Countries with historical names

Current nameOld Name
AlgeriaNumidia
BangladeshEast Pakistan
BelizeBritish Honduras
BohemiaCzech Republic
BotswanaBechuanaland
Burkina FasoUpper Volta
CambodiaKampuchea
Central African Republic, ChadFrench Equatorial Africa
China (north)Cathay
China (south)Mangi
Cook IslandsHarvey Islands
Czech Republic and SlovakiaBohemia, Moravia, Chechoslovakia
Democratic Republic of CongoZaire
DjiboutiAfars and Issas Territory
EthiopiaAbyssinia
FranceGaul
GhanaGold Coast
IranPersia
IraqMesopotamia
KiribatiGilbert Islands
Korea (North and South)Choson
LesothoBasutoland
LiberiaGrain Coast
LibyaTripolitania and Cyrenaica
MalawiNyasaland
MaliSudanese Republic
MoldovaMoldavia
MyanmarBurma
NamibiaSouth-West Africa
NiueSavage Island
Reunion IslandBourbon Island
Rwanda and BurundiGerman East Africa
SomaliaBenadir
Sri LankaCeylon
TaiwanFormosa
TanzaniaTanganyika and Zanzibar, German East Africa
ThailandSiam
TongaFriendly Islands
TuvaluEllice Islands
VanuatuNew Hebrides
VietnamCochin-China (south), Annam (central), Tonkin (north)
ZambiaNorthern Rhodesia
ZimbabweSouthern Rhodesia


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