The name of which country is translated as the country of hippos. What do the names of some countries say?
Countries of the world
Is on geographical maps names similar to inscriptions on the exhibits of a huge museum. Look how precise and expressive the name is Netherlands –"low country", "low land". There are places in Holland where the nests of storks on the roofs are located lower than the waters of the sea: the whole country is a flat lowland reclaimed from the sea. By the way, the name also speaks about the features of the earth’s surface. Iraq –"lowland".
Or Poland... In Polish she is called Polska. To understand this name, we should remember that in our Vladimir region there is an old town Yuriev-Polsky. Previously, the name of the town sounded Yuryev-Polskoy, that is, located not in the wilds of the forest, but among the open space of fields, on the plain. The meaning of the words is close to this Polska, Poland –"land of fields"
About the features geographical location For example, the following names tell: Norway –"country of the north" Vietnam And Australia –"country of the south" Japan –“land of the rising sun”, i.e. “eastern”, Austria – Österreich –“eastern power” (although it is located in the very center of Europe), Ireland –"Western Island"
Regarding the name of the South American country Ecuador, then it is not difficult to guess that it means “equator”.
And here is the name Syria associated with the brightest star in our sky Sirius, which means “brilliant” in Latin.
The names of a number of countries reflect the characteristics of their flora or fauna. Quite strange and curious situations often arose. Here is at least one example. Spaniards' rivals South America– the Portuguese – named their colony Brazil, apparently, in the thickets of mahogany - “Brazil”, which in those days promised the fastest enrichment... Time passed. The mahogany tree gave way to completely different plants - the Hevea rubber plant, the coffee bush; but the country remained Brazil –"Redwood"...
Name African country Mali translated from the local language, Malinki means “land of hippopotamuses.” The name of the capital of this state is Bamako no less exotic and means “settlement on the back of a crocodile.”
Abu Dhabi - this is the name of a small oil-rich principality in the state of the United States United Arab Emirates, located on Arabian coast Persian Gulf. Translated, its name means “gazelle”. Once upon a time there were many of these animals here.
State name Somalia, according to some scientists, comes from the words sao somao, which means “go milk the cow” in the local language. This African country has so many cattle that it is said that there is more milk than water. The vast majority of the country's population is engaged in cattle breeding.
Surprisingly, the name Spain means, translated from ancient Carthaginian, “country of rabbits.” Indeed, once upon a time there were a lot of these rodents here. Rabbits were even depicted on local coins.
The names of many countries on the globe coincide with the names of individual natural objects located on their territory: mountains, rivers, lakes, etc. These duplicate geographical names are typical primarily for young independent states. Yes, republic Cameroon in Africa it got its name from the volcano of the same name.
The names of countries such as Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Congo, as well as a South American country Paraguay."River" origin and name India(from the great Indus River), although only a relatively small section of the river belongs to this power. Most of the Indus flows into neighboring Pakistan.
State name Namibia comes from the desert of the same name. From the famous lake Chad The name comes from one of the African republics.
The names of some countries are based on the characteristics of the national composition of their population. For example, the name of the republic Afghanistan means "land of the Afghans", as in Thailand –"country of thai"
And here is the name Romania – Romania – comes from Latin R?ma(Rome). At the beginning of our era, part of the territory of modern Romania was turned into a Roman province and underwent significant Romanization. That's why Romanian language belongs to the group of Romance languages. Name Romania appeared on the map of Europe in the 19th century.
By the name of another Italian city - Venice – South American country named. In 1499, Spanish sailors saw an Indian village on stilts, like Venice, on the shores of the Maracaibo lagoon in the northern part of the mainland, and named it Venezuela, i.e. “little Venice”. Soon this name spread to the surrounding area, and then to the whole country.
On small island in the Caribbean Sea there is a country that bears the name of the famous Spanish city - Grenada.
The names of some states come from the names of historical figures, for example, Saudi Arabia(in 1926) - named after its founder, King Ibn Saud. In honor of the hero and leader of the liberation struggle of the peoples of Latin America against the Spanish colonialists Simon Bolivar South American country named Bolivia, of which he was the first president. And as for the name Colombia, then it probably doesn’t require any explanation.
However, on the map of our planet there are many names that appeared as a result of misunderstandings or mistakes. So, in 1434, the French navigator Jacques Cartier, exploring the northeastern shores of the New World, as America was then called, reached the mouth of an unknown deep river. Having landed on its wooded bank, where there were several Indian wigwams, he asked the inhabitants who came out to meet him what the name of this area was. Those, not understanding the stranger, answered: “Kanata” or “Canada.” The navigator applied this word ( Canada) as the name of the country on your map. He did not know that, translated from the Iroquois language, the word spoken to him means “village, village.”
