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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. 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

  4. List of renamed places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    These are the list of renamed places in the United States--- various political and physical entities in the U.S. that have had their names changed, though not by merger, split, or any other process which was not one-to-one.

  5. List of geographical naming disputes - Wikipedia

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    Disputes involving the name of a whole entity being used to refer to a part of it (totum pro parte), and vice versa (pars pro toto) American for the United States/Americas/North America: The terms 'America' and 'American' are frequently used to refer only to the United States and its people.

  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. 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.

  8. Hebraization of Palestinian place names - Wikipedia

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    Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had decided on the importance of renaming in the area earlier in the year, writing in his diary in July: "We must give Hebrew names to these places – ancient names, if there are, and if not, new ones!"; [44] he subsequently established the committee's objectives with a letter to the chairman of the committee: [43]

  9. Category:Geographical naming disputes - Wikipedia

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