Old Name | New Name |
Abyssinia | Ethiopia |
Angora | Ankara |
Basutoland | Lesotho |
Batavia | Jakarta |
Bechuanaland | Botswana |
Bohemia, Moravia, Chechoslovakia | Czech Republic and Slovakia |
British Honduras | Belize |
Burma | Myanmar |
Cape Canaveral | Cape Kennedy |
Cathay | China (north) |
Ceylon | Sri Lanka |
Choson | Korea (North and South) |
Christina | Oslo |
Cochin-China (south) | Vietnam |
Congo | Zaire |
Constantinople | Istanbul |
Dacca | Dhaka |
Dahomey | Benin |
Dutch East Indies | Indonesia |
Dutch Guyana | Surinam |
East Pakistan | Bangladesh |
Edo | Tokyo |
Ellice Islands | Tuvalu |
Formosa | Taiwan |
French Equatorial Africa | Central African Republic, Chad |
French Somaliland | Djibouti |
French Sudan | Mali |
Gaul | France |
German East Africa | Rwanda and Burundi |
Gilbert Island | Kiribati |
Gold Coast | Ghana |
Greenland | Kalaallit Nunaat |
Holland | The Netherlands |
Ivory Coast | Cote D’Ivoire |
Kampuchea | Cambodia |
Lanxang | Laos |
Leopoldville | Kinshasa |
Leningrad | Saint Petersburg |
Mahmoodpur | Lahore |
Malaya | Malaysia |
Manchukuo | Manchuria |
Mangi | China (south) |
Mesopotamia | Iraq |
Moldavia | Moldova |
New Hebrides | Vanuatu |
Nippon | Japan |
Northern Rhodesia | Zambia |
Numidia | Algeria |
Nyasaland | Malawi |
Oea | Tripoli |
Peking | Beijing |
Persia | Iran |
Petrograd and Leningrad | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Portuguese East Africa | Mozambique |
Pleasant Island | Nauru |
Raj Shahi | Islamabad |
Rangoon | Yangon |
Republic of Formosa | Taiwan |
Rhodesia | Zimbabwe |
Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City |
Salisbury | Harare |
Sandwich Wands | Hawaiian Islands |
Siam | Thailand |
South West Africa | Namibia |
Spanish Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
Stalingrad | Volgograd |
Sudanese Republic | Mali |
Tanganyika & Zanzibar | Tanzania |
Van Diemen’s Land | Tasmani |
The New Hebrides | Vanuatu |
Tripolitania and Cyrenaica | Libya |
Trust Territory of New Guinea | Papua New Guinea |
Turicum | Zurich |
Upper Volta | Burkina Faso |
Volgograd | Stalingrad |
Zaire | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Zanzibar | Tanzania |