Statistics for Countries' Names and their Origins

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Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.

Meaning	Country	% Correct
Honest fatherland	B{urkina} F{aso}	100%
Of Silver	Argentina	92%
Land of Black People	E{thiopia}	92%
Land of the Moors	Mauritania	92%
Lake "Lake" *hint: Africa	Chad	83%
Island of the metal of cyprus	Cyprus	83%
Land of Vexation	B{enin}	75%
East-East	East-Timor	75%
Land of Black People	G{uinea}	75%
Island	Iceland	75%
Greenland	Iceland	75%
Country	U{kraine}	75%
Gilbert	Kiribati	67%
Land of Black People	S{udan}	67%
The Islands *hint: not an islands at all	A{lgeria}	58%
South	T{onga}	58%
Land of People	G{ermany}	50%
Village *hint: one of the biggest countries	Canada	42%
Our Canoe *hint: Africa	S{enegal}	42%
Land of People	T{hailand}	42%
Mogadishu *in Somalia	Madagascar	33%
Area where there is nothing and without inhabitants	Namibia	33%
New land of black men with Frizzy hair	Papua New Guinea	25%
Portport	Portugal	25%
Swamp Land	Finland	17%
Large *hint: no so much	Rwanda	17%
Compatriots *hint: Britain	Wales	17%
Foreigners **hint: Britain	Wales	17%
Single House	Monaco	8%