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

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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

Level 72

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.

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.

Level 65

Apr 8, 2020

Cool Quiz! But we just say Ljubljana and Bratislava (never heard of Laibach and Pressburg) They are probably more older names.

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.

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.

Level 79

Oct 27, 2020

Interessant

Level 55

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 :)

Level 79

Aug 2, 2022

Ok, advice taken!

Level 66

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.

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.