Difference between revisions of "Renamed countries"
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==Africa== | ==Africa== | ||
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| − | + | | [[Basutoland]] || [[Lesotho]] | |
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| − | + | | [[Bechuanaland]] || [[Botswana]] | |
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| − | + | | [[Burma]] || [[Myanmar]] | |
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| − | + | | [[Ceylon]] || [[Sri Lanka]] | |
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| + | | [[Dahomey]] || [[Benin]] | ||
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| + | | [[German East Africa]] || [[Rwanda]] & [[Burundi]] & [[Tanzania]] | ||
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| + | | [[Muscat & Oman]] || [[Oman]] | ||
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| + | | [[Netherlands East Indies]] || [[Indonesia]] | ||
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| + | | [[Northern Rhodesia]] || [[Zambia]] | ||
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| + | | [[Nyasaland]] || [[Malawi]] | ||
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| + | | [[Rhodesia]] & Southern Rhodesia || [[Zimbabwe]] | ||
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| + | | [[South West Africa]] || [[Namibia]] | ||
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| + | | [[Spanish Sahara]] || [[Western Sahara]] | ||
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| + | | [[Upper Volta]] || [[Burkina Faso]] | ||
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| + | | [[Zaire]] || [[Democratic Republic of Congo]] | ||
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==Asia== | ==Asia== | ||
Revision as of 19:43, December 8, 2008
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