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All Country-Name Etymologies - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 29 times
- The average score is 63 of 188
Answer Stats
| Language | Continent | Etymology | Answer | % Correct |
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| Bengali | Asia | Country of Bengal | Bangladesh | 94%
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| Anglicized Late Latin | Europe | Land of the Franks | France | 94%
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| Dutch | Europe | Lowlands | Netherlands | 94%
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| Anglicized from French | Asia | Land of Kambojas | Cambodia | 81%
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| Chinese | Asia | Sun-origin | Japan | 81%
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| English | Africa | Self-descriptive, based on the fact that it is below Sudan | South Sudan | 81%
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| Greek | Asia | Land of the Armenioi | Armenia | 75%
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| Latin | Americas | Land of Bolivar | Bolivia | 75%
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| Greek | Asia | Cypress or henna | Cyprus | 75%
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| French | Americas | La grenade | Granada | 75%
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| Byzantine Greek | Europe | Land of the Ros | Russia | 75%
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| Arabic | Asia | Arabia of Happiness | Saudi Arabia | 75%
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| English | Africa | Land of Tanganyika and Zanzibar | Tanzania | 75%
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| Arabic | Asia | Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities | United Arab Emirates | 75%
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| English | Africa | Land of the Zambezi | Zambia | 75%
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| Latin | Europe | Land of Belgae | Belgium | 69%
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| English | Africa | Self descriptive, based on its government style and position on its continent | Central African Republic | 69%
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| English | Africa | Self descriptive, based on its location relative to the equator | Equatorial Guinea | 69%
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| Greek | Asia | Indian Islands | Indonesia | 69%
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| French | Africa | Coast of a previous export | Ivory Coast | 69%
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| Latin | Africa | Free | Liberia | 69%
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| English | Oceania | The name of the guy who discovered it | Marshall Islands | 69%
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| Dutch | Oceania | New sea land | New Zealand | 69%
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| Latin | Americas | Saint Lucy | Saint Lucia | 69%
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| English and Spanish | Americas | Saint Christopher and the Lady of our Snows | St. Kitts and Nevis | 69%
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| Latin | Asia | Land of Turks | Turkey | 69%
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| Italian | Americas | Silvery | Argentina | 63%
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| Greek | Oceania | Small Islands | Micronesia | 63%
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| English | Africa | Self-descriptive, based on its position on the continent of Africa | South Africa | 63%
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| Alemannic | Europe | The name Suito | Switzerland | 63%
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| English | Europe | Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities | United Kingdom | 63%
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| English | Americas | Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities | United States | 63%
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| Bislama | Oceania | Our land | Vanuatu | 63%
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| Iroquoian | Americas | Village | Canada | 56%
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| Malay | Asia | East east | East Timor | 56%
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| Italian | Africa | Land of the Red Sea | Eritrea | 56%
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| Kikuyu | Africa | Land of the white mountain | Kenya | 56%
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| German | Europe | Light stone | Liechtenstein | 56%
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| Celtic and German | Europe | Little fortress | Luxembourg | 56%
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| Berber | Africa | Land of God | Morocco | 56%
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| Arabic | Africa | Land of the black people | Sudan | 56%
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| Italian | Americas | Little Venice | Venezuela | 56%
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| Russian | Europe | White Russia | Belarus | 50%
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| Swazi | Africa | Land of the Swazi | Eswatini | 50%
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| Swedish | Europe | Land of the Finns | Finland | 50%
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| East Turkic and Persian | Asia | Land of forty tribes | Kyrgyzstan | 50%
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| Latin | Europe | Roman realm | Romania | 50%
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| Italian | Europe | The name of the founder of this country | San Marino | 50%
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| Chinese | Asia | Terraced Bay | Taiwan | 50%
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| Thai | Asia | Land of the Thai | Thailand | 50%
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| Spanish | Americas | Ancient and Bearded | Antigua and Barbuda | 44%
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| New Latin | Oceania | Southern Land | Australia | 44%
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| German | Europe | Eastern March | Austria | 44%
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| Ikirundi | Africa | Land of the Ikirundi speakers | Burundi | 44%
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| Portuguese | Africa | Green Cape | Cape Verde | 44%
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| Spanish | Americas | Land of Columbus | Colombia | 44%
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| Spanish | Americas | Rich coast | Costa Rica | 44%
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| Spanish | Americas | Equator | Ecuador | 44%
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| Spanish | Americas | The Savior | El Salvador | 44%
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| Latinization of Old English | Europe | Land of the Aesti | Estonia | 44%
