It’s funny because our neighbor is also literally called United States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
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onion@feddit.de 8 months ago
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
CptEnder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
onion@feddit.de 8 months ago
Yup that’s why I made this post :D
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 8 months ago
And then USA is still a thousand times better then US
Klear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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. 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.
onion@feddit.de 8 months ago
Deutschland (Germany) means “land of the people” :D
Klear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Meanwhile Czech name for Germany is “Němci”, which means “Those who can’t speak”, as compared to Slavs which is “Those who can speak”.
bigboismith@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Åland (a region of Finland) means “land of rivers”. The are no rivers