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Line 1: − Some '''renamed countries''' are well known in the West:+ − − *[[Persia]] => [[Iran]] - the language is still called [[Persian]] − *[[Siam]] => [[Thailand]] - they speak [[Siamese]] or [[Thai]] − *[[East Pakistan]] => [[Bangladesh]] - formed after the partition of [[India]], over [[Gandhi]]'s protest, and independent from [[Pakistan]] in 1971. − − Others may have escaped all but the best [[geography]] students − − ==Middle East== − {|class="wikitable" − |- − ! width="250" | Former name − ! width="250" | Current name − ! width="125" | Year of change − |- − | [[Muscat & Oman]] || [[Oman]]|| 1970 − |- − |[[Transjordan]] || [[Jordan]]|| 1949 − |- − |[[Trucial States]] || [[United Arab Emirates]]|| 1971 − |} − − ==Africa== − − {| class="wikitable" − |- − ! width="250" | Former name − ! width="250" | Current name − ! width="125" | Year of change − |- − | [[Abyssinia]] || [[Ethiopia]]|| − |- − | [[Basutoland]] || [[Lesotho]]|| 1966 − |- − | [[Bechuanaland]] || [[Botswana]]|| 1966 − |- − | [[Belgian Congo]] || [[Zaire]]|| 1960 − |- − | [[Congo Free State]] || [[Belgian Congo]]|| 1908 − |- − | [[Dahomey]] || [[Benin]]|| 1975 − |- − | [[German East Africa]] (part) || [[Tanganyika]] − |- − | [[German East Africa]] (part) || [[Ruanda-Urundi]] ||1923 − |- − | [[Malgasy Republic]] || [[Madagascar]]||1960 − |- − | [[Northern Rhodesia]] || [[Zambia]]|| − |- − | [[Nyasaland]] || [[Malawi]]|| − |- − | [[Rhodesia]] & Southern Rhodesia || [[Zimbabwe]] || 1980 (Rhodesia 1965) − |- − | [[Ruanda-Urundi]] (part)|| [[Burundi]] ||1961 − |- − | [[Ruanda-Urundi]] (part)|| [[Rwanda]] ||1961 − |- − | [[South West Africa]] || [[Namibia]] || 1990 − |- − | [[Spanish Sahara]] || [[Western Sahara]]|| − |- − | [[Tanganyika]] & [[Zanzibar]] || [[Tanzania]] − |- − | [[Upper Volta]] || [[Burkina Faso]]|| − |- − | [[Zaire]] || [[Democratic Republic of Congo]]|| − |- − |} − − ==Asia== − {|class="wikitable" − |- − ! width="250" | Former name − ! width="250" | Current name − ! width="125" | Year of change − |- − |[[Burma]] || [[Myanmar]]||1989 − |- − |[[Ceylon]] || [[Sri Lanka]]||1972 − |- − |[[Dutch East Indies]] || [[Indonesia]]|| 1949 − |- − |[[East Pakistan]] || [[Bangladesh]]||1971 − |- − |[[Siam]] || [[Thailand]]||1939-45 and again in 1949 − |- − |[[French Indochina]] || [[Cambodia]], [[Laos]], [[Vietnam]]||1953 − |- − |[[Malaya]] || [[Malaysia]]|| 1963 − |- − |[[Kampuchea]] (1975) || [[Cambodia]]||1991 − |- − |} − − ==Pacific== − {|class="wikitable" − |- − ! width="250" | Former name − ! width="250" | Current name − ! width="125" | Year of change − |- − |[[Gilbert and Ellice Islands]] || [[Tuvalu]] & [[Kiribati]] || 1978 & 1979 − |- − |[[New Hebrides]] || [[Vanuatu]]|| 1980 − |- − |} − [[Category:Former Countries]]
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