Sentence examples for was formerly called Burma from inspiring English sources

Myanmar, a country of about 48 million people that was formerly called Burma, has been under military rule since 1962.

The mean solar time at Greenwich is now called Universal Time and was formerly called Greenwich Mean Time.

Hospitals in Mumbai, a city of more than 12 million that was formerly called Bombay, have appealed for blood donations.

Zimbabwe has strike jets, helicopters, transport planes and armored cars to support 3,000 troops in Congo, which was formerly called Zaire.

The village Zzyzx, pronounced zye-zix, was formerly called Soda Springs after a natural spring there, but was rechristened by a mineral water pioneer, Curtis Howe Springer, in 1944.

Dumbo — once a district of cardboard-box warehouses — was formerly called Fulton's Landing, after steamboat pioneer Robert Fulton (as in Fulton Street and the Fulton Fish Market).

(It was formerly called the Kirkland Classic World Championships, in a kind of mocking honor to Kirkland Signature, the Costco house brand that labels everything from vitamins to bacon to gasoline).

This river was formerly called the Batavia River, due to an error made in the chart made by the Carstenszoon 1623 expedition.

The western channel was formerly called the Chōsen Strait.

It was formerly called Amaxíkhi or Santa Maura; the latter is also the Venetian name for the island.

Most of the coast is a national park Although the entire coastline of Namibia was formerly called The Skeleton Coast, Nambia refers to it today as Skeleton Coast National Park, according to Namibia.org.org