it was renamed Lesotho - in 1966.
Lesotho
Benin is the present name of the country formerly called Dahomey.
The country was formerly called "Burma."
The country was formerly called "Burma."
Zimbabwe is the current name of the country formerly called Rhodesia.
The Kingdom of Lesotho.
The former French colony called "Soudan Français", (English: French Sudan) is the country now called Mali.
Iran used to be called Persia. It changed its name in the early 1920s. (Prussia, which sounds similar, is an entirely different country, formerly located in the eastern part of, what is now, United Germany
Yokohama
Uluru, formerly known by the European name of Ayers Rock, is in the country and continent of Australia.
It was formerly called Armistice Day.
The name of the western Asian country (formerly part of the USSR) is Kazakhstan.