Old and New names of Places

  • Constantinople – Istanbul (Turkey)
  • Persia – Iran
  • Ceylon – Sri Lanka
  • Rhodesia – Zimbabwe
  • Burma – Myanmar
  • Czechoslovakia – Czech Republic and Slovakia
  • Gold Coast – Ghana
  • Dutch East Indies – Indonesia
  • East Pakistan – Bangladesh
  • Siam – Thailand
  • Tanganyika – Tanzania
  • British Honduras – Belize
  • French West Africa – Various independent countries in West Africa
  • Basutoland – Lesotho
  • Dutch Guiana – Suriname
  • Northern Rhodesia – Zambia
  • Zaire – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Nyasaland – Malawi
  • British Malaya – Malaysia
  • Portuguese East Africa – Mozambique
  • French Indochina – Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
  • South-West Africa – Namibia
  • East Germany – German Democratic Republic (former)
  • West Germany – Federal Republic of Germany (former)
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – Various independent countries (former)
  • Bechuanaland – Botswana
  • Dutch West Indies – Netherlands Antilles
  • French Equatorial Africa – Various independent countries in Central Africa
  • Belgian Congo – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Rhodesia and Nyasaland – Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe (former)
  • Spanish Sahara – Western Sahara
  • Yugoslavia – Various independent countries (former)
  • Palestine – State of Israel
  • Soviet Union – Various independent countries (former)
  • Malaya – Malaysia
  • North Yemen – Yemen
  • South Yemen – Yemen
  • East Pakistan – Bangladesh
  • Western Samoa – Samoa
  • British Somaliland – Somaliland (part of Somalia)
  • British Guiana – Guyana
  • Portuguese Timor – East Timor
  • French Sudan – Mali
  • Czechoslovakia – Czech Republic and Slovakia
  • Southern Rhodesia – Zimbabwe
  • Ivory Coast – Côte d’Ivoire
  • Upper Volta – Burkina Faso
  • British North Borneo – Sabah (Malaysia)
  • German East Africa – Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi
  • Malagasy Republic – Madagascar

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