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  2. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The name derives from the mountainous and hilly landscape of the western half of the island of Hispaniola. Hispaniola (name of the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic) – a Latinization of the Spanish name La Española, meaning "The Spanish (island)", a name given to the island by Columbus in 1492. [232]

  3. List of fictional countries by region - Wikipedia

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    (The name means "golden table" in Spanish.) Nollop: island state from the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn; San Cristobel: tropical island country in The Guiding Light TV series, also the name for a separate fictional nation in the TV series Automan; San Esperito: South American island nation from the video game Just Cause. Translated in ...

  4. List of fictional countries set on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

  5. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any predominant or official languages of the country in question.

  6. List of fictional European countries - Wikipedia

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    A nation called Moronica also appeared in 2010's Bikini Jones and the Temple of Eros. Morvania : An Eastern European country in Jem , ruled by Queen (formerly Princess) Adriana Slododac. Morvania (2): the Eastern European setting of Andre Norton 's first published novel, Ruritanian romance The Prince Commands (1934).

  7. Template:Country name - Wikipedia

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  8. List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

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    Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cuisines, cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)

  9. List of fictional countries in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Georgia Federation is a nation-state with a government largely modeled after pre-blackout America located in the former Dixie states. They have a high population and standard of living; Plains Nation, is dominated by Native American-like tribes after the blackout, whom circulate a specified territory in the Midwest. There are also many ...