why the use of the word land in some countries name?

Answer 1

It dates back to the tribal period in those cultures, usually. For instance Scotland is the "Land of the Scots" - not initially a political divide as much as a social one. Deustchland, Nederlands, Auckland can all trace back similar routes to being the homeland of a particular group or tribe. It makes more sense than taking the name of a random mapmaker, doesn't it? :)

Answer 2

What you're asking is the etymology of country names that end by "land". Ethymology is "the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language" (Webster Dictionary)

In you case we need to analyze the country names by analyzing it into it's component parts.

The first part of the country name relates to the people and the second part is where they live, the land they own.

England :Land of the Angles
Scotland: Land of the Scots
Switzerland: Confederation of the land of the Helvetii

Hope this helps

Answer 3

because that country is on land, or it is land it owns. england for example.

Answer 4

Because it is historical and the same reason why some counties are called shires