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Some '''renamed countries''' are well known in the West:
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*[[Persia]] => [[Iran]] - the language is still called [[Persian]]
 
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*[[Siam]] => [[Thailand]] - they speak [[Siamese]] or [[Thai]]
 
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*[[East Pakistan]] => [[Bangladesh]] - formed after the partition of [[India]], over [[Gandhi]]'s protest, and independent from [[Pakistan]] in 1971.
 
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Others may have escaped all but the best [[geography]] students
 
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==Middle East==
 
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| [[Muscat & Oman]] || [[Oman]]|| 1970
 
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|[[Transjordan]] || [[Jordan]]|| 1949
 
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|[[Trucial States]] || [[United Arab Emirates]]|| 1971
 
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==Africa==
 
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| [[Abyssinia]] || [[Ethiopia]]||
 
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| [[Basutoland]] || [[Lesotho]]|| 1966
 
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| [[Bechuanaland]] || [[Botswana]]|| 1966
 
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| [[Belgian Congo]] || [[Zaire]]|| 1960
 
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| [[Congo Free State]] || [[Belgian Congo]]|| 1908
 
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| [[Dahomey]] || [[Benin]]|| 1975
 
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| [[German East Africa]] (part) || [[Tanganyika]]
 
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| [[German East Africa]] (part) || [[Ruanda-Urundi]] ||1923
 
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| [[Malgasy Republic]] || [[Madagascar]]||1960
 
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| [[Northern Rhodesia]] || [[Zambia]]||
 
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| [[Nyasaland]] || [[Malawi]]||
 
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| [[Rhodesia]] & Southern Rhodesia || [[Zimbabwe]] || 1980 (Rhodesia 1965)
 
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| [[Ruanda-Urundi]] (part)|| [[Burundi]] ||1961
 
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| [[Ruanda-Urundi]] (part)|| [[Rwanda]] ||1961
 
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| [[South West Africa]] || [[Namibia]] || 1990
 
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| [[Spanish Sahara]] || [[Western Sahara]]||
 
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| [[Tanganyika]] & [[Zanzibar]] || [[Tanzania]]
 
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| [[Upper Volta]] || [[Burkina Faso]]||
 
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| [[Zaire]] || [[Democratic Republic of Congo]]||
 
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==Asia==
 
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|[[Burma]] || [[Myanmar]]||1989
 
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|[[Ceylon]] || [[Sri Lanka]]||1972
 
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|[[Dutch East Indies]] || [[Indonesia]]|| 1949
 
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|[[East Pakistan]] || [[Bangladesh]]||1971
 
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|[[Siam]] || [[Thailand]]||1939-45 and again in 1949
 
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|[[French Indochina]] || [[Cambodia]], [[Laos]], [[Vietnam]]||1953
 
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|[[Malaya]] || [[Malaysia]]|| 1963
 
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|[[Kampuchea]] (1975) || [[Cambodia]]||1991
 
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==Pacific==
 
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|[[Gilbert and Ellice Islands]] || [[Tuvalu]] & [[Kiribati]] || 1978 & 1979
 
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|[[New Hebrides]] || [[Vanuatu]]|| 1980
 
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[[Category:Former Countries]]
 

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