The name for London, Paris, Rome, and Munich in European languages

bezzleford:

I made this map as a bit of fun as I was curious about city exonyms.

This may come as a surprise but I am not fluent in every European language so please accept my apologies if there are any mistakes on this map, I tried to do as much research as possible.

A few sidenotes:

• The colours don't mean anything other than grouping similar spellings together, however Green always refers to the 'native' name of the city (what the majority of its residents call it)
• I tried to vaguely map language boundaries, please don't attack me if I over/under represented your language, that's not the primary purpose of this map.
• I have avoided diacritics as exonyms - yes I know this is probably incorrect but it got very complicated.
• I struggled with transliteration of Cyrillic names, as they were often just the phonetic spelling of a city but sometimes not. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
• I tried to use the modern day commonly used names for cities - e.g. I didn't use the 'obsolete' name for Munich for Slovene "Monakovo"
• There's no particular reason I picked these four cities, I was just curious. I picked Munich because I thought it was interesting that it's called Monaco (di Baviera) in Italian.

Some fun facts:

• The only language that called each city their native name was Norwegian.
• Other cities I considered doing were Florence, Cologne, and Athens.
• There are very few English exonyms for French places (except Dunkirk which was historically Dutch).

Any questions please message below! :)

Collection: placenames - Tags: placenames, london, paris, rome, munich - Source: reddit.com