04-01-2018, 04:55 PM
New and Old Name (World)
New Name Old Name
*Ankara Angora
*Astana Akmola
*Bangladesh East Pakistan
*Beijing ' Peiking
*Belize - British Honduras
*Benin - Dahomey
*Botswana - Bechuana Land
*Burkino Faso - Upper Volta
*Cambodia - Kampuchia
*Cape Kennedy - Cape Canaveral
*China - Cathay
*Congo - Zaire
*Dhaka - Dacca
*Djibouti - French Somaliland
*East Timur - Timur Leste/Loro Sae
*Equatorial Guinea - Spanish Guinea
*Ethiopia - Abyssinia
*Guinea Bissau - Portuguese Guinea
*Guyana - British Guiana
*Harare - Salisbury
*Hawaii Islands - Sandwich Islands
*Hochiminh City - Saigon
*Indonesia - The Dutch East Indies
*Iran - Persia
*Iraq - Mesopotamia
*Istambul - Constantinople
*Jakartha - Batavia
*Jordan - Hashemite Kingdom
*Kalaallit Nunaat - Greenland
*Kandahar - Gandharam
*Kiribati - Gilbert Island
*Lesotho - Basutoland
*Malabo - Santa Isabel
*Malaysia - Malaya
*Mali - French Sudan
*Mexico New Spain
*Mosambique - Portuguese East Africa
*Myanmar - Burma
*Namibia - South West Africa
*Nauru - Pleasant Island
*Netherland - Holland
*Oslo - Christiania
*Papua New Guinea - Trust Territory of New Guinea
*Peshwar - Purushapuram
*Portugal - Lucitania
*St. Petersburg - Leningrad/Petrograd
*Surinam - Dutch Guyana
*Taiwan - Formosa
*Tasmania - Van Diemen’s Land
*Thailand - Siam
*Togo - Togoland
*Turkey - Asia Minor
*Tuvalu - Ellice Islands
*UAE - Trucial States
*Vanuatu - New Hebrides
*Volgograd - Stalingrad
*Yangon - Rangoon