NEW AND OLD NAMES OF PLACES, COUNTRIES

NEW AND OLD NAMES OF PLACES, COUNTRIES
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New Name ........................................... Old Name

Ankara ..................................................... Angora

Banjail .................................................... Bathurst

Bengalooru........................................... Bangalore

Beijing....................................................... Peking

Belize .........................................British Honduras

Bangladesh ..................................... East Pakistan

Botswana ..................................... Bechuana Land

Burkino Faso ...................................... Upper Volta

Cape Kennedy.............................. Cape Caneveral

Cambodia ........................................... Kampuchia

Djibouti .................................... French Somaliland

Ethiopia ................................................ Abyssinia

Ghana ................................................. Gold Coast

Guyana ........................................... British Guinia

Guianea Bissau ...................... Portuguese Gayana.

Harare .................................................. Salisburry

Hawaiin Islands ......................... Sandwich Islands

Indonesia ............................ The Dutch East India

Iran ............................................................ Persia

Iraq ................................................. Mesopotamia

Istanbul........................................ Constantinople

Jakartha .................................................... Batavia

Japan ....................................................... Nippon

Kinshasa ........................................... Leopoldville

Kiribati ............................................ Gilbert Island

Laos........................................................ Lanxang

Lesotho............................................... Basitoland

Mexico ................................................ New Spain

Malavi................................................. Nyasaland

Mali ............................................... French Sudan

Malaysia .................................................. Malaya

Malabo ............................................. Santa Isabet

Madhya Pradesh ........................ Central Province

Manchuria ........................................... Manchuko

Myanmar.................................................... Burma

Mosambique ......................... Potuguese East Africa

Mumbai................................................... Bombay

Namibia .................................... South West Africa

Nauru ........................................... Pleasant Island

Orissa ...................................................... Kalinga

Papua New Guinea ...... Trust Territory of NewGuinea

Portuguese .............................................Lucitania

Sri Lanka ...................................................Ceylon

St. Petersburg ....................................... Leningrad

Surinam .......................................... Dutch Gayana

Taiwan ................................................... Formosa

Tasmani.................................. Van Diemen’s Land

Thailand ....................................................... Siam

Togo ..................................................... Togoland

Tuvalu ...................................... The Ellice Islands

Varanasi .................................................. Banares

Volgograd ............................................. Stalingrad

Zaire ......................................................... Congo

Zambia .................................... Northern Rhodesia

Zimbabwe.............................................. Rhodesia
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