Romanizing Geographic Names: Maps, Standards and Toponymy
A place can have several legitimate names in Roman letters. 北京 is internationally written Beijing, but historical English sources often use Peking. Москва may be romanized as Moskva, while English convention uses Moscow. القاهرة can become Al Qāhirah under a formal Arabic geographic-name system, yet English maps generally label it Cairo. 부산 is officially Busan […]