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What is the former name of Ankara, Turkey
Angora
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What is the former name of Astana, Kazakhstan?
Akmola/Tselinograd
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What is the former name of Bandar Seri Bagawan?
Brunei Town
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What is the former name of Atlanta, GA?
Marthasville
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What is the former name of Bejing?
Peking
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What is the former name of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan?
Frunze
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What is the former name of Bodrum, Turkey?
Halicarnassus
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What is the former name of Bratislava?
Presburg
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What is the former name of Budapest?
Aquincum
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What is the former name of Cambodia?
Khmer Republic > Kampuchea (1975)
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What is the former name of Chennai?
Madras
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What is the former name of Chicago?
Fort Dearborn
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What is the former name of Dubrovnik?
Ragusa
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What is the former name of Durban, SA?
Port Natal
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What is the former name of Dushanbe?
Stalinabad
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What is the former name of Fredericton, New Brunswick
Ste. Anne's Point
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What is the former name of Gdansk?
Danzig
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What is the former name of Guangzhou?
Canton
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What is the former name of Harare, Zimbabwe?
Salisbury
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What is the former name of Hi Chi Minh City?
Saigon
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What is the former name of Ho Chi Minh City?
Saigon
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What is the former name of Iskerdun, Turkey?
Alexandretta and Scanderoon
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What is the former name of Istanbul?
Byzantium
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What is the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia?
Batavia
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What is the former name of Kaliningrad?
Königsberg
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What is the former name of Kinshasha?
Leopoldville
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What is the former name of Kitchner, Ontario?
Berlin
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What is the former name of Kolkata?
Calcutta
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What is the former name of Kota Kinabula, Malaysia?
Jesselton
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What is the former name of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea?
Port Clarence/Santa Isabel
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What is the former name of Maputo, Mozambique?
Lorenço Marques
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What is the former name of Melbourne?
Bearbrass
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What is the former name of Mexico City?
México-Tenochtitlàn
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What is the former name of Mumbai?
Bombay
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What is the former name of Nanjing?
Nanking
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What is the former name of New York?
New Amsterdam
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What is the former name of Nizhny Novgorod?
Gorky
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What is the former name of North Tarrytown, NY?
Sleepy Hollow?
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What is the former name of Nur-SUltan, Kazakhstan?
Astana
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What is the former name of Nuuk, Greenland?
Godthaab
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What is the former name of Oslo?
Christina
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What is the former name of Perm, Russia?
Molotov
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What is the former name of Podgorica, Montenegro?
Titograd
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What is the former name of Port Natal?
Durban
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What is the former name of Samara?
Kuybyshev
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What is the former name of Santo Domingo?
Ciudad Trujillo
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What is the former name of Seoul?
Hanseong/Gyeongseong
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What is the former name of Singapore?
Temasek
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What is the former name of St. Paul, MN?
Pig's Eye
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What is the former name of St. Petersburg?
Leningrad
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What is the former name of Stockholm?
Hafnia
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What is the former name of Tallinn?
Reval
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What is the former name of Temasek?
Singapore
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What is the former name of Tokyo?
Edo
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What is the former name of Toronto?
York
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What is the former name of Volgograd?
Tsaritsyn (1580-1925), Stalingrad (1925-1961)
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What is the former name of Yekaterinburg?
Sverdlovsk
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