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  2. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area, which ranges from the change of a street name to a change to the name of a country. Places are also sometimes assigned dual names for various reasons.

  3. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia articles must have a single title, by the design of the system; this page is intended to help editors agree on which name of a place is to appear as the title. Nevertheless, other names, especially those used significantly often (say, 10% of the time or more) in the available English literature on a place, past or present, should be ...

  4. List of geographical naming disputes - Wikipedia

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    Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of geographical naming disputes" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2023 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message )

  5. Lists of renamed places - Wikipedia

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    Renaming of cities in India Iran — List of renamed cities in Iran Kazakhstan — List of renamed cities in Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan — List of renamed cities in Kyrgyzstan Myanmar — List of renamed places in Myanmar Pakistan — List of renamed places in Pakistan Philippines. List of renamed cities and municipalities in the Philippines

  6. Category:Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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  7. Toponymy - Wikipedia

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    Scholars have found that toponyms provide valuable insight into the historical geography of a particular region. In 1954, F. M. Powicke said of place-name study that it "uses, enriches and tests the discoveries of archaeology and history and the rules of the philologists ."

  8. Help : Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Building a stronger ...

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    This book can't discuss every possible mistake in article names—if it did, you'd need a forklift to carry it. If you have a very specific question about what to name an article for a geographical location in Ireland, for example—whether to use the official Irish name or a former English name—you'll probably find an answer at the policy page Wikipedia:Naming conventions (shortcut WP:NC ...

  9. Wikipedia:Geographical names - Wikipedia

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    There are several hundred geo-infoboxes used in over 700,000 articles about geographical entities. As of February 2022 {{Infobox settlement}} was used in over 543,000 articles, {{Infobox river}} in 28,870, {{Infobox mountain}} in 26,448, {{Infobox building}} in 24,502, and so on down to a long tail of infoboxes like {{Infobox Tibetan Buddhist monastery}} (286 articles) or {{Infobox dive site ...