Tuesday, October 16, 2012

CHANGED NAMES OF SOME CITIES , STATES AND COUNTRIES

                                                      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

 

Formosa

Taiwan

Zanzibar

Tanzania

Gold Coast

Ghana

Upper Volta

Bourikina Fasso or

Holland

The Netherlands

 

Burkina Faso

Nippon

Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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