Bangladesh East Pakistan

Belarus

Byelorussia 1991

Belize British Honduras

Benin Dahomey
Botswana

1971

1973

1975

Bechuanaland

Brazil Terra de Santa Cruz

1966
16th Century

Burkina Faso Upper Volta 1984

Burundi

Urundi

Cambodia

Kampuchea 1989

Central African Republic

Colombia

1962

Central African Empire

New Granada

1863

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominican Republic
Djibouti

Zare 1997

Santo Domingo

1963

GhanaGold Coast

1957

Guinea-Bissau

Portuguese Guinea 1974

British Guiana

Haiti Saint-Domingue

Iran

1977

1971

Equatorial Guinea Spanish Guinea

Indonesia

1844

French Territory of the Afars and the Issas

Egypt United Arab Republic

Guyana

1979

1966

1804

Dutch East Indies

1949

Persia 1935

Ireland

Irish Free State

Israel Palestine

1937

1948

JordanTransjordan 1949
Current Name

Previous Name

Year of Name Change

Kiribati

Gilbert Islands

Lesotho

Basutoland 1966

1979

Madagascar Malagasy Republic 1975

Malawi
Mali

Nyasaland

French Sudan

1964
1960

Mexico

New Spain

1821

Moldova

Moldavia

1991

Namibia

South-West Africa 1990

Netherlands Kingdom of Holland

1810

Oman Muscat and Oman 1970

Samoa

Western Samoa

Sri Lanka

Ceylon

1997

1972

Sudan Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

1956

Suriname

1975

Dutch Guiana

Syria United Arab Republic

1961

Tanzania

Tanganyika or Zanzibar

Thailand

Siam 1939

Togo French Togoland

1974

1956

TurkeySublime Ottoman State

1923

TuvaluEllice Islands 1978

United Arab Emirates

Trucial States

1971

Uruguay

Provincia Cisplatina (Banda Oriental)

Vanuatu

New Hebrides

Zambia

Northern Rhodesia 1964

Zimbabwe

Southern Rhodesia 1980

1980

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