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Country names by etymology (meaning) of native name - Statistics
General Stats
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This quiz has been taken 275 times
245 since last reset
- The average score is 79 of 152
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| From Norse for either "northern way" or "narrow way" | Norway (Norge) | 98%
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| The Rus' people (who were actually Norsemen, not Slavs) | Russia | 97%
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| The Franks (a Germanic tribe) | France | 92%
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| Land of ice | Iceland (Island) | 92%
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| The Bulgar people (who were actually Turkic, not Slavic) | Bulgaria | 90%
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| Low land | Netherlands (Nederland) | 88%
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| The Belgae tribe of Gaul | Belgium | 87%
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| Ultimately from "Slavic people" | Slovakia + Slovenia | 87%
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| White Rus' people | Belarus | 86%
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| Black mountain | Montenegro (Crna Gora) | 84%
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| Romans | Romania | 82%
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| Spanish for "the savior" | El Salvador | 81%
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| Named after the Dutch province Zeeland | New Zealand | 81%
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| Spanish for "equator" | Ecuador | 80%
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| The Lao people | Laos | 80%
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| British sea captain John Marshall | Marshall Islands (not native name) | 80%
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| Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar | Bolivia | 78%
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| Christopher Columbus | Colombia | 78%
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| Spanish for "rich coast" | Costa Rica | 78%
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| Named after the Paraguay River (itself of uncertain etymology) | Paraguay | 78%
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| Saint Marinus | San Marino | 78%
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| An Amerindian tribe called Surinen | Suriname | 78%
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| Named after the Uruguay River (itself of uncertain etymology) | Uruguay | 78%
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| Italian for "made of silver" | Argentina | 77%
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| Named after the Jordan River (its own etymology is debated) | Jordan | 77%
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| King Philip II of Spain | Philippines | 77%
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| Spanish for "Trinity" and "tobacco" | Trinidad and Tobago | 77%
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| Saint Dominic (medieval Spanish priest, founded an order of monks) | Dominican Republic | 76%
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| The Spanish city Granada | Grenada | 76%
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| The martyr Saint Lucy of Syracuse | Saint Lucia | 76%
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| Combination of Tanganyika (sail in the wilderness) + Zanzibar (black shore) | Tanzania | 76%
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| Land of Bengal | Bangladesh | 75%
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| The Biblical King Solomon | Solomon Islands | 75%
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| Realm of the Svea tribe | Sweden (Sverige) | 75%
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| Spanish for "Little Venice" | Venezuela | 75%
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| Land of the Magyar tribe | Hungary (Magyarorszag) | 74%
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| The origin of the sun | Japan (Nippon or Nihon) | 74%
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| Portuguese for "green cape" | Cape Verde | 73%
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| Jean Moreau de Séchelles, the French minister of finance from 1754-56 | Seychelles | 73%
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| Named after the Zambezi River | Zambia | 72%
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| Land of almost Turks, alternatively pure Turks | Turkmenistan | 71%
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| Land of the people who speak Sotho | Lesotho | 70%
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| "East" + Malay word for "East" | East Timor | 69%
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| From another name for the Aztecs | Mexico | 69%
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| Sanskrit honorific meaning "radiance" + "island" | Sri Lanka | 69%
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| Latin for "southern" | Australia | 68%
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| From the native St Lawrence Iroquoian word for "village" | Canada | 68%
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| Greek for "Indian islands" | Indonesia | 68%
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| Spanish for the "bearded ones" | Barbados | 67%
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| Land of the Tswana ethnic group | Botswana | 67%
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| Land of the Kambojas (an Indo-Iranian people that lived in Kashmir) | Cambodia | 67%
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| Latin for the Berber people they called Mauri (from Greek for "black") | Mauritania | 67%
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| Portuguese for "Saint Thomas and the prince" | São Tomé and Príncipe | 67%
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| Spanish for "ancient" and "bearded" | Antigua and Barbuda | 66%
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| Bosna river + the German for "duke's land" | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 66%
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| Aryan (the ancient name of a people that means noble) | Iran | 66%
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| Latin for "freedom" | Liberia | 66%
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| King Mswati II (d. 1868) | Swaziland (eSwatini) | 66%
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| From the title "ngola" used by rulers of Ndongo | Angola | 64%
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| Native pronunciation of "Gilbert" (after British sea captain Thomas Gilbert) | Kiribati | 64%
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| Maurice of Nassau/Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, 1585-1625 | Mauritius | 64%
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| The Spanish deacon Saint Vincent of Saragossa + the city Granada | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 63%
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| Spanish for "lioness mountains" | Sierra Leone | 63%
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| Named after the Buganda kingdom | Uganda | 63%
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| Sanskrit for "lion city" | Singapore | 62%
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| Woodland or borderland of the Dani tribe | Denmark (Danmark) | 61%
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| Latin for "Sunday" | Dominica | 61%
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| The native Taino name "land of high mountains" of Hispaniola | Haiti | 61%
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| Land of the + another word for Pashtuns | Afghanistan | 60%
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| Tongan pronunciation of the island name "Viti (Levu)" | Fiji | 59%
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| Greek for "small islands" | Micronesia | 58%
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| Possibly "the end of Tibet" | Bhutan | 57%
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| Latin for "Port of Cale", a Celtic settlement | Portugal | 56%
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| From Nahuatl (Aztec language) for "place of many trees" | Guatemala | 55%
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| Portuguese for "like an ember" (named for a red tree) | Brazil | 52%
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| Possibly from Sanskrit for "protected by the sage Nemi" | Nepal | 52%
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| From Chinese for "southern Yue people" (named after battle axes) | Vietnam | 52%
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| Eastern realm | Austria (Österreich) | 51%
