QUIZ: match the country to its colonial name

Even the biggest 21st century geography nerd would have struggled to navigate the globe in a 19th century classroom, when the atlas looked very different from the modern map of the world.

Colonial expeditions into India and the Americas, as well as the “Scramble for Africa” brought scores of countries under European rule in the 18th and 19th centuries. Often, conquest meant new names imposed by the colonial rulers.