County names written differently in your language? (top, Chinese)

[Davy-040]

Originally Posted by Fabio SBA

Some exonyms in Portuguese (these are quite harder than countries to recognise):

Nova Iorque
Londres
Milão
Turim
Florença
Munique
Bruxelas
Estocolmo
Ratisbona
Cantuária
Tóquio
Xangai
Pequim
Cidade do Cabo
Porto Príncipe
Saragoça
Avinhão
Varsóvia
Belgrado
Zurique
Estugarda

New York
London
Milan
Turin?
Florence
Munich
Brussels
?
?
?
Tokyo
?
?
Cape Town
?
Zaragoza
?
?
Belgrade (Its Belgrado in Dutch too)
Zurich
?

[Davy-040]

Originally Posted by euro123

couple more from my language: Gurcia, Surbia, Ungaria, Avstria, Shvecia, Norvegia, Finlandia, Dania, Holandia, Kitai, Avstralia.

I think only China/Kitai will be hard to guess.

I didn't recognize Gurcia.

[Ariete]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Since some people have named cities and towns, I would like to mention my appreciation for "Bois-le-Duc", the French name for s'-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.

Aix-la-Chapelle beats that. = Aachen.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by Fabio SBA

Some exonyms in Portuguese (these are quite harder than countries to recognise):

Nova Iorque
Londres
Milão
Turim
Florença
Munique
Bruxelas
Estocolmo
Ratisbona
Cantuária
Tóquio
Xangai
Pequim
Cidade do Cabo
Porto Príncipe
Saragoça
Avinhão
Varsóvia
Belgrado
Zurique
Estugarda

Originally Posted by Davy-040

New York
London
Milan
Turin?
Florence
Munich
Brussels
?
?
?
Tokyo
?
?
Cape Town
?
Zaragoza
?
?
Belgrade (Its Belgrado in Dutch too)
Zurich
?

I'm guessing

Estocolmo = Stockholm
Xangai = Shanghai
Pequim = Beijing (Peking)
Varsóvia = Warsaw
Avinhão = Avignon
Estugarda = Stuttgart

There are still a few mysteries, though!

[Acajack]

Ratisbona is Regensburg, Germany. I know it because in French it's Ratisbonne.


Porto Principe is Port-au-Prince, Haiti.


Some from French for German cities:


Mayence = Mainz


Coblence = Koblenz


Trèves = Trier


Constance = Konstanz




Also for other stuff:


Lake Constance or Lac de Constance in French is Bodensee in the local German.


Lake Geneva bears the name of the city in many other languages (Genfersee, Meer van Genève), but in local French it's known as Lac Léman.


The small archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence called the ÃŽles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) has as its main town Cap-aux-Meules. In English it's called "Grindstone".

[Ariete]

Nova Iorque = NYC
Londres = London, same as in French
Milão = Milan
Turim = Turin
Florença = Florence
Munique = Munich
Bruxelas = Brussels
Estocolmo = Stockholm
Ratisbona
Cantuária = Cartagena?
Tóquio = Tokyo
Xangai = Shanghai
Pequim = Beijing
Cidade do Cabo = Cape Town
Porto Príncipe = Port-au-Prince
Saragoça = Zaragoza
Avinhão = Avignon?
Varsóvia = Warsaw
Belgrado = Belgrade
Zurique = Zurich
Estugarda = Stuttgart

[Fabio SBA]

Originally Posted by Ariete

Nova Iorque = NYC

Ratisbona
Cantuária = Cartagena?

Regensburg
Canterbury

[lukas1973]

Originally Posted by Davy-040

Yes Cologne is right.

Rijsel = Lille but most Dutch still use Lille, i think because of the football club.
Poona = Pune.

About 25 years ago we tried to drove from our sister city Ronse in Belgium to Lille in France. We didn't had a road map, but we knew that we had to drive in the direction of Tournai / Doornik to get to Lille. Unfortunately the road towards Tournai / Doornik was blocked, so we decided to get to Lille via Kortrijk. We were sure to find a direction sign for Lille soon, but there was absolutely no direction sign for Lille, but constantly signs for a "one-horse town" called Rijsel, we never heard of. We were already quite desperate, until we saw a direction sign "Lille / Rijsel" Who can guess that Rijsel is the Dutch name for Lille?

[Urania93]

Originally Posted by Acajack

And yet the adjective for German in Italian is "tedesco" is it not?

Yes, it is. It is used both as an adjective ("from Germany"), as a name ("person from Germany") and as the name of German language.

I have done a little research online, and it looks like the origin of the word "tedesco" is related to the one of "deutsch".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_...s_from_Diutisc

About the word "tedesco" in particular, I have found that it derives from the medieval latin word "theodiscus", that was the name for the language spoken by the German people. Following, the meaning of the word was extended also to the people who spoke that language.

[KuuKulgur]

Originally Posted by Donar

Elfenbeinküste

Corresponds exactly to Elevandiluurannik in Estonian.