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