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[mwanafalsafa]

http://i.imgur.com/ex6Zu.jpg

(Unfortunately the image doesn't include sources so I guess there's an outside chance it could be inaccurate)

Examples:

Spain = Isle of Shrewmice
France = Land of Spears
Kenya = Mountain of Whiteness
Korea = The Land of the Morning Calm

[QuakeIV]

Hehe, awesome, an island was named "alligators".

[Max White]

'Unknown southern land'

Realy? I mean realy... We do have name!

[Ampersand]

Central Nation?

Try "The Middle Kingdom."

Not too sure about many of these Translations.

Spain, for example probably be something more like, Land of Rabbits or something, if you were to go off the Phonecian alone. But, because the modern name is a corruption of the Latin name, which itself was a corruption of a combination of the Greek and Phonecian name combined, it's probably mainly nonsense.

Also, Romania and Bulgaria are switched.

[Lawec]

Denmark is not flat borderlands...
On Danish it is "Danmark" which means "Danernes mark" which in turn means The field of the Danes on English.

[Dbuhos]

My country, aka Romania.
"Those who Maintain the Forts"

Feels good man.

Waitwhat. Switched ? Makes sense.

[Cruxador]

It's better than some of the others like this that I've seen.

Denmark is the only thing I see that's actually wrong, but many others are just a little off, and there could be something there are also more than a few countries that I don't know, and didn't bother to look up.

Here's this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_etymologies
It's not exactly perfect either, but it's the best there is.

[Thief^]

The Chinese name for England is a phonetic corruption of the English name: Yīng guó. Translated literally back into English it means something along the lines of "Land of the Brave".

I think that's pretty cool, even if it's not the root of the name itself.

[Africa]

I dunno about a lot of these. I think most names originate from languages that are long since lost in time.

[Ottofar]

Land. Come on!

[Svampapa]

Why groaning over "Land" when we have gems such as "Frizzy Hair New Blacks"? 

[Dutchling]

At least the Netherlands is correct, low lands is a good translation. (I like Land though )

EDIT: WTF! Iraq means the same as the Netherlands? Why the hell did the US attack the the Netherlands?

[Untelligent]

Gilbert!

[Kogan Loloklam]

At least the Netherlands is correct, low lands is a good translation. (I like Land though )

EDIT: WTF! Iraq means the same as the Netherlands? Why the hell did the US attack the the Netherlands?

We know one of you two lowlands has a secret WMDs hidden in Windmills...

[Aramco]

Ocean near the bear? I like it.