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German to English Country Names

We give you the German language name for a country. You guess its name in English.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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First submittedJune 4, 2015
Times taken30,731
Average score81.0%
Rating4.91
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German
English
Deutschland
Germany
Frankreich
France
Vereinigte Staaten
United States
Ungarn
Hungary
Tschechien
Czech Republic
Polen
Poland
Kenia
Kenya
German
English
Schweiz
Switzerland
Zypern
Cyprus
Kolumbien
Colombia
Neuseeland
New Zealand
Fidschi
Fiji
Island
Iceland
Österreich
Austria
German
English
Griechenland
Greece
Ägypten
Egypt
Elfenbeinküste
Ivory Coast
Kambodscha
Cambodia
Kamerun
Cameroon
Estland
Estonia
Jemen
Yemen
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28 Comments
Sirlandlord
+17
Level 74
Jun 4, 2015
Nice Quiz, too easy though if you're a native-speaking.
MasterRocket
+10
Level 83
Jul 23, 2025
Much harder than the spanish one for me.
LuckyCat
+3
Level 72
Jul 23, 2025
+1, only because I haven't learned German country names 🤯
FrankiiLynx
+2
Level 89
Jul 23, 2025
Nailed this one, but would've been caught out by Ivory Coast if I hadn't already missed that one in the Spanish version yesterday haha
Qikiq
+8
Level 89
Jul 23, 2025
I spent way too long trying to figure out which country had the word 'states' in its name. Especially considering I'm a native of that country.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 82
Oct 16, 2025
United States of Mexico :D
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Jul 23, 2025
Could I make a spanish translation?
Alexquiz17
+16
Level 94
Jul 23, 2025
Elephant bone coast? Love it…
overtired
+5
Level 88
Jul 23, 2025
There was me thinking Rivendell, Lothlórien...
MeMeMe333
+3
Level 71
Jul 24, 2025
I learnt in school yesterday that 'das Bein' was German for leg???
lubi
+16
Level 79
Jul 24, 2025
"Bein" does mean "leg". But a long time ago, it used to mean "bone" and the meaning shifted over time. Still a lot of German names for bones have the word "bein" in it. Like "Schienbein" ("shin"), "Brustbein" ("sternum"), "Nasenbein" ("nasal bone"), and many many others. As does "Elfenbein", literally "elf bone".

There's also "Gebeine", which means "skeletal remains".

lubi
+8
Level 79
Jul 24, 2025
Although, now that I read more about the origin of the word, the "Elfen" part did indeed originally refer to elephants. Over time, the meaning was reinterpreted, maybe also because the word for elephant started to take a slightly different standard form ("Elefant").
louisss
+2
Level 73
Jul 24, 2025
It's actually Elf leg coast. I guess elves are pale and their legs are supposed to look like ivory?
RobNobody
+4
Level 80
Oct 16, 2025
It originally referred to elephants, but linguistic evolution/drift changed the word for elephant into Elefant while leaving this relic behind in the word for ivory.
alejetpunk
+1
Level 36
Aug 7, 2025
Man I got Cote d'Ivoire right but I couldn't guess Cyprus and New Zealand
AnDr3
+2
Level 65
Oct 16, 2025
It's the same in Hungarian, Elefántcsontpart.
akipopopopooon
+1
Level 81
Jul 24, 2025
easier for me than the spanish one (although that may be an artifact of my 4 years of high school german...)
hoipipeloi
+2
Level 40
Aug 8, 2025
Some of them are the same in Dutch or similar.
ndjxo
+2
Level 38
Oct 9, 2025
for all which are confused about the elfenbeinküste it's not from the word elephant but the big tusks of an elephant which material is called elfenbein which translates to ivory in english, so basically its ivory coast aswell and not elephant leg coast :)
RobNobody
+5
Level 80
Oct 16, 2025
Well, yes, but the word Elfenbein originally came from a word that meant "elephant bone."
baptistegorce
+1
Level 57
Oct 16, 2025
What a pleasure to be able to use a French country name in a quiz focusing on German to English translation...
tomek10m
+1
Level 56
Oct 16, 2025
Ivory Coast got me
Tim000w
+1
Level 74
Oct 16, 2025
Really helps in some cases to say them out loud .
NathanBagne09
+1
Level 47
Oct 16, 2025
As someone who doesn't understand German, I'm surprised that I was able to get 17/21
FredaCat
+1
Level 44
Oct 16, 2025
I did terribly, lol. Enjoyed it immensely. More please! :0)
EnlightWolif
+1
Level 51
Oct 16, 2025
German isn't that hard in terms of vocabulary. Listen to Rammstein, get invested, use Wikipedia phonology and Wiktionary
chaostess
+1
Level 68
Oct 16, 2025
Easy. But I learned German from my German-speaking father.
9876542
+1
Level 37
Oct 16, 2025
I managed to get about half of these just by thinking of random country names said with a German accent
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