Famous Industrial Towns

Naief Khatri

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Famous Industrial Towns

Town	Industry
Ahmedabad (India)	Cotton Textile Industry
Anshan (China)	Iron and Steel Industry
Bangkok (Thailand)	Shipping
Belfast (Irland)	Shipbuilding
Birminghum (UK)	Iron and Steel Industry
Buenos Aires (Argentina)	Dairying
Cadiz (Spain)	Cork
Kolkata (India)	Jute Industry
Changchun (China)	Automobiles and Machine Tools Industry
Chelyabinsk (Russia)	Iron & Steel and Machine Tools Industry
Chicago (USA)	Iron and Steel Industry and Meat Packing
Dhaka (Bangladesh)	Muslin
Darjeeling (India)	Tea Processing
Detroit (USA)	Automobile Industry
Dundee (Scotland)	First Jute Mill; Linen Manufacturing
Dresden (Germany)	Optical and Photographic apparatus
Dusseldorf (Germany)	Iron and Steel and Engineering Industry
Essen (Germany)	Iron and Steel and Engineering Industry
Firozabad (India)	Glass Industry
Glasgow (Scotland)	Iron and Steel and Shipbuilding and Machinery Manufacturer
Gorky (Russia)	Engineering Industry
Havana (Cuba)	Cigars
Hollywood (USA)	Films
Jamshedpur (India)	Iron and Steel Industry
Johannesburg (South Africa)	Gold Mining
Kansas City (USA)	Meat Packing
Kawasaki (Japan)	Iron and Steel Industry
Kharkov (Ukraine)	machine Building and Engineering Industry
Kiev (Ukraine)	Engineering Industry
Kimberley (South Africa)	Diamond Mining
Kobe (Japan)	Iron and Steel and Engineering Industry
Krivio Rog (Ukraine)	Iron and Steel and Engineering Industry
Leeds (UK)	Woolen Textile Industry
Leningrad (Russia)	Shipbuilding and Automobile Industry
Los Angles (USA)	Petroleum and Films
Lyons (France)	Silk Industry
Magnitogorsk (Russia)	Iron and Steel Industry
Manchester (UK)	Cotton and Textile
Milan (Italy)	Silk Textile Industry
Munich (Germany)	Lenses
Nagoya (Japan)	Cotton Textiles, Shipbuilding and Engineering Industry
New Orleans (USA)	Cotton And Textile
New Castle (UK)	Coal Mining and Iron and Steel Industry
Nizhny Tagil (Russia)	Iron and Steel Industry
Osaka (Japan)	Iron and Steel and Engineering Industry
Philadelphia (USA)	Locomotive Industry
Pittsburgh (USA)	Iron and Steel Industry
Plymouth (UK)	Shipbuilding
Rourkela (India)	Iron and Steel Industry
Sheffield (UK)	Cutlery
Singapore	Trading port
Tula (Russia)	Iron and Steel Industry
Venice (Italy)	Glass Industry
Vienna (Austria)	Glass Industry
Vladivostok (Russia)	Shipping
Wellington (New Zealand)	Dairying
Zurich (Switzerland)	Light Engineering Industry

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Changed Names of Cities/States

Old Name	New Name	Old Name	New Name
Abyssinia	Ethiopia	Madagaskar	Malagasy
Angora	Ankara	Madras	Chennai
Aurangabad	Sambhaji Nagar	Malaya	Malaysia
Banaras	Varanasi	Manchukuo	Manchuria
Baroda	Vadodara	Mesopotamia	Iraq
Batavia	Djakarta	New Hebrides	Vanuatu
Basutoland	Lesotho	Northern Rhodesia	Zambia
Bechuanaland	Botswana	Nyasaland	Malawi
Bhatinda	Bathinda	Ooty	Udhagamandalam
Bombay	Mumbai	Panjim	Panaji
British Guiana	Guyana	Peking	Beijing
Burma	Myanmar	Petrograd	Leningrad
Calcutta	Kolkata	Persia	Iran
Calicut	Kozhikode	Palghat	Palakkad
Cap Canaveral	Cape Kennedy	Poona	Pune
Cawnpore	Kanpur	Quilon	Kollam
Central Provience	Madhya Pradesh	Rangoon	Yangon
Ceylon	Sri Lanka	Rhodeshia	Zimbabwe
Christina	Oslo	Saigon	Ho Chi Minh Ciry
Cochin	Kochi	Salisbury	Harare
Constantinople	Istanbul	Sandwich Islands	Hawaiian Islands
Dacca	Dhaka	Siam	Thailand
Dahomey	Benin	Simla	Shimla
Duch East Indies	Indonesia	South West Africa	Namibia
Duch Guiana	Surinam	Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea
United Arab Republic	Arab Republic of Egypt	Stalingrad	Volgograd
Ellice Island	Tuvalu	Tanganyika and Zanzibar	Tanzania
Formosa	Taiwan	Tanjor	Thanjavur
Gauhati	Guwahati	Trichur	Thrissur
Gold Coast	Ghana	Trivandrum	Tiruvananthapuram
Holland	The Netherlands	United Provience	Uttar Pradesh
Ivory Cost	Cote D’Ivoire	Upper Volta	Burkina Faso
Jubbulpore	Jabalpur	Vizagapattanam	Visakhapatanam
Jullundur	Jalandhar	Zaire	Republic of Congo
Leopoldville	Kinshasa