List of Asian regions with alternative names

Many regions and provinces of Asia have alternative names in different languages. Some regions have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names for all major Asian regions, provinces, and territories. It also includes some lesser regions that are important because of their location or history.

This article does not offer any opinion about what the "original", "official", "real", or "correct" name of any region is or was. Regions are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English, which does not necessarily match the title of the corresponding article. The English version is followed by variants in other languages, in alphabetical order by name, and then by any historical variants and former names.[1]

Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents may be listed, to provide an answer to the question "What is that name in..."?

A

English name Other names or former names
Anatolia Anadolu (Turkish), Αnatolē - Aνατολή or Anatolía - Ανατολία (Greek), Anatòlia (Catalan), Anatolia (Finnish, Italian, Romanian, Spanish), Anatolie (Czech, French), Anatolien (Danish, German, Swedish), Anatolië (Dutch), Anatólia (Hungarian, Portuguese), Anatoolia (Estonian), Anatolija (Latvian, Slovene), Asia Minor (Latin, variant in English), Asia Minore (Italian alternate), Mala Aziya - Мала Азия (Bulgarian), Väike-Aasia (Estonian alternate)

B

English name Other names or former names
Bengal Bengal (Breton, Cebuano, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Welsh), Bengala (Basque, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish), Bengale (French), Bengalen (Danish, Dutch, German, Swedish), Bengali (Albanian), Bengalija (Lithuanian), Bengalio (Esperanto), Bengaliya - Бенгалия (Russian), Bengaliya - Бенгалія (Ukrainian), Bengálsko (Czech), Benggala (Indonesian), Bôngo - বঙ্গ or Bangla - বঙ্গদেশ (Bengali), Vengáli - Βεγγάλη (Greek)
Borneo Borneo (Catalan, Estonian alternate, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish), Bornéo (French), Bornéu (Portuguese), Kalimantan (Estonian, Indonesian)

C

English name Other names or former names
Cochinchina Cochinchina or Kotschinchina (German), Cochinchina (Portuguese, Spanish), Cochinchine (French), Cocincina (Italian), Cotxinxina (Catalan), Kochinchina (Polish), Kotšinhiina (Estonian)

D

English name Other names or former names
Deccan Dècan (Catalan), Decán (Spanish), Decão (Portuguese), Deccan (Italian), Deccan or Dekkan (French), Dekan (Polish), Dekkan (Estonian), Dekkan or Dekhan (German)

J

English name Other names or former names
Java Giava (Italian), Jaava (Estonian), Java (French, German, Portuguese, Spanish), Jawa (Indonesian, Javanese)

K

English name Other names or former names
Kashmir Cachemira (Spanish), Cachemire (French), Caixmir (Catalan), Caxemira (Portuguese), Cashmere (English variant [obsolete]), Kaschmir (German), Kashmir (Italian), Kaśmīr - कश्मीर (Dogri, Hindi), Kaszmir (Polish), Kôśīr - कॅशीर - کٔشِیر / Kôśur - कॉशुर / Kośūr - कोशूर (Kashmiri), کشمیر (Balti), کشمیر ((Gojri), ཀཤམིར (Ladakhi), کشمیر (Poonchi/Chibhali), کشمیر (Shina), كھسىمڭر (Uyghur)

M

English name Other names or former names
Malacca Malaca (Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish), Malacca (Italian), Malacka (Swedish), Malaka (French), Malakka (Dutch, Finnish, German, Polish, Turkish), Malakka - Малакка (Russian), Melaka - Мелака (Bulgarian), Melaka (Danish, French alternate, Indonesian, Malay, Spanish alternate)

S

English name Other names or former names
Siberia Siber (Estonian), Sibèria (Catalan), Siberia (Italian, Latin, Romanian, Spanish), Sibéria (Portuguese), Sibir' - Сибирь (Russian), Sibirien (German), Syberia (Polish)

T

English name Other names or former names
Tibet Bod - བོད་ (Tibetan), Thivét - Θιβέτ (Greek), Tibet (Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh), Tibet - Тибет (Bulgarian, Russian), Tíbet (Icelandic, Spanish), Tibeta (Latvian), Tibetas (Lithuanian), Tibete (Portuguese), Tibeto (Esperanto), Tiibet (Estonian, Finnish), Tüvd - Түвд (Mongolian), Tybet (Polish), Xī Zàng - 西藏 (Chinese)
Tonkin Tonchino (Italian), Tongking (Estonian), Tonkin (French, German, Polish, Portuguese), Tonkín (Spanish)

References

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