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ahartmetz on May 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch ...

So that might be why Beijing is called Peking in German... Although the (generally closer to original pronunciation) English romanizations of some Chinese names are becoming more common.

Double_a_92 on May 22, 2019 | [–]

It's called ~"Peking" in most European languages.

7FE1CCE3 on May 22, 2019 | [–]

Most of Europe probably got it from France, who used the Cantonese pronunciation: bāk-gīng

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