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0 pointsmidoridensha3y ago0 comments

>There are dozens of instances of names of places being changed due to what the local population wants it to be called.

Sorry, no, not outside a country, when dealing with foreign languages. Every language has different names for other countries, and they're frequently quite different from each other. Countries have no way of forcing foreign languages to adopt any particular name in those languages.

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zimpenfish3y ago

> Sorry, no, not outside a country, when dealing with foreign languages.

Are you saying there's no instances where a country has "rebranded" (for want of a better term) its own name and people outside that country have gone along with it?

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zimpenfish3y ago

> Sorry, no, not outside a country, when dealing with foreign languages.

Are you saying there's no instances where a country has "rebranded" (for want of a better term) its own name and people outside that country have gone along with it?

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