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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. 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 ...
(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 ...
Listenbourg is a fictional country created as the subject of an internet meme in October 2022, which depicts it as an extension of the Iberian Peninsula. [1] [2] [3] French Twitter user Gaspard Hoelscher shared a doctored map of Europe with a red arrow pointing to the outline of a pasted country adjacent to Portugal and Spain, and joked that Americans would not be able to name the country.
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: the "last existing appanage republic of the USSR", a fake country created by monochrom for theatre performances and computer games. St. Gregory: A British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands, featured in the ITV series Island at War. Based upon Jersey and Guernsey.
Phaic Tăn: A fictional country in Indochina, featured in the parody travel book of the same name. Rook Islands: An archipelago located somewhere near Indonesia featured in the video game Far Cry 3. Sarkhan: A country analogous to Vietnam in the novel The Ugly American. It is the location of a war between the United States and Communist insurgents.
Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any ...
See also References A The Abarat: 25 islands in an archipelago, one for each hour and one for all the hours, from the series The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom Acidophilus: an island in Greece appearing in the adventure game Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Aepyornis Island: an atoll near Madagascar, in H. G. Wells' story by that name Al Amarja ...
Fulano/a (from Arabic fulán) is the default placeholder name for a human (the female version Fulana should be used carefully as it is also slang for "prostitute", but the diminutive form Fulanita is safe). Fulano de Tal is the equivalent of John Doe. Fulano is cognate with the Biblical Hebrew term ploni (see above). Mengano (from the Arabic ...