28 Countries That Changed Their Names

[@nerdrobot]

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[@krekoli]

Why don't you write these points correctly? TURKIYE ❎ TÜRKİYE ✓ If you write these letters incorrectly in Turkish, they can mean very different things. Example Sıkış = squeeze Sik*iş = fu*ck. Stars are censorship

[@Whale-sharklover2017]

Can you please upload a video with fun facts about animals? Also, can you make sure all the facts are verified?

[@persianrezairani5262]

Yes, you are right, we live in the age of information, and no one can lie anymore! But at the same time, many can spread misinformation as well! You yourself said that Iran used to refer to a much larger area. That is true. But Iran lost those areas in wars. That, however, does not change the fact that the name Iran existed from dawn of Iranian history. Other parts, such as Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Azerbaijan, etc. can also call themselves Iran or part of greater Iran. But the fact stays. Iran existed for thousands of years. There was no name change. Only asking the Westerners not to call it Persia and use Iran instead. You can see ver old books (e.g. Shahname Ferdowsi) using the name Iran. And in more ecent documents (but much older than 88 years) such as treties between Iran and other countries, coins, stamps, etc. that the name Iran has been used. So, if you are after the truth, please check these.

[@DisneyXDOmniverse]

In my idea, Thailand is changed into 'Shin Kill La Kill' (Name is Anime) because had too much Scammer on the internet world

[@white_life45]

Kirgizya -KYRGYZ REPUBLIC 🇰🇬 Киргизия - Кыргызская республика

[@christosmalamas7526]

Soviet Union and Yugoslavia didn't change their names. They just collapsed and new countries emerged.

[@ИршатБасыров]

Обе страны стали правопреемниками предыдущих. Со всеми долгами и обязательствами.

[@steve3425]

Russia was not a new country borne out of a collapsed Soviet Union-it existed before and throughout the Soviet era. Russia was the largest and strongest member of the SU.

[@shymyrqazaq]

Также ссср. Қазақстан последний вышел из ссср.

[@СандибекЖолдыбай]

Рашке капец! Слава Украине!

[@СергейКоваленко-о6ь]

​@@steve3425россия первая покинула ссср - 12 июня 1990 года, за полтора года до развала ссср. Позорники и предатели!

[@Jewelmen10]

British Guiana = Guyana Dutch Guiana = Suriname French Guinea = Guinea Portuguese Guinea = Guinea Bissau Spanish Guinea = Equatorial Guinea

[@JoseAugusto-zn7jm]

British Guiana = Just "Guyana" Dutch Guiana = Suriname French Guiana = same Portuguese Guiana = "Amapá" Spanish Guiana = "Guayana"

[@rainanduarte594]

​@@JoseAugusto-zn7jmGuinea, not Guyana

[@roysnabilie8345]

​@@rainanduarte594 no it is Guyana now

[@ЯсенПень-н9щ]

British slave system, Dutch slave system, French slave system, Portuguese slave system, Spanish slave system, USA slave system

[@tizianotomaselli9154]

È meglio che tu faccia un corso avanzato di geografia.

[@virgiesipat8630]

Yugoslavia didn't changed to Serbia ..it was dissolved into multiple nations...not only becoming Serbia....It is now the countries of Serbia,Croatia,Montenegro,Macedonia,Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia

[@rajazoraja]

West banana-states, except Serbia maybe

[@3m0_kd36]

Yes but Serbia is the biggest country from Yugoslavia. That’s why Serbia gets more recognition than those other nations

[@virgiesipat8630]

@@3m0_kd36How can u call Yugaslavia as the Serbia when it was divided into 6 nations?

[@3m0_kd36]

@@virgiesipat8630 yes u are right but then Serbia is the biggest country out of Yugoslavia and it’s more well-known so that’s why a lot of ppl say that Yugoslavia changed to Serbia.

[@BezobrazovViacheslav]

И всё-таки, случай с Югославией, так и с СССР не совсем корректны. Эти государства с федеративным устройством были разделены на составляющие части. Если уж на то пошло, то СССР можно было назвать Содружество Независимых Государств (СНГ)...

[@legendasrbije89]

The Soviet Union was not renamed Russia, but split into 15 states. And Yugoslavia did not disintegrate in 1991, it existed for many more years, included Serbia and Montenegro, then was renamed the Union State of Serbia and Montenegro, and only then was divided into a separate Serbia and a separate Montenegro.

[@VarvarKa31]

Словения, Хорватия, Босния и Герцеговина, Сербия, Черногория и Северная Македония. Ну и Косово. Вот как распалась Югославия. Не только на Сербию и Македонию.

[@mishkaseverokavkazskiy230]

Если не придираться то Российская Федерация сначала была Русью, потом Российской Империей, потом РСФСР в составе Советского Союза, затем стала Российской Федерацией. Так что не правильно говорить, что мы не меняли название.

[@UnitedBengal71]

Actually BANGLADESH means “The land of the Bengalis”. “Bangla” is the language and ethnicity and “Desh” means Land.

[@aviation_everyday2024]

I'm Bengali

[@fayezalishakil7634]

It means both

[@jaydeepsen4769]

I'm Bengali from the Indian state of West Bengal

[@NiklazSchwarzschild]

Now you can change it again as “Rickshawdesh”

[@UnitedBengal71]

@@NiklazSchwarzschild also you guys can change your country name from Germany to “NaziLand”

[@quantumaction1889]

I think the former name of Tanzania was Tanganyika - Zanzibar is just an island off the coast.

[@Mithroun]

zanzibar is a farsi word. in farsi we call it zangbar. zang=black bar=beach

[@j.woodbury412]

Tanzania, officially known as The United Republic of Tanzania consists of Tanganyika, which is the part on the African mainland and Zanzibar, an island off the coast. The name Tanzania is a combination of (Tan)ganyika and (Zan)zibar, with the suffix -ia at the end

[@johnmaina8515]

@@j.woodbury412 Correct

[@robertoespina4939]

Tanzania is a merger of two different countries, Tanganyika on the mainland and the independent island kingdom of Zanzibar.

