Africa
This is the former name of Ethiopia
What is Abyssinia
This fourth-largest Mediterranean Island is now part of France.
What is Corsica?
This is now a Canadian Province.
What is Newfoundland?
This country is now called Thailand
What was Siam?
This was a former kingdom/country in Viet Nam.
What was Champa?
This country is now known as Zimbabwe.
What was Rhodesia?
This area included parts of Hungary, Russia, Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, and North Africa
What was the Ottoman Empire?
This is the former name of the United States
What were the United Colonies?
This was the former name of Iran
What was Persia?
These are the countries in Africa where English is the official language (although it is spoken in other countries or may be the lingua franca)
What are: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya (also Swahili), Malawi, and Zambia.
This country United with Tanganyika to form Tanzania
What is Zanzibar?
This area included parts of Germany and Poland. It was disbanded following World War I.
What is Prussia?
These Annexed Countries or Republics became part of the United States.
What are Hawaii and Texas?
This country is now known as Myanmar
What is Burma?
These countries make up the Nordic Countries.
What are Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland.
This country is now known as the DRC
What was Zaire
This was formerly an autonomous region of Spain
What is Catalonia?
This country was formerly called New Granada
What is the Republic of Colombia?
This country is now known as Sri Lanka
What is Ceylon?
These are the four main geographical regions or subregions in Oceania.
What are Australia/New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
This country is now known as Namibia
What is Southwest Africa?
Names of countries that made up the former Yugoslavia.
What are: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia.
This was an independent country/republic until it entered the US as a state (hint: it wasn't annexed)
What is Vermont?
This country is now part of India and Bangladesh
What is Bengal?
This country was the most powerful communist nation in the world. In 1991, it broke into 15 new countries
What was the USSR? (Bonus: what are the fifteen countries? Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldovia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.)