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List of city name changes

This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time.

see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States

Afghanistan

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Algeria

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Angola

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Main article: List of renamed places in Angola

Argentina

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  • La Plata → Ciudad Eva Perón → La Plata
  • Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire → Buenos Aires

Armenia

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Armenia

Australia

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See also: List of Australian place names changed from German names

New South Wales

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Northern Territory

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Queensland

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South Australia

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Tasmania

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Victoria

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Western Australia

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Austria

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Azerbaijan

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Main article: List of cities renamed by Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

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Main article: List of renamed places in Bangladesh

Belarus

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Belarus

Belgium

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Bolivia

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Botswana

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Brazil

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Brunei

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Bulgaria

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  • Ratiaria → Archar
  • Asenovgrad → Stanimaka → Asenovgrad (1934)
  • Scaptopara → Cuma-i Bala (Yukarı Cuma) → Gorna Dzhumaya → Blagoevgrad
  • Orhanie → Botevgrad
  • Pyrgos → Burgaz →Burgas
  • Hadzhioglu Pazardzhik → Tolbukhin (1949) → Dobrich (1990)
  • Dupniche → Marek → Stanke Dimitrov → Dupnitsa
  • Nevrokop → Gotse Delchev
  • Ortaköy → Ivailovgrad
  • Pautalia → Velbazhd → Köstendil → Kyustendil
  • Golyama Kutlovitsa → Kutlofça → Ferdinand (1890)→ Mihailovgrad (1945) → Montana (1993)
  • Mesembria → Misivri→ Nesebar
  • Tatar Pazardzhik → Pazardzhik
  • Kendros (Kendrisos/Kendrisia) → Odryssa → Eumolpia → Philipopolis → Trimontium → Ulpia → Flavia → Julia → Paldin/Ploudin → Poulpoudeva → Filibe → Plovdiv
  • Anchialos → Tuthom → Anhyolu → Anhialo → Pomorie
  • Ruschuk (Rusčuk) → Rousse
  • Şumnu → Shumen → Kolarovgrad (1950) → Shumen (1965)
  • Durostorum → Dorostol → Drastar → Silistre → Silistra
  • Bashmakli → Ahiçelebi → Smolyan
  • Serdica → Sredets → Triaditsa → Sofya →Sofia
  • Beroe → Vereya (Beroya) → Ulpia Augusta Trajana → Irinopolis → Boruy → Vereya → Eski Zağra → Zheleznik → Stara Zagora
  • Golyamo Konare → Saedinenie
  • Eski Dzhumaia (Eski Cuma) → Targovishte
  • Vassiliko → Tsarevo → Michurin → Tsarevo
  • Odesos → Varna → Stalin (1949)→ Varna (1956)
  • Tarnovgrad → Tarnovo → Tırnova → Tarnovo → Veliko Tarnovo
  • Bononia → Bdin → Vidin

Canada

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Alberta

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British Columbia

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Manitoba

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New Brunswick

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Nunavut

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Ontario

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Prince Edward Island

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Québec

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Saskatchewan

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Central African Republic

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Chad

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Main article: List of renamed places in Chad

Chile

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China

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  • Amoy† → Hsia-men† → Xiamen
  • Ji → Yanjing → Zhongdu → Dadu → Jingshi → Khanbalik (as Mongol capital) → Peking † → Peiping → Beijing
  • Fenghao (豐鎬) → Chang'an (長安) or Xijing (西京) → Daxing (大興) → Fengyuan (奉元) → Anxi (安西) → Jingzhao (京兆) → Xi'an (西安)
  • Iling → Ichang† → Yichang
  • Jiankang → Jiangning → Jinling → Nanking† → Nanjing
  • Bianliang → Bianjing → Kaifeng
  • Lin'an → Hangchow† → Hangzhou
  • Soochow† → Suzhou
  • Yinxu → Anyang
  • Shenyang → Shengjing → Fengtianfu → Mukden → Fengtian → Shenyang
  • Ch'ing-ni-wa → Lüshunkou (aka Port Arthur) → Dalnyi → Dairen; Ryojun → Lüda→ Dalian
  • Kweisui† → Guisui → Hohhot
  • Tihua† → Dihua → Ürümqi
  • Changchun → Hsinking → Changchun

†Name change in English due to replacement of postal romanization with the pinyin system. The Chinese name is unchanged.