[@robertoespina4939]

Zanzibar is NOT "just an island off the coast of Tanganyika". It was an independent island kingdom which later chose to merge with Tanganyika to form the Republic of Tanzania.

[@zuraorokamono204]

I don't think Russia belongs here. It's not a name change, Russia simply emerged as a sovereign nation out of the collapse of the Soviet Union. During its existance, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was a things which became the Russian Federation in 1991. It's not a revertion to a historic name, the name never went away at all.

[@jameslongstreet9259]

Beat me to it by four hours. No Russia was always Russia. Before it was the Russian Federation, it was the Russian SSR, as you mentioned, being a part of the USSR.

[@drqwyxz3588]

and Serbia too, same as Russia 🤗

[@ИршатБасыров]

Россия - правопреемник СССР. Со всеми долгами и обязательствами. Ну, и ядерное оружие СССР получила Россия, а не кто-то другой

[@jameslongstreet9259]

@aleksei_zubtsovThanks for clarification

[@LisaLitvak]

@@ИршатБасыров Утверждение что рф - это правопреемник ссср настолько упрощённое что его нельзя считать аккуратным. Наприме, рф - это правопреемник ссср по части владения ядерным оружием. Но права на территории союзных республик у ссср были, а у рф их нет. Если кто-то говорит что рф - это правопреемник ссср, при этом не указывая преемник каких именно прав ссср, то это безобразно оскорбительно по отношению к некоторым или даже ко всем постсоветским странам кроме рф.

[@nilweerasinha5006]

Sri Lanka- Sri-for the sacred Sanskrit letter, Lanka-the indigenous ancient country name used for some centuries.

[@winantowin7326]

In the Ramayana story told in our country (Indonesian Javanese ethnicity), Sri Lanka, which is now, formerly called Alengka. Is that true?

[@sirsirosariya9617]

Iran NEVER changed its name. Only the west called Iran “Persia” because that’s what the Greeks called Iran. The country of Iran’s name has been IRAN as far back as 5,000 to 8,000 years ago if not longer.

[@maria_belgradskaya]

In Russia people called Iran Persia)

[@sirsirosariya9617]

@@maria_belgradskaya Well, Persia is wrong and the Russians need to learn the correct name which is Iran, meaning the land of Aryans or Aryan people. We call Russia with its correct name of Roussiyeh which means the land of Rouss people.

[@Валерій-л3р]

@@sirsirosariya9617 Iran, unlike the Moscow kingdom, did not steal its name from a neighboring country and therefore does not use the Greek translation of its country, and Rus' was within the boundaries of the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Pereyaslav principalities, the modern territory of Ukraine in the 9th - 13th centuries, Rusyn Slavs lived there, who became Ukrainians. Moscow and St. Petersburg did not exist in those days, and the Finno-Ugric mayor and Chud lived in their territories.

[@Автортекста-ч5ж]

Иран не всегда назывплся таковым. Он был в течении нескольких веков назван именами персидских, монголских и тюркских правителей. Напр.: Газнавидским, Ахамединским, Аббасидским, Исмаилидским и др.

[@Mr.Ditkovich.]

Even Persepolis is obviously a Greek name

[@persianrezairani5262]

My friend, Iran never changed its name! People of Iran always referred to their conutry as Iran. Western countries referred to Iran as Persia. Reza Shah, just announced to the world that they must drop Persia and use Iran. So, that was not a name chage, it was only reference to Iran by others that was changed.

[@Sa-tp6wj]

The Achaemenid Persian Empire did not call their country Iran. The Achaemenids left a document on stone with cuneiform script in ancient Persian during ancient times, and today its translation can be found in various languages. They did not use the word Iran anywhere in their documents. The word Iran was first used for the country during the Parthian and Persian (Sassanian) periods.

[@_Bappu_]

Not west ,Even indians also called y'all parsu people, in ancient hindu texts, no wonder why Zoroastrians in India are called Parsi, not irani..

[@MehrdadRasooli]

maybeT but Iranian called their country Iran or Iranshahr

[@aminr4736]

​@@Sa-tp6wjSassanid and Parthian were very old. So iran name is very old game . And I know iran name was in religious in Achaemenid

[@Mithroun]

@@Sa-tp6wj but they did use the word aria so...

[@Tauruswithouttherus]

Actually, Soviet union was renamed to Kazakhstan. The reason why this happened, it’s because Kazakhstan was the last member of the USSR.

[@ИршатБасыров]

Правопреемником СССР стала именно Россия

[@Tauruswithouttherus]

@@ИршатБасыровreally?

[@shymyrqazaq]

@@ИршатБасыровну это не значит переименование СССР в Российскую Федерацию. Дилетант делал видео

[@Kuromi_hellokittyandfriendsシイ]

@@shymyrqazaq Да

[@rodroad9624]

​@@shymyrqazaqтепер понятно, почему такой ужас у вас был, а сейчас как? В фильме Борат показывали, что вы перестали верить в культ ястреба

[@JonathonV]

Careful. You said that Zaire became Congo, but it’s more specifically the Democratic Republic of the Congo, because the Republic of Congo to its north is a separate nation. Often people will call the two countries “Congo-Kinshasa” and “Congo-Brazzaville” after their respective capital cities.

[@pedrorondon777]

In 1999 Venezuela changed its name from "Republic of Venezuela" to "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" to reflect the historic importance of Simon Bolivar, the country´s Liberator.

[@TechBloxian]

Changes to official names do not count.

[@SurfBigg]

Viva Simon Bolivar! El mejor general del mundo. Justicia libertad!

