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