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African Countries by Etymology - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 2,789 times
- The average score is 38 of 54
Answer Stats
| Name Meaning | Country | % Correct |
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| Jean Moreau de Séchelles, Louis XV's Minister of Finance | Seychelles | 96%
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| Named for its location at the south of the continent | South Africa | 94%
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| Literally "Saint Thomas and Prince" in Portuguese | Sao Tome and Principe | 93%
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| "Soo" and "maal," or the name of the country's clans | Somalia | 93%
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| "Green cape" in Portuguese | Cape Verde | 92%
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| Portuguese for cloak, or "gabão" | Gabon | 90%
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| Named for the river going through it (bigger country of two) | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 89%
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| "Serra Lyoa," the original Portuguese name for "Lion Mountains" | Sierra Leone | 89%
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| Derives from the Zambezi River, which could mean "grand river" | Zambia | 89%
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| It could mean "plate," or "gabouti" | Djibouti | 88%
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| Its location near both the Equator and the Gulf of Guinea | Equatorial Guinea | 88%
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| "Land of the Swazis" | Eswatini | 88%
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| The French term "Ruanda" was likely used for its indigenous people | Rwanda | 88%
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| The republic's location in the central part of the continent | Central African Republic | 87%
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| Combined Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the kingdoms that formed the country | Tanzania | 87%
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| Name of a river in West Africa going through it (northern country of two) | Niger | 84%
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| Historical trading of elephant tusks, or ivory, in the region | Cote d'Ivoire | 83%
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| "Land of the Basotho" | Lesotho | 83%
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| "Land of the Tswana," the dominant ethnic group in the country | Botswana | 82%
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| "Aiguptos," ancient Greek name for Memphis | Egypt | 82%
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| Maybe Marco Polo confused the island with "Mogadishu" | Madagascar | 82%
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| "Ngola," an iron object symbolizing kingship | Angola | 80%
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| "Free" and "place" in Latin | Liberia | 80%
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| Comes after the Buganda kingdom | Uganda | 79%
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| "The country of the Mauri" | Mauritania | 77%
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| Prince Maurice Van Nassau of Holland | Mauritius | 77%
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| Derived from an Egyptian word for people living west of the Nile | Libya | 76%
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| Possibly from Berber, meaning "Land of God" | Morocco | 75%
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| The oldest desert in the world, which is Nama for "vast place" | Namibia | 75%
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| Means "white mountain" and namesake of Africa's second-highest peak | Kenya | 73%
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| "South" and "land of the blacks" | South Sudan | 72%
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| Arabic expression for "land of the blacks" | Sudan | 72%
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| "Red Sea" in Greek | Eritrea | 69%
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| After an island named after Mussa Bin Bique, an Arab trader | Mozambique | 68%
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| "Rio dos Camarões," Portuguese for "River of Prawns" | Cameroon | 65%
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| Name of a river in West Africa going through it (southern country of two) | Nigeria | 65%
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| Named after its capital, and the Berber word for "encampment" | Tunisia | 65%
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| "Maravi," an old name for the country's inhabitants, or Chewa | Malawi | 61%
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| Named for a medieval empire in West Africa | Ghana | 58%
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| Named for the river going through it (smaller country of two) | Republic of the Congo | 58%
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| Its name comes from a lake in the country that literally means "lake" | Chad | 55%
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| Named for the river, "Kambaa," that shapes the country | Gambia | 55%
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| It could be a Portuguese transliteration of "Zenaga" | Senegal | 48%
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| "Person of mixed ancestry" + the name of its capital city | Guinea Bissau | 47%
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| Comes from the Bini people | Benin | 45%
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| A former empire's name, which is Bambara for "hippopotamus" | Mali | 44%
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| One possible meaning is "person of mixed ancestry" | Guinea | 43%
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| Arabic for moon, "qamar" | Comoros | 42%
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| Greek for "burnt face" | Ethiopia | 42%
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| "Upright" in Mossi, and "fatherland" in Dioula | Burkina Faso | 38%
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| Its name could mean "houses of stones" in a Shona dialect | Zimbabwe | 37%
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| Possibly derives from the Ha people's origin, called "Buha" | Burundi | 36%
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| Ewe for "behind the river" | Togo | 35%
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| Literally means "the islands," which are off the coast of its capital | Algeria | 31%
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