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== Uses in Fiction ==

=== Anime and Manga ===

** Technically Taiwan is the name of the ''island'' (which was formerly called - by Westerners, anyway - Formosa). Officially both it and mainland China more or less regard each other as rebellious provinces. The people of the [[Ro C]] might like to be pragmatic, acknowledge that they have essentially zero chance of ever regaining control of the mainland, and accept that they are ''de facto'' if not ''de jure'' a separate country by now, but the [[P Ro C]] has expressed severe opposition to this idea (''vide supra'').

* The capital city of South Korea was originally ''Hanseong'' (City [by] the Han [River]). When Korea was annexed by the Japanese in 1910, it was renamed ''Keijou'' or "Castle of the Capital" in Japanese. Korean independence caused it to be renamed Seoul, meaning simply "capital city".

* Saudi Arabia is named after the ruling Saud dynasty; should they lose power, the country would probably be renamed (most likely to "[[wikipedia:Hejaz|Hejaz]] and [[wikipedia:Najd|Najd]]," the traditional names of the lands that make up most of its territory). [[The Other Wiki]], for example, describes the country as [[wikipedia:History of Saudi Arabia#Second Saudi State .281824-1891.29|"Rashidi Arabia"]] during the 1890's when the Al Rashid dynasty was in power.

* Tehran used to have streets with names like "[[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower Boulevard]]" and "[[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy Avenue]]," as did many other cities in [[Iran]]. Nowadays...[[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized|Not]] [[Iran-Iraq War|so much]]...