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Former names of cities
Name a former name of a city. Hopdown accepts 60 answers here. Common answers keep your bunny near the surface; rare ones dig deeper.
Play this topicMost common answers
- ConstantinopleExtremely commonNow Istanbul^4
- BombayCommonNow Mumbai^5
- SaigonUncommonNow Ho Chi Minh City^5
- PetrogradUncommonNow Saint Petersburg^16
- StalingradUncommonNow Volgograd^14
- PekingUncommonNow Beijing^6
- RangoonUncommonNow Yangon^16
- ByzantiumUncommonNow Istanbul^12
- LeningradUncommonNow Saint Petersburg^7
- DanzigUncommonNow Gdansk^20
- CalcuttaUncommonNow Kolkata^8
- KonigsbergUncommonNow Kaliningrad^20
- MadrasUncommonNow Chennai^10
- BreslauUncommonNow Wroclaw^26
- SalisburyUncommonNow Harare^28
Rare answers
- AngoraRareNow Ankara^40
- LembergRareNow Lviv^45
- Yerba BuenaRareNow San Francisco^45
- Karl-Marx-StadtRareNow Chemnitz^55
- SverdlovskRareNow Yekaterinburg^50
- PoonaRareNow Pune^45
- BangaloreRareNow Bengaluru^40
- PeipingRareNow Beijing^60
- MukdenVery rareNow Shenyang^60
- DairenVery rareNow Dalian^70
- Lourenco MarquesVery rareNow Maputo^55
- Ciudad TrujilloVery rareNow Santo Domingo^60
- LondiniumVery rareNow London^35
- EboracumVery rareNow York^60
- Fort DearbornVery rareNow Chicago^60
Deep cuts
The answers almost nobody gives.
- TrivandrumDeep cutNow Thiruvananthapuram^55
- CawnporeDeep cutNow Kanpur^70
- SimlaDeep cutNow Shimla^55
- BarodaDeep cutNow Vadodara^60
- AllahabadDeep cutNow Prayagraj^50
- GurgaonDeep cutNow Gurugram^60
- KeijoDeep cutNow Seoul^75
- HanyangDeep cutNow Seoul^75
- Heian-KyoDeep cutNow Kyoto^70
Plus 21 more answers you'll have to find yourself.