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place-name changes

Wartime Name	Current Name
Places in the former Soviet Union are given their most up-to-date current name, but these are liable to change.
Abyssinia	Ethiopia
Acre	'Akko
Addis Ababa	Adis Abeba
Addis Derra	Adis Dera
Aden Protectorate	People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Akyab	Sittwe
Aleppo	Halab
Alexandretta	Iskenderun
Amba Alagi	Amba Alage
Amboina	Ambon
Amoy	Xiamen
Anhwei	Anhui
Annam	part of Vietnam
Asmara	Asmera
Assab	Aseb
Assiut	Asyut
Bardia	Al Bardi
Basra	Al Basrah
Batavia	Jakarta
Bechuanaland	Botswana
Beda Fomm	Bayda' Fumm, Bi'r
Belgian Congo	Zaire
Bielgorod	Belgorod
Benghazi	Banghazi
Bir Hakeim	Abyar al Hakim
Bône	Annaba
Bonin Is	Ogasawara Guntō
Bougie	Bejaïa
Breslau	Wrocław
Brest-Litovsk	Brest
Briansk	Bryansk
British Cameroon	northern area part of Nigeria, southern area part of United Republic of Cameroon
British Guiana	Guyana
British Honduras	Belize
British North Borneo	Sabah
British Somaliland	part of Somalia
Burma	Myanmar
Canea	Khaniá
Canton	Guangzhou
Carinthia	Kärnten
Castelrosso	Megisti
Celebes	Sulawesi
Ceram	Seram
Cetatea-Albǎ	Belgorod-Dnestrovski
Ceylon	Sri Lanka
Chahar	divided amongst other Chinese Provinces
Chandernagore	Chandannagar
Changteh	Changde
Chekiang	Zhejiang
Chengchow	Zhengzhou
Chengtu	Chengdu
Chining	Jining
Chungking	Chongqing
Cocanada	Kakinada
Cochin-China	part of Vietnam
Czechoslovakia	divided into Czech and Slovak Republics
Dahomey	Benin
Dairen	Dalian
Danzig	Gdańsk
Debra Markos	Dabra Markos
Deutsch-Brod	Havličkuv Brod
Diégo Suarez	Antseranana
Dnepropetrovsk	Dnipropetrovsk
Dobruja	Dobrogea
Dutch Borneo	Kalimantan, which is divided into four Indonesian provinces
Dutch Guiana	Suriname
Dutch New Guinea	Irian Jaya, a province of Indonesia
Dutch Timor	East Nusa Tenggara, a province of Indonesia
Eire	Republic of Ireland
El Agheila	Al-'Uqaylah
Ellice Is	Tuvalu
Etorofu I.	Ostrov Iturup
Fanning I.	Tabuaeran
Fengtien (Mukden until 1932)	Shenyang
Fernando Po I.	Bioko
Fiume	Rijeka
Formosa	Taiwan
Fort Lamy	N'Djamena
French Cameroon	part of United Republic of Cameroon
French Guinea	Guinea
Fench Indo-China	Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
French Morocco	part of Morocco
French Somaliland	Republic of Djibouti
French Sudan	Mali
French Togoland	Togo
Fushih	Yanan
Gavutu I.	Ghavutu I.
Gazala	Ghazalah, 'Ayn al
Genzan	Wǒnsan
Gilbert Is	Kiribati
Gleiwitz	Gliwice
Gojjam	Gojam
Gold Coast	Ghana
Gona	Garara
Gondar	Gonder
Gorky	Nizhniy Novgorod
Gzhatsk	Gagarin
Halha river	Ha-lo-hsin river
Hangchow	Hangzhou
Hankø	Hangö
Hankow	Hankou
Harar	Harer
Heraklion	Iráklion
Hollandia	Jayapura
Honan	Henan
Hopeh	Hebei
Hsinking	Changchun
Hsüchow	Xuchang
Hupeh	Hubei
Ichang	Yichang
India	divided into Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan
Inner Mongolia	Nei Mongol Zizhiqu
Irrawaddy river	Ayeyarwady river
Ismail	Izmail
Italian Somaliland	part of Somalia
Ivory Coast	Côte d'Ivoire
Java	Jawa
Jehol (province)	divided between Chinese provinces of Nei Mongol Zizhiqu (formerly Inner Mongolia), Hebei, and Liaoning
Johore Bahru	Johor Baharu
Juba river	Jubba river
Kalinin	Tver
Karen state	Kayin state
Kassa	Košice
Katanga	Shaba
Kharkov	Kharkiv
Kiangsu	Jiangsu
Kiev	Kyiv
Kirgizia	Kyrgystan
Kissoué	Kiswe
Knocke	Knokke-Heist
Konigsberg	Kaliningrad
Koritsa	Korcë
Kota Bharu	Kota Baharu
Kovno	Kaunas
Kronstadt	Kronshtadt
Kuibyshev	Samara
Kulm	Chełmno
Kunashiri I.	Ostrov Kunashir
Kurile Is	Kurilskiye Ostrova
Küstrin	Kostrzyn
Kwangtung	Guangdong
Leningrad	St. Petersburg
Lourenço Marques	Maputo
Lunga Pt	Lungga Pt
Lwów	L'viv
Majunga	Mahajanga
Makin I.	Butaritari I.
