Meaning | Country | % Correct |
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Land of Columbus | Colombia | 97%
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Land of Bolivar | Bolivia | 95%
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Equator | Ecuador | 95%
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Southern Land | Australia | 94%
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Land of the Franks | France | 94%
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The Savior | El Salvador | 93%
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Northern Way | Norway | 93%
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Rich Coast | Costa Rica | 92%
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Derived from the Italian for "Little Venice" | Venezuela | 92%
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Land beside the Silvery River | Argentina | 91%
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White Russia | Belarus | 90%
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"Land of the Aryans" or "Land of the Free" | Iran | 89%
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"Black Mountain" in the Venetian dialect of Italian | Montenegro | 89%
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Low Lands | Netherlands | 89%
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Roman Realm | Romania | 89%
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From the Iroquoian word for "village". Clue: small name for a big country. | Canada | 88%
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Sun Origin | Japan | 87%
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An adaptation of "Gilbert", from the former European name the "Gilbert Islands". Clue: begins with 'K' | Kiribati | 87%
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Indigenous name is Aotearoa meaning "Land of the Long White Cloud". Clue: named after a Dutch province | New Zealand | 87%
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"Land of the Pure" in Urdu and Persian | Pakistan | 87%
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Land of the Zambezi | Zambia | 86%
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From the Greek "Melita" (Μελίτη) meaning "honey" | Malta | 85%
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Land of Tanganyika and Zanzibar | Tanzania | 85%
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Country of the Bang | Bangladesh | 84%
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Green Cape | Cape Verde | 84%
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"Edge, borderland" from the Slavic "kraj" or "okraina" | Ukraine | 84%
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Land of the Kambojas, from Sanskrit "Kambojadeśa" | Cambodia | 83%
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Little Castle. Clue: small but very luxurious | Luxembourg | 83%
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Probably from the Berber "mur [n] akush" (ⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⴰⴽⵓⵛ, "Land of God") | Morocco | 83%
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"Lion City", derives from Sanskrit word simhapura (सिंहपुर) | Singapore | 83%
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"Lion Mountains", adapted from the Spanish | Sierra Leone | 82%
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Country of the Tswana | Botswana | 81%
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Sunday Island | Dominica | 81%
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"Country of the Free", so named because the country was established as a homeland for freed (liberated) African-American slaves. | Liberia | 81%
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"House of Stones", "Dzimba-dze-mabwe" in the Shona language | Zimbabwe | 81%
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"Cloak", from the Portuguese 'Gabão', bestowed on the Komo River estuary for its supposed resemblance to a gabão, a kind of pointy-hooded overcoat | Gabon | 80%
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From the German "light stone" ("light" as in "bright"). | Liechtenstein | 80%
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"Island of Hyraxes" (a kind of rabbit), derived from the Punic ʾÎ-šəpānîm (אי שפנים). Clue: Not an island (!), and read the Punic carefully | Spain | 80%
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From the German meaning "eastern borderland" | Austria | 78%
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From the Taíno/Arawak Indian 'Xaymaca', "Land of wood and water". Clue: read the local name carefully | Jamaica | 78%
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From a native term meaning "River Gir" or from Tuareg "n'eghirren" ("flowing water") | Niger | 78%
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From the Arabic "al-Jazāʼir" (الجزائر, "the Islands"), a truncated form of "Jazā’ir Banī Māzġānna" (جزائر بني مازغان, "Islands of the sons of Mazġannā") | Algeria | 77%
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Likely from "baja mar" ("low" or "shallow sea") | Bahamas | 77%
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Bearded Ones – the name may derive from the appearance of the island's fig trees or from the beards of the indigenous people | Barbados | 77%
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Land of the Rundi Speakers | Burundi | 77%
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El(God) Persists / Rules | Israel | 77%
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From the Hebrew and Canaanite root "ירד yrd" – "descend" (into the Dead Sea). | Jordan | 77%
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From the Kikuyu "Kere Nyaga" ("White Mountain") | Kenya | 77%
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From the Arabic diminutive form of "كوت" (Kut or Kout), meaning "fortress built near water" | Kuwait | 77%
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From the Sanskrit "maladvipa" (मालदीव), meaning "garland of islands". | Maldives | 76%
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Land of the Aesti | Estonia | 74%
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From the Turkic 'on-ogur', "(people of the) ten arrows". | Hungary | 74%
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Land of the Moors | Mauritania | 74%
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"Land of the Red Sea" from the Greek Erythrá Thálassa (Ἐρυθρά Θάλασσα, "Red Sea"). | Eritrea | 73%
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"Forest", from the Nahuatl "Cuauhtēmallān" (lit. "Place of Many Trees") | Guatemala | 70%
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From the Kanuri word "tsade" ("lake") | Chad | 67%
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Probably comes from the name of a previous Arab ruler, the sheik Mussa Ben Mbiki | Mozambique | 67%
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From the Nama language meaning "Area where there is nothing" | Namibia | 58%
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