Colombia

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  • Bacatá → Santa Fe de Bacatá → Bogotá → Santa Fe de Bogotá → Bogotá
  • Obando → Puerto Inírida → Inirida
  • Patriarca San José → Cúcuta → San José de Cucúta → Cúcuta
  • Valle de Upar → Ciudad de los Santos Reyes de Valledupar → Valle Dupar → Valledupar
  • Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela → Nuestra Señora de los Remedios del Río de la Hacha → Riohacha
  • Barbudo → Santiago de Sompayón → Tamalameque → Santiago de Sompayón Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de El Banco → El Banco
  • San Jerónimo de Buenavista → Pereira
  • Apiay → Villavicencio
  • Pueblo Viejo → San Francisco de Quibdó → Quibdó
  • San Bonifacio de Ibagué del valle de las Lanzas → Ibagué
  • Villaviciosa de la Concepción de la Provincia de Hatunllacta → Villaviciosa de la Concepción de San Juan de los Pastos → San Juan de Pasto
  • San Antonio → Leticia
  • Santa Cruz de Pizarro → Santa Cruz de San José → Sitionuevo → Sitio Nuevo
  • Villa Holguín → Armenia

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Main article: List of renamed places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Republic of the Congo

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Main article: List of renamed places in the Republic of the Congo

Croatia

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See also: List of Italian exonyms in Dalmatia

Czech Republic

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Dominican Republic

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  • Santo Domingo → Ciudad Trujillo (1936–1961) → Santo Domingo

Egypt

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Many cities had Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Latin names.

  • Iunyt, Ta-senet → Latopolis → Laton → Lato → Esna

Equatorial Guinea

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  • Port Clarence → Santa Isabel → Malabo

Estonia

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Estonia

Eswatini

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Main article: List of renamed places in Eswatini

Finland

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  • Kokkola/Gamlakarleby → Kokkola/Karleby (1977, only the Swedish name changed)
  • Mustasaari/Mussor → Wasa → Nikolaistad/Nikolainkaupunki (1862) → Vasa/Vaasa (1917)
  • Pargas/Parainen → Väståboland/Länsi-Turunmaa (2009) → Pargas/Parainen (2012)
  • Pyhäjärvi → Pyhäsalmi (1993) → Pyhäjärvi (1996)

France

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See also List of French cities renamed during the Revolution [fr]

Most cities had an ancient name, usually in Latin, often of older Celtic origin

The Gambia

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Main article: List of renamed places in the Gambia

Georgia

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Georgia

Germany

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See also: List of cities and towns in East Prussia, List of former cities in Germany (in German), and List of renamed villages in Germany (in German)

Greece

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Main article: Geographical name changes in Greece

Greenland

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  • Friedrichstal → Frederiksdal → Narsarmijit (Narsaq Kujalleq)
  • Godthaab (Godthåb) → Nuuk
  • Lichtenau → Alluitsoq
  • Lichtenfels → Akunnat
  • Neu-Herrnhut → Nye-Hernhut → Noorlit → Old Nuuk

Guyana

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  • Wismar-MacKenzie-Christianburg → Linden

Haiti

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Hong Kong

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Hungary

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Main article: List of renamed places in Hungary

India

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Main article: List of renamed places in India

Indonesia

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Iran

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Iran

Ireland

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Israel

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Main article: Hebraization of Palestinian place names

Italy

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Main article: List of renamed municipalities in Italy
See also: Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige and Italianization of South Tyrol

Japan

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Jordan

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  • Rabbath Ammon → Philadelphia → Amman → Ahamant → Amman
  • Kerak → Al-Karak

Kazakhstan

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Kazakhstan

Kenya

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Kyrgyzstan

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Kyrgyzstan

Laos

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  • Xiang Dong Xiang Thong → Vientiane (1561) → Luang Phra Bang (1695) → Vientiane
  • Nakhon Kala Champaknaburisi → Nakhon Champa Nakhaburisi (1713) → Nakhon Champasak (1791) → Champasak [Bassac] (1863) → Pakse (1908)

Latvia

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Latvia

Lebanon

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  • Heliopolis → Baalbek
  • Derbly, Ahlia, Wahlia, Mahallata, Mayza, Kayza, Athar (Phoenician/Assyrian) → Tripolis (Greek, Latin) → Atrabulus, Tarablus al-Sham (Arabic) → Trablusşam (Turkish) → Tripoli

Libya

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  • Oea → Tripoli
  • Euesperides → Berenice → Hesperides → Barneeq → Marsa ibn Ghazi → Bani Ghazi → Benghazi

