Geographical naming disputes

Pretoria ( ; ) is the administrative capital of South Africa, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to the country.

Gdańsk (; ) is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, it is Poland's sixth-largest city and its major seaport. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population of approximately 1.5 million.

marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean

Manchuria is a historical region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China and parts of the modern-day Russian Far East south of the Uda River and the Tukuringra-Dzhagdy ranges. The exact geographical extent varies depending on the definition: in the narrow sense, the area constituted by three Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning as well as the eastern Inner Mongolian prefectures of Hulunbuir, Hinggan, Tongliao, and Chifeng; in a broader sense, historical Manchuria includes those regions plus the Amur river basin, parts of which were ceded to

province of Pakistan

region of East Turkey

Israeli administrative division in the occupied West Bank

naming dispute (1991–2019) between Greece (which has a region named Macedonia) and the Republic of Macedonia, ending with the latter being renamed North Macedonia

Whanganui, also spelt Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whanganui is the 19th most-populous urban area in New Zealand and the second-most-populous in Manawatū-Whanganui, with a population of as of .

designation for parts of the South China Sea claimed by the Philippines

naming dispute over the name for post-Communist Czechoslovakia

naming dispute

Name of Iran

term used by the Moroccan government for the part of Western Sahara that it controls

etymology of the names of China

naming dispute over the body of water between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago

Africanization or Africanisation (lit., making something African) has been applied in various contexts, notably in geographic and personal naming and in the composition of the civil service via processes such as indigenization.

about old states of India

change of name of a geographical entity

geographic naming controversy

1970s process in the Soviet Union

responsible for geographical and hydrographic names within New Zealand and its territorial waters

names for the country also known as Burma

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controversial term that describes Taiwan and its related territories as part of the People's Republic of China

demonym for the Americas

Overview of place names in New Zealand

mountain ridge in Pennsylvania, United States