Former Place Names of Countries and Cities
 

[B][CENTER][FONT="Times New Roman"][SIZE="6"][COLOR="Blue"][U]Former Place Names of Countries and Cities[/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER][/B]




[B][COLOR="Blue"]Current name[/COLOR][/B]------------------------------[B][COLOR="Blue"]Old Name[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Al Madīnah al Munawwarah[/B]----------------Yathrib

[B]Ethiopia[/B]-----------------------------------Abyssinia

[B]Ankara[/B]------------------------------------Angora,Turkey

[B]Czech Republic and Slovakia[/B]--------------Bohemia, Moravia, Chechoslovakia

[B]Sri Lanka[/B]----------------------------------Ceylon

[B]Istanbul, Turkey[/B]---------------------------Constantinople, Turkey

[B]Beijing, China[/B]------------------------------Peking, China

[B]Iran[/B]----------------------------------------Persia

[B]Iraq[/B]---------------------------------------Mesopotamia

[B]Zimbabwe[/B]---------------------------------Southern Rhodesia

[B]Zambia[/B]------------------------------------Northern Rhodesia

[B]Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam[/B]-----------------Saigon, South Vietnam

[B]St. Petersburg, Russia[/B]---------------------Petrograd and Leningrad, Russia

[B]Thailand[/B]-----------------------------------Siam

[B]Tanzania[/B]----------------------------------Tanganyika and Zanzibar, German East Africa

[B]Democratic Republic of Congo[/B]-------------Zaire

[B]Namibia[/B]-----------------------------------South-West Africa

[B]Moldova[/B]-----------------------------------Moldavia

[B]Burkina Faso[/B]-------------------------------Upper Volta

[B]Libya[/B]--------------------------------------Tripolitania and Cyrenaica

[B]Algeria[/B]-------------------------------------Numidia

[B]Mali[/B]----------------------------------------Sudanese Republic

[B]France[/B]-------------------------------------Gaul

[B]Central African Republic, Chad[/B]--------------French Equatorial Africa

[B]Rwanda and Burundi[/B]------------------------German East Africa

[B]China (north)[/B]-------------------------------Cathay

[B]China (south)[/B]-------------------------------Mangi

[B]Vietnam[/B]------------------------------------Cochin-China (south), Annam (central), Tonkin (north)

[B]Myanmar[/B]-----------------------------------Burma

[B]Tokyo, Japan[/B]-------------------------------Edo

[B]Korea (North and South)[/B]--------------------Choson

[B]Cambodia[/B]-----------------------------------Kampuchea

[B]Taiwan[/B]--------------------------------------Formosa

[B]Mumbai[/B]-------------------------------------Bombay

[B]Chennai[/B]-------------------------------------Madras

[B]Kolkata[/B]--------------------------------------Calcutta

[B]Pune[/B]----------------------------------------Poona

[B]Faisalabad[/B]----------------------------------Lyallpur

[B]Bannu(N.W.F.P)[/B]-----------------------------Edwardesabad,Dhulipnagar

[B]Hyderabad(Sindh)[/B]---------------------------Neroon Kot