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Historical Country Names
What do you know about formerly used country names and names of countries which have ceased to exist?
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Last updated: February 14, 2021
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1. On which continent was once a country named Dutch Guiana?
Africa
Central America
Oceania
South America
2. Which country in the South Pacific ocean was known as New Hebrides when it was a colony?
Fiji
Kiribati
Vanuatu
Tonga
3. Which African country was known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997?
Angola
Niger
Cameroon
D.R. Congo
4. Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?
Swaziland
Lesotho
Guinea
Benin
5. Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?
Chad
Burkina Faso
Sudan
Mauritania
6. Which African country was known as Dahomey until 1975?
Benin
Cameroon
Senegal
Ivory Coast
7. Which African country was known as unrecognized state of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Kenya
Namibia
8. Which Asian country was know as Siam until 1932, when it became a constitutional monarchy?
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Pakistan
9. Since 1975, what was the colonial name of East Timor?
Portuguese Timor
British Timor
Spanish Timor
French Timor
10. Which Asian country was known as Burma until 1989?
Laos
Bhutan
Myanmar
Vietnam
11. Which Asian country was known as Kampuchea until 1989?
Singapore
Nepal
Cambodia
Thailand
12. Which Asian country in the west and from the beginning of British colonial rule was known as Ceylon?
Malaysia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Brunei
13. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas. Which present country is that?
Costa Rica
Panama
Belize
Jamaica
14. The Former Republic of Macedonia changed its name in 2019. What is country's new name?
Western Macedonia
South Macedonia
Eastern Macedonia
North Macedonia
15. French Somaliland was a French colony in the Horn of Africa between 1884 and 1967. Which country is its legal successor state?
Somalia
Eritrea
Djibouti
Lesotho
16. What present country was not part of Yugoslavia before its dissolution in 1992?
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Moldova
Montenegro
17. Silesia (Schlesien) was historical region of Central Europe located mostly in three present countries. Which one is not one of them?
Germany
Poland
Austria
Czech Republic
18. What is the name of a former kingdom of the German Empire, originally a small country on the south eastern shores of the Baltic Sea?
Ruthenia
Helvetia
Prussia
Moravia
19. Prior 1918 the term "Bohemia" was traditionally used for which present country?
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Poland
20. Which island was known as Danish West Indies?
Puerto Rico
Sint Maarten
U.S. Virgin Islands
Barbados
21. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 how many independent post-Soviet states were formed?
15
10
8
12
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