Changed Names of Important Countries, States & Places
| OLD NAME | CHANGED NAME |
| Abyssinia | Ethiopia |
| Angora | Ankara |
| Basutoland | Lesotho |
| Batavia | Djakarta |
| Burma | Mayanmar |
| Bechuanaland | Botswana |
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| 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 |
| Hollad | 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 |
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