[@neverwrong5544]

Bolivar must be turning on his grave... having a tyrant ruling the country

[@eralor2007]

@@SurfBiggEs un traidor Masónico al que pertenecía a España 🇪🇸

[@panhawatchhun432]

Cambodia did not change name from Kampuchea. Kampuchea is a word in our Khmer language that is translated as "Cambodia" in English.

[@clover4leaf968]

Yes and Khmer mean slave in an ancient era.

[@ericoswinner6754]

Burma - Myanmar Malaya - Malaysia

[@moongez]

Malaysia - maladesh ✌🏿😁

[@zheaphyx.my3979]

🗿

[@firdaus8081]

correct 2023 Malaysia = 2024 Malaydesh

[@indonesian_slices]

Dude u forgot? now Malaysia changing its name to Malaydesh "Malaya of Bangaldesh"

[@Mallutripscooks]

Malayalee = Kerala

[@HellMac]

Ethiopia is the greek name of the land, not the indigenous one. It's found in homeric and hesiodian epics. Aιθίοψ (ethiops-ethiopian) meant "sun-burned figure man".

[@desmondherron552]

Habesha.

[@249_eskimo5]

Ethiopia is the ancient name of Sudan. The Greeks used to call southern Egypt, the country of Nubia, by that name to distinguish them from Egypt and Sudan. It is mentioned in the holy books and among the Romans as Ethiopia and the country of Kush.

[@banibani1076]

Burned face😅 wrong.

[@東方甲乙-d2c]

Taiwan is always Taiwan. It came from the name of one of native tribes(Taivoan). The Western name was another name coined by a Portuguese and commonly used for only a short time under the brief colonization of the Dutch and Spain. Then the East and the West used two different names until post-war.

[@manfredthiele5282]

Beautiful presentation, but one suggestion: Could you make a sign on the map of the nation, which you introduce? I don`t know every country and it would be helpful for my orientation...

[@PowercafeLimited]

Exactly. Saw a video for African countries (What African Countries Ditched Their Colonial Names?) and it helped because it showed the location of all the countries on the map.

[@AchyutChaudhary]

7:12 actually, 🇰🇿Kazakhstan was the one who was the whole USSR for 4 days, so technically it should not be Russia.

[@SoundAsleepSpace]

Australia was called "New Holland" before 1824

[@terrythekittieful]

It wasn't a nation as such, but a collection of many indigenous nations that hadn't heard of New Holland. The colony of New South Wales came before Australia (founded in 1901?)

[@lynxraide]

New Holland, then New South Wales on the eastern ⅔rds until the British established the Swan River Colony and renamed New Holland, though the Dutch never really claimed the land to begin with

[@bouse23]

Tasmania was van diemans land

[@cahittaskin5694]

Turkey did not change its name. Just took the decision of not using English version of its name in international affairs.

[@andresanario6663]

Aside there two Turkey country,, turkey in Europe with Istanbul is the capital, and turkey in mid east with Ankara is the capital😊

[@cetcelpen2451]

@@andresanario6663 Turkiye has one capital city and that is Ankara.

[@unromanoarecareanaveragero8275]

The Turkish people got so tired of English speakers making jokes about their country’s name and turkeys, that they changed its name. Also, you forgot India changing its name to Bharat.

[@edney218]

Why would it change its name to Bharat when its already Bharat according to the constitution?

[@rusticcloud3325]

India never changes its name, India is the English name and Bharat is the Hindi name. India = Bharat, written in the constitution.

[@mrrant3081]

​@@rusticcloud3325PM Modi promotes the Bharat name into English.

[@polytopiahu1015]

India hasn't officially changed it's name yet

[@folkanatolia]

We didn't change our country's name, we have already said as Türkiye.

[@jerrykrajnak6396]

Czechoslovakia became SLOVAKIA 🇸🇰 🎉 in 1992

[@b0ajvk8]

This is a very valuable history tool. Great video and great information to have. 👍🏾.

[@behnamsadeqian]

WRONG INFOMATION, name of Iran is an ancient name, for this country , as it was mentioned several times in famous book Shahnameh , the longest epic poem by Ferdowsi

[@Sa-tp6wj]

The Achaemenid Persian Empire did not call their country Iran. The Achaemenids left a document on stone with cuneiform script in ancient Persian during ancient times, and today its translation can be found in various languages. They did not use the word Iran anywhere in their documents. The word Iran was first used for the country during the Parthian and Persian (Sassanian) periods.

[@Sa-tp6wj]

“You are incorrect. The name Iran is older than the writings of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and was used for the Persian Empire (Sasanians) before Islam, known as (Iran Shahr). But if we go further back, we find that the term Iran is very old. For example, the name Iran was used in the writings of Avesta, the Zoroastrian religious book, but it was only used in the Zoroastrian religious book and was not referred to a land or country. For instance, the largest empire of all ancient times, the Achaemenid Persians, called their country the land of the sun and still the land of the Persians. The reason for this was that they were Persian, like the Romans who called themselves Roman and not Italian.”

[@thekrustykrabrestaurant]

Iran didn't exist

[@AchyutChaudhary]

7:32 technically, I would more accurately say 🇷🇸Serbia & 🇲🇪Montenegro!

[@radovanfaraa754]

Nope, it remained Yugoslavia by name, but it consisted of only two countries, instead of six like before (Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia (or as it's now called- North Macedonia) and Bosnia and Herzegovina became independent). After that, the name changed to Serbia and Montenegro. And aaaaafter that, the two countries split, and it was Serbia and Montenegro, but like two separate countries.

[@EricJumba-hv9zo]

Correction Zanzibar did not change to Tanzania rather two nations mainland Tanganyika and Zanzibar & Pemba mergers to for the United Republic of Tanzania.

