What is the old name of several countries?

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This is a bit of a minefield as some of the ones mentioned are not just straight switches in name only (they are evolved from changes within the territories)

Here are a couple which are safer to use with regard to a name change:
Indonesia was Netherlands East Indies until 40's
Guyana was British Guiana until 60's
Belize used to be called British Honduras until 70's
Sri Lanka was Ceylon until 70's
Burkina Faso was Upper Volta until 80's

Dee

Kampuchea is now Cambodia, unless they changed it again.

carina

The Czech Republic and Slovakia used to be Czechoslovakia
Zimbabwe was formerly Rhodesia and before that was Southern Rhodesia
Zambia used to be Northern Rhodesia
I forget what Malawi was called previously
Prussia has disappeared from the maps
and where was White Russia?
Germany is a relatively recent invention - it was fragmented into lots of principalities
Poland has had a chequered history - the territory we now call Poland has had lots of names in the past
Belgium used to be part of The Netherlands
What used to be Yugoslavia was formerly several different states, and now it's fragmented again ... can't remember all the names of the new countries
Botswana used to be Bechuanaland

oh ........ the list is endless .... can't remember any more off the top of my head

Марияна от България

We are so intelligent here, so:
1)SSSR don't exist now- Russia,Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova,etc;
2)Yugoslavia-Serbia,Montenegro,
Slovenia,
Croatia,Kosovo,Makedonia;
3)Chehoslovakia-Slovakia, Czech;
4)Thailand-Siam;

Elizabeth

Austria-Hungary - Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, etc.
Pashtun - Afghanistan
Persia - Iran
Mesopotamia and Assyria - Iraq
Dahomey - Benin
Burma - Myanmar
Cymru - Wales
Éire - Ireland
Nippon and Nihon - Japan
Goryeo - Korea
Lan Xang - Laos
Cyrenaica - Libya
Nyasaland - Malawi
French Sudan - Mali
Middlebrook Islands or the Brook Islands - Midway Islands
Doclea or Zeta - Montenegro
German Southwest Africa - Namibia
Pelew - Palau
Lusitania - parts of Portugal and Spain
Soviet Union - Russia
Ar Rabi and Arabia - Saudi Arabia
Temasik or Simhapura - Singapore
Aram - Syria
Tanganyika and Zanzibar - Tanzania
Siam - Thailand
Byzantine Empire - Turkey
Ellice Islands - Tuvalu
Rhodesia - Zimbabwe and Zambia

Enjoy!

♥Lil'☆(Sina's sister)

Ottoman Empire-Turkey

woodtech09

Iran= persia
Yugoslavia= serbia

miss.sherlit

russia =soviet union

serbia4ever

Serbia - Serbia and Montenegro, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Serbia (later Serbian Empire)
Burkina Faso - Upper Volta
Iran - Persia
Slovakia and the Czech Republic - Czechoslovakia
Sri Lanka - Ceylon
Russia - Soviet Union
Botswana - Bechuanaland
Zambia - Northern Rhodesia

alexia_elite

Istanbul used to be Constantinople.

☺♥~K☼☼L BREEZI~♥☻

i know these ones
russia: soviet union
iran: Persia
pakistan was india
yugoslavia: serbia
siam: thailand
austria was with hungry

Gabrio

Yugoslavia: Eslavian Republic
Checoslovaquia: Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo.
URSS: Soviet Socialist Union Republics

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