Changed Names of Important Countries, States & Places

CA Ayush Agarwal (Kolkata-Pune-Mumbai) (27186 Points)

18 November 2010  

 

Changed Names of Important Countries, States & Places

 


OLD NAME

CHANGED NAME
Abyssinia Ethiopia
Angora Ankara
Basutoland Lesotho
Batavia Djakarta
Burma Mayanmar
Bechuanaland Botswana
British Guiana Guyana
Combodia Kampuchea
Cape Canaveral Cape Kennedy
Ceylon Sri Lanka
Christina Oslo
Congo Zaire
Constantinople Istanbul
Dacca Dhaka
Dutch East Indies Indonesia
Dutch Guiana Surinam
Formosa Taiwan
Gold Coast Ghana
Holland The Netherlands
Japan Nippon
Malaya Malaysia
Manchukuo Manchuri
Mesopotamia Iraq
Northern Rhodesia Zambia
Nyasaland Malawi
Peking (China) Beijing
Persia Iran
Rangoon Yongon
Rhodesia Zimbabwe
Salisbury Harare
Sam Thailand
South-West Africa Namibia
Thanganyika Zanzibar Tanzania