All Country-Name Etymologies - Statistics

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Language	Continent	Etymology	Answer	% Correct
Bengali	Asia	Country of Bengal	Bangladesh	90%
Anglicized Late Latin	Europe	Land of the Franks	France	90%
Dutch	Europe	Lowlands	Netherlands	90%
Anglicized from French	Asia	Land of Kambojas	Cambodia	81%
Chinese	Asia	Sun-origin	Japan	81%
English	Africa	Self-descriptive, based on the fact that it is below Sudan	South Sudan	81%
Greek	Asia	Land of the Armenioi	Armenia	76%
Latin	Americas	Land of Bolivar	Bolivia	76%
Greek	Asia	Cypress or henna	Cyprus	76%
French	Americas	La grenade	Granada	76%
Byzantine Greek	Europe	Land of the Ros	Russia	76%
English	Africa	Land of Tanganyika and Zanzibar	Tanzania	76%
English	Africa	Land of the Zambezi	Zambia	76%
Latin	Europe	Land of Belgae	Belgium	71%
Greek	Asia	Indian Islands	Indonesia	71%
French	Africa	Coast of a previous export	Ivory Coast	71%
Latin	Africa	Free	Liberia	71%
Dutch	Oceania	New sea land	New Zealand	71%
Latin	Americas	Saint Lucy	Saint Lucia	71%
Arabic	Asia	Arabia of Happiness	Saudi Arabia	71%
English and Spanish	Americas	Saint Christopher and the Lady of our Snows	St. Kitts and Nevis	71%
Latin	Asia	Land of Turks	Turkey	71%
Italian	Americas	Silvery	Argentina	67%
English	Africa	Self descriptive, based on its location relative to the equator	Equatorial Guinea	67%
Greek	Oceania	Small Islands	Micronesia	67%
English	Africa	Self-descriptive, based on its position on the continent of Africa	South Africa	67%
Alemannic	Europe	The name Suito	Switzerland	67%
Iroquoian	Americas	Village	Canada	62%
Malay	Asia	East east	East Timor	62%
Italian	Africa	Land of the Red Sea	Eritrea	62%
Kikuyu	Africa	Land of the white mountain	Kenya	62%
German	Europe	Light stone	Liechtenstein	62%
Celtic and German	Europe	Little fortress	Luxembourg	62%
English	Oceania	The name of the guy who discovered it	Marshall Islands	62%
Berber	Africa	Land of God	Morocco	62%
Arabic	Africa	Land of the black people	Sudan	62%
English	Europe	Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities	United Kingdom	62%
Italian	Americas	Little Venice	Venezuela	62%
Russian	Europe	White Russia	Belarus	57%
English	Africa	Self descriptive, based on its government style and position on its continent	Central African Republic	57%
East Turkic and Persian	Asia	Land of forty tribes	Kyrgyzstan	57%
Latin	Europe	Roman realm	Romania	57%
Arabic	Asia	Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities	United Arab Emirates	57%
English	Americas	Self descriptive, based on the fact that it is a union of separate entities	United States	57%
New Latin	Oceania	Southern Land	Australia	52%
German	Europe	Eastern March	Austria	52%
Portuguese	Africa	Green Cape	Cape Verde	52%
Latinization of Old English	Europe	Land of the Aesti	Estonia	52%
Old Norse	Europe	Land of ice	Iceland	52%
Sanskrit	Asia	Indus river	India	52%
Arabic	Asia	Fortress built near water	Kuwait	52%
Portuguese	Africa	Saint Thomas and the prince	Sao Tome and Principe	52%
German	Europe	Sorb tribe	Serbia	52%
Portuguese	Africa	Lion mountains	Sierra Leone	52%
Bislama	Oceania	Our land	Vanuatu	52%
Spanish	Americas	Ancient and Bearded	Antigua and Barbuda	48%
Arabic	Asia	The two seas	Bahrain	48%
French	Africa	Shrimp	Cameroon	48%
Kanuri	Africa	Lake	Chad	48%
