Can you name the English names of the following cities? by sib

Local name (endonym)	Name in English (exonym)	Country
Napoli		Italy
Athina		Greece
Luzern		Switzerland
Ciudad de México		Mexico
Warszawa		Poland
Antwerpen		Belgium
Yerushaláyim / Ūršalīm-al-Quds		Israel
Nürnberg		Germany
Göteborg		Sweden
Dimashq / Ash-Sham		Syria
București		Romania
Ciudad de La Habana		Cuba
Köln		Germany
Praha		Czech Republic
al-Jazā’ir		Algeria
Milano		Italy
Sevilla		Spain
Firenze		Italy
Brugge		Belgium
Tarabulus		Libya
Kyїv		Ukraine

Local name (endonym)	Name in English (exonym)	Country
Al-Kuwayt		Kuwait
Nijāmīnā		Chad
Hannover		Germany
Helsingør		Denmark
Muqdisho		Somalia
Roma		Italy
Lisboa		Portugal
Wien		Austria
Venezia		Italy
København		Denmark
Beograd		Serbia
Oostende		Belgium
al-Iskandariyya		Egypt
Lefkosia		Cyprus
Hameln		Germany
Al-Qāhirah		Egypt
Citta del Vaticano		the Vatican
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon		Thailand
Den Haag		the Netherlands
Мoskva		Russia
München		Germany

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Exonymous Cities (City names in English) Quiz

by sib

Created Oct 6, 2010 in Geography
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	knoxvillian:	Oct 6th, 2010 at 20:24 GMT	6 points
	Pretty sure the city is called Kiev in English. Kiew is the German spelling.

	sib:	Oct 6th, 2010 at 20:32 GMT	4 points
	ooops! Will change that right away! Thank you for pointing it out!

	bsd987:	Oct 6th, 2010 at 22:54 GMT	4 points
	This is VERY euro/mediterranean-centered. Other than Kuwait and Havana, every city is either a European city or in a Mediterranean country. You need a much wider base of cities.

	sklegg:	Oct 6th, 2010 at 22:55 GMT	1 point
	Bruges is known as Brugge to Dutch speakers in Belgium. Athina could be spelled out in the Greek alphabet (similar to Minsk and Moscow.)

	Riko:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 02:01 GMT	0 points
	You should have all the names in Latin script (Москва=>Moskva) or in the native language (al-Jazā’ir=>الجزائر‎).

	gowhere:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 02:14 GMT	1 point
	Is Carlsbad really the current English exonym or is it an exonym which is no longer used, like Peking/Beijing. I haven't seen Carlsbad used in any modern popular reference. The most recent popular reference that I can think of is the movie Last Holiday (Queen Latifah) which called it Karlovy Vary. Also, the city is Citta del Vaticano, the word Stato means state including it means that you are givint the name of the country.

	quizbear:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 08:28 GMT	1 point
	rather enjoyed this quiz - consistency with use of roman alphabet would be good (possible to have native language as a separate quiz) I didn't know helsingor was called elsinore and I've been there twice this year - dissappointed with myself

	sib:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 10:35 GMT	1 point
	Thank you all for your feedback - I've changed it all into using the Roman Alphabet transliterations of the names, and have looked into the points raised and changed what needed changing. Gowhere, thanks for your input re. Karlovy Vary and Vatican City.

	Spelvout:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 12:27 GMT	1 point
	Some of them aren't really English, for instance Cologne and Bruges are the French names of those cities, used also in English.

	TheBigE1980:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 16:41 GMT	3 points
	In the US "Zaragoza" is used for that city in Spain. I've never seen "Saragossa."

	Sjoerd:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 16:58 GMT	1 point
	the few very unknown cities (Hamelin, Elsinore) are bad for the quiz

	crover:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 17:28 GMT	1 point
	Never ever heard either Spanish or Mexican Zaragoza's referred to under any other name :S

	Rooster:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT	0 points
	@spelvout Same with Lucerne.

	BiloxiSean:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 18:47 GMT	3 points
	@Rooster and spelvout English contains alot of French so there is nothing wrong with that. @Sjoerd re:Elsinore - So I guess you never read Hamlet

	masaeaida:	Oct 8th, 2010 at 01:09 GMT	1 point
	"Saragossa" isn't really current anymore. "Corunna" is even more obsolete, though; I've only seen it in English publications as "La Coruña" or "A Coruña" (the latter is actually the official name and the Galician endonym; I'd recommend changing the "endonym" to that if you keep it on the quiz).

	arbitrarychoice:	Oct 8th, 2010 at 15:45 GMT	3 points
	I quite like that there's a couple of places mainly known from works of literature, namely Hamlet and The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

	sib:	Oct 12th, 2010 at 16:47 GMT	1 point
	thank you for your feedback, it really helps with improving this game!