List of Chinese exonyms for places in Russia

List of Chinese exonyms for places in Russia

Country name and its capital

* 俄罗斯 [-羅-] Éluósī Russia (in Russian: Россия (Rossiya)), supposedly from Mongolian "Орос" (read: "Oros").
* 莫斯科 Mòsīkē Moscow (in Russian: Москва (Moskva))

Cities and towns - centres of administrative regions in Russia

"Most cities and towns are the centre of an oblast' (in Russian: область), otherwise they are marked in the comment as a centre of a krai (also: kray) (in Russian: край), an autonomous republic(in Russian: автономная республика) or an autonomous okrug (in Russian: автономный округ)."

"Normally Russian letter "ь" is not romanised at the end of a word or between consonants, romanised here with an apostrophe as a guide to the Russian pronunciation."

Autonomous Republics of Russia (short names)

"In Russian: Автономная Республика (Avtonómnaya Respúblika) (singular), in Chinese: 自治共和国 (Zìzhì Gònghéguó)"

ee also

*Exonym and endonym
*Russian exonyms
*List of Chinese exonyms for places in Japan
*Transliteration into Chinese characters


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