Changed Names of Some Cities, States and Countries
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Old Name | New Name |
Abyssinia | Ethiopia |
Angora | Ankara |
Batavia | Jakarta |
British Honduras | Belize |
Bechuanaland | Botswana |
Basutoland | Lesotho |
Burma | Myanmar |
Cape Canaveral | Cape Kennedy |
Ceylon | Sri Lanka |
Christina | Oslo |
Congo | Zaire |
Constantinople | Istanbul |
Dacca | Dhaka |
Dahomey | Benin |
Dutch East Indies | Indonesia |
Dutch Guiana | Surinam |
East Pakistan | Bangladesh |
East Timor | Loro See |
Egypt | United Arab Republic |
Ellice Island | Tuvalu |
Formosa | Taiwan |
French West Africa | Mali |
Gold Coast | Ghana |
Greenland | Kalaallit Nunaat |
Holland | The Netherlands |
Kampuchea | Cambodia |
Leopoldville | Kinshasa |
Malaya | Malaysia |
Manchukuo | Manchuria |
Mesopotamia | Iraq |
New Hebrides | Vanuatu |
Nippon | Japan |
Northern Rhodesia | Zambia |
Nyasaland | Malawi |
Peking | Beijing |
Petrograd | Leningrad |
Persia | Iran |
Portuguese Guinea | Guinea Bissau |
Rangoon | Yangon |
Rhodesia | Zimbabwe |
Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City |
Salisbury | Harare |
Sandwich Islands | Hawaiian Islands |
Siam | Thailand |
South West Africa | Namibia |
Spanish Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
Stalingrad | Volgograd |
Tanganyika and Zanzibar | Tanzania |
Trucial Oman | United Arab Emirates |
Upper Volta | Bourikina Fasso or Burkina Faso |
West French Africa | Mauritania |
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