Countries That Have Changed Their Names

Countries can change their names for many different reasons. Sometimes, they change it to distance themselves from their colonial past, or to better reflect their identity. Can you recognize which former country names are written below?

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Old Name	New Name
Turkey	Turkiye
Persia	Iran
Siam	Thailand
Burma	Myanmar
Kampuchea	Cambodia
Ceylon	Sri Lanka
Macedonia	North Macedonia
Swaziland	Eswatini
Rhodesia	Zimbabwe
Cape Verde	Cabo Verde
East Timor	Timor-Leste
Zaire	D.R. Congo
Upper Volta	Burkina Faso
British Honduras	Belize
Dahomey	Benin
Bechuanaland	Botswana
Nyasaland	Malawi
Tanganyika	Tanzania
Ivory Coast	Côte d'Ivoire