New Names of Countries
Some of the Countries are changed their Old name into New name .Here,i displayed some of the New name countries which i know.
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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