Cities by Their Former Names - Statistics

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Former Name	Root	Current Name	% Correct
Leningrad	Soviet	Saint Petersburg	96%
Peking	Imperial Chinese	Beijing	93%
Byzantium	Greek	Istanbul	93%
Bombay	British Colonial	Mumbai	93%
Tenochtitlán	Aztec	Mexico City	91%
New Amsterdam	Dutch colonial	New York	91%
Krung Thep	Thai-royal	Bangkok	85%
Saigon	Khmer	Ho Chi Minh City	85%
Edo	Japanese‑feudalist	Tokyo	84%
Danzig	German	Gdańsk	82%
Batavia	Dutch colonial	Jakarta	76%
Königsberg	Prussian	Kaliningrad	73%
Léopoldville	Belgian colonial	Kinshasa	73%
Christiania	Norwegian-Renaissance	Oslo	73%
Angora	Ottoman	Ankara	69%
Stalingrad	Soviet	Volgograd	69%
Madras	British colonial	Chennai	56%
Lwów	Polish	Lviv	55%
Rangoon	British colonial	Yangon	55%
Salisbury	British colonial	Harare	33%
Pressburg	Austro‑Hungarian	Bratislava	24%
Reval	Germanic	Tallinn	11%
Benares	Hindu-cultural	Varanasi	11%
Bearbrass	Early colonial	Melbourne	2%
Serdica	Roman	Sofia	2%

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