German exonyms


Below is a list of German language exonyms for formerly German places and places in non-German-speaking areas of the world :

Albania

Algeria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Croatia

Czechia

Egypt

Estonia

Greece

Hungary

Israel

Italy

Japan

Latvia

Libya

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Note that this list only includes towns whose German name is significantly different from the official form. Towns that differ with predictable spelling/ ending changes shown below are not included.
ae, c, é, oe, ou, u, v → ä, k, e, ö, u, ü, v
-ange, -haff → -ingen, -hof

Moldova

Morocco

Myanmar

Namibia

Netherlands

North Korea

Norway

Palestine

Papua New Guinea

Poland

Romania

For German place names in the Vojvodina region, please see: German exonyms

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Tanzania

All of the below names are now obsolete. They were formerly used when Tanzania was part of the colony of German East Africa.

Thailand

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom