28 Countries That Changed Their Names

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[@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

[@we_qeldi]

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!

[@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)...

[@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.

[@arkan1989]

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.

[@ExplorerRafi]

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”

[@ExplorerRafi]

@@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.

[@cahittaskin5694]

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

[@nilweerasinha5006]

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

[@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

[@48Activate]

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

[@48Activate]

@@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

[@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...

[@panhawatchhun432]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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 🇪🇸

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@jessiehan257]

교육적인 자료네요. 고맙습니다

[@b0ajvk8]

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

[@AchyutChaudhary]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@BennySantana501]

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]

😂

[@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

[@sungaklate]

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

[@NiklazSchwarzschild]

It doesn’t exists

[@fawzimahmud2494]

Palestine is for ever Palestine

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@danilocayton3315]

❤Ivory Coast is now called Cote d'Ivoire

[@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

[@Alkalus]

The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were informally known as Russia and Serbia respectively. It would be more appropriate to say they are successor states of said defunct countries.

[@YukonGhibli]

Correct, the video is incorrect in its analysis; yours is spot on.

[@vatroslavmarkus24]

Serbia has never been successor of whole ex Yugoslavia!!!

[@igorlakicmne1181]

Yugoslavia was never called Serbia. Yugoslavia consisted of 6 republics and one of them was Serbia.

[@iggo45]

We Greeks like geography very much, and the second best hobby we have is giving names to foreiners. Like Persia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, etc. When some foreigners approached our Land with not very good intentions (remember Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis), we asked them: -What is the name of your Language ? And they replied: -Pharshi. So, we named them Persians. Who did we supposed to know that their Language and their Ethnicity had different names ? In all the world, French speak French, Rusians speak Russian, Espanioles speak Espaniol, Arabs speak Arabic, and Hebrews speak Hebrow. But Iranians speak Pharshi ! Our sincere apologies dear Persxxxxx ...Iranians, not our fault. Next time you come to invade Greece, be more accurate: -We speak a language called Pharshi but we call ourselves Ayranians, so don't make the same mistake for the next 4.524 years crazy Greeks.

[@unnikrishnant2124]

😂

[@albertoliberatore777]

Greeting from an Italian which comes from a country that you Greeks named it. Stop naming countries, guys!

[@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

[@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.

[@runcis565]

С Россией - ошибка. Она была лишь частю СССР. Само название появилось в 1721-м году, до этого данная территория называлась Московия. А первое её название - Улус Джучи.

[@aleksthegreat4130]

Практически все московские Рюриковичи,начиная с Василия 1 и Дмитрия Щемяка,именовали Всея Руси,это первая половина 15 века,Иван Грозный уже делал этот официально как Государь и Царь Великий всея Руси с 1547,так что хватит свои шумерские бредни рассказывать,как называлась части твоей страны до 1991 года напоминать не буду. Российская Империя,Речь Посполита,Австро-Венгрия,Крымское ханство,и так далее. Кстати,60% территории Древней Руси(она не всегда была Киевской) находятся сегодня на территории Российской Федерации.

[@j.woodbury412]

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

[@guenthersteiner9252]

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

[@j.woodbury412]

@@guenthersteiner9252 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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Blazeb234]

Iran : land of Aryan people

[@aziziomar2700]

My names aryan?

[@Vgamerz2023]

No no no India is a real land of aryan. But i respect our neighbor aryan country love you Iran. ❤

[@Turkishoflegend]

India doesnt border Iran wtf​@@Vgamerz2023

[@aziziomar2700]

@Eggster1Official No but guess what

[@Kiano_East]

@@Vgamerz2023Aryan migration came into the Iranian plateau and then migrated further to India.

[@DjTayze84]

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

[@nazliabrahams4222]

South-West Africa changed to Namibia .1990.

[@mdsirajol6892]

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

[@tizitamallede5359]

Correction,Ethiopian was never colonized

[@karozimathestar929]

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

[@albertoliberatore777]

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.

[@mohamedsiddiq155]

I still love the name Ceylon.

[@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.

[@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. Mind your business and your country.

[@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

[@cyliang8832]

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

[@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. 👀

[@pushpammathew-w3b]

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

[@MrGreenRobot_2013]

Same lol

[@calebostrowski-braman]

Some countries had their names almost as their language.

[@mehranmehrban7360]

Sorry... we didnt change the name of our country. We call it "IRAN" for hundred years... In Europe, They were calling us "PERSIA", not us. So we tried to correct it in all over the world.

[@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

[@Firdoush-jq9hz]

I love Persian Iran Muslim and Palestine ❤

[@SWORDMAN007]

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

[@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/

[@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.

[@Blazeb234]

Long live Eranshahr

[@unknown_mccclxxxv]

Loving Persia

[@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.

[@globalfact46]

Great video

[@shahnazbegam9265]

Nice video bro

[@cindylynn-j9i]

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

[@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.

[@EAlyahya]

Arab Palestine = Jordan (1947) Jewish Palestine = Israel (1948)

[@hamzsportsgaming676]

No

[@thekrustykrabrestaurant]

Palestine has been changed from Roman Empire (Samaria, Galilee, Judea). Now, Israel was changed from Palestine.

[@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

[@Blueey_UwU]

Soviet Union and Yugoslavia didn’t change names, they just collapsed and formed new countries

[@thomassong8327]

Yes, with different names

[@meileyx2003]

Ceylon - Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

[@Sayonachi1]

Benin really needs to change their name from The Hommie

[@zayziyy3307]

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

[@sailesh.e5905]

Next is India on the list and will be named as Bharat 🚩🇮🇳☺️

[@johnnydsouza6255]

British raj to India. Changed in 1947.

[@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!

[@Cleverfrancis]

It thought Ethiopia wasn't colonised

[@brianlubanga3227]

And Liberia

[@albertoliberatore777]

Wrong or better: Italy proclamed it as its colony but the full control over this country wasn't everywhere, there were portion of the former Abyssinia that were still fighting the italian occupation when Italians were defeated by Britain in 1941. Formally Ethiopia was a colony and Italy was sanctioned by the League of Nations for its aggression to Abyssinia. Addis Abeba, the capital, was occupied and the following day Mussolini proclamed the birth of the Italian Empire. The King Victor Emanuel III was proclamed King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia and the Italian East Africa created (it included not only Ethiopia but also Somalia and Eritrea). The point is that Ethiopians (or should we call them Abyssinians, as the toponyms "Ethiopia" was given to their country by Italians?) as I wrote before, continued to fight the italian rule and their rebellion was never really suppressed even if were used chemical weapons and were made mass slaughters. Crimes of which I am really sorry and that in Italy is not talked about it at all.

[@Litrsamogona]

1721 Moskowia - Russia

[@AbangDikha]

Uni Soviet

[@setsuna0091]

Indians Island ❌ Pulau Pridavan ✅☺️

[@jarmo3171]

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

[@user-yb9pw7cr8d]

Haran, became Assyria, and Assyria become Turkey 2) Persia become Iran 3)Babylon become Iraq

[@PurpleAmharicCoffee]

A few of these former names remain in cat breeds.

[@madisonthecat88]

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

[@bonpourvous]

Makes me want to start collecting stamps again.

[@lellubarskiy246]

russia changed its name also in 1721 from muscovy to russia

[@ranageditz_08]

INDIA + BANGLADESH + PAKISTAN + MYANMAAR + NEPAL + SRI LANKA + AFGHANISTAN + BHUTAN + ETC.... = AKHAND BHARAT ⛳

[@MitchelEBERECHUKWU1]

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

[@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).

[@baanoooo]

Persia refered to the land of Persian ethnicity, but Iran is refered to the land of Iranian ethnicities, like Persian, Kurd, Pashtun (Afghan) Tajiks etc. practically referring Iran to Just today Iran (country) is wrong.

[@donquijote7463]

HELL : NOW NORTH KOREA

[@ehsankhalili7820]

Since 2500 years ago, the name of Iran was the same as it is, but it was the European countries who knew the name of Iran after one of the Iranian tribes, which are the Persians. The documented reason for this is this poem by Ferdowsi, an Iranian poet of the 11th century, who reads: "If there is no Iran, my body should not exist and there should be no one in the world."چو ایران مباشد تن من مباد بدین بوم و بر زنده یک تن مباد.

[@Wikumranabahukaratemuaythai193]

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

[@ramarathnam11thc66]

Very informative

[@drqwyxz3588]

not really

[@Zacky51188]

Very informative not.

[@drqwyxz3588]

@@Zacky51188 i agree

[@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.

[@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.

[@imnotrlmok9425]

In 2024 India was changed to Bharat because Bharat is the ancient name India is the name kept by the Britishers

[@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.

[@Par100milyon]

Iran has always been called Iran. But outside the country it was called Persia. The Iranian government requested the countries of the world to use the real name used in Iran for Iran. Hundreds of years ago, there are contracts between Napoleon and Iran with the name of Iran. Also, the agreement between Iran and Russia Persian is the name of the official language of Iran, not the name of that country

[@David-yw2lv]

Formosa is Portuguese for beautiful.Kiribati is pronounced Kiribass.

[@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.