Old Name of City/State/Country New Name of City/State/Country

Abyssinia Ethiopia

Angora Ankara

Aurangabad Sambhaji Nagar

Banaras Varanasi

Bangalore Bengaluru

Baroda Vadodra

Basutoland Lesothe

Batavia Jakarta

Bechunaland Botswana

Bombay Mumbai

British Guiana Guyana

Burma Myanmar

Calcutta Kolkata

Calicut Kozhikode

Cape Canaveral Cape Kennedy

Cawnpore Kanpur

Central Province Madhya Pradesh

Ceylon Sri Lanka

Christina Oslo

Cochin Kochi

Congo Zaire

Constantinople Istanbul

Dacca Dhaka

Dahomey Benin

Dutch East Indies Indonesia

Dutch Guyana Surinam

Ellice Islands Tuvalu

Formosa Taiwan

Gauhati Guwahati

Gold Coast Ghana

Holland The Netherlands

Ivory Coast Cote D'Ivoire

Jubbulpore Jabalpur

Jullundhar Jalandhar

Kampuchea Cambodia

Leopoldville Kinshasa

Madras Chennai

Malaya Malaysia

Manchukuo Manchuria

Mesopotamia Iraq

Nippon Japan

Northern Rhodesia Zambia

Nyasaland Malawi

Orissa Odisha

Palghat Palakkad

Panjim Panaji

Persia Iran
Peking Beijing

Petrogad Leningrad

Pondicherry Puducherry

Poona Pune

Quilon Kollam

Rangoon Yangon

Saigon Ho Chi Minh City

Salisbury Harare

Sandwich Island Hawaiian Islands

Siam Thailand

Simla Shimla

South West Africa Namibia

Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe

Spanish Guinea Equatorial Guinea

The New Hebrides Vanuatu

Uttaranchal Uttarakhand
Zanzibar Tanzania