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Renamed Countries
You Gotta Know These Countries Once Known by Different Names
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The country that adopted its current name upon gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971, after the 1947 partition of British India | Bangladesh |
| The leader of the Awami League who pushed for greater autonomy for East Pakistan in 1966 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
| The country formerly known as the Republic of Upper Volta until 1984 | Burkina Faso |
| The military officer who seized power in a 1983 coup and changed the country’s name to "Burkina Faso" ("land of the upright") | Thomas Sankara |
| The country known as Zaire between 1971 and 1997 | Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) |
| The dictator who changed the DRC's name to Zaire and was later ousted in the First Congo War | Mobutu Sese Seko |
| The coalition led by Laurent Kabila that ousted Mobutu and changed the name back to the DRC in 1997 | Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo |
| The country formerly known as Swaziland until 2018, an absolute monarchy between South Africa and Mozambique | eSwatini |
| The King (Ingwenyama) who proclaimed the name change to eSwatini ("the land of Swazis") to mark 50 years of independence | King Mswati III |
| The West African nation that combined British holdings, most prominently the Gold Coast, to become a dominion in 1957 | Ghana |
| The leader of the modern push for independence in the Gold Coast, who became Ghana's first prime minister and president | Kwame Nkrumah |
| The country that changed its name in February 2019, previously in a naming dispute with Greece | North Macedonia |
| The treaty that resolved the naming dispute between Greece and Macedonia in 2018 | Treaty of Prespa |
| The island nation formerly known as Ceylon, which adopted its current name in 1972 | Sri Lanka |
| The European power that gave Sri Lanka its previous name of Ceilão (Ceylon) after their arrival in 1505 | Portuguese |
| The Kingdom of Thailand's former name, used prominently by the Chakri dynasty | Siam |
| The leader (known as Phibun) who changed the country's name to Thailand ("Land of the Free") twice, once in 1939 and again in 1949 | Luang Phibunsongkhram |
| The federation of seven internal states previously known as the Trucial States that united in 1971 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
| The name Britain used for the Persian Gulf region where the sheikhdoms signed truces in the 1820s | Pirate Coast |
| The emir of Abu Dhabi who negotiated the agreement among the Trucial States and became the first president of the UAE | Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan |
| The country that assumed its current name upon formal independence from Britain in 1980 and was named after a ruined city within its borders | Zimbabwe |
| The colony that became Zimbabwe and Zambia, named for this British imperialist | Rhodesia (Cecil Rhodes) |
| The 1979 agreement under which Britain resumed control of Southern Rhodesia temporarily to oversee elections | Lancaster House Agreement |
| The ZANU party leader who won the elections overseen by Britain and ruled the new country of Zimbabwe for 37 years | Robert Mugabe |
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