Spanish	Americas	Land of Columbus	Colombia	48%
Spanish	Americas	Rich coast	Costa Rica	48%
Latin	Americas	Sunday island	Dominica	48%
Swazi	Africa	Land of the Swazi	Eswatini	48%
Swedish	Europe	Land of the Finns	Finland	48%
Hebrew	Asia	Descend	Jordan	48%
Greek	Europe	Tall ones, or the highlanders	North Macedonia	48%
Sanskrit	Asia	Lion city	Singapore	48%
Sanskrit	Asia	Holy Island	Sri Lanka	48%
Chinese	Asia	Terraced Bay	Taiwan	48%
Thai	Asia	Land of the Thai	Thailand	48%
Portuguese	Americas	Bearded ones	Barbados	43%
Spanish	Americas	Equator	Ecuador	43%
Spanish	Americas	The Savior	El Salvador	43%
Greek	Europe	Honey	Malta	43%
Arabic	Africa	Mussa Ben Mbiki	Mozambique	43%
Spanish	Asia	Lands of Prince Philip of Asturias	Philippines	43%
Latin and Greek	Europe	Beautiful port or hot port	Portugal	43%
Berber	Africa	Zenaga tribe	Senegal	43%
Spanish	Oceania	The name of a rich Biblical king	Solomon Islands	43%
Samoan	Oceania	Southern	Tonga	43%
Spanish and unknown	Americas	Holy trinity and tobacco	Trinidad and Tobago	43%
Sogdian	Asia	Land of the Turk-like	Turkmenistan	43%
Navarro-Aragonese	Europe	Scrubland	Andorra	38%
Sanskrit	Asia	End of Tibet	Bhutan	38%
Turkish	Europe	Bulgars	Bulgaria	38%
Ikirundi	Africa	Land of the Ikirundi speakers	Burundi	38%
Spanish	Americas	Republic of Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	38%
Latin	Africa	Home of ka and Ptah	Egypt	38%
Sotho	Africa	Land of Basotho speakers	Lesotho	38%
Sanskrit	Asia	Garland of islands	Maldives	38%
Spanish	Americas	Merger of Nicarao and the word for water	Nicaragua	38%
Chinese	Asia	Tall and beautiful	North Korea \| South Korea	38%
Cueva	Americas	Place of an abundance of fish or abundance of butterflies	Panama	38%
Italian	Europe	The name of the founder of this country	San Marino	38%
Slavic	Europe	Slav	Slovakia \| Slovenia	38%
Phoenician	Africa	Land of Tanith	Tunisia	38%
Arabic	Asia	Right-hand side	Yemen	38%
Portuguese	Africa	Land of the Ndongo	Angola	33%
Lucayan	Americas	Large upper middle island	Bahamas	33%
Malay and Arabic	Asia	There, the Abode of Peace	Brunei	33%
Arabic	Africa	Moons	Comoros	33%
Taino	Americas	Abundant fertile land or great place	Cuba	33%
Unknown	Europe	The Danish forest	Denmark	33%
Portuguese	Africa	Corruption of Ghana	Guinea	33%
Portuguese and Unknown	Africa	Corruption of the word Ghana and the name of the clan Bossassun	Guinea-Bissau	33%
Spanish	Americas	Depths	Honduras	33%
Serbian	Europe	Field of blackbird	Kosovo	33%
Nama	Africa	Land of the land where there is nothing	Namibia	33%
French	Africa	The finance minister to King Louis XV of France	Seychelles	33%
Latinization of French	Africa	Land of this country's capital	Algeria	29%
Latin and German	Europe	Running water and duke land	Bosnia and Herzegovina	29%
Portuguese	Americas	Red hot embers	Brazil	29%
Tongan	Oceania	Look out	Fiji	29%
Celtic	Europe	Neighbor, battle cry, or to shout	Germany	29%
Taino/Arawak	Americas	Mountainous land	Haiti	29%
Sanskrit	Asia	The name of the peninsula it is on	Malaysia	29%
Greek	Europe	Single dwelling	Monaco	29%
Unknown	Asia	Land of the Burmans	Myanmar	29%
Arabic	Asia	Settled people	Oman	29%
Guarani	Americas	Place of a local tribe or crowned river	Paraguay	29%
Persian	Asia	Land of Atrophates	Azerbaijan	24%
Spanish	Americas	Wallace	Belize	24%
More and Dioula	Africa	Land of honest men	Burkina Faso	24%
