Old geographical names still in use

You may be surprised to learn that some former place names are still an official name in some areas. Can you guess them from the clues?

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Clue	Name
Name for Kolkata in Latin-based languages	Calcutta
Russian region, a former city name	Leningrad
The old old name for that city, used in Czech!	Petrohrad
Angolan region	Zaire
Spanish name for Guangzhou	Canton
Name for a certain Chinese city, in several languages	Peking
Polish region	Pomeranian Voivodeship
Latin word for Prussia	Borussia
German name for Kaliningrad	Königsberg
German name for Gdansk	Danzig
Aachen's Latin name, still used in Italian	Aquisgrana
Belarus in French	Bielorussie
Russian region, the former name of Yekaterinburg	Sverdlovsk
Hungarian city still listed in Italian under its original name, Cinquechiese	Pecs
Old name for Essaouira in Morocco, still used in German	Mogador

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