Former Names of Countries and Cities

Current Name	Old Name
Ethiopia	Abyssinia
Ankara, Turkey	Angora, Turkey
Czech Republic and Slovakia	Bohemia, Moravia, Chechoslovakia
Sri Lanka	Ceylon
Istanbul, Turkey	Constantinople, Turkey
Beijing, China	Peking, China
Iran	Persia
Iraq	Mesopotamia
Zimbabwe	Southern Rhodesia
Zambia	Northern Rhodesia
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Saigon, South Vietnam
St. Petersburg, Russia	Petrograd and Leningrad, Russia
Thailand	Siam
Tanzania	Tanganyika and Zanzibar, German East Africa
Democratic Republic of Congo	Zaire
Namibia	South-West Africa
Moldova	Moldavia
Burkina Faso	Upper Volta
Libya	Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
Algeria	Numidia
Mali	Sudanese Republic
France	Gaul
Central African Republic, Chad	French Equatorial Africa
Rwanda and Burundi	German East Africa
China (north)	Cathay
China (south)	Mangi
Vietnam	Cochin-China (south), Annam (central), Tonkin (north)
Myanmar	Burma
Tokyo, Japan	Edo
Korea (North and South)	Choson
Cambodia	Kampuchea
Taiwan	Formosa