Can you name the countries whose 1st letter of their English name* differs from the 1st letter of their Internet TLD ? by puckett86

Can you name the countries whose 1st letter of their English name* differs from the 1st letter of their Internet TLD ?

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Source: ISO (TLD) Codes
Note: * That is, the one used in the Sporcle Countries of the World quiz. TLD code means Internet top level domain code.
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Code	Country	Explanation
.ae		^{Al Emarat (local alternate name)}
.cd		^{Congo, Democratic Republic of the}
.cg		^{Congo, Republic of the}
.ch		^{Confoederatio Helvetica (Latin)}
.de		^{Deutschland (German)}
.dz		^{Dzayer (Berber)}
.es		^{España (Spanish)}
.fm		^{Federated States of Micronesia}
.gq		^{Guinée Équatoriale (French)}
.hr		^{Hrvatska (Croatian)}
.kh		^{Khmer Republic (former name)}
.km		^{Komori (Comorian)}

Code	Country	Explanation
.kn		^{Kitts and Nevis ('Saint' dropped)}
.kp		^{Korea, (Dem.) People's Republic of}
.kr		^{Korea, Republic of}
.lc		^{Lucia ('Saint' dropped)}
.lk		^{.sl taken}
.rs		^{Republika Srbija (full name in Serbian)}
.sv		^{.es taken (see left column)}
.td		^{Tchad (French)}
.vc		^{Vincent ('Saint' dropped)}
.ws		^{Western Samoa (former name)}
.za		^{Zuid-Afrika (Dutch)}

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Countries with Clever Internet Codes Quiz

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Created Sep 28, 2010 in Geography
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	FreakyFlyBry:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		0 points
	Missed just Comoros and El Salvador. For a second, I thought .km was Cameroon for some odd reason...

	clavinfield:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 06:53 GMT		1 point
	Clever spin-off. :)

	bsd987:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 07:01 GMT		-1 points
	Missing "The Gambia" .gm

	ulashima:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 07:07 GMT		2 points
	ae could be "Arab Emirates" also. There's something, actually those domain names are the first letters of the countries, in their own languages. And by the name "Clever Domain Names", I thought that they were those easily marketable domain names such as .am, .me, .tv etc.

	Nobbe:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 10:16 GMT		4 points
	You should specify that the first letter of the ENGLISH name differs fromn the first letter of the TLD-code.

	TameTheGrendel:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 12:01 GMT		1 point
	What's so special about countries using letters from their name in their ORIGINAL language such as Germany, Spain, etc?

	puckett86:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 12:48 GMT		2 points
	@Nobbe Very good point. I added the word English. @clavinfield Thanks for the idea (and name)!

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	puckett86:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 13:26 GMT		1 point
	Also @bsd987 The source lists it as Gambia, and Gambia is widely used on Sporcle, and @TameTheGrendel many countries TLD codes match their English names. A well-known example is Japan, whose Japanese name is Nippon, but has the code JP.

	Spelvout:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 14:56 GMT		-1 points
	The Netherlands?

	danman23:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 15:18 GMT		3 points
	Man, if I had gotten just ONE "saint" country, it would have led me to all the others.

	lukebradford:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 15:19 GMT		2 points
	Interesting stuff.

	deej:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 20:11 GMT		0 points
	I don't get why "Republic of Ireland" is Ireland, but "Republic of the Congo" can't be "congo"

	Riko:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 20:38 GMT		1 point
	@deej because there is also the Democratic Republic of the Congo (some people refer to it as Kinshasa Congo).

	oldkent:	Sep 29th, 2010 at 21:52 GMT		5 points
	Seeing as these are the 'English' names, and I know this is somewhat controversial, but surely Ivory Coast, and East Timor would qualify? I know that's not the usual Sporcle tradition, and it's not on your source, but seeing as you did specify it was their English names... Maybe? Just a suggestion. =)

	smheath:	Sep 30th, 2010 at 00:09 GMT		2 points
	@deej Because Ireland's official name is just Ireland. "Republic of Ireland" is a description, not a name.

	Sesel:	Sep 30th, 2010 at 04:24 GMT		0 points
	The primary official language of Equatorial Guinea is Spanish, not French. It adopted French and Portuguese as quasi-official languages just to join the Francophonie and the CPLP respectively to give the illusion that its vicious dictatorship has international allies.

	zifyoip:	Oct 4th, 2010 at 05:37 GMT		2 points
	Perhaps United Kingdom as a bonus? Its ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code is GB (as shown in your source), and in fact originally .gb was planned to be its TLD, but .uk stuck. The .gb TLD is still officially reserved for the United Kingdom, but it is not possible to register under that domain.