Or here’s another curiosity. Having captured the country of the ancient Incas of Peru, the Spaniards moved towards it southern borders. Here they asked the local Indians, pointing south into the mountains, what kind of country lay further. The Indians, considering that this question concerned the snow-capped peaks of the Andes, answered: “There is chili” (“It’s cold there”). The foreigners decided that this was the name of the neighboring country. This is how the name of the country appeared on the map Chile.
Located in southwestern Africa Angola. When the first Europeans, the Portuguese colonialists, landed on the coast of this country in 1560, it was called Ngondo, and its ruler had the title ngola. The invaders took the title as the name of the country and somewhat distorted it.
The Portuguese made the same mistake with the name of another country - Mozambique, taking for its name the distorted name of the then ruler of a small coastal island Musa ben Mbika.
Another mistake is related to the name of a small African state Djibouti, located on the shores of the Red Sea. They say that when the first French conquerors landed on the rocky shore, they came across only one family of nomads sitting around a fire, on which stew was being cooked in a pot, and asked in broken Arabic: “Where have we gone? What it is?" The father of the family, who understood only the second question, without taking his eyes off the fire, answered in Afar: “Djibouti” (“My bowler”). Thus, according to some scientists, this name mistakenly extended to the port that arose here, and after the declaration of independence in 1977, to the new state.
The name of a small republic located in Central America Costa Rica translated from Spanish means “rich coast”. This is exactly what Christopher Columbus named this area back in 1502, amazed by the abundance of gold jewelry among its inhabitants. Later it turned out that there were no deposits of this valuable metal, which the foreign invaders were so eager to seize, and the gold jewelry of the Indians was of Peruvian origin. However, the erroneous name was fixed on the geographical map.
Questions:
1. Which animal is the thickest-skinned?
2. How do baboons (a species of monkey) drink water?
3. At what speed does the three-toed sloth move on the ground?
4. How fast does the three-toed sloth move through the trees?
5. Which flying mammal is the smallest?
6. What is the size of the smallest flying mammal?
7. How high can an African leopard jump?
8. Can goats graze on tree branches?
9. How many years do horses live?
10. What kind of cats are called “poodle cats”?
11. Why are “poodle cats” called that?
12. Danish artist Gottfried Mind painted only one “model” for many years. Who exactly?
13. What animal was the name of the ancient Russian coin?
14. How many grains of cereal does a hamster store for the winter?
15. How many times is the fat content of hare's milk higher than that of cow's milk?
16. Who is the riddle dedicated to:
In rich clothes,
Yes, I'm a bit blind myself.
Lives without a window
Have you seen the sun?
17. What does the name of the African country Mali have to do with animals?
18. What does the name of the African country Somalia have to do with animals?
19. What is a horse's color?
20. What color horse is called a bay?
21. What color of horse is called black?
22. What animal do sailors call the “sea canary”?
23. For what features is the “sea canary” so called?
24. To whom are the lines of E. Trutneva’s poem dedicated?
Here she is jumping along the branches,
Flashed over the bush
Like a lively red ball,
With lush fur and a tail?
25. Monuments to which animal were erected in Germany, Scotland, France, Russia and some other countries?
26. What are the names of dromedary camels?
27. What are the names of Bactrian camels?
28. From what country does the name of the spaniel dog breed come from?
29. How do these folk signs end:
a) The dog curls up and lies in a ball - to...
b) The horse snorts - to...
c) Sheep knock their foreheads - to...
30. The title of the famous painting by the great artist Leonardo Da Vinci “Lady with an Ermine” is incorrect. Why?
31. What animals are on the staff (that is, are official employees) of the London post offices?
32. The name of what breed of dog is translated as “bull dog”?
33. Why is the bulldog called that?
34. Are there boss-subordinate relationships in a herd of cows?
35. How do these proverbs end:
a) The hare is not a coward, but himself...
b) The wolf sees the goat, forgot and...
c) The fox has ears in the dream...
