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01 Abyssinia Ethiopia
02 Ayudhan Pakpattan
03 Angora Ankara
04 Basutoland Lesotho
05 Bechuanaland Botswana
06 Bombay Mumbai
07 British Guiana Guyana
08 Calcatta Kolkotta
09 Kalachi Karachi
10 Kampuchea Cambodia
11 Cape Canaveral Cape Kennedy
12 Ceylon Sri-Lanka
13 Christina Oslo
14 Congo Zaire
15 Constantinople Istanbul
16 Dacca Dhaka
17 Dahomey Benin
18 Dutch East Indies Indonesia
19 Dutch Guyana Surinam
20 Greenland Kalaalit Nunaat
21 East Timor Loco Sae
22 Ellice Islands Tuvalu
23 Formosa Taiwan
24 Gold Coast Ghana
25 Holland The Netherlands
26 Nippon Japan
27 Leopoldville Kinshasa
28 Madagascar Malagasy
29 Malaya Malysia
30 Lyolpur Faisalabad
31 Montgomery Sahiwal
32 Madras Chunia
33 New Hebrides Vanuatu
34 Nothern Rhodesia Zambia
35 Nyasaland Malawi
36 Peking Beijing
37 Petrograd Leningrad
38 Persia Iran
39 Rhodesia Zimbabwe
40 Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
41 Salisbury Harare
42 Sandwich Wands Hawaiian Islands
43 Siam Thailand
44 South West Africa Namibia
45 Spanish Guinea Equatorial Guinea
46 Stalin grad Volgograd
47 Loyal pore Faisalabad
48 Tanganyika and Zanzibar Tanzania
49 Upper Volta Bourikina Fasso or Burkina Faso

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