Named After ... | Country |
From Latin for ‘of the south’ or 'unknown southern land' | |
First President Simon Bolivar | |
'White Russia' | |
Arabic 'kamar' or 'kumr' meaning 'moon' as in 'Djazair al Kamar' meaning 'Island of the Moon' | |
From Portuguese 'Rio de Camaroes' meaning 'River of Shrimp' or 'River of Prawns' | |
From Latin for 'silver' or 'land of silver' | |
Bengali/Sanskrit for 'Bengali country' | |
Name coined in 1933 by Muslim Cambridge student based on first initials of words such as 'Punjab,' 'Afghan' and 'Kashmir' and the suffix of 'Balochistan' | |
Malay word for 'frizzy-haired' (or possibly 'heathen') plus Spanish explorer's observation that locals resembled inhabitants of Guinea in Africa | |
'Northern way'/'North way' or 'North region' | |
Finance Minister to King Louis XV of France, Jean Moreau de Séchelles | |
Probably Persian for 'forty tribes', 'forty girls' or 'imperishable' plus Persian for 'place' or 'homeland' | |
A province in the Netherlands whose name means 'sea land' | |
From medieval stronghold called 'Lucilinburhuc' meaning 'little fortress' or 'little castle' and German for 'fortification', 'keep' or 'borough' | |
From Semitic root 'LBN' meaning 'white' or 'whiteness' referenced as far back as the Old Testament | |
Spanish pronunciation of the name of the city of 'Marrakesh' | |
Term in the Declaration of Independence and possibly Amerigo Vespucci | |
Italian for 'Little Venice' as named by European explorers | |
Nahua Aztec tribe and its capital city | |
Spanish for 'rich coast' | |
Explorer Christopher Columbus | |
Khmer kingdom of Kambuja | |
Country's largest ethnic group, the Tswana | |
Probably Sanskrit 'Simhapura' or 'Singhapura' for 'Lion City' | |
From Latin for 'Sunday', the day Columbus first landed there | |
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