Former Colonies

Guess the modern day names of these former colonies

Multiple answers are listed in alphabetical order (of short names of countries)

Answers in red boxes are not sovereign countries

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AFRICA

Colonial Name		Current Name
French West Africa	Dahomey	Benin
	Upper Volta	Burkina Faso
	French ------	Guinea
	----- -----	Ivory Coast
	French Sudan	Mali
	----------	Mauritania
	-----	Niger
	-------	Senegal
Portuguese Guinea		Guinea-Bissau
Gold Coast		Ghana
British Togoland
French Togoland		Togo
British -------		Nigeria
British Cameroons	Northern Cameroons
	Southern Cameroons	Cameroon
French Cameroun
French Equatorial Africa	Oubangui-Chari	Central African Republic
	----	Chad
	French -----	Republic of the Congo
	-----	Gabon
Ruanda-Urundi		Burundi
		Rwanda
Spanish Guinea		Equatorial Guinea
French Somaliland		Djibouti
British Somaliland		Somalia
Italian Somaliland
Zanzibar		Tanzania
Tanganyika
Northern Rhodesia		Zambia
Southern Rhodesia		Zimbabwe
Bechuanaland		Botswana
South West Africa		Namibia
Nyasaland		Malawi
Basutoland		Lesotho
Cape of Good Hope		South Africa
Natal
Orange River
Transvaal

AMERICA

Netherlands Antilles	-----	Aruba
	-------	Curaçao
	---- -------	Sint Maarten
	Caribbean Netherlands	Bonaire
		Saba
		Sint Eustatius
Dutch Guiana		Suriname
British Guiana		Guyana
British Honduras		Belize
British Leeward Islands		Anguilla
		Antigua and Barbuda
		Montserrat
		Saint Kitts and Nevis
		Virgin Islands
British Windward Islands		Dominica
		Grenada
		Saint Lucia
		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

ASIA

Aden		Yemen
Federation of South Arabia
Trucial States		United Arab Emirates
French Indochina		Cambodia
		Laos
		Vietnam
North Borneo		Malaysia
Malayan Union
Sarawak
Netherlands New Guinea		Indonesia
Dutch East Indies

OCEANIA

Gilbert and Ellice Islands		Kiribati
		Tokelau
		Tuvalu
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands		Marshall Islands
		Federated States of Micronesia
		Northern Mariana Islands
		Palau
New Hebrides		Vanuatu
Queensland		Australia
New South Wales
Victoria
Tasmania
South ---------
Western ---------

Level 68

Mar 7, 2017

I thought this was a really good quiz idea. I think it could use a little more time, though.

Level 95

Mar 7, 2017

Thanks! A little extra time added.

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