Place names in China primarily refers to Han Chinese names, but also to those used by China's minorities. In his study of place-names in China, J. E. Spencer...
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The names of China include the many contemporary and historical designations given in various languages for the East Asian country known as Zhōngguó (中国;...
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charged words, as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended...
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Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters...
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Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (23 letters) Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are: Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland...
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Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are...
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This is a list of short place names, natively in Latin characters or romanized, with one or two letters. A, a former village in Kami-Amakusa city, Kumamoto...
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Toponymy (redirect from Place-names)
toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage...
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include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages. For UK place names, see...
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is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived. Duplicated...
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