i wonder how countrys get there names
2007-03-25 21:03:08 · 6 answers · asked by johnny cash fan 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Embassies & Consulates
actually iceland wasnt named that because it's icy. iceland is actually a very rich green land filled with lots of trees and greenery. greenland is actually more icy then iceland. they basically flipped names on those ones. anywho, countries are mainly named by the people who founded them, or was the king of them.
2007-03-26 02:35:18 · answer #1 · answered by Angel*Eyesz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know the us got it's name for the explorer amerigo vespuci america is the female version. united states for the sep but equal states within.
canada got it from the native people of the land.
the united kingdom is a royal kingdom of several nations.
2007-03-26 11:33:24 · answer #2 · answered by CCC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Australia got theirs from the words terra australis which was the first name given to it by the Dutch.
2007-03-25 21:08:03 · answer #3 · answered by molly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Malaysia
dunno how malaysia came
but it was used to be tanah melayu....
because many malays here
2007-03-25 21:17:01 · answer #4 · answered by Alicia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Argentina from the latin for silver....Canada from a native word meaning which i forget....u.s.a. obvious ...america comes from the exploreres name amerigo...new zealand obvious....south africa - duhhh....Liberia from freedom or liberation...China from china....the list goes on...no rule of thumb my friend
2007-03-25 21:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well, mostly they got their names from either the people who discovered them, like america from amerigo vespucci or from the natives
2007-03-25 21:12:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