Countries that Changed their Name Quiz by klempererfamily

Old Name	New Name	Date of Name Change
Upper Volta		1984
Siam		1939
Portuguese Timor		2002
Abyssinia		1974
British Honduras		1981
Persia		1935
Dahomey		1975
Basutoland		1966
British Malaya		1963
Bechuanaland		1966
Portuguese Guinea		1974
Nyasaland		1964
British New Guinea		1975

Old Name	New Name	Date of Name Change
French Somaliland		1977
Southwest Africa		1990
Gold Coast		1957
Zaire		1997
New Hebrides		1980
Gilbert Islands		1979
Burma		1989
French Sudan		1960
Ceylon		1972
Dutch East Indies		1949
Aden		1990
Dutch Guiana		1975
Rhodesia		1980

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Countries by Former Name Quiz

by klempererfamily

Created Jan 24, 2010 in Geography
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	abanazerb:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 08:23 GMT		4 points
	Great game. Thanks.

	hsver1887:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 10:36 GMT		1 point
	accept drc and timor leste

	klempererfamily:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 10:58 GMT		4 points
	Timor Leste and DRC now accepted

	phildm:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 14:37 GMT		3 points
	how about making it be guessed in order?

	pita:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 18:21 GMT		-3 points
	At least some of these were NOT countries under the old name. British Malaya, Portugese Timor, Basutoland just for example. It's no surprise when a colony gives itself a new name upon independence. An actual new name for an existing country is what this quiz should have been limited to.

	pjb:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 19:43 GMT		9 points
	You should add Ceylon/Sri Lanka

	johnlk:	Jan 25th, 2010 at 18:00 GMT		4 points
	British Malaya was not the old name for Malaysia. Malaysia was formed by the union of Malaya with British North Borneo and Sarawak, which were never called Malaya. Otherwise, good quiz, and I don't see why colonial name changes should be excluded.

	Catherine_F:	Feb 25th, 2010 at 10:47 GMT		1 point
	Perhaps make us answer in order to avoid guessing. I got them all right but only because I spent the second half guessing pretty much every African country before I got Benin.

	Dickson105:	Oct 3rd, 2010 at 17:03 GMT		-3 points
	Hi Will

	shakescene:	Mar 15th, 2011 at 06:53 GMT		2 points
	Papua New Guinea wasn't really "British New Guinea"; it was administered by Australia, part being New Guinea and the other being a League of Nations mandate (later UN Trust Territory) of Papua, a former German colony. Netherlands New Guinea (or Dutch New Guinea) became West Irian, a province of Indonesia. ¶ If you're interested, you could add Mesopotamia, Ceylon, Dahomey and Southwest Africa.

	klempererfamily:	Jan 2nd, 2012 at 16:34 GMT		2 points
	shakescene : Thanks,I have added some of them.