Statistics for Former Country Names

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Answer Stats

Former Name	New Name	% Correct
Italian East Africa	Eritrea / Ethiopia / Somalia	96%
French West Africa	Mauritania / The Gambia / Senegal / Niger / Mali / Guinea / Côte d'Ivoire / Burkina Faso / Benin	96%
Abyssinia	Ethiopia	92%
German East Africa	Rwanda / Burundi / Tanzania	92%
Tanganyika/Zanzibar	Tanzania	92%
Belgian Congo/Zaire	Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	88%
Siam	Thailand	88%
Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	88%
Newfoundland	Canada	85%
Portuguese Timor	East Timor	85%
German South West Africa	Namibia	85%
Nubia	Sudan / Egypt	85%
Northern Rhodesia	Zambia	85%
East Pakistan	Bangladesh	81%
Kampuchea/Khmer Republic	Cambodia	81%
Hellenic Republic	Greece	81%
Persian	Iran	81%
Sultanate of Muscat and Oman	Oman	81%
West Pakistan	Pakistan	81%
Rio de Oro / Sáhara Occidental	Western Sahara	81%
British Honduras	Belize	77%
Manchuria/Mangi/Cathay	China	77%
Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	77%
Mesopotamia	Iraq	77%
Portuguese Guinea	Guinea Bissau	73%
Dutch East Indies / Moluccas	Indonesia	73%
Transjordan	Jordan	73%
British North Borneo	Malaysia	73%
Spanish Sahara	Morocco	73%
Western Samoa	Samoa	73%
Orange Free State/ British Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, Colony of the Batavian Republic	South Africa	73%
Upper Volta	Burkina Faso	69%
Gold Cost	Ghana	69%
Irish Free State	Ireland	69%
French Equatorial Africa	Central African Republic (CAR) / Chad	65%
British Guiana	Guyana	65%
Basutoland	Lesotho	65%
Tripolitania/Cyrenaica	Libya	65%
Northern Solomon Islands	Papua New Guinea	65%
New Hebrides	Vanuatu	65%
Bechuanaland	Botswana	62%
Somghay	Mali / Mauritania	62%
Portuguese East Africa	Mozambique	62%
Friendly Islands	Tonga	62%
Socotra	Yemen	62%
French Somaliland	Djibouti	58%
Nyasaland	Malawi	58%
French Sudan	Mali	58%
Dutch Guiana	Suriname	58%
Formosa / Kingdom of Tungning	Taiwan	58%
Ellice Islands	Tuvalu	58%
Dahomey	Benin	54%
Gilbert Islands	Kiribati	54%
Kirigizia	Kyrgyzstan	54%
Trucial Coast	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	54%
Numidia	Algeria	50%
Grain Coast	Liberia	50%
Albion / Danelaw	United Kingdom (UK)	50%
New Holland	Australia	46%
Cochin/Annam/Tonkin	Vietnam	46%
Abkhazia	Georgia	42%
Malagasy Republic	Madagascar	42%
Confœderatio Helvetica (CH)	Switzerland	42%
Alashiya	Cyprus	35%
Gorkhali	Nepal	35%
Mishmahig Islands / Tylos	Bahrain	31%
Batavian Republic	Netherlands	31%
Chosen/Chosen	North Korea / South Korea	31%
Amarapura	Myanmar (Burma)	12%