Identification. The term "Georgian" does not derive from Saint George but from the ancient Persian Gurg or Gorg, meaning wolf, "supposedly a totemic symbol, or from the Greek georgios ("farmer," "cultivator of land").
Read MoreIdentification. The name Germany is derived from the Latin word Germania, which, at the time of the Gallic War (58–51 B.C.E.), was used by the Romans to designate various peoples occupying the region east of the Rhine.
Read MoreIdentification. Ghana, formerly the British colony of the Gold Coast, assumes a special prominence as the first African country to acquire independence from European rule.
Read MoreIdentification. The name "Gibraltar" derives from "Tariks Mountain," after Tariq-Ibn-Zayid, the Muslim conqueror who invaded the Iberian peninsula in 711.
Read MoreIdentification. Greece, the English name for the Hellenic Republic, derives from an ancient Latin word for that area.
Read MoreIdentification. Greenland was probably originally settled by descendants of the present Inuit culture, who identify the island as Kalaalit Nunaat—meaning "land of the people"—in their native language.
Read MoreIdentification. Greenland was probably originally settled by descendants of the present Inuit culture, who identify the island as Kalaalit Nunaat—meaning "land of the people"—in their native language.
Read MoreBefore its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1493, the island was called Karukera ("island of beautiful waters") by the Caribs
Read MoreIdentification. Guam is the southernmost island in the Mariana Islands chain.
Read MoreIdentification. The name Guatemala, meaning "land of forests," was derived from one of the Mayan dialects spoken by the indigenous people at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1523.
Read MoreIdentification. The origin of the word "Guinea" is unclear.
Read MoreIdentification. "Guinea" was used by European explorers and traders to refer the coast of West Africa.
Read MoreIdentification. Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning "the land of many waters." Attempts to forge a common identity have foundered, and it is more accurate to speak of African, Indian, and Amerindian Guyanese cultures.
Read MoreHondureño catracho (the national nickname; can be amusing, insulting, or friendly, depending on the context.
Read MoreIdentification. Haiti, a name that means "mountainous country," is derived from the language of the Taino Indians who inhabited the island before European colonization.
Read MoreIdentification. Hong Kong means "fragrant harbor." Once administered by the United Kingdom, it has been known since 1997 as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Read MoreIdentification. Hungarian derives from Onogur, a Bulgarian-Turkish tribe's self-name.
Read MoreIdentification. Scandinavian sailors discovered Iceland in the mid-ninth century, and the first settler recognized in the literary-historical tradition, Ingólfur Arnason, arrived in 874.
Read MoreIdentification. India constitutes the largest part of the subcontinental land mass of South Asia, an area it shares with six other countries, including Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Read MoreIdentification. The Republic of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has 203 million people living on nearly one thousand permanently settled islands.
Read MoreIdentification. Modern Iraq covers almost the same area as ancient Mesopotamia, which centered on the land between the Tigres and the Euphrates Rivers.
Read MoreThe term "Persian" is used as an adjective— especially pertaining to the arts—and to designate the principal language spoken in Iran. The term is often used to designate the larger cultural sphere of Iranian civilization.
Read MoreIdentification. The Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann in Irish, although commonly referred to as Éire, or Ireland) occupies five-sixths of the island of Ireland, the second largest island of the British Isles.
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