36. Which animal was the first to be domesticated?
37. Who is a hinny?
38. Who is a mule?
39. Can a goat be the leader of a sheep flock?
40. What is the record recorded length of an elephant tusk?
41. What is the record length of a rhinoceros horn recorded?
42. Which animal was the symbol of the 1972 Munich Olympics?
43. Which animal was the symbol of the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow?
44. The name of which animal can be found on the chessboard, on the roof of a wooden house and in the gym?
45. Who owns these lines:
Why are you neighing, my zealous horse,
Why did you lower your neck?
Don't shake your mane
Are you chomping at the bit?
46. Which Russian artist painted the famous painting “The Bathing of the Red Horse”?
47. Which artist painted the painting “Snowbirds at a Watering Place”?
48. In which country was a monument to horse-drawn courier mail erected?
49. When they say this:
a) The horse did not lie down;
b) Not to feed the horse;
c) Whoa, whoa?
50. Which famous writer wrote the story “The Mustang Pacer”?
Answers
1. Nile hippopotamus. The thickness of its skin is 2.5 cm.
2. Soak the tail in water and then suck it.
4. Up to 3 m/min.
5. Thailand bumblebee bat.
6. Body length – about 30 mm, wingspan – 160 mm, weight – about 2 g.
8. In the Atlas Mountains (Africa), goats learned to climb onto the branches of low-growing, almost dwarf trees.
9. About 55 years old.
10. Rex cats.
11. For curly hair.
12. My cat with her next family.
13. Martens. The coins were called "kuna".
14. From 4 to 6 kg.
15. 6 times.
17. The name translates as “land of hippos.”
18. "Go milk the cow."
19. This is her color.
20. Red with black tail and mane.
21. Black.
22. Beluga whale.
23. For its white and yellow coloration and rather musical “chants”.
25. To the dog.
26. Dromedaries.
27. Bactrians.
28. Spain.
29. a) to the cold; b) heat; c) to strong wind.
30. The painting depicts not an ermine, but a furo, a domesticated albino black ferret.
31. Cats. They protect correspondence from mice and rats and receive a salary for this.
32. Bulldog.
33. Since they were originally used for baiting bulls and other large animals.
34. Yes, in the herd there is a cow-leader, “close associates” and a “lower class”.
35. a) protects; b) thunderstorm; c) on the top of the head.
36. Dog.
37. Hybrid (option - offspring) of a stallion and a donkey.
38. Hybrid (option - offspring) of a donkey and a mare.
39. Yes, quite. An experienced goat leader is a good helper shepherd The sheep obey him in everything.
40. 3 m 48 cm.
41. 1 m 58 cm.
43. Bear.
44. Horse - a chess piece, decoration of the hut roof, sports equipment.
45. A. S. Pushkin.
46. K. S. Petrov-Vodkin.
47. V. A. Serov.
49. a) Nothing has been done; b) something is not going well; c) neither here nor here.
50. E. Seton-Thompson.
March 18th, 2015
Many people believe that hippos are slow and clumsy because of their size, but this is a dangerous misconception. Here's a video of a hippopotamus chasing a motorboat in national park Chobe in Botswana. The boat driver manages to accelerate in time before the huge animal emerges from the water.
In 2014, a hippopotamus attack on a boat on a river in Niger killed 12 schoolchildren - seven girls and five boys. This data from the country's authorities is provided by Agence France-Presse. The incident occurred near the capital of the country, Niamey. There were at least 18 people in the pie. Most of them were 12-13 year old children who were on their way to a school located on the other side of the Niger River. Authorities did not specify how exactly they died.
Hippopotamuses who are in search deep places in Niger they often approach Niamey, they are afraid local residents. Experts note that adults are most aggressive when their young are around them. In such situations, hippos often attack cattle that graze on the banks of the river.
Let's find out more about these animals...
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Hippos are rightly considered one of the most dangerous African animals. But they pose a danger only to those who themselves try to threaten them. In fact, the hippo's personality has traits that many of us would envy. In this article we will try to tell you more about these amazing animals.
The life of a hippopotamus is somewhat reminiscent of the life of a retired heavyweight boxer. Calm, outwardly clumsy and phlegmatic, a little gloomy, but not an aggressive homebody. There are practically no enemies, all the neighbors know him well and are the first to greet him, and those who don’t know him try to stay away just in case. He doesn’t hurt little ones, and he can even provide help on occasion. Home, family, wealth - he has everything, and he doesn’t need anything that belongs to others. But if the “gopniks in the gateway” pester you, then...
