Country Name Is |
Country Name Was |
Antigua and Barbuda |
Former Crown Colony |
Armenia |
Former Soviet Republic |
Aruba |
Part of Netherlands Antilles |
Azerbaijan |
Former Soviet Republic |
Bangladesh |
East Pakistan |
Belarus |
Byelorussia |
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White Russia |
Belize |
British Honduras |
Benin |
Dahomey |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Formerly Part of Yugoslavia |
Botswana |
Bechuanaland Protectorate |
British Antarctic Territories |
Part of Falkland Islands Dependencies |
Burkina Faso |
Upper Volta |
Burundi |
Urundi |
Cambodia |
Khmer Republic (1970-75) |
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Democratic Kampuchea (1975-79) |
Colombia |
Grenadine Confederation (1858-61) |
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United States of New Granada (1861) |
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United States of Colombia (1861-85) |
Croatia |
Formerly Part of Yugoslavia |
Czech Republic |
Czechoslovakia |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
Congo Free State (1885-1908) |
| Belgian Congo (1908-1960) |
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Congo Democratic Republic (1960-71) |
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Zaire (1971-1997) |
Eritrea |
Former Italian Colony |
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Formerly Part of Ethiopia |
Estonia |
Former U.S.S.R. |
Djibouti Republic |
Somali Coast (1902-67) |
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French Territory of the Afars and Issas (1967-77) |
Equatorial Guinea |
Fernando Po and Rio Muni (Spanish Guinea) |
Georgia |
U.S.S.R. |
Ghana |
Gold Coast |
Guinea |
French Guinea |
Guinea-Bissau |
Portuguese Guinea |
Guyana |
British Guiana |
Indonesia |
Netherlands Indies |
Iran |
Persia |
Iraq |
Mesopotamia |
Israel |
Palestine |
Jordan |
Trans-Jordan |
Kazakstan |
Soviet Republic |
Kenya |
British East Africa |
Kiribati |
Gilbert Islands |
Kyrgyztan |
Former Soviet Republic |
Latvia |
Former Soviet Republic |
Lesotho |
Basutoland |
Lithuania |
Former Soviet Republic |
Macedonia |
Formerly Part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
Madagascar |
Malagasy Republic |
Malawi |
British Central Africa (1891-1907) |
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Nyasaland (1907-64) |
Malaysia |
Malaya and Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo) |
Mali |
French Sudan |
Melaka |
Malacca |
Micronesia, Palau |
Caroline Islands |
Moldova |
Former Soviet Republic |
Myanmar |
Burma |
Namibia |
South West Africa |
Pulau Pinang |
Penang |
Rwanda |
Ruanda |
Sabah |
North Borneo |
Slovakia |
Formerly Part of Czechoslovakia |
Slovenia |
Formerly Part of Yugoslavia |
Somalia |
Italian Somalia and British Somaliland Protectorate |
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
Part of Falkland Islands Dependencies |
Sri Lanka |
Ceylon |
St. Kitts and Nevis |
St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla |
Tadjikstan |
Former Soviet Republic |
Tanzania |
Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
Thailand |
Siam |
Tuvalu |
Ellice Islands |
United Arab Emirates |
Trucial States |
Uzbekistan |
Former Soviet Republic |
Vanuatu |
New Hebrides |
Western Samoa |
Formerly Part of Samoa |
West Irian |
Netherlands New Guinea |
Yemen People's Democratic Republic |
Aden (1937-65) |
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South Arabia (1965-67) |
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People's Republic of Southern Yemen (1967-71) |
Zambia |
Northern Rhodesia |
Zil Elwannyen Sesel |
British Indian Ocean Territory (Previously Part of Seychelles) |
Zimbabwe |
Southern Rhodesia (1924-65) |
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Rhodesia (1965-80) |