Geography: List of New and Old Names of Countries and Cities

Old Name

New Name

Abyssinia

Ethiopia

Ashaval (Ashapalli)

Ahamadabad

Basutoland

Lesotho

Batavia

Jakarta (Capital of Indonesia)

Bechuanaland

Botswana

British Guinea

Guyana

British Honduras

Belize

Burma

Myanmar

Calicut

Kozhikode

Cape Canaveral

Cape Kennedy

Central Province

Madhya Pradesh

Ceylon

Sri Lanka

Cochin

Kochi

Congo

Zaire

Constantinople

Istanbul

Dutch East Indies

Indonesia

Dutch Guiana

Surinam

East Pakistan

Bangladesh

East Timor

Timor Lestle

Ellice Islands

Tuvalu

Formosa

Taiwan

French Somaliland

Djibouti

French Sudan

Mali

Gilbert Island

Kiribati

Gold Coast

Ghana

Holland

The Netherlands

Ivory Coast

Cote D’lvoire

Kampuchea

Cambodia

Lan Xang

Laos