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Test your knowledge with the World Countries Former Names Quiz. Guess the previous names of countries and learn fascinating facts about their historical changes.

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World Countries Former Names

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Given the present-day country and year, name the previous name it had which changed during the given year. It may have changed to a name different than the present-day name at that time. Also the former country may not be located in the same exact area as the current country. This is not meant to be an all-inclusive list.

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Ovamiat

2 years ago

Myanmar, Turkey, Russia: I would guess those three are going to be added?

Heisenberg

2 years ago

No Ethiopia’s former name?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to Heisenberg

there were some I didn’t add, may throw in a few more before long.

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darin

2 years ago

Had an issue where the quiz gave up all the issues so fixed and reset the perfect scores 🙂

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