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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. List of geographical naming disputes - Wikipedia

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  4. 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

  5. Category:Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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  6. List of Australian place names changed from German names

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    Old name New name Date of name change Coordinates Notes Bergen: Murra Murra: October 1916 [10: Bergen is a locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland.Murra Murra is a property within the locality (not to be confused with another property of the same name in the locality of Nebine)

  7. Geographical name changes in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Map of Greece. The Greek state has systematically pursued a policy of Hellenisation following its independence from the Ottoman Empire in the early 1830s. [1] [2] This ideology included replacing all geographical and topographic names with revived names rooted in Classical Greece – that is, any name deemed foreign, divisive against Greek unity, or considered to be "bad Greek" was hidden or ...

  8. Geographic Names Information System - Wikipedia

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    The logo of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

  9. 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 ...