Swedish exonyms

Diacritical marks (such as ´ ` ^ etc above letters) are generally stripped, except that Å, Ä, Ö, are kept, and usually also Ü and É (but È and Á are written E and A). Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Faroese Æ and Ø are often written as AE or Ä and Ö, especially in the press.

Foreign place names containing a direction such as South or Upper are often translated, e.g.:

• East Timor - Östtimor
• Northern Ireland - Nordirland
• South Africa - Sydafrika

but U.S. states nowadays keep their English names in Sweden:

• e.g. South Carolina and West Virginia

Denmark Danmark
English name	Swedish name	Endonym	Notes
Aabenraa	Åbenrå	Aabenraa
Aalborg	Ålborg	Aalborg
Aarhus	Århus	Aarhus
Elsinore	Helsingör	Helsingør
Copenhagen	Köpenhamn	København
Peberholm	Pepparholm	Peberholm
Zealand	Själland	Sjælland

Newspapers in Sweden usually write all æ as ä or ae and all ø as ö, because of the lack of æ and ø on the Windows keyboard layout for Swedish, and historically because of the lack of them on Swedish typewriters. Swedish newspapers normally write aa as å. Aa is the traditional spelling of the "aw" sound in Danish, but this spelling does not exist for this sound in Swedish. Both spellings of the sound exist in Danish, aa in some names, but å always being correct.

Swedish Wikipedia writes Danish place names using the original æ and ø, except for those listed above.

Estonia had a significant indigenous Swedish-speaking population until the mid-20th Century, so many of these names are not really exonyms in the strict sense of the word.

Estonia Estland
English name	Swedish name	Endonym	Notes
Haapsalu	Hapsal	Haapsalu
Hiiumaa	Dagö	Hiiumaa
Kärdla	Kärrdal	Kärdla
Osmussaar	Odensholm	Osmussaar
Pakri	Rågö	Pakri
Ruhnu	Runö	Ruhnu
Saaremaa	Ösel	Saaremaa
Tallinn	Lindanäs, Räffle, Reval	Tallinn
Tartu	Dorpat	Tartu
Vormsi	Ormsö	Vormsi

Swedish is one of the two official languages of Finland, so the Swedish names of places in Finland are not exonyms.

Further information: Names of places in Finland in Finnish and in Swedish

The mutually intelligible Norwegian and Swedish languages have different spelling systems for the same sounds. Newspapers in Sweden usually write all æ as ä or ae and all ø as ö, because of the lack of æ and ø on the Windows keyboard layout for Swedish, and historically because of the lack of them on Swedish typewriters. Apart from æ and ø, the Norwegian spelling is used in Sweden.

Examples include Askøy, Bodø, Bærum, Galdhøpiggen, Gjøvik, Hønefoss, Røros, Stjørdal, Tønsberg, Tromsø, Vadsø and Østfold, which are usually by media written as Asköy, Bodö, Bärum, Galdhöpiggen, Gjövik, Hönefoss, Röros, Stjördal, Tönsberg, Tromsö, Vadsö and Östfold.

The Norwegian spelling with æ and ø is still often used. Swedish Wikipedia writes Norwegian place names using the original æ and ø.

Russia Ryssland
English name	Swedish name	Endonym		Notes
		Name	Language
Bashkortostan	Basjkirien	Bashkortostan	Russian
Caucasus	Kaukasien	Kavkaz	Russian
Chukotka	Tjuktien	Chukotka	Russian
Ingria	Ingermanland	Ingermanlandiya	Russian
Ingushetia	Ingusjien	Ingushetiya	Russian
Kabardino-Balkaria	Kabardinien-Balkarien	Kabardino-Balkariya	Russian
Karachay-Cherkessia	Karatjajen-Tjerkessien	Karachayevo-Cherkesiya	Russian
Karelia	Karelen	Kareliya	Russian
Khakassia	Chakassien	Khakasiya	Russian
Pechenga	Petsamo	Pechenga	Russian
Petrozavodsk	Petroskoj (Onegaborg)	Petrozavodsk	Russian	Endonym also used
Priozersk	Kexholm	Priozersk	Russian
Saint Petersburg	Sankt Petersburg	Sankt Peterburg	Russian
Shlisselburg	Nöteborg	Shlisselbúrg (Шлиссельбу́рг)	Russian
Siberia	Sibirien	Sibir	Russian
Vyborg	Viborg	Vyborg	Russian
Zelenogorsk	Terijoki	Zelenogorsk	Russian

Some of these names are not really exonyms in the strict sense of the word, as the places have been part of Sweden, some founded as such.

United Kingdom Förenade kungadömet/ Storbritannien
English name	Swedish name	Endonym		Notes
		Name	Language
British Virgin Islands	Brittiska Jungfruöarna	British Virgin Islands	English
Great Britain	Storbritannien	Great Britain	English	Preferred name for the country
Thames	Themsen	Thames	English

Some historic area names beginning with British are translated, such as British Guyana into "Brittiska Guyana". British Columbia in Canada is nowadays kept.

• List of European exonyms
• Names of European cities in different languages