Countries that Change Their Name

I'll give you the old name of the country. You name the current name of the country

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Year Change	Old Name	Current Name
1975	Dutch Guiana	Suriname
1966	British Guiana	Guyana
1974	Portuguese Guinea	Guinea-Bissau
1968	Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea
1945/1949	Dutch East Indies	Indonesia
1898	Spanish East Indies	Philippines
1977	French Somaliland	Djibouti
1960	French Sudan	Mali
1975/2002	Portuguese Timor	East Timor/ Timor-Leste
1973	British Honduras	Belize
1932	British Mandate of Mesopotamia	Iraq
1964	Northern Rhodesia	Zambia
1980	Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe
1990	Southwest Africa	Namibia
1971	East Pakistan	Bangladesh
1825	Upper Peru	Bolivia
1984	Upper Volta	Burkina Faso
1980	New Hebrides	Vanuatu
1863	New Granada	Colombia
1821	New Spain	Mexico
1971	The Trucial States of the Coast of Oman	United Arab Emirates

Year Change	Old Name	Current Name
2018	Swaziland	Eswatini
1997	Zaire	Democratic Republic of the Congo
1991	Kampuchea	Cambodia
1989	Burma	Myanmar
1979	Gilbert Islands	Kiribati
1978	Ellice Islands	Tuvalu
1975	Dahomey	Benin
1972	Ceylon	Sri Lanka
1966	Basutoland	Lesotho
1966	Bechuanaland	Botswana
1964	Nyasaland	Malawi
1958/1979	Ubangi-Shari	Central African Republic
1957	Gold Coast	Ghana
1949	Siam	Thailand
1946	Transjordan	Jordan
1941	Abyssinia	Ethiopia
1935	Persia	Iran
1932	Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd	Saudi Arabia
1819	Temasik	Singapore
1530	Terra de Santa Cruz	Brazil

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