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
- References are in the articles for each region's page in the specified language.