Statistics for All Country-Name Etymologies

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Language	Continent	Etymology	Answer	% Correct
Bengali	Asia	Country of Bengal	Bangladesh	88%
Anglicized Late Latin	Europe	Land of the Franks	France	88%
Dutch	Europe	Lowlands	Netherlands	88%
Italian	Americas	Silvery	Argentina	75%
Greek	Asia	Land of the Armenioi	Armenia	75%
Latin	Europe	Land of Belgae	Belgium	75%
Latin	Americas	Land of Bolivar	Bolivia	75%
Greek	Asia	Cypress or henna	Cyprus	75%
French	Americas	La grenade	Granada	75%
Greek	Asia	Indian Islands	Indonesia	75%
Chinese	Asia	Sun-origin	Japan	75%
Dutch	Oceania	New sea land	New Zealand	75%
Latin	Americas	Saint Lucy	Saint Lucia	75%
English	Africa	Self-descriptive, based on the fact that it is below Sudan	South Sudan	75%
English and Spanish	Americas	Saint Christopher and the Lady of our Snows	St. Kitts and Nevis	75%
English	Africa	Land of Tanganyika and Zanzibar	Tanzania	75%
Latin	Asia	Land of Turks	Turkey	75%
English	Africa	Land of the Zambezi	Zambia	75%
Spanish	Americas	Ancient and Bearded	Antigua and Barbuda	63%
Russian	Europe	White Russia	Belarus	63%
Anglicized from French	Asia	Land of Kambojas	Cambodia	63%
English	Africa	Self descriptive, based on its government style and position on its continent	Central African Republic	63%
Spanish	Americas	Land of Columbus	Colombia	63%
Spanish	Americas	Rich coast	Costa Rica	63%
Malay	Asia	East east	East Timor	63%
Spanish	Americas	Equator	Ecuador	63%
Spanish	Americas	The Savior	El Salvador	63%
English	Africa	Self descriptive, based on its location relative to the equator	Equatorial Guinea	63%
Swazi	Africa	Land of the Swazi	Eswatini	63%
Swedish	Europe	Land of the Finns	Finland	63%
Sanskrit	Asia	Indus river	India	63%
French	Africa	Coast of a previous export	Ivory Coast	63%
Latin	Africa	Free	Liberia	63%
English	Oceania	The name of the guy who discovered it	Marshall Islands	63%
Greek	Oceania	Small Islands	Micronesia	63%
Berber	Africa	Land of God	Morocco	63%
Spanish	Asia	Lands of Prince Philip of Asturias	Philippines	63%
Portuguese	Africa	Saint Thomas and the prince	Sao Tome and Principe	63%
Arabic	Asia	Arabia of Happiness	Saudi Arabia	63%
Spanish	Oceania	The name of a rich Biblical king	Solomon Islands	63%
English	Africa	Self-descriptive, based on its position on the continent of Africa	South Africa	63%
Sanskrit	Asia	Holy Island	Sri Lanka	63%
Alemannic	Europe	The name Suito	Switzerland	63%
Thai	Asia	Land of the Thai	Thailand	63%
Arabic	Asia	Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities	United Arab Emirates	63%
English	Europe	Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities	United Kingdom	63%
English	Americas	Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities	United States	63%
Italian	Americas	Little Venice	Venezuela	63%
New Latin	Oceania	Southern Land	Australia	50%
Portuguese	Americas	Bearded ones	Barbados	50%
Turkish	Europe	Bulgars	Bulgaria	50%
Ikirundi	Africa	Land of the Ikirundi speakers	Burundi	50%
Iroquoian	Americas	Village	Canada	50%
Portuguese	Africa	Green Cape	Cape Verde	50%
Unknown	Europe	The Danish forest	Denmark	50%
Spanish	Americas	Republic of Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	50%
Italian	Africa	Land of the Red Sea	Eritrea	50%
Portuguese	Africa	Corruption of Ghana	Guinea	50%
