On Wednesday 21 January 2004 17:33, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
The capital of the USSR (and still capital of Russia) is Moskva (or Moscow, I forget which). We're an English-language encyclopedia, we have to call places /something/. Moscow doesn't have an English name per se; it's a Russian city with a Russian name. But English-speaking people have been referring to it with the /English word/ 'Moscow'.
The way I see it, Moscow and Japan have their English names, which are not same as their original names.