Former names of current places quiz
History has a way to alter names of placed. Do you know the name of these places before their names were changed?
1. Which of these places was once called New Amsterdam?
Jakarta
New York City
San Francisco
London
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2. Which of these places was once called Constantinople?
Cairo
Jerusalem
Istanbul
Athens
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3. Which of these places was once called Peking?
Norrköping
Shanghai
Seoul
Beijing
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4. Which of these places was once called Leningrad?
Kyiv
Moscow
Warsaw
St. Petersburg
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5. Which of these places was once called Bombay?
Mumbai
Bengaluru
Delhi
Kolkata
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6. Which of these countries was named Persia until 1935?
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Iran
Iraq
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7. Which of these places was once called Siam?
Thailand
South Korea
Indonesia
Bangladesh
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8. Which of these places was once called Saigon?
Ho Chi Minh City
Singapore
Manila
Kuala Lumpur
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9. Which of these places was once called New Spain?
Bermuda
Brazil
Mexico
Madagascar
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10. Which of these places was once called Sandwich Islands?
Greater Antilles
Florida Keys
Hawaiian Islands
Aleutian Islands
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11. Which of these places was once called Dutch East Indies?
Trinidad and Tobago
French Polynesia
Indonesia
Bahamas
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12. Which of these places was once called Edo?
Tokyo
Pyongyang
Taipei
Bangkok
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13. Which of these places was once called Ceylon?
Haiti
Iceland
Sri Lanka
Cyprus
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14. Which of these places was once called East Pakistan?
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Bangladesh
Nepal
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15. Which of these places was once called Zaire?
Nigeria
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Angola
Kenya
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