Russia invades Ukraine: General Discussion 2023

China has just decreed that all maps must include old Chinese names for places along the Russian border. People in Taiwan have never been taught the Russian names, and they’d probably have to learn the Russian names on their own. However, in China, names like Vladivostok have been what’s on the maps since the Cold War.

Places that are required to have “old” Chinese names next to the Russian ones include Vladivostok (海參威), Sakhalin island (庫頁島), Ussuriysk (雙城子), Khabarovsk (伯力), Blagoveshchensk (海蘭泡), Nerchinsk (尼布楚), Nikolayevsk (廟街), and Stanovoy Range (外興安嶺).

I’m sure those new maps would come in handy pretty soon.

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