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From Norse for either "northern way" or "narrow way"
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Norway (Norge)
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The Rus' people (who were actually Norsemen, not Slavs)
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Russia
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Land of (legendary figure) Hayk the Great
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Armenia (Hayastan)
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Eastern realm
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Austria (Österreich)
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Black mountain
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Montenegro (Crna Gora)
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The Belgae tribe of Gaul
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Belgium
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Little castle
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Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg)
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Land of the Kartvelians
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Georgia (Sakartvelo)
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Bosna river + the German for "duke's land"
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Possibly "the borderland"
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Ukraine
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Realm of the Svea tribe
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Sweden (Sverige)
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The Bulgar people (who were actually Turkic, not Slavic)
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Bulgaria
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The Persian governor Athurpat (Atropates in Greek, ca. 320 BCE)
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Azerbaijan
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Land of ice
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Iceland (Island)
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Low land
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Netherlands (Nederland)
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The Franks (a Germanic tribe)
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France
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Ultimately from "Slavic people"
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Slovakia + Slovenia
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Land of people speaking diutisc ("popular" in contrast to Latin)
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Germany (Deutschland)
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Probably from Latin excipere for "understanding"
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Albania (Shqipëria)
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Land of the Magyar tribe
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Hungary (Magyarorszag)
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Possibly related to the Norse word "to burn" via Old High German
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Switzerland
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White Rus' people
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Belarus
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Bright stone (from the name of a castle)
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Liechtenstein
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Woodland or borderland of the Dani tribe
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Denmark (Danmark)
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Possibly from Greek for a certain tree or plant
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Cyprus
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Possibly from Greek rendering of Oscan word for "calf"
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Italy
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Greek either for "highlanders" or "the tall ones"
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North Macedonia
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Greek for "single house"
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Monaco
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Possibly from Greek for "honey"
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Malta
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Latin for "Port of Cale", a Celtic settlement
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Portugal
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Romans
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Romania
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Saint Marinus
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San Marino
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Ultimately from the city Ashur (even though it's the wrong location)
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Syria
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Land of the Kambojas (an Indo-Iranian people that lived in Kashmir)
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Cambodia
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Sanskrit honorific meaning "radiance" + "island"
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Sri Lanka
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Possibly from Sanskrit for "protected by the sage Nemi"
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Nepal
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Possibly from Sanskrit for "seafarers"
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Brunei
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Possibly from Tamil for "mountain land"
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Malaysia
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From Tamil for "islanders"
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Maldives (Dhivehi)
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Sanskrit for "lion city"
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Singapore
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Named after the Jordan River (its own etymology is debated)
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Jordan
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The ancient Bharata tribe and the legendary emperor Bharata
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India (Bharat)
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Aryan (the ancient name of a people that means noble)
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Iran
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From Phoenician for "white" (as in snowy)
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Lebanon
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"East" + Malay word for "East"
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East Timor
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Struggle with God
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Israel
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The Lao people
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Laos
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Middle realm
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China (Zhōngguó)
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Land of the pure (while also an acronym for five of the regions)
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Pakistan
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The origin of the sun
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Japan (Nippon or Nihon)
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Great Han (which also means great, and unrelated to Han China)
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South Korea (Daehan or Hanguk)
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Land of the + another word for Pashtuns
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Afghanistan
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Named after the ancient and Biblical Philistines
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Palestine (Filastin)
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From Chinese for "southern Yue people" (named after battle axes)
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Vietnam
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Morning brightness (also an ancient name for the country)
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North Korea (Choson or Joseon)
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Possibly evolved from a word for "human being"
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Thailand
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Greek for "Indian islands"
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Indonesia
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Possibly "the end of Tibet"
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Bhutan
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Land of Bengal
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Bangladesh
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The Bamar ethnic group (alternatively the literary name for this group)
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Burma/Myanmar
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Possibly from the ancient city Uruk
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Iraq
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The royal dynasty + the people (which means desert nomads)
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Saudi Arabia
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Possibly "south" or "blessed" for its fertile soil south of the desert
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Yemen
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Land of almost Turks, alternatively pure Turks
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Turkmenistan
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Land of the wanderers (meaning nomads)
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Kazakhstan
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Land of the forty (for forty original tribes)
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Kyrgyzstan
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King Philip II of Spain
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Philippines
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The two seas
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Bahrain
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Christopher Columbus
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Colombia
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Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar
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Bolivia
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Spanish for "equator"
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Ecuador
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Portuguese for "like an ember" (named for a red tree)
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Brazil
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Amerindian for "land of many waters"
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Guyana
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Named after the Paraguay River (itself of uncertain etymology)
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Paraguay
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Named after the Uruguay River (itself of uncertain etymology)
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Uruguay
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Spanish for "Little Venice"
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Venezuela
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The first local commoner or ruler the Spanish met named Birú
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Peru