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| The first local commoner or ruler the Spanish met named Birú | Peru | 51%
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| English shortening of San Cristobal + Spanish for "(our lady of the) snows" | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 51%
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| Named after the ancient and Biblical Philistines | Palestine (Filastin) | 49%
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| Possibly from the ancient city Uruk | Iraq | 48%
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| From an ancient Berber tribe (the Greeks called the continent by the name) | Libya | 48%
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| Bright stone (from the name of a castle) | Liechtenstein | 47%
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| Little castle | Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg) | 47%
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| Arab trader and ruler Mussa Bin Bique (alternatively Ben Mbiki), ca. 1500 | Mozambique | 47%
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| Middle realm | China (Zhōngguó) | 44%
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| The royal dynasty + the people (which means desert nomads) | Saudi Arabia | 44%
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| From Tamil for "islanders" | Maldives (Dhivehi) | 42%
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| Possibly native for "I go to the beach" | Nauru | 42%
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| Many possible Nahuatl words, eg. "the Anahuac reached this far" | Nicaragua | 41%
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| Possibly "the borderland" | Ukraine | 41%
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| Either from Taino for "big upper middle land" or Spanish for "low tide" | The Bahamas | 40%
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| Originally from Mayan belix for "muddy-watered" for a river | Belize | 39%
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| The native Taino name "land of wood and water" | Jamaica | 39%
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| Probably from Tuareg "Egerew n-Igerewen" ("river of rivers") | Niger + Nigeria | 39%
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| Possibly from Greek for a certain tree or plant | Cyprus | 38%
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| Struggle with God | Israel | 38%
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| Land of the pure (while also an acronym for five of the regions) | Pakistan | 38%
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| Arabic for "black" | Sudan | 38%
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| Land of people speaking diutisc ("popular" in contrast to Latin) | Germany (Deutschland) | 37%
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| From Phoenician for "white" (as in snowy) | Lebanon | 37%
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| Possibly native for "village" | Palau | 37%
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| Corrupted form of "Ubinu", the capital of an empire in Nigeria | Benin | 36%
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| Greek for "red", as in the Red Sea | Eritrea | 36%
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| From the name "vast place" (named for a desert) | Namibia | 36%
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| Greek for "burnt face" | Ethiopia | 35%
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| Greek either for "highlanders" or "the tall ones" | North Macedonia | 35%
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| "Lake", named after its largest lake | Chad | 34%
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| Native name of uncertain origin + named after the coast of West Africa | Papua New Guinea | 34%
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| The Bamar ethnic group (alternatively the literary name for this group) | Burma/Myanmar | 33%
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| Portuguese for "shrimp" | Cameroon | 33%
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| Land of the Kartvelians | Georgia (Sakartvelo) | 33%
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| The ancient Bharata tribe and the legendary emperor Bharata | India (Bharat) | 31%
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| Arabic for "the West" | Morocco (al-Maghrib) | 31%
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| South | Tonga | 31%
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| Eight standing together (meaning eight inhabited islands) | Tuvalu | 31%
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| Amerindian for "land of many waters" | Guyana | 30%
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| Greek for "single house" | Monaco | 30%
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| Two words of different languages meaning "honest" + "fatherland" | Burkina Faso | 29%
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| Semitic for "frontier" (while the Greek comes from the temple of Ptah) | Egypt (Masr) | 29%
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| Land of the wanderers (meaning nomads) | Kazakhstan | 29%
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| Land of the forty (for forty original tribes) | Kyrgyzstan | 29%
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| The Persian governor Athurpat (Atropates in Greek, ca. 320 BCE) | Azerbaijan | 28%
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| Name the Portuguese used for West Africa of older uncertain origin | Guinea | 28%
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| Spanish for "depths" | Honduras | 28%
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| Many possible native meanings, eg. "abundance of fish" | Panama | 28%
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| Gets its name from medieval Europeans confusing it with Mogadishu | Madagascar | 27%
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| From the Arabic word "qamar" meaning "moon" | Comoros | 26%
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| Great Han (which also means great, and unrelated to Han China) | South Korea (Daehan or Hanguk) | 25%
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| Ultimately from the city Ashur (even though it's the wrong location) | Syria | 25%
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| "God's resting place" named for a mountain | Kenya | 24%
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| Possibly from Greek for "honey" | Malta | 24%
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| Possibly "south" or "blessed" for its fertile soil south of the desert | Yemen | 24%
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| Land of (legendary figure) Hayk the Great | Armenia (Hayastan) | 23%
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| "Large houses of stone" after a ruined city from the Middle Ages | Zimbabwe | 23%
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| Possibly from Greek rendering of Oscan word for "calf" | Italy | 22%
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| From Kambra, the original Mandinka name for the major river | The Gambia | 22%
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| Possibly from the word "hippo" which became "place where the king lives" | Mali | 21%
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| Wolof for "our boat", named for a river | Senegal | 21%
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| The two seas | Bahrain | 20%
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| Arabic for "the islands" (named for a city on the coast) | Algeria (al-Jazair) | 19%
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| Native word for "land" or "home" with "stand" (meaning independent) | Vanuatu | 18%
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| "Warrior king", a title given to kings of the empire of the same name | Ghana | 17%
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| From the Portuguese for "cloak" for the shape of the estuary | Gabon | 16%
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| Possibly from Tamil for "mountain land" | Malaysia | 16%
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| Land where lagoons lie | Togo | 13%
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| Possibly related to the Norse word "to burn" via Old High German | Switzerland | 12%
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| Probably from Latin excipere for "understanding" | Albania (Shqipëria) | 9%
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| Possibly from Sanskrit for "seafarers" | Brunei | 9%
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| Morning brightness (also an ancient name for the country) | North Korea (Choson or Joseon) | 9%
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| Possibly evolved from a word for "human being" | Thailand | 9%
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