[@АндрейБогуславский-б9о]

Tanzania=TANganyka+ZANzibar. (-ia) ending from the Greek language

[@EdwinBiika]

You are right

[@sungaklate]

Glad to hear that the name of Falastin didn't change. 😊

[@NiklazSchwarzschild]

It doesn’t exists

[@fawzimahmud2494]

Palestine is for ever Palestine

[@khorooshiiiran3928]

Iran never changed its name. It has been (and always will be) “Iran”for thousands of years. It’s the ignorance of some people who think the name was changed. It used to be called Persia by some western countries but then it was demanded by the Iranian government in the 1930s that the correct name of IRAN must be used. Please get your facts right. Thank you.

[@sunrose9196]

The Persian state is not limited to present-day Iran alone, but rather included the regions surrounding Iran

[@j.woodbury412]

Rhodesia was actually the former name of both Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) and Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia)

[@nickhewitt320]

Following on from this, when Northern Rhodesia became Zambia, Southern Rhodesia was re-named Rhodesia, THEN it became Zimbabwe.

[@bouse23]

Named after Cecil Rhodes

[@IBumpg]

Why is it principled to some, to pretend that notorious killers should be honoured?@@bouse23

[@mattyjpati]

Stop from 7:12 onwards. Russia wasn't the Soviet Union, but a PART of the Soviet Union. It still existed as the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic during the Soviet Union's Existence. Likewise, Serbia wasn't Yugoslavia. Serbia was a PART of Yugoslavia. It existed as the Socialist Republic of Serbia, one of 6 constituent republics within Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was reduced from six constituent republics to merely Serbia and Montenegro before changing names to The Union of Serbia and Montenegro and finally separating into Serbia and Montenegro. You could've said that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (*carefully using this specific name and not "Yugoslavia") had changed names to Serbia & Montenegro. Difficult one, but better than claiming Yugoslavia changed names to Serbia.

[@ravenclaw8975]

You failed to look at all of the countries that changed their names with the collapse of the Soviet Union and there were many. It doesn't matter which order they left in. It collapsed when the President of Russia (Boris Yeltsin) and that of Ukraine (Leonid Kuchma) agreed to separate, which left Grobachev without a country to run.

[@camronbay]

Love the background music. Good info on the names of the countries. Now I know why I don't hear the old names I used to know.

[@chanrasmeymiech3941]

In Cambodian language (Khmer), we’ve still officially called our country “Kampuchea” since ancient times but the western people call Cambodia (in English) or Cambodge (in French)… by themselves. Maybe, they’ve mispronounced it from the native Khmer or tried to change it in order to easily call in their own languages.

[@abdoellinho]

We Indonesian say it Kamboja, pretty much similar prounounciation like "Kampuchea". In Indonesia we even had a Kamboja Flower, most likely found at the cemetery.

[@chanrasmeymiech3941]

⁠@@abdoellinho In Cambodia, we have Javanese banana and Javanese sweet potato.

[@abdoellinho]

@@chanrasmeymiech3941 wow thats really nice info, I just know that now, thanks to you..and what makes this Javanese Banana different from the ordnary banana? Id like to know

[@chanrasmeymiech3941]

@@abdoellinho Javanese banana (ចេកជ្វា)​becomes rare and not popular in Cambodia due to it contains lots of seeds inside which make it difficult to eat so we prefer to eat the regular one. Yet, we believe that Javanese banana tree houses evil spirits so we don’t usually plant it nearby our house in our culture. To be honest, I’ve never seen it once. Otherwise, Javanese sweet potato is very popular. I really love it. So yummy!!

[@abdoellinho]

@@chanrasmeymiech3941 ooh yess, here in Indonesia we also believe that, about the banana tree houses the ghost, the ghost called "Pocong" you can search it on google, its kinda look like a lollipop ghost, we have so many movie that feature Pocong in it..might be the most popular ghost in our country, here we also love the Javanese sweet potato, the purple one is my fav hahaha

[@shahnazbegam9265]

Nice video bro

[@СергейНестеров-в5ф]

Russia did not change its name, during the Soviet Union, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was part of the USSR along with other 14 republics, such as the Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Georgian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR , Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Uzbek SSR, Turkmen SSR, Tajik SSR. Likewise, the Republic of Serbia was part of Yugoslavia

[@salamaleykum71]

armeniya from India later Osmanli later Persia later Russia

[@jessiehan257]

교육적인 자료네요. 고맙습니다

[@husbanana]

Belarus changed the name from Byelorussia or Belorussia to Belarus in 1991.

[@husbanana]

it doesn't look like a significant change, but actually it is.

[@genrichnem.598]

Belarus=Litva.

[@husbanana]

@@genrichnem.598 what?

[@ivansemyonov5891]

@@genrichnem.598 Беларусь - это Беларусь. Причём тут Литва?

[@genrichnem.598]

@@ivansemyonov5891 учи историю. Будешь умнее. Литовцев( литвинов) и назвали беларусами, а жмудов летувисами. Они свою страну называют Lietuva, а мы и есть Літва.

[@EchoBeach501]

I always that Benin was named because it's founder, a man called Ben, was never at home. Knock, knock, excuse me is Ben in?

[@NickNackItaliano777]

😂

[@danilocayton3315]

❤Ivory Coast is now called Cote d'Ivoire

[@demetrakalopedi2721]

Macedonia was not a country before Tito ‘s Yugoslavia. It’s an area that belongs to the wider Macedonia. The people there are Skopjans and they inhabited the area during the Byzantine era around 700a.c.

[@randyabian2200]

very informative facts❤.. what is the title of the background music?. pls.

[@neverwrong5544]

Blue Danube by J. Strauss

[@nazliabrahams4222]

South-West Africa changed to Namibia .1990.

[@globalfact46]

Great video

[@林泓均-q4j]

5:18 The country 🇰🇮 name’s pronunciation is actually like “kiribas” as “ti” in their local language sounds like /s/ instead of /tı/

[@Valsyl]

do you have any plans of making a trivia game?

