Changed Names of Important Countries - General Knowledge

Old Name	Changed Name
Abyssinia	Ethiopia
Angora	Ankara
Basutoland	Lesotho
Batavia	Djakarta
Burma	Myanmar
Bechuanaland	Botswana
British Guiana	Guyana
Combodia	Kampuchea
Cape Canaveral	Cape Kennedy
Ceylon	Sri Lanka
Christina	Oslo
Congo	Zaire
Constantinople	Istanbul
Dacca	Dhaka
Dutch East Indies	Indonesia
Dutch Guiana	Surinam
Formosa	Taiwan
Gold Coast	Ghana
Holland	The Netherlands
Japan	Nippon
Malaya	Malaysia
Manchukuo	Manchuri
Mesopotamia	Iraq
Northern Rhodesia	Zambia
Nyasaland	Malawi
Peking ( China )	Beijing
Persia	Iran
Rangoon	Yongon
Rhodesia	Zimbabwe
Salisbury	Harare
Sam	Thailand
South-West Africa	Namibia
Thanganyika Zanzibar	Tanzania