What is the official name for Liore?


I'm currently watching the FMA live action movie, which has Reole on its
maps/subtitles. It seems as though this might also be true in the manga, at
least according to this
[Wikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Reole#cite_note-m-0). However, Liore or Lior
is the standard transliteration that I've seen for it, and I'm pretty sure
that's what was used in the anime.

Both are technically (more or less) correct transliterations of リオール, but also
somewhat unusual, given rs and ls are the same, and so it would usually either
be Rior(u) or Liol(u). Reading from English, they also (at least to me) imply
somewhat different stressing of syllables, Ree-ohl vs Lee-or.

Is there an official Hiromu Arakawa-approved way of writing it in English?




# It's **Reole**.

Amestris is, canonically, an English-speaking country, and as such, all the
locations are given "English" names (or, at least, names spelled out in the
Latin alphabet used in English). This can be seen by looking at the original
(untranslated) manga, which features a large number of character and place
names written out in Latin script, rather than the katakana used for those
names in dialogue. This includes the maps shown at various times in the manga.

Volume 17, page 70 offers one such example, featuring a clearly legible close-
up of Liore/Reole on a map:

[![An image from the manga showing a city being circled, labelled
REOLE](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IcotC.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IcotC.jpg)

Additional context demonstrating that the image above is from the original
Japanese language version of the manga:

[![A wider view of the previous image, showing the additional panels and
Japanese
dialogue](https://i.stack.imgur.com/78T8Y.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/78T8Y.jpg)

Regardless of how the different parties involved may have translated it, it's
quite clear that Arakawa's intended name for the city is **Reole**.




# It's **Reole**.

Amestris is, canonically, an English-speaking country, and as such, all the
locations are given "English" names (or, at least, names spelled out in the
Latin alphabet used in English). This can be seen by looking at the original
(untranslated) manga, which features a large number of character and place
names written out in Latin script, rather than the katakana used for those
names in dialogue. This includes the maps shown at various times in the manga.

Volume 17, page 70 offers one such example, featuring a clearly legible close-
up of Liore/Reole on a map:

[![An image from the manga showing a city being circled, labelled
REOLE](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IcotC.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IcotC.jpg)

Additional context demonstrating that the image above is from the original
Japanese language version of the manga:

[![A wider view of the previous image, showing the additional panels and
Japanese
dialogue](https://i.stack.imgur.com/78T8Y.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/78T8Y.jpg)

Regardless of how the different parties involved may have translated it, it's
quite clear that Arakawa's intended name for the city is **Reole**.

