Countries that Change Their Name - Statistics

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Year Change	Old Name	Current Name	% Correct
1989	Burma	Myanmar	90%
1975/2002	Portuguese Timor	East Timor/ Timor-Leste	88%
1975	Dutch Guiana	Suriname	88%
1971	East Pakistan	Bangladesh	85%
2018	Swaziland	Eswatini	85%
1935	Persia	Iran	83%
1972	Ceylon	Sri Lanka	83%
1997	Zaire	Democratic Republic of the Congo	81%
1949	Siam	Thailand	81%
1966	British Guiana	Guyana	79%
1945/1949	Dutch East Indies	Indonesia	79%
1980	Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	79%
1973	British Honduras	Belize	77%
1932	British Mandate of Mesopotamia	Iraq	77%
1990	Southwest Africa	Namibia	75%
1964	Northern Rhodesia	Zambia	75%
1991	Kampuchea	Cambodia	73%
1974	Portuguese Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	71%
1946	Transjordan	Jordan	69%
1968	Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	67%
1971	The Trucial States of the Coast of Oman	United Arab Emirates	67%
1977	French Somaliland	Djibouti	65%
1957	Gold Coast	Ghana	65%
1898	Spanish East Indies	Philippines	63%
1825	Upper Peru	Bolivia	60%
1941	Abyssinia	Ethiopia	58%
1984	Upper Volta	Burkina Faso	52%
1821	New Spain	Mexico	50%
1975	Dahomey	Benin	48%
1979	Gilbert Islands	Kiribati	44%
1964	Nyasaland	Malawi	42%
1960	French Sudan	Mali	42%
1966	Bechuanaland	Botswana	38%
1932	Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd	Saudi Arabia	38%
1966	Basutoland	Lesotho	33%
1863	New Granada	Colombia	27%
1980	New Hebrides	Vanuatu	27%
1978	Ellice Islands	Tuvalu	25%
1530	Terra de Santa Cruz	Brazil	19%
1958/1979	Ubangi-Shari	Central African Republic	17%
1819	Temasik	Singapore	17%

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