Can you name the Renamed Places?

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Renamed Places Quiz

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Published: January 27th, 2008
Category: Geography
Plays: 142,490

Tags: place, renamed, modern, previously, name, Renamed Places

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	cysion:	Sep 15th, 2008 at 15:01 GMT	39 points
	Got'm all, good game! Some suggestions: Lutetia(Paris), Zaire(Congo),... (just suggesting eh) Talking about weird names: how about a game where you write down the names of countries in their native languages and you have to guess 'm? Looks lovely to me =)

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Sep 15th, 2008 at 23:26 GMT	13 points
	Zaire was Congo before Zaire and now Congo again.

	davidr:	Oct 2nd, 2008 at 20:29 GMT	8 points
	That would be an excellent quiz, Cysion!

	SirZapdos:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 18:14 GMT	3 points
	Surprised you omitted Burma (Mynamar), but all in all, good quiz!

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	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 21:45 GMT	21 points
	I may be opening a portal for vast wikipedia quotes, but I believe Burma and Myanmar are both acceptable names for the country, depending on whose side of the current civil conflict you fall.

	Uhlan:	Nov 1st, 2008 at 22:23 GMT	23 points
	Burma was renamed Myanmar by the junta. Those who do not recognise the junta tend to call it Burma, so to include it here would be very controversial.

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ku_sucks:

Dec 11th, 2008 at 03:15 GMT

7 points

how about formosa? seward's icebox?

	newenglander:	Jan 30th, 2009 at 02:01 GMT	11 points
	Some suggestions Guyana:British Guiana Suriname:Dutch Guiana Belize:British Honduras Bangladesh:East Pakistan Boston:Charlestown

	blue canary:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 18:28 GMT	35 points
	Why did Constantinople get the works?

	jkd:	Feb 20th, 2009 at 17:16 GMT	43 points
	That's nobody's business but the Turks'

	Rossum:	Mar 14th, 2009 at 01:50 GMT	27 points
	Why they changed it I can't say.

	ndschroede23:	Mar 20th, 2009 at 16:25 GMT	31 points
	People just liked it better that way.

	Sparky:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 20:35 GMT	7 points
	^Lol. Tripolitania and Cyrenaica ... ouch! Glad they changed it to Libya!

	ubernora:	Apr 11th, 2009 at 03:35 GMT	18 points
	even old new york was once new amsterdam

	daximus:	May 7th, 2009 at 14:33 GMT	11 points
	How about Van Diemen's Land becoming Tasmania and New Holland becoming Australia?

	Tongueforker:	May 12th, 2009 at 21:45 GMT	0 points
	all in under a minute. finally one I do. Great quiz

	Dave42:	May 23rd, 2009 at 07:42 GMT	1 point
	I was happy to get 13/14. Never would have gotten Malawi. It felt like the quiz should have been longer and a little harder.

	GeoExpert:	May 25th, 2009 at 00:49 GMT	2 points
	I got Malawi out of logic because almost its entire east border is Lake Nyasa. The name Nyasaland hinted Lake Nyasa, hinting Malawi

	GeoExpert:	May 25th, 2009 at 00:50 GMT	3 points
	Lake Nyasa is also sometimes called Lake Malawi

	czechman:	May 31st, 2009 at 03:42 GMT	-4 points
	14/14. I got them pretty quickly too, but that was only because we just learned them in history. I didn't know Zimbabwe and Ethiopia before that.

	nrmnbates:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 06:59 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz. On the next version you could include Carthage/Tunis and Tenochtítlan/Mexico City.

	MacZidane:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 19:31 GMT	6 points
	I'm surprised Bejams isn't there. After all, that was the former name for Iceland! (Non UK residents won't get this)

	HiddenPalace:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	-1 points
	Why the hell did I not get Abyssinia? Sounded so familiar as well.

	Kitnaz:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 19:37 GMT	3 points
	Stalingrad and Leningrad as bonus awnsers? :)

	planetmutty:	Jul 2nd, 2009 at 06:07 GMT	-4 points
	11 out of 14, a couple of these were tough. Hate to be picky but some of them don't really belong as 'renamed' places. Ceylon was 'renamed' Sri Lanka but the Sri Lankans reclaimed the ethnic name they had been using for hundreds of years. I think the same applies to Mumbai.

	Woodchucker:	Jul 15th, 2009 at 20:17 GMT	10 points
	John2, Charlestown was not renamed Boston. Charlestown was another settlement across the rivers that is now a neighborhood in Boston.

	tangerinewarrior:	Jul 23rd, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	5 points
	You could add Dacia for Romania, Lusitania for Portugal, and Hibernia for Ireland.... there's always tons of ancient or former names for places! Could do lots of quizzes on this one!

	mjenks:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	7 points
	In that same light, Caledonia could be Scotland. I realize this is splitting hairs and all, but couldn't Belgium be acceptable for Gaul? Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres and all. Or, I guess, you could just add Gallia Belgica.

	fatbeard:	Aug 1st, 2009 at 04:08 GMT	10 points
	Am I the only one missing Upper Volta/Burkina Faso?

	Yurian:	Aug 7th, 2009 at 02:28 GMT	5 points
	I got freaking Ceylon/Sri Lanka but not New Amsterdam/New York?! Im seriously going back to school NOW.

	GeordieGordie:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT	9 points
	Whatever happened to old Dahomey?

	betraisefold:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 09:22 GMT	6 points
	@MattJ Shocked it took so long for someone to mention that. True enough that what was Gaul included what is modern day France but it that was only about 80% of Gaul and thus doesn't really belong here. Good quiz though...I think I have now learned more in 2 weeks on sporcle than I did in 15 years of school.

	AtomicIce:	Sep 16th, 2009 at 03:36 GMT	10 points
	Great quiz but WAY too much time. 6 minutes for just 14 answers? As evidenced by the comments above there is more than enough room for a sequel.

	Nevermore:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 16:31 GMT	5 points
	Lusitania has nothing to do with Portugal, whatsoever. That former Roman province territory almost went until Modern Madrid ! One can say more accurately is that the centre and south of Portugal corresponds to a large part of the Lusitania, nothing more. Portugal was founded in the XI century AD not in the roman times. lol > I'm Portuguese.

	Blue_Iguana:	Sep 25th, 2009 at 02:28 GMT	1 point
	For fans of this quiz, check out this one i made: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Blue_Iguana/renamed_countries I found a list of them in a textbook and thought it would make an interesting sporcle quiz, but obiously missed this one!

	caramba:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 09:21 GMT	2 points
	@AtomicIce, Blue_Iguana. There is a sequel over at http://www.sporcle.com//user/caramba/contributed, lot sof old colonies (but none that already appear here).

	PurppuraSuihku:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 18:31 GMT	3 points
	This was a nice though short quiz! Gave up with 4:41 on the clock because it wouldn't accept my Zimbabwe and as for Nyasaland, I couldn't nail it... and yeah, 6 minutes is way too much.