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| Portuguese | Africa | Corruption of Ghana | Guinea | 44%
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| Portuguese and Unknown | Africa | Corruption of the word Ghana and the name of the clan Bossassun | Guinea-Bissau | 44%
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| Old Norse | Europe | Land of ice | Iceland | 44%
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| Sanskrit | Asia | Indus river | India | 44%
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| Arabic | Asia | Fortress built near water | Kuwait | 44%
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| Spanish | Asia | Lands of Prince Philip of Asturias | Philippines | 44%
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| Portuguese | Africa | Saint Thomas and the prince | Sao Tome and Principe | 44%
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| German | Europe | Sorb tribe | Serbia | 44%
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| Portuguese | Africa | Lion mountains | Sierra Leone | 44%
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| Spanish | Oceania | The name of a rich Biblical king | Solomon Islands | 44%
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| Spanish and unknown | Americas | Holy trinity and tobacco | Trinidad and Tobago | 44%
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| Navarro-Aragonese | Europe | Scrubland | Andorra | 38%
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| Lucayan | Americas | Large upper middle island | Bahamas | 38%
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| Arabic | Asia | The two seas | Bahrain | 38%
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| Malay and Arabic | Asia | There, the Abode of Peace | Brunei | 38%
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| Turkish | Europe | Bulgars | Bulgaria | 38%
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| French | Africa | Shrimp | Cameroon | 38%
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| Kanuri | Africa | Lake | Chad | 38%
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| Unknown | Europe | The Danish forest | Denmark | 38%
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| Latin | Americas | Sunday island | Dominica | 38%
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| Spanish | Americas | Republic of Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | 38%
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| Tongan | Oceania | Look out | Fiji | 38%
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| Hebrew | Asia | Descend | Jordan | 38%
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| Sotho | Africa | Land of Basotho speakers | Lesotho | 38%
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| Unknown | Asia | Land of the Burmans | Myanmar | 38%
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| Spanish | Americas | Merger of Nicarao and the word for water | Nicaragua | 38%
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| Greek | Europe | Tall ones, or the highlanders | North Macedonia | 38%
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| Sanskrit | Asia | Lion city | Singapore | 38%
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| Sanskrit | Asia | Holy Island | Sri Lanka | 38%
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| Latinization of French | Africa | Land of this country's capital | Algeria | 31%
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| Portuguese | Americas | Bearded ones | Barbados | 31%
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| Quechua, Aymara, or Mapuche | Americas | Cold, snow, depths, or where the land ends | Chile | 31%
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| Taino | Americas | Abundant fertile land or great place | Cuba | 31%
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| Latin | Africa | Home of ka and Ptah | Egypt | 31%
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| Spanish | Americas | Depths | Honduras | 31%
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| Greek | Europe | Honey | Malta | 31%
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| Arabic | Africa | Mussa Ben Mbiki | Mozambique | 31%
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| Chinese | Asia | Tall and beautiful | North Korea | South Korea | 31%
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| Arabic | Asia | Settled people | Oman | 31%
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| Guarani | Americas | Place of a local tribe or crowned river | Paraguay | 31%
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| Latin and Greek | Europe | Beautiful port or hot port | Portugal | 31%
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| Berber | Africa | Zenaga tribe | Senegal | 31%
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| Samoan | Oceania | Southern | Tonga | 31%
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| Sogdian | Asia | Land of the Turk-like | Turkmenistan | 31%
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| Sanskrit | Asia | End of Tibet | Bhutan | 25%
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| Tswana | Africa | Country of the equal | Botswana | 25%
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| Latin | Africa | Land of the Blacks | Ethiopia | 25%
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| Celtic | Europe | Neighbor, battle cry, or to shout | Germany | 25%
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| Nahuatl | Americas | Forest | Guatemala | 25%
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| Taino/Arawak | Americas | Mountainous land | Haiti | 25%
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| Unknown | Europe | Latvian plus ija | Latvia | 25%
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| Unknown | Africa | Corruption of Mogadishu | Madagascar | 25%
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| Sanskrit | Asia | The name of the peninsula it is on | Malaysia | 25%
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| Sanskrit | Asia | Garland of islands | Maldives | 25%
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| Tuareg | Africa | Flowing water | Niger | Nigeria | 25%
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| Cueva | Americas | Place of an abundance of fish or abundance of butterflies | Panama | 25%
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| Slavic | Europe | Slav | Slovakia | Slovenia | 25%
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| Phoenician | Africa | Land of Tanith | Tunisia | 25%
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| Slavic | Europe | Land, country | Ukraine | 25%
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| Arabic | Asia | Right-hand side | Yemen | 25%
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| Shona | Africa | House of stones | Zimbabwe | 25%
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| Portuguese | Africa | Land of the Ndongo | Angola | 19%
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| Arabic | Africa | Moons | Comoros | 19%
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| English | Europe | Self-descriptive, based on the governing style and the people who live there | Czech Republic | 19%
