Old and New Names of Cities, States and Countries
| Old Name of City/State/Country | New Name of City/State/Country |
|---|---|
| Abyssinia | Ethiopia |
| Angora | Ankara |
| Aurangabad | Sambhaji Nagar |
| Banaras | Varanasi |
| Bangalore | Bengaluru |
| Baroda | Vadodra |
| Basutoland | Lesothe |
| Batavia | Jakarta |
| Bechunaland | Botswana |
| Bombay | Mumbai |
| British Guiana | Guyana |
| Burma | Myanmar |
| Calcutta | Kolkata |
| Calicut | Kozhikode |
| Cape Canaveral | Cape Kennedy |
| Cawnpore | Kanpur |
| Central Province | Madhya Pradesh |
| Ceylon | Sri Lanka |
| Christina | Oslo |
| Cochin | Kochi |
| Congo | Zaire |
| Constantinople | Istanbul |
| Dacca | Dhaka |
| Dahomey | Benin |
| Dutch East Indies | Indonesia |
| Dutch Guyana | Surinam |
| Ellice Islands | Tuvalu |
| Formosa | Taiwan |
| Gauhati | Guwahati |
| Gold Coast | Ghana |
| Holland | The Netherlands |
| Ivory Coast | Cote D’Ivoire |
| Jubbulpore | Jabalpur |
| Jullundhar | Jalandhar |
| Kampuchea | Cambodia |
| Leopoldville | Kinshasa |
| Madras | Chennai |
| Malaya | Malaysia |
| Manchukuo | Manchuria |
| Mesopotamia | Iraq |
| Nippon | Japan |
| Northern Rhodesia | Zambia |
| Nyasaland | Malawi |
| Orissa | Odisha |
| Palghat | Palakkad |
| Panjim | Panaji |
| Persia | Iran |
| Peking | Beijing |
| Petrogad | Leningrad |
| Pondicherry | Puducherry |
| Poona | Pune |
| Quilon | Kollam |
| Rangoon | Yangon |
| Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City |
| Salisbury | Harare |
| Sandwich Island | Hawaiian Islands |
| Siam | Thailand |
| Simla | Shimla |
| South West Africa | Namibia |
| Southern Rhodesia | Zimbabwe |
| Spanish Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
| The New Hebrides | Vanuatu |
| Uttaranchal | Uttarakhand |
| Zanzibar | Tanzania |