[@yaseencygra2127]

No

[@tizitamallede5359]

Correction,Ethiopian was never colonized

[@karozimathestar929]

He said occupation ( second Italian occupation for 5 years) not colonization.

[@AlbertoLiberatore]

Actually was a colony. In Italy was created the Ministry of Colonies, which administered all the italian oversees colonies and Ethiopia was part of it. And it was part of the Italian Eastern Africa. The point is that the italian rule over Ethiopia was never solid and there were large portions of this country that continued to fight the italian colonisation until the defeat of the Italians during the Second World War.

[@Felipe_AndresIL]

I think several countries you mentioned were not actual countries before an old name, they were formerly colonies and then became independent countries. Another thing, the Soviet Union is not the same as Russia, if the Soviet Union had changed its name to Russia, today the Russian Federation would fully maintain the federal subjects of the extinct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Another thing, it's not Turkiye, it's Türkiye. 👀

[@jarmo3171]

Most of the name changes are related to decolonization and/or independence process.

[@TheJattMC]

Persia was such a cool name

[@RedCommunistDragon]

True, but it was never called Persia. Only by the Greeks and later the Western World was it ever known as ‘Persia’ but to the Persian people it was always Iran.

[@Roywalker300]

​​@@RedCommunistDragon we called it Faras , what Iranian calls ancient Iran?

[@RedCommunistDragon]

@@Roywalker300 E-Ron

[@Felix-ik8bd]

The Czech Republic is known as Czechia, but I wonder if Czechia is officially recognized at least as an alternate name for that country or if it is its new name.

[@robertkukuczka9469]

And Slovakia.

[@Felix-ik8bd]

@@robertkukuczka9469 , the former Czechoslovakia used to be the autonomous republics of Czech Republic and Slovakia together until January 1, 1993 when both republics split and became two sovereign countries. The flag of Czechoslovakia is currently the flag of the Czech Republic. Slovakia has its own flag, very similar to the flag of Slovenia. Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, was the capital of Czechoslovakia. Bratislava is that of Slovakia.

[@macheka100]

You got it wrong with Tanzania. It was called Tanganyika during colonial rule. After independence of Tanganyika in 1961. The country was still called Tanganyika until 1964 when the island of zanzibar and the mainland country Tanganyika decided to unite in one country which officially changed the name to Tanzania.

[@roxii7190]

Oh my God, in Saudi Arabia we name a certain type of dumplings Formosa and I never wondered why, apparently it came from Taiwan!

[@mdsirajol6892]

I am from Bangladesh and I respect the freedom fighters of our country

[@cyliang8832]

Formosa to Taiwan ❌，Before 1945：Japanese Taiwan，After 1945：Taiwan Province, Republic of China

[@cindylynn-j9i]

oohh...this information is pure gold...tnks for teaching us about the actual names of those countries!!!

[@MeridaAesthetica]

Ceylon - Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

[@DjTayze84]

Tanzania was never called Zanzibar, It was called Tanganyika. We still have Zanzibar in existence

[@vugarmammadov4114]

Europe only was calling it Persia. The empires there were calling themselves by the name of the ruling dynasties. Kajar, Afshar, Sefevi, Kara goyunlu, Ag goyunlu, Salchuk...

[@mehr_mark]

Safavid, Qajar, and Afshar always called themselves as Shah of Iran. There are tons of documents in Persian about them, but you can't read them.

[@vugarmammadov4114]

@@mehr_mark İran Arran were geographic definitions. Qızılbaşı Seljuks Ag Qoyunlu, Qara Qoyunlu Səfəvi and other turkic dinasties that ruled these and other terrorists were Oğuz. Iran as a state was named by Pəhləvi.

[@vugarmammadov4114]

@@mehr_mark you are right mark, each of the emperors of each Turkic dynasties that ruled were using the title of The Ruler of Aran (or Iran, spelling is the same), Mazandaran, Sham, Shirvan, Shiraz, Khorezm, Azerbaijan, Bahloj, Turan, Gurjistan, Gilan, Van, Mosul and all the rest of the lands were they spread their reigns. That’s what I read in Shah Ismail Khatai’s gazals, prins Bahlul Danende’s legacy, titles of Abbas 1, Nadir Shah Afshar, Tahmasib and others.

[@vugarmammadov4114]

@@mehr_mark all of the turkic rulers that we among ourselves call Azərbaycan türkü called themselves Shah of Iran Arran Shirvan Mazandaran Gilan etc. Ağa Məhəmməd Xan Qacar also added Georgia, Nadir Shah before added even more toponyms. İran has never been a state before 1935 it was another toponym within our empire

[@mehr_mark]

​@@vugarmammadov4114 Glad you did your research and confirmed a part of my point. But about 1935, I would like to give you a recent example too. Turkey asked UN to call the country Turkiye in 2023. Does that make the Turkey 1 year old?? Or Turkey is rooted in Ottomon Empire. The same for Iran. Iran has always been used by native Iranians while western countries called it Persia. If you can read Shahnameh, you can see the term "Iran" mentioned everywhere in that book. That's the case for some other countries too like Egypt (Mesr in native language), Germany (Deutschland in native language), etc. Aran was a region above the Aras river. Below Aras has been called Azarbaijan. This is what I found on many antique maps made by westerns and locals. You can research by yourself. The Iran (Persia)'s border has changed a lot over time and some independent countries today were a part of Iranian (Persian) empire at some point. There were local rulers like Ruler of Azerbaijan, Ruler of Shirvan, Ruler of Guilan, etc., but they were all under Shah's control.

