Renamed Countries Quiz

This quiz will give you the current name and the year of the name change and you need to give the most recent former name.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_renaming#Countries

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Old Name	Year of change	New Name
New South Wales	1824	Australia
East Pakistan	1971	Bangladesh
Byelorussia	1991	Belarus
United Kingdom of the Netherlands	1830	Belgium
British Honduras	1973	Belize
Dahomey	1975	Benin
Upper Peru	1825	Bolivia
Bosnia	1853	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bechuanaland	1966	Botswana
Terra de Santa Cruz	1530	Brasil
Upper Volta	1984	Burkina Faso
Kampuchea	1991	Cambodia
Central African Empire	1979	Central African Republic
New Granada	1863	Colombia
Middle Congo	1910	Republic of Congo
Zaire	1997	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Territory of the Afars and the Issas	1977	Djibouti
Spanish Guinea	1968	Equatorial Guinea
Swaziland	2018	eSwatini

Old Name	Year of change	New Name
Abyssinia	1941	Ethiopia
Gold Coast	1957	Ghana
Portuguese Guinea	1979	Guinea-Bissau
British Guiana	1966	Guyana
Dutch East Indies	1949	Indonesia
British Mandate of Mesopotamia	1932	Iraq
Irish Free State	1937	Ireland
Judea	135	Syria Palaestina
British Mandate of Palestine	1948	Israel
Emirate of Transjordan	1946	Jordan
Gilbert Islands	1979	Kiribati
Basutoland	1966	Lesotho
Nyasaland	1964	Malawi
French Sudan	1960	Mali
New Spain	1821	Mexico
Moldavian SSR	1991	Moldova
Burma	1989	Myanmar
Southwest Africa	1990	Namibia
Kingdom of Holland	1830	The Netherlands

Old Name	Year of change	New Name
Territory of Papua and New Guinea	1975	Papua New Guinea
Spanish East Indies	1898	Philippines
Spanish Sahara	1975	Western Sahara
Western Samoa	1997	Samoa
Temasik	1819	Singapore
Ceylon	1972	Sri Lanka
Dutch Guiana	1975	Suriname
Formosa	1895	Taiwan
Siam	1949	Thailand
East Timor	2002	Timor-Leste
French Togoland	1960	Togo
Ellice Islands	1978	Tuvalu
New Hebrides	1980	Vanuatu
Northern Rhodesia	1964	Zambia
Southern Rhodesia	1980	Zimbabwe
Cape Verde	2013	Cabo Verde
New Connecticut	1777	Republic of Vermont
Persia	1935	Iran

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