We adopted Beijing when the people behind pinyan decided Peking wasn't it. It took a while but now it's normal.<p>Aotearoa may take a while yet.
Interesting debate there. A lot of really good points.<p>I would also mention Mussorgsky's Great Gates of Kiev, as done here by Emerson Lake and Palmer, and both spelled Kiev: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsPkNUmixMs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsPkNUmixMs</a><p>Personally I think it boils down to the same thing as when we talk about Munich, when everybody who lives there calls it München.
This is idiotic. I live in London. To the French it is Londres. Why would anyone care?<p>Perhaps New York should everywhere be pronounced as someone from New York would pronounce it.<p>Who is objecting to Kiev? I just don't get it. If this is coming from Ukrainians it is very quixotic (now explain how you pronounce that!)