[@SWORDMAN007]

Funny enough, this isn't taught at school!! Thank You bro I am over 40yrs just knowing this for the first time😅

[@pushpammathew-w3b]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought Iran was changing its name to Persia🤣🤣

[@ThatOnePeruvianGuy]

Same lol

[@zayziyy3307]

Plus (1963) The Federation of Malaya to MALAYSIA (Malay is native and Sia is means Land so Malaysia is Land Of Malay) 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

[@j.woodbury412]

Cape Verde- Cabo Verde Ivory Coast- Cote d'Ivoire Malagasy Republic- Madagascar

[@JelleW2404]

First two are just transnations from protuguese/ french to Englisg, not name changes

[@j.woodbury412]

@@JelleW2404 Maybe not name changes as in getting a new name, like Burma changing to Myanmar, Ceylon changing to Sri Lanka, Dahomey changing to Benin, Zaire becoming the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Upper Volta becoming Burkina Faso, but they are changes as in how we refer to them. Like instead of saying Ivory Coast, we now say Cote d'Ivoire, instead of saying Cape Verde, we now say Cabo Verde, instead of saying Swaziland, we say Eswatini, and the most recent one, instead of saying Turkey, we say Turkiye. That's how they're listed in the World Almanac, so I consider them name changes.

[@jorgbuhler4521]

Similarly to Turkey -> Türkiye the country of Ivory Coast (different translation in different languages) was renamed. The president decreed in 1985 that the country may only be referred to by its French name Côte d’Ivoire.

[@mohamedsiddiq155]

I still love the name Ceylon.

[@MatijaBozanic]

Yugoslavia -> Serbia is not correct, also that was not a name change, but a disintegration of the country. New name from 1992. was the Federal republic of Yugoslavia. You missed the name change from 1929. when the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians changed name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Also, in the case of the USSR we had disintegration, not a name change.

[@ramarathnam11thc66]

Very informative

[@drqwyxz3588]

not really

[@Zacky51188]

Very informative not.

[@drqwyxz3588]

@@Zacky51188 i agree

[@kenesarykasymov1231]

1) Panama- Columbia, 2) India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Seilon- British India, 3) Palestina, Turkey, Yemen, Saud Arabia, Kuweit, Katar, OAE- Osman Imperia. Uzbekistan- Buhara emirates, Hiva, Qoqand. Latvia, Litva, Estonia- USSR. Slovakia and Czech republics- Czechoslovakia.

[@trendshort_]

𝕺𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖑 𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘 India 🇮🇳 : Bhārat Iran 🇮🇷 : Faras Indonesia 🇮🇩 : Nusantara Malaysia 🇲🇾 : Malaya Bhutan 🇧🇹 : Druk Yul Myanmar 🇲🇲 : Burma Thailand 🇹🇭 : Siam Cambodia 🇰🇭 : Kampuchea , Kamboj Philippines 🇵🇭 : Maharlika China 🇨🇳 : Zhōngguó Macau 🇲🇴 : Àomén North Korea 🇰🇵 : Choson South Korea 🇰🇷 : Hanguk Japan 🇯🇵 : Nihon , Nippon England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 : Ångeland Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 : Cymru Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 : Alba , Caledonia Ireland 🇮🇪 : Eire , Hibernia Iceland 🇮🇸 : Lýðveldið Greenland 🇬🇱 : Kalallit Nunaat Spain 🇪🇸 : España Monaco 🇲🇨 : Munegu Germany 🇩🇪 : Deutschland Switzerland 🇨🇭 : Schweìz , Helvetica Austria 🇦🇹 : Österreich Hungary 🇭🇺 : Magyarország Czech Republic 🇨🇿 : Česká , Czechia Slovakia 🇸🇰 : Slovensko Poland 🇵🇱 : Polska Norway 🇳🇴 : Norge Sweden 🇸🇪 : Sverige Finland 🇫🇮 : Suomi Lithuania 🇱🇹 : Lietuva Moldova 🇲🇩 : Moldavia , Bessarabia Bulgaria 🇧🇬 : Bulghar Vatican City 🇻🇦 : Holy See , Stato Della Greece 🇬🇷 : Hellas Croatia 🇭🇷 : Hrvatska Montenegro 🇲🇪 : Crnagora Albania 🇦🇱 : Shqipëria Georgia 🇬🇪 : Sakartvelo Armenia 🇦🇲 : Hayaska , Hayastan Turkey 🇹🇷 : Türkiye Jordan 🇯🇴 : Hejaj , Al Urdun Egypt 🇪🇬 : Mișr , Kemet Algeria 🇩🇿 : Al Jazair Morocco 🇲🇦 : Tamazgha Mauritania 🇲🇷 : Agawej Ethiopia 🇪🇹 : Abyssinia , Habesha South Africa 🇿🇦 : Azania Bolivia 🇧🇴 : Collasuyo Ecuador 🇪🇨 : Ikwadûr Domanica 🇩🇲 : Wai'tu kubuli Mexico 🇲🇽 : Anahuac Canada 🇨🇦 : Kanata New Zealand 🇳🇿 : Aotearoa Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 : Jolet jen anij Fiji 🇫🇯 : Viti

[@yelanchiba8818]

I think some are not original name. Maybe more on their country's name in their native language Spain is España in Spanish language Japan is Nihon in Japanese language Philippines is Pilipinas in local language Same with Kampuchea

[@calebostrowski-braman]

Some countries had their names almost as their language.

[@Blazeb234]

Long live Eranshahr

[@unknown_mccclxxxv]

Loving Persia

[@PurpleAmharicCoffee]

A few of these former names remain in cat breeds.

[@madisonthecat88]

Abyssinians, Persians, Burmese (also a python), and Siamese are awesome cat breeds!😂

[@DagmawiBeyene-ko6dl]

hi hi hi you are not correct Ethiopia has never been colonized in Africa

[@nassertowghi4251]

As mentioned by another poster Iran did not change its name, It simply asked the westerners and rest of the world to stop callling it Persia.

