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| Geography |
| Former Names |
| Countries |
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| Portuguese West Africa |
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Angola |
| New Holland (so named by Abel Tasman in 1644; New South Wales was named after British settlement in 1788, but the name New Holland continued in popular usage to refer to the entire continent until the 1850s) |
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Australia |
| East Pakistan (prior to independence in 1971) |
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Bangladesh |
| British Honduras (until 1973) |
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Belize |
| Upper Peru (to the Spanish colonialists, prior to independence) |
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Bolivia |
| Dahomey (until 1975) |
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Benin |
| Bechuanaland (prior to independence in 1966) |
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Botswana |
| Upper Volta (until 1984) |
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Burkina Faso |
| Kampuchea (1975–89) |
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Cambodia |
| Known in mediaeval Europe as Cathay |
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China |
| New Granada was the name used (in various official forms) from 1538 to 1819 for a group of Spanish colonies corresponding mainly to modern |
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Colombia |
| French Somaliland (prior to 1967), The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas (1967–77) |
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Djibouti |
| Zaire (1971–97; before that, the Belgian Congo) |
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DR Congo |
| Swaziland (until 2018) |
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Eswatini |
| Abyssinia |
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Ethiopia |
| French Equatorial Africa |
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Gabon |
| The Gold Coast (prior to independence in 1957) |
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Ghana |
| Dutch East Indies (from 1800, until independence in 1945) |
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Indonesia |
| Persia (until 1935) |
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Iran |
| Mesopotamia (in ancient times; also from 1921–31, under the British Mandate for Mesopotamia) |
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Iraq |
The Gilbert Islands
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Kiribati |
| Basutoland (prior to independence in 1966) |
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Lesotho |
| Malagasy Republic (until 1975) |
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Madagascar |
| Nyasaland (prior to independence in 1964) |
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Malawi |
| Upper Senegal (1880–90), French Sudan (1890–99, and 1920–58) |
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Mali |
| New Spain (from about 1521, until 1821) |
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Mexico |
| Burma (until 1989) |
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Myanmar |
| German South West Africa (1884–1915), South West Africa (from after World War I, until 1990) |
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Namibia |
| Spanish East Indies (1565–1899) – also included Guam and the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands (Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia), and for some time parts of Formosa (Taiwan) and the Moluccas (now part of Indonesia) |
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Philippines |
| Lusitania was a Roman province that included the modern country of |
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Portugal |
| Serendip (from Persian), Ceylon (from Portuguese, first used around 1505); current name adopted in 1972 |
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Sri Lanka |
| Dutch Guiana (Nederlands Guyana) – until 1975 |
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Surinam |
| Siam (until 1939, and 1945–9) |
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Thailand |
| The Ellice Islands |
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Tuvalu |
| The Trucial States (1820–1971)
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United Arab Emirates |
| Banda Oriental (before independence) |
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Uruguay |
| The New Hebrides |
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Vanuatu |
| Northern Rhodesia |
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Zambia |
| Southern Rhodesia |
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Zimbabwe |
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