what is the  old name of burma?
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Burma is now known as "Myanmar"
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Actually, the official name of Bangkok is\nKrung Thep Maha Nakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udom Ratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanu Kamprasit\n\n(or กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์).\n\nwhich means "The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn." Local school children are taught the full name, although few can explain its meaning because many of the words are archaic. Most Thais who do recall the full name do so as a result of its use in a popular song (กรุงเทพมหานคร/Krung Thep Mahanakhon by อัสนี-วสันต์ โชติกุล/Asanee-Wasan Chotikul 1989) and will often recount it by recalling the song at the same time, much in the same way that English speakers might sing the alphabet song while reciting the English alphabet.\n\nThe full name of the city is listed by Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest place name.\n\n\nAnd Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, with 58 letters, isn't even the longest train station in Brittain. That honour belongs to Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion (I can't write the whole name, click on my second source to confirm that).
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The only one I know is the word "kartal" which means eagle in both languages. Also, we have the same name Attila (or Atilla) as it's the name of a famous historical figure in Hungary and Turkey. He was the leader of the West Hun Empire.
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Here is a listing.. I have been to most of them:\nBangladesh (Central)\nBhutan (north central)\nCambodia (SouthEast)\nChina (The People's Republic of) (East)\nIndia  (South Central)\nIndonesia (South East)\nJapan (East)\nKorea (The Democratic People's Republic of) (SouthEast)\nDPRK--North Korea (East)\nLaos (The Lao People's Democratic Republic) (SouthEast) \nMalaysia (SouthEast)\nMaldives (SouthEast) \nMongolia (East)\nMyanmar (Burma) (South Central)\nNepal (North Central)\nPakistan (Islamic Republic of) (Central)\nPhilippines (East)\nSingapore (SouthEast)\nSri Lanka (South Central)\nTaiwan (Republic of China) (Far East)\nThailand (East)\nVietnam (South East)
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Thailand literally means 'land of the free'.  Its name was changed from the familiar  'Siam'  to Thailand in 1939 by the then military dictatorship, perhaps to persuade the people that they really were free.\n\nHope this helps.
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Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokpop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet Mahasathan Amornpiman Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit is actually, BANGKOK, Thailand.  It is not recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records because it is not used on a daily basis.\n\nThe city with the longest name in common usage is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateturipukakapikimaungahoro-Nukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu in New Zealand.
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The most ancient name was Aryavarta (Abode of the noble or excellent ones or abode of the aryans). But this did not cover the complete present day borders of India, it had a significant boundary.\n\nThen at a later stage it was named as Bharat, after a king.\n\nAt a more later stage when the persians arrived they named it Hindustan, after the river sindhu.\n\nThen the british called it India, after the indus (sindhu) river.
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Pork was the name used by the Normans. After they conquered England in 1066 they were the nobles and their language was used by the powerful. They used names like beef mutton and pork where the English name was cow/bull sheep and pig/hog.\n\nIts a linguistic hangover from then
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Mississippi is a Southern state of the United States. The state takes its name from the Mississippi River, which flows along the western boundary. The name itself comes from either the Ojibwe, a Native American language spoken around the river's headwaters, or some other closely related Algonquian language, meaning "great river." Other nicknames attached to Mississippi are the Magnolia State and the Hospitality State.
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Siam is the correct answer.  Think of the movie called something like "Anna and the King of Siam" - Siam was what is Thailand today.
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Formerly known as\n\nGREAT
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Names\nBird's eye view of the origin of Yangtze river\nEnlarge\nBird's eye view of the origin of Yangtze river\n\nLike many rivers, the Yangtze / Chang Jiang is known by different names over different parts of its course. At its source the river is known in Chinese as the Dangqu (当曲/當曲). Downstream it is called the Tuotuo River (沱沱河) and then the Tongtian River (通天河). Where it runs through deep gorges in parallel to the Mekong and the Salween before emerging onto the plains of Sichuan it is famous as the Jinsha River (金沙江 Jīnshā-jiāng or 'Golden Sands River'). The name Yangzi was originally used by local people in the river's lower reaches. Because it was the name first heard by missionaries and traders, it was applied in English to the entire river. In Chinese Yangzi Jiang is considered a historical or poetic name for the river.\n\nThe Yangtze was earlier known to the Chinese as the Da Jiang (大江, Dà Jiāng) or 'Great River'. The Tibetan name for the river is Vbri-chu (འབྲི་ཆུ་ 'river of the female yak'). The Yangtze is sometimes referred to as the Golden Waterway.