Old And New Names Of Places
This is the General Knowledge reference guide on “Old And New Names Of Places” with detailed tips, explanation are given and it would be easy to understand.
| OLD NAME | NEW NAME |
|---|---|
| Abyssinia | Ethiopia |
| Angora | Ankara |
| Aurangabad | Sambhaji Nagar |
| Banaras | Varanasi |
| Baroda | Vadodara |
| Batavia | djakarata |
| Basutoland | Lesotho |
| Bechuanaland | Botswana |
| Bombay | Mumbai |
| British Guiana | Guyana |
| Burma | Myanmar |
| Calicut | Kozhikode |
| Cape canaveral | Cape Lemmedu |
| Cawnpore | Kanpur |
| Central provinces | Madya Pradesh |
| Ceylon | Sri Lanka |
| Christina | Oslo |
| Cochin | Kochi |
| Congo | Zaire |
| Constantinople | Istanbul |
| Dacca | Dhaka |
| Dahomey | Benin |
| Dutch east indies | Indonesia |
| Dutch Guiana | Suriname |
| East Timor | Loro Sae |
| Ellice Island | Tuvalu |
| Formosa | Taiwan |
| Gauhati | Guwahati |
| Gold Coast | Ghana |
| Holland | The Netherlands |
| Ivory coast | Cote D’Ivorie |
| Nippon | Japan |
| Jubbulpore | Jabalpur |
| jullundur | Jalandhar |
| Leopold ville | kinshasa |
| Madagascar | Malagasy |
| Madras | Chennai |
| Malaya | Malaysia |
| Manchukuo | Manchuria |
| Mesopotamia | Iraq |
| New Hebrides | Vanuatu |
| Northern Rhodesia | Zambia |
| Nyasaland | Malawi |
| Udhagamandalam | Ooty |
| Panjim | Panaji |
| Peking | Beijing |
| Petrogard | Leningrad |
| Persia | Iran |
| Poona | Pune |
| Quilon | Kollam |
| Yangon | Rangoon |
| Rhodesia | Zimbabwe |
| Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City |
| Salisbury | Harare |
| Sandwich Island | Hawailan Islands |
| Siam | Thailand |
| Simla | Shimla |
| South West Africa | Namibia |
| Spanish Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
| Stallingard | Volgograd |
| Tanganyika and Zanzibar | Tanzania |
| Tanjore | Thanjavur |
| Trichur | Thrissur |
| Trivandrum | Thiruvananthapuram |
| United Provinces | Uttar Pradesh |
| Upper Volta | Bourkina Faso |
| Vizagapatam | visakhapatnam |
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