OLD AND NEW NAMES OF COUNTRIES A TO Z

Here I am sharing with you A to Z List of Countries Names. All Names of the Countries are Old and New Names are explain in shortly for the General knowledge Information.

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• Abyssinia is the old name of Ethiopia.

• Ajodhanpur is the old name of Pakpattan.

• Angora is the Old name of Ankara.

• Beijing is the name of Peking.

• Belize was formerly known as British Hondoras.

• Benadir is the new name of Somalia.

• Biafra is the new name of Nigeria.

• Bophuthatswana is the new name of South Africa.

• Botswana is the new name of Bechaunaland.

• Burkina Faso is the new name of Upper Volta.

• Burma changed its name to Myanmar in 1989.

• Cambalpur is the old name of Attock.

• Cambodia is the new name of Kampuchea.

• Cambodia was earlier known as Kampuchea.

• Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka in 1972.

• Christiana is the old name of Oslo. Capital of Norway.

• Congo is the old name of Zaire.

• Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul.

• Dutch East Indies is the new name of Indonesia.

• Ethiopia is the new name of Abyssinia.

• Formosa is the new name of Taiwan.

• Formosa is the new name of Taiwan.

• French Somaliland is the old name of Djibouti.

• French Sudan is the old name of Mali.

• Ghana is the new name of Gold Coast.

• Gorkhali is the new name of Nepal.

• Hawaiian Island is the new name of Sandwich Island.

• Helvetia is the old name of Switzerland.

• Hispaniola is alternative name of Haiti.

• Indonesia is the new name of Batavia.

• Iraq is the new name of Mesopotamia.

• Kalaolit Nunaat is the new name of Green Land.

• Kingdom of Lesotho is the new name of Basutoland.

• Kinshasa is the new name of Leopoldville.

• Leningrad is the new name of Petrograd.

• Loro Sae is the new name of East Timor.

• Magyar is the old name of Hungary.

• Malaysia is the new name of Malaya.

• Manchukno is the old name of Manchuria.

• Myanmar is the new name of Burma.

• Namibia is the new name of South West Africa.

• New name of Bombay is Mumbai.

• New name of Bombay is Mumbai.

• New name of British Guiana is Guyana.

• New name of Nippon is Japan.

• New name of Persia is Iran.

• Nubia is the new name of Sudan.

• Nyasaland is the old name of Malawi.

• Old name of Bin Qasim is pepri.

• Republic of Botswana is the new name of Bechuanaland.

• Rhodesia’s new name is Zimbabwe.

• Sahiwal is the new name of Montgomery.

• Salisbury is the old name of Harare.

• Southern Rhodesia is the new name of Zimbabwe.

• Sri Lanka is the new name of Ceylon.

• Surinam is the new name of Dutch Guyana.

• Thailand is the new name of Siam.

• The Netherlands is the new name of Holland.

• The New name of East Pakistan is Bangladesh.

• The old name of Libya is Tripoli.

• Upper Volta is the new name of Burkina Faso.

• Volgograd is the new name of Stalingrad.

• Wien is the old name of Vienna.

• Zambia is the new name of Northern Rhodesia.