Geography Name Changes

Question 1

Angola

Answer 1

used to be Portuguese West Africa

Question 2

Bangladesh

Answer 2

used to be East Pakistan

Question 3

Belize

Answer 3

used to be British Honduras

Question 4

Cambodia

Answer 4

used to be French Indochina

Question 5

Chad

Answer 5

used to be French Equatorial Africa

Question 6

Ethiopia

Answer 6

used to be Abyssinia

Question 7

Ghana

Answer 7

use to be Gold Coast

Question 8

Ho Chi Minh City

Answer 8

Use to be Saigon

Question 9

Indonesia

Answer 9

use to be Netherlands East Indies

Question 10

Iran

Answer 10

use to be Persia

Question 11

Iraq

Answer 11

use to be Mesoptamia, Babylon, Assyria

Question 12

Istanbul

Answer 12

use to be Constantinople

Question 13

Laos

Answer 13

used to be French Indochina

Question 14

Madagascar

Answer 14

use to be Malagasy

Question 15

Myanmar

Answer 15

use to be Burma

Question 16

Namibia

Answer 16

use to be South West Africa

Question 17

Niger

Answer 17

use to be French West Africa

Question 18

Saint Petersburg

Answer 18

use to be Leningrad, Petrograd

Question 19

Santo Domingo

Answer 19

use to be Trujilo

Question 20

Sri Lanka

Answer 20

use to be Ceylon

Question 21

Surinam

Answer 21

use to be Dutch Guiana

Question 22

Thailand

Answer 22

use to be Siam

Question 23

Vietnam

Answer 23

use to be French Indochina

Question 24

volgograd

Answer 24

use to be Stalingrad; Tsaritsyn

Question 25

Zaire

Answer 25

use to be Congo

Question 26

Zambia

Answer 26

use to be Northern Rhodesia

Question 27

Zimbabwe

Answer 27

use to be Rhodesia