\n\nGeography\n\nThe river originates in a glacier in the Dangla mountains on the eastern part of Tibetan plateau. It then runs through the eastern part of Qinghai, turning southward down a deep valley at the border of Sichuan and Tibet to reach Yunnan. In the course of this valley, the river's elevation drops from above 5000 m to less than 1000 m. It enters the basin of Sichuan at Yibin. While in the Sichuan basin it receives several mighty tributaries, increasing its water volume significantly. The river then cuts through Mount Wushan bordering Chongqing and Hubei to create the famous Three Gorges. Eastward of the Three Gorges, Yichang is the first city on the Yangtze Plain. In Hubei, the Yangtze receives more water from thousands of lakes. The largest of these is Dongting Lake, which is mainly located in Hunan province and is the outlet for most of the rivers in Hunan. At Wuhan it receives its biggest tributary, the Han River, bringing water from its northern basin as far as Shanxi. At the northern tip of Jiangxi, another lake, Lake Boyang flows into the river. The river then runs through Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, receiving more water from smaller lakes and rivers, before finally reaching the East China Sea at Shanghai. Actually, four of China's five main freshwater lakes contribute their waters to the Yangtze River. Traditionally, the upstream part of the Yangtze River refers to the section from Yibin to Yichang; the middle part refers to the section from Yichang to Hukou, where Boyang Lake meets the river; the downstream part is from Hukou to Shanghai.\n\nCharacteristics\n\nThe Yangtze flows into the East China Sea and was navigable by ocean-going vessels up to a thousand miles from its mouth even before the Three Gorges Dam was built. As of June 2003, the Three Gorges Dam now spans the river, flooding Fengjie, the first of a number of towns affected by the massive flood control and power generation project. The project is the largest comprehensive irrigation project in the world. Proponents of the dam argue that it will free people living along the river from floods that have repeatedly threatened them in the past, and will also offer them electricity and water transport - though at the expense of permanently flooding many existing towns (including numerous ancient cultural relics) and causing large-scale changes in the local ecology.\n\nOpponents of the dam point out that there are three different kinds of floods on the Yangtze River: floods which originate in the upper reaches, floods which originate in the lower reaches, and floods along the entire length of the river. They argue that the Three Gorges dam will actually make flooding in the upper reaches of the river worse and have little or no impact on floods which originate in the lower reaches.\n\nThe river is
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mount everest.\nbefore it was named, it was historically the same from dfferent nationalities who found it and to the locals to nepal to china... research found out that it was mount everest after all. and it will always be mount everest.
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conventional long form: Kingdom of Cambodia\nconventional short form: Cambodia\nlocal long form: Preahreacheanacha Kampuchea (phonetic pronunciation)\nlocal short form: Kampuchea\nformer: Kingdom of Cambodia, Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, People's Republic of Kampuchea, State of Cambodia\n\n\nPeople who live there may be using kampuchea because it's the local name since they are speaking in a different language. But widely, we call it Cambodia.
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USA\nRussia\nChina\nUnited Kingdom\nFrance\nIndia\nPakistan\nN. Korea\nGermany\nJapan
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There are several possible sources, among them an old Choctaw indian word okeh, could be short for any of several different spellings of "all correct", including "Oll Korrect", "Orl Korrect", and "Ole Kurreck". There's an article at Wikipedia
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Altun Ha is the name given ruins of an ancient Maya city in Belize, located in the Belize District about 30 miles (50 km) north of Belize City and about 6 miles (10 km) west of the shore of the Caribbean Sea.\n\n"Altun Ha" is a modern name in the Maya language, coined by translating the name of the nearby village of Rockstone Pond. The ancient name is at present unknown.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nSanta Rita may refer to:\n\nBrazil:\nSanta Rita, Maranhão \nSanta Rita de Cássia, Amapá \nSanta Rita da Cassia, Bahia \nSanta Rita do Araguaia, Goiás \nSanta Rita do Novo Destino, Goiás \nSanta Rita do Trivelato, Mato Grosso \nSanta Rita do Pardo, Mato Grosso do Sul \nSanta Rita de Caldas, Minas Gerais \nSanta Rita de Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais \nSanta Rita de Jacutinga, Minas Gerais \nSanta Rita de Minas, Minas Gerais \nSanta Rita do Itueto, Minas Gerais \nSanta Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais \nSanta Rita d'Oeste, São Paulo \nSanta Rita do Passa Quatro, São Paulo \nSanta Rita do Tocantins, Tocantins\n \nEl Salvador: \nSanta Rita, Chalatenango\n \nHonduras:\nSanta Rita, Copán \n\nMexico:\n Santa Rita, Nuevo León \nSanta Rita, Sonora \nSanta Rita, Zacatecas \nSanta Rita Tlahuapan, Puebla\n \nParaguay:\nSanta Rita District \n\nPhilippines:\n Santa Rita, Pampanga \nSanta Rita, Samar\n \nUnited States: \nSanta Rita, New Mexico\n \nVenezuela: \nSanta Rita, Aragua \nSanta Rita, Zulia\n \nDominican Republic: \nSanta Rita Parochial School, a private school in the city of San Cristóbal\n\nOther:\nSanta Rita Mountains, Arizona, United States \n\n\nThat's My Best Answer!