Statistics for Asian Countries by Etymology

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Name Meaning	Country	% Correct
"Land of the Malays"	Malaysia	96%
"Land of the Mongols" in Latin	Mongolia	96%
"Land of the Turkmen"	Turkmenistan	96%
"Land of the Lao"	Laos	93%
Derivation of Greek for "Indian islands"	Indonesia	92%
Likely comes from Pliny the Elder's "Omana"	Oman	92%
"The islands of Philip"	Philippines	92%
Its name derives from the Indus River	India	90%
One theory is that the name comes from "Qin"	China	89%
"The land of the Turks"	Turkey	89%
"Land of the Afghans"	Afghanistan	88%
It might come from "inhabitant of Arme"	Armenia	86%
"Land of Bengal"	Bangladesh	84%
Comes from the ancient Greek name for the Assyrians	Syria	84%
Anglicized form of "Kampuchea"	Cambodia	80%
May come from the Sanskrit word for "garland of islands"	Maldives	80%
"East East" - one word is from Malay	Timor Leste	80%
Its name could mean "south" in Arabic	Yemen	78%
"End of Tibet"	Bhutan	75%
"Lion City"	Singapore	75%
In mythology, it derives from the ancient Hindu sage Ne	Nepal	74%
"The origin of the Sun"	Japan	73%
Named for its northern location in the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo	North Korea	72%
Named for its southern location in the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo	South Korea	72%
"The land of Aryans"	Iran	70%
The first word means "island," and the second word could mean "resplendent"	Sri Lanka	68%
Its name includes the peninsula it's on, and its term for "states"	United Arab Emirates	67%
The ruling dynasty + its peninsula	Saudi Arabia	64%
It might relate to the Greek word for "copper"	Cyprus	58%
Likely derived from the Persian name for people of the country, "gurğ"	Georgia	56%
In Arabic folk, it means "fertile"	Iraq	56%
Arabic for "fortress built near water"	Kuwait	56%
All that is known is that it originated from the Bamar people	Myanmar	51%
Its name may derive from a pre-Islamic tribe in Central Asia	Tajikistan	48%
"God contends"	Israel	45%
"Land of the Pure"	Pakistan	41%
Arabic for "the two seas"	Bahrain	39%
All that is known is that it derives from the term used for its inhabitants, "Catharrei"	Qatar	38%
Literally translates to "land of the wanderers"	Kazakhstan	37%
"Land of Fire"	Azerbaijan	32%
"Land of the Free"	Thailand	30%
Named for a mountain meaning "white," due to its snow-capped peak	Lebanon	26%
"Forty" + "tribes" is one theory	Kyrgyzstan	25%
One possible meaning is "platform bay"	Taiwan	25%
"To flow down"	Jordan	23%
Loosely translates to "that's it!"	Brunei	22%
The country's people + "south"	Vietnam	22%
Its name could mean "genuine man"	Uzbekistan	18%