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I was telling a friend about the old Teochew names for Southeast Asian cities.

I wrote it down somewhere and I want to make a map of old SE Asian port names in Teochew

Swatow, homeland of the Teochews, was one of the first ports in China to open internationally hundreds of years ago. Many of these names I heard from my grandparents, still hear among older people from Vietnam and Thailand, but all the names are being replaced by Mandarin place names now.

I did this research some time ago

- Pontianak, Kalimantan was 坤甸 (khun diang)
- Jakarta was 巴斜 (pah sia)
- Phnom Penh was 金塔 (ghim tahp)

https://popagandhi.com/posts/tan-boon-chye/