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You’ll be surprised to learn how these 12 countries got their names

Do you know why Italy is called "Italy"? And how does Venezuela relate to Venice? Find out right now!


While traveling we discover new countries, their sights and traditions. But have you ever thought why countries are named as they are?


Have you ever wondered why countries have their names? Do you know the etymology of any other ones? Share in comments!


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25 Comments
marciogerep
It helps to explain that CHINESE gave the name to Japan, because seen from China, the sun appears to be rasing in Japan. The Japanese evidently loved the name and kept it as written by Chinese but the same characters (with same meaning) have different sounds in Japanese No wonder Nihon doesn't even sound close to Japan, which is close to the Chinese pronunciation of those characters Ri Ben - chinese pronounce Ri sounds more like Ji and P and B sounds almost the same in Chinese, making Jipen what most foreign people heard. Japan...
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19.06.2018 02:21
Caren Rounthwaite
A Spanish expedition to South America in 1449? Are you sure? Did Columbus know about this?
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20.07.2019 04:53
Ron Gosling
Venezuela wasn't found till 1498 by Spanish. Not 1449.
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04.07.2025 08:31
Bob Gorby
No, the locals were stumped 🤔 for a name for Canada, so they held a lottery. One by one, letters were drawn from a “shuffled tumbler. As the National Secretary, the Master of Ceremonies called out: “C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?” And That is how Canada 🍁 🇨🇦 got its name!
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02.09.2024 11:06
konrad
Actually, lads, rabbits are original of Spain. So, there couldn't be a Phoenician word for "rabbit", but rather similar small rodents called, yes, them, "sphan". Rabbits and poplar tress are both original from Spain.
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12.02.2022 10:19
c grhm
#6. Dead wrong. Generally accepted today that the namers of Iceland and and Greenland very confused, drunk whatever. Iceland is beautiful, lush and green. Greenland is barren and has no sustainability for greenery. Whoever first name the two really was very confused.
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29.04.2020 10:04
Louis Nardone
Very informative. So if Italy is the land of calves, I'm Italian or I should say Calvian
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15.02.2019 04:56
konrad
Rabbits are native to Spain, and didn't exist anywhere else before their discovery by the Phoenicians. They called them Ispahan, because they were similar to some Asian rodents, but "sphan" couldn't mean "rabbit" in Phienician. There were no rabbits in Asia.
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18.01.2019 11:50
sekrob
Jamaica comes from an Arawak word "xaymaca", land of wood and water
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21.12.2018 09:36
Elsy O. Stromberg
Euan: Spain is English translation for Espanya.
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27.11.2018 04:02
Carlota Gamarra
Had great time reading all the interesting data about the origin of these countries' names, even if some of them might be slightly inaccurate. Thanks a million!!! Keep on enlightening us all.
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18.10.2018 05:55
bettyschierloh
This was wonderfully interesting. Thank you.
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01.10.2018 02:53
ninakamwene
Informative. Thank you.
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14.09.2018 08:39
conchita
Sacha Birnbaum Adams, La date était 1499 pas 1449.
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07.09.2018 01:10
BigSky1470
How did the Spanish see little houses in Venezuela in 1449 when Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas in 1492?
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05.08.2018 11:52
Bob Gorby
Canada was really named by lottery. They decided to put all the letters of the alphabet into a Bingo tumbler, and name the country as letters were removed from the tumbler. It went like this: “C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?”
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05.08.2018 09:43

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