自中西方展开交流以来,特别是大航海时代后,不少城市都有自己的外文名。宁波作为与西方接触较早的地区,也很早地被西方人赋予了众多的外文名。首先要说明的是,在中世纪,拉丁文是当时欧洲不同国家交流的媒介语,其地位相当于东亚的文言文。本文对于宁波外文名的介绍,如果没有特殊情况,一般指的是拉丁语名。 Since the exchange between China and the West, especially after the great voyage, many cities have their own foreign names. As an area of ​​early contact with the West, Ningbo was also given a large number of foreign names by Westerners. The first thing to note is that in the Middle Ages, Latin was the language of communication between different European countries at that time, and its status was equivalent to the classical Chinese in East Asia. This article describes the foreign names in Ningbo, if there are no special circumstances, generally refers to the Latin name.