Name a historic name for a modern country.

[Jara sang]

Rhodesia for Zimbabwe

[Burma Jones]

1. Siam for Thailand

[Arkham House]

7. The United States of America...

,,,for the Christian Corporate Republic...

[momophile]

2. Burma for Myanmar

[gollygee]

3. Persia for Iran

[NJ Democrats]

4. Gaul for France

[SaveElmer]

5. Britain for the United States..nt

[Jara sang]

6. The United States was never called Britain.

sorry:-(

[SaveElmer]

8. Yes I know...but

It was part of the British empire...and residents here were British citizens

[flvegan]

9. Istanbul, not Constantinople

Can't believe I'm first with this one.

[liontamer]

11. not a country

:P

[flvegan]

12. Right, but

I wasn't going for accuracy.

[liontamer]

13. well in that case

even old new york was once new amsterdam

[flvegan]

14. Excellent!

Why they changed it, I can't say.

[liontamer]

27. people just liked it better that way eom

[giant_robot]

10. Ceylon for Sri Lanka. n/t

[NNadir]

15. Prussia, for the largest part of Germany.

Most of what was once Prussia is now Poland, but the origins of Bismarck, and therefore Germany, is Prussia.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. Mess-o'potamia

for Iraq.
(spelling thanks to Jon Stewart)

[woo me with science]

17. Formosa/Taiwan and Nippon/Japan nt

[Blue_In_AK]

18. USSR for a lot of places

[giant_robot]

19. Hibernia and Caledonia

for Ireland and Scotland.

[Mikimouse]

20. Panonia...Hungary...n/t

[YankeyMCC]

21. Columbia for America

[vikegirl]

22. Thrace = parts of Greece, Bulgaria & Turkey

[JI7]

23. Yugoslavia

for Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Bosnia

[JI7]

24. Zaire for Congo

[Kat45]

25. British Honduras for Belize

[JI7]

26. the historic names sound better for many of the places

it has a more "exotic" sound to it.

[karlrschneider]

28. Didn't see anyone listing Kampuchea (sp?) for Cambodia

how the hell do we spell it these days?

[ornotna]

29. Palestine - Israel n/t

[baldguy]

30. Nunavut for the eastern part of Canada's Northwest Territory.

[JCMach1]

31. Trucial States= UAE

[Arugula Latte]

32. Ottoman Empire for Turkey and lots of other places. n/t

[tinfoilinfor2005]

33. Key West used to be called Cayo Hueso, meanig

Island of Bones, bastardized into the English Key West. The locals still call it Cayo Hueso.
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Estonia, a country in the Baltics used to be called Igaunia.