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Italian for "made of silver"
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Argentina
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An Amerindian tribe called Surinen
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Suriname
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From the native St Lawrence Iroquoian word for "village"
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Canada
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Either from Taino for "big upper middle land" or Spanish for "low tide"
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The Bahamas
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The native Taino name "land of high mountains" of Hispaniola
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Haiti
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The native Taino name "land of wood and water"
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Jamaica
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From another name for the Aztecs
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Mexico
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From Nahuatl (Aztec language) for "place of many trees"
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Guatemala
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Many possible Nahuatl words, eg. "the Anahuac reached this far"
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Nicaragua
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Many possible native meanings, eg. "abundance of fish"
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Panama
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Originally from Mayan belix for "muddy-watered" for a river
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Belize
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Latin for "Sunday"
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Dominica
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The Spanish city Granada
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Grenada
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Spanish for "rich coast"
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Costa Rica
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Spanish for "the savior"
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El Salvador
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Saint Dominic (medieval Spanish priest, founded an order of monks)
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Dominican Republic
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Spanish for "depths"
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Honduras
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Spanish for "ancient" and "bearded"
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Spanish for the "bearded ones"
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Barbados
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Spanish for "Trinity" and "tobacco"
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Trinidad and Tobago
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English shortening of San Cristobal + Spanish for "(our lady of the) snows"
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
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The martyr Saint Lucy of Syracuse
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Saint Lucia
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The Spanish deacon Saint Vincent of Saragossa + the city Granada
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Latin for "southern"
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Australia
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Greek for "small islands"
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Micronesia
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Named after the Dutch province Zeeland
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New Zealand
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Native name of uncertain origin + named after the coast of West Africa
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Papua New Guinea
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The Biblical King Solomon
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Solomon Islands
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Native pronunciation of "Gilbert" (after British sea captain Thomas Gilbert)
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Kiribati
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British sea captain John Marshall
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Marshall Islands (not native name)
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Tongan pronunciation of the island name "Viti (Levu)"
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Fiji
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Possibly native for "I go to the beach"
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Nauru
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Possibly native for "village"
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Palau
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South
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Tonga
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Eight standing together (meaning eight inhabited islands)
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Tuvalu
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Native word for "land" or "home" with "stand" (meaning independent)
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Vanuatu
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"Large houses of stone" after a ruined city from the Middle Ages
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Zimbabwe
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Named after the Zambezi River
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Zambia
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From the name "vast place" (named for a desert)
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Namibia
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King Mswati II (d. 1868)
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Swaziland (eSwatini)
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Combination of Tanganyika (sail in the wilderness) + Zanzibar (black shore)
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Tanzania
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From an ancient Berber tribe (the Greeks called the continent by the name)
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Libya
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Probably from Tuareg "Egerew n-Igerewen" ("river of rivers")
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Niger + Nigeria
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Possibly from the word "hippo" which became "place where the king lives"
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Mali
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Arabic for "black"
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Sudan
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Arabic for "the islands" (named for a city on the coast)
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Algeria (al-Jazair)
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Arabic for "the West"
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Morocco (al-Maghrib)
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Arab trader and ruler Mussa Bin Bique (alternatively Ben Mbiki), ca. 1500
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Mozambique
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From the Arabic word "qamar" meaning "moon"
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Comoros
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Spanish for "lioness mountains"
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Sierra Leone
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Land of the Tswana ethnic group
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Botswana
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Land of the people who speak Sotho
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Lesotho
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Jean Moreau de Séchelles, the French minister of finance from 1754-56
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Seychelles
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Maurice of Nassau/Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, 1585-1625
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Mauritius
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Wolof for "our boat", named for a river
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Senegal
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From Kambra, the original Mandinka name for the major river
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The Gambia
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Named after the Buganda kingdom
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Uganda
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From the title "ngola" used by rulers of Ndongo
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Angola
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Portuguese for "green cape"
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Cape Verde
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Portuguese for "Saint Thomas and the prince"
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São Tomé and Príncipe
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Portuguese for "shrimp"
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Cameroon
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From the Portuguese for "cloak" for the shape of the estuary
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Gabon
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Name the Portuguese used for West Africa of older uncertain origin
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Guinea
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"Warrior king", a title given to kings of the empire of the same name
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Ghana
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Two words of different languages meaning "honest" + "fatherland"
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Burkina Faso
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"God's resting place" named for a mountain
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Kenya
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Corrupted form of "Ubinu", the capital of an empire in Nigeria
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Benin
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Land where lagoons lie
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Togo
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"Lake", named after its largest lake
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Chad
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Semitic for "frontier" (while the Greek comes from the temple of Ptah)
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Egypt (Masr)
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Greek for "red", as in the Red Sea
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Eritrea
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Greek for "burnt face"
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Ethiopia
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Latin for "freedom"
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Liberia
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Latin for the Berber people they called Mauri (from Greek for "black")
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Mauritania
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Gets its name from medieval Europeans confusing it with Mogadishu
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Madagascar
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