Country Name Etymology 2 - Statistics

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Portuguese sailors referred to this stretch of the African coast as "Serra da Leoa," the “Lion Mountain,” later translated to Italian on some maps.	Sierra Leone	98%
From the Latin "romanus," meaning “citizen of Rome.”	Romania	94%
The essential word of the country’s name derived from an Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci.	United States of America	86%
South American country named for a circle of latitude, sometimes called the great circle.	Ecuador	84%
By some accounts, the first part of the name was derived from an historical association with the Huns, and the second from a Latinized form of Byzantine Greek, "Oungroi." Another possibility is that the name was derived in medieval times from the name of the people, "ungari" or "ungri."	Hungary	83%
Probably from the Iroquoian word "kanata," meaning “village” or "settlement.”	Canada	79%
Asian coastal country named, according to legend, from an expression, “Baru nah!” (“That’s it!”) uttered by founder Awang Alak Tetatar.	Brunei	75%
From Greek, “Indian Island.”	Indonesia	72%
Derived possibly from "Biru," either the name of a local ruler living in contemporary Panama, or a (non-existent) ethnic group thought to live along the Pacific coast further south.	Peru	71%
Possibly from the Sumerian city of Uruk.	Iraq	67%
The Greek name appears twice in the Iliad, according to Pliny the Elder derived from a man named Aethiops.	Ethiopia	63%
From an English interpretation of the Portuguese "Rio dos Camarões" (Shrimp River).	Cameroon	60%
Named for an empire in West Africa, located northwest of the current country.	Ghana	45%
A former name, from 1971 to 1997, derived from a Portuguese interpretation of an expression of the Kikongo language, "Ndzere," meaning “the river that swallows all rivers.”	Zaire	42%

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