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