List of European names of Chinese places
This list contains geographical proper names from China which were or are common in Europe and which differ from the local name (Chinese or language of national minorities). Names that only differ by an outdated transcription are not listed (examples: Honan = Henan, Shanghai = Shanghai). The “western” name precedes the Chinese.
A.
B.
- Brahmaputra : Yarlung Zangbo Jiang
C.
- Cheefoo, Tschifu: Yantai
D.
- Dalny: Dalian
F.
- Formosa: Taiwan
G
- Yellow Mountain: Huang Shan
- Yellow River : Huang He
- Gulf of Chihli: Bo Hai
H
I.
- Indus : Shiquan He
- Inner Mongolia : Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, Neimeng, Neimenggu
J
- Yangtze River : Changjiang
K
- Kalgan: Zhangjiakou
- Canton (Province): Guangdong
- Kashgar : Kashi, Kaxgar
- Kirin: Jilin
M.
N
P
- Beijing : Beijing
- Pearl River : Zhu Jiang
- Port Arthur: Lüshunkou
S.
- Salween : Nujiang
- Sezuan: Sichuan
- Sikiang, west river : Xi Jiang
- Sutlej: Satluj , Langqen Zangbo, Xiangquan He
T
- Taipei : Taibei
- Tientsin: Tianjin
- Tibet : Xizang zizhiqu, Xizang
- Tsangpo : Maquan He
- Tschifu, Cheefoo: Yantai
- Tsikiang, west river : Xi Jiang
- Tsinghai: Qinghai
- Tsingtao, Tsingtau: Qingdao
U
V
- People's Republic of China : Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo
W.
- Wulumchi: Ürümqi , Wulumuqi
Z
- Zizikar: Qiqihar