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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?


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What is the official name for Liore?


Unfortunately what you are seeking doesn't exist. Reason is the concept of "X
approved way of writing" doesn't exist. Think about your name. Yes there might
be different versions of it(Joseph/Jose) however the version you are using has
only one pronunciation.

So why are we having this issue at all? Simple. The syllabus "L" doesn't exist
in Japanese. A simple example: In Death Note many VAs call "Light" as "Righto"
which is funny imo because of his obsessive righteousness. Anyways lets look
at what we have.

Reole has "-le" at the end however "Re" at the start. So we can assume "re" at
the start should stay as it is. However we have to change "-le" to "-ri" to
gave similar sound to it.

So in conclusion the correct way of writing is "Reori"(assuming our base Reole
is the right version) if we go with sound which is usually the case. You can
check [here](https://www.freejapaneselessons.com/Lesson00-What-Is-My-Name-In-
Japanese/LetterA/) for different experiments.

As for リオール (riooru) as you can guess "Rioru" is the right way to say it since
a place with that name does not exist. If it had we could say since they cant
pronounce "l" they changed it to "r".

I know this is not exactly what you are looking for but I hope it helps.


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# 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**.


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