(1800s) Madras State → Tamil Nadu (1968) Mysore → Karnataka (1973) Bombay → Mumbai (1995) New Bombay → Navi Mumbai (1995) Madras → Chennai (1996) Calcutta → Kolkata (2001) Pondicherry → Puducherry (2006) Orissa → Odisha (2011) Indonesia Irian Barat → Irian Jaya (1973) → Papua (2001) Irian Jaya Barat → Papua Barat (2007) Aceh Darussalam → Daerah Istimewa Aceh (1959) → Nanggroë Aceh Darussalam (2001) → Aceh (2009) Ireland King's County → County Offaly (1922) Queen's County → County Laois (1922) County Tyreconnell → County Donegal (1927) Kazakhstan South Kazakhstan → Turkistan Region (2018) Akmolinsk (1830) → Tselinograd (1961) → Aqmola (1992) → Astana (1998) → Nur-Sultan (2019) → Astana (2022) Malaysia British North Borneo → Sabah (1963) Prang Besar > Putrajaya (1999) Mexico Nueva Galicia → Jalisco (1824) Nuevo Santander → Tamaulipas (1824) Netherlands Bouches-de-l'Escaut → Zeeland (1815) Bouches-de-l'Yssel → Overijssel (1815) Meuse-Inférieure → Limburg (1815) Pakistan Nawabshah District → Shaheed Benazirabad District (2008) Northern Areas → Gilgit–Baltistan (2009) North West Frontier Province → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2010) Russia Kuibyshev Oblast → Samara Oblast (1991) South Africa Natal → KwaZulu-Natal (1994) Eastern Transvaal → Mpumalanga (1995) Orange Free State → Free State (1995) Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging → Gauteng (1995) Northern Transvaal → Northern Province (1995) → Limpopo (2003) Switzerland Léman → Genève (1815) Simplon → Valais (1815) United Kingdom Londonderry City Council → Derry City Council (1984; disputed) Shropshire → Salop (1974) → Shropshire (1980) United States State of Massachusetts Bay → Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1781) State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations → State of Rhode Island (2020) Cities and towns Amadora, Portugal, was known as Porcalhota until 1907. The name change was due to the unflattering meaning of the original toponym (something like "Little dirty one"). Astana, Kazakhstan – renamed Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. Kazakhstan's legislature passed a law on 20 March 2019 to rename the Central Asian nation's capital city from Astana to Nur-Sultan. The act came one day after Nursultan Nazarbayev's resignation as president of the country. Attock, Pakistan, was known as Campbellpur. Atyrau, Kazakhstan, formerly from 1708 to 1992 as Guriev (or Gur'yev, Gurjev, or Guryev) Banda Aceh, Indonesia – formerly known as Kutaraja. Bangalore, India, set to be changed to Bengaluru with state government approval in 2006 but yet to be ratified by the central government Banjul, formerly Bathurst. Beijing, China, usually spelled Peking until the 1980s. Named Peiping (Beiping in Pinyin) from 1927