[@medanchess7892]

Persia didn't change the name they just told west to use Iran the existing local name Persia wasn’t the official name to begain with

[@thekrustykrabrestaurant]

Iran is not ancient name

[@R-JayDioneda]

I was there from the beginning, there was no Iran but Persia...

[@AmirStellar]

in zoroaster letters he called persia Iranvij(Iran)@@thekrustykrabrestaurant

[@thekrustykrabrestaurant]

@@AmirStellar Iran didn't exist but only persia

[@AmirStellar]

bro i know my history better than you we didn't call iran persia @@thekrustykrabrestaurant

[@feriolandrade5476]

Thank you.

[@patbrennan6572]

And in 2025, the United States of America became known as Trumponia with a dirty diaper replacing the Bald Eagle as it's symbol.

[@corkystorky]

7:04 Should include how their people are called after the name change of their country, for example Burma - Burmese, to Myanmar to 'what', Marimar?

[@isaacalves3467]

O Império da Rússia não existia a muito tempo atrás e um pouco na era medieval, não se chamava anteriormente "Reino de Moscou" e a capital era o próprio Moscou e não a cidade "São Petersburgo"?

[@zuraorokamono204]

The Grand Duchy of Moscow yes. It became the Tsardom of Russia in the 16th century.

[@isaacalves3467]

Sério? Você acredita em mim? Muitíssimo obrigadãozão pelo que você viu meu comentário 😃😃😃

[@Sir-doigoreo]

It is interesting in fact the West used the name Persia but in the history of Iran it has always had the same name

[@Sa-tp6wj]

“In fact, the West uses an ancient word where the great land of the Achaemenid Persians unified the entire region for the first time and became the largest empire of all antiquity. The name of this region in ancient stone inscriptions is (Parsa). That’s why in Iran they don’t call their language Iranian, they call it Persian. This itself is a document that shows why the official language of the country in Iran is called Persian and the poetry books in Iran did not say anything in Iranian, but they named their language Persian. You can read the poems of Rumi to increase your knowledge.”

[@Sir-doigoreo]

@@Sa-tp6wj You are wrong: In ancient Avestan, the name of Iran is in the form of airyānąm, and in Middle Persian (Pahlavi) it is in the form of eran or Īrān. In ancient Persian, it is also in the form of airya In addition, in the field of poetry, the most important Persian book of which is the Shahnameh Iran has been used many times This word has been used by other poets

[@Sa-tp6wj]

@@Sir-doigoreo Are you kidding me right now? Avesta is a Zoroastrian religious book. What does such a word in Avesta have to do with the name of a country? The name of the country is chosen by the rulers who seize power. The Persian ruler Achaemenid did not use the word Iran in any of the ancient Persian writings, but used the word (Aria), which was not for the name of the country. The Achaemenids called their race Aryan and Persian, and they named their land according to the existing documents (huriveh) and (parsa). Something that was spilled in the world (persia) was named. Therefore, the Achaemenids did not call their country Iran. The Sassanid Persians were the ones who named their country (Iran Shahr). The documents are available.

[@Sa-tp6wj]

@@Sir-doigoreo “In ancient times, a great empire was formed by the Persian people, who named their empire Achaemenid and called all their territory the Persian territory. In the meantime, according to their beliefs, they also named their land the land of the sun, which in ancient Persian language they used the term ‘huriveh’, which today in Persian language the term ‘hur’ is used for ‘sun’ (khur/khur sheid). The Persians, wherever they conquered, named themselves Persian. All the inscriptions have been decrypted and read, so avoid lying.”

[@Sir-doigoreo]

​@@Sa-tp6wjYou are talking about ancient Iran, about which there is very little information. First, Iran is mentioned in Achaemenid inscriptions: nap harriyanam Second, Avesta is the most important source of information from this era because it shows the thinking of the general public, the Iranian prophet Zoroaster always mentioned the word Iran. Thirdly, Greek sources mostly referred to this dynasty as the Persian Empire because of the Achaemenid dynasty, which had Persian ancestry, while Cyrus also had a Median ancestry.

[@sb6678]

What about Tripolitania, Transvaal, Malagasy, Mesopotamia, Belgian Congo, Kirgizia, Transjordan, Tonkin, Hindustan, Turkestan Friendly Islands to name but a few?

[@Helgardt6189]

Transvaal is a formal province of South Africa…not an island.

[@AlbertoLiberatore]

Tripolitania is part of Libya. It was the italian colonial rule that put together various provinces of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa together and conquested by them (big word, it took us an hell of various decades to fully control them!).

[@sb6678]

@@Helgardt6189 at which point did I say that it was an island?

[@sb6678]

@@AlbertoLiberatore it was still called by a different name tho

[@AlbertoLiberatore]

@@sb6678 well there was no Libya, Tripolitania, Cirenaica and other were separates provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Italians put them together, for this reason now they fight each others because they are different tribes and people.

[@kevinsealschott1090]

Wasn't Zaire known as Belgian Congo

[@TheGodPumpkin]

Belgian Congo was changed the name to Zaire. And then Dr congo

[@user-lb3um5ue8o]

Türkiye is Türkiye since 1923. Foreigners say Turkey just like we call America, amerika birleşik devletleri or calling germany, Almanya. The fact that foreigners finally call Türkiye,Türkiye, does not mean that the name of our country has changed. And a little information if you say Türkiye like Turkey-ye that will sound in our language Törkiyye if you say the Tü part of the Türkiye as if you saying tumor or tube, you will get the correct pronunciation.

