Naming Disputes
- British Isles naming dispute
- The Hyphen War of 1990 – Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia?
- Denali naming dispute over the peak known as Mount McKinley
- Derry/Londonderry name dispute in Northern Ireland
- Indian renaming controversy
- Iran naming dispute starting in the 1930s
- Sea of Japan naming dispute
- Macedonia naming dispute
- Persian Gulf naming dispute starting in the 1960s
- Pretoria/Tshwane naming dispute over whether to change the city's name to a more Black African Tshwane, or keep its original name, Pretoria.
- Includes numerous naming disputes across South Africa ranging from streets to entire provinces. All of which are changing annually and are met with opposition.
- West Bank/Judea and Samaria, disputed both between Israelis and Palestinians and between political factions inside Israel
- Servia/Serbia, exact date unknown, but quietly changed in opening days of World War I, just after war declared by Austria-Hungary on Servia/Serbia
- Kosovo/Kosova disputed between Serbians and Albanians.
- Malvinas/Falkland Islands, disputed between Argentinians and British.
- Berlin to Kitchener name change, Canadian town's name changed during WWI
- Australian place names changed from German names during WWI
- Sønderjylland/Schleswig, disputed between Danes and Germans in the 19th Century
- New Zealand/Aotearoa
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“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)