{"id":15804,"date":"2017-10-16T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15804"},"modified":"2017-10-15T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:33:08","slug":"most-countries-are-named-after-one-of-four-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/most-countries-are-named-after-one-of-four-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Countries Are Named After One Of Four Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101517_1459_MostCountri1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thu-Huong Ha wrote about country names.<\/p>\n<p>A third of the world&#8217;s countries are named based on a tribe or group of people. Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>France being named for the Franks.<\/li>\n<li>Italy for the Vitalis.<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland for the Schwyz.<\/li>\n<li>In Korean, South Korea is called &#8220;Daehan&#8221; \u2013 for the Hans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A quarter are named after geographical features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India for the Indus river.<\/li>\n<li>Montenegro is known as &#8220;Crna Gora&#8221; in Montenegrin \u2013 which translates to &#8220;black mountain&#8221; \u2013 for the Lov\u0107en mountain in the south.<\/li>\n<li>Barbados means &#8220;bearded ones&#8221; and may be a reference to the long aerial roots of the banyan trees there.<\/li>\n<li>Sierra Leone &#8220;lion mountains&#8221; is probably a reference to the earth shaking thunder that reverberates through its hills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some are named based on their location:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan is called Nippon in Japanese \u2013 it means &#8220;land of the rising sun&#8221;. Japan is east of China and so people in China would see the sun rise from the direction of Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Norway is named for &#8220;Northern way&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The Greeks theorized the existence of &#8220;Terra Australis Incognita&#8221; \u2013 unknown southern land \u2013 a name that Australia adopted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And some are based on people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Philippines are named after Spain&#8217;s King Phillip.<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia for Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar.<\/li>\n<li>Columbia for Columbus.<\/li>\n<li>One country adopted a female&#8217;s name as their own \u2013 St. Lucia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s Naurau, an island close to Australia. Its name comes from an indigenous word that means &#8220;I go to the beach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1070266\/the-name-of-a-country-can-only-really-mean-one-of-four-things\/\">Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thu-Huong Ha wrote about country names. A third of the world&#8217;s countries are named based on a tribe or group of people. Examples include: France being named for the Franks. Italy for the Vitalis. Switzerland for the Schwyz. In Korean, South Korea is called &#8220;Daehan&#8221; \u2013 for the Hans. A quarter are named after geographical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101517_1459_MostCountri1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15815,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions\/15815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}