The example for His Dark Materials says "it isn't mentioned whether Scotland is the same country as England in this universe". I would like to point out that Scotland is not, technically, the same country as England even in THIS universe!! (It is, however, a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, just to be confusing).
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Wizzard
Shouldn't all the Real Life examples actually go under Please Select New City Name?
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Is it even practical to list Real Life examples? I'd hazard a guess most places over 200 years old count. I grew up in a small village that I can rattle off three old names for.
A lot of the real life "examples" are just exonyms, which just means that foreigners tend to call your towns by different names, because, you know, they don't speak the same language, not to mention historical quirks in how names of foreign places were learned or who they were heard about from. Based on some of the more egregious examples, like Flanders (Vlaanderen), Amérique (America), and Rome (Roma), the real life section could be expanded to near infinite size, assuming we can find at least one speaker for each language in the world.
In Gundam, it is New Yark, not New York. Yet most other places have modern names.
Is "Anglia" ever actually stated to be the name of the country in His Dark Materials? I couldn't remember, so I checked the Dark Materials Wiki, which just says that "Eastern Anglia
" is a region of Brytain. Since East Anglia
is a region of real-world England, I'm not sure this is evidence that there's a country called Anglia.