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Don't believe me? Judge for yourself: predators are afraid to attack a hippopotamus because it is too terrible in anger, and it is well armed. Despite the fact that the hippopotamus is a herbivore, its teeth are perhaps the most terrible ones imaginable, especially the lower fangs. They grow throughout their lives and reach a length of over half a meter. In a fit of rage, a hippopotamus easily bites a giant Nile crocodile in half.
The African fat man is also no stranger to cunning and ingenuity. There is a known case when a hippopotamus, while grazing on the shore, was attacked by a lion. Probably, the king of beasts was too hungry, or something happened to his head, because lions usually avoid hippopotamuses. But, one way or another, this lion set his sights on the grass-chewing hippopotamus, and he paid for it. He didn’t even begin to tear him with his fangs and trample him with his strong legs, but simply grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and dragged him into the water, where it was deeper. There the poor lion choked to death.
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Here's another case: a hippopotamus resting in the river was attacked by... a shark. It was a fairly large (about two meters) specimen of the so-called herring shark, which lives mainly in the ocean. But by some miracle it was carried not just into the Mediterranean Sea, but also into the Nile Delta. And I must say, the herring shark is unusually aggressive and dangerous. Her teeth are long, sharp, curved back and form a continuous palisade. In her element, she does not let anyone through: a fish, a sea animal, a person - everything goes to feed her.
And this predator decided to feast on the hippopotamus, but literally attacked the wrong one. Unlike the case with the lion, the hippopotamus did the opposite with her - he dragged the sea monster to the shore and trampled her there. Who will now doubt that hippos have brains?
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Of course, there is a predator on earth - cruel and merciless, capable of destroying any animal. This is a man. But people, oddly enough, don’t need anything from hippos (as, in fact, hippos don’t need anything from people). They do not have valuable tusks or horns, and their teeth are not listed on the market. All that a hippopotamus has is just meat, and even that is far from a delicacy. During slavery, whips were made from the skin of hippopotamuses to drive slaves, but slavery was officially abolished, and the production of whips disappeared with it. So even people don’t touch hippos.
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Hippos lead a secluded life. You can walk several kilometers along the banks of the Nile and not see a single hippopotamus, and then suddenly it turns out that you passed dozens of animals and simply did not notice them. You can sail a boat a couple of meters from a hippopotamus and not pay attention to it. Among the debris that the Nile carries into the sea, it’s oh so difficult to spot a couple of small black “floats” - this is a hippopotamus escaping the heat, with only its eyes and nostrils exposed. During the day, animals lie at the bottom of the river. Their ears are “plugged” with special membranes that prevent water from entering. So during daylight hours the hippopotamus goes hungry, and only goes out to the promenade at night, and here, in terms of feeding, it has a blast. To feed itself, a hippopotamus has to eat 50-60 kilograms of grass per day.
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Of course, among hippos, like any other, there are conflicts. Sometimes during the mating season or when distributing food places, it ends in a fight and blood is shed. But often the dispute over brides and territory is resolved quite peacefully. Male hippos periodically find out which of them is bigger. Usually, a contender for power approaches the commander-in-chief of the clan and stands next to him. Both hippopotamuses carefully examine each other, and the one who is not tall shyly retreats back home, and the larger specimen becomes (or remains) the “boss.” A war can only begin if both contenders have the same weight category.
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As for hippo traits such as kindness and generosity, here are a few examples.
The famous zoologist Dick Recassel witnessed how one of the antelopes that came to drink was attacked by a crocodile. A hippopotamus resting nearby came to the aid of the animal struggling in the teeth of the alligator. He fought off the antelope from the crocodile, pulled it ashore and began... licking its wounds. “The rarest case in the animal kingdom,” comments Recassel. - A real manifestation of mercy, and to a representative of a completely different species! Alas, help came too late. Half an hour later the antelope died from shock and blood loss. But the hippopotamus remained near her for another quarter of an hour, driving away the vultures that had flown down, until the sun forced him to return back to the river.”
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And just recently, visitors to a reserve in Kenya had the opportunity to observe the actions of a hippopotamus - almost a professional rescuer. Here is how it was. Wildebeest and zebra crossed the Mara River. The antelope calf, separated from its mother by the current, began to drown. Then a hippo emerged from the water and began to push the baby towards the shore. Soon he safely made it to land and joined his mother, who all this time could only helplessly watch what was happening. Less than ten minutes had passed before the same hippopotamus saved a drowning zebra. He helped her keep her head above the water and, like the “antelope,” pushed her towards dry land.
So these hippos are not such simple animals.
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Common hippopotamuses spend almost all their time in water, most often in fresh water bodies. They can occasionally go to sea.
