Add some English country names and place names derived from Chinese.
In ancient times, other languages were phonetic. Chinese characters are the only exception. In the era of no audio-visual technology, speech is constantly changing, so phonetic characters change over time, and it is impossible to lock the pronunciation. Only by anchoring the Chinese language will the written language be determined.
There are no exceptions. This is true for everything from Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, to Western languages. The Chinese language must be anchored, otherwise the written language will soon be unintelligible.
In fact, many English place names on the eastern peninsula are derived from Chinese. Including the national capital.
Many place names in Japan are also derived from Chinese, but have been adapted from Japanese.
Tsushima Strait.
Tsushi-ma, Tsushima who has been transformed by Japanese pronunciation. The name of Tsushima Island is derived from the Three Kingdoms period.
Khmer Khmer.
kh-mer, sounding like Khmer. Old Chinese called the Mekong Delta region Khmer.
Sumatra Sumatra.
su-ma-t-ra sounds like Sumatra. Ancient Chinese has Sumatra.
Kuril Sakhalin (old); Kuril Islands.
ku-ril, sounds like a library page.
Many place names in Central Asia and West Asia are derived from ancient Chinese. But some need to be verified, whether it is local pronunciation or ancient Chinese. The same is true for the English translation.
If words such as Turkic, Persian, and Xiongnu are counted as coming from Chinese, it would be too much.
According to common sense, these ancient peoples have been wiped out, and only the records in the Han canon are reliable.
Samarkand Samarkand.
Sa-mar-kand, sounds like Samarkand.
khorasan Khorasan.
kho-ra-san, sounds like Khorasan. Dahu Luoshan is the place where Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions arrived. Very famous.
iraq [ rɑ k ] Iraq.
i-ra-q, pronounced like Erege, the Yuan Dynasty called Iraq Erege. The famous Ilkhanate.
Seibia, Serbia.
Sei-bia, sounded like Xianbei, plugged edge. Serbia belongs to southern Europe and was historically part of the Ottoman Empire. Ottomans are associated with the ancient Turks.
Turks; Turkic.
Persia Persia.
These sounds were recorded in Old Chinese.