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Placename changes and Misplaced Pages policy

Please see the discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Bangladesh/Archive 7#Placename changes and Misplaced Pages policy to understand why Misplaced Pages uses the spellings it does. The most recent discussion of "Chittagong" vs. "Chattogram" was at Talk:Chittagong#Requested move 28 August 2024, where the consensus was to continue using "Chittagong" for now. --Worldbruce (talk) 14:14, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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In 2018, the government of Bangladesh has changed the English spellings of five districts to make them sound similar to the Bangla alphabet.

The new spellings are Chattogram (for Chittagong), Barishal (for Barisal), Cumilla (for Comilla), Jashore (for Jessore) and Bogura (for Bogra).

“Spellings of some districts date back to the British era. They needed to be changed,” he told reporters.

Source: https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/bangladesh-changes-english-spellings-of-five-districts MŞ46 (talk) 08:05, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

The government of Bangladesh can decide how the government of Bangladesh will spell place names. Misplaced Pages, however, is not part of the government of Bangladesh.

Policy Misplaced Pages:Article titles states under WP:COMMONNAME:

Misplaced Pages does not necessarily use the subject's official name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable, English-language sources).

Misplaced Pages uses the spellings it does (Chittagong, Barisal, Comilla, Jessore, and Bogra) because they are the most commonly used ones. Since the official spellings were changed six years ago, the new spellings have gradually gained ground. Someday they may become the most commonly used spellings. Anyone who believes they are now the most commonly used spellings is welcome to make that argument and seek a new consensus (but the most recent discussion was less than six months ago).

Guideline Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (geographic names) explains in depth how to choose among names, including an entire section on establishing a widely accepted name. A few quick observations:

• Both Banglapedia: The National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh and Encyclopædia Britannica still use the old spellings.
• A new edition of the Times Atlas of the World was published in 2023. If you like, I can try to get hold of a copy and see what it says.
• The National Geographic Society's May 2020 map, "Asia's Vital Rivers", their most recent one I could find on which one of these cities appears, uses Chittagong.
• Some national newspapers now use the new spellings, others still use the old spellings. Uptake internationally has probably been slower and spottier.

Google ngram viewer is of limited value for various reasons, but can give one an idea of how common the two spellings have been.

--Worldbruce (talk) 06:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)