List of Old and New Names of Cities and Countries:

  Old NameNew Name
AbyssiniaEthiopia
AngoraAnkara
BasutolandLesotho
BataviaJakarta
BechuanalandBotswana
Bohemia, Moravia, ChechoslovakiaCzech Republic and Slovakia
British HondurasBelize
BurmaMyanmar
Cape Canaveral   Cape Kennedy
CathayChina (north)
CeylonSri Lanka
ChosonKorea (North and South)
ChristinaOslo
Cochin-China (south)Vietnam
CongoZaire
ConstantinopleIstanbul
DaccaDhaka
Dahomey   Benin
Dutch East IndiesIndonesia
Dutch GuyanaSurinam
East PakistanBangladesh
EdoTokyo
Ellice IslandsTuvalu
FormosaTaiwan
French Equatorial AfricaCentral African Republic, Chad
French SomalilandDjibouti
French SudanMali
GaulFrance
German East AfricaRwanda and Burundi
Gilbert IslandKiribati
Gold CoastGhana
GreenlandKalaallit Nunaat
HollandThe Netherlands
Ivory CoastCote D’Ivoire
KampucheaCambodia
LanxangLaos
Leopoldville        Kinshasa
LeningradSaint Petersburg
MahmoodpurLahore
Malaya      Malaysia
ManchukuoManchuria
MangiChina (south)
MesopotamiaIraq
MoldaviaMoldova
New HebridesVanuatu
NipponJapan
Northern RhodesiaZambia
NumidiaAlgeria
NyasalandMalawi
OeaTripoli
PekingBeijing
PersiaIran
Petrograd and LeningradSaint Petersburg, Russia
Portuguese East AfricaMozambique
Pleasant IslandNauru
Raj ShahiIslamabad
RangoonYangon
Republic of FormosaTaiwan
RhodesiaZimbabwe
SaigonHo Chi Minh City
SalisburyHarare
Sandwich WandsHawaiian Islands
SiamThailand
South West AfricaNamibia
Spanish GuineaEquatorial Guinea
StalingradVolgograd
Sudanese RepublicMali
Tanganyika & ZanzibarTanzania
Van Diemen’s LandTasmani
The New Hebrides        Vanuatu
Tripolitania and CyrenaicaLibya
Trust Territory of New GuineaPapua New Guinea
TuricumZurich
Upper VoltaBurkina Faso
VolgogradStalingrad
ZaireDemocratic Republic of Congo
Zanzibar    Tanzania

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