Many regions and provinces of Asia have alternative names in different languages. Some regions have also undergone name changes

Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area. This can range from the uncontroversial change of a street name to a highly disputed change to the name of a country. Some names are changed locally but the new names are not recognised by other countries,...

 for political or other reasons. This article lists Asian regions, provinces, or territories that are referred to by more than one name in English. It also includes some lesser regions that are important because of their location or history.

This article does not offer any opinion about what the "original", "official", "real", or "correct" name of any region is or was. Regions are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English, which does not necessarily match the title of the corresponding article.

A

Commonly used English name	Other names or former names
Anatolia Anatolia Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...	Asia Minor

B

Commonly used English name	Other names or former names
Borneo Borneo Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....	Kalimantan Kalimantan In English, the term Kalimantan refers to the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, while in Indonesian, the term "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo....

K

Commonly used English name	Other names or former names
Kashmir Kashmir Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...	Cashmere (obsolete)

T

Commonly used English name

Other names or former names

Tibet Tibet Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

Bod (from Tibetan Standard Tibetan Standard Tibetan is the most widely used spoken form of the Tibetan languages. It is based on the speech of Lhasa, an Ü-Tsang dialect belonging to the Central Tibetan languages. For this reason, Standard Tibetan is often called Central Tibetan...  བོད་), Xī Zàng (from Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...  西藏)

See also

• List of European regions with alternative names
• Endonym and exonym
• List of alternative country names
• List of country names in various languages
• Latin names of regions
  Latin names of regions
  Here is a list of principalities and regions written in the Latin language and English and other names on the right. This is NOT a duplication of Roman provincial names.*cty. - county*dept. - department*dist. - district*isl. -island*kdom. - kingdom...
  
  
• Latin names of islands
  Latin names of islands
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• Latin names of mountains
  Latin names of mountains
  Users of Neo-Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of mountains that did not exist when Latin was a living language.-Strategies for constructing Latin names:-List of names:...
  
  
• Latin names of lakes
  Latin names of lakes
  Users of Neo-Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of lakes that did not exist when Latin was a living language.-Strategies for constructing Latin names:-List of names:...
  
  
• List of places