Cities by Former Names

Fill in the former city names.
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Modern Name
Former Name
Tokyo
Edo
Istanbul
Constantinople/Byzantium
Mumbai
Bombay
New York
Nieuw Amsterdam
Kolkata
Calcutta
Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
Saint Petersburg
Petrograd/Leningrad
Tbilisi
Tiflis
Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon
Kaliningrad
Königsberg
Guangzhou
Canton
Volgograd
Stalingrad/Tsaritsyn
Yangon
Rangoon
Paris
Lutetia
Chemnitz
Karl-Marx-Stadt
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5 Comments
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Level 82
Apr 21, 2019
Istanbul and Volgograd are accepted when I their modern names.
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Level 77
Apr 23, 2019
changes made
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Level 82
May 7, 2019
Thanks
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Level 82
May 7, 2019
Interesting that Tbilisi is still known as 'Tiflis' is several languages, including Persian, German and Turkish.
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Level 77
May 7, 2019
I put it as former name, because it was also the former name in English until it was changed to Tbilisi