List of Old and New Names of Cities and Countries

List of Old and New Names of Cities and Countries

Here, We providing a List of Old and New Names of Cities and Countries. There are various important cities, states and Countries get their names changed in the course of time. This is the list which provides the details of all important Changed names of Cities States and Countries.

Old and New Names of Cities and Countries


List of Old and New Names of Cities and Countries

S.No  Old Name of City/State/Country  New Name of City/State/Country
1 Abyssinia Ethiopia
2 Angora Ankara
3 Aurangabad Sambhaji Nagar
4 Banaras Varanasi
5 Bangalore Bengaluru
6 Baroda Vadodra
7 Basutoland Lesothe
8 Batavia Jakarta
9 Bechunaland Botswana
10 Bombay Mumbai
11 British Guiana Guyana
12 Burma Myanmar
13 Calcutta Kolkata
14 Calicut Kozhikode
15 Cape Canaveral Cape Kennedy
16 Cawnpore Kanpur
17 Central Province Madhya Pradesh
18 Ceylon Sri Lanka
19 Christina Oslo
20 Cochin Kochi
21 Congo Zaire
22 Constantinople Istanbul
23 Dacca Dhaka
24 Dahomey Benin
25 Dutch East Indies Indonesia
26 Dutch Guyana Surinam
27 Ellice Islands Tuvalu
28 Formosa Taiwan
29 Gauhati Guwahati
30 Gold Coast Ghana
31 Holland The Netherlands
32 Ivory Coast Cote D’Ivoire
33 Jubbulpore Jabalpur
34 Jullundhar Jalandhar
35 Kampuchea Cambodia
36 Leopoldville Kinshasa
37 Madras Chennai
38 Malaya Malaysia
39 Manchukuo Manchuria
40 Mesopotamia Iraq
41 Nippon Japan
42 Northern Rhodesia Zambia
43 Nyasaland Malawi
44 Orissa Odisha
45 Palghat Palakkad
46 Panjim Panaji
47 Persia Iran
48 Peking Beijing
49 Petrogad Leningrad
50 Pondicherry Puducherry
51 Poona Pune
52 Quilon Kollam
53 Rangoon Yangon
54 Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
55 Salisbury Harare
56 Sandwich Island Hawaiian Islands
57 Siam Thailand
58 Simla Shimla
59 South West Africa Namibia
60 Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe
61 Spanish Guinea Equatorial Guinea
62 The New Hebrides Vanuatu
63 Uttaranchal Uttarakhand
64 Zanzibar Tanzania

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