Calcutta/ Kolkata, Bombay/Mumbai, Madras/Chennai (!), Canton/Guandong, and Kowloon - presumably Gau lung (which means Nine Dragons).
When in Hong Kong, for example, a taxi driver shows you a card telling you he doesn't speak English, there's not point using the anglicised version of the place you want to go!
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They didn't , you just don't understand English.
trurider t
They didn't and your hating the British ISN'T going to change history or the Facts.
robert x
You are such plebe.. the names of places where Anglicized by the the Empire...
Bill
It's not necessarily "wrong", it's that the local populations themselves speak different dialects or completely different languages. The official name of a place may change depending on which group is in charge.
Anonymous
Maybe ye confuse brits with empire.
At the end of the world according to revelation is a dragon.