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German language German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a ...

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 formerly German places and other places in non-German-speaking areas of the world. Archaic names are in ''italics''.

Algeria

Belarus

Belgium

* List of German exonyms for places in Belgium

China

Croatia

* List of German exonyms for places in Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

* See List of German names for places in the Czech Republic As German was an official language during the Empire of Austria, those names are NOT exonyms.

Denmark

* List of German exonyms for places in Denmark

Djibouti

Egypt

Estonia

* List of German exonyms for places in Estonia

France

* List of German exonyms for places in France

Georgia

Greece

Hungary

* List of German exonyms for places in Hungary

India

Israel

Italy

Japan

Latvia

* List of German exonyms for places in Latvia

Lebanon

Libya

Lithuania

Luxembourg

''Note that this list only includes towns whose German name is significantly different from the official (mainly French) form. Towns that differ with predictable spelling/ ending changes shown below are not included.'' * ae, c , é, oe, ou, u, v → ä, k, e, ö, u, ü, w * -ange, -haff → -ingen, -hof

Moldova

Morocco

Myanmar

Namibia

Netherlands

North Korea

Norway

Papua New Guinea

Poland

* List of German exonyms for places in Poland

Portugal

Romania

*''For German exonyms of Romania in

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the A ...

, see: German exonyms (Transylvania)''

Russia

*''For German names of towns in

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The largest city and admin ...

, see : German exonyms (Kaliningrad Oblast)'' and ''

List of cities and towns in East Prussia List of cities and towns in East Prussia, as used before 1945: {, class="sortable wikitable" !City/Town !District (''Kreis'') !Pop. in 1939 !Current Name !Current Administrative Unit , - , Allenburg , , Landkreis Wehlau , , align=right , 2 69 ...

Serbia

''For German place names in the

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

region, please see:

German exonyms (Vojvodina) Below is a list of German language exonyms for towns and villages in the Vojvodina region of Serbia . This list excludes names where only the spelling changes. List of names {, class="wikitable sortable" !Vojvodina place !German name !Notes , - ...

Slovakia

* List of German exonyms for places in Slovakia

Slovenia

* List of German exonyms for places in Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

* List of German exonyms for places in Switzerland

Syria

Taiwan

Tanzania

All of the below names are now obsolete. They were formerly used when Tanzania was part of the colony of

German East Africa German East Africa (GEA; german: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mo ...

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

References

German language

Exonyms 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, ...

Exonyms German exonyms