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.
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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