[@Wikum193]

Sri Lanka 🇱🇰☸️💪🦁

[@lynxraide]

Kazakhstan was the last member of USSR, not Russia. Yugoslavia lasted until the 2000s (wrong date) and became Serbia and Montenegro (wrong name) before their union dissolved. You also left out Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Czechia (Czech Republic). Side note: for those complaining "it was always that name" it is the internationally recognised name, not the local name. Some countries like Iran, Turkiye and Czechia asked for the international community to recognise the local name as the country name, not the exonyms

[@kasatkin_igor]

Россия вообще не выходила из СССР. Она заявила о суверенитете в рамках обновлённого Союза. Из Декларации 1990 года (12 июня) "торжественно провозглашает государственный суверенитет Российской Советской Федеративной Социалистической Республики на всей ее территории и заявляет о решимости создать демократическое правовое государство в составе обновленного Союза ССР". А Казахстан последним из оставшихся 14-ти республик в декабре 1991 года объявил о независимости.

[@SponsorShort]

Iran didn't change it's name. Iranians had always called their country "Iran" after the Cyrus the Great who was founding father of the country. Just 1935 the Iranian government asked the United nations to call the country by its original name. That's all.

[@vockyvox]

Tanzania came as a result of merging if the island of Zanzibar and the mainland of Tanganyika

[@beauwevan601]

You forgot Philippines 🇵🇭, during Spanish rule, its name was Islas Filipinas but when it came under US rule, the Americans renamed the archipelago to Philippines.

[@jbl6434]

Ferdinand Marcos Sr. wanted to rename Philippines to Maharlika, but lawmakers (specifically the Laurels) disagree arguing that Filipino men will be called as Maharlocos and women as Maharlocas..hehehe thanks God that did not happen. Come to think of Maharlika foundation of PBBM.

[@beauwevan601]

@@jbl6434 I am more interested in renaming the airport in Manila to its original name rather than changing the country's name.

[@sanuthapa2180]

U r great person bro love from Nepal ❤❤❤

[@sunduncan1151]

“Siam” is the exonym used by Burmese and Mon-Khmer-speaking, originally referring to Tai-speaking groups living in Chaophraya valley (Central Thailand), Shan people in Salwin valley and Ahom people (Asam) in Brahmaputra valley. The name is found in Old Burmese (hsyam) and Angkorian Khmer (syam) inscriptions and Middle Chinese records (暹 *syem). The word “thai” originally means “(free) people” from Proto-Tai *k.daj, the same root with Tai, Tay, Dai, Hlai, Sui, as opposite to “kha” (Proto-Tai *k.ra) which means slave. The word “thai” in modern Lao means “people” in general but Lao people call their nation “Lao” which means “noble man” since Lanxang kingdom, from Proto-Tai *k.raw, the same root as Rau (Zhuang), Gelao, Mulao, etc. It’s also found in Old Chinese records as 獠 *k.raw which Chinese used to call the southern barbarians (Old Yue people) living in modern-day Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and northern Vietnam. The name “Thai” was used as autonym by Siamese people since Ayutthaya period while western merchants called “Siam” and Chinese called 暹羅 (Old Mandarin *siemluo) which is a merger of 2 ancient states: 暹 (Siem) or “Suvarnabhumi kingdom” in the west bank of Chaophrya river (Mon- and Tai-speaking) and 羅 (Luo) or “Lavo kingdom” in the east bank of Chaophraya river (Khmer-speaking). 暹羅 was also borrowed by Ryukyuans as “shinra” when Ryukyu kingdom conducted trading with Ayutthaya. In present day, Tai-speaking groups in Myanmar’s Shan State, India’s Assam State, China’s Yunnan province and northern Vietnam still call themselves “Tai” like Thai people in Thailand, spelled as “Dǎi” (傣) in Mandarin Chinese and “Thái” or “Tày” in Vietnamese. Modern Chinese call Thailand 泰国 (tàiguó) that is brought to Korean as 태국 (taeguk).

[@MitchelEBERECHUKWU1]

Ethiopia was mentioned in the bible so that date cannot be correct 🧐

[@setsuna0091]

Indians Island ❌ Pulau Pridavan ✅☺️

[@porainessemundao]

Pode me dar uma ajuda? Muitas pessoas querem que não existam mais países e nem fronteiras. Eu não quero que isso aconteça porque eu gosto de um mundo com diferentes linguas, culturas, países, religiões etc. e acho que um mundo sem países e sem fronteiras seria como uma geladeira sem prateleiras. Estou com medo de isso acontecer. O que eu faço? É errado ser patriota/nacionalista? Um mundo sem fronteiras e nem países realmente seria melhor?

[@Xarmutinha]

É melhor sim

[@r.h.2887]

今ロシアやイスラエルや中国が国境を減らす努力をしているよ

[@hitutgede]

East indies -> indonesia ❌ Dutch East Indies -> indonesia ✔️ Spanish East Indies means the Philippines, Dutch East Indies means Indonesia, and British East Indies refers to Malaysia.

[@RedCommunistDragon]

Iran’s name never changed. It was always Iran, long before the time of Cyrus. It was only ever known as Persia by the Greeks and later the rest of the Western World.

[@thekrustykrabrestaurant]

"Iran" didn't exist but it's not ancient name. Haha! Iran is not always Iran. Persian was just changed to Iran. You're very dumb because you didn't research "Persia".

[@JohnDaomar]

U know nothing 🤡😹

[@RedCommunistDragon]

@@JohnDaomar Thanks for reminding me how ignorant you westerners are.

[@MustafaKeremAcar]

Hi from Türkiye 🙂

[@jameslongstreet9259]

Some Estonians want to change the name of Estonia to Estland, to have a more international Nordic sounding name instead of that of a "Flintstone-country"

[@zwiderwurzn5908]

Rubbish. Estonians don't call their country "Estonia", that's just the English name. In Estonian, Estonia is called Eesti.

[@borissulimakov6539]

И причём тут флинстоуны?

[@jameslongstreet9259]

@@zwiderwurzn5908 I know that...Eesti

[@j.woodbury412]

Whatever happened to Old Hebrides?

[@AlbertoLiberatore]

They are fine😂 Still in Scotland as usual.

[@donquijote7463]

HELL : NOW NORTH KOREA