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Cities by Their German Names

30 cities around the world are given by their names in German, which are (at least slightly) different from their English names. Can you give their names in English?
Note: Exact spelling in English is required! So automatic JetPunk type-ins will not work!
Hint: Move from one continent to the next, and roughly from west to east
Quiz by JackintheBox
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Last updated: August 2, 2022
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First submittedMarch 11, 2020
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German
English
Lissabon
Lisbon
Brüssel
Brussels
Nizza
Nice
Straßburg
Strasbourg
Köln
Cologne
Nürnberg
Nuremberg
München
Munich
Genf
Geneva
Luzern
Lucerne
Mailand
Milan
Venedig
Venice
Neapel
Naples
Wien
Vienna
Danzig
Gdansk
Krakau
Cracow
German
English
Warschau
Warsaw
Kiew
Kiev
Moskau
Moscow
Bengasi
Benghazi
Gizeh
Giza
Kapstadt
Cape Town
Jerewan
Yerevan
Tiflis
Tbilisi
Dschidda
Jeddah
Riad
Riyadh
Maskat
Muscat
Singapur
Singapore
Peking
Beijing
Taipeh
Taipei
Wladiwostok
Vladivostok
10 Comments
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Level 73
Mar 11, 2020
Interesting quiz! I live in Germany, but neither German nor English is my mother tongue, so for me the challenge was doubled. I only missed the two cities you mentioned in the caveat. After seeing the results, I realized that I've heard of Laibach before, but I never knew what Pressburg is.
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Level 79
Mar 11, 2020
Hallo! Yes, it's expected that few people will get those two cities in German. Even in German JetPunk only their native names are accepted. By the way I'm currently learning German.
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Level 67
Apr 8, 2020
Cool Quiz! But we just say Ljubljana and Bratislava (never heard of Laibach and Pressburg) They are probably more older names.
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Level 79
Apr 8, 2020
Yes, but in the Oxford German Dictionary and also on the German Wikipedia articles for these two cities, the more German-sounding names are shown as valid alternatives for the city names. That's why I added a caveat, because they are not as commonly used today as maybe a century ago.
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Level 74
Jul 24, 2020
Ljubljana and Bratislava are more common, but every German speaker who isn't completely oblivious knows those two.

Less known ones are Agram for Zagreb, Olsnitz for Murska Sobota, Neusatz for Novi Sad, etc.

Very well known are Brünn for Brno, Prag for Praha, Budweis for České Budějovice, Bozen for Bolzano, etc.

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Level 79
Oct 27, 2020
Interessant
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Level 56
Aug 2, 2022
Amazing quiz, nominated it. However, Laibach and Pressburg are not really in use anymore. "Danzig" for Gdansk and "Nizza" for Nice are still established today and maybe would fit a little bit better :)
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Level 79
Aug 2, 2022
Ok, advice taken!
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Level 68
Nov 11, 2022
I appreciate you taking advice, and the person you're answering to is absolutely correct. However, I clicked on the quiz expecting some of these obscure names, so I wouldn't mind adding some harder ones back in for the extra challenge.

I, for one, would've known Pressburg, but Laibach definitely would've escaped me.

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Level 89
Feb 11, 2023
I know the French spell Straßburg with an O, but it's still one of the most German looking cities I've ever seen.