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Names : Old and New

New Names Old Names
Banjul Bathurst
Beijing Peking
Belize British Honduras
Benin Dahomey
Botswana Bechuanaland
Burkina Faso Upper Valta
Cambodia Kampuchea; Khamer
Chennai Madras
Djibouti French Somaliland, French Territory of Afars & Issas
Ethipia Abyssinia
Ghana Gold Coast
Guyana British Guiana
Hanoi Kecho
Harare Salisbury
Ho Chi Minh City Saigon
Indonesia Dutch East Indies
Iran Persia
Japan Nippon
Malaysia Malaya
Manchuria Manchukuo
Ankara Angora
Dhaka Dacca
Lore Sae Last Timor
Iraq Mesopotamia
Istanbul Constantinople, Byzantium
Jakarta Batavia
Kinshasa Leopoldville
Korea The Hermit Kingdom
Laos Lanxang (The land of a million elephants)
Lesotho Basutoland
Malawi Nyasaland
Malabo Santa Isable (Cap, of Equa-Guinea)
Mumbai Bombay
Myanmar Burma
Namibia South West Africa
Nauru Pleasant Island
Nir-Sultan Astana
Oslo Christiana
Sri Lanka Ceylon
Volgograd Stalingrad
St. Petersburg Leningrad
Suninam Dutch Guyana
Taiwan Formosa
Tasmania Van Diemen’s Land
Thailand Siam
Togo Togoland
Tuvalu The Ellice Islands
Vanuatu The New Hebrides
Yangon Rangoon
Zaire Congo
Zambia Northern Rhodesia
Zimbabwe Southern Rhodesia
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