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New Names Of Some Countries & States
| Old Name | New Name |
| Abyssinia | Ethiopia |
| Angora | Ankara |
| Batavia | Jakarta |
| British Honduras | Belize |
| Bechuanaland | Botswana |
| Basutoland | Lesotho |
| Burma | Myanmar |
| Cape Canaveral | Cape Kennedy |
| Ceylon | Sri Lanka |
| Christina | Oslo |
| Congo | Zaire |
| Constantinople | Istanbul |
| Dacca | Dhaka |
| Dahomey | Benin |
| Dutch East Indies | Indonesia |
| Dutch Guiana | Surinam |
| East Pakistan | Bangladesh |
| East Timor | Loro See |
| Egypt | United Arab Republic |
| Ellice Island | Tuvalu |
| Formosa | Taiwan |
| French West Africa | Mali |
| Gold Coast | Ghana |
| Greenland | Kalaallit Nunaat |
| Holland | The Netherlands |
| Kampuchea | Cambodia |
| Leopoldville | Kinshasa |
| Malaya | Malaysia |
| Manchukuo | Manchuria |
| Mesopotamia | Iraq |
| New Hebrides | Vanuatu |
| Nippon | Japan |
| Northern Rhodesia | Zambia |
| Nyasaland | Malawi |
| Peking | Beijing |
| Petrograd | Leningrad |
| Persia | Iran |
| Portuguese Guinea | Guinea Bissau |
| Rangoon | Yangon |
| Rhodesia | Zimbabwe |
| Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City |
| Salisbury | Harare |
| Sandwich Islands | Hawaiian Islands |
| Siam | Thailand |
| South West Africa | Namibia |
| Spanish Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
| Stalingrad | Volgograd |
| Tanganyika and Zanzibar | Tanzania |
| Trucial Oman | United Arab Emirates |
| Upper Volta | Bourikina Fasso or Burkina Faso |
| West French Africa | Mauritania |
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