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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
  • 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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Communal Award – Wellington.
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INA Trial – Wavell.
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