Statistics for Cities by Former Name - Beyond Thunderdome

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Old	Years		Current name	% Correct
Nieuw Amsterdam	1624–1664		New York	97%
Leningrad	1924–1991		St. Petersburg	93%
Constantinople	300s–1930		Istanbul	92%
Peking	?	X	Beijing	90%
Bombay	?–1995		Mumbai	90%
Calcutta	?–2001		Kolkata	76%
Tenochtitlán	1325–1521	X	Mexico City	73%
Edo	1457–1868	X	Tokyo	65%
Saigon	1698–1975		Ho Chi Minh City	63%
Nur-Sultan	2019–2022	X	Astana	58%
Danzig	?–1945		Gdańsk	58%
Gyeongseong	1910–1945	X	Seoul	52%
Stalingrad	1925–1961		Volgograd	52%
Léopoldville	1881–1966	X	Kinshasa	48%
Neápolis	500s BC–?		Naples	45%
Thebes, Egypt	?		Luxor	44%
Königsberg	1255–1945		Kaliningrad	43%
Lutetia	c. 50 AD–400s	X	Paris	43%
Rangoon	?		Yangon	40%
Batavia	1619–1949	X	Jakarta	37%
Madras	?–1996		Chennai	36%
Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana	192	X	Rome	36%
Angora	c. 1073–1923	X	Ankara	35%
Christiania	1624–1925	X	Oslo	35%
Aquae Sulis	60 AD–?		Bath	32%
Smyrna	?		İzmir	30%
Eboracum	71 AD–600s		York	30%
Ciudad de los Reyes	1500s	X	Lima	28%
Mediolanum	390 BC–?		Milan	28%
Bangalore	?–2006		Bengaluru	27%
Dùn Èideann	?		Edinburgh	22%
Colonia Agrippina	c 1 AD–?		Cologne	20%
Breslau	?–1945		Wrocław	19%
Ciudad Trujillo	1936–1961	X	Santo Domingo	18%
Gorky	1932–1990		Nizhny Novgorod	17%
Yerba Buena	1700s–1847		San Francisco	17%
Stettin	?–1945		Szczecin	17%
York	1793–1834		Toronto	17%
Ragusa	?		Dubrovnik	15%
Karl-Marx-Stadt	1953–1990		Chemnitz	13%
Salisbury	1890–1982	X	Harare	13%
Philadelphia	200s BC–600s	X	Amman	12%
Monkchester	400s–1080		Newcastle upon Tyne	11%
Carthago Nova	?		Cartagena	10%
El-Anfa	?–1400s		Casablanca	9%
Port Elizabeth	1820–2021		Gqeberha	8%
Hot Springs, New Mexico	1916–1950		Truth or Consequences	8%
Mysore	?–2014		Mysuru	7%
Barrow	1825–2016		Utqiagvik	7%
Granville	1870–1886		Vancouver	7%