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Friday, July 4, 2008

Old & New Names

OLD NAME NEW NAME

Abyssinia Ethiopia

Angora Ankara

Basutoland Lesotho

Batavia Djakarta

Burma Mayanmar

Bechuanaland Botswana

British Guiana Guyana

Combodia Kampuchea

Cape Canaveral Cape Kennedy

Ceylon Sri Lanka

Christina Oslo

Congo Zaire

Constantinople Istanbul

Dacca Dhaka

Dutch East Indies Indonesia

Dutch Guiana Surinam

Formosa Taiwan

Gold Coast Ghana

Hollad Netherlands

Japan Nippon

Malaya Malaysia

Manchukuo Manchuri

Mesopotamia Iraq

Northern Rhodesia Zambia

Nyasaland Malawi

Peking (China) Beijing

Persia Iran

Rangoon Yongon

Rhodesia Zimbabwe

Salisbury Harare

Sam Thailand

South-West Africa Namibia

Thanganyika Zanzibar Tanzania

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