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Countries that were renamed in the XX and XXI centuries – in alphabetical order by the current name of the country

List format: year of renaming | old (previous) name – new (current) name of the country

• 1971 East Pakistan – Bangladesh
• 1973 British Honduras – Belize
• 1975 Dahomey – Benin
• 1966 Bechuanaland – Botswana
• 1984 Upper Volta – Burkina Faso
• 1980 New Hebrides – Vanuatu
• 1957 Gold Coast – Ghana
• 1974 Portuguese Guinea – Guinea-Bissau
• 1997 Zaire – Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 1977 French territory of the Afar and Issa – Djibouti
• 2018 Swaziland – Eswatini
• 1941 Abyssinia – Ethiopia
• 1980 Rhodesia – Zimbabwe
• 1935 Persia – Iran
• 2013 Cape Verde Islands – Cabo Verde
• 1989 Kampuchea – Cambodia
• 1979 Gilbert Islands – Kiribati
• 1986 Ivory Coast – Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
• 1966 Basutoland – Lesotho
• 1964 Nyasaland – Malawi
• 1960 French Sudan – Mali
• 1989 Burma – Myanmar
• 1968 Southwest Africa – Namibia
• 2019 Macedonia – North Macedonia
• 1947 Siam – Thailand (this name was also used in 1939...1945, but in 1945 the name Siam returned for a short time)
• 1964 Tanganyika + Zanzibar – Tanzania
• 1975 Ellis Islands – Tuvalu
• 1923 Ottoman Empire (part) – Turkey
• 1958 Ubangui Shari – Central African Republic
• 1972 Ceylon – Sri Lanka

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