Changed Names of Important Places

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