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People (continued)

Preferred form Pronunciation Alternates
Thomas Aquinas, St. a-KWY-nas not Aquinas,Thomas
Timur TEE-more Timur Lenk,Tamerlane,Tamburlaine
Urban II Otho also Otto, Odo, Eudes—of Lagery
Zheng He jeng huh Cheng Ho

Zhu Yuanzhang joo you-ahn-jahng Chu Yüan-chang

Places

Preferred form Pronunciation Alternates
Afro-Eurasia Afroeurasia; Africa, Europe, and Asia
Aksum Axum
Beijing bay-jin Peking

Bukhara boo-KAR-a Bokhara, Boukhara
Cambodia Khmer Republic, Kampuchea
Chang River chan Yangzi,Yangtze
Czech Republic and Slovakia chek, slow-VA-kee-a Czechoslovakia
East Indies Insular Southeast Asia
Egypt United Arab Republic
Guangzhou gwang-joe Canton

Habsburg Hapsburg
Huange River hwang Huange He,Yellow River
Inner Asia Central Asia
Iran Persia
Iraq Mesopotamia
Istanbul iss-tan-BULL Constantinople, Byzantium
Kandahar KON-da-har Qandahar
Kara-Kum ka-ra-KOOM Karakum
Kazakhs kah-zaks Khazaks

Khwarizm KWA-ra-zem Kwarezm, Khwarazm, Khuwarizm
Kongo Congo
Kushan empire koosh-an Kushana, Kusana
Mesoamerica Middle America, Central America
Mughul Moghol, Mogol
Mumbai MUM-bye Bombay
Myanmar MY-AN-mar Burma

Samarqand SA-mar-kand Samarkand
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