If earlier the animal was found in many places on the globe, now a very small number of them are preserved only in areas south of the Sahara. But even in Africa there are fewer and fewer of them due to the fact that they are being exterminated in large quantities local native population. Hippopotamus meat is their main meat food.
Hippos adapt well to captivity, which is why almost all zoos keep this interesting animal.
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Who are hippopotamus and hippopotamus? Many people do not know that these words mean the same animal of the artiodactyl genus. The first name is translated from ancient Hebrew as “beast,” perhaps due to the massiveness of this beast. The second is translated from Greek as “river horse” - hippos really love water.
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His body resembles a huge barrel, his legs are thick and so short that his stomach almost drags along the ground when he walks. The length can be up to 4 m, and the weight is simply fantastic - up to 5 tons! After elephants, the hippopotamus is in second place in size, as is the rhinoceros.
The tail is short, but quite mobile, with the help of it it sprays droppings and urine - it marks the territory.
The paws have 4 webbed toes. When walking through mud, the toes spread out, and the taut membrane helps prevent slipping and falling through.
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The ears are small, but with them he constantly tries to ward off insects. The head resembles a roughly hewn rectangle, and the muzzle is covered with special sensitive hairs. In many photos, the hippopotamus is captured with its mouth wide open - and indeed it can open it up to 150 degrees.
It contains 36 frightening-looking fang teeth. He uses them as protection or digs the ground.
The eyes are very small, with large folds of the eyelids around them.
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These animals communicate unusually with each other - by voice. They even have their own signal sounds to indicate fear, aggression, and danger. They express them with a roar, sometimes the sounds are similar to a horse neighing or grunting. The roar of hippopotamuses is very loud, spreading far across the African expanses.
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Hippos live for about 40 years and die more often from diseases. In nature they are not afraid of anyone except the lion. Nobody dares to attack them anymore. And a lion that has encroached on a cub can be drowned in silt by the female in a rage or simply trampled.
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Most big threat represents a person. Poaching for hippopotamus meat, tusks and bones is significantly reducing their numbers. Despite the fact that any child knows the phrase “oh, it’s not an easy job to drag a hippopotamus out of the swamp,” these animals have not yet been studied enough. Most likely, this happened because they are difficult to observe, because most They spend their days in the water.
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Do you know what the hippopotamus is doing in this GIF? I'll tell you now.
Hippos do not like to travel; they do not search for food in distant lands, but prefer to grow grass themselves, in their own “garden,” so to speak. They do this in the following way: having limited a certain area for feeding themselves and their family, these animals regularly and diligently fertilize it with their own feces. And in order for the fertilizer to be distributed evenly, the animal “in the process,” so to speak, vigorously twirls its tail, like a propeller. As a result, the hippopotamus’ “vegetable garden,” like that of a good farmer, is always well-fertilized and produces an excellent harvest. And you don’t have to go far to find it.
It is worth noting here that female hippopotamuses, when searching for a betrothed, meticulously monitor not the ability of males to care for the opposite sex, but rather their success in agriculture. The more powerfully the tail of a male hippo spins, the more feces he produces and the farther he scatters them, the greater the groom’s chances: this means that his family will live in abundance and will not die of hunger. A real marriage of convenience. But perhaps in this case this is the right approach.
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Do you think about the names of countries around the globe when you read them on geographical maps? Surely not! Meanwhile, many of them, when translated into Russian, are quite interesting, sometimes even unusual. True, most names, as they should, fully or partially correspond to certain characteristics of countries, but there are also those that, on the contrary, cause surprise with their striking inconsistency.
Let's go on a short trip around the geographical map and look at the content of the "surnames" of some states.
For example, the following names tell about the peculiarities of the geographical location: Norway (“Country northern route"), Vietnam and Australia ("Country of the South"), Japan ("Land of the Rising Sun", i.e. "eastern"). Austria - translated from German "Osterreich" means "Eastern Power", while in In reality, it is located in the very center of Europe. Whatever you say, there has been a clear overlap here. The name Ireland comes from “eire”, i.e. “western island”.
As for the name of the South American country Ecuador, it is not difficult to guess that it means “equator”.
But the name of Syria even has a cosmic origin. It is associated with the brightest star in our sky, Sirius, which means “brilliant” in Latin. But, as you know, there are many hotter and sunnier countries on Earth.
The whole phrase - "Eight islands that stand side by side" - translates the name of the small country of Tuvalu, which arose in Pacific Ocean on the site of the former English colony - the Gilbert Islands.