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| Middle Persian | Asia | Land of the wolves | Georgia | 19%
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| Proto-Celtic | Europe | The fertile place | Ireland | 19%
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| Taino/Arawak | Americas | Land of wood and water | Jamaica | 19%
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| x | Oceania | Gilbert Islands | Kiribati | 19%
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| Serbian | Europe | Field of blackbird | Kosovo | 19%
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| Nahuatl | Americas | Sun | Mexico | 19%
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| Venetian | Europe | Black mountain | Montenegro | 19%
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| Nama | Africa | Land of the land where there is nothing | Namibia | 19%
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| x | Europe | Land of the Polans | Poland | 19%
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| French | Africa | The finance minister to King Louis XV of France | Seychelles | 19%
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| Unknown | Asia | Syriac | Syria | 19%
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| x | Asia | South Viet | Vietnam | 19%
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| Latin | Europe | Land of the White | Albania | 13%
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| Spanish | Americas | Wallace | Belize | 13%
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| Latin and German | Europe | Running water and duke land | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 13%
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| Portuguese | Americas | Red hot embers | Brazil | 13%
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| Persian | Asia | Land of the free/nomads | Kazakhstan | 13%
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| Greek | Europe | Single dwelling | Monaco | 13%
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| Tibeto-Burman | Asia | Those who domesticate cattle | Nepal | 13%
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| Unknown | Americas | Surinen peoples | Suriname | 13%
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| Ewe | Africa | Land beside the water or land behind the sea | Togo | 13%
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| Persian | Asia | Land of Atrophates | Azerbaijan | 6%
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| Yoruba | Africa | Home of Vexation | Benin | 6%
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| More and Dioula | Africa | Land of honest men | Burkina Faso | 6%
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| Portuguese | Africa | The name of a kingdom of Bantu peoples | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Republic of the Congo | 6%
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| Mandinkan | Africa | The name of a river | Gambia | 6%
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| x | Asia | Land of the free | Iran | 6%
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| Middle Persian | Asia | Lowlands | Iraq | 6%
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| Greek | Europe | Bull | Italy | 6%
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| Malinke and Bamana | Africa | Hippo | Mali | 6%
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| Gothic | Europe | Dusty mud | Moldova | 6%
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| x | Europe | Northern way | Norway | 6%
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| Urdu or Persian | Asia | Land of the pure | Pakistan | 6%
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| x | Africa | Land of cattle herders or the land of Samaale | Somalia | 6%
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| Norman French | Europe | Island of Hyraxes | Spain | 6%
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| x | Oceania | Eight standing with each other | Tuvalu | 6%
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| Sanskrit | Asia | Land of the Horsemen | Afghanistan | 0%
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| Unknown | Asia | The name of the inhabitants of the Yelang kingdom | China | 0%
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| Old Persian | Europe | Arachosia or Helmand River | Croatia | 0%
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| Unknown | Africa | Land of Tehuti | Djibouti | 0%
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| Portuguese | Africa | Cloak | Gabon | 0%
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| Unknown | Africa | Strong warrior king | Ghana | 0%
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| Unknown | Europe | Old woman | Greece | 0%
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| Unknown indigenous language | Americas | Land of many waters | Guyana | 0%
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| Turkish | Europe | Ten-arrows | Hungary | 0%
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| Unknown | Asia | God persists and rules | Israel | 0%
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| Unknown | Asia | White or milk | Lebanon | 0%
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| Unknown | Africa | The name of a local tribe | Libya | 0%
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| x | Europe | To unite | Lithuania | 0%
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| Unknown | Africa | Flaming water, or tongues of fire | Malawi | 0%
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| x | Asia | Eternal sky fire | Mongolia | 0%
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| x | Oceania | I go to the beach | Nauru | 0%
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| x | Oceania | Indirect replies | Palau | 0%
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| Unknown | Americas | Either the word river or the chieftain of a local tribe | Peru | 0%
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| Unknown | Asia | The town of Zubara | Qatar | 0%
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| x | Africa | Big or expand | Rwanda | 0%
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| English | Americas | The day they were discovered | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0%
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| x | Oceania | Holy center | Samoa | 0%
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| Proto-Indo-European | Europe | People of one's own kin | Sweden | 0%
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| Tayy | Asia | Land of the Arabs | Tajikistan | 0%
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| x | Africa | Bundle, or standing in a bundle | Uganda | 0%
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| Unknown | Americas | Shellfish water, or proceed from a local bird | Uruguay | 0%
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| Turkish and Persian | Asia | Home of the free | Uzbekistan | 0%
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| Latin | Europe | Hill of soothsayers | Vatican City | 0%
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