different languages
- Names of African 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
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