Changed Names of Cities, States and Countries



Changed Names of Cities, States and Countries

Old Name New Name
Abyssinia Ethiopia
Angora Ankara
Aurangabad Sambhaji Nagar
Banaras Varanasi
Bangalore Bangaluru
Baroda Vadodara
Batavia Djakarta
Basutoland Lesotho
Bechuanaland Botswanax
Bhatinda Bathinda
Bombay Mumbai
British Guiana Guyana
Burma Myanmar
Calcutta Kolkata
Calicut Kozhikode
Cape Canaveral Cape Kennedy
Cawnpore Kanpur
Central Provinces Madhya Pradesh
Madras Chennai
Manchukuo Manchuria
New Hebrides Vanuatu
Northern Rhodesia Zambia
Ooty Udhagamandalam
Panjim Panaji
Petrograd Leningrad
Palghat Palakkad
Poona Pune
Quilon Kollam
Rhodesia Zimbabwe
Salisbury Harare
Siam Thailand
South West Africa Namibia
Stalingrad Volgograd
Trichur Thrissur
United Provinces Uttar Pradesh
Uttaranchal Uttarakhand
Zaire Republic of Congo
Ceylon Sri Lanka
Christina Oslo
Cochin Kochi
Constantinople Istambul
Dacca Dhaka
Dahomey Benin
Dutch East Indies Indonesia
Old Name New Name
Dutch Guiana Surinam
Ellice Islands Tuvalu
Formosa Taiwan
Gauhati Guwahati
Gold Coast Ghana
Holland The Netherlands
Ivory Coast Cote D'Ivoire
Jubbulpore Jabalpur
Jullundur Jalandhar
Leopoldville Kinshasa
Madagascar Malagasy
Malaya Malaysia
Mesopotamia Iraq
Nippon Japan
Nyasaland Malawi
Orissa Odisha
Peking Beijing
Persia Iran
Pondicherry Puducherry
Pretoria Tshwane
Rangoon Yangon
Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
Sandwich Islands Hawaiian Islands
Simla Shimla
Spanish Guinea Equatorial Guinea
Tanganyika and Zanzibar Tanzania
Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram
Upper Volta Burkina Faso
Vizagapattam Visakhapatnam
Tanjore Thanjavur