Current Names and Former Names of Countries

Current Name - Former Name

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania,Russia, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Bahrain Dilmun
Bangladesh East Pakistan
Belize British Honduras
Benin Dahomey
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia
Botswana Bechuanaland
Burkina Faso Upper Volta
Cambodia Kampuchea, Khmer Republic
Canary Islands Fortunate Islands
Central African Republic Ubangi-Shari
Cook Islands Harvey Islands
Czech Republic and Slovakia Czechoslovakia, Bohemia and Moravia
Democratic Republic of the Congo Zaire
Djibouti French Somaliland
Egypt and Syria United Arab Republic
Equatorial Guinea Spanish Guinea
Ethiopia Abyssinia
French Guiana Inini
Germany and Poland Prussia
Ghana Gold Coast and Togoland
Guadaloupe and Martinique French West Indies
Guyana British Guiana
Indonesia Dutch East Indies
Iran Persia
Iraq Babylonia
Israel and West Bank Galilee and Judea, Palestine
Jordan Transjordan
Korea Choson
Kyrgyzstan Turkestan
Lesotho Basutoland
Liberia Grain Coast
Madagascar Malagasy Republic
Malawi Nyasaland
Malaysia Malay States
Mali French Sudan
Mozambique Portuguese East Africa
Myanmar Burma (we still call it “Burma”)
Namibia South-West Africa
Oman Muscat and Oman
Romania and Moldova Moldavia and Transylvania
Somalia Benadir
Sri Lanka Ceylon
Suriname Dutch Guiana
Switzerland Helvetia
Taiwan Formosa
Tanzania Tanganyika and Zanzibar
Thailand Siam
Tonga Friendly Islands
Tuvalu Ellice Islands
United Arab Emirates Trucial Coast
Vanuatu New Hebrides
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos Indochina
Zambia Northern Rhodesia
Zimbabwe Southern Rhodesia