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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

My wisdom:

  • "The United States of America" is not a name but a description
    • It's a bad description since there's multiple unions of states in america
[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Tell that to Austria - Österreich. That means "Eastern realm", since there are no countries more to the East of anything than them. Or hell, Iceland. And Niger is named after the river Niger, which might come from ger-n-ger meaning "river of rivers", so that's another wonderfully unambiguous name.

I'm sure there are other great examples.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Deutschland (Germany) means "land of the people" :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile Czech name for Germans is "Němci", which means "Those who can't speak", as compared to Slavs (Slovani) which is "Those who can speak".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Åland (a region of Finland) means "land of rivers". The are no rivers there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

When you have a dream and a corrupt cartographer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Also there is Greenland

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

And then USA is still a thousand times better then US

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's funny because our neighbor is also literally called United States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yup that's why I made this post :D