{"id":3227,"date":"2017-11-15T08:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:28:16","slug":"old-new-names-countries-general-knowledge-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/old-new-names-countries-general-knowledge-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and New Names of Some Countries – General Knowledge 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Old Name<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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New Name<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
East Pakistan<\/td>\nBangladesh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peking<\/td>\nBeijing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kampuchea<\/td>\nCambodia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abyssinia<\/td>\nEthiopia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gold Coast<\/td>\nGhana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Salisbury<\/td>\nHarare<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dutch East Indies<\/td>\nIndonesia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Persia\/Mesopotamia<\/td>\nIran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Constantinople\/Byzaiu<\/td>\nIstanbul<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Batavia<\/td>\nJakarta<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nippon<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Malaya<\/td>\nMalaysia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burma<\/td>\nMyanmar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ceylon<\/td>\nSri Lanka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leningrad<\/td>\nSt petersburg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Formosa<\/td>\nTaiwan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Siam<\/td>\nThailand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Togoland<\/td>\nTogo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Egypt<\/td>\nUnited Arab Republic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rangoon<\/td>\nYangon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Congo<\/td>\nZaire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northern Rhodesia<\/td>\nZambia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southern rhodesia<\/td>\nZimbabwe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Old Name New Name East Pakistan Bangladesh Peking Beijing Kampuchea Cambodia Abyssinia Ethiopia Gold Coast Ghana Salisbury Harare Dutch East Indies Indonesia Persia\/Mesopotamia Iran Constantinople\/Byzaiu Istanbul Batavia Jakarta Nippon Japan Malaya Malaysia Burma Myanmar Ceylon Sri Lanka Leningrad St petersburg Formosa Taiwan Siam Thailand Togoland Togo Egypt United Arab Republic Rangoon Yangon Congo Zaire Northern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[135,94,90,136,95],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-knowledge","tag-cat","tag-ibps-clerk","tag-ibps-po","tag-rrb-po","tag-upsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}