Country Name Etymologies of Africa

Can you name the country name etymologies of the countries in Africa? The language of origin and the definition from that language will be provided

A (?) means that the etymology is uncertain

A [covered] means that the language contains the country name in it.

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Language	Definition	Answer
French	The coast of a previous main export	Cote d'Ivoire
Unknown	Flaming water, or tongues of fire	Malawi
Dutch	Named after the Prince of Nassau	Mauritius
Arabic	Land of the black people	Sudan
English	Self descriptive, based on its position relative to the equator	Equatorial Guinea
Yoruba	Home of vexation	Benin
Spanish	Lion mountain	Sierra Leone
Kanuri	Lake	Chad
Portuguese	Variant of the Berber Zenaga	Senegal
Malinke or Bamana	Hippopotamus	Mali
Madinkan	An ancient kingdom	The Gambia
Latin	Home of ka and Ptah	Egypt
Tswana	Country of the Tswana, which comes from the word alike, or equal	Botswana
Sotho	Land of Basotho speakers	Lesotho
French	Self descriptive, based on its position in the continent and its government style	Central African Republic
Ewe	By the water of behind the sea	Togo
Portuguese	Saint Thomas and the prince	Sao Tome and Principe
English	Self descriptive, based on its place in the African continent	South Africa
Latin	Free	Liberia
Unknown	Land of Tehuti	Djibouti
Ikirundi	Land of the Ikirundi speakers	Burundi
Portuguese (?)	Corruption of the word Ghana (?)	Guinea
English	Self descriptive, based on its place relative to Sudan	South Sudan
Portuguese and Unknown (?)	Corruption of the word Ghana and the name of the clan Bossassun (?)	Guinea Bissau
Kikuyu	Land of the White Mountain	Kenya
Portuguese	Green cape	Cape Verde
Unknown	Corruption of Mogadishu	Madagascar
Arabic	The name Mussa Ben Mbiki	Mozambique
Portuguese (?)	The name of a kingdom of Bantu peoples	Democratic Republic of the Congo\| Republic of the Congo
Berber	Land of God	Morocco
Tuareg	Flowing water	Niger\|Nigeria
French	Shrimp	Cameroon
Latin	Land of the Moors	Mauritania
Kinyarwanda	Large	Rwanda
Portuguese	Cloak	Gabon
Unknown	Strong warrior king	Ghana
English	Land of the Zambezi	Zambia
English	Land of its capital, derived from a Phoenecian god or the Berber word meaning to lie down	Tunisia
Shona	House of Stones	Zimbabwe
Nama	Land of the land where there is nothing	Namibia
English	Land of Tanganyika and Zanzibar	Tanzania
Portuguese	The land of the Ndongo	Angola
Italian	Land of the Red Sea	Eritrea
Latin	Land of the Blacks	Ethiopia
Arabic	Moons	Comoros
Unknown	Land of the [Covered], possibly meaning cattle herders or a legendary patriarch named Samaale	Somalia
Unknown	The name of a native tribe that lived in the area	Libya
French	Named after King Louis the XV's finance minister	Seychelles
Swazi	Land of the Swazi	Eswatini
Latinization of French	The land of this country's capital	Algeria
Buganda	United as a bundle	Uganda
More and Dioula	Land of honest men	Burkina Faso

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