Old and new names of Countries,Cities,Places

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OLD AND NEW NAME

OF PLACES

Old Name	New Name	Old Name	New Name
Abyssinia	Ethiopia	Dutch East	Indonesia
Acre (Israel)	Akko	Dutch guinea	Surinam
Angora (Turkey)	Ankara	East Pakistan	Bangladesh
Antioch (Turkey)	Antakya	Farmosa	Taiwan
Athinia (Greece)	Athens	Fort Lamy	N’ Djamena
Bombay (India)	Mumbai	Frunze	Bishkek
Cylon	Sri lanka	Greenland	KalaallitNunaat
Christiania	Oslo	Holland	Netherlands
Constantinople	Istanbul	Kampuchea	Combodia
Culkata (India)	Kolkuta	Koin (Germany)	Cologne

Old Name	New Name	Old Name	New Name
KrugnThep	Bangkok	Pipri (Pakistan)	Bin Qasim
Leningrad	St.Petersburg	Rhodesia	Zimbabwe
Lyallapur	Faisalabad	Salisbury	Harare
Malagasy	Madagascar	Siam	Thailand
Mesopotamia	Iraq	Tananarive	Antanagonarivo
Montgomery	Sahiwal	Tripoli	Libya
Burma	Myanmar	Upper volta	Burkina Faso
Mysore	Karnataka	Wien (Austria)	Vienna
Peking (China)	Beijing
Persia	Iran

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