* NEW AND OLD NAMES OF PLACES, COUNTRIES New Name ........................................... Old Name Ankara ..................................................... Angora Banjail .................................................... Bathurst Bengalooru........................................... Bangalore Beijing....................................................... Peking Belize .........................................British Honduras Bangladesh ..................................... East Pakistan Botswana ..................................... Bechuana Land Burkino Faso ...................................... Upper Volta Cape Kennedy.............................. Cape Caneveral Cambodia ........................................... Kampuchia Djibouti .................................... French Somaliland Ethiopia ................................................ Abyssinia Ghana .................................................Gold Coast Guyana ........................................... British Guinia Guianea Bissau ...................... Portuguese Gayana. Harare .................................................. Salisburry Hawaiin Islands ......................... Sandwich Islands Indonesia ............................ The Dutch East India Iran ............................................................ Persia Iraq .................................................Mesopotamia Istanbul ........................................ Constantinople Jakartha .................................................... Batavia Japan ....................................................... Nippon Kinshasa ........................................... Leopoldville Kiribati ............................................ Gilbert Island Laos ........................................................ Lanxang Lesotho............................................... Basitoland Mexico ................................................ New Spain Malavi ................................................. Nyasaland Mali ............................................... French Sudan Malaysia .................................................. Malaya Malabo ............................................. Santa Isabet Madhya Pradesh ........................ Central Province Manchuria ........................................... Manchuko Myanmar .................................................... Burma Mosambique ......................... Potuguese East Africa Mumbai ................................................... Bombay Namibia .................................... South West Africa Nauru ........................................... Pleasant Island Orissa ...................................................... Kalinga Papua New Guinea ...... Trust Territory of New Guinea Portuguese .............................................Lucitania Sri Lanka ................................................... Ceylon St. Petersburg ....................................... Leningrad Surinam .......................................... Dutch Gayana Taiwan ................................................... Formosa Tasmani .................................. Van Diemen’s Land Thailand ....................................................... Siam Togo ..................................................... Togoland Tuvalu ...................................... The Ellice Islands Varanasi .................................................. Banares Volgograd ............................................. Stalingrad Zaire ......................................................... Congo Zambia ....................................Northern Rhodesia Zimbabwe.............................................. Rhodesia
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:02:00 +0000
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