Country etymology

For each etymology, type in the corresponding country.

Excluding "land of the (demonym)", lone proper nouns (ex: Tili (a chief) to Chile), or self-descriptive names

Several of these are not exact translations

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Etymology	Country
Abundant fertile land	Cuba
Alliance	Serbia
Bearded people	Barbados
Black mountain	Montenegro
Blinding (beauty)	Madagascar
Bright stone	Liechtenstein
Bull	Italy
Cloak	Gabon
Copper	Cyprus
Country	Ukraine
Crowned waters	Paraguay
Depths	Honduras
Descend	Jordan
East east	East Timor
Eastern land	Estonia
Eastern march	Austria
Eight islands	Tuvalu
Ember	Brazil
Empty space	Namibia
End of Tibet	Bhutan
Equator	Ecuador
Eternal land	Mongolia
Field of blackbirds	Kosovo
Flames	Malawi
Flat forest	Denmark
Flowing water	Niger
Flowing water and (the) duchy	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fortress near water	Kuwait
Garland of islands	Maldives
Green cape	Cape Verde
Happiness + nomadic	Saudi Arabia
Harbor	Portugal
Holy island	Sri Lanka
Home of annoyance	Benin
Home of the king	Mali
Home of the soul of Ptah	Egypt
Homeland of honest men	Burkina Faso
Honey	Malta
Houses of stones	Zimbabwe
I'm going to the beach	Nauru
Indian islands	Indonesia
Island of rabbits	Spain
Javelin	France
King	Ghana
Lake	Chad
Land by the Indus river	India
Land of Bolívar	Bolivia
Land of Columbus	Colombia
Land of fertility	Ireland
Land of god	Morocco
Land of humans	Lesotho/Thailand
Land of many waters	Guyana
Land of rebels	Bulgaria
Land of resting	Tunisia
Land of Romans	Romania
Land of running (rivers)	Malaysia
Land of shellfish	Uruguay
Land of the blacks	Guinea/Mauritania/Sudan
Land of the burnt	Ethiopia
Land of the creators	Turkey/Turkmenistan
Land of the equal	Botswana
Land of the forty tribes	Kyrgyzstan
Land of the free	Liberia/Uzbekistan
Land of the grand river	Zambia
Land of the horse lover	Philippines
Land of the horsemen	Afghanistan
Land of the islands	Algeria
Land of the joining lake and the black coast	Tanzania
Land of the king	Angola
Land of the new Persians	Tajikistan
Land of the noble	Iran

Etymology	Country
Land of the nomads	Kazakhstan
Land of the people protected by holy fire	Azerbaijan
Land of the people who swell with anger	Belgium
Land of the pure	Pakistan
Land of the rower(s)	Russia
Land of the sheperds	Croatia
Land of the Slavs	Slovakia/Slovenia
Land of wanderers	Finland
Land of wolves	Georgia
Land of wood and water	Jamaica
Large	Rwanda
Large upper middle island	Bahamas
Lion	Libya
Lion city	Singapore
Lion mountains	Sierra Leone
Little castle	Luxembourg
Little Venice	Venezuela
Lofty city	Korea
Lone house	Monaco
Lowlands	Netherlands
Lowlands	Iraq
Made of Silver	Argentina
Moons	Comoros
Mountainous land	Haiti
Mud	Moldova
Northern way	Norway
Old and bearded	Antigua and Barbuda
One's own people	Sweden
Open field	Poland
Our land	Vanuatu
People east of the Rhine	Germany
People of the navel of the moon	Mexico
People of the ten arrows	Hungary
People that struggle against god	Israel
People who domesticate cattle	Nepal/Somalia
Place of abundant fish	Panama
Place of many trees	Guatemala
Plateau	Djibouti
Pour	Lithuania
Prince	Syria
Prophecy city	Vatican City
Public gathering	Congo
Red	Eritrea
Rich coast	Costa Rica
Sacred center	Samoa
Saint Christopher and snow	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Thomas and (the) prince	São Tomé and Príncipe
Sea land	New Zealand
Seafarers	Brunei
Settled people	Oman
Shrimp river	Cameroon
Small islands	Federated States of Micronesia
South	Tonga/Yemen
Southern dust	South Africa
Southern land	Australia
Southern people	Vietnam
Sunday	Dominica
Tall	North Macedonia
The savior	El Salvador
The shore by the water	Togo
The shrubland	Andorra
The sun's origin	Japan
The two seas	Bahrain
The way to Itza	Belize
Trinity and tobacco	Trinidad and Tobago
United bundle	Uganda
Village	Canada/Palau
White	Lebanon
White land of the rower(s)	Belarus
White mountain	Kenya

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