Portuguese and Unknown	Africa	Corruption of the word Ghana and the name of the clan Bossassun	Guinea-Bissau	50%
Old Norse	Europe	Land of ice	Iceland	50%
Kikuyu	Africa	Land of the white mountain	Kenya	50%
East Turkic and Persian	Asia	Land of forty tribes	Kyrgyzstan	50%
Sotho	Africa	Land of Basotho speakers	Lesotho	50%
German	Europe	Light stone	Liechtenstein	50%
Unknown	Asia	Land of the Burmans	Myanmar	50%
Spanish	Americas	Merger of Nicarao and the word for water	Nicaragua	50%
Byzantine Greek	Europe	Land of the Ros	Russia	50%
Italian	Europe	The name of the founder of this country	San Marino	50%
Portuguese	Africa	Lion mountains	Sierra Leone	50%
Sanskrit	Asia	Lion city	Singapore	50%
Arabic	Africa	Land of the black people	Sudan	50%
Spanish and unknown	Americas	Holy trinity and tobacco	Trinidad and Tobago	50%
Bislama	Oceania	Our land	Vanuatu	50%
Navarro-Aragonese	Europe	Scrubland	Andorra	38%
German	Europe	Eastern March	Austria	38%
Arabic	Asia	The two seas	Bahrain	38%
Kanuri	Africa	Lake	Chad	38%
Taino	Americas	Abundant fertile land or great place	Cuba	38%
Latin	Americas	Sunday island	Dominica	38%
Latin	Africa	Home of ka and Ptah	Egypt	38%
Latinization of Old English	Europe	Land of the Aesti	Estonia	38%
Tongan	Oceania	Look out	Fiji	38%
Spanish	Americas	Depths	Honduras	38%
Hebrew	Asia	Descend	Jordan	38%
x	Oceania	Gilbert Islands	Kiribati	38%
Arabic	Asia	Fortress built near water	Kuwait	38%
Unknown	Europe	Latvian plus ija	Latvia	38%
Celtic and German	Europe	Little fortress	Luxembourg	38%
Chinese	Asia	Tall and beautiful	North Korea \| South Korea	38%
Greek	Europe	Tall ones, or the highlanders	North Macedonia	38%
x	Europe	Land of the Polans	Poland	38%
Latin	Europe	Roman realm	Romania	38%
German	Europe	Sorb tribe	Serbia	38%
Chinese	Asia	Terraced Bay	Taiwan	38%
Samoan	Oceania	Southern	Tonga	38%
Sogdian	Asia	Land of the Turk-like	Turkmenistan	38%
x	Asia	South Viet	Vietnam	38%
Latin	Europe	Land of the White	Albania	25%
Lucayan	Americas	Large upper middle island	Bahamas	25%
Sanskrit	Asia	End of Tibet	Bhutan	25%
Tswana	Africa	Country of the equal	Botswana	25%
Portuguese	Americas	Red hot embers	Brazil	25%
Malay and Arabic	Asia	There, the Abode of Peace	Brunei	25%
Quechua, Aymara, or Mapuche	Americas	Cold, snow, depths, or where the land ends	Chile	25%
Latin	Africa	Land of the Blacks	Ethiopia	25%
Nahuatl	Americas	Forest	Guatemala	25%
Taino/Arawak	Americas	Mountainous land	Haiti	25%
Unknown	Africa	Corruption of Mogadishu	Madagascar	25%
Sanskrit	Asia	The name of the peninsula it is on	Malaysia	25%
Sanskrit	Asia	Garland of islands	Maldives	25%
Greek	Europe	Honey	Malta	25%
Venetian	Europe	Black mountain	Montenegro	25%
Tuareg	Africa	Flowing water	Niger \| Nigeria	25%
Arabic	Asia	Settled people	Oman	25%
Guarani	Americas	Place of a local tribe or crowned river	Paraguay	25%
Berber	Africa	Zenaga tribe	Senegal	25%
Slavic	Europe	Slav	Slovakia \| Slovenia	25%
Unknown	Asia	Syriac	Syria	25%
Phoenician	Africa	Land of Tanith	Tunisia	25%
Slavic	Europe	Land, country	Ukraine	25%
Arabic	Asia	Right-hand side	Yemen	25%
Latinization of French	Africa	Land of this country's capital	Algeria	13%
Portuguese	Africa	Land of the Ndongo	Angola	13%
Spanish	Americas	Wallace	Belize	13%
Yoruba	Africa	Home of Vexation	Benin	13%
French	Africa	Shrimp	Cameroon	13%
