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Former Name
Current Name
Year of (Significant) Change
Temasik
1324
New Granada
1819
New Spain
1821
Bohemia
1918
Persia
1935
Netherlands East Indies
1945
Siam
1949
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
1956
Gold Coast
1957
French Guinea
1958
Ubangi-Shari
1958
French Sudan
1960
French Togoland
1960
Middle Congo
1960
Northern Rhodesia
1964
Nyasaland
1964
Basutoland
1966
Bechuanaland
1966
British Guiana
1966
Spanish Guinea
1968
East Pakistan
1971
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Ceylon
1972
British Honduras
1973
Portuguese Guinea
1974
Dahomey
1975
Dutch Guiana
1975
Portuguese Timor
1975
French Territory of the Afars and Issas
1977
Ellice Islands
1978
Gilbert Islands
1979
New Hebrides
1980
Rhodesia
1980
Upper Volta
1984
South-West Africa
1990
Byelorussia
1991
Kampuchea
1991
Moldavia
1991
Tajik SSR
1991
Ukrainian SSR
1991
Uzbek SSR
1991
Western Samoa
1997
Zaire
1997
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