Below is a list of

Finnish language Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedis ...

exonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...

s for places in non-Finnish-speaking areas: Note that the Finnish language inflects place names where English use prepositions like ''in'' and ''to''. These variants can affect any place name and are

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s, not exonyms. For example ''Mene Birminghamiin'' means ''Go to

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''.

General

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

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→ Pohjois-Carolina; Upper Volta → Ylä-Volta''

Belgium

China

Cuba

Cyprus

Denmark

Egypt

Estonia

Estonian and

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

are quite closely related and share many words that differ only slightly, such as ''saar'' (Estonian) and ''saari'' (Finnish) for ''island''. Many Estonian toponyms and even people's names are simply translated into Finnish as if they were Finnish words, creating an unlimited number of potentially existing exonyms. Below are only some frequently encountered examples of these, as well as those where the difference is significant.

Finland

The Swedish names for the above are commonly (if not exclusively) used in modern-day Finnish.Svenska Ortnamn i Finland
, The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, see "Korsnäs" and "Liljendal".

Korsnäs Korsnäs is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Ostrobothnia region. Geography Korsnäs is the most western mainland municipality in Finland. It covers an area of of which is water. It has a long, rocky coastline along the Gulf ...

in Ostrobothnia should not be confused with other locations in Finland with the same name (see Korsnäs (disambiguation)). Areas with both Finnish-, and Swedish-speaking inhabitants have endonymic place names in both languages. Due to changing demographics, some monolingually Swedish areas have historical Finnish names inherited from earlier Finnish-speaking inhabitants. For example, ''Molpe'', a village of Korsnäs is ''Moikipää'' in Finnish.

France

Germany

Greece

Ancient transcriptions that do not reflect modern pronunciation are used in some cases, e.g. ''

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'' ("Iraklion").

Iran

Israel

Italy

Latvia

Lebanon

Lithuania

Norway

''For further names, see : Finnish exonyms for places in Norway''

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

''Note that Finnish was formerly an official language in the Republic of Karelia and is still widely used there, and some places in what was Finnish territory until World War II have been given new Russian names; thus, Finnish names of Karelian places are not all strictly exonyms.''

Saudi Arabia

Serbia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

''Northern Sweden has a Finnish/

Meänkieli (literally 'our language') is a group of distinct Finnish dialects or a Finnic language spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden along the valley of the Torne River. Its status as an independent language is disputed, but in Sweden it is recogn ...

-speaking minority and thus some place names are derived from Finnish, making them not exonyms.''

Switzerland

Syria

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

References

{{reflist Lists of exonyms

Exonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...