Can you name the current names of the successor states to these old countries? by PlanetBoyPhil

Old Name	Current Name
Abyssinia
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Basutoland
Bechuanaland
Bohemia
British Guiana
British Honduras
Burma
Byelorussia
Ceylon
Dahomey
Dutch Guiana
East Pakistan
Ellice Islands
Formosa
French Guinea
French Somaliland
French Sudan
French Togoland
Gilbert Islands

Old Name	Current Name
Gold Coast
Kampuchea
Mesopotamia
Netherlands East Indies
New Granada
New Hebrides
New Spain
Northern Rhodesia
Nyasaland
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Persia
Portuguese Guinea
Siam
Southern Rhodesia
Southwest Africa
Spanish Guinea
Ubangi-Shari
Upper Volta
Zaire

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New Names of Countries Quiz

by PlanetBoyPhil

Created Jun 7, 2010 in Geography
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	jonnyr12:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 22:45 GMT		4 points
	Please accept CAR and DRC. Also, the styling of "Guiana, British" etc. is weird. Is there a reasoning behind it? It seems unnecessary to me.

	1447:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 02:19 GMT		0 points
	Claiming that Palestine is now called Israel, while correct to a certain extent I guess, will most likely piss some people off. I don't want to start a big political discussion, but you should probably remove it as Palestine is still a disputed territory. It wasn't like the entire area changed its name to Israel overnight.

	jnhickson:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 02:21 GMT		0 points
	Good quiz, but yeah, have a think on getting rid of the Israel one.

	PlanetBoyPhil:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 03:47 GMT		7 points
	I will accept CAR and DRC. I did have some reasoning behind the way I organized it, but I think you're right. I will change it. When I say that the current name of Palestine is Israel, I mean that the land that was the British Mandate of Palestine became Israel. As you said, Palestine is a disputed territory, not a country. I do not mean to offend anyone, but I am just stating the facts.

	adamnvillani:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 05:23 GMT		7 points
	Ubangi-Shari is such a better name than Central African Republic.

	kokis:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 11:38 GMT		3 points
	this is a great quiz

	Shay:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 12:42 GMT		2 points
	Again, not trying to be too political, but all the land that was the British Mandate of Palestine didn't become Israel - I think it's similar to saying that the current name of the Ottoman Empire is now Turkey - it's not, really, Turkey is the successor state but it's much smaller. Personally I'm not sure about those two. But it's a great quiz.

	PlanetBoyPhil:	Jun 9th, 2010 at 00:21 GMT		1 point
	When I said that the British Mandate of Palestine became Israel, I meant what you said, Israel is the successor state.

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 06:00 GMT		1 point
	CAR's still not working. Great quiz though.

	crover:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 07:39 GMT		1 point
	Really good quiz. I have to agree with comments about Palestine & the Ottoman Empire though. the wording 'can you name the current names of these old countries' doesn't really apply to these two at all since neither piece of land is completed translatable to a modern nation.

	PlanetBoyPhil:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 19:46 GMT		3 points
	@crover, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire may not have the exact same land is the current Israel and Turkey, but the majority of Palestine and the Ottoman Empire did become Israel and Turkey.