List of city name changes

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Refimprove 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

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Afghanistan

Algeria

Angola

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Argentina

  • La Plata → Ciudad Eva Perón (1952) → La Plata (1955)
  • Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire → Buenos Aires

Armenia

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Australia

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New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

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Bangladesh

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Belarus

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Belgium

Bolivia

Botswana

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

  • RatiariaArchar
  • 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

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Nunavut

Ontario

Prince Edward Island

Québec

Saskatchewan

Central African Republic

Chad

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Chile

China

  • Amoy† → Hsia-men† → Xiamen
  • Ji → Yanjing → Zhongdu → Dadu → Jingshi → Khanbalik (as Mongol capital) → Peking † → Peiping → Beijing
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  • 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

  • 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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Republic of the Congo

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Croatia

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Czech Republic

Dominican Republic

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

Egypt

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

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

Equatorial Guinea

  • Port Clarence → Santa Isabel → Malabo

Estonia

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Eswatini

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Finland

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

The Gambia

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Georgia

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Germany

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Greece

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Greenland

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

Guyana

  • Wismar-MacKenzie-Christianburg → Linden

Haiti

Hong Kong

Hungary

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India

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Indonesia

Iran

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Ireland

Israel

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Italy

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Japan

Jordan

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

Kazakhstan

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Kenya

Kyrgyzstan

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Laos

  • 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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Lebanon

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

Libya

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

Lithuania

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  • 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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Malawi

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Mauritius

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

Malaysia

Mexico

Republic of Moldova

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Montenegro

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

Morocco

Mozambique

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Myanmar

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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Netherlands

North Korea

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

North Macedonia

Norway

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

Pakistan

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Peru

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

Paraguay

Philippines

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Poland

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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

Romania

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Russia

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Serbia

  • Caribrod → Dimitrovgrad
  • Despotovica → Gornji Milanovac
  • Horreum Margi → Ravno → Ćuprija
  • Jagodina → Svetozarevo → Jagodina
  • Karanovac → Kraljevo → Rankovićevo → Kraljevo
  • Nagy Bécskerek/Veliki Bečkerek → Bečkerek → Petrovgrad → Zrenjanin
  • Petrovaradinski Šanac → Novi Sad
  • Poreč → Donji Milanovac
  • Singidon → Singidunum → Bělgradъ (Бѣлъградъ) → Nándorfehérvár → Dar-ul-Cihad → Beograd (Belgrade)
  • Taurunum → Zemun
  • Sirmium → Sremska Mitrovica
  • Užice → Titovo Užice (1946) → Užice (1992)
  • Vrbas → Titov Vrbas (1983) → Vrbas (1992)
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  • Zaslon → Šabac

Seychelles

Singapore

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

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

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South Korea

  • 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 → HanseongGyeongseong/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

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

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

Taiwan

†Chinese name unchanged.

Tajikistan

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Tanzania

Thailand

Turkey

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Turkmenistan

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Ukraine

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United Kingdom

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England

Scotland

Northern Ireland

United States

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Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

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

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

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Iowa

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

  • Smith's Landing → Saint Aubert → Mokane

Nebraska

Nevada

  • Horn Silver → Hornsilver → Goldpoint → Gold Point

New Hampshire

  • 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

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Template:AsteriskName recognized 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

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Uzbekistan

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Venezuela

Vietnam

  • Tourane → Thai Phien → 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

Western Sahara

Zambia

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Zimbabwe

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See also

Notes

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