The names of the Netherlands ("low country") and Iraq ("Lowland") speak about the peculiarities of the earth's surface, and the name of the island Central American state of Haiti is the only thing left of the indigenous population of the Indians, the Arawaks, destroyed by the colonialists, in whose language it means "mountainous country ".
The names of a number of countries reflect the characteristics of their flora or fauna. For example, the name Brazil comes from the paubrasil mahogany tree growing here. It is interesting that the name of the capital of this state, Bamako, is no less exotic and means “a village on the back of a crocodile.” The city's coat of arms is decorated with images of crocodiles in memory of the times when many of these animals lived in the waters of the Niger River. And the name of the capital of another African country, Uganda - Kampala - means "antelope".
Abu Dhabi is the name of a small oil-rich principality in the state of the United Arab Emirates, located on the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. Translated, its name means "gazelle". Once upon a time there were many of these animals here.
The name of the state of Somalia, according to some scientists, comes from the words "sao somao", which in the local language means: "go milk a cow." This African country has so many cattle that it is said that there is more milk than water. The vast majority of the country's population is engaged in cattle breeding.
Don't be surprised, but the name Spain means "country of rabbits" in translation from ancient Carthaginian. Indeed, once upon a time there were a lot of these rodents here. Rabbits were even depicted on local coins.
The names of many countries on the globe are the same as the names of individual natural objects located on their territory: mountains, rivers, lakes, etc. These duplicate geographical names are typical primarily for young independent states. For example, the Republic of Cameroon in Africa inherited its name from the volcano of the same name.
The names of such countries as Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Congo, as well as the South American country of Paraguay come from the names of the rivers. The name India is of “river” origin (from the great Indus River), although only a relatively small section of the river belongs to this power. The Indus flows mainly into neighboring Pakistan.
The name of the state of Namibia comes from the desert of the same name.
The name of one of the African republics comes from the famous Lake Chad. The unique combination of the names of a lake (Tanganyika) and an island (Zanzibar) resulted in the name of the African country of Tanzania. The names of the islands on which countries such as Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada in Central America, Ireland, Iceland, Great Britain, Malta in Europe, Cyprus, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines in Asia are located became their names.
However, as you have already noticed, the names of not all states can be considered successful. Did you know, for example, that the name of the country Uruguay, although associated with the name of a local river, for some reason means “bird’s tail,” and that of Guatemala means “rotten tree”? The name of the Republic of Panama means "butterfly". However, thanks to someone else's hand, it spread to the famous headdress. In fact, it was first produced in Ecuador, and Panama was only a transshipment base from where hats, the so-called “Panama hats,” were exported to Europe.
The names of a number of other states are based on the characteristics of the national composition of their population. For example, the name of the Republic of Afghanistan means “Country of Afghans,” just like Thailand means “Country of Thais.” But the name Romania comes from the Latin Roma (Rome). Thus, the Republic of Romania bears the name of the capital of another European country- Italy. The name Romania appeared on the map of Europe in 1877 after the final liberation of the country by Russian troops from the Turkish yoke.
The South American country is named after another Italian city, Venice. In 1499, Spanish sailors saw an Indian village on stilts on the shore of the Maracaibo lagoon in the northern part of the mainland, like Venice, and called it Venezuela, that is, “little Venice.” Nowadays in Venezuela the issue of changing this random name to Libertador is being discussed, then there is a “liberator”, in honor of the hero and leader of the liberation struggle of the peoples of Latin America against the Spanish colonialists Simon Bolivar. By the way, another South American country is named after him - Bolivia, whose first president he was.
On a small island in the Caribbean Sea there is a country that bears the name of the famous Spanish city - Grenada.
The names of some other states came from proper names, for example, Saudi Arabia (in 1926) - named after its founder, King Ibn Saud. As for the name of the South American republic of Colombia, it probably does not require explanation.
The name of the West African republic of Burkina Faso, translated from the Mosi language of its main population, means “country of worthy people”, and its capital Ouagadougou means “Welcome”.
Small country in West Africa is called Liberia, that is, “the land of freedom.” And the name of the small Pacific island republic of Vanuatu (the former common Anglo-French colony of the New Hebrides) means: “a country that is and will be independent.”
It hardly needs to be said that these young states are actually still in complete economic and political dependence on their former metropolitan countries. But names are names, and they testify to the desire of the peoples of these countries to achieve independence.
