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 and Names of European cities in different languages.

See List of renamed cities in Armenia
See List of renamed cities in Azerbaijan
See List of renamed cities in Belarus

Alberta

Stadacona → Québec City
On 1 January 2002, surrounding towns were incorporated into the existing city. The "New Quebec city" includes 11 former municipalities: Sainte-Foy, Beauport, Charlesbourg, Sillery, Loretteville, Val-Bélair, Cap-Rouge, Saint-Émile, Vanier, and Lac-Saint-Charles, in addition to the original Quebec City.

Saskatchewan

†Name change in English due to replacement of outdated methods such as the postal romanization with the pinyin method. The Chinese name is unchanged.

†Chinese name unchanged.

A number of places became towns/cities under a Belgian colonial name, or rather two: in Dutch and French , but were later renamed in native languages, such as :

Many cities had Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Latin names
See List of renamed cities in Estonia
Most cities had an ancient name, usually in Latin, often of older Celtic origin
See List of renamed cities in Georgia
From history, most Italian cities have Latin names, some have Greek or Etruscan names.
See List of renamed cities in Kazakhstan
†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule. The Korean name is unchanged.
‡Name change in English due to replacement of outdated methods such as the McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000. The Korean name is unchanged.

See List of renamed cities in Kyrgyzstan
See List of renamed cities in Latvia
See also List of cities and towns in East Prussia
See List of renamed cities in Lithuania
See List of renamed cities in Moldova
Villages
1 Cities in western side that have been changed when Poland got independence from Germany in 1918.

2 Former German cities during 1918–1939, and became a city in Nazi Germany, and became a Polish city after 1945.

†Name change in English due to replacement of outdated romanization methods with the Pinyin Romanization Method. Chinese name unchanged.

Although many name changes have taken place officially since 1994, the previous names are still common in use, especially by the white communities. This list doesn't include unofficially or proposed name changes such as Pretoria to Tshwane.

Pre 1994

Beroea → Aleppo
See List of renamed cities in Tajikistan
Many cities were founded by the Ancient Anatolians and Greeks or their contemporaries, and renamed as Latinized by the Romans, and later again by Muslim Turks
See List of renamed cities in Turkmenistan
See List of renamed cities in Ukraine
;Crimea
;Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
;Donetsk Oblast
;Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
;Kharkiv Oblast
;Kherson Oblast
;Khmelnytskyi Oblast
;Kiev Oblast
;Kirovohrad Oblast
;Luhansk Oblast
;Lviv Oblast
;Mykolaiv Oblast
;Odessa Oblast
;Ternopil Oblast
;Volyn Oblast
;Zakarpattia Oblast
;Zaporizhia Oblast

England

Alaska

Torrington

Delaware

Kanesville- Council Bluffs

Louisiana

See List of renamed cities in Uzbekistan