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Old Name of What Geographical Region?

Can you name the old names of these regions?
Quiz by Lucknowite
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Last updated: January 17, 2019
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Angora
Ankara
Batavia
Jakarta
Burma
Myanmar
Christina
Oslo
Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
Formosa
Taiwan
Leopoldville
Kinshasa
Nippon
Japan
Northern Rhodesia
Zambia
Nyasaland
Malawi
Oea
Tripoli
Peking
Beijing
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Rangoon
Yangon
Salisbury
Harare
Turicum
Zürich
Persia
Iran
Kampuchea
Cambodia
Holland
Netherlands
Edo
Tokyo
Calcutta
Kolkata
Abyssinia
Ethiopia
Prayag
Allahabad
Bombay
Mumbai
Siam
Thailand
5 Comments
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Level 73
Jan 17, 2019
You mistyped "Kinshasa" ;)
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Level 41
Jan 17, 2019
Fixed:)
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Level 74
Jan 17, 2019
Christiania or Kristiania, not Christina.
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Level 41
Jan 17, 2019
I had no idea of that. It was spelled Christina in source I was using. Thanks for making me aware of it. Christina is replaced by christiania.
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Level 27
Sep 25, 2022
it should be noted some of these aren't old.

holland an Nippon are still in use to this day. Nippon just being Japanese for Japan and Holland being a region within the Netherlands.