Lithuania

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Lithuania
  • Georgenburg → Jurbarkas
  • Memel → Klaipėda (1923)
  • Pašešupys → Starapolė (1736) → Marijampolė (1758) → Kapsukas (1956) → Marijampolė (1989)
  • Šilokarčema → Šilutė (1923)
  • Vilkmergė → Ukmergė (1920s)
  • Medininkai → Varniai (16th century)
  • Sniečkus → Visaginas (1992)
  • Duoliebaičiai → Władysławów/Vladislavovas (1639) → Naumiestis → Kudirkos Naumiestis (1934)
  • Zarasai → Novoalexandrovsk (1836) → Ežerėnai (1919) → Zarasai (1929)
  • Mažeikiai → Muravyov (1899) → Mažeikiai (1918)

Madagascar

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Main article: List of renamed places in Madagascar

Malawi

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Main article: List of renamed places in Malawi

Mauritius

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  • Port Louis → Port de La Montagne (1794) → Port Nord-Ouest (1795) → Port Napoléon (1803) → Port Louis (1810)

Malaysia

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Mexico

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Republic of Moldova

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Main article: List of renamed populated places in Moldova

Montenegro

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  • Berane → Ivangrad (1949) → Berane (1992)
  • Birziminium → Ribnica → Podgorica (1326) → Titograd (1946) → Podgorica (1992)

Morocco

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Mozambique

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Main article: List of renamed places in Mozambique

Myanmar

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In many cases, the English name of the city changed due to different romanization systems, while the Burmese native remained unchanged.

Namibia

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Main article: List of renamed places in Namibia

Netherlands

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North Korea

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†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945). The Korean name is unchanged.

North Macedonia

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Norway

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  • Ánslo → Christiania (1624) → Oslo (1925)
  • Kaupangen → Nidaros → Trondhjem → Nidaros → Trondheim
  • Fredrikshald → Halden
  • Bjørgvin → Bergen

Pakistan

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Main article: List of renamed places in Pakistan

Peru

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  • Ciudad de los Reyes → Lima
  • San Pablo de Napeanos → Iquitos

Paraguay

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Philippines

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Main article: List of renamed cities and municipalities in the Philippines

Poland

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See also: List of cities and towns in East Prussia

1 Cities in western Poland whose names were changed when Poland gained independence from Germany in 1918.
2 German cities from 1918 to 1939 that became part of Poland after 1945.

Portugal

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Romania

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Main article: List of renamed places in Romania

Russia

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Main article: List of renamed cities and towns in Russia

Serbia

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Seychelles

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Singapore

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Name change in English due to replacement of older romanization methods with the pinyin system. The Chinese name is unchanged.

Slovakia

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Slovenia

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South Africa

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Main article: List of renamed places in South Africa

South Korea

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  • Cheju (1397) → Jeju‡
  • Dalgubeol → Taegu (757 AD) → Daegu‡
  • Dongrae (before 1914) → Fusan (1914) → Pusan† (1945) → Busan‡
  • Duingji-hyeon → Yŏn'gi → Yeongi‡ → Sejong (2012)
  • Usisan → Uhwa → Heungrye-bu → Gonghwa-hyeon → Ulju (1018 AD) → Ulsan (1413)
  • Hanbat → Taejŏn → Daejeon‡
  • Mujin → Muju → Kwangju → Gwangju‡
  • Hansanju → Hanyang → Hanseong → Gyeongseong/Keijō (1910) → Seoul (1945)
  • Michuhol → Soseong-hyeon → Gyeongwon-bu → Inch'ŏn (1413) → Jinsen† (1910) → Chemulpo (1945)→ Inch'ŏn (1945) → Incheon‡
  • Ungjin → Kongju → Gongju‡
  • Silchon-eup → Gonjiam-eup (Gwangju, Gyeonggi) (2011)
  • Doam-myeon → Daegwallyeong-myeon (Pyeongchang) (2007)

†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945). The Korean name is unchanged.
‡Name change in English due to replacement McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000. The Korean name is unchanged.

Spain

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Sweden

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Switzerland

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Syria

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  • Beroea → Aleppo
  • Balanea (Greek, Latin) → Baniyas (Arabic)
  • Emesa → Homs
  • (H)Amat(h)(a) (Aramean, Assyrian) → Epiphania → Epiphania, Emath(oùs) (Greek) → Hamath → Hama
  • Laodicea ad Mare → Latakia
  • Palmyra → Tadmor
  • Rasaappa, Rasappa, Rasapi (Akadian) → Sergiopolis → Anastasiopolis (Greek, Latin) → Risapa, Rosafa (Latin) → Resafa (Arabic)

Taiwan

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†Chinese name unchanged.