Arabic	Africa	Moons	Comoros	13%
English	Europe	Self-descriptive, based on the governing style and the people who live there	Czech Republic	13%
Middle Persian	Asia	Land of the wolves	Georgia	13%
Celtic	Europe	Neighbor, battle cry, or to shout	Germany	13%
x	Asia	Land of the free	Iran	13%
Proto-Celtic	Europe	The fertile place	Ireland	13%
Taino/Arawak	Americas	Land of wood and water	Jamaica	13%
Persian	Asia	Land of the free/nomads	Kazakhstan	13%
Serbian	Europe	Field of blackbird	Kosovo	13%
Nahuatl	Americas	Sun	Mexico	13%
Nama	Africa	Land of the land where there is nothing	Namibia	13%
Tibeto-Burman	Asia	Those who domesticate cattle	Nepal	13%
x	Europe	Northern way	Norway	13%
Cueva	Americas	Place of an abundance of fish or abundance of butterflies	Panama	13%
Latin and Greek	Europe	Beautiful port or hot port	Portugal	13%
French	Africa	The finance minister to King Louis XV of France	Seychelles	13%
x	Africa	Land of cattle herders or the land of Samaale	Somalia	13%
Norman French	Europe	Island of Hyraxes	Spain	13%
Unknown	Americas	Surinen peoples	Suriname	13%
x	Oceania	Eight standing with each other	Tuvalu	13%
Shona	Africa	House of stones	Zimbabwe	13%
Sanskrit	Asia	Land of the Horsemen	Afghanistan	0%
Persian	Asia	Land of Atrophates	Azerbaijan	0%
Latin and German	Europe	Running water and duke land	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0%
More and Dioula	Africa	Land of honest men	Burkina Faso	0%
Unknown	Asia	The name of the inhabitants of the Yelang kingdom	China	0%
Old Persian	Europe	Arachosia or Helmand River	Croatia	0%
Portuguese	Africa	The name of a kingdom of Bantu peoples	Democratic Republic of the Congo \| Republic of the Congo	0%
Unknown	Africa	Land of Tehuti	Djibouti	0%
Portuguese	Africa	Cloak	Gabon	0%
Mandinkan	Africa	The name of a river	Gambia	0%
Unknown	Africa	Strong warrior king	Ghana	0%
Unknown	Europe	Old woman	Greece	0%
Unknown indigenous language	Americas	Land of many waters	Guyana	0%
Turkish	Europe	Ten-arrows	Hungary	0%
Middle Persian	Asia	Lowlands	Iraq	0%
Unknown	Asia	God persists and rules	Israel	0%
Greek	Europe	Bull	Italy	0%
Unknown	Asia	White or milk	Lebanon	0%
Unknown	Africa	The name of a local tribe	Libya	0%
x	Europe	To unite	Lithuania	0%
Unknown	Africa	Flaming water, or tongues of fire	Malawi	0%
Malinke and Bamana	Africa	Hippo	Mali	0%
Gothic	Europe	Dusty mud	Moldova	0%
Greek	Europe	Single dwelling	Monaco	0%
x	Asia	Eternal sky fire	Mongolia	0%
Arabic	Africa	Mussa Ben Mbiki	Mozambique	0%
x	Oceania	I go to the beach	Nauru	0%
Urdu or Persian	Asia	Land of the pure	Pakistan	0%
x	Oceania	Indirect replies	Palau	0%
Unknown	Americas	Either the word river or the chieftain of a local tribe	Peru	0%
Unknown	Asia	The town of Zubara	Qatar	0%
x	Africa	Big or expand	Rwanda	0%
English	Americas	The day they were discovered	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0%
x	Oceania	Holy center	Samoa	0%
Proto-Indo-European	Europe	People of one's own kin	Sweden	0%
Tayy	Asia	Land of the Arabs	Tajikistan	0%
Ewe	Africa	Land beside the water or land behind the sea	Togo	0%
x	Africa	Bundle, or standing in a bundle	Uganda	0%
Unknown	Americas	Shellfish water, or proceed from a local bird	Uruguay	0%
Turkish and Persian	Asia	Home of the free	Uzbekistan	0%
Latin	Europe	Hill of soothsayers	Vatican City	0%