Names of Countries and States
Old Names New Names
1. Abyssinia - Ethiopia
2. Angora - Ankara
3. Batavia - Jakarta
4. Burma - Myanmar
5. Ceylon - Sri Lanka
6. Christina - Oslo
7. Congo - Zaire
8. Constantinople - Istanbul
9. Dacca - Dhaka
10. Dutch East Indies - Indonesia
11. East Pakistan - Bangladesh
12. Egypt - UAR of Egypt
13. Ellice Island - Tuvalu
14. Formosa - Taiwan
15. French West Africa - Mali
16. Gold Cost - Ghana
17. Holland - The Netherland
18. Kampuchea - Cambodia
19. Leopoldville - Kinshasa
20. Malaya - Malaysia
21. Mesopotamia - Iraq
22. Persia - Iran
23. Nippon - Japan
24. Northern Rhodesia - Zambia
25. Peking - Beijing
26. Petrograd - Leningrad
27. Rangoon - Yangon
28. Southern Rhodesia - Zimbabwe
29. Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City
30. Salisbury - Harare
31. Sandwich Island - Hawaiian Islands
32. Siam - Thailand
33. South West Africa - Namibia
34. Stalingrad - Volgograd
35. Tanganyika & Zanzibar- Tanzania
36. Trucial Oman - United Arab Emirates
No comments:
Post a Comment
Nice to Meet you.