Same Place, new name

[yaf_user681_33231]

Peking = Beijing

Bombay = Mumbai

Sailsbury = Harare

St Petersberg = Leningrad = St Petersberg

Tsaritsyn = Stalingrad = Volgograd

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Just a few more from the top of my head:

Berlin, Ontario = Kitchener, Ontario

Zimbabwe = Rhodesia

Persia = Iran

New Amsterdam = New York

Susy

[KateMoss]

Burma = Myanmaa .... does that count as it is a country?

Calcutta also has a new name but can't remember.

Kate

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Sunnytown = Harold Park

Not many people know that! Essex place..

Twizzle

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Chaventry = Coventry

OK I cheated but it should be known as that !

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Anfield : A Field

or: Analfield

-couldnt resist!!

[andyk1]

For Kate

Calcutta is Chennai

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Cobh, Ireland = Queenstown

Ho Chi Minh City = Saigon (changed in 1975 after the fall of South Vietnam)

Tokyo = Edo (until it became the capital of Japan in 1868)

Susy

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Belize was British Honduras until 1973

Colombia was New Granada until 1819

Susy

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Istanbul was Constantinople - there's even a song about it:

youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZc...(Not working as expected?)

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Sri Lanka was Ceylon until 1972

Susy

[yaf_user681_26410]

Zimbabwe was Southern Rhodesia

Zambia was Northern Rhodesia

Congo became Zaire and then went back to Congo

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Ethiopia – historically known as Abyssinia as well as Ethiopia

Mali – French Sudan until 1960

Susy

[KateMoss]

Nyassaland = uuum ?

South West Africa is now Namibia

Tanganika & Zanzibar = Tanzania

[yaf_user681_30003]

Pressburg = Bratislava

Alan

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[yaf_user681_33231]

Gold Coast = Ghana

Mesopotamia = Iraq

Persia = Iran

Bechuanaland = Botswana

Basutoland = Lesotho

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Yugoslavia = State Union of Serbia and Montenegro

Happened on 4th February 2003, Yugoslavia existed since 1929

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Being parochial: Windscales now Sellafield

-when they changed the name ,we were betting on ""Sunny Meadows""!!

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Choson = Now South and North Korea

Siam = Now called Thailand

Saigon, South Vietnam = now called Ho CHi Minh City, Vietnam