So, if I understand correctly, in this case it was not only a change in name, but rather, the new name reflected a more fundamental change, right?

>>>Hilmar,
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>>>As an aside, how does the renaming of a country come about? Someone just decides and it is done? Just curious...
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>>I don't know for sure - probably it must pass through the congress, or something.
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>>One case I find interesting, of a country being renamed is "Upper Volta". I assume the name was given by the invaders (colonizing nations). Eventually, some time after obtaining their independence, they decided to rename it to a name in their local language, "Burkina Faso" (Land of the Upright People).
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>>I think that several other countries (and major cities) have been renamed in the last few decades, and it is difficult to keep up-to-date.
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