Malacca	Melaka
Malaya	part of Malaysia
Maldive Is	Maldives
Massawa	Mits'iwa
Mengkian	Jingyu
Mersa Brega	Al Burayqah
Mersa Matruh	Marsa Matruh
Middle Congo	People's Rep. of Congo
Moulmein	Mawlamyine
Moluccas	Maluku
Mosul	Al Mawsil
Mozhaisk	Mozhaysk
Mukden	see Fengtien
Murzouk	Murzuq
Naga Hills	Nagaland
Nanking	Nanjing
Netherlands East Indies	Indonesia
New Guinea (Australian mandate)	now part of Papua New Guinea
New Hebrides	Vanuatu
Ninghsien	Ningbo
Ningsia	Ningxia
Noemfoor	Numfor
Northern Rhodesia	Zambia
Nyasaland	Malawi
Ocean I.	Banaba
Okhotsk Sea	Okhotskoye More
Onega Lake	Onezhskoye Ozero
Oranienbaum	Lomonosov
Pahlevi	Bandar-e Anzali
Palestine	Israel
Palmyra	Tadmur
Papua	part of Papua New Guinea
Patani	Pattani
Pegu	Bago
Peking	Beijing
Petsamo	Pechenga
Ploeşti	Ploïesti
Pomerania	Polish provinces of Szczecin and Koszalin, and part of Gdańsk province
Pomerelia	Polish provinces of Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz
Pomorze	Polish province of Bydgoszcz
Port Arthur	Lüshun
Port Lyautey	Kenitra
Port Swettenham	Pelabohan Kelang
Portuguese East Africa	Mozambique
Portuguese Guinea	Guinea-Bissau
Portuguese Timor	East Timor
Portuguese West Africa	Angola
Prussia	divided between Germany, Poland, and Russia
Rangoon	Yangon
Rastenburg	Kętrzyn
Retimo	Réthimnon
Ruanda-Urundi	two independent states: Rwandi and Burundi
Salonika	Thessaloniki
Salween river	Thanlwin river
Scarpanto	Karpathos
Schneidemühl	Pila
Seishin	Chǒngjin
Sian	Xian
Sidi Rezegh	Sidi Rizq
Sidon	Saïda
Singora	Songkhla
Sinkiang	Xinjiang
Skoplje	Skopje
Smyrna	Izmir
Sollum	Salum
Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe
South-West Africa	Namibia
Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea
Spanish Morocco	part of Morocco
Spanish Sahara	part of Morocco
Sphakia	Sfakíon
Spitzbergen	Spitsbergen
Stalingrad	Volgograd
Stalino	Donetsk
Stanyslaviv	Ivano-Frankivsk
Stettin	Szczecin
Stutthof	Sztutowo
Sumatra	Sumatera
Swatow	Shantou
Szechwan	Sichuan
Taierhchwang	Teierzhuang
Takao	Keo-hsiung
Tanganyika	Tanzania
Tangier	Tanger
Tarnopol	Ternopil
Tassafaronga	Tasivarongo
Teheran	Tehran
Terijoki	Zelenogorsk
Teschen	Český Těšín
Thereseienstadt	Terezín
Tientsin	Tianjin
Tilsit	Sovetsk
Tobruk	Tubruq
Tolvajarvi	Tolvayarvi
Tongkin	part of Vietnam
Transjordan	Jordan
Trans-Volta Togoland	part of Ghana
Trengganu	Terengganu
Truk Is	Chuuk Is
Tsinan	Jinan
Tulagi I.	Tulaghi I.
Tungan	Mishan
Ubangi-Shari	Central African Republic
Ungvár	Uzhgorod
Upper Volta	Burkina
USSR	dissolved December 1991
Vaagso	Vágsøy
Valetta	Valletta
Viipuri	Vyborg
Vileika	Molodechno
Voroshilovgrad	Lugansk
Wilno	Vilnius
Yangtse River	Jinsha Jiang
Zhdanov	Mariupol

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