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Originally Posted by freegreatcharter
are there other countries like japan and china which likes changing the name of a place，despite the city’s scale，even the small county where i live has been renamed
in china，it seems that every time the state political power changes，the place name will be changed to not look like its ex-name
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I was aware of this in China, but not so much in Japan. Changing street names in U.S. cities for political reasons is fairly common. Usually its a name whose history has been lost and it is renamed to honor someone. But I don't recall any U.S. cities changing names since the mid-1800s, except if a part of a city separates to form their own city. Such as Monroe, LA dividing into Monroe and West Monroe.