Tajikistan

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Tajikistan

Tanzania

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Thailand

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Turkey

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Main article: Place name changes in Turkey

Turkmenistan

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Turkmenistan

Ukraine

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Ukraine

United Kingdom

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See also: List of Latin place names in Britain and List of Roman place names in Britain

England

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Scotland

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Northern Ireland

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United States

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Main article: List of renamed places in the United States

Alabama

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Alaska

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Arizona

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  • Green Valley → Payson
  • Rittenhouse → Queen Creek
  • Smithville → Pima
  • Swilling's Mill → Hellinwg Mill → Mill City → East Phoenix → Phoenix

Arkansas

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California

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Colorado

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Connecticut

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Delaware

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Florida

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Georgia

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Hawaii

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Idaho

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Illinois

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Iowa

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Kentucky

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Louisiana

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Maine

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Maryland

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Massachusetts

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Michigan

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Minnesota

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Nebraska

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Nevada

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  • Horn Silver → Hornsilver → Goldpoint → Gold Point

New Hampshire

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  • Derryfield → Manchester
  • Hilton's Pointe → Cochecho → Northam → Dover
  • Nashuway → Nashville → Nashua
  • Number Two → Middle Monadnock → Monadnock → Jaffrey
  • Nutfield → Londonderry
  • Plantation of Penney Cook → Penney Cook → Pennacook → Rumford → Concord
  • Piscatiqua → Strawberry Hill → Portsmouth
  • Suncook → Pembroke
  • Winnacunnet → Hampton

New Jersey

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New Mexico

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New York

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North Carolina

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Ohio

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Oregon

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Pennsylvania

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*Name used by the United States Board on Geographic Names from 1891 to 1911. The name used by the city in its official documents and on its seal was unchanged.

Rhode Island

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South Carolina

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Tennessee

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Texas

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Utah

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Vermont

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Virginia

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Washington

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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Uzbekistan

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Main article: List of renamed cities in Uzbekistan

Venezuela

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Vietnam

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  • Tourane → Đà Nẵng
  • Djiring → Di Linh
  • Tống Bình → Long Đỗ → Đại La → Thăng Long → Đông Đô → Đông Kinh → Bắc Thành → Thăng Long → Hà Nội (Hanoi)
  • Hai Pho → Faifo → Hội An
  • Prey Nokor → Gia Định → Sài Gòn (Saigon) → Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh (Ho Chi Minh City)
  • Phu Xuan → Huế
  • Ke Van → Ke Vinh → Vinh Giang → Vinh Doanh → Vinh Thi → Vinh

Zambia

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Main article: List of renamed places in Zambia

Zimbabwe

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Main article: List of renamed places in Zimbabwe

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The renaming remains contentious, and is subject to a naming dispute to the present day.

References

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  1. ^ "Ballarat History". Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ^ "City of Melbourne - History and heritage". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Službene stranice Općine Novi Travnik - O Novom Travniku". www.ont.gov.ba.
  4. ^ "Repulse Bay to officially change name to Naujaat July 2 | CBC News".
  5. ^ "Fisher Fields".
  6. ^ "Службен весник на НРМ, 31/36" (PDF).
  7. ^ https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200165/local_and_family_history/615/east_kilbride_-_old_and_new
  8. ^ https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200165/local_and_family_history/615/east_kilbride_-_old_and_new
  9. ^ "Name Index to Illinois Local Governments". Illinois State Archive. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois Secretary of State. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  10. ^ "Robbinsville History". www.robbinsville-twp.org. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Handbook of Texas". Tshaonline.org. 11 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  12. ^ *Jasinski, Laurie E. (1 September 2006) "Frisco, Texas."
  13. ^ "Between the Forks | Irving, TX - Official Website". City of Irving – Irving Archives.
  14. ^ [1] Spanish Texas, Texas State Historical Society: The Handbook of Texas Online
  15. ^ Patoski, Joe Nick "It's Just Different Here", Preservation, July/August 2010, page 38
  16. ^ Laura Arksey (3 October 2009), "Spokane Falls (later renamed Spokane) is incorporated as a first-class city on November 29, 1881.", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink, The original Act of Incorporation spelled the city's name correctly, but the territorial printing office incorrectly spelled it as Spokan Falls, a phonetic spelling that was used elsewhere during the period, including on the 1880 census. This spelling was also used for Spokane's first newspaper, the Spokan Times.
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