Statistics for Country Name Changes - Africa

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Date	Former Name	Answer	% Correct
1971, 1997	Leopoldville, Zaire	Democratic Republic of the Congo	100%
1968	Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	95%
1964	Northern Rhodesia	Zambia	95%
1965, 1975, 1980	Southen Rhodesia, Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	95%
1984	Upper Volta	Burkina Faso	89%
2018	Swaziland	Eswatini	89%
1941	Abyssinia	Ethiopia	89%
1957	Gold Coast	Ghana	89%
1979	Portuguese Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	89%
1990	Southwest Africa	Namibia	89%
1975	Dahomey	Benin	84%
2013	Cape Verde*	Cabo Verde	84%
1966	Bechuanaland	Botswana	79%
1967, 1977	French Somaliland, Territory of the Afars and the Issa	Djibouti	79%
1966	Basutoland	Lesotho	79%
1960	French Sudan	Mali	68%
1964	Nyasaland	Malawi	63%
1958, 1976, 1979	Ubangi-Shari	Central African Republic	32%