India
See List of renamed Indian public places
- Bangalore → Bengaluru
- Madras → Chennai (changed August 1996)
- Fort William → Calcutta → Kolkata (January 2001)
- Mumba → Boa Baia → Bombay → Mumbai (1996)
- New Bombay → Navi Mumbai
- Mangalore → Mangluru
- Kanhiyapur → Cawnpore → Kanpur (1948)
- Baroda → Vadodra
- Pataliputra → Patna
- Pondicherry → Puducherry
- Poona → Pune
- Qila Rai Pithora → Siri → Tughluqabad → Jahanpanah → Kotla Firoz Shah → Purana Qila → Shahjahanabad → Delhi
- Trivandrum → Thiruvananthapuram
- Quilon → Kollam
- Aleppey → Alappuzha
- Cochin → Kochi
- Calicut → Kozhikode
- Chirayinkil Chirayinkeezhu
- Kattachakonam → Kesavadasapuram
- Palghat → Palakkad
- Thrishivaperur → Trichur → Thrissur
- Cannanore → Kannur
- Indravati → Umravti → Amravati
- Tanjore → Thanjavur
- Lakshmanpuri → Lakhanpur → Lakhnau → Lucknow
- Thirusirappalli → Trichinopoly → Trichy → Tiruchirappalli
- Jeypore → Jaipur
- Ootacamund → Udhagamandalam
- Mapuça → Mapusa
- Panjim → Panaji
- Vizagapatam → Visakhapatnam
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