Quechua, Aymara, or Mapuche	Americas	Cold, snow, depths, or where the land ends	Chile	24%
Latin	Africa	Land of the Blacks	Ethiopia	24%
Greek	Europe	Bull	Italy	24%
Taino/Arawak	Americas	Land of wood and water	Jamaica	24%
Unknown	Africa	Corruption of Mogadishu	Madagascar	24%
Ewe	Africa	Land beside the water or land behind the sea	Togo	24%
Tswana	Africa	Country of the equal	Botswana	19%
English	Europe	Self-descriptive, based on the governing style and the people who live there	Czech Republic	19%
Portuguese	Africa	Cloak	Gabon	19%
Nahuatl	Americas	Forest	Guatemala	19%
x	Oceania	Gilbert Islands	Kiribati	19%
Unknown	Europe	Latvian plus ija	Latvia	19%
Venetian	Europe	Black mountain	Montenegro	19%
Tuareg	Africa	Flowing water	Niger \| Nigeria	19%
x	Europe	Land of the Polans	Poland	19%
Unknown	Asia	Syriac	Syria	19%
Slavic	Europe	Land, country	Ukraine	19%
x	Asia	South Viet	Vietnam	19%
Shona	Africa	House of stones	Zimbabwe	19%
Latin	Europe	Land of the White	Albania	14%
Middle Persian	Asia	Land of the wolves	Georgia	14%
Proto-Celtic	Europe	The fertile place	Ireland	14%
Malinke and Bamana	Africa	Hippo	Mali	14%
Nahuatl	Americas	Sun	Mexico	14%
Unknown	Americas	Surinen peoples	Suriname	14%
Latin	Europe	Hill of soothsayers	Vatican City	14%
Persian	Asia	Land of the free/nomads	Kazakhstan	10%
Gothic	Europe	Dusty mud	Moldova	10%
Tibeto-Burman	Asia	Those who domesticate cattle	Nepal	10%
x	Europe	Northern way	Norway	10%
Urdu or Persian	Asia	Land of the pure	Pakistan	10%
x	Africa	Land of cattle herders or the land of Samaale	Somalia	10%
Yoruba	Africa	Home of Vexation	Benin	5%
Unknown	Asia	The name of the inhabitants of the Yelang kingdom	China	5%
Portuguese	Africa	The name of a kingdom of Bantu peoples	Democratic Republic of the Congo \| Republic of the Congo	5%
Mandinkan	Africa	The name of a river	Gambia	5%
Unknown indigenous language	Americas	Land of many waters	Guyana	5%
x	Asia	Land of the free	Iran	5%
Middle Persian	Asia	Lowlands	Iraq	5%
Unknown	Asia	God persists and rules	Israel	5%
Unknown	Asia	White or milk	Lebanon	5%
x	Oceania	I go to the beach	Nauru	5%
English	Americas	The day they were discovered	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5%
Norman French	Europe	Island of Hyraxes	Spain	5%
x	Oceania	Eight standing with each other	Tuvalu	5%
Sanskrit	Asia	Land of the Horsemen	Afghanistan	0%
Old Persian	Europe	Arachosia or Helmand River	Croatia	0%
Unknown	Africa	Land of Tehuti	Djibouti	0%
Unknown	Africa	Strong warrior king	Ghana	0%
Unknown	Europe	Old woman	Greece	0%
Turkish	Europe	Ten-arrows	Hungary	0%
Unknown	Africa	The name of a local tribe	Libya	0%
x	Europe	To unite	Lithuania	0%
Unknown	Africa	Flaming water, or tongues of fire	Malawi	0%
x	Asia	Eternal sky fire	Mongolia	0%
x	Oceania	Indirect replies	Palau	0%
Unknown	Americas	Either the word river or the chieftain of a local tribe	Peru	0%
Unknown	Asia	The town of Zubara	Qatar	0%
x	Africa	Big or expand	Rwanda	0%
x	Oceania	Holy center	Samoa	0%
Proto-Indo-European	Europe	People of one's own kin	Sweden	0%
Tayy	Asia	Land of the Arabs	Tajikistan	0%
x	Africa	Bundle, or standing in a bundle	Uganda	0%
Unknown	Americas	Shellfish water, or proceed from a local bird	Uruguay	0%
Turkish and Persian	Asia	Home of the free	Uzbekistan	0%

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