Old and New Names of Cities, States and Countries

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Old and New Names of Cities, States and Countries

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