Table
Names : Old and New
| New Names | Old Names |
|---|---|
| Banjul | Bathurst |
| Beijing | Peking |
| Belize | British Honduras |
| Benin | Dahomey |
| Botswana | Bechuanaland |
| Burkina Faso | Upper Valta |
| Cambodia | Kampuchea; Khamer |
| Chennai | Madras |
| Djibouti | French Somaliland, French Territory of Afars & Issas |
| Ethipia | Abyssinia |
| Ghana | Gold Coast |
| Guyana | British Guiana |
| Hanoi | Kecho |
| Harare | Salisbury |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Saigon |
| Indonesia | Dutch East Indies |
| Iran | Persia |
| Japan | Nippon |
| Malaysia | Malaya |
| Manchuria | Manchukuo |
| Ankara | Angora |
| Dhaka | Dacca |
| Lore Sae | Last Timor |
| Iraq | Mesopotamia |
| Istanbul | Constantinople, Byzantium |
| Jakarta | Batavia |
| Kinshasa | Leopoldville |
| Korea | The Hermit Kingdom |
| Laos | Lanxang (The land of a million elephants) |
| Lesotho | Basutoland |
| Malawi | Nyasaland |
| Malabo | Santa Isable (Cap, of Equa-Guinea) |
| Mumbai | Bombay |
| Myanmar | Burma |
| Namibia | South West Africa |
| Nauru | Pleasant Island |
| Nir-Sultan | Astana |
| Oslo | Christiana |
| Sri Lanka | Ceylon |
| Volgograd | Stalingrad |
| St. Petersburg | Leningrad |
| Suninam | Dutch Guyana |
| Taiwan | Formosa |
| Tasmania | Van Diemen’s Land |
| Thailand | Siam |
| Togo | Togoland |
| Tuvalu | The Ellice Islands |
| Vanuatu | The New Hebrides |
| Yangon | Rangoon |
| Zaire | Congo |
| Zambia | Northern Rhodesia |
| Zimbabwe | Southern Rhodesia |
