CHANGED NAMES OF SOME CITIES, STATES AND COUNTRIES
| OLD NAME | NEW NAME | OLD NAME | NEW NAME |
| Abyssinia | Ethiopia | Leopoldville | Kinshasa |
| Angora | Ankara | Madagascar | Malagasy |
| Batavia | Indonesia | Malaya | Malaysia |
| Basutoland | Lesotho | Manchukuo | Manchuria |
| Bechaunaland | Botswana | Mesopotamia | Iraq |
| Burma | Myanmar | New Hebrides | Vanuatu |
| British Guiana | Guyana | Northern Rhodesia | Zambia |
| Kampuchea | Cambodia | Nyasaland | Malawi |
| Cape Canaveral | Cape Kennedy | Peking | Beijing |
| Ceylon | Sri Lanka | Petrograd | Leningrad |
| Christina | Oslo | Persia | Iran |
| Congo | Zaire | Rhodesia | Zimbabwe |
| Constantinople | Istanbul | Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City |
| Dacca | Dhaka | Salisbury | Harare |
| Dahomey | Benin | Sandwich Wands | Hawaiian Islands |
| Dutch East Indies | Indonesia | Siam | Thailand |
| Dutch Guyana | Surinam | South West Africa | Namibia |
| Greenland | Kalaalit Nunaat | Spanish Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
| East Timor | Loro Sae | Stalingrad | Volgograd |
| Ellice Islands | Tuvalu | Tanganyika and |
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| Formosa | Taiwan | Zanzibar | Tanzania |
| Gold Coast | Ghana | Upper Volta | Bourikina Fasso or |
| Holland | The Netherlands |
| Burkina Faso |
| Nippon | Japan |
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