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Baile Átha Clianth is still Baile Átha Cliath.
Bombay is still Mumbai
Canton has always been Guangzhou
and Londonderry has always been called Derry (or Daire)
How you refer to places in diff languages has meaning and if you speak Gaelic but drop back to English names you will be making a statement. South China Sea, Rhodesia, Sudetenland and Ladakh are place names guaranteed to start a fight if you use them to certain speakers. Eastern Canada has this with the French and English, this is everywhere. I'm sure even the US like reservations, Inuit etc.
If there is a language blunder likely to cause offense, I'm sure I've done it
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