I saw this picture about Ecuador and it got me thinking of country origin names, which I find facinating and so I decided to see if I could find any other countries named after just geological locations. This is what I was able to come up with:
\nAlgeria – Means the Islands
\nAustralia – Unknown Southern Island
\nBahamas – The Lower Seas
\nBaharain – Two Seas
\nBrunei – Land
\nEcuador – The Equator
\nGuatemala – Land of Many Trees (might also be Land Where Water Comes out of Volcano)
\nGuyana – Land of Many Waters
\nHonduras – Deep Water
\nIraq – Beside the Water
\nMontenegro – Black Mountain
\nNauru – Beach
\nNetherlands – The Low Lands
\nNicaragua- Big Lake
\nPalau – Island
\nPeru – River
\nPortugal – Warm Harbor
\nTonga – South
\nUkraine – The Borderland
\nUruguay – River of Shellfish
\nZambia – The Mountain<\/p>\n
This doesn\u2019t count for this list but I have decided that Somalia is my favorite country name. It means the milk drinkers. I wish I could go visit Somalia someday. I know right now it is having a hard time but a culture of milk drinkers seems pretty cool to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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