Statistics for Countries that have changed their name

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General Stats

This quiz has been taken 25 times
The average score is 39 of 49

Answer Stats

Old Name	Answer	% Correct
Old Name: Burma	Myanmar	100%
Old Name: Portuguese Timor	Timor-Leste	100%
Old Name: Swaziland	Eswatini	96%
Old Name: British Guiana	Guyana	96%
Old Name: Persia	Iran	96%
Old Name (1925): Kazakh SSR	Kazakhstan	96%
Old Name (1926): Kirghiz SSR	Kyrgyzstan	96%
Old Name: Moldavian SSR	Moldova	96%
Old Name (1801): Kingdom of Holland	Netherlands	96%
Old Name (1919): Byelorussian SSR	Belarus	92%
Old Name: Ivory Coast	Cote d' Ivoire	92%
Old Name: Abyssinia	Ethiopia	92%
Old Name: Dutch Guiana	Suriname	92%
Old Name: Siam	Thailand	92%
Old Name: East Pakistan	Bangladesh	88%
Old Name (1975): Kampuchea	Cambodia	88%
Old Name: Portuguese Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	88%
Old Name: Dutch East Indies	Indonesia	88%
Old Name: Ceylon	Sri Lanka	88%
Old Name: Northern Rhodesia	Zambia	88%
Old Name: Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	88%
Old Name: British Honduras	Belize	83%
Old Name: RSFSR*	Russia	83%
Old Name: Western Samoa	Samoa	83%
Old Name: United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar	Tanzania	83%
Old Name: Upper Peru	Bolivia	79%
Old Name: Republic of Upper Volta	Burkina Faso	79%
Old Name: Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	79%
Old Name: Gold Coast	Ghana	79%
Old Name: Transjordan	Jordan	79%
Old Name: Gilbert Islands	Kiribati	79%
Old Name: French Sudan	Mali	79%
Old Name: Spanish East Indies	Philippines	79%
Old Name: New Spain	Mexico	75%
Old Name: Southwest Africa	Namibia	75%
Old Name: New Hebrides	Vanuatu	75%
Old Name: Dahomey	Benin	71%
Old Name: Bechuanaland	Botswana	71%
Old Name: New Granada	Colombia	71%
Old Name: Basutoland	Lesotho	71%
Old Name: Nyasaland	Malawi	71%
Old Name: FYROM	North Macedonia	71%
Old Name: Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd	Saudi Arabia	71%
Old Name: Ellice Islands	Tuvalu	71%
Old Name: Zaire	D.R.C	67%
Old name: Terra de Santa Cruz	Brazil	54%
Old Name: Ubangi-Shari	C.A.R	46%
Old Name (1967): Afars & Issas	Djibouti	46%
Old name: Temasik	Singapore	17%