This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history.
It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time.
see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States †Name change in English due to replacement of postal romanization with the pinyin system.
Name change in English due to replacement of older romanization methods with the pinyin system.
‡Name change in English due to replacement McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000.