Statistics for European Countries by Etymology

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Name Meaning	Country	% Correct
Literally "land of the Greeks"	Greece	98%
"Land of the Franks"	France	94%
Éiru, an old word for the matron goddess of the island	Ireland	94%
"Land of the Slovenes"	Slovenia	94%
Named for its icy fjords	Iceland	93%
"Land of the Slavs"	Slovakia	93%
Might come from the river Bosna	Bosnia and Herzegovina	91%
The historic Principality of Moldavia	Moldova	91%
The Act of Union, by the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland	United Kingdom	91%
Derived from the name of an Etruscan settlement, Vatica or Vaticum	Vatican City	91%
"Land of the Svea"	Sweden	90%
Literally "White Russia"	Belarus	89%
"Black Mountain"	Montenegro	89%
"Dane" + "border"	Denmark	88%
Named after one of its original cantons, called Schwyz	Switzerland	88%
"Northern way"	Norway	87%
"Lower" lands	Netherlands	86%
"Saint Marinus"	San Marino	86%
Comes from the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula	Spain	86%
Name of its people, "ungari"	Hungary	85%
Named after a Slavic tribe in central Bohemia	Czech Republic	83%
"Citizen of the Roman Empire"	Romania	83%
"Warm port" in Latin	Portugal	81%
"Land of the Sami"	Finland	80%
Derived from an ancient tribe, known as the Latgalians	Latvia	80%
"The men from the Bolg"	Bulgaria	77%
Roman name for the northern part of Gaul	Belgium	74%
From an ancient name for a tribe living east of the Rhine River	Germany	72%
"Highlanders" in ancient Greek	North Macedonia	63%
The Greek word "meli," meaning honey	Malta	60%
"Little castle"	Luxembourg	57%
Might be related to "khrebet," a word for "mountain chain"	Croatia	55%
"Bright stone"	Liechtenstein	54%
"Eastern realm"	Austria	50%
Likely means "borderland"	Ukraine	45%
Likely derived from the ancient Illyrian tribe	Albania	44%
"The Land of Fields"	Poland	43%
Old Norse for "the men who row"	Russia	42%
One possible meaning is "shrub-covered land"	Andorra	41%
"Field of blackbirds"	Kosovo	40%
Possibly a native name for "waterside dwellers"	Estonia	39%
"Land of young bulls"	Italy	37%
"Single house"	Monaco	37%
One theory is that it derives from a verb meaning "to pour"	Lithuania	35%
One theory is that it means "family kinship" and "alliance"	Serbia	35%