Can you name the Countries based on their name in a neighbouring language? by AutonomusPlebian

Can you name the Countries based on their name in a neighbouring language?

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Name the countries based on what they are called in one of their neighbours (some countries may be used more than once, it was difficult to find country names which were different to the English names
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Name	Country	Language (Bordering Country)
Jamhuri ya Kongo		Swahili (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Espanha		Portuguese (Portugal)
Svizzera		Italian (Italy)
Papua Nugini		Indonesian (Indonesia)
Mađarska		Croatian (Croatia)
Guinée		French (Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal,Mali, )
Ruotsi		Finnish (Finland)
Ukraina		Polish (Poland)
Lenkija		Lithuanian (Lithuania)
Rakousko		Czech (Czech Republic)

Name	Country	Language (Bordering Country)
Allemagne		French (France)
Belice		Spanish (Guatemala, Mexico)
Duitsland		Dutch (Netherlands)
Yunanistan		Turkish (Turkey)
Estados Unidos		Spanish (Mexico)
Namibië		Afrikaans (South Africa)
Guiana		Portuguese (Brazil)
Baltarusija		Lithuanian (Lithuania)
République Dominicaine		French (Haiti)
Sverige		Norwegian (Norway)

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Countries in neigbouring languages Quiz

by AutonomusPlebian

Created Apr 25, 2011 in Geography
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	AutonomusPlebian:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 16:09 GMT	2 points
	I know some of them are quite easy, but it was hard to find countries where the foreign name is very different from its English name. I did consider organising it so that you're given the countries name and you have to guess the neighbouring country that calls it that. I'd like to hear your opinions on whether I should change it

	Schkum:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 16:28 GMT	4 points
	Don't change a thing!

	dancastro:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 18:58 GMT	1 point
	I knew (well, really I learned it in Sporcle) that Yunanistan is the Turkish name of Greece (unlike other languages in which it's the "land of the Greeks" or the "land of the Hellenes", here it's the "land of the Ionians"). Even so, it shocks me a little to see a -stan country in Europe and not in Asia...

	Josh:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 20:33 GMT	2 points
	You might want to change the colours; the blue background is way too dark for black text.

	Chocolatl:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 23:13 GMT	1 point
	Agree about the colors. Also, you might want to add in your description that some answers may be used twice; most people don't expect that in this type of quiz.

	AutonomusPlebian:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 08:09 GMT	1 point
	I have changed the colours and added a note in

	tm83:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 12:02 GMT	4 points
	Another couple I know from living up north are that Russia is "Venäjä" in Finnish, Estonia is "Igaunija" in Latvian, Germany is "Niemcy" in Polish and "Tyskland" in Danish...