| Country Name Cross Index |
| Country Name Is | Country Name Was |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Former Crown Colony |
| Armenia | Former Soviet Republic |
| Aruba | Part of Netherlands Antilles |
| Azerbaijan | Former Soviet Republic |
| Bangladesh | East Pakistan |
| Belarus | Byelorussia |
| | White Russia |
| Belize | British Honduras |
| Benin | Dahomey |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Formerly Part of Yugoslavia |
| Botswana | Bechuanaland Protectorate |
| British Antarctic Territories | Part of Falkland Islands Dependencies |
| Burkina Faso | Upper Volta |
| Burundi | Urundi |
| Cambodia | Khmer Republic (1970-75) |
| | Democratic Kampuchea (1975-79) |
| Colombia | Grenadine Confederation (1858-61) |
| | United States of New Granada (1861) |
| | United States of Colombia (1861-85) |
| Croatia | Formerly Part of Yugoslavia |
| Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | Congo Free State (1885-1908) |
| | Belgian Congo (1908-1960) |
| | Congo Democratic Republic (1960-71) |
| | Zaire (1971-1997) |
| Eritrea | Former Italian Colony |
| | Formerly Part of Ethiopia |
| Estonia | Former U.S.S.R. |
| Djibouti Republic | Somali Coast (1902-67) |
| | French Territory of the Afars and Issas (1967-77) |
| Equatorial Guinea | Fernando Po and Rio Muni (Spanish Guinea) |
| Georgia | U.S.S.R. |
| Ghana | Gold Coast |
| Guinea | French Guinea |
| Guinea-Bissau | Portuguese Guinea |
| Guyana | British Guiana |
| Indonesia | Netherlands Indies |
| Iran | Persia |
| Iraq | Mesopotamia |
| Israel | Palestine |
| Jordan | Trans-Jordan |
| Kazakstan | Soviet Republic |
| Kenya | British East Africa |
| Kiribati | Gilbert Islands |
| Kyrgyztan | Former Soviet Republic |
| Latvia | Former Soviet Republic |
| Lesotho | Basutoland |
| Lithuania | Former Soviet Republic |
| Macedonia | Formerly Part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Madagascar | Malagasy Republic |
| Malawi | British Central Africa (1891-1907) |
| | Nyasaland (1907-64) |
| Malaysia | Malaya and Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo) |
| Mali | French Sudan |
| Melaka | Malacca |
| Micronesia, Palau | Caroline Islands |
| Moldova | Former Soviet Republic |
| Myanmar | Burma |
| Namibia | South West Africa |
| Pulau Penang | Penang |
| Rwanda | Ruanda |
| Sabah | North Borneo |
| Slovakia | Formerly Part of Czechoslovakia |
| Slovenia | Formerly Part of Yugoslavia |
| Somalia | Italian Somalia and British Somaliland Protectorate |
| South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands | Part of Falkland Islands Dependencies |
| Sri Lanka | Ceylon |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla |
| Tadjikstan | Former Soviet Republic |
| Tanzania | Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
| Thailand | Siam |
| Tuvalu | Ellice Islands |
| United Arab Emirates | Trucial States |
| Uzbekistan | Former Soviet Republic |
| Vanuatu | New Hebrides |
| Western Samoa | Formerly Part of Samoa |
| West Irian | Netherlands New Guinea |
| Yemen People's Democratic Republic | Aden (1937-65) |
| | South Arabia (1965-67) |
| | People's Republic of Southern Yemen (1967-71) |
| Zambia | Northern Rhodesia |
| Zil Elwannyen Sesel | British Indian Ocean Territory (Previously Part of Seychelles) |
| Zimbabwe | Southern Rhodesia (1924-65) |
| | Rhodesia (1965-80) |