Country names and the meaning Country names and the meaning


Country names and the meaningCountry names and the meaning



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Algeria - Land of Algiers    

Argentina - Silvery Land  

Australia - Southern Land  

Austria - Eastern March  

Bahamas - The Shallows   

Bahrain - The Two Seas  

Belarus - White Russia  

Burkina Faso - Land of Honest Men  

Cameroon - Shrimp River  

Cape Verde - Green Cape  

Colombia - Land of Columbus  

Comoros - Moons 

Costa Rica - Rich Coast  

Dominica - Sunday Island 

Ecuador - Equator 

Eritrea - Land of the Red Sea 

Ethiopia - Land of the Blacks   

Guatemala - Place of Many Trees  

Guyana - Land of Many Waters  

Haiti - mountainous land 

India - Land of the Indus River  

Indonesia - Indian Islands  

Iran - Land of the Aryans  

Japan - Land of the Rising Sun  

Jordan - river Jordan 

Kazakhstan - Land of the Kazakhs  

Kyrgyzstan - Land of the forty tribes   

Liberia - free 

Malaysia - Land of the Malays  

Monaco - single-dwelling  

Mongolia - Land of the Mongols 

Montenegro - Black Mountain  

New Zealand - New sea land   

Pakistan - Land of the Pure  

Philippines - King Philip II  

Sao Tome and Principe - Saint Thomas and prince   

Saudi Arabia - Arabia of the Sauds  

Sierra Leone - Lion Mountains  

Singapore - Lion City  

Spain - Island of Hyraxes  

Sri Lanka - Holy Island  

Sudan - Land of the Blacks 

Tajikistan - Home of the Tajiks

Tanzania - Land of Tanganyika and Zanzibar

Turkey - Land of the Turks  

Turkmenistan - Home of the Turkmens  

Vanuatu - Our Land

Venezuela - Little Venice  

Yugoslavia - Land of the Southern Slavs

Zambia - Land of the Zambezi

Zimbabwe - House of Stones 


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