London

" Everything had been different back then. Even the names of the countries, and their shapes on the map, had been different. Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London" (Orwell, 32).

It is interesting that although the Party had the power to wipe out the entire map of the world when they came into power, they either couldn't make people forget London's name or they wanted to keep it. London has been known for hundreds and hundreds of years as one of man kinds most powerful places. It has outlasted change and invasion longer then most countries on today's map. Orwell could of had the Party keep London because of its Worldly importance and because he is trying to say that they do not have all of the control in their society.