CHANGED NAMES of Countries

Old Name New Name
• Pipri Bin Qasim.
• Lyallapur Faisalabad.
• Abyssinia Ethiopia.
• Burma Myanmar.
• Ceylon Srilanka.
• Duch-East-Indies Indonesia.
• French Sudan Mali.
• Helvetia Switzerland.
• Mogyarzaq Hungry.
• Mesopotamia Iraq.
• Najd and Hejaz Saudi Arabia.
• New Granda Colombia.
• Nippon Japan.
• Persia Iran.
• Siam Thailand.
• South Rhodesia Zimbabwe.
• South West Africa Namibia.
• Soviet Union Russian Federation.
• Turkmenia Turkmenistan.
• Upper Volta Burkina Faso.
• Urumdi Brumdi.
• Constantinople Istanbul.
• Christiana Oslo.
• Formosa Taiwan.
• Greenland Kalaallet Nunaat.
• Holland Netherlands.
• Combodia Kampuchea.
• Krugn Thep Bangkok.
• Leningard St. Petersburg.
• Montgomery Sahiwal.
• Burma Myanmar.
• Peiking Beijing.
• Persia Iran.
• Rhodesia Zimbabwe.
• Salisbury Harare.
• Tripoli Libya.
• Madras Chennai.
• Edo Tokyo.
• Temasek Singapore.
• Stalinabad Dushanbe.
• United Arab Republic Egypt.
• Jabal-i-Tariq Gibraltar
• Equatorial Africa Chad
• Ray Isfahan
• Pataliputra Patna
• Sankiang Xinjiang
• Old name of Tamil Nadu is Madras State.
• The earlier name of New York city was New Amsterdam
• Prior to independence, Ghana was called ‘Gold Coast’.
• Afghanistan was known as Ariana.
• The new name of Yalamlam is As-Sadiya.
• The name of Mesopotamia was changes to Iraq in the year 1935.
• The earlier name of New York city was New Amsterdam