Etymological Origin of Country Names.
by u/Aofen
There is a map of the etymological origins of country names that every so often does the rounds and gets criticized for its mistakes and simplistic etymologies, so I decided to try and make a better one. I posted a slightly different map like this earlier, this one has a few small improvements on a few etymologies.
I tried to include every independent country, even if their independence is widely unrecognized, and most major territories and dependencies as well. Any choice to include or exclude a partially recognized country would upset someone, so I defaulted to including more information. Etymologies on the map are for the country names in English, the origin of endonyms with different etymologies than the English name are included in the table at top left.