Friday, September 7, 2012

Changed Names of Cities, States and Countries

Old Name- New Name
Abyssinia- Ethiopia
Angora- Ankara
Aurgangabad- Sambhaji Nagar
Banaras- Varanasi
Baroda- Vadodara
Batavia- Jakarta
Basutoland- Lesothe
Bachunaland: Bostwana
Bombay- Mumbai
British Guiana- Guyana
Burma- Myanmar
Calicut - Kozhikode
Cape Canaveral- Cape Kennedy
Cawnpore- Kanpur
Ceylon- Sri Lanka
Central Provinces- Madhya Pradesh
Christina- Oslo
Cochin- Kochi
Congo- Zaire
Constantinople- Istanbul
Dacca- Dhaka
Dahomey- Benin
Dutch East Indies- Indonesia
Dutch Guyana- Suriname
East Timor- Loro Sae
Egypt- United Arab Republic
Ellice Islands- Tuvalu
Formosa- Taiwan
Gauhati- Guwahati
Gold Coast- Ghana
Holland- The Netherlands
Ivory Coast- Cote D' Ivoire
Japan- Nippon
Jubbulpore- Jabalpur
Jullundur- Jalandhar
Leopildville- Kinshasa
Madagascar- Malagasy
Madras- Chennai
Malaya- Malaysia
Manchukuo- Manchuria
Mesopotamia- Iraq
New Hebrides- Vanuatu
Northern Rhodesia- Zambia
Nyasaland- Malawi
Ooty- Udhagamandalam
Panjim- Panaji
Peking- Beijing
Petrograd- Leningrad
Persia- Iran
Poona- Pune
Quilon- Kollam
Rangoon- Yangon
Rhodesia (Southern)- Zimbabwe
Saigon- Ho Chi Minh City
Salisburg- Harare
Sandwich Islands- Hawaiian Islands
Siam- Thailand
Simla- Shimla
South West Africa- Narnibia
Spanish Guinea- Equatorial Guinea
Stalingrad- Volgograd
Tanganyka and Zanzibar- Tanzania
Tanjore- Thanjavur
Trichur- Thrissur
Trivandrum- Thiruvananthapuram
United Provinces- Uttar Pradesh
Upper Volta- Bourkina Faso
Vizagapatnam- Visak
hapatnam

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