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Cities by former name

Twenty cities that were renamed, from New Amsterdam in 1664 to Nur-Sultan in 2022. The old name appears with its country: click the name used today.

Format
Pick the match
Items
20 to match
Limit
2:00
Level
Medium
Checked
2026.10.03
Prompts
20
Bank
City today buttons, A to Z
Time limit
2:00
A miss
2 tries, then the answer is shown
  • Each former name appears in turn. Click its match in the bank.
  • Used answers leave the bank. Keys 1 to 9 pick the first nine buttons; type a name to jump to it.
  • Skip (0) sends a prompt to the back of the queue.
  • Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.

Click the present name of each city. The bank appears when you start.

About this quiz

Each of these cities changed its official name, some more than once. The quiz asks for one former name per city and the name in use today.

  • The oldest change here is New Amsterdam to New York in 1664; the newest is Nur-Sultan back to Astana in 2022.
  • Berlin, Ontario, became Kitchener in 1916, during the First World War.
  • Two tries per city; after a second miss the present name and the year of the change are shown.
  • Changes of spelling alone, such as Peking and Beijing, are left out.

Sources

  1. [1]District Mumbai City, Government of Maharashtra. History | Mumbai City | India.
  2. [2]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Chennai (India) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  3. [3]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Kolkata (India) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  4. [4]Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee (hochiminhcity.gov.vn). Ho Chi Minh City marks 50 years with vision for institutional breakthrough.
  5. [5]U.S. Department of State. Background Note: Russia (03/19/12).
  6. [6]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Volgograd (Russia) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  7. [7]City of New York, Department of Citywide Administrative Services. Important NYC Dates.
  8. [8]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Harare (Zimbabwe) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  9. [9]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Kinshasa (Congo) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  10. [10]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Rangoon (Burma) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  11. [11]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Maputo (Mozambique) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  12. [12]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). N'Djamena (Chad) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  13. [13]U.S. Department of State. Background Note: Kyrgyzstan (10/01).
  14. [14]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Ottawa (Ont.) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  15. [15]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Toronto (Ont.) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  16. [16]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Kitchener (Ont.) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
  17. [17]Library of Congress (LC Name Authority File). Dushanbe (Tajikistan) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.

Last checked October 3, 2026

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