Old Names of Countries

1. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [I.A.S. (Pre) 2005]

Current Name	Old Name
(a) Harare	Salisbury
(b) Ethiopia	Abyssinia
(c) Ghana	Dutch Guiana
(d) Kinshasa	Leopoldville

Correct Answer: (c)

Solution:Except for option (c) other pairs are correctly matched. The old name of Ghana is Gold Coast, not Dutch Guiana. Ghana was the first country of the African continent to achieve independence (on March 6, 1957) from the British colony. Dutch Guiana is known as Suriname.

2. Zimbabwe was earlier known as- [U.P. Lower Sub. (Spl) (Pre) 2004]

(a) Southern Rhodesia
(b) Gold Coast
(c) Ivory Coast
(d) Belgian Congo

Correct Answer: (a) Southern Rhodesia

Solution:Zimbabwe was earlier known as Southern Rhodesia. It was a British colony. Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, was earlier known as Salisbury.

3. Match List-I and List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below- [Uttarakhand U.D.A/L.D.A. (Pre) 2003]

List-I (Old Name)	List-II (New Name)
A. Siam	1. Taiwan
B. Formosa	2. Myanmar
C. Mesopotamia	3. Thailand
D. Burma	4. Iraq

Code :

	A	B	C	D
(a)	2	1	3	4
(b)	4	2	1	3
(c)	1	3	2	4
(d)	3	1	4	2

Correct Answer: (d)

Solution:The correct match of old names and new names is as follows:

New Name	Old Name
Taiwan	Formosa
Myanmar	Burma (or Union of Burma)
Thailand	Siam
Iraq	Mesopotamia

Old Names of Countries

1. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [I.A.S. (Pre) 2005]

2. Zimbabwe was earlier known as- [U.P. Lower Sub. (Spl) (Pre) 2004]

3. Match List-I and List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below- [Uttarakhand U.D.A/L.D.A. (Pre) 2003]

Code :

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