Daftar Negara Yang Berganti Nama - Masih hangat pembicaraan orang beberapa waktu terakhir ini Arkand Bodhana, seorang pakar metafisika yang memperjuangkan agar Indonesia berganti nama menjadi Nusantara. Dia berpendapat nama Indonesia mempunyai value-value yang kurang bagus dari parameter yang dia miliki, itulah mengapa dia bersikukuh nama Indonesia harus dirubah, seperti halnya mitos tentang anak yang sakit-sakitan harus dirubah namanya.
Dari sini saya tidak membahas tentang benar atau tidaknya pemikiran beliau, bukan pula tentang setuju dan tidaknya, tetapi lebih ingin memaparkan beberapa negara yang merubah namanya terlepas dari alasan perubahan nama tersebut.
Daftar negara yang berganti nama adalah:
- New Holland → Australia (pre-British discovery)
- East Pakistan (East Bengal) → Bangladesh (1971)
- Byelorussia (White Russia) → Belarus (1991)
- Duchy of Brabant (1183) → Burgundian Netherlands (1384) → Habsburg Netherlands (1482) → Spanish Netherlands (1581) → Austrian Netherlands (1713) → United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815) → Belgium (1830)
- British Honduras → Belize (1973)
- Dahomey → Benin (1975)
- Upper Peru → Bolivia (1825)
- Bechuanaland → Botswana (1966)
- Terra de Santa Cruz → Brasil (ca. 1530)
- Upper Volta → Burkina Faso (1984)
- Khmer Republic → Kampuchea (1975) → Cambodia (1991)
- Ubangi-Shari → Central African Republic (1958) → Central African Empire (1976) → Central African Republic (1979)
- New Granada → Colombia (1819) → New Granada (1831) → Colombia (1863)
- Middle Congo → Republic of the Congo
- Congo Free State (1884)→ Belgian Congo (1908) → Republic of the Congo (1960) → Democratic Republic of the Congo (1964) → Zaire (1971) → Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997)
- Bohemia → Czechoslovakia (1918) → Czech Republic (1993)
- French Somaliland → Territory of the Afars and the Issas (1967) → Djibouti (1977)
- Spanish Guinea → Equatorial Guinea (1968)
- Abyssinia → Ethiopia
- Gold Coast → Ghana (1957)
- Portuguese Guinea → Guinea-Bissau (1979)
- British Guiana → Guyana (1966)
- Dutch East Indies → Indonesia (1945)
- British Mandate of Mesopotamia (1920) → Iraq (1932)
- Irish Free State → Ireland/Éire (1937)
- Judea → Syria Palaestina (135)
- British Mandate of Palestine (1920) → Israel (1948)
- Transjordan → Jordan (1946)
- Gilbert Islands → Kiribati (1979)
- Basutoland → Lesotho (1966)
- Nyasaland → Malawi (1964)
- French Sudan → Mali (1960)
- New Spain → Mexico (1821)
- Bessarabia → Moldavian SSR (1940) → Moldova (1991)
- German Southwest Africa (1884) → Southwest Africa (1915) → Namibia (1990)
- County of Holland (880) → Dutch Republic (1581) → Batavian Republic (1795) → Kingdom of Holland (1806) → Netherlands (1815) & (1830)
- Territory of Papua and Territory of New Guinea → Territory of Papua and New Guinea → Papua New Guinea (1975)
- Spanish East Indies → Philippines (1898)
- Spanish Sahara → Western Sahara (1975) → Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1976; disputed)
- Western Samoa → Samoa (1997)
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia → Serbia and Montenegro (2003)
- Temasik → Singapore
- Ceylon → Sri Lanka (1972)
- Dutch Guiana → Suriname (1975)
- Siam → Thailand (1949)
- Portuguese Timor → East Timor (1975) → Timor-Leste (2002)
- French Togoland → Togo (1960)
- Ellice Islands → Tuvalu (1978)
- New Hebrides → Vanuatu (1980)
- Judea and Samaria → West Bank (1948)
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes → Yugoslavia (1929–2003) → Slovenia, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006) → Slovenia, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro (2006)
- Northern Rhodesia → Zambia (1964)
- Southern Rhodesia → Rhodesia (1965) → Zimbabwe-Rhodesia (1979) → Zimbabwe (1980)
Apakah Indonesia kelak juga berubah nama? Entahlah, toh bukan kewenangan dan urusan saya.
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