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Identification. Somalia was known to the ancient Egyptians as the Land of Punt.

Identification. South Africa is the only nation-state named after its geographic location; there was a general agreement not to change the name after the establishment of a constitutional nonracial democracy in 1994.

Location and Geography. Spain occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian peninsula, with Portugal on its western border.

Identification. The official name of the nation is the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

In Arabic, it is called Jumhuriyat as-Sudan, or simply as-Sudan.

Identification. The name "Suriname" (Sranan, Surinam) may be of Amerindian origin.

Identification. The Swazi nation is named for Mswati II, who became king in 1839.

Identification. The people who came to be called Swedes were mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus in 98 C.E.

Identification. Syria is the name that was given to the region by the Greeks and Romans and probably derives from the Babylonian suri.

Identification. Over four-fifths of the people are descendants of Han Chinese settlers who came to the island in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries from southeastern China.

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Identification. It is said that the mainland portion of what is now Tanzania was named by a British civil servant in 1920, from the Swahili